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 so now you admit you want to change the code

dynamic blocksize is pure BSVism

lightning uses a form of routing that never really got anywhere but the reason why we don't have better is because you can't, with current cryptography, make HTLCs that can be sent to anyone but the channel they are made for

that's the reason why we have lightning and it uses source routing

i don't think the cryptographic technique exists yet, or at best, it maybe has been discovered in the last few years but nobody's put the two things together

it's a very instructive exercise to study the whole history of "hash functions"

all this AI?

hash functions

elliptic curve signatures?

yes, hash functions are at the centre

hash functions are a way of transforming data in a way that it relates to ... or doesn't relate to the thing you are looking for

AIs use a special type of hash function and a form of hamming distance calculation based on it that generates a proximity between two large blobs of data

it's mindbogglingly complex, and this still doesn't give you the ability to do lightning-like state channels to modify standing UTXOs that are not yet dispatched to the mempool