Stacker News Live

By Car and Keyan

Car, Keyan and friends recap the front page of Bitcoin on ⚡️SNL every Friday at 4 pm Texas Time. ZAP!

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April 02, 2023SNL #61: Anomalous Activity
Join Car and Keyan to discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, and top stackers.
We discuss:
0xB10C profiles anomalous P2P activity on their Bitcoin node theorizing its a single entity in LinkingLion: An entity linking Bitcoin transactions to IPs?
SN Discussion
The proposal for Route Blinding was merged into the Lightning protocol spec repo following successful interop between CLN and Eclair implementations. In short, Route Blinding gives payment recipients the ability to hide who they are.
SN Discussion
Robosats Beginners Guide explains how Robosats works, why you might use it, how to use it most privately, and answers common questions.
SN Discussion
@sourcecreator earns bitcoin as a landlord and explains in detail how they onboard tenants and manage inbound lightning liquidity in Lightning Network use case for efficient stacking.
SN Discussion
Lightning and privacy researcher, Mutiny Wallet co-founder, and former nostr skeptic, Tony Giorgio, is Embracing Nostr citing non-social media use cases and the developer community as motivators.
SN Discussion
Car's pick:
The DEA Quietly Turned Apple’s AirTag Into A Surveillance Tool
SN Discussion
Fold Announces Exclusive Global Partnership With Visa
SN Discussion
Keyan's pick:
Outer Spaces for Curious Beings - Nostr client (and relay) coming soon™️
SN Discussion
For the week of March 31st, 2023.
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49min
March 27, 2023SNL #60: Multiplicity
Join Car and Keyan to discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, and top stackers.
We discuss:
Ben Carman analyzed zaps on nostr and discovered 95% of zaps are to custodial wallets.
https://twitter.com/benthecarman/status/1638006709741289474
SN Discussion
Balaji, most recently the author of The Network State, bet $1m that Bitcoin's price will reach $1m per Bitcoin in 90 days. tldr: most US banks are insolvent, regulators hid their insolvency, the FED is "printing" them into solvency, the CBDC trap is set (ie banks consolidating), smart money will move into Bitcoin faster than ever.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1636827051419389952
SN Discussion
The Cultural Impact of Paper Wallets is Going to Be Huge suggests Bitcoin paper wallets will someday be hunted for like treasure. I mean … why not?
SN Discussion
@DarthCoin, never breaking from character, is unhappy with Bitkit not fixing bugs in their lightning wallet. After being banned from BitKit's telegram group, DarthCoin posted Bitkit John Carvalho - I am calling you out!
SN Discussion
The mempool became exceptionally full as of yesterday and remains so today with pending txs at ~1GB as of this writing. Transcriptions appear at least partially responsible for the blockchain usage.
The mempool memory usage is > 1GB
Car's pick:
Chaincode Podcast with Tadge Dryja: Writing the LN paper and working in Bitcoin
SN Discussion
Keyan's pick:
For how long could you keep your lifestyle without any income?
SN Discussion
For the week of March 24th, 2023.
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41min
March 19, 2023SNL #59: Only Two Beers
Join Car and Keyan to discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, and top stackers.
We discuss:
Trust is a Scaling Solution is a collection of essays on trust by futurepaul packaged in a brutal, nostalgic design. Why and who do we trust? Why do we betray trust? How does trust relate to money? Paul provides insight.
https://trustisascalingsolution.com/
SN Discussion
Someone exploited a vulnerability in Robosats' on-chain swap feature earning themselves 5m sats. The vulnerability has since been closed, and was apparently caused by a race condition.
https://nitter.at/RoboSats/status/1635432123648622593
SN Discussion
LNBits shows you how to make a nostr hardware wallet for $10. They also sell them pre-made with a case for $20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6OQPoNlzA
SN Discussion
Before micropayments were technically possible (ie pre-Lightning), the internet's visionaries dismissed micropayments on the grounds of decision fatigue. Brandon Lucas surveys the history of micropayments and the tech that might change it in Micropayments and the Lightning Network.
https://brandonlucas.net/posts/lightning/micropayments
SN Discussion
Most of use now know Silicon Valley Bank has been taken over by the FDIC following a bank run. @felix provides a short explainer in ELI5 – What's happened to Silicon Valley Bank? ☠️.
