2026-01-17T16:26:48Z https://njump.me Vlad https://njump.me/npub12qz56plzehejkyp4waaannmnny4y4c30j8q55a3wlk49haslga2snypdx8 https://image.nostr.build/230e15485961eff71883d07587b334336f6e0fafb451bb79c901e437ea9c0105.jpg https://image.nostr.build/230e15485961eff71883d07587b334336f6e0fafb451bb79c901e437ea9c0105.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0xmhdvynqax8fwwm7t8x5fza5cyzqnl8afsymykkcutp950vrqlczypgq2ng8utxlx2csx4mhhkw0wwvj5jhz97guzjnk9m765klkrar425eqz65 5 years ago, I thought I was gonna become the Roger Ver of Lightning <br/><br/>Relentlessly onboarding people (waiters, shopkeepers, old friends) via Blue Wallet<br/><br/>“This transaction is unstoppable. I just sent you $1 without banks, without any registration, with good privacy &amp; instant finality!”<br/><br/>The biggest problems: <br/><br/>1. it wasn’t working very reliably (many transactions would fail, which made me feel embarrassed)<br/><br/>2. Blue Wallet shut down their Lightning service a couple of years later, so everyone most likely got rugged<br/><br/>3. The amount was too small to withdraw on chain<br/><br/>4. I’m not as rich as Roger and probably never will be<br/><br/>Lessons learned, my initiative turned out to be a failed experiment 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-08-07T15:44:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2cc45vnq3v5pghzuhfnq50suvuf3zrxr7yy7q70vgx50hl6m7dfszypgq2ng8utxlx2csx4mhhkw0wwvj5jhz97guzjnk9m765klkrar42px7xdx In 2017, the industry ignored Bitcoin Cash waiting for SegWit2X to happen. Then S2X never came, so all the action moved to BCH.<br/><br/>Next month, we’re gonna have two more Bitcoin hard forks: Knots and Ecash. <br/><br/>I wouldn’t be surprised if Knots joins Ecash to create a special sidechain for everyone who really hates spam and wants human filtering. <br/><br/>Because the BIP110 side hates Core and “Big Bitcoin” so much that they would never come back to the a chain where Saylor and Adam Back are well-respected authoritative figures. But the BIP110 side has no good plan to survive as an altcoin. They’re redpilled, but unable to make it in the wild.<br/><br/>On the other hand, the BIP300 eCash side also hates Core… but for the gatekeeping the BIP process and having an arbitrary governance process. But their side has much better infrastructure in place, which has been tested for many years. Creating a BIP110 merged mined sidechain is a walk in the park for them and I’m sure they would appreciate to have more users. <br/><br/>A merge between the two forks is the perfect symbiosis which gives both factions better chances to survive and compete against BTC.<br/><br/> <img src="https://image.nostr.build/34417abeb54315c5eac6e384eaf120f3e80706fe54110ae6d81252dcefb9a677.jpg"> 2026-07-23T14:16:04Z