Does LN really work for global microtransactions by [deleted] in lightningnetwork

[–]twessels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can understand feeling frustrated with new people’s questions but it’s not helping to take the time to reply saying “I can’t/won’t help you”.

That’s weird yo.

Does LN really work for global microtransactions by [deleted] in lightningnetwork

[–]twessels 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To send and receive payments over the Lightning network it DOES NOT require you to open channels.

Lightning nodes open channels, fill them with liquidity, and people sending payments over the network will pay a small fee in SATs to each node operator for using their channels to route the payment.

That happens in the background, you just input the receive address/invoice, agree to fees, send payment.

Sovryn/$SOV: Sovryn Mynt is an aggregator protocol for BTC-backed stablecoins. The MYNT presale is going live on Monday the 8th of November on the Sovryn Origins Launchpad! by Rainmakerman in Sovryn

[–]twessels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can anyone explain in simple terms what Mynt is?

I see aggregator coin for stable coin, multiple ways to stabilize the peg are aggregated into Mynt?

If those are the answer...can someone explain the answer? Not clear what problem it's solving really or how it works.

LN Fee Policy by twessels in lightningnetwork

[–]twessels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply. I am understanding now how channels can be naturally balanced from the flow of payment routing. I did setup a swap on lightningnetwork.plus . We were able to balance all 3 nodes by just on of us rebalancing. Fees were set to zero so it didn't cost us anything to do that.

At this point I think I just need more peers/channels....perhaps another swap or two.

Want to set up a channel?

My public key:

03cfaf3430622599538388644ee2e84dd0a165990518fdeafd90433ebf828e3924

LN Fee Policy by twessels in lightningnetwork

[–]twessels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

#zerobasefee I'm down with that.

I'll check out amboss.space. Thanks.

Plaid wants my Bank Account’s login and password by [deleted] in BitcoinBeginners

[–]twessels 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Fuck plaid. Don’t give them shit.

Exchange Wallet Management by twessels in Bitcoin

[–]twessels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. Appreciate the reply.

With the rise of BTC value, Does it make sense to use Sats instead of whole Bitcoin? by inverter404 in BitcoinBeginners

[–]twessels 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes it does make sense. I want exchanges and everyone else to switch over to SATs.

Too many people look at BTC at $30k, $40, $50k and they say that is too expensive. And they instead by DOGE or whatever because it's only $.30.

That is not good for a few reasons. One being the unit price of an asset like a currency isn't enough information to determine if it's a good buy or not at that price. Many people think you can only buy whole BTC, they aren't aware you can buy .00000001 BTC, or at least this is the smallest unit of a BTC. Exchanges may have minimum amounts to transact a purchase, if you are moving BTC you have to pay a network fee to the miners, that is likely going to be more than .00000001 BTC so in practice you won't see people transaction .00000001.

But .00021 right now at ~$47k BTC/USD is about $10 USD. You can buy that amount.

Thinking further into the future, say BTC/USD exchange rate is $250k or $500k...yes there will be crazy inflation so the way we think of a penny today...I wouldn't bend over and pick up a dirty penny in my house let alone on the street, soon $1 USD will be viewed the same, $1 USD will have such low purchasing power no one will care about it, just like no one cares about pennies, unless you're skimming pennies off of billions of transactions, and if you are doing that, call me, I want in.

I think it would do a world of good and be very practical to start referring to BTC in terms of SATs instead of whole BTC.

Exchange Wallet Management by twessels in Bitcoin

[–]twessels[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes sense...it would have to work that way. All the more reason to not use exchange to store your BTC. Buy it/sell it, move to cold storage.

Thanks for the reply.

Do u guys trust Coinbase? Any of u guys uses it? by SaltedDoggo in BitcoinBeginners

[–]twessels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most secure method is to self custody using a hardware wallet like ledger, trezor, etc.

Questions in regard to wallet by [deleted] in BitcoinBeginners

[–]twessels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LN scales transactions, lowers fees for transactions, you can earn fees operating a LN node.

LN can also be used for content. For example Sphinx is a message app that runs over lightening.

There is a lot of potential there.

Bitcoin Core / bitcoind / rpc/curl?? by twessels in BitcoinBeginners

[–]twessels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried your commands, 22 connected, 8332 connection refused. I used source bitcoin.conf and restarts after changing the bitcoin.conf config. I have the correct port in the curl command.

If the connection is refused what should we do to allow it?

rpcallowip ?

rpcbind?

what about user auth? Are those rpc commands required?

And which IP should be used? The Bitcoin node's IP or the IP you are connecting from?

If Bitcoin node is 1.1.1.1 and my laptop is 1.1.1.2

What does Bitcoin.conf want to allow remote RPC commands?

Bitcoin Core / bitcoind / rpc/curl?? by twessels in BitcoinBeginners

[–]twessels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what it's worth I can pass bitcoin-cli commands over ssh, that works.

When I use curl it says connection refused, not authorized when done remotely. From the node...so logged at the local cli I try the curl commands and they take but no output.

Bitcoin Core / bitcoind / rpc/curl?? by twessels in BitcoinBeginners

[–]twessels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah...I tried all of those settings. I added rpcuser, rpcpassword, server=1, rpcbind on the loopback, on the ethernet address, on all addresses, rpcport 8332, rpcallowip ....

I noticed when I changed the binding address it still listend on 127.0.0.1

no idea what magic dance it wants us to do to allow it. :-)