A transparent base layer is needed to make sure the system is accurate. If you can't account for it... then how do you know it exists or that you're not just getting IOUs? I like lightning because it's actual bitcoin tied up in a channel. It's not some "just trust me bro" system.

Self-hosting lightning right now. It's not that hard if you're just doing personal payments. Being a routing node is another chore. Things will get easier as we go, as far as ease of use.

Sounds like you've heard a lot of fear mongering but without actual evidence? Do more research, the truth will reveal itself.

Core already handed us a mess that's screwing node operators right now. Most people don't run nodes or run miners at home... so a lot of people have no clue how bitcoin works as a full system. Being able to run a node on basic hardware is important! Not everyone lives in a "first-world" bubble where computers are cheap. Years down the road it's going to be worse.

Either it's a monetary network or it's not. It's OK to tell people to go build elsewhere if they want to play with pictures and try and to work around long standing rules. Vitalik and many others got told to go play elsewhere.

Have you been watching the work Matthew Kratter has been doing trying and explain it all?

Bad things will always happen if people aren't vigilant or don't know/forget WHY they do something in the first place. First principles are important.

Onward! Have a great night.

It's okay, I've been told this can't happen because the fees will price them out...

Of anyone paid attention to the first ordinals wave, they chose to pay super high fees as a statement, they didn't have to.

It seems some Bitcoiners have forgotten that the source behind these scammers is the fiat money printer. The attack funding is endless.

The clip isn't new, pretty sure its a few weeks old now. Still haven't seen any evidence of this in the files. I think this politician was just going with what he imagined is in the files, since he hates Trump. If so, the slander case should be interesting.

Great news!

I think the last time I checked they didn't have it. Thanks for the update. If only they posted on Nostr, then I would have known. 😋

Yeah, so they can greet me "plesently" and then act like they don't give a care a second later. They're not saying "hi" because it's friendly, but because they're forced to. Meanwhile I'm left wondering if I did something wrong when saying hello and then getting cold shouldered. Great for customer service.

Took me a bit to realize it's not me. It's the people at the till not giving a care about what they do and having no ownership in their job.

I'd rather check myself out. I'm better at it anyway.

And someone was pre positioned standing in the middle of the street to film it?