waxwing @waxwing@x0f.org

uh.. even though I have *no* need for inbound, is what I meant, of course.

Meanwhile, took the opportunity to install LIT on my raspiblitz. Web-based GUI looks pretty slick. I think I will try out the new Lightning Pool feature, even though I have special need for more inbound liquidity, I'm really curious to see what it's like making a bid and getting it filled:

#bitcoin #lightning

Hadn't been to 1ml.com in a while, I notice the LN network stats are looking pretty healthy! About 20K nodes and nearly 50K channels public, god knows how many private:

Podcast recommendation time:

it's long and I'm only halfway through, but something that popped up during this podcast about the mechanics of using lightning (and privacy) struck me as very interesting: the concept of a "ring of fire" where people cooperate to set up rings of say 5-10 channels and keep them balanced using circular rebalancing.

features @openoms

https://anchor.fm/citadeldispatch/episodes/Citadel-Dispatch-e0-2-1---the-lightning-network-and-bitcoin-privacy-with-openoms-and-cycryptr-e10ncbe

#bitcoin #lightning

Even in 2020 we still see the Chinese financial elite having to constantly remind each other that you can't have your cake and eat it when it comes to international financial power/influence:

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3106692/chinas-mr-renminbi-says-beijing-must-dismantle-capital

Back to the first article, CBDC is interesting only in that Bitcoin ends up being a Trojan horse for using full on Stasi-like population control; they will see and control directly, every payment. This nightmare is coming, but it has little to do with "blockchain" or Bitcoin.

I found this article on the digital yuan project pretty good/interesting.

I'm happy to see that they at least mention (which nobody usually does) the non-free-convertibility of the RMB (closed capital account, non-floating exchange rate) (one of a few reasons why IMF accepting it into the SDR basket was so disgraceful; even worse than the WTO accession, though less impactful. But par for the course for Western elite hypocrites).

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/im-not-all-excited-chinas-digital-yuan-giant-flop

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#bitcoin #cbdc

@stevenroose it's admittedly no more than curiosity, but what's the thinking behind SIGHASH_RANGEPROOF? (https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/pull/960/files)

Does it change the sighash to sign over the rangeproofs of the consumed outputs, or..?

This might be the most impressive technical pass I've yet seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHSoIgY4mmI

(though JustCallMeJack has many plays that are serious contenders...)

#beatsaber

I have insufficient faces and palms for this story:

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/eos-soars-thiel-backed-group-inject-10-billion-decentralized-crypto-exchange

Just a normal day on most of my IRC channels:

<grimler32> any t1me travelers or al1ens here please pm me

@openoms @kristapsk sorry forgot to tag thread:

#bitcoin #joinmarket #coinjoin