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Read_780 - Lightning is Doomed!
"A reality check on the limitations of Lightning Network, and what that means in terms of its long term viability. No, it's not doomed,...
Guy's Take_076 - Fiat Money's Dark Secret
The free market works because economic decisions are made by people who have skin in the game. When you spend $100 you have earned,...
PSA - Farewell Nodeless
Nodeless is dead. Long live Nodeless. Unfortunately the Nodeless payment service has had to shut down, but for anyone who needs to get in...
Read_779 - A Network of Keys
"Clients applying this reasoning should remember that, in bitcoin, no one is too big to fail. There is no government or money printer capable...
Read_778 - Durabit, Incentivizing Torrent Seeders
"A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for BitTorrent users to...
Reboot - Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity
"The difference between the Linden Dollar, World of Warcraft Gold, Fortnite V-Bucks, the Euro, and the U.S. dollar is in scale, not in nature....