Carla Kirk-Cohen @actuallyCarlaKC Twitter profile

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

I TOO AM HAVING A LOT OF FUN IN MIAMI AT @TheBitcoinConf 😭

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Bull market or build market, there is no bear 🏗️

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

What's special about Bitcoin is that you get to build the world as you want it to be 🏗️ What previously fell to an elite group of politicians and bankers is now in the hands of a bunch of nerds and plebs 🤓 Developers, designers, devoted hodlers, some options to get involved 👇

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

“Traditionally African countries are consumers of products built outside of the continent. In this room, we are no longer consumers, we are producers. #Bitcoin is the tool that we build with.” - @femilonge opening words at the first @QalaAfrica offsite in Lagos 🔥

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

As a developer, it’s important to work in something you care about. 3 cent lightning beer is something I can stand for 💪🏼

Conner Fromknecht

@bitconner

5 years

Instantly buying unfairly cheap beer at @LNconf using @ln_zap 🍻⚡️ 402 sats = 3.2 cents

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

💸 Bitcoin’s price is speculative. 🚀Its value is not. Different people will find value in different ways, no matter what time it is in Moscow 🕰

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

If El Salvador actually start mining Bitcoin with volcanoes my parents are never going to believe I have a real job.

Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡

@gladstein

3 years

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Discussing how Bitcoin can bring opportunity and upliftment, and act as an equalising force with this incredible group gives me a true feeling of hope 🧡 Decentralising development isn’t easy, but it’s essential, and I can’t wait to get to work 💪 Now, we rise 🌍

jack

@jack

3 years

Announcing the ₿trust board: @actuallyCarlaKC , @ihate1999 , @obi , & @ojomaochai ! I'm so grateful for you all and so inspired. 🧡⚡️🌍 They'll now work towards defining the operating principles as they think about how to best distribute the 500 bitcoin towards development efforts.

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Watching somebody grapple with the fact that the US is not the whole world in real time is spectacular 🗺️

Mustafa Al-Bassam

@musalbas

3 years

lmao wtf @CoinDesk

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

1 year

Not another lightning implementation ... actually! This is LNDK: It is a standalone daemon that allows your LND node to forward onion messages 🧅 Built using @lightningdevkit , with the goal of providing LND users with #bolt12 support (2 weeks ™️).

GitHub - lndk-org/lndk

Contribute to lndk-org/lndk development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

1 year

SimLN is a tool for simulating active lightning networks in any test environment: regtest or signet, local or cloud! Its goal is to allow LN app and protocol devs to test code in more realistic environments. BYON(etwork) and let SimLN do the rest ⚡

SIM-LN: Lightning Simulation

Instantly simulate real-world Lightning network activity

simln.dev

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

If we’re in the matrix, Morpheus please give me a minute before unplugging me! Working full time on LN infrastructure with the incredible @lightning team is truly a dream come true!

Lightning Labs⚡️🌐

@lightning

5 years

Today we are excited to announce three new additions to the infrastructure team at Lightning Labs: Oliver Gugger ( @gugol ), Carla Kirk-Cohen ( @actuallyCarlaKC ), and András Bánki-Horváth ( @bhandras ).⚡️

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@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

coldcard + specter + core

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

When the @lightning team isn't busy buidl'ing, we try to keep each other accountable on a book club every two months 📚 Very proud of this team's ability to nerd out on almost any topic out there 🤓💕 👇2021 reading list

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Nothing beats nerding out about lightning 🤓 Thanks to @PeterMcCormack for having me, @Snyke for sharing your wisdom and to @mrcoolbp + @renepickhardt for their work behind the scenes! If you're interested in taking a deeper dive into the topics we discussed, take a peek 👇

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

6 years

time was a too tight to get it live, but I made a demo video for my #boltathon entry lightning poll which creates refundable polls using hodl invoices, allowing poll creators to refund users if their chosen option is not in the majority #lightningNetwork #golang #hackathon #LND

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

I am excited and honoured to join the Brink board to help achieve its essential mission of onbording and funding Bitcoin developers!

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

4 years

We’re delighted to announce our two newest board members: @jerrybrito and @actuallyCarlaKC . Welcome Jerry and Carla!

