It’s time for our second writing contest. This will be a pinned post. Submit your entries by replying. The contest will end at midnight, GMT, Friday, February 23rd. A winner will be announced in next Saturday’s newsletter. The winner will be zapped all of the sats generated by this post, which will be pinned here until Friday, and obtain the priceless glory of winning the Books and Articles Writing Contest. There are a few additional rules this week. We will not accept links to articles posted previously on Stacker News or on other sites as submissions to this contest. Submissions cannot be longer than what can be accomodated by the Stacker News current reply character limit, which is 10,000.
Prompt: Discuss how your personal experience has shaped or changed your political beliefs.
Rules: I will use zaps in selecting a winner, unless I notice any suspicious activity. In that event, I will give weight to the quality of the content and the opinions of the community expressed through comments.
Good luck!
What kind solutions/improvements need to be developed for lightning to make it usable in areas with a bad internet infrastructure? Where should the focus be, the costumer of the merchant?
Things that are in development are LNURL NFC payment cards and a offline POS terminals. Are this developments in the right direction, or do you think there are important specs that are not being taking in to account at this moment?
Yes, the lawsuit by CSW’s Seychelles company Tulip Trading against 15 Bitcoin and Altcoin developers, which initially lost in the jurisdictional challenge appears to be going to trial after CSW succeeded in an appeal.
Greg Maxwell added a lot more color here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34685029
Probably a good strategy if you wanted to create a bunch of shell companies for tax evasion. The authorities would have a really hard time 🤣
I have this book on my shelf called "The Dictators Handbook". I feel like the UN has read that book...
From the UN: "For those who depend on the availability of cheap labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth."
From "The Dictators Handbook": "Hungry people are not likely to have the energy to overthrow you, so don't worry about them."
The next couple of weeks might give me a chance to make up for my foolish failure to accumulate btc before 2020