SN Discussion
Car's pick:
Tari Labs wins restraining order against Lightning Labs over Taro protocol
SN Discussion
Keyan's pick:
Following SVB's bank run last week the US government stepped in to guarantee the deposits of SVB and any US bank in a similar position allocating two trillion dollars to the effort.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/12/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-no-bailout-janet-yellen
SN Discussion
For the week of March 17th, 2023.
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40min
March 12, 2023SNL #58: Dystopian Chip Implants
Join Car and Keyan to discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, and top stackers.
We discuss:
With a few core devs stepping down, it's worth celebrating new Bitcoin Core contributions however small. @ekzyis made their first Bitcoin Core PR, changing a line to interpolate a value rather than hard coding it. It's since been merged!
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27232
My first bitcoin PR
@DarthCoin Translation Guide
SN Discussion
Homes are treated like unconditional risk free investments likely because governments promote and support them as such. But might prioritizing the investment nature of housing conflict with their use as, well, housing? Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake makes this case.
SN Discussion
Roulette is a ubiquitous game many of us have never bothered to learn. @BubeniCZECH schools SN on the basics of roulette and the Martigale system in #1 The Magic of Roulette - Martigale. They've subsequently followed on with 4 other installments.
#2 The Magic of Roullete - Bonds Bet
#3 The Magic of Roulette - Superior
#4 The magic of Roulette - Sylvia's Choice
#5 The Magic of Roulette - ATM
SN Discussion
Most of use now know Silicon Valley Bank has been taken over by the FDIC following a bank run. @felix provides a short explainer in ELI5 – What's happened to Silicon Valley Bank? ☠️.
SN Discussion
Car's pick:
Bitcoin at SXSW
SN Discussion
Apple will popularize chip implants. Here is how.
SN Discussion
and why it's chaos right now in Austin for SXSW. For the week of March 12th, 2023.
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34min
March 06, 2023SNL #57: Airbnb Bros
Join Car and Keyan to discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, and top stackers.
We discuss:
Many of us are anticipating marketplaces on nostr and Nostr Market is an early attempt at one. To place an item for sale, tag a note with #nostrmarket and your listing will appear on Nostr Market.
Nostr Market
SN Discussion
The late stage capitalism meme would have you believe civilization's progress isn't just stalling but rapidly declining. @tomlaies counters with Late Stage Capitalism? We're just getting started! The cited data suggests global well-being is at all time highs and that we are - hopefully - in "early stage capitalism."
Late Stage Capitalism? We're just getting started!
Build on L2's Core Lightning community is live! Blockstream's first Build on L2 community is filled with their resident wizards and is a cool blend of Twitter and Slack's UX.
https://community.corelightning.org/home
Steelmanning is the act of making the strongest possible argument for something you disagree with. @Anonomoto challenges us to do this with Ordinals and implicitly Inscriptions.
Steelmanning Ordinals Challenge
Bluewallet "nightmare" news? No problem, DarthCoin, come to help
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/147162
Car's pick:
TBD Launches C=, a Lightning Service Provider
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/146215
Ghost Checkout with Mash (No Account Needed)
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/144675
Keyan's pick:
Lightspark Announces Xapo Lightning Network Partnership
SN Discussion:
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41min
February 25, 2023SNL #56: Booger
Join Car and Keyan to discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, and top stackers.
We discuss:
Blastr blasts your nostr events to most known public relays. If you want to make sure your nostr content is seen, add wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com to your relay list.
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/139358
Blue Wallet is sunsetting their custodial lightning wallet, lndhub.io. Users have over 2 months to move their sats from lndhub.io to another, preferably non-custodial wallet. Note: this announcement only affects use of their custodial lightning wallet and not their bitcoin wallet or lndhub software you self-host.
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/142375
The latest Bitcoin Core developer to step down amid Craig Wright's latest frivolous lawsuit is MarcoFalke.