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Bitcoin is fortunate to have a diverse group of organizations funding developers. If you or your company benefit from Bitcoin open source, consider making a donation to one of the following 🎁 (hint: if you’re reading this, you probably do. unless you’re my mom. 👋)

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

While bullish for Bitcoin, it’s heartbreaking to see this development in Zimbabwe’s currency crisis. Lives and livelihoods put at risk by an inept government scrambling for control. It’s so important to remember, these aren’t theoretical problems we are solving.

Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

4 years

Zimbabwe blocks all mobile money payments (except #Bitcoin ) as its fiat currency collapses (via @decryptmedia )

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

There is no better way to onboard as a Bitcoin or Lightning developer than the @ChaincodeLabs residency. I don’t know enough adjectives to do justice to the incredible, well planned, thorough program. There is nothing like it. It is the Bitcoin of residencies.

Chaincode Labs

@ChaincodeLabs

5 years

We are thrilled to announce applications are open for our 2020 Summer Residency!

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

Started at the residency now we here 🧡

Chaincode Labs

@ChaincodeLabs

2 years

⚡️Excited to (finally) have @actuallyCarlaKC on the Chaincode team. Welcome back. 🇿🇦 -> 🗽

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

why start going to gym in 2020 when you could get wumbo working at @lightning instead 💪

Lightning Labs⚡️🌐

@lightning

5 years

Passionate about making lightning accessible to the masses? ⚡️🌍 We’re looking for a frontend developer to help build human-centered UI for our products. 🔨 If you're skilled in React and have experience with open source projects, apply here:

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

I only shill two things. Bitcoin and the spectacular City of Cape Town ☀️

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Conversations about why you can’t “just print more money” began at my family dinner table when I was just a teenager I studied CS & Econ in search of ways to prevent the kind of tragedy that befell Zimbabwe Five years of tertiary study left me despondent, #Bitcoin gave me hope

Btrust

@btrustteam

3 years

🧡 In 2009 she witnessed the devastation of money printing when the currency crisis in Zimbabwe overflowed into a migrant crisis in South Africa Working as a software engineer in #Bitcoin & helping other developers onboard is her form of peaceful protest against a broken system

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Boyfriend unplugged my node to play playstation:

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

tfw you're getting requests for hardware wallet recommendations from family/friends instead of price prediction asks

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

hello my name is carla and I just watched the extended lotr trilogy in a single sitting this is a brag and a call for help

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

From sync to first send in 20 minutes ⚡️ Amazing stuff from @lightning !

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

✅ Bootstrapping lightning inbound ✅ Non-custodial interest on BTC ✅ Market signalling for routing nodes It doesn’t get better than this ⚡️

Lightning Labs⚡️🌐

@lightning

4 years

Announcing Lightning Pool, a non-custodial marketplace to buy and sell #bitcoin liquidity on Lightning. With Pool, users can trade channels, making it easy to get access to liquidity or earn a bitcoin-native yield. 💱 Learn more and start trading today:

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@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

Stop pretending that you're going to clean up your kitchen during self isolation and spend some time on something that actually matters ⚡️ Get your node in order, stack sats, stay safe everybody 💜

Lightning Labs⚡️🌐

@lightning

5 years

1/ Today we're announcing the first release of Faraday.🔌 Faraday is a tool intended to help node operators better manage their nodes, providing more insight into node activities, and easy identification of unproductive channels.

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@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

Thrilled to ship a new Faraday release with accounting support for LND, which helps node operators #trackSats and frees up developer time to focus on shipping incredible features ⚡️

Lightning Labs⚡️🌐

@lightning

4 years

Announcing the newest Faraday feature: Accounting for LND! Node operators and businesses can now create accounting reports for their #bitcoin and Lightning transactions to keep track of their sats. 🔎 Start tracking sats with Faraday today:

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

Slowly at first, and then all at once.

Lightning Labs⚡️🌐

@lightning

5 years

1/ Today we're releasing LSAT, a Lightning-native protocol to manage paid access to APIs, apps, and websites. LSAT greatly improves privacy with no need for usernames, passwords, or credit cards. The Lightning-native web is the future, join us! 🔮

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

I'm proud to be one of the many, many devs @jfnewbery helped onboard to Bitcoin at the @ChaincodeLabs residency. @bitcoinbrink continues that legacy of breaking down barriers to development, and Bitcoin is all the better for it 🚀 Congratulations to all involved!

