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Call Darth he's crying
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @OT 2 May
Mainnet?
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It's not live yet.
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Another second layer!!
WTF is going on? We've started calling it the payment layer already? Seriously, this is not what Satoshi intended.
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An implementation of the Ark second-layer payment protocol for Bitcoin
It calls itself "the Ark second-layer payment protocol"
That is different from calling itself "the payment layer," as if there is no other
There is no other second layer payment protocol called Ark so it is perfectly reasonable to use a definite article ("the") in order to distinguish this layer two from other second layer payments protocols called other things (e.g. lightning)
Another second layer!! ... WTF is going on?
You sound upset, why? What is wrong with more second layers? Devs are just devving my friend, it's what we do
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 2 May
Are you a time traveller coming from the past?
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This is great. I was in the Telegram channel when they announced that there would be a closed-effort development of an Ark protocol. I offered to help as long as it wasn't in Rust or Go (two languages I don't know) and then Burak joked that that's what they should program it in :)
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👀
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dammit I thought it was written in Common Lisp, judging by the name but of course not