Well I will say, that making a show of trying to negotiate for peace is a great way to get a country that just got done with a 20 year war with people fighting it who were born after the start of that war (I'm talking about Afghanistan), a war that was without any end in sight, making a show of peace talks with someone who does not want to hear them, is a great way to make a people like that to be more open to supporting that war.

Oh they just rob and don't kill? Okay, I just don't give them my stuff them. They'll get bored eventually and leave right?

Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

Its always a good idea to live

Of course the season is important to the holiday! It's spring! Everything in winter died, but in spring everything comes back to life! Life, children, and reproduction that's what the holiday is all about.

The rabbit has to do with how much reproduction rabbits do and the egg is literally like "Living things are born from this". It's the sex holiday. Go forth and make babies

Neat... But can you explain a good use case for it?

I think if we stopped calling bank apps "wallets" everything would be 100% much more clear.

This is actually an amazing resource. Thank you for this

Taproot plugin lol

To be honest the tax system is an arm of law enforcement designed specifically to bypass 4th and 5th amendment protections.

First most famous example of its use was against Al Capone.

So understand your question isn't about striking a balance between maintaining privacy while following the law. Your question is about finding a flaw in the penopticon's design.

No....Sales taxes (on foreign imports) alone? That's crazy.

How were they funded? Give me the answer. (I think the answer is property tax, but hit me)

Well Phoenix isn't a custodial wallet so its not an apples to apples comparison. Did Bank of Australia come back to US app stores? They're doing business as "Wallet of Satoshi". That would be a more apples to apples comparison.

I think Phoenix's bolt 12 should be supported as a withdraw option. Right now only Phoenixd is supported.

I also think users that don't have attached wallets could have their sats go to a (per profile of course) lightsats.com link where they can go through that beautiful onboarding to get set up with potentially their first lightning wallet and withdraw their sats.

IF I lived in a smart home, all of that shit would be flashed with custom firmware from a github repo and all of it would be self hosted. The whole system would be capable of working as intended even if I cancelled service with my ISP (self hosted)

Also some things like access to the home via the door would not be dependent on power or battery. Those failure is unacceptable cases would have an analog backup (so a custom firmware flashed smart lock could still be unlocked with a key)

“The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.” - Hal Finney, 1992

However, no company is out here giving users control. It's sort of something you have to seize for yourself.

And as far as the "What if it gets hacked" concern goes: Yes.

Have fun freaking yourself out: https://www.shodan.io/

And you know what? That's on me for continually calling any Bitcoin transaction a "payment" as a generalization even when I mean inter-wallet transfer or channel open and close.

I mean yes, but that's not really what this is about. People were complaining mostly for the on-chain cost to withdraw to self custody.

More point I was trying to make it is that its also about the opening and closing cost of lightning channels. When people go to close a lightning channel they just pearl clutch "Oh the humanity these fees are so high!" and the money saved from doing all those lightning transactions are just looked over.

So I was just pointing out that people need to be tricked into things sometimes. Like having part of your lightning fee go to an internal fund for the channel closing fee instead of paying the whole channel closing fee all at once and going "Whoa so high!"

TBH, I'm kinda at a point where I'm like "this is unsafe without a soft fork, but let's implement it anyway and tell users to pray and give them information about the soft fork instead of being scared to touch it at all" lol.

Um... Does it spend my bitcoin too or is that just the views that it backs up?

Darth is just trying to save you some headache. Encourages private nodes instead of routing nodes: https://blixtwallet.github.io/features

And nothing depends on me either, but knowing there's another ack on the network is another step towards confidence about activation.

(I don't expect CTV to activate within 5 years BTW)