The more I learn about cryptographic techniques to optimize transaction throughput on Bitcoin's base layer like key & signature aggregation, and lightning network scalability improvements like submarine swaps, the more confident I am in Bitcoin not needing a block size hard fork.
We're excited to announce #BlockstreamJade, our new purely open-source hardware wallet for storing #bitcoin and @Liquid_BTC assets. If you're going to prove your keys, better do it with a hardware wallet. #ProofofKeys 💎⛓️🌊 https://t.co/cRbxukeEXY
New year, new #clightning release 😀
I just tagged the first release candidate for v0.9.3 of c-lightning.
Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to help us test the new version
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SCIENCE:
If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong.
If you don't correct those mistakes, you're doing it really wrong.
If you can't accept that you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all.
You get an email that makes you think "this requires a thoughtful reply." So instead of dashing off a reply as you would with an ordinary email, you wait till you have time to give it the reply it deserves. <Montage of life happening.> You never reply.
Lightning Labs is scaling!
Announcing our $10M Series A to fuel LN development, and the Lightning Loop beta release, a product making it easier send/receive #bitcoin instantly.
With 4000 developers and 30+ startups, the next decade of Lightning is on 🔥https://t.co/3P4gVm89OV
For those of you taking social isolation as an opportunity to learn, we've got you covered. All of our Bitcoin & Lightning curriculum & study groups are readily available. Stay safe!
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First 0 interest, then QE Infinity.
Then negative rates and currency controls
Then cash limits and helicopter money
Then e-coin and cash ban
None of it will work...
Just an update from me, in case you are interested...
Ive just closed all short positions in equities, oil and HYG and had closed bonds a while ago. I am now 100% focussed on the on the US dollar, which is a wrecking ball.
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