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This Week in Matrix: progress on the Riot/Web redesign and E2E UX nirvana; updates from Quaternion, Slack bridge 0.2, maubot, Raiden and more! https://matrix.org/blog/2018/10/19/this-week-in-matrix-2018-10-19/

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Legal plunder is still...plunder.

Graphic by @kazvorpal

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I just realised there might be people who follow me who don't know about https://Neocities.org.

It's a pretty cool open-source platform for building websites in HTML/CSS code.

I've got one at https://ChrisWere.neocities.org.

PayNyms are cool. I used to think they were just a niche implementation of a BIP who had a very marginal use case but... It's kind of the same concept of payment channels that LN uses, minus the routing to other nodes but without the channel balance problems. Useful for private and frequent transactions between two specific parties (eg. when you get paid by your employer, paying rent to your landlord and more)

https://paynym.is/

@samourai_official of course is always ahead of the curve.

The McCain Legacy in Foreign Policy by #TomWoods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V6CxI_nouI

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Lightning Network has more nodes than Ripple, bcash and Litecoin put together

I remember saying this to Mike Hearn on IRC years ago. He wasn't particularly impressed with the thesis :)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DltjBEqUwAEIjEK.jpg

But, I mean, if you think about it, it absolutely must be true. Weird though. Wishing for stability at this point is futile. Pegs (I refuse to call them "stable coins" just because Vitalik likes making up buzzwords) are just ticking timebombs.