Programming Lightning: Intro to Payment Channels is now available in Python, with a brand new fully interactive learning platform!
- Code Lightning transactions in a browser-based editor
- Earn sats for completing checkpoints (yes, I pay you to learn)
- Generate & broadcast real funding transactions using built-in Bitcoin node
- Knowledge checks at every step
- Oh and it's free, if you like to save money
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Most of the ecosystem (wallets, exchanges, apps) no longer uses Bitcoin technology.
The surrender wasn't supporting stablecoins; it was letting EVM own the infrastructure that moves them.
That created a disincentive to maintain and adopt future BTC tech.
@murr@TheBlueMatt The key is: let’s make LN way easier to use—better liquidity and simpler nodes. If that’s still hard, hybrid with traditional rails. Voltage’s Credit Line is a solid step.
$1,000,000 was settled over the Lightning Network. On January 28th history was made.
We just powered the first publicly reported $1M Lightning transaction between @SD_Markets and @krakenfx in .47 seconds.
The future of institutional Bitcoin settlement is here.
Lightning got boxed in early. "It's for micropayments." That narrative stuck, but it was only ever part of the story.
Lightning is settling million-dollar transactions today. It's time the world sees this network for what it actually is.
This is only the beginning.
Bitcoin moving at the speed it was meant to.
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Square did their part, now let’s do ours. For bitcoin to become everyday money, merchants need to accept it. But first, they’ll need a reason to. We've put together the resources to help anyone make the case that only bitcoin can defeat credit card fees: https://t.co/fYkCARD5MD
bitcoin sellers map in cash app out now to 100%.
convince your local square seller to turn on bitcoin acceptance for zero fees on sales.
convince them to keep it as bitcoin to help them better survive dollar debasement.
Peter Thiel: If you graduated in 1970 with no student debt, compare that to the millennial experience: too many people go to college, they don’t learn anything, and they end up with incredibly burdensome debt. Student debt is a version of this generational conflict that I’ve talked about for a long time.
The rupture of the generational compact isn’t limited to student debt, either. I think you can reduce 80 percent of culture wars to questions of economics—like a libertarian or a Marxist would—and then you can reduce maybe 80 percent of economic questions to questions of real estate.
It’s extremely difficult these days for young people to become homeowners. If you have extremely strict zoning laws and restrictions on building more housing, it’s good for the boomers, whose properties keep going up in value, and terrible for the millennials. If you proletarianize the young people, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually become communist.”