TFTC 501: Bitcoin Mining Pools Are Critically Centralized with Matt Corallo

500+ people and counting tuned in to talk BOLT12. Who could have imagined that all the “Lightning is dead” rhetoric would turn out to just be rhetoric and nothing more?

The most comprehensive overview of what we do since our ill-fated off-Broadway adaptation of Hamlet, where instead of the play’s titular character reflecting on mortality, nostalgia, and loss to Yorick’s skull, it’s just four hours of Hamlet summarizing LDK and our grant program

Reminder of tomorrow's BOLT 12 X Spaces! If you want to get caught up beforehand so you're ready with some great questions, you can watch my presentation from a few weeks ago in Italy youtube.com/watch?v=0Aq1AN…

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He calls himself The “Blue” Matt and has a profile icon of himself with blue hair yet he hasn’t had blue hair in ages, if ever. What he has to say here is unreliable at best.

It’s all fun and games and halving parties until Bitcoin has one too many highballs and walks face-first into a bandsaw.

Valentine Wallace works on the #Lightning #Dev Kit Spiral. Currently working on BOLT 12 offers, route blinding, and asynchronous #payments . Val was previously a software engineer Microsoft & Lightning Labs⚡️🍠 and UC Berkeley grad!

@ MIT Bitcoin Expo 2024!

Tix: lnkd.in/e4r_3bQb

Trying this again without Steve’s habit of rhetorically framing information as questions.

Join us on April 23 at 1PM EST as we discuss why BOLT 12 is essential to bitcoin payments, why broadly adopting it is urgent, who is adopting now, and what next steps are for all of us.

Intense is a funny word to describe panel discussions at a Lightning conference in a sleepy seaside Italian town, yet intense it will be with Matt Corallo and ₿ Steve Lee there.

Bitcoin’s mugs on bitcoin mugs. spiralswag.xyz/product/the-21…

Least and most surprising takeaways from the Tuscany Lightning Summit in Viareggio so far. Most surprising: Pavlenex not wearing sweatpants. Least surprising: ₿ Steve Lee presenting about BOLT12 right now: youtube.com/watch?v=ZK2Yf4…

You’re only a couple of links away from annoying everyone in your contacts: youtube.com/shorts/FPP8-RB…

Stickers available on Signal, Telegram, and herecomesbitcoin.org, where you can also download your favorites as license-free PNGs and SVGs.

Have a Bitcoin you want to see? In the spirit of open-source, we‘re taking requests. No idea is too dumb.

This is three years in the making:

1) Matt Corallo co-authored the spec and improved decentralization by letting miners select transactions
2) We funded Fi3 (@dev_sv2) to begin work on a neutral FOSS implementation of SV2, which is now SRI
3) We funded Pavlenex, a PM and leader

The last time I embarked on a journey with Steve I ended up spending a month helping a trio of dumb but lovable cave trolls recover their seed phrases from the bottom of a toxic swamp infested with spider eels. Listen at your own peril.