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by j3th9n 6y ago
Slightly related, on BBC iPlayer is currently an interesting documentary series available called "China: A New World Order", which touches hacks like these a couple of times.
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by j3th9n 6y ago
Care to explain why not? Because it is true in every practical sense.
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Try handling millions of automated machine to machine micro transactions per second on the Visa network. The Lightning Network on top of Bitcoin can handle this today.
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Even a "9-eyes" country like the Netherlands doesn't have a data retention law in place anymore since 2015. I wonder which one is better then.
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by j3th9n 6y ago
Most people migrated to WhatsApp because it was free, not because it was more secure and private, for a long time it wasn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception_and_criticism_of_Wha...
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by j3th9n 6y ago
No one is calling this guy the villain, but he is pictured as the villain.
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Solution: Multi-Path Payments.
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It's up to each node how many channels they open and how much bitcoin is used for those channels, but lots of channels doesn't make it an institution. An LN node has to play with the same rules as every other node, it cannot enfor
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by j3th9n 6y ago
Lightning doesn't remove anything from Bitcoin, it only adds the option to make instant transactions as a second layer on top of it. If you want the benefits of Bitcoin, you can use the slower and 100% trustless Bitcoin network.
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by j3th9n 6y ago
You can have an LN channel worth 10 dollars of bitcoin left open for years, over which unlimited transactions route worth 10 dollars or less each.
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It doesn’t need a lot of BTC tied up in channels. It’s enough to have one channel open with another well connected node. Transactions can jump over several nodes to reach their destinations. And everybody can become a bank/payment proc
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by j3th9n 6y ago
An LN payment processor is not institution, it's just a LN node which has channels open to many other nodes and to which you as a user can connect to, so you don't need to open separate channels with everyone you are doing transac
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by j3th9n 6y ago
You both use your lightning app connected to a LN payment processor which already has the necessary channels open with other nodes and/or payment processors.
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The amount of channels doesn't give any indication on the potential users. For example a bitcoin exchange can have one LN channel open with the rest of the network and allow many transactions per second for all its users. And I believe
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That's because of the nature of the Lightning Network. You can only see transactions going through your own LN node, if you run one. Only the opened LN channels are visible for everyone.
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What about all those Lightning Network transactions on top of Bitcoin?
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You clearly don't understand how the Lightning Network works.
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I suspect this is an AI generated blogpost.
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by j3th9n 6y ago
Comments on this from 5 years ago, just for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10308004
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The problem here is that Amazon is infringing on copyright, using the "Elasticsearch" trademark and lying about a partnership in a tweet. > A license is a choice. It means you choose to not gain revenue by directly licensing th
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The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998)(infolab.stanford.edu)
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by j3th9n 6y ago
Why not switch to WooCommerce and I host it for you for €49/year. ;-)
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Interesting, this was probably due to "DNS tunnel mode": https://www.your-freedom.net/index.php?id=dns-tunneling I will look into this more, thanks! :-)
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Thank you!
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https://wifimask.com - WifiMask VPN. The little money that comes in is spent on server costs basically. I spent 3 years building it, spending too much time on trying to build "perfect" Apple apps, instead of quickly go
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by j3th9n 6y ago
I started playing guitar when I was 25, with the help of some random youtube videos and a growth mind set. And now piano at age 39, so far just doing random things, as long as it sounds nice.
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by j3th9n 6y ago
It looks like you could use some turbocharged WordPress hosting, hit me up if you want a fast website that can handle HN. ;-)
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Yep, that's exactly what I did.
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I could host it for you for €49/year: joostwebhost.nl . You'll get email with it too, all running on open source software. :-) I mainly focus on WordPress hosting now, but I will add this to my services too.
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by j3th9n 6y ago
> The uncomfortable truth is that most people don’t give a shit. For example, it’s absolutely shocking that the common paradigm for engineers at Google is to come in at 11am and leave at 4pm. In no world can you be working 5 hours a day

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