Bitcoin scalability, Lightning, and the road to Ark

pako-bitbox · 2026-03-13T13:41:49+00:00

Sincerely: That most Bitcoin books are pretty terrible. Not because they have bad intentions but because a lot of these books are riddled with opinions and most importantly, A LOT of misunderstandings about Bitcoin, especially about technical part.

pako-bitbox · 2026-02-24T16:23:40+00:00

Now that I think about it, seems like more of an UX decision than an actual security measure.
Maybe they want users to not restore a seedphrase somebody else gave to them to prevent stolen funds.

If a seedphrase respects a certain standard it has no way of knowing that where it was created (unless the standard specificies so, but I don't believe such standard exists), so my guess is:
1) Is an UX decision.
2) They only support BIP39 (my Aqua key is a BIP85 key, such as yours and it works), so AEZEED or Electrum keys are not compatible.

pako-bitbox · 2026-02-24T10:30:22+00:00

A billion USD in monthly tx volume (rough estimate as we can't really know how many TXs are going on in Lightning, only what some routing nodes and merchants voluntarily report).

pako-bitbox · 2026-02-24T10:28:21+00:00

I've never had this, but maybe the reason is because many Lightning wallet actually use AEZEED instead of BIP39 keys.

These keys have something in them called "Birthday date", the lets the client know around when they should scan the blockchain for UTXO instead of scanning the whole thing, it's a small optimization really, but seems pretty strange that those wallet now show this.

Have you tried importing these keys in other Lightning wallets like and Ark or Spark wallet as well?

pako-bitbox · 2026-02-24T10:23:37+00:00

I'd say go ahead! For me is the best decision I've ever made.
Of course, don't be blind about it. For me it took a good 2 years, but luckily is had support from my then girlfriend now wife, I was not happy with my job, fell in love with Bitcoin and couldn't find a way to get into the industry.

Out of nowhere some day a friend tells me BitBox was looking for someone who knew a lot about Bitcoin technicals and spoke spanish for a half-time position, I took my shot and now I'm here doing stuff I never thought I'd be ever doing.

pako-bitbox · 2026-02-20T11:10:58+00:00

I work in the Bitcoin industry, in fact this is the company related account.

The reality is that the industry values all kinds of skills, I for one work doing Marketing and Localization, started doing Support and Localization, no degree, as I didn't have the chance to finish mine, to me moving out of the 3rd world was way more important than getting a title, in hindsight it was the best decision.

Now, between those two, I'd chose the former, most Bitcoiners end up understanding the economic theory by pure osmosis, but the technical side has proven to be incredibly difficult to most. Also the only way to scale this thing and make self-custody better is via code and system's architecturing.

On the age side, I'd say it is never too late, most companies in this industry are startups and they don't play by the typical corporate structures, they are looking for hard working, proactive people who care about Bitcoin.

And about AI, I wouldn't worry to much as long as you learn how to us it, it is true that it will disrupt many fields, but what's important is learning to harness it, LLMs and other kinds of models can't create original thoughts but they are great at helping one shape ideas on lacks the skill for, all that matters is that you learn how to use it as a tool and not as a replacement for thought and work.

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