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> are you mostly asking for us to verify 3rd party bank accounts via microdeposit instead? Yes, I'm fine waiting a couple days for the initial setup if it means I don't have to let…

Mercury is awesome! Not sure if this is right venue for feedback, but if only you could offer ACH without Plaid (which feels like a huge invasion of privacy), it would be even more…

You can close a channel whenever you want, for whatever reason.

When you fund a channel, the Bitcoin is still yours, you're not giving it away. With batched channel open/closes, it'll be super cheap to open and close channels. The only cost you…

Yep, and obviously any kind of transportation like that will be tracked and easily traced, with exact weights and sizes. By hopping on the lightning network, you're essentially ano…

Has it? Bitcoin is bigger than ever before. It's far more valuable, it has far more users, processes hundreds of thousands of transactions moving billions of dollars worth of value…

I think last year alone had more than a billion dollars worth of crypto hacked on defi, there's some trackers out there [1]. On one hand, you have amateurs that leave their private…

I would disagree, in my experience HN has been pretty anti-crypto for a long time, starting with Bitcoin's announcement thread [1]. Personally, I think people are just tired, as a …

Exactly this, it's a very adversarial environment with huge stakes for those that can exploit it. Even projects that have been around for months, years can get exploited which is w…

Look at it this way, if x = number of total users, routing nodes will grow O(log x), not O(c^x). The users can grow exponentially, the routing nodes won't because the marginal cost…

Most end-users won't be acting as payment gateways, they'll all have private channels, so they won't appear in the routing graphs. The number of routing nodes would be many magnitu…

It's L2, but you can have different types of L2s. With lightning network, you're opening and closing channels with a counterparty using on-chain transactions, so each channel can b…

I would also highly recommend i3 + i3-gnome combination [1]. It adds a lot of gnome features out of the box to i3, like sound control, notifications, etc. 1: https://github.com/i3-…

I think once you get used to a tiling window manager, like force yourself to use it for over a couple weeks, it's very difficult to go back. Somewhat similar to vim. Personally, I …

Yeah, let's privatize the gains and socialize the losses because the banks are too big to fail. What a great system! But hey, at least it's stable.

Not having a central single governance is the whole point of the exercise, it's a trustless system driven by mathematical rules and decentralized consensus. You can't stop a transa…

That's very "pigeonholey" way of looking at things though, no? Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you can't become good at something else too. If you're super knowl…

Yes, they call it Argo Tiered Cache under Caching tab.

TPUs are amazing, but in my experience, debugging issues with them can be a bit tricky. Since nvidia's gpus are more common place (especially outside gcp), you can find a lot more …

Does it really matter it? If this new supercomputer means that ML engineers can iterate x% faster which in turn increases FB's profits by even a small y%, I would think this would …

Just pull up some order books from exchanges, 10-100M$ worth of market orders would move the market in a meaningful way, you can't do the same in a more established market 40x the …

No need to go until 2012, Bitcoin price has been above current price for only like 6 months in it's whole existence. So if you bought at anytime outside of those 6 months, you're i…

This isn't the first or the last time that'll happen. There are multiple 50-80% drops in Bitcoin history and we famously went from 20k to 3k in 2017 cycle. For reference, sp500 als…