Lightning

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... that this consortium of Coinbase and Cloudflare and, you know, there's a lot of people involved in robot transactions, and this, and in fact, EXO- X402 just added Lightning and, you know, so I, I can see this coming down the pike.

So I'm like, you know, uh, maybe the podcast index can benefit from that, but right now it's not turned on.

[lip smack]

It will happen.

Because otherwise the content won't be able to be made, people won't be able to get paid.

But the, the plumbing is there, so this is going to happen, and you can, it, Lightning will be a part of it, um, stablecoin will be a part of it, Trump coin will be a part of it.

Any kind of, whatever it is, is go- that is the futu- the future.

Well, almost every one of them.

Catch up, Anna, called Lightning.

I'm coming,

Anna shouted.

Then she looked up.

Way up.

You coming? Called Lightning.

Of course,

Secondly, the fact that Tylenol didn't go under from that's amazing.

2020, the pandemic year, the Stanley Cup finals were today at Edmonton, and it was the Lightning beating the Stars in six to win their second championship.

And, man, it didn't get much worse around here than today, four years ago, when Ian made landfall.

They say it was a cat four.

Forget

... and basically she was making the case that, and this blew Opti and I's mind because essentially on that day's show, we were like, "Man, there's probably, like, no more than, like, 10 million people around the world using Bitcoin." And then she came on the show, and she was like, "There's 150 million people in Africa using Bitcoin." And me and Opti were mind-blown, and we were, like, asking her, it's like, "Okay, but, like, are people using Bitcoin on their phones?" And she's like, "Yeah, people are using Bitcoin on their phones." And I was like, "That's crazy." And then, um, what else did she say? Um, and she said that they were using Lightning, and I was like, "Wow, that's, that's insane." And the reason that's happening is because people are adopting it out of necessity.

So the reason that what you just said, like, kinda makes me bullish is because, like, I think for the first time, the Global South is gonna have the capabilities of being able to buy securities in the United States through this tokenization method.

Does it replace Bitcoin? Absolutely not.

Next on the list we've got, uh, Fedimint, uh, version 0.212.1. Um, Fedimint, for those of you living under a rock, is Bitcoin-backed eCash, uh, held by any, you know, your own federation of guardians.

It has lightning-powered gateways to enable you to pay out to the rest of the network.

Uh, the reason I'm highlighting this one that came out on the 12th of September is it's, it's a security release.

Uh, fixes a vulnerabil- a vulnerability in how gateways handle, uh, lightning payments, and it's got extra hardening across, uh, the different LND and LDK backends as well.

The fix is consensus neutral, and by consensus I don't mean Bitcoin, I mean Fedimint consensus.

So, um, guardians and wallet users don't need to kind of coordinate to upgrade as well.

Uh, they've released version 1.0.7. Radar, quick reminder, is a private messaging app.

It's basically Signal with Bitcoin self-custody and payments built in.

Yeah, so basically mapping out that landscape where Ethereum had gone through so many different kind of ideas.

On the Bitcoin side, it had been like, here's Lightning, Lightning's going to fix everything, right? No real work happening on anything else.

We're on the Ethereum side, and I think a lot of that's because of the programmability of that base layer, but also just the more developer experiment-friendly kind of social side.

that you had gone through state channels or painted channels, which are basically lightning-like, and then state channels, similar thing, but with state, just not balances.

For sure, like WBTC on Ethereum.

There's significantly more Bitcoin in there than...

It's like 120,000 BTC that's locked on Ethereum in comparison to Lightning, which is like 3,000, 4,000.

It's

How does this particular carrot connect to the Nostra Bitcoin ecosystem in one or two sentences?

I spend most of my time underground, but I work on Bitcoin and Lightning and Nostra projects.

You probably know the most well-known one is Hive Talk, but there's a lot of other stuff going on under the hood.

Sure.

I'll tell you this.

Usually it's a lot slower.

If you look at Lightning, it's not this fast.

Like they're the LUDs, you know, Lightning standards.