How come all these kids today are dressed up going around threatening their neighbors and asking for candy? I observed a couple and pretty sure none of them are armed, should be easy to refuse, no?
If you’re using the Lightning Networo on Signet and want to send some sats to another node, maybe you’ll find my LNBits Signet instance useful. Just create an account, invoice and pay yourself, create Lightning Addresses, LNURLp/w and all the other LNBits magic!
signet.laisee.org
I do need enough to meet the minimum requirements for channels, practically speaking that’s probably 100k sats per channel. I am open to the idea of permissioned public testing networks, where I pay for “cycles” in the form of coins.
It should absolutely blow your mind that we now have open source money and open source payment networks. Even the boldest cypherpunks weren’t confident this would ever be possible just 20 years ago. Don’t sleep on it!
I learned that when you check in for a flight, the seat map may not show all available seats. Pretty mind blown when I noticed two passengers on the same Air Canada flight were presented with entirely different seat maps
Two individuals, both using the web checkin. The map was very different, for one passenger it only showed almost all middle seats as available, but no other seats. For the other it showed a more random map, with some middle seats, a few aisle seats and very few window seats available.
I did notice that testnet4 appeared to be intentionally premined. It’s still correctable though, we have about 150,000 blocks to take out the halvings. 50tBTC forever per block, that way we won’t have to worry about this ever getting a significant price. Begging for coins is not an acceptable way to distribute these resources
Reset how? The block reward? We should generally avoid moving to new testnets, as we can’t expect people to move their infrastructure. It will take a year or more for a testnet Lightning Network to emerge in significant size and functionality, and many services might never move over, like 1ML
I think that’s a terrible idea, especially since I might also want to try older software on testnet. You’re making me rethink my position, I’m thinking we should revive testnet3 with a simple hard fork
But isn’t that obviously a bad thing if we fragment into dozens of testnets? As a testnet user I value interacting on it with others, when playing with myself I’m already using regtest
I’m using testnet3 a lot for Lightning Network and Taproot Asset testing. I run an LNBits testnet node too and as of today, I’m fully on testnet3. My node has trouble keeping up but testnet4 won’t be as useful for me for a while.
All my testing is done with others, both onchain and offchain, inside and outside LL, mostly asynchronously. I can also tell from my LNBits instance that others are using my node to send sats to and from their wallets/nodes. It’s true that testnet3 liquidity is bad, and since testnet3 has been attacked many nodes fell off the network.
LL will have to make the decision where to move testing infrastructure to, but from this conversation it doesn’t sound like testnet3/4 have a future or is run with expectations that are compatible with what we need in the long run. Having a network that allows for connectivity with people testing other implementations and services (LSPs, swap providers, payment processors) on the same network is important though. Paying a tiny amount for testing is fine though from my perspective. Test/signet coins are API tokens, aren’t they?
And then convince competitors to join that same signet to test their infrastructure too? Why would they? Yet testing the compatibility of these infrastructures seem to be the primary benefit of a public testnet
Being able to perform swaps with other providers on existing infrastructure is a great benefit, no? I can’t run all swap services on my local network and also one day hope to be able to interact with RGB channels. Having to spin up a new node, acquire coins and open channels for each system i might interact with feels cumbersome and wasteful. I desire a “common” testnet Lightning Network
Don’t miss out on Rovereto, super close and Italy’s prime Bitcoin economy. I recommend the restaurant Il Doge, they take sats, but check the limited opening hours!
It’s weird that in Europe you can board a flight without ID, but you can’t get a SIM card. You can board a high speed train without a ticket, but you can’t get an anonymous prepaid debit card. You can buy alcohol without ID, but drugs are (mostly) illegal. There are no homeless people, but it’s really hard for immigrants to find work. Riddles over riddles.
All merchants at the Vancouver Bitcoin Block Party reported a share of 50%+ in Lightning transactions, with most in the 66% range. We’re so ahead of the curve!
https://stacker.news/items/663893
I successfully bullied my local Italian Delicatessen store to accept cash. Was difficult enough, how much work would it take to get them to accept sats?
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