I saw that you have been spending time in the Netherlands. Sounds like you're trying some new things.

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.

There is a coffee shop that I frequent that has a square terminal which supports lightning payments. There, it gives the option to the payer rather than the recipient, so the payer can simply choose the Bitcoin symbol in the top left corner rather than making the staff aware that they wish to pay with bitcoin at all. Perhaps the terminal in your case is on an old version of the software or doesn’t support lightning? I can try to snap a picture of the option on the screen next time, if that would be of interest.

I took a week off shortly after writing that in March, but I’m meanwhile quite ready for another vacation. Have you been able to get a change of pace?

The first episode is out now: https://x.com/ready4merge/status/2100943486040019417

It is not on Fountain as of now.

The episode is out now: https://x.com/ready4merge/status/2100943486040019417

Have you thought about smoothing it out: e.g., paying out 10% of the reward pool every day?

You’re mixing up Ethan Heilman (Cryptographer, Tumblebit, BIP360, OP_CAT) and Evan Kaloudis (Zeus developer).

Yeah, we cracked 2.5h again this week.

Sometimes I think that our Optech episodes could provide higher value to our listeners if there was more post-production. I haven’t listened to ourselves in a long while, but I’m sure that there would be room for improvement by cutting a bit here and there.

Yeah, and it might also be a more interesting format for those that feel the Optech Recap is too technical or too long.

Was gonna say the same. Links without context are drastically less valuable than a link with context and some original thoughts.

When they give away 10% from the 80,000 addresses, they indicate that those 80,000 addresses are theirs because they behave the same and differently from the others.

Fine, y’all help me redistribute some of these.

Twitter has been making it hard to read tweets if you are not logged in. Nitter instances allow you to read Twitter without an account.

I'm just recycling them, too, but it's taking longer than usual this time.

Maybe there is no wallet software that implements it, yet? Knots might have it, but they may have just introduced it on protocol level and not as a wallet feature, yet. Also, it is hard to import funds from mnemomic-based wallets into Bitcoin Core, so presumably the same is true for Knots.

Doesn't a lightning address just encode where to find the node to ask for an invoice from?

From what I understand: they will be offering closed source binaries reproduced and signed by multiple developers for anyone that wants to upgrade immediately and resume running their node. For people that don’t want to upgrade to a closed source binary, they recommend to restart with --offline. The source code will be published two weeks later and allow anyone to verify that the released binary was reproducibly built from the later published source code.
The source code is being held back to make it harder for attackers to discover the vulnerability while people upgrade. This sort of situation is complicated and difficult, but their solution doesn’t require you to run closed source binaries if you don’t want to.

Got a confirmation from one of the CLN maintainers that this is legit, and you should take action.

I confirmed that this message was sent by a mod in the CLN discord. Trying to get another confirmation from one of the main CLN developers.