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

4 years

Hello world! Today we launch Brink, a totally independent nonprofit organization to fund and support open source Bitcoin protocol development.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Card payments not working in Cape Town due to widespread power outages. Me and @ElleMouton rn: Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it 🔥 BITCOIN NEVER GOES DOWN 🔥

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@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

today my bank decided that it needed more documents to verify my identity (despite already having my ID and proof of residence) and shut off my card on an account I’ve had for 5 years, only notifying me via sms when the card failed buying groceries bitcoinbitcoinbitcoin

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

ALICE AND CAROL WHERE U AT?

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@MartyBent , @ODELL the freaks deserve a live RHR today. Give the people what they want.

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

The 13 African developers in @QalaAfrica ’s first cohort are running #Bitcoin , discussing its philosophy, reading @aantonop @roasbeef and @renepickhardt ’s Mastering Lightning and building Bitcoin projects 👩‍💻 Proof of work at its finest 🧡

TechCabal Press Room

@techcabal_pr

3 years

Transforming Africa’s Engagement With Bitcoin Find out more:

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

Taking a trip on the L train is well worthwhile when it ends in a chat with @MartyBent , thank you for having me! Highly recommend a sub to the Bent for those looking for a daily dose of Bitcoin news 🚀

Marty Bent

@MartyBent

5 years

Ep98 of @TFTC21 is live now! I sat down w/ @actuallyCarlaKC to discuss: - Building on LN - LN usability issues - Metrics - Life in SA - much more Carla is the last of the Chaincode Summer residents to swing through. Had a blast with this group! Peep it.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Give us a follow, share feedback, keep us accountable 👩‍💻 The @btrustteam are committed to transparency, and will be sharing our updates through this account 🗣

jack

@jack

3 years

You can follow progress of the board here: @btrustteam ✌🏼

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@actuallyCarlaKC

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Lightning Labs⚡️🌐

@lightning

4 years

It's LiT! 🔥 Announcing Lightning Terminal, the home of products that help you make the most of your #bitcoin on Lightning. ⚡ Our initial release features a user interface for Loop that makes it easier to manage liquidity. Learn more and try LiT out:

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

The Bitcoin and Lightning dev mailing lists wrap at 70. Please tell your loved ones. Share widely. The people deserve to know.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Incredibly grateful to @HRF and @gladstein for this funding! A truly decentralized network needs decentralized developer capacity, and that's what we're aiming to achieve at @QalaAfrica . Applications are open to developers on the African Continent 👇

Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡

@gladstein

3 years

2/ 50 million satoshis to @bernard_parah , @actuallyCarlaKC , Tim Akinbo, and @ihate1999 for the creation of , a program to help train and grow new Bitcoin developers in Nigeria and wider Africa. Special thanks to @paxful for making this gift possible.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Final @summerofbitcoin chat with @hemanth_kri : "My perception of bitcoin has changed. It's no longer just an "asset" to me, and it's more about an ideology that everyone should have complete freedom to their finances without any censorship involved" Grateful for the builders 🧡

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

*unleashed

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

@APompliano

3 years

The Lightning Network just hit a new all-time high in public network capacity. There are now 3,403 bitcoin locked in the Lightning Network.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

Amazing to meet new BTC/LN communities in São Paulo ⚡️

Des Dickerson

@dickerson_des

5 years

Great turnout in São Paulo to talk #Bitcoin and Lightning. ⚡️ Thanks @BitcoinAssembly for having @starkness and the Lightning Labs team! 🇧🇷

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

Talking keysend and all things lightning ⚡️ with @Omoniyi24 at @QalaAfrica ’s first offsite 🧡

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Laptop bricked at the airport on route to @fulmolightning hack day/ @advbitcoin / 10 days work + travel 😭 Emotional state: dipping crackers in gin / seriously reconsidering religion.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

Finally checked out Bitcoin Bounce by @thndrgames this weekend 🚀 I was pretty terrible at it (not for long, the addiction is real) But being paid out $0.02 over lightning instantly, non-custodially, and mobile-only (thanks @Breez_Tech ) was exact the opposite of terrible.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

Bitcoin devs have some spectacular composite names to look forward to as musig2 starts to roll out. 👋 Goodbye Alice, Bob and Carol 👋 Hello Alob, Barrol and Cave Perhaps even collaborating malicious actors Maloreve 😈 First spotted in @roasbeef ’s ML post:

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@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

@hampus_s @JohnOnChain @Koty_Auditore I’m working on bolt 12 for LND. There’s agreement from LL to add route blinding and the new invoice format, but not onion messages or offers. Full B12 support will require running a separate binary that manages onion messages + the actual offers flow.

