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This makes sense for the default behavior, but can you do me a favor and for the power users among us allow a setting that tells us if the receiving end doesn't have enough inbound liquidity as to avoid our sats from being donated directly to SN instead of the intended user XD
I would be very sad to find out I just zapped someone 5k sats and they just got in store credit lol.
Hey, btw, can you add a request inbound feature to SN or something?
Also, I don't know what you're using for this interface, but I'll shill again the interface this discord mod I know made for his Bitcoin discord:
Cool initiative!
- Relies 100% on trust
- fine as loans usually entail risk but it’d be nice to minimize if possible
- trust consists of comments only, eg lots of cost to evaluating trustworthiness
- it’s be nice to introduce a rating system so trust can be “compressed” into a number and be easier to evaluate
I think it depends on how you want to get involved:
L1 protocol stuff? Definitely C++ since core is written in C++. However, with Python, you can also improve the core test suite.
For L2 protocol stuff, I think Golang or Rust are good candidates (LND is written in Go, CLN in C/Rust)
If you just want to build applications like SN, you can use any stack basically. SN uses NextJS + Postgres.
Jon Atack has a lot of resources on how to contribute: https://jonatack.github.io/articles.
But don't forget that reviewing and testing also counts as contributing. That's where most people are needed:
Remember that testing issues and reviewing are the most effective ways you can contribute as a new contributor (and will teach you more about the codebase than opening PRs).
-- https://jonatack.github.io/articles/how-to-contribute-pull-requests-to-bitcoin-core
Just playing with ChatGPT, I feel like it isn't just professors and devs that are headed for challenges. I'm super surprised by the "creativity" it is capable of. Ask it to write a funny story or poem about any subject and it nails it. Right now it feels cool to have it write some rhyme that makes people laugh. But I'm thinking, that in the next few months, genuinely witty and funny people will be accused of using AI. Story tellers, comedians, writers of children's books and role playing game masters will all hear things like "you just pulled this from ChatGPT", no matter how original the content is. Political arguments and scams could even sound way more convincing than they should with a little AI magic!
I'm going dystopian for now. I am totally ok with computers being better than humans at chess and driving.. but creativity and imagination was an area that I thought we'd always rule. I was wrong.
PSBTs is the answer. You open new channel with your LN node, node gives destination address and amount, other party builds transaction that sends sats to that address and gives you PSBT. Very important that other party does not broadcast transaction to the network, just give you PSBT. Then you provide that PSBT to your node.
For CLN see fundchannel_start and fundchannel_complete.
For LND see Opening a channel by using a PSBT.