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How Burak explained Ark to me

How Burak explained Ark to me

How the lightning network works

The average number of contracts processed per day on robosats, since its inception in 2022, is 15. Today they processed 137 contracts. Robosats is running hot today. robostats.supertestnet.org

If you ever feel like your product or service would lose users by providing them with the truth (informed consent), stop and reflect. Honesty is only in conflict with adoption among scammers. If you ever feel that tension, sacrifice adoption, and keep being honest.

A project in 2018 called Webcoin built a bitcoin browser wallet in SPV mode Details here: https://github.com/mappum/webcoin To talk to bitcoin nodes, it relied on a TCP->Websocket proxy called Webcoin Bridge Details here: https://github.com/mappum/webcoin-bridge Is anyone running that bridge anymore?

We just entered a new signaling window for bip110 There are zero pro-bip110 blocks in this window so far https://redblocks.supertestnet.org

Connector Swaps mentioned Thanks for the graphical presentation of them, sir! nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqnm89qsfay30eumrlfwjputmrstvktg2d4zwmgp09hnnpjg8uvz5qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qq8xy6rxd3cxycq6f6035

A layer two (aka "second layer") is a service where users can send their bitcoins and then transact on the service with reduced impact on bitcoin's blockchain, where users can withdraw their bitcoins by getting one or more bitcoin transactions confirmed. It is not a second layer if, without changing bitcoin's consensus rules or using a 51% mining attack, a group of one or more third parties, and/or the service itself, can render any user's ability to withdraw invalid.

The first BIP110 block has been mined https://redblocks.supertestnet.org

Now things get fun redblocks.supertestnet.org

I think I found an unexpected problem with the most liquid BIP110 prediction market. It defines the "Yes" condition based on a mix of timestamp ("11:59:59 PM") and blockheight ("the BIP-110 activation point"). But since those are not always in sync on bitcoin, there's a chance that we simply haven't reached that blockheight yet when we reach the timestamp when the measurement is supposed to happen. In that case, the Yes condition would obtain unexpectedly: if we are only at block 965660 at the timestamp, instead of 965664, then -- at the time of measurement -- there won't be any "blocks that violate BIP-110 constraints" from BIP-110's activation height forward...but only because we haven't reached that blockheight yet. So a person who thinks BIP110 won't activate might find it reasonable to bet Yes anyway, because even if BIP110 never gets enforced, you can still win if blocks just get slower than we currently expect them to. Link to the market: https://beta.predyx.com/market/will-bip-110-activate-and-… Click "Show More" under "Description" to see what I mean.

My latest invention is Forkalicious: a contentious fork visualizer. The website creates three characters, Alice, Bob, and Carol. Alice runs a "standard" bitcoin node that ignores the BIP110 soft fork. Bob runs a node that enforces the BIP110 soft fork. Carol runs a node that rejects the BIP110 soft fork. Then you pick how many miners enforce the rules of BIP110, from 0% to 100%. Then you generate blocks based on that assumption, and see how the blockchain looks on Alice's node, Bob's node, and Carol's node. Try it here: https://forkalicious.supertestnet.org Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EZWv08niJE

Today I learned BIP91 was a temporary soft fork. I didn't know bitcoin ever did one before. Some people say the expiration of a temporary soft fork counts as a hard fork; I disagree, and it's nice to have something to point to as a counterexample

Here's a thing I wanna *use* but don't wanna build myself. These stores let you pay with L1 bitcoin if you use one of their partner apps to generate something called a Flexa Payment Code: - Chipotle - Home Depot - Gamestop - Barnes & Noble The user needs a wallet with btc or another cryptocurrency in it, you use that money to fund what is essentially a gift card that works at any Flexa-supporting merchant, the merchant scans it, and you enjoy your product. But there is no "web" interface for doing this. You can't just pay a lightning invoice and get a Flexa payment code out of it to present at Chipotle, etc. And Flexa's API is also permissioned, which is a turn-off for me. But there's a potential workaround: at least three of their partner apps ARE permissionless. Nexus Wallet, Nighthawk Wallet, Zashi Wallet, and Coinbase Wallet are self-custodial wallets, and *can* generate Flexa payment codes. So I'd love it if someone used an emulator, a scraper, and lightning to make a website where anyone can generate a Flexa code and pay with LN at Chipotle et. al.

My latest invention is Red Blocks: track the status of BIP110 activation redblocks.supertestnet.org

The existence of a UASF for bip110 and a URSF against it has an interesting consequence for the spam war

Wow, that flew under the radar. F2pool apparently launched lightning withdrawals some time before February 10 of last year. So five mining companies support it: - F2pool - Nicehash - Braiins Pool - Ocean Mining - Lincoin Pool And people said LN would take fees away from miners!

My latest invention is URSF-110, which does a User Rejected Soft Fork against BIP110. It run on regtest or mainnet, though I recommend not running it on mainnet til someone smarter than me takes a look. Learn more on my github: https://github.com/supertestnet/URSF-110 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egmVtC1dL7k

It is nice when smart people agree with me 📝 ef06c493…