101 sats \ 2 replies \ @sha256 31 Mar 2022 \ on: We are the founders of The Bitcoin Company, Ben and Ben, AMA bitcoin
I'm a normal person. What's the easiest way for me to buy and spend bitcoin privately?
@ben says ur putting a gang of stuff in bitcoin co's app. Isn't it going to be confusing that i can do ten things in it?
If you could change one thing about Bitcoin, small or large what would it be?
Don't know. It's under active dev tho so soon I hope!
Hadn't heard of it. Will check it out.
Did this eventually become zcash?
Enjoyed this. It's like John Oliver but without the laugh track, less snarky, and meaningfully more serious.
I sadly do not hack on main chain stuff yet. I've heard its hard to get a whole bitcoin on testnet.
1 sat \ 1 boost \ 1 reply \ @sha256 17 Jul 2021 \ on: lightning liquidity via a ring of fire introduction service bitcoin
1596 channels with 40.728BTC opened
So - it's popular.
The main point: you commit outbound liquidity and you get inbound liquidity from someone in your ring. It's a nice hack on liquidity trying to solve the same problem dual-funded channels or Pool solves.
Anyone used it? Does the service take a fee?
I agree. They're both deep in the space. Really fun to listen in on smart people talking to each other.
From the Twitter announcement
Students will learn how to build #Bitcoin applications from the ground up using the Rust programming language.
This was written pre-adjustment but the real adjustment was
-28%
! It's remarkable watching a decentralized system continually reach consensus and respond to incentives.1000 sats \ 1 boost \ 1 reply \ @sha256 12 Jun 2021 freebie \ on: stacker news soft launch AMA bitcoin
Some kind of markdown in comments
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