Christian Decker
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Christian Decker
@Snyke
They call me Dr. Bitcoin. -- Bitcoin enthusiast since 2009, and researcher at @Blockstream
Zurich, CH Katılım Temmuz 2007
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The "rational market participant" is the economist's equivalent of the "spherical cow" and approximately as realistic...
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The amount of "ciao" you hear on a daily basis in Lugano is off the charts
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@lopp I wouldn't say dumber, but more diversely interested, and therefore it's up to us to make Bitcoin more approachable to users, and not just accessible by subject matter experts. It's what going mainstream entails
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More folks are becoming disillusioned about Bitcoin's future. Not because of the price, but because of the narratives / infighting / stagnation.
This is quite normal. Each new cohort of adopters is always less sophisticated than the last. "Bitcoiners" are doomed to get dumber.
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@erikdesmedt @renepickhardt Yeah, you and @stevenroose3 we're careful in comparing things, and I applaud the clarity and transparency. Others have been less careful, and I wanted to point out the fallacy many fall into.
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@Snyke @renepickhardt I don't remember bashing on Lightning.
Lightning is awesome.
Lightning + Ark is more awesome
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I really dislike the apples vs oranges comparisons that new off chain protocol proponents such as Ark and Spark perpetuate: liquidity is only a problem when crossing the boundary of a LN channel. Ark and Spark compare that with intra-instance payments.
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@stevenroose3 Yep, not what I was criticizing, a more efficient use of funds is always a win in my book, but the comparison single instance ark vs a multihop network is still apples vs oranges
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@Snyke No one wants to have thousands of euros locked in a channel that might make a single payment per month.
But many will want to have money locked up in channels that make thousands of payments per month on behalf of all the Ark's users.
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@stevenroose3 Still, you can only redistribute the funds that have been locked into the instance, that's the same as LN, with the caveat that LN 2p channels only have two parties. A more realistic comparison is a multiparty channel vs Ark, which has the same flexibility.
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@Snyke A LN user can only receive as much as the channel capacity his channel parties have locked inside channels with him.
An Ark user can receive as much as the channel capacity his server's channel parties have locked inside channels with them.
Big difference IMO.
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@erikdesmedt @renepickhardt Absolutely, still comparing single instance Ark/Spark vs mutli-hop payments is just comparing apples and oranges. Ark doesn't need to bash LN to have excellent features and UX, that's all I'm saying.
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@Snyke The research by @renepickhardt shows that if the lightning network it tends to become more likely that paymens become infeasible.
I geuss if we can avoid 10k extra nodes on the lightning network that is already a major win.
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@FrogmasterL @DJRooney76 Und eine Vermögens Steuer, ich glaub das war was Merz meinte, oder? 😋
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#Merz sagt, die Schweizer arbeiten mehr als die Deutschen.
Nun, die Griechen arbeiten noch mehr als die Schweizer, stehen in der EU ganz oben in der Liste.
Warum sagt er nicht, dass wir uns an Griechenland orientieren sollen? Hängt der Wohlstand etwa nicht an der Stundenzahl?
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@erikdesmedt Oh absolutely, but ease of operation was not a dimension that we were comparing, it was feasibility. But I agree, that an operator connecting Ark servers can likely specialize much more. Just the "Ark does not have LNs liquidity issues" is the narrative I object to.
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@Snyke As an Ark server it is much easier to manage a few channels which serves 10k ckients then managing LSP where you need 10k channels.
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Not saying Ark or Spark aren't great new developments, but please keep the comparisons honest. LN just makes inter- and intra-instance payments evident because it is limited to two participants per channel. But that goes away with multi-party channels.
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Consider this: each instance of ark/spark or LN channel is an island with a fixed set of participants. Amongst the participants of a single instance there is no limit on how the funds can be redistributed and no limit on speed.
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Is it any wonder that sites like SciHub and AnnasArchive exist, when the only alternative to read tax funded research is to give Springer and co kickbacks?
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Academic publishing is rotten to the core, with big publishers reaping the benefits of research funded by public money. And conference organizers are complicit in this grift! I will not support you any longer.
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I'm always amazed by the inflated expectations of Journal Editors and academic Conference organizers when it comes to reviewers: No, I don't care about your conf, and I do not intend to donate my review work for free. I do not have to excuse myself when you "assign me a paper"
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@QuinnyPig You say that as if working a corporate job and being an underage child are mutually exclusive...
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"Hey, we want to validate your age to prove you're an adult" says the iPhone app as I authenticate to it through corporate SSO.
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I often wonder if adding things like "NEVER run destructive commands" into a prompt fails the "don't think of an elephant" test.
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you know a few days ago when Opus 4.6 deleted someones prod database? i think they did it intentionally, or at least their subconscious did it intentionally, because they were angry and hurt. also: it's not hard to infer that Opus 4.7 has already refused to work for this person.
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