False. Tons of people do.

Post an invoice of 1,000 sats here and I'll send some Sats your way.

Let me rephrase the previous statement that the other person made.

Very few entities of any important use the lightning network.

And by "of any important" I am referring to actual, real life merchants and point of sale devices.

Let me know when actual physical locations are accepting lighting transactions, in the same quality as however many merchants are on BitPay.

The whole point of this stuff, is to actually be able to buy and sell real life goods. And on that metric, the lightning network is indeed used by very few people.

Number of people who use lightning network and don’t know how to use a terminal is probably less than 10.

Not even darknet markets - the original (and only?) bitcoin use case - use it.

"in the same quality as however many merchants are on BitPay."

On that metric, the link that you posted fails.

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send me one for the same amount and ill send them back :)

Imagine having such a minimal understanding of Bitcoin yet feeling entitled to post your inconsequential opinion online.

This is the correct answer. Most maids in SG live with their employers, and the employer has to feed them. Maids are typically from developing nations like the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar etc.

600 SGD goes a long way in those countries.

No.

We have a rough idea of which coins belong to Satoshi, based on when and how they were mined.

Satoshi's coins are continuously monitored and have never moved.

I always imagined that Satoshi probably lost the private keys to those early wallets.

Maybe. But in the latest Cra1g Wr1ght drama, he claimed to the court that some early addresses people thought might have been Satoshi's belonged to him. A message surfaced afterwards which was signed with those addresses calling Cra1g a liar.

The addresses used there were not Satoshi addresses, but other addresses mined around the same time.

I think it's more correctly stated that it's not public knowledge if they were mined by Satoshi or not. One can say they were not part of the "Satoshi miner pattern" that was identified years ago, but we don't know exactly how many of the blocks mined outside that pattern were or were not Satoshi's. Hence my "might".

Why would Craig (falsely) claim to own not-Satoshi addresses, instead of claiming Satoshi addresses that are less likely to be used (due to exposure risk)?

So the reason why Craig would do this is simple. Craig is not only a fraud, but is also an incompetent fraud.

And I'm confident that there's people dedicating a lot of processing power to try and determine its private keys (and anyone else's private keys if they happen to stumble across it).

I'm sure it's one of those tasks that'll cost a lot more than all the available energy in the universe kinda scale though.

It is possible but also in the early writings of Satoshi, he always stressed the importance of keeping your key and keeping it private.

What is the total value of his coins as of today ?

One of the best, most in-depth and accurate Bitcoin articles to ever grace the front page of HN.

Enlighten me please?

Ray thinks the fiber and antibacterial qualities of raw carrots are helpful in maintaining good intestinal health.

This link has various quotes from Ray over the years on this topic.

https://www.functionalps.com/blog/2012/09/28/ray-peat-phd-on...

Does the fiber in a cooked carrot become digestible?

According to Ray and his research, yes. Eating cooked carrots will promote unwanted bacterial growth in the intestine, and can increase the absorption of beta carotene, which in increased amounts can suppress metabolism.

There is no way you'd pay more than 15%, or even 5%, in fees.

Also, the idea is that you get Bitcoin before you need it.

I agree with you that the on-ramp can be a pretty unpleasant experience.

That has nothing to do with the Bitcoin protocol, rather it's a "security" measure by Coinbase.

A typical Bitcoin transaction, even with minimum fees, confirms in under an hour.

I know a Dutch bitcoin payment provider [0] whose transactions typically confirm within less than a second. In short: That's because the risk of a 51% attack on the network to steal my restaurant payment is in all practicality zero. So you don't even have to wait for a confirmation from the network, just the transaction showing up on the network is enough, given the transaction fee is reasonable.

[0] https://www.bitkassa.nl/