The Lightning network is a psyop to get bitcoiners to accept centralization and ultimately custodians/banks. It was never the best design for a layer 2, not even the whitepaper authors like it that much. Got the job done, now bitcoiners will find 1000 excuses for LSPs & WoS.

Do it yourself lol

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Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for Bitcoin Treasury companies

Bitcoin Takeover podcast is the show where smart & famous people do some of their best interviews ever But get 10x fewer views than usual on YouTube 🙃 I’m really proud of it, only the best people tune in!

Life is like a box of bitcoins You never get it.

I was the first podcaster to interview Burak 2 years ago when he announced Ark Today’s interview (S16 E31) will be about the current state of Ark development… but features another prominent dev. Can you guess who it is?

Read the news about Ledger ending the support for Nano S after 9 years That’s about 4 years longer than most electronic device manufacturers support their products nowadays But Trezor still offers security updates for the One hardware wallet after 12 years 🙃

That “debate” between Alex Gladstein & Paul Sztorc was disappointing Mostly because it appealed to emotions & anecdotal evidence too often There are some reasons why Lightning is great, but also valid reasons why it sucks Whom should I get on my point to defend LN against Paul?

What does the Lightning network have in common with Iran’s nukes? They are both only a few months from completion.

Would love to have Matt on the show!

Okay so who’s gonna offer me a loan of $1 million at <10% interest to buy bitcoin That I won’t repay because it’s “cheap debt” while the money printer goes BRRRRRR? Saylor said we should all do this, might as well start now?

Gish by the Smashing Pumpkins is such an amazing album 💿 Probably one of the best debut records of the 1990s. “Do what you’re gonna do and say what you’re gonna say. Yeah, start today!”

Paul: Yeah but you have to trust the ecash mint guy that he’s acting in good faith Alex: But it’s open source, you can look at the code. FYI every DeFi rugpull in history and each and every ICO scam was open source too, the code was out there. Didn’t stop anyone from stealing

Does that whole country use personal channels or is it custodial to a very concerning degree?

Who wants to debate Paul on my show? Tag your favorite Lightning bull 👇🏻

r/bitcoin doesn't seem to like my podcast posts, Nostr is unreliable in terms of reaching my audience So I decided to take a step back and start promoting my podcast on good old Bitcoin Talk! After all, more than 6000 BTC was donated to keep this thing running. Why not? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5546294

Bitcoin's ticker (BTC, XBT) is not enforced by miners, nodes, or any piece of consensus code. It's not described in the whitepaper, it's not mentioned by Satoshi. It's an arbitrary naming system that exchanges choose to attribute to Bitcoin. So what if BlackRock & frens decide to create their own fork of Bitcoin & convince exchanges to call the new coin BTC while the old one becomes BIN? This can play a major role in convincing investors that they must buy BTC (historically, the original Bitcoin) and stay away from knockoffs. "But nooooo, that's impossible. That never happened!" Study what happened with the Ethereum split from 2016. The original chain, which chose not to roll back the blockchain, became Ethereum Classic (ETC). The fork that changed the rules, because it had more political authority, kept the ETH ticker. "But noooo, this can't happen to Bitcoin because look it has all the users" The mempool is empty, people got psyop'd into not using it for payments anymore, lots of users went to other chains and embraced stablecoins. This is not 2016 anymore. If Bitcoin loses its fundamental value as a permissionless and unstoppable payment system in order to become much more of a stonk, this kind of brand/ticker hijacking becomes possible. BlackRock can afford to pay people to use the new chain, or else have bots that fill the blocks to fake activity. They can even legitimately pull it off by having more transactions, thus legitimizing its "real Bitcoin" status in order to keep the BTC ticker. Bottom line: make Bitcoin useful, use it yourself whenever you need, or else we're heading towards a gloomy future.

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