Darn, it seems running a LN is way tougher and expensive than I thought.

What do you think of outsourcing the job to a third party like Alby Hub? https://getalby.com/pricing

I was thinking of getting the Pro Cloud account, would that shield me from any trouble, or can I still lose money in addition to the $12.90 per month?

As long as it works reliably, this could be quite useful indeed.

Joined, interesting product.

Not sure about why natural language would be superior, but perhaps it is because you automate more than from A to B? Anyway, I will check out your website too.

100% plenty of AI stuff is just the old stuff, that works well, with a thin layer of AI thrown in for marketing purposes!

You forgot to mention what is Lightswap, how it is useful, and yes the URL.

I come to SN ocassionally, and frankly I am interested but have no idea what app or software you are talking about.

Never forget to always remind people those 3 basics things, or at least the name of your app and a link! =)

Telegram, and Signal both use your phone numbers.

So yes they are useful and powerful, but not very private.

I was curious about the book by y Saifedean Ammous as well, but found the maximalist approach off-putting.

Finally I decided to give it a try so I heard his speech at the Austrian Bitcoin Association in 2018 on YouTube, what I heard convinced me never to buy the book, but I still respect the author, he is an Austrian Economist, and has good intentions, besides selling more books.

For Bitcoin to succeed just being an speculative asset to get more fiat from your Bitcoin is not enough, we also need it to be what Satoshi wanted, a useful means to do transactions, and ideally make it as anonymous as cash. In both areas there is zero progress in Bitcoin itself, thankfully via L2s, Sidechains and Lightning there are some hopeful developments.

So 100% I agree with your assessment, the book will just give us more HODLers, not much more, and what we need is more cypherpunks, people like Satoshi Nakamoto.

Stacker News will be the first place I announce it!

VERY COOL update of Satoshi's algorithm, this time with useful applications for AI matrix multiplication!

First great initiative!

Second, your link to Join Our Community link is broken.

I would be interested in joining for sure.

The same techniques for surveillance that China has in place, are coming disguised as good intentions to the West.

UK is already a basket case of surveillance against the people.

America must oppose this wholeheartedly, fortunately I do not see it moving forward, but it must be consistently opposed in every nation or the surveillance state and Internet KYC becomes law.

Siggy,

You have laid down the challenging climate for writers today, indeed it is hard to get paying customers and AI is not helping.

Let me offer some good news beyond the great initiative you shared, the Stacker News Fiction initiative.

For over a year I have been working on a piece of software that should be released next month, it is called Satoshi Notes, it will allow writers to share any article, even book length and sell it for Bitcoin with absolute privacy, and no censorship.

The software itself consists of two parts a desktop app that is completely free, and a server that provides the sharing of your writing on the web, and also lets you sell it for Bitcoin.

I plan to announce it here when it ships, but I wanted to share some screenshots from our website that will be launched shortly.

A nice one from New York, always a beautiful sight, not mine, but one of the best I've seen.

I will checkout Boardwalk Cash.

About Tether, and all stable coins that are tied to an asset, especially US Dollars they can all freeze your account, and maybe even take your funds away. This has happened before with USDT, and the rest are not an exception.

That said DAI, an Ethereum based stablecoin is more reliable, and can not be arbitrarily frozen or seized. We need something like DAI but for BTC.

@SimpleStacker the passing of the BBB is a sign of better times, and more investment and a strong US economy... debt is the risk, but without it Trump wouldn't have managed to pass the bill.

I strongly think now that Bitcoin will rise above $130K USD this year because the economic agenda of Trump moved forward, and him, and his family is strongly pro Bitcoin, and pro crypto.

Are there any good BTC stablecoins? We need these!

We clearly need this to offset the move to US based stablecoins that are fully tracked by OFAC and many governments.

USDT is convenient, but it is tracked, and can be easily frozen by Tether. USDT is not backed by any kind of crypto currency, just US dollar based assets.

For what is worth Primal has worked pretty much flawlessly since I installed it in my iPhone, recommended.

I also ocassionally use Damus, but prefer Primal. It is good that we have choices, and I hope Damus gets better.