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Is there some reasonable way to run my own swap service? Let's say with another friend that has Ark ASP running?
With the original Ark my main issue was that ASP was doing an onchain transaction every 5 seconds, effectively allowing at most 64 ASPs before the full bitcoin block capacity is used (not even considering any other transactions). I'm not sure if this got resolved in any way recently?
Yeah, how does that work? If I run
arkd on my server and point some clients to it is that going to work? Is there a communication/sync between ASPs? In this setup who do I have to trust (except for open source code devs)?How far did you get with this game? I'm now at simple adder :)
It's sort of interesting to get back to this after the years... also quite hard. I did not even remember how to do a simple NAND.
When presenting topics like this it helped me a lot to record myself and listen to it (use whatever, your phone, your video call software...). I also like to write exactly what I'd like to say. I don't use this written text, but it really helps to see the talk written down.
Especially when the talk is short, this is not that big of an time investment.
I think it's important to realize that if you want bitcoin to become the global currency, you will have to start spending it at some point, so why not start today.
Spending bitcoin is actually how you can directly support bitcoin.
There are couple approaches and tricks that can be useful to mitigate some of the worries that newbies may have:
- spend-and-replace: Buy stuff with bitcoin, but then immediately buy the same amount of bitcoin with fiat. This has nice side-effects: you are adding more value to bitcoin economy (hopefully the merchant keeps it) - NgU - and you are incentivizing the merchant to continue supporting bitcoin.
- use app like Strike that has "use fiat to pay any lightning invoice", which then means that you are not responsible for any taxable events, completely avoiding any headache around that. The benefits are the same as with spend-and-replace.
- join a community of bitcoin spenders. Every country now has a community of folks trying to add more merchants and spend everywhere. They organize in chat groups and fill things into https://btcmap.org/ (example is https://einundzwanzig.space/ )
I have been spending bitcoin literally every day recently for electronics, home supplies, etc. and it's starting to feel normal.
First move family into safety. This usually means outside of the city.
Now it really depends on specifics
- light pack the family as fast as possible
- if I don't have a car, try getting a good driver
- if there are fights in the street, try getting the most up to date locations and strategize/predict the development
- if it's "your hometown is under attack by another country as part of war" type of situation, then I'd immediately (after family safe) start helping with preparations for home defense (blocking roads, barricades, molotovs)
- ... again, it really depends on what is specifically happening, what needs reaction
If flights are N/A, then we need to cross borders to escape, then I'd choose the most feasible crossing and attempt to cross.
Very well written tutorial! It would be good to link to some Regolancer reference/web in the beginning of the tutorial, so it's easier to look up what is this about.
arkdis actually that swap service that swaps to bitcoin and back, so you don't need to run anything else afaik, but the question is if there are indeed bindings to not just onchain but also lightning. My question stands about how this works with blockchain capacity and ASP interoperability.