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That's what the globalist want to happen, not necessarily what is happening... I wouldn't buy these numbers for that reason... they wouldn't want to admit volumes they can't stop like to India and China
over a decade of experience securing industrial systems
We have that in common, definitely need more of this perspective in Bitcoin
I find it surprising though you support 110. I am sympathetic to the narrative for it and think Core is reckless/captured, but 110 specifically leaves carve-outs for abuse such that it has all the hallmarks of controlled opposition... Luke supporting Covenants, acquiescence to Taproot at large.. etc.
Does your background suggest to you that Bitcoin has long been feature complete as money and only hardening is appropriate, that added "expressiveness" presents asymmetric downside rather than upside?
If so, why not a more maximalist position that 110 does not address? One that rugs the crypto-theater kids rather than leaves the door wide open to them?
Standard MSM disinfo from Reuters, the Chatham House mouth-piece, twisting the meaning of words because that's what these rags do.
The headline is narrative craft for "Sell Bitcoin buy stonks", yet:
- WLFI is a business venture, tokens are equity.
- Trump coin is transparently a collectible/merch
They are not "crypto" as in cryptocurrency, the article headline attempts to equate them for morons that already have TDS, CryptoDS, or both.
Bitcoin specifically
The article does not claim Trump sold Bitcoin.
In fact, American Bitcoin Corp (ABTC), the Trump sons-linked Bitcoin mining and treasury company has been accumulating Bitcoin, and has tripled reserves to over 8,000 BTC.
It doesn't disprove the family's overall support for Bitcoin despite the headlines intent.
Founder is a former Green Beret with a background in government procurement.
The nuke companies I throw a few sats at have a theme of IC connected-ness to commercialize military or classified technology ("SpookNuke Trust").
Where he is a special operator by pedigree, it would seem to fit at a glance, but my read is he's more someone that knows how to navigate the PRIME system enough to get de minimis contracts to create the illusion of traction... not actually a commercialization operation for something that's a sure thing.
Saw the name at some point and immediately thought what good branding.
Evokes the "Standard Oil" connotation which is great for pumpamentals
I haven't yet looked into if there's any merit to the company itself, but my first inclination is if the thing that stood out among the IPO PR is an affinity naming to Standard Oil it's probably vaporware.
Doing that now...
... confirmed.
A quick search reveals 3M in revenue that's entirely research agreements, founder still has absolute control because of Class B shares, and after lockup the incentives are broken because he's de-risked and can fuck off to an island.
Valuation of 3.5B with no revenue and 25x book value, so the market cap is entirely pumpamentals based as it is now. Doesn't mean it couldn't pump more of course, but asymmetry favors a 90% draw down rather than a 10x or even 2x.
That raises a separate matter, the stupidity of mobile Lightning nodes, and how everything stupid in Lightning is a direct result of the mobile node fantasy.
By using Phoenix, you're also not getting the full benefit of justice transactions since your device is not always-on to publish them. It'd be trivial for the LSP to target infrequent peers for rugging.
Phoenix is Lightning with asterisks at best and shouldn't be considered when comparing Lightning to fake L2s because they share the same underlying thesis of stupidity.
see all your transactions (isn't this true for many LSPs?)
No, Lightning works with a channel peer seeing the next hop along the route, not the destination
spark spies on you, but so does every other service
Key Point: Spark is a custodial service, not Lightning, so they should quit pretending otherwise.
Fake L2's are surveillance tools by design #754780
Pushed by communist NGO's
#1455980
Convenience is the trap
#1251383
The trap springs when enough users are on Fake L2's and support covenants, BIP110 psyop is part of this
#1509777
With covenants, fungibility is dead, regulated exchanges will only let you withdraw into covenants "for your protection" so they can claw back funds when they don't like where you sent them
If you think Lightspark raised over 100M to build a custodial wallet and call it not custodial you're on drugs.
Ark/Bark are the same exact thing so give them no quarter when they sling shit at Spark, they're just as guilty.
Best way is to take a towel or old blanket that you're prepared to lose, approach with it as a shield and throw it over them then wrap them up... put in a sturdy box or tote, and relocate.
Wear some work gloves and eye protection just in case.
Looks like juvenile, either can't spray yet or can't control spray... almost no inbetween.
