Very cool to now be using lightning to zap notes! 

 First public draft version was earlier, February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150301065655/http://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper-DRAFT-0.5.pdf 

 I love it how I learn something new about bitcoin almost every day!

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 2016 was 8 years ago... 😭 

 what is Poon up to these days? when I first got into the space I was bullish ethereum because he was working on a scaling solution for it that was like lightning called plasma. wtf happened with that? not that ii matters 

 I'm not sure this is a good sign. 

 15k nodes in 8yrs 

not much adoption 😭 

 Even exponential growth looks small at the beginning. 

 You know what else looks small at the beginning? 

 Failure. 

 y u gotta say these things https://i.nostr.build/k5jl.jpg  

 I agree, do you think there are efforts towards more exposure of this tech for small/medium size business owners ? I think those could be great adopters 

 I can’t be sure about whether there is enough, but I believe they are the ideal first adopters. They have less on the line than big corpos and are likely to be more open minded about finding ways to drum up business. 

Just comparing the transaction fees would go a long way with a lot of small businesses. 

 I really hope regulation allows for companies like @CashApp & @strike to offer hardware & infrastructure to them, we all know majority of them won’t be managing channels & everything else that comes with it.. 

 Honest question - how many total Bitcoin nodes do you think there are 

 me ? idk maybe like 50k 

no idea just a guesstimate 

 idk but you can count how many peers your node knows of in its peers.json 

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