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by rodarmor 5y ago
Definitely!
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by rodarmor 5y ago
It's actually pretty easy to get into and out of Bitcoin. river.com, is a US-based service that allows buying and selling bitcoin with USD, making USD transfers to and from a linked bank account, and making and receiving Lightning Netw
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by rodarmor 5y ago
It's definitely challenging to set up an LND instance. I'll try to find a good one and link to it from our readme!
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Ahh, not quite. I thought you were asking about a wallet for making payments, i.e. for buying content from Agora. In order to process payments for your Agora instance, you would need to connect it to an LND instance that you ran yourself.
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by rodarmor 5y ago
If you connected an Agora instance to an LND instance, you would have to trust the person who ran that instance, since they would be in control of funds from payments, so I think the best idea is to run your own LND instance.
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by rodarmor 5y ago
We have tested it using real BTC, so far so good! LND is definitely still in beta, and the Lightning Network itself is still in its infancy, so it's a good idea not to have too much funds in an LND wallet. We're try to be very car
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words!
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by rodarmor 5y ago
The most convenient Lightning Wallet is probably Wallet of Satoshi, which you can find on the Apple or Android app stores. Once you download it, you can fund it with an on-chain transaction. Once you have funds in the wallet, you should be
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Are you using the agora.download or test.agora.download? If you're using test.agora.download, are you paying with htlc.me? Can you provide the invoice ID? (It's the hexadecimal string after `/invoice/`.)
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by rodarmor 5y ago
HTLC.me is a testnet Lightning wallet, so the balances are in tBTC, testnet bitcoin. tUSD isn't a real thing, it just means that if your balance was in BTC and not tBTC, you would have that much USD.
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Nice, thank you!
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Very much so! Plus it's open source and anyone can run an instance.
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by rodarmor 5y ago
We don't host Agora instances, aside from our test instances, so we cannot prevent users from selling illegal content. Any useful technology has the potential for abuse, and Agora is no different.
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Thanks for trying it out! Is the failure persistent or does it work when you retry it?
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Currently, it only integrates with the Lightning Network via LND. You would have to modify it to support BAT. However, BAT would probably not be a good choice. BAT transactions are slow when compared to Lightning Network payments. Also, sin
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by rodarmor 5y ago
There might be others, but the existing system that comes to mind is Gumroad, a service that allows creators to sell digital content. Compared to Gumroad, Agora is not subject to censorship and can be self-hosted.
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Agora is a simple web file server that charges for downloads. It uses the Lightning Network for payments. The Lightning Network is a layer on top of Bitcoin that enables fast payments with very low fees. It settles to the Bitcoin network, s
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Show HN: Agora: Sell Files on the Web(agora.download)
75 points by rodarmor 5y ago|57 comments
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Take this with a grain of salt, Katie Hunt is actually a giraffe.
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Based.
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by rodarmor 5y ago
If you are mistreated in your country, why does it matter if you are a member of an underrepresented group or not?
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Lightning Mints: Chaumian Bitcoin Mints(rodarmor.com)
1 points by rodarmor 5y ago|0 comments
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Every human brain has inherent, powerful functionality to read depth cues from 2D images to infer object separation, shape, and distance. Flat design intentionally avoids including any of these depth cues that would take advantage of this f
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by rodarmor 5y ago
There's only one solution: Get rid of Argentina.
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by rodarmor 5y ago
Ah yes, the infamous canal milfoil problem.
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by rodarmor 6y ago
Reading the paper, I don't understand why the authors conclude that horizontal gene transfer is the most likely explanation, and not independent evolution.
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by rodarmor 6y ago
I think they meant "Nobel Memorial Prize Winner".
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by rodarmor 6y ago
"Elon has tonnes of money and he's very sophisticated, so I don't worry that his Bitcoin will sort of randomly go up or down." I feel like if an American is being quoted, American spelling should be used. It's weird
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Show HN: Just, a command runner written in Rust
3 points by rodarmor 6y ago|2 comments
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by rodarmor 6y ago
This is a great explanation! Thank you, it makes perfect sense now.

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