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Buttcoin is the future of online butts. Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new butts or tracks butts.

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dgerard@awful.systems

The Lightning Network barely worked and could never solve bitcoin congestion. The proponents are finally giving up trying to push this dumb idea uphill. (protos.com)

submitted 6 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems

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[–] cybeardjm@masto.ai 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard Lightning Network Onion Routing: Preliminaries https://ellemouton.com/posts/onion-routing-prelims/

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

everything about this dumb as hell idea is so obviously unfeasible. every aspect. it's amazing.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

Frankly the example would be better if instead of a coffee, Alice wants to buy a kilo of horse. At least with those stakes someone would be motivated to sit down and peruse the insane network diagrams.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you talking lightning or crypto in general because you are right on both.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

well i mean, yes,

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

tongue in cheek to be sure, but sometimes it feels good to preach to the choir :)