BOLT12 · Issue #5594 · lightningnetwork/lnd

Please add BOLT12 to LND he BOLT 11 invoice format has proven popular, but has several limitations: The entangling of bech32 encoding makes it awkward to send in other forms (i.e. inside the lightn...

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Endless gratitude for the selection team @adamcjonas @moneyball @Caralie_C @HBerkoe @StrumwasserJ for the time and care put into this process 🌟 To @jack and JayZ, for the vision and the opportunity, and stepping up when it’s so easy to sit on the sidelines. Bitcoin Heroes 🔥

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@ all bitcoin companies ! @QalaAfrica wants to do the work of finding, upskilling and matching promising African developers with Bitcoin companies 👯 If you want to focus on building rather than (boring, exhausting) hiring, let us know what you're looking for!

Jonas

@adamcjonas

3 years

Who is interested in hiring pre-vetted interns/junior devs w/ a strong background in Bitcoin philosophy and Bitcoin/LN foundations? The @QalaAfrica curriculum is designed to train the skills that are most in-demand. If you are hiring jr devs, we'd want to learn about your needs.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

it don’t get better than this 💙

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

1 year

Why use LDK? @lightningdevkit allows you to combine LN features in whatever ungodly arrangement you like! It's difficult to understand the value of a library like this until you use it - I didn't. Rigorously reviewed, performant LN lego makes 10x devs out of us all ❤️‍🔥

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@squink20 @RyanTheGentry All LN implementations use djikstra’s algorithm to find a route, starting at the destination node and working backwards. The fee and time lock per edge are considered to be “costs”, which the node takes into account when trying to choose the cheapest edge.

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@nicolasburtey from @GaloyMoney on USD over Lightning at @fulmolightning #LightningHackday 🧿⚡️

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

The fact is that Africa by virtue of a lot of adversity has individuals who are instilled with survival instinct and resilience from their day to day. To have more Africans in #Bitcoin is to build for resilience long term. - @ihate1999 at @AfroBitcoinOrg 🇬🇭 #ABC2022

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

My money is on this lady to guess Satoshi’s privkey and move the coins before Craig Wrong.

CNN

@CNN

3 years

A Maryland woman is celebrating after winning the lottery for a third time in about three years.

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

🎶 Bless the nodes down in Africa 🎶 There’s nothing that a hundred governments or more could ever do Gonna take some time to IBD, ooh ooh

Tyron🇿🇦

@Tyron44241984

3 years

More South African Nodes #Bitcoin

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Taking the first step is always the hardest part of starting something new 🚶‍♀️ Come join us later today to learn about @QalaAfrica , first steps towards becoming a Bitcoin Developer and more!

Btrust Builders

@btrust_builders

3 years

This Thursday, join Qala organizers @adamcjonas , @ihate1999 , @bernard_parah , @actuallyCarlaKC @timakinbo , & @Caralie_C as we discuss Becoming a Bitcoin Developer.

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

⚠️ PSA ⚠️ Open source projects have limited resources, and best intentioned first time contributions can often cost a project more than they benefit it. Read contribution guidelines, ask how you can help, be mindful of peoples time, and listen! Book Rec: Working in Public 👇

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@ChaincodeLabs run fantastic Bitcoin and Lightning Online Seminars for interested developers: I’ve hosted a few of the wrap up question sessions, and they’re a blast! Great to hear future Bitcoin developers pondering first principles 📚

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

It’s #BitcoinTuesday , the sun is shining (somewhere), and lnd v0.13.1 is out ☀️ Join @guggero and me to chat about why it’s important to verify releases and how to do so for lnd! Going to try keep it high level, so non-techies especially welcome 🧡

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@summerofbitcoin matches bitcoin-curious students with a wide range of mentors across the open source ecosystem, where they dedicate time towards contribution to awesome projects like @BtcpayServer , @clightning_twit and @mempool 🧩

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

We’ll just when I thought I’d kicked the bird app habit (read: uninstalled the app, only to depend on the inferior in-browser version in the hopes I’d check it less) they roll out Lightning tipping. Well played @jack (s).

