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If bitcoin is worth more, you need to move fewer bitcoins to achieve the same result. If there USD value moved in lightning never increases then I would agree it's a failure

What are you talking about? It crashed, then crashed again, then crashed again. How is that stable?

Number of channels is decreasing, but the money in each channel increased. In BTC terms the money decreased, but in real terms the money increased.

Real terms being 2022 dollar value

Same thing happened to the Argentine peso, let's not pretend if you make a government currency it's magically stable

Do kids still say based?

Because they wouldn't convict him due to low quality of evidence

I didn't strictly need the firewall, I disabled it and then Windows update stopped working. I hate Windows so much

When you change btc into eth the IRS considers it realizing your capital gains. Even though you don't have USD to pay extra taxes with.

A lot of bitcoin transactions are opening lightning channels so second layer is working there too

That's not true if your home electricity cost is low. You will be still making a profit. Last I checked hardware pays for itself after a year if your electricity is very cheap. Then it's very slow profit and then it gets too old to make a profit.

With very cheap electricity you can expect 2x return after a few years and then it becomes garbage when the difficulty is too high

You can easily mine from home in a country like China that has $0.08 per kwh energy cost. Not everyone lives in California

You mean the value that crashed like 30% over two years? At least bitcoin went back up