is there any reason you chose iptables over nftables? as far as I know, iptables is considered deprecated on some distros

Lightning over Liquid might be an interesting scaling solution and should be totally doable today.

But: Where can I find channel partners? Is there any node explorer?

so basically, you would publish the content under a license which states that you can only reuse it if you have paid a ln invoice?

I don't want to discourage you, but that whole copyright issue is really complex and hard to enforce. In Europe, there were several attempts to force Google to pay publishers for the use of certain content and all of them have failed as far as I know.

Great idea, but how would you make sure that the AI is actually paying the content creator? If someone offers an AI service which does not pay the creator, they have an economic advantage. You would need a pay-wall for the content which contradicts your idea of an open internet.

awesome! can't await taproot support!

Thanks, great resources, I did only know of purism so far. I will look into it. I've made no distinction between Secure Boot and Measured Boot so far. But by now it's obvious to me that an open source firmware is a key requirement.

Secure Boot allows to detect evil maid attacks, I can also employ my own key in the laptop firmware and sign my self-compiled kernel with it (maybe not on every laptop but the ones I came across offered this). Learning more on this topic I understand that it may also mean depending on Microsoft and proprietary firmware which I clearly do not want. I want to make sure that noone changed any software on my computer while I was away.

Even the best "really secure open source operating system" can be replaced by a rootkit without you noticing.

I have to admit, using Secure Boot requires trusting the UEFI software but you have to do that anyways. Open Source firmware implementations might be the answer. The reply by @ln123 offers great advice in this direction.

You cannot open a channel to whatever node you want to and expect your wallet to work reliably when your node is offline most of the time or for a longer period of time.

But the longer I think about it, the more it seems like a matter of charging some extra fees for mobile peers and not so much about regulation for lightning service providers.

While being non-custodial, these mobile phone lightning nodes do not provide the infastructure for routing and will probably always rely on centralized lightning service providers. And these could be easy to regulate.

Regarding your goal to serve thousands of users with a single server, does every user need to have a dedicated channel, i.e. on-chain commitments? or do you have other scaling plans?

In Europe the is bl3p.eu, a Bitcoin-Only-Exchange with Limit-Orders. No USD though;-)

really love the concepts behind the project but never got the time to really dive into it. so i dont know, i got the time to reply to this but maybe the bar is just too high for ordinary minded people like me to get into nixos

You can prove that a lightning peer is on Mars simply by responding quickly. This prevents faking a Martian peer.

I'd love to have a wallet with this feature:

This would be useful for inheritance or having a safety net if you decide to store the first seed phrase only in your head.

With Taproot, this feature should be absolutely doable. I went down the wallet rabbit hole a little and figured out that the way to implement it would be using miniscript output descriptors. Unfortunately, Bitcoin Core does not support those yet.

edit: sorry, I somehow double posted (i got an error the first time) can i delete posts?

Overall CPI: 8.6% Energy CPI (Tiebreaker): 36.1%

It's even simpler how prices keep themselves stable. Let's assume the chair got cheaper:

lower price -> less production -> less supply -> higher price

it's all in cycles without the need for intervention

Think of BTC as IP and LN as TCP.

HTTP/3 still uses IP and all future versions probably will. Maybe one day better solutions than LN will show up, but considering how long it took for a competitor to TCP to show up, I think we have some time left;-)

random thought: maybe Monero then is ICMP: not that visible or relevant but still useful in certain situations.