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Ha!!!
Not that I know of. Though the potential of a new poison block attack that I mentioned would be interesting to look into further.
The purpose of lightning is to make payments. Channels are merely a means to an end.
You can choose to refill channels. Or you can choose to just open new ones. Both are valid options and it's worth remembering that.
Simpler option: if you have on-chain Bitcoin, deposit it into your lightning node and open new channels with it. You can even open private channels alongside your public channels: both will get used simultaneously (at least in LND).
Faffing about with swaps is optional.
That is correct; I still don't.
I do however use qubes, including on dedicated hardware that I only use for Bitcoin.
Interesting historical context here: way back in the day Mike Hearn advocated to use rate limiting to make nSequence based transaction replacement “work”.
What that means is while replace-by-fee allows a transaction to be replaced by a higher fee, nSequence replacement just lets you replace a transaction an essentially unlimited number of times without paying anything extra.
Of course, that was insane, so we got replace-by-fee instead.... but all these years later we're still adding rate limiting to cut down on any issues left over in edge cases.
Belt and suspenders!
The remarkable thing is that compared to the BIP-110 guys, Sztorc can still come off as sane: https://x.com/i/status/2081788116000518640
Clearly his dealer is selling him cocaine, not fentanyl.
Option #1 isn't really compatible with Option #3 though: you only get to keep both forked coins if the Core chain is not reorged.
Does anyone know if there's a known reason for that?
He posts very high quality technical content, exactly the kind of thing you'd expect a lot of people to reward on the basis that they want to see more of it.
Also, tips at that level still don't make up for the effort to make those posts. They're still just tips. Not a worthwhile income stream.
It was a nice excuse to tell a story about badass soldier. :)
I actually filmed an interview with him that I'll publish once he is out of hospital; I don't want the dox his location.
has the regime collected the dead soldiers from konstantinovka where you have been last time?
Kostyantynivka is an insanely dangerous place. It's hard enough for Ukrainians to evacuate the wounded. Let alone bodies.
I personally know someone who got leg injury in that area because the guy next to him stepped on a mine; he was in a group of stretcher bearers evacuating a wounded soldier. The wounded man died, and they left his body there because they were focused on evacuating the living.
Aa for that soldier: once his leg heals up, he wants to go back and continue fighting. Because if he doesn't, evil will prevail.
He could chose to just leave the military. He has chosen to keep fighting.
It does frustrate me that there isn't a good option right now for audible, publicly verifiable, lightning payments. It's a good thing that the ₿ address has a complete record of every payment made. Something similar can be done for lightning. But it'll be a lot of work to actually implement.
Thank you!
Ironically, for all the shit that MAGA types say about Ukraine, when you actually go out east and talk to Americans who volunteered to fight for Ukraine, a high % of them are MAGA Republicans. They're not stupid: they think that's a serious flaw in Trump. But that side of politics is otherwise is widely supported among foreign volunteers.
The MAGAs back home in America could learn something from that...
Doh! Yeah, I should have been more clear: recovery after the channel has finished closing. Which still needs Phoenix.
So how would such an on-chain wallet recognize or recover funds that were still locked in Lightning channels?
It doesn't.
You need Phoenix to close the channels; electrum may be useful in recovering additional funds (eg from channels force closed on their end).
You really need to reconsider where you get your news from. Odesa is certainly not cut off from the rest of Ukraine.
Russia is having some success discouraging commerical shipping from going to Odesa, because they keep on attacking civilian ships. But other forms of transportation are working fine. I could literally go there tomorrow from Kuiv on one of three different trains.