A Lightning Flywheel You Can Actually Run
How an individual sets up a Lightning node that earns real yield from routing, liquidity leases, and service fees, then compounds it into a self reinforcing engine.
How an individual sets up a Lightning node that earns real yield from routing, liquidity leases, and service fees, then compounds it into a self reinforcing engine.
If not mutually assured destruction, then what? A practical incentive design that swaps fear for proofs and replaces fragile promises with collateral that bleeds on breach.
A concrete, buildable design for nuclear non-proliferation that uses Bitcoin: immutable time, auditable custody, and skin-in-the-game incentives.
China controls the refining and magnet chokepoints. Here is a U.S. playbook that actually works, with an asteroid mining reality check and a Bitcoin-native incentive layer to make the economics pencil.
A testable hypothesis for why parts of the universe act like there is extra mass or extra push even when nothing obvious is there.
A builderβs take on what happens to Bitcoinβs economics, security budget, and mining geography if fusion ramps from demos to real power plants.
I went looking for truly open gaming platforms, what we can learn from the near misses, and a practical blueprint for building one people will actually use.
A builderβs look at the near term and long term overlap between AI agents and Bitcoin: what works right now, what will unlock next, and how to wire it together without hand-wavy nonsense.
A practical, buildable plan for a self-custodial multisig that uses hidden geo-wallet sentinels to whisper encrypted status over unlicensed RF, warn on tamper, and keep you in control without putting signing keys online.
A plain-spoken tour of global fusion progress and a sober read on when it turns into real electricity in the United States.