I'm a fan of your site aeto. Re-steeming this one. Keep it up.

Thanks acdevan! I really appreciate the feedback (and the resteem). I like your blogs too and will follow. Cheers

Hi Ibemorah I honestly think the best way to learn is to start from the very beginning and learn as Satoshi did. That's how i got started. Check out my post here with the relevant links but i suggest you

Hi umh. I'm pretty new to SteemIt so I'm just working it out myself. Basically it seems to take time. If you go to my blog history you'll see that it builds as I've accumulated steem power and as followers

Just as a correction to my above comment - it looks like the December Segwit2x is a little different from the earlier November proposal. The fork is not the same as the one originally proposed in the NYA

Thanks v4vapid - I appreciate your open mind / impartiality. Yep - Blockstream is certainly influential on lightning. I personally don't think they exercise "control" or have motives to centralise

Hey v4vapid, Interesting post! I don't believe Lighting was created by Blockstream. In my understanding, it is an open source project. The authors of the original Lightning Whitepaper actually went on

Thanks Omega!

Thanks nastyneste. Really appreciate the feedback. It is a very heated debate in the Bitcoin community - like modern day politics it has all become a little tribal; the truth and the technology matter

Thanks ansarmehmood. Welcome to steemit!

Thanks mawit07. I'm looking forward to lightning. It will be interesting to see how this space plays out and what impact it will have on the altcoins.

Thanks david!

Thanks sames. I'll check out your post!

Thanks rize20100 - me too!

Thanks Din. Lightning still uses on chain transactions. An on-chain transaction is used to set aside funds for use on Lightning (like moving savings to a checking account) and the final balance for the

Hi fiyufiyt, Yes there is! Check out my response to sweetwilliam who had a similar question: Here

Yep - I can't wait. It will hopefully make Bitcoin usable again.

Thanks bhavin4mech!

Hi Sweetwilliam, It's a really good (and interesting) question. Essentially you are correct. The funds are set aside in some form of holding account - similar to the way a checking account is separate

Thanks bitpost! Really appreciate it!