Satellite, microwave lines, free space optics. Nothing can carry as much traffic as undersea cables unfortunately.

Hm... Are you guys who think or used to think like this Americans? I have the feeling that this is somewhat American thinking. I have never felt this. And I don't even have a family.

Email is not that decentralized. Most people who self host email servers complain that google clients don't receive their mails.

I have been wandering something. If you say some candidate will certainly win (whether lying or not), do you actually increase the chances of him winning?

I considered them. I don't think i lost anything to be honest. Btw introducing new people is way more important than many people here (with the attitude of "if you don't get it fuck off) that underestimate this.

And i just took a look at my SN notifications and i can see i am receiving zaps of 7, 8, 9 sats. They currently do find a path with almost zero fees. Currently.

Why have i lost the plot?

Sending significant amount of real money is the best way to introduce new people and demonstrate how things work. And besides you can do that with fiat cash. I don't want fiat cash to have advantages over bitcoin (or maybe that's impossible).

Yes, exactly what i was talking about. But my tests on fedi app offline never say that you don't have the required tokens. No matter what value i type it never fails (offline that is). This seems very unlikely (unless the ballance is completely composed of 1 sat tokens of course).

Hello. Sorry to say but you didn't answer my question. What you explained is some basics of how lightning network works, which I do already know.

Why do you have only two candidates?

Unfortunately lightning network fails on one of the most important things - receiving money when you have no money. This is the first experience for most users. And you really can't explain how this works to someone, ask him to download a wallet and send him 100 sats. And "You need to have money to receive money", while necessary, is ridiculous if for a moment you come out of the bitcoin mindset. I kind of liked the Mutiny solution with the fedimint integration, but of course this sacrifices bitcoin self custody...

So you have blockchain where your money is safe without you doing anything but you can't really work with small sums of money practically. Then you have the lightning network where your money is safe, as long as you are not offline for extended period of time. And there is ecash where your money are not safe and depend on the mint not stealing from you (although they provide anonymity), but you can onboard someone by even sending him as low as 1sat (and they can pay lightning invoices as easily as if they did have a lightning channel themselves).

So to summarise lightning has a big barrier just at the point where it matters the most - people who don't yet have bitcoin and are not exposed to the ecosystem.

Embedded, not persistent (slow phone). I think only the sending, the receiving and the rendezvous node need to support this in order for it to work.

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What if only some people, who want to go to mars, go to mars. Is this still evil?

My goal wasn't to receive a payment. My goal was to test blinded paths.

I swear I did this and it failed... But now I tried it again and it succeeded in creating an invoice. Unfortunately I cannot test the payment itself, as pheonix doesn't support these invoices. And withdrawal from stacker news says it can't find a path. And I don't currently have other wallets.