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What do you think will be most different about the world in 10 years with respect to technology and innovation? Does bitcoin play a part in any of this?
I buy Zeihan's broad macro thesis.
However, his specific local political analysis is tissue paper thin -- his comments on the local politics of the country I live were wildly poorly reasoned and didn't seem based on any primary sources.
America can falter on the world stage, particularly in its ability to project and maintain global power. All empires end up over stretched and unable to flex on all fronts, we see this right now with the US struggling to maintain arms shipments to Ukraine at the same time as mobilise forces in the Red Sea. If China were to make a move on Taiwan the US would be unable to support them.
But domestically it will always have the abundance of resources and population base to thrive.
All these praising Bukele.
Look, Bukele is a politician, he has an agenda. It may be partially aligned with ours, and sure, good for us while it lasts. But as soon as he gets into some political trouble and for some reasons, staying in power requires him to ditch this whole Bitcoin thing, he won't blink an eye.
"Using Thunderhub (v0.13.16), an open source node manager, we’ve enabled balance reporting. We’ve created a single endpoint that users can send this data to and it will be displayed on the node’s Amboss page. This method can be replicated on any node manager or service."
We do so much to try to protect the privacy of the lightning network but always going to be constantly fighting the tendencies for society to give away information for convenience. I can't begin to tell you how aggregating this information to a single party is an attack on Lightning and the privacy of all individuals as a whole.
Is anyone aware of advanced discussions or proposals on paying for tx routing/relaying as a way of directly incentivizing node running?
I realize that this is very nontrivial which is why I think it's interesting to think about. We pay miners because they are doing a lot of provably hard work, but is it possible to trust minimally pay for less provable or less hard work?
The UX of routing nodes will get so good it will disappear entirely. Just like how you no longer have to pick wich routes to send your IP packets to in order to fetch a webpage, your browser and ISP does it all automatically.
Routing nodes will likewise become fully automated and achieve the "Lightning Reference Rate" in yield for their owner's capital.
Something to reflect on for You, a quote by F. Nietzsche:
''There are no facts, only interpretations."
I hope some fact checkers can check on this one as it made me confused and crazy this morning!