There is a word people use, "self-sovereighndfnsldkfn" I don't even know how to spell.

I just don't like that, but I'm not good at convincing people, so don't listen to me.

HTLCs are broken and should be replaced by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAyW4pdooA

It is Nostr, because it scales by using conventional client-server technology and still provides censorship resistance by allowing these servers to be changed without identities and followers/etc being lost (if implemented well)(there are levels of censorship-resistance depending on the app implementation).

I read something about Telegram having bots that allowed some special / commands, and I wanted to do something to experiment with Lightning. It's not as if tipping bots were a new invention by me, I had probably seen them before.

1. I've done work in the Telegram and Discord bots, CSGO integration, the core payments backend, the mobile wallet, the browser extension, I do whatever I can I guess. No, they know my name.
2. I believe Bitcoin will have a lot of custodianship in the future to be able to scale but that won't be a problem once governments get out of the way with their draconian anti-custodianship laws.
3. Every time a protocol says "oh you can do this same thing in multiple ways" what it is actually saying is "every implementation will have to support all ways to remain compatible". That kills protocols, kills network effect, kills adoption, kills decentralization.

Destroy central banks, the tyrannical States they sustain and rollback their control apparatus over citizens.

This one? https://github.com/fiatjaf/lnurlpos-app
Isn't it working? I have no updates, I thought it was working.
It is just a software implementation of Ben Arc's hardware version.

I don't understand the question.

Kafunga; Murilo e Ramos; Mexicano, Zé do Monte e Afonso; Lucas, Lauro, Carlyle, Lêro e Nívio.

The DLC effort, for advertising oracles and bet offers.

JoinMarket would also benefit specially since they must move out of IRC.

I can't answer that one.

I think Lightning is already a success and needs nothing more, except fixing the spam problem, fixing the excessive channel close problem and getting rid of HTLCs.

Or maybe everybody could implement this: https://sbw.app/posts/scaling-ln-with-hosted-channels/

Probably yes since everybody loves Rust now and it is good, but don't become an annoying Rust shill.

Languages don't matter very much though. You could also learn Scala or Go and that would be good.

Actually languages do matter in the sense that languages without strict types and smart compilers are a pain in everybody's ass.

Alternative answer: if you haven't yet, do something useful with what you know before trying to learn new languages.

I only want that deal if I could also snap my fingers and get network effect for this application. In that case it would be some Nostr-Lightning-backed marketplace for all sorts of goods used and new.

If I can't get network effect, then I don't know, everything is useless, maybe a super good online multiplayer game that also happens to use satoshis for buying and selling clothes so all adolescents are forced to install https://sbw.app/ to do their shopping.

1. It ends all the discussions around what-is-the-best-opcode-to-softfork-next-after-12-years-of-buildup and just allows everybody to do everything they want, but in a safe way. And everything includes many things we can't do today like much better Lightning, "pools" and sidechain designs.
2. No, I'm not, unfortunately.

In general I don't find much time, to be honest. There are bursts of days in which I work on them a lot.

Yes, you make an account on some trusted service and ask it to receive the payments on your behalf, then you use https://github.com/fiatjaf/lnurl-rfc/blob/luds/14.md to get the money on your https://sbw.app/ whenever possible.

Use a wallet in the cloud and send signed commands to it through your friend.

I think I would be very excited about it if I hadn't been burnt out by other unscalable-DHT-based everything-peer-to-peer projects in the past. I also think it will be harder for it to get network effect.

• It did not. I learned that people don't care to pass the torch to someone trustworthy as I wanted them to, most people will just pass it to the first random who asks. But it's been a good experiment so far (I don't know where it is now, was it stolen? I saw it about a week ago).
• You mean the Nostr bounties? No, no one did anything, except there is one guy tackling the Tusky fork project, but he didn't guarantee he will succeed.

2011, I mined 5000sat on an old CPU, then bought 4BTC but lost everything and I blame Bitcoin Core for its bad UX.

Spam.

Something like this: https://twitter.com/pdxcoinexchange/status/1485021988661825539

I.e. stores you can walk, scan a QR code (or NFC if that ever materializes), pay from the street even, and then get your item. Works great for food, but could also work for any store that has some sale of some special item, I don't know.

But from the solutions that actually have any change, the metered payments roasbeef solution that is in the t-bast's document on GitHub -- if I remember correctly.

Did it? I didn't know, please don't sue me.

Other blockchains cannot ever replace Bitcoin, but they can (and they are) getting in the way of more rapid and better Bitcoin adoption -- and ultimately cause everything to fall and fiat to win. I think having these other things would make Bitcoin better, so I the answer is yes? Or maybe?

fiatjaf

That one in Haskell that doesn't exist yet. And the one in Clojure from that guy who is friends with Uncle Bob Martin.