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/141322
Apparently bitcoiners hate carless cities? I probably missed a twitter thread somewhere, but I agree with @mallardshead. Cars suck on dimensions bitcoiners care about: KYC, privacy, over-powered law enforcement, and debt slavery. Cars are amazing machines, but have they become more central to modern life than they deserve?
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/139878
Introducing Flow 2.0: A New LSP Focused on Just-In-Time Liquidity
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/141920
Car's pick: KYC Bitcoin: Individuals are on Lists
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/139736
Meta: booger: A nostr relay
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/141320
and why Keyan is . For the week of Feb 24th, 2023.
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46min
February 19, 2023SNL #55: Finally we get bookmarks!
Join Car and Keyan to discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, and top stackers.
We discuss:
The SEC's crack down on staking protocols threatens the casino-side business of many centralized exchanges (CEX). @mallardshead argues companies like Coinbase can't survive the loss of this revenue in Coinbase, Kraken, Binance-->their business models don't work anymore.
SN Discussion: Coinbase, Kraken, Binance-->their business models don't work anymore.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #238 covers the bitcoin-dev mailing list's recent discussion around Ordinals, both moving them offchain and making it more straightforward to put them onchain, and some of the flaws in certain multiparty protocols as they relate to fees.
SN Discussion: https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/02/15/
Next version of Damus will let you earn sats directly on posts.
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/134906
Sunday Survey: Are you on nostr?
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/135179
Riots erupt in Nigerian cities as bank policy leads to scarcity of cash
SN Discussion: https://stacker.news/items/137553
Car's pick:
Sign up for the Mutiny Wallet Waitlist via Email or Nostr
and why Car is saying bye to his dog this week. For the week of Feb 17th, 2023.
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43min
February 12, 2023SNL #54: I am John Malkovich
Join Car and Keyan to discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, and top stackers.
We discuss:
UK courts are allowing Craig Wright to sue bitcoin core developers.
https://stacker.news/items/132315
To maintain and maximize anonymity, Sivers proposes you create a persona, a fake but complete and believable identity.
https://stacker.news/items/134078
Breeze announced their Lightning as a Service SDK.
https://stacker.news/items/133703
The popular game word guessing game, Wordle, has been cloned and made available as a nostr bot named Cowdle.
https://stacker.news/items/133396
Nostr sucks: A contrarian viewpoint attempts to start a discussion around the flaws in nostr's design.
https://stacker.news/items/131593
Car's pick
Starting Fresh
and why Car is talking about Benjamin Button this week. For the week of Feb 10th, 2023.
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42min
February 05, 2023SNL #53: It's the likely scenario
Join Car and Keyan to discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, and top stackers.
We discuss:
Drivechain (proposed as BIPs 300 and 301 in 2017) has gained renewed interest following Adam Back's sort-of endorsement and Drivechain author Paul Sztorc's $3m raise for Layer 2 Labs. As with most relatively open-ended bitcoin soft fork proposals, there seems to be more criticism of Drivechain than support. @super_testnet wrote a post Answering Objections to Drivechain.
Answering Objections to Drivechain
Damus was finally accepted to the App Store after three failed attempts. The nostr client created by William Casarin has reached 146k downloads, been banned in China, and is testing post-scoped satoshi tipping aka zaps.
Damus nostr client accepted to the App Store (finally)
What's your experience with debt? For some, it's a tool, and for others debt is a curse and even a crime. Stackers shared perspectives spanning the full spectrum.
What's your experience with debt?
Continuing the Bitcoin company review trend, @based58 asks what do you think of voltage? Graham Krizek, CEO and founder of Voltage, responds, and stackers chime in.
what do you think of voltage
Why Women Fail at Bitcoin [written by a woman]
The first post of a blind programmer on stacker
and why Keyan is talking about Wakanda Forever this week. For the week of Feb 3rd, 2023.
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47min
January 28, 2023 SNL #52: Can you attack his Citadel? with Austin Kelsay
We discuss Stacker News top posts, Car & Keyan's favorite posts of the week, top stackers, and so much more for the week of January 27th, 2023.
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35min

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