Read_574 - Lightning & The Internet - Choosing the Right Path [Roy Sheinfeld]

Published: Nov. 1, 2021, 9:53 p.m.

"We\u2019re revolutionaries. There\u2019s no reason to be coy about it. Our goal is to replace fiat with bitcoin. \u201cDisruption\u201d is almost a quaint term for a change of the magnitude we\u2019re bringing about. We\u2019re taking power from institutions and transferring it to individuals by giving them control of the value they generate in their lives.\u201d - Roy Sheinfeld\n\nWe are at a crossroads and Lightning has an extremely difficult and important task. Do we go with the Lightning expansionists, using this decentralized network to embed every single byte of data into our messages and routing them across our nodes to take all that is the internet and redesign it to work on Lightning? Or do we keep lighting simple, focused, and optimized for the best, most robust decentralized payments network in the world? Choosing the right path, by Roy Sheinfeld.\xa0\nDrop some applause on the original at:\nhttps://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-the-internet-choosing-the-right-path-bedfa6382316\n\nFor more digging into the philosophy & thinking behind this from the Guy's Take, here are the other episodes mentioned:\nSimon Morris: Lessons of Bittorrent\nhttps://bitcoinaudible.com/why-bittorrent-mattered-lessons-for-crypto-1-of-4/\nSzabo: Minimizing Consumer Worry\nhttps://bitcoinaudible.com/estimating-and-minimizing-consumer-worry/\n\nFor the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space:\n\ufeff\u2022 Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount)\n\u2022 Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin\n\u2022 Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY)\n\u2022 Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\n\n--- \n\nSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message