Been very busy recently replicating the Indranet architecture to the guy who's been paying me to design and build it. It's been great for me in terms of helping delineate the core principles of the design and to spot some possible design flaws, as well.

The gossip system is very close to finished and the client tunnel plus the testnet mock of the LN infrastructure that the peer controls for receiving and making payments for relay service are the only main larger tasks between here and the first multi-machine testnet, most likely at first only on LAN but the libp2p library makes it easy to put it on the internet, and sort out most of the port opening stuff for NATed nodes.

I would like you guys to watch this incredible mini documentary posted by @nerd2ninja - https://stacker.news/items/513797

How America Became So Stupid - and is mentioning about Ed Bernays (methods of propaganda) what I always said about it, that are the core principles of dumbing down population.

Please give it a watch. Good share @nerd2ninja !

Very.

Even ignoring the government potential crack down / seizures it's just basic OPSEC. Many, many people have been physically assaulted to get to their bitcoins, so don't say anything that would give people the idea you're stacking heaps

General discussion and education of the topic is fine though 🙂

Yeah, I can't even get to the point where I would upvote something because it feels too risky to pay for a shit answer.

On the other hand I would happily tip/pay to upvote helpful answers.

Probably makes sense to remove the OP for anon comments since it could be confusing. Someone could come in and mislead.

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly.
Very uncomfortable reading and some interesting parallels with BTC adoption being either top-down or bottom-up