Is Bolt12 the future of lightning? We got a sneak peek of ₿ Steve Lee's talk on BOLT 12 from the Tuscany Lightning Summit 2024!

And... It's live ⚡🚀! Welcome to moving #Bitcoin at the speed of light, @Coinbase! We're so thrilled to be part of this journey with you to bring Lightning to 100s of millions of people in over 100 countries. Big milestone for the entire network and for Bitcoin. Let's go!

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It's time for Lightning⚡️ and it's time for BOLT12🔩

As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!

BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things

It’s critical you point to DEMAND ASAP or give an ultimatum to your pool of choice commit to testing and slowly introducing Stratum V2 with tx selection. Avoid Bitmain (incl BTC[dot]com) and friends.

This is so f***ing important and people want to go on about other 💩

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This is a really good podcast 🫡

You can’t ossify if it’s broken 🤣👍🏽

Great episode with ₿ Steve Lee! Everyone who believes bitcoin should 'ossify' needs to watch this. Very well laid out and clear explanations.

Stephan Livera ₿ Steve Lee Spiral One of the best episodes. Big fan of Steve Lee and Spiral.

Steve 100% had to look up “ossification” before doing this interview.

Stephan Livera ₿ Steve Lee Spiral Very good episode, we need to talk openly about the work-in-progress parts of Bitcoin as well, not just the engagement-farming-happy-thoughts!

There are no UTXOs stored in Mercury Layer; it does not exert control over transactions. The service functions purely as a blind signing service. As long as the service can confirm that a session owner can cryptographically prove ownership, it will sign. It does not verify the

I describe what most people likely mean by ossification (be conservative with changes that could have unintended consequences) and why there's plenty of software development and maintenance worth funding to preserve and enhance bitcoin's security, decentralization, and usability.

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'As uncomfortable as this may be, censorship is inevitable.' - Alex B

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James O'Beirne would love to train a local llm to monitor source tree diffs on package updates to catch stuff like this

Orange Background 𝕵𝖔𝖍𝖓 ₿𝟏𝟑%҉ ᵖ̴̋²̷̦̫̹͉͓̈́͗ᵖ̴̋ FreeSamourai🥷 ₿itcoin Roth₿ard Correct. We compile our software down to web assembly which allows for the node to run on the web. A great innovation and technical feat, only made possible by the SDK made by Lightning Dev Kit

Bitmain has a stranglehold on the mining industry from the pool & ASIC level. They control north of 50% of asic production and very close to that at the pool level from all their proxy pools.

This is a huge problem and the solutions being proposed are not very great. Hence why

Projects like this are pretty much exactly what we had in mind when we made herecomesbitcoin.org.