There's a window after my family goes to bed that's like the twilight zone... 11pm to 3am often just magically disappear.
If you could only keep one paid subscription
Cursor Pro.
Cursor has the best harness, and Pro subscription gives allotment to all the major models plus their own composer model.
Plan with composer, and execute most stuff... Composer is fast and so cheap it's basically free.... Then sanity check with Grok, execute some harder stuff with Codex, Gemini for copy-edits, then review and polish with GLM 5.2
Can throw in a little Sonnet/Opus/Fable as a last ditch if stuck, but those are very rarely worth the time and credit burn.
Downsides:
It doesn't present a standard API key/endpoint to it's not trivial to plug in to non-Cursor apps like Hermes/Claw or whatever, but, Cursor CLI is more than adequate for most headless automation.
Combine with freebies:
That leaves free tiers of Gemini for day-to-day search. Antigravity free-tier is also good for planning, Antigravity has a better planning interface and Gemini 3.1 Pro is quite good at it.
Runner up:
I do keep my GPT Plus subscription for Codex-Auth as a backstop if I run out of Cursor credits, as well as tinkering with Hermes Agent. Also a nice to have for chatbot-level ideation. Though, I mainly keep it since I've had it since 2023 and have a lot of folders in in it, and at $20 its not worth cancelling vs. the convenience keeping around.
Been loving GLM 5.2, finally works right in Cursor... haven't used it directly as an API yet though but I suspect that'll be more expensive than through Cursor Pro allotment.
Grok 4.5 being 50% off in Cursor right now derailed using it a bit this week, it feels like what I expect Composer 3 should be... cheap, relatively fast, and good enough.
Just publish an llms.txt on your domain
Experimenting with this for nodestr, will hit you up to try it... on-demand VPS.
How much are you spending through PPQ?
I have Cursor Pro and GPT Plus (use codex-auth through a few things which gives me like $1000 worth of GPT tokens for $20) so my $5 on PPQ have mostly just sat there... and I just rigged up some release automation with Cursor CLI yesterday that I thought I would need PPQ for.
Gonna try some voicebox stuff soon to burn the PPQ credit, that seems to be its value to me, accessing pretty much any model my subs don't already have.
Started looking at building on Pi a little, but on the backburner... I ultimately want people to be able to use the full shocknet stack through a chatbot... point telegram bot or whatever at your node... take a picture, it uploads to lightning video cdn, creates an clink noffer for the product on pub with clink nmanage, publishes a product to nostr web shop, tracks sales via shockwallet rpc... full agentic decentralized commerce.
Slop, sign-up gated slop at that.
Re: the title
PTLCs are not an upgrade, HTLC channels cannot route to PTLC ones, that means for Lightning to use PTLCs every hop along the route needs to be using them. It's effectively a network hard fork.
That also means any cost savings assumptions need to consider the cost of rolling existing liquidity, channels that have existed for years and paid for themselves many times over, into PTLC channels and unwinding/pushing out that ROI.
Google Antigravity is their Cursor knock-off and you can get a fair amount done with the free tier, if you hit limits its like a week or 10 days till it resets.
Haven't played with Google AI Studio but I understand it to be a lighter more prototype focused version for the browser.
Kiro had a decent free tier last I tried it but that was awhile ago, it was good for planning which make your build tokens go further, could make the plan there and move it to something else to execute.
Replit was actually the only thing I've ever paid to try and wanted my money back, thought it terrible, couldn't understand the hype.
Any editor that lets you bring your own key is a great no-KYC/email option combined with PPQ.ai - just pay sats for tokens. Cursor sucks at BYOK so I need to try Zed next.
Major is relative, US still exports significantly more before you count the Saudi arrangement... also the Globalists are nearly as scared of Putin as they are Trump so Russian currency is illiquid... by the time Trump got in there was nowhere to go.
Ukrainian war a proxy of Russia’s oil production and delivery to Europe?
That's probably most of it, Russian pipelines into Europe needed to be stopped at all costs so they overthrew the Ukranian government in 2014, been trying to do the same with Hungary, and blew up Nordstream
Euro is toast if they have to start selling it for Rubles, and now we just have to wait patiently until Bessent rugs the Eurodollar
Lots of fake L2's going to come out of this