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When I wanted to begin contributing to Lightning I investigated all the Lightning implementations at the time. I dug through their code bases. I settled on Core Lightning because it was the best quality. The code was structured in a logically coherent manner. It was both extensible and easy to reason about. It was the one that appeared written by someone with real experience. I didn’t know who Rusty Russel was at the time. If you aren’t familiar with him he’s had sort of a legendary career. He built major systems inside the Linux kernel. Linus Torvalds once called him a “top deputy.” (fun fact: CLN uses Rusty’s inter process file descriptor technique that results in CLN being wonderfully thread free). Turns out — Rusty was why CLN had the best quality code. The most senior and experienced developer in the space was making CLN! I stumbled upon getting to work with one of the legendary programmers by just following the ‘Good Code’ where it led. @rusty_twit has announced he’s moving on from Lightning. Today I want to thank him for making this awesome thing called Lightning a reality and wish him all the luck in his future endeavors. As for the rest of us, it’s time to carry the torch onward. I am as excited today as I was starting out to be working on such an amazing project. Core Lightning is amazing. Lightning is amazing. Bitcoin is amazing. Let’s go!

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How about fully-private Hermes and OpenClaw agents in TEEs with end-to-end encrypted AI inference? When used with a secure messenger (not Telegram), this could enable agents with incredible security and full-stack privacy.

collect more coins than you spend

Imagine trying to hack someone and getting trapped in an 87-minute discussion about Bitcoin insurance first.

I missed bitcoin and can't afford it now maybe I can buy another coin that's cheaper, which one's $100 for 137k coins?

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every design choice reflects a vision of humanity

critical decision facing coin standard adopters: ¢ 333 vs 333¢ I'm onboard with coin symbol first. it associates value, differentiates from cents, and looks good with abbreviations for big numbers ₿ 1 = ¢ 100m

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Thursday at 7pm!

these openclaw meetups are getting out of control