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I'm amazed that he has time for this kind of hobby work.
Agreed though - impressive he has that kind of sidebar time or is so capable he doesn't need that much time to figure it out.
"...Bitcoin is a living, breathing, developing code base that is moving forward with new features to continue to scale..." There is exactly zero progress to make it scale in the last 10+ years.
> There is exactly zero progress to make it scale in the last 10+ years. Lol, literally this week: https://taproot.watch/
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It launched, is usable in most wallets, and is starting to get adoption. It's going to be a key piece of the recently passed legislation in El Salvador which makes Bitcoin legal tender.
Using a closed, centralized implementation that doesn't accept third party nodes. The use of bitcoin is pure marketing, it's just MySQL with extra steps.
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It launched, is usable in most wallets, and is starting to get adoption. It's going to be a key piece of the recently passed legislation in El Salvador which makes Bitcoin legal tender.
Using a closed, centralized implementation that doesn't accept third party nodes. The use of bitcoin is pure marketing, it's just MySQL with extra steps.
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Using a closed, centralized implementation that doesn't accept third party nodes. The use of bitcoin is pure marketing, it's just MySQL with extra steps.
Wait, it does not allow third party nodes? What is my Raspberry Pi right next to me doing? Just pretending to be a Lightning Node?
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What happened to the lightning network? (Serious question, I am out of the loop.)
It exists, and it very much works [0] but it has yet to reach the massive levels of adoption people would have expected by now. Simple as that. [0] https://1ml.com/
"...Bitcoin is a living, breathing, developing code base that is moving forward with new features to continue to scale..." There is exactly zero progress to make it scale in the last 10+ years.
> There is exactly zero progress to make it scale in the last 10+ years. Lol, literally this week: https://taproot.watch/
Taproot will in practice have an even smaller impact, as it only affects special transactions that normal people won't use.
So yeah, it's not zero progress, but it's certainly not much.