Of all those meetings that I read about, I don't like the fact that SEC keeps pressuring them to do share creation/redemption "in cash" instead of 'in kind", with the latter being much superior with no (or minimal) tax implications for the fund. "In cash" would mean that a fund would have to constantly pay cap gains and, of course, unload these costs on investors. In fact, funds with "in cash" option are not even really viable for the non-retirement/taxable accounts.

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I have. One of my neighbors is 84 and he told me he plans to live to 100-110. He lived an active life, does yoga every day, reads books about life extension, keeps his mind active. But then again some people are just luckier than others, and I don't even believe in free will.

I thought that we were talking about bitcoin in this here lovely thread, and lighting is a part of bitcoin, so how are you tying litecoin (LTC) into the discussion?  Are you suggesting that you can recharge your custodial wallet with LTC and then use it to transact in BTC?  or instead, since I see that nicehash is probably your mining group, so they are converting whatever your shitcoins are into bitcoin?

By the way, I had been considering various ways to charge a lightning wallet, and sure I prefer self-custodial rather than third-party custodial, but if we are in a pinch, then no problem using custodial and even using various shitcoins, but if we are not in a pinch then shouldn't we be trying to figure out various reasons to try to use bitcoin and bitcoin-related products rather than devolving into talking about shitcoins, but I see if you are talking about your mining pool then they allow you to mine shitcoins and maybe other ways of interchanging coins, so I suppose that you might be able to make some kind of connection to bitcoin, even though you did not really state the context very clearly.. 


I am not sure if I understand this point because you are testing sending back and forth, and so you are suggesting that only fees are at risk?  How about the whole transaction is at risk if it does not go through?  or if it bounces back then you end up getting the refund and paying the fees?  I still don't quite get what you mean.
 

Why are you even going down this road?  Sure it is o.k. to learn that you can use some of you third-party custodial wallets to transact with lightning in various kinds of ways, but I doubt that any of us should be promoting the use of custodial services to transact, even though it could be an option in a pinch, but if we are not in a pinch, and we are trying to have some level of self-sovereignty, shouldn't we also be attempting to have some options that are self-custody rather than going through various kinds of third-party custodial systems?   

I am not even trying to proclaim that you have to do anything, but there are some systems that are more resilent than others.

Even with mining, it seems a bit problematic if so many of them are KYC mining, and so I know if they want to operate and if they are big then they are a target and they likely have to KYC, and so maybe that was part of the excitement about Ocean, even though they have some other kinds of problems that might be getting in the way of their ability to attract customers.. if they are censoring ordinals and inscriptions and other kinds of sneaky practices, then some miners might be reluctant to mine with them, and of course, there seems to be some attraction to larger pools in order to have greater possible rewards.. so nothing is exactly and completely straight-forward.


Hopefully, you or someone else can do some of these show and tell with self-custodial types of solutions, and so many of us are probably hoping for lightning network to become more and more popular and easy to use, but we also want to figure out various easier ways to use wallets that are closer to self-custodial types of solutions.  Here is a post that I made in October 2022 in Fillippone's Lightning Network Observer thread when I was first weighing which lightning network wallets to move to after Blue wallet announced that it was discontinuing its lightning node for the use of others.

ya but thats when the 60 year mortgage becomes a thing, so we're back to square one 

Hopefully, you are not too wedded to the theory of down before up and as long as you are prepared for up before down and/or up before up as well as your down before up preference, then there should not be any problem.


$20k seems a bit much, but I could see testing $27k or $25k again, and it would have to be pretty bad for $25k to break, including that BTC does not need any ETF in order to have a 4-year cycle and also exponential s-curve adoption based on metcalfe principles and network effects (Trace Mayer variation).


I am pretty sure that Phoenix is considered self-custodial.  See these categories:  https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-wallets-comparison


You don't seem to be wrong.

I know you do not like shit coin talk

But I churn the shitcoins for profit and rarely hold them.

The mines I run are :
Mostly BTC
Some LTC/DOGE
Some kawpow.

The shitcoins turn profit mining ⛏️

After years of working at this mine and growing I reach the point of excess gear all paid that works.

so I can shift at will to the most profitable one.

I Deliberately have far more watts used and gear running for BTC.

I get a lot of flexibility. I am a satoshi guy ie power to value.

Being able to maneuver from One algo to the other allows for more profit.

so kawpow is gpu and converts to btc automatically on nicehash.

you call that shitcoinery I call it a job that pays bills and allows me to get more btc.

and if kawpow slows i shut it off and run more scrypt miners.

and if both slow I turn them off and run all btc.

but I always run 65-75% btc in terms of power used.

This insane fee issue just made nicehash LN better for me.
and the small kraken account became more valuable as it has LN.

Here's the queen mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon around the age of 90. She lived to be 101 years old drinking massive amounts every day.

Being stress-free is excellent for one's health.




I try to ascribe to the Keith Richards/Chuck Berry system of longevity: sex and drugs and rock and roll all night and party every day. It beats exercise machines.