Not that anyone probably cares, but the debate on Bitcoin Treasury companies is an interesting one. It seems clear to me that the hype that pushes MNAV significantly over the value of the regulatory arbitrage is the same force that can push it dramatically below one in the case of a market panic. It's interesting to think about what happens in this scenario. And that's where the parallel to 1929 comes in. In theory, it's an opportunity to pick up cheap coins and some steep discount with mnav < 1, and some do, but then decline continues and now they're out of money. It won't help that in the hype, corporate structures have gotten intertwined and complicated and layered and there's a healthy dose of fraud. Panic continues...

The surest way to "retire your bloodline" is castration, I would have thought.

I'm not sure if that just fails to load for me, or if that's the point?

I remember a more whimsical Internet.

JFK committed suicide

There are a few underappreciated CLN-specific gems: * commando and runes. * sql plugin for complex queries * JSON field filtering to reduce returned data. On the internal side: * the deprecation system which gracefully allows scheduled feature disabling. * the runtime memory leak detection system. * the generation of docs and complete testing of JSON schemas for our APIs. There are probably other minor wonders that I've forgotten about. These are the ones that are on the top of my head!

Yes. Taproot channels help with anonymity of u channels. Not much helps if the channel breaks, but that's an outlier. Channel probing is made a little harder by the Oakland Protocol, which is still just a proposal. Fees are generally so cheap that more private routing modes are practical, if we wanted to, but this might be obviated by the increasing complexity of routing.

You know I would!

I remember Dysfunctional Family Circus where the site owner would take family circus cartoons and you could fill in the captions. I remember Keepers of Lists where you would submit and vote on one-liners on random whimsical topic of the day (eg "Top Muppet Gripes").