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and you shouldn't click the "about" link at the bottom. (The about link opens a biography of the web designer or someone a user shouldn't care about initially).
First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer).
Then work your way down the page to the link "Want to Tip? Get started with Lightning Network" (Very small link, right at the bottom).
Then you will see that it's actually what this site is about and the first mention of Twitter.
And that button is only clickable with a mouse (because it's a div with an onClick property)
Seriously, what are the advantage of Tippin compare to a service that use real word currencies ? Anonymity ?
I just love the lightning network. Years of development and it still doesn't work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
"It will never work." <-- "It's already in production! You can use it right now!"
> impress.js may not help you if you have nothing interesting to say ;)
The reason "crypto" (it's really just Bitcoin) stagnated is because nobody was building on existing solid infrastructure. Now with LN leading the way we're going to see mainstream applications being built on BTC.
Bravo Sergio for leading the way :clap:
"The reason "crypto" (it's really just Bitcoin) stagnated is because nobody was building on existing solid infrastructure."
So you know this for a FACT?
Looks like Crypto is not stagnated by any means (price might be suppressed) if you look at the news, it seems crypto as a whole is moving forward at an accelerated pace.
Come on. Bitcoin is here. Bitcoin works. Bitcoin is battle tested.
Obviously anyone choosing to altcoin is doing it as a quick-get-rich scheme and not actually trying to build something useful.
Sometimes it's very simple bugs/problems authors have overlooked, sometimes it's just not very good UX (e.g. open a webpage and i does not answer what? why? how? and how much?).
Very often top comment can be a link or explanation which answers all these questions, that index page does not answer.
In this case we have link to the relevant part - which IMO should be the index page.
You cannot have a store of value if the only value that is created is a speculative agreement. The same critique that went behind fiat currency no longer being backed by gold applies just the same to cryptocurrencies. Turnkey solutions like stablecoins essentially mean you are now forced into using them as a pseudo bank and counting on them to not be handling fractional reserves at any point in time.
Crypto can have its uses in time, but it is not the emperor's new financial panacea that many people hope it is.
Regardless, the project is pretty cool and so is its execution.