Pretty excited about this presentation from @bob! Have been thinking about The Bitcoin Stack for a while, and been really excited about nostr being the user/communications layer living on top of the LN layer for payments and the BTC layer for money/settlement for the last year… but this talk crystallizes specifically what use case The Bitcoin Stack is uniquely excellent at: Everyone Payments! Pumped to see prisms progress 🤙

h/t @Max for the nudge to watch the talk :)

My earlier attempts at a Bitcoin Stack visualization… @bob's is much better lol 🙃 https://image.nostr.build/42915498075860373331cac882544f3b9000d38f0086383591bd3988bc98826c.png https://image.nostr.build/f6e6c459142ecefcf0842a3be1f2af2c4fecf166631e9ddc0c8166b093497ba0.png  nostr:note16ksg7xp5c96h50ldsy08f9qldhgrvsddl5ysltdk6ag4jjfvc63qvxwa2x 

 Be like @pleblee, hack the planet!! nostr:note1fqent9kv5xrcev8pzk2ut06wz2j2httf8xlpapk86c0yterkj23q08s59l 

 LND v0.17 is here!!! Simple Taproot Channels have officially arrived 🥕🥕🥕 (and finally some SQL goodies which might be even more important iykyk) 
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.17.0.md 

 Gm. The most important quality of the Lightning Network is the permissionless nature of running a routing node, because that creates constant downward market pressure on routing fees. Permissionless means that ANYBODY can set up the software and start forwarding payments (including AI agents 👀).

Can we measure how well supporting permissionless node operations is going? Kind of! The Terminal list from Lightning Labs ranks the routing node market in terms of outbound liquidity, or how much capacity each node has to send payments. By my count, 80 of the top 100 nodes on the list are run by plebs, with only 20 associated with well-known businesses. That’s pretty great imo, let’s keep it up!

As long as we ensure that running a routing node is permissionless, and we keep increasing LN’s network effects, we are going to win! ⚡️
https://terminal.lightning.engineering