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@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

Proud moment watching the @QalaAfrica genesis cohort RUIN their first cocktail party orange pilling people 💊 You know you’re a real #Bitcoin -er when you’re no fun at parties anymore 😅 🧡

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Valuable for wealth preservation ☔️ During the pandemic, almost every government has hit the money printer hard. Everything is getting more expensive, everywhere. An asset with fixed supply provides protection. See @real_vijay ’s case for Bitcoin:

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@actuallyCarlaKC

1 year

Murchpool on the main stage @tabconf w/ @murchandamus happening now!

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@callebtc @zerofeerouting LND’s payments database grows quickly because it stores all failed HTLC attempts + onion blobs. That info is interesting, but perhaps not worth the cost at scale. No major engineering mishap, just a decision that was right in the past but not the present.

channeldb: master tracking disk-space reduction issue · Issue #5388 · lightningnetwork/lnd

Our default database backend (boltdb) by default doesn't automatically reclaim (release back to the OS) disk space. Instead any time something is deleted, the page will (eventually) go into a f...

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

1 year

Why should you run it? LND node operators running LNDK improve the anonymity set for @Core_LN and @acinq_co nodes using #Bolt12 , improving their privacy 🤝 Wider support for onion messaging also enables exciting extensions to LN like offline payments!

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

fight club is a christmas movie, people just don’t talk about it 🎄

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@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

The effort & expense of the visa process was a surprise for a lot of people with western passports attending #AfroBitcoin Bitcoiners from the global south go through this for almost every #Bitcoin conf Grateful to @Farida_N & team for bringing a quality event to African soil 🇬🇭

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

Developers and users need to use different receive methods for Bitcoin and LN⚡️ With @CashApp / @milessuter working on driving BIP 21 support, we’ll hopefully have a unified QR code one day! In the meantime, @Extheo ’s write up for @QalaAfrica breaks down the differences 👇

Theophilus Isah

@Extheo

2 years

I published an article comparing #lightning invoices with #bitcoin addresses on a variety of factors and applications. Thanks to @willcl_ark @QalaAfrica for the review. Take a look here

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@actuallyCarlaKC

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Such a small project, so much 🧡 @mehmehturtle for co-contribution @dunxen for being the rust guru we need @vallywal for fielding embarrassing LDK Qs @sadeeq_ismaela for top quality first PRs @Suheb__ for helping facilitate LND changes needed @moneyball for PM wizard wisdom

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

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@rusty_twit “SimonVrouwe ignoring his email” for fallback release name?

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@QalaAfrica are working on fostering a new generation of African developers to bring global perspective to Bitcoin. Starting out with @aantonop ’s Mastering Bitcoin, we’ve created a set of questions for those looking to work through this seminal book:

GitHub - Qala-Dev/mastering-bitcoin-discussion-questions

Contribute to Qala-Dev/mastering-bitcoin-discussion-questions development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

laughing at your (bitcoin) pizza (day) bc you’re crying (about the price) inside with @ElleMouton

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

if the fact that package relay is incredibly useful for lightning, dlcs, and other off-chain protocols isn't sufficient motivation ... you could be the first person to declare one of @glozow 's PRs as "gloriaous", you probably won't be the last

t-bast

@realtbast

3 years

I've been testing @glozow 's package relay implementation () with eclair and it's smooooth! We can say goodbye to `update_fee` and still safely get our transactions confirmed 🚀 Please review her PRs to get this into bitcoin!

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Valuable for building cool stuff: @THNDRGAMES and @zebedeeio are introducing micropayments in gaming 👾 @Breez_Tech implements podcasting 2.0, which allows direct payment to creators. And many, many more 🔥 Lightning applications.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

@hampus_s @JohnOnChain @Koty_Auditore Is there a plan for *native* offers support in LND? No. Is LND adding route blinding, making anon set/ usability better for everyone? Yes. Are they adding onion msg forwarding, which helps other impls upgrade to offers? No. Is there nuance that twitter misses? Absolutely.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

One of my favourite things about the BTC/LN community is how quickly people build! Loving the @LightningPool bot 🌊

Ryan Gentry

@RyanTheGentry

4 years

@starkness @billbarhydt @gladstein A community member has already built this bot that'll report rates as new batches clear, hopefully that'll tide you over! @LightningPool Once we get liquid markets for different channel durations, plotting a real-time yield curve will be 1) trivial and 2) publicly verifiable 🤯

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

We started the year off strong with Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal. This book echoes a lot of our team's experience maintaining and developing open source software 👩‍💻 Highly recommend for those looking to get started contributing to open source!

