Replying to @KimDotcom
The Lightning Network is not patented.
Source: Invented it w/ @jcp, and it's free to use, modify, improve.
- Replying to @tdryjaI’m excited to share today that I’m joining the @Lightspark team to work on building out Bitcoin and LN to be even more powerful forms of money and payments. #Lightspark #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork
- I wore a bitcoin core t-shirt today at #Bitcoin2022 (along w/ @achow101). Quite a few people asked, "What's bitcoin core?" It's... bitcoin. I guess people added "core" because it was confusing. "So you work for Bitcoin Core?"
- So signal is putting some kind of coin in the client. I took a look at their "whitepaper". It's 141 pages of, umm...
- You cannot still, never have been able to, and never will be able to, "withdraw BTC on other networks". Securing Bitcoin also involves calling out hostile redefinition of Bitcoin.
- Why the excitement for "Digital Identity"? Bitcoin's strength is we can pay / be paid and not care about people's names or "identities".
- A few months ago, I read about @Lightspark, a new company whose goal is to “explore, build and extend the capabilities and utility of Bitcoin.” “Huh.” I thought, “That’s also been my goal for the last decade or so.”
- Really frustrating to see laser-eyesers applauding an attack on mainnet LND. Sure, fixing bugs makes bitcoin stronger. Sure, it's the currency of enemies. But bitcoin and LN are not magically invincible / inevitable. Attacks don't help.
- I've posted Utreexo, a new paper about bitcoin scalability, to IACR ePrint. ia.cr/2019/611 Thanks to those who helped with this work and looking forward to criticisms and getting and implementation running.
- Just released v0.1 of utreexo software & wrote about it here: medium.com/mit-media-lab-… take a look, test it out, and write some crash reports :) It's been great working with the other utreexo developers so far & looking forward to more people working on it!
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- The problem with scams isn't even the scams. It's that you start thinking real things are scams, and start thinking scams are real.
- Pay no heed to those who define Bitcoin as "the chain with the most work, whatever the rules", as they are just along for the ride.