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@hello_bitcoin provide a friendly learning space for newcomers looking to learn about Bitcoin for the first time. Consider onboarding family and friends, using their concise, educational content to ease people along the learning curve 📊

Bitcoin is for Everyone - Episode 1 | Hello Bitcoin

What is bitcoin? Who is bitcoin for? Where is it going? These are all questions we touch on in our first Hello Bitcoin video. We're a friendly place to learn...

www.youtube.com

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

Do you even mempool bro?

Amiti

@amizi

4 years

I made another #Bitcoin comic! What's a mempool? From pleb to node operator :) I'd love your help conducting as I experiment with visual learning tools- I want to hear what you think!

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

Congrats @realtbast , reviewers, implementors and inter-op-ers! One small step for Bolt 12, one giant rebase for @rusty_twit 🚀

t-bast

@realtbast

2 years

Almost 3 years after the initial version, route blinding has been added to the lightning spec: A huge thanks to everyone who reviewed and helped make it better! Stay tuned, this will be coming to your favorite implementations soon ⚡️🔥

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

Reddit can remain salty far longer than Wall Street can remain solvent.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Board meetings with @ojomaochai @ihate1999 and @obi are one of the highlights of my week ☄️ It’s been my pleasure to meet these spectacular Bitcoiners, and now you can too 👇

Btrust

@btrustteam

3 years

Today we’d like you to #MeetTheBoard of @btrustteam : 👋 This is who we are. 🧡 This is why we #Bitcoin . 📋This is what we’re going to do. Our different backgrounds and experiences will help guide everything we do at ₿trust.

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

We ended the year off strong with Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson ❄️ My first time reading, and it did not disappoint! Lots of fun discussion about Bitcoin as a namshub and Lightning Network x Metaverse ideas 💡 Special mention to @dstadulis for goggling-in to the call 🥽🤘

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

“Out of the 8000 probes that I sent out, only 14 got stuck” - @Snyke on stuck payments in the Lightning Network @LNconf ⚡️

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@fulmolightning @callebtc tfw the open source stage is not open source

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

4 years

A Bitcoin vs Surveillance Capitalism energy FUD-Off! Bitcoin: 121.36 twh/year Global Storage: 205 twh/year ht/t: original tweet that got me thinking

DHH

@dhh

4 years

Wonder how much storage – and energy powering that storage! – is spent on keeping billions of copies of old newsletters, marketing, and other heavy emails essentially forever? Maybe we need a recycling campaign in email.

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

5 years

And yet nobody’s writing articles about how terrible Vegas is for the environment. Fascinating that #BetterMoney is considered more of a social ill than gambling and binge drinking.

CBS News

@CBSNews

5 years

Bitcoin emits as much carbon as Las Vegas, researchers say

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

#Bitcoin open source is hard - writing it, reviewing it, funding it, growing it But the best things in life need a little proof of work 🧱 Proud to be part of a grants program aiming to decentralise development by providing additional structure & support to onboard newcomers 🧡

Btrust

@btrustteam

2 years

Bitcoin open source projects are delicate ecosystems, and contributing can be uniquely challenging to new entrants. ₿trust is committed to responsibly introducing newcomers bitcoin development 🤝 Read more about our open source cohort here:

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@bitcoin_design are working on a Bitcoin Design Guide covering a wide range of design challenges in Bitcoin applications 🎨 Their contribution guidelines are thorough, and list a bunch of different way to get involved:

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Takeaways: 1. Democracy clearly still works 2. Love conquers all 3. A UPS, arriving Tuesday

Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

Boyfriend unplugged my node to play playstation:

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

2 years

tfw your Friday afternoon self left a half resolved, conflict ridden, 15 commit rebase for Monday morning you to deal with

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@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

“Bitcoin is a system of software rules, not rulers.” - @AlyseKilleen at @TheBitcoinConf 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Carla Kirk-Cohen

@actuallyCarlaKC

3 years

@btrustteam are just getting started, but we’re passionate about decentralising developer talent 👩‍💻 Bitcoin gets more developers, and valuable global perspective in development. Developers get to work on meaningful, challenging projects. Our objective is win-win 🥇

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