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This isn’t built on top of Bitcoin, it’s built on Bitcoin hard fork. Also, why would you use stable coins and thus adding a centralised point of failure when Bitcoin already solves this? Just use it as payment rails.

You know who can? Anyone in El Salvador.

I don't think that's accurate. Where have you read that they are using USDT?

For all practical use-cases it is. Last time I used LN (earlier today) it cost me 0.05% to send some money.

When I look at WU for sending that amount to El Salvador from Sweden it's closes to $250. Are you sure it's only 12 AUD? There's a hefty fee baked into the exchange rate.

When I played back in the day I found this one to be pretty helpful: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Poker-Bill-Chen/dp/188607...

We're going to have him on Svelte Radio in a couple of weeks to talk about this! Stay tuned :)

An open-source alternative to Retool is Budibase - https://www.budibase.com/

Edit: It was apparently already on there.

RGB isn't custodial at all.

We've been building Budibase without SK and it's great: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

...and it's likely just a matter of time until Bitcoin will eat the rest of the space. Smart contracts are coming: https://rgb-org.github.io/

Don't miss this one: Tech Ingredients - https://www.youtube.com/user/TechIngredients

No, SvelteKit does not have support for partial hydration.

What you're describing is the no js option in SK. That doesn't allow you to selectively add some JS, it's either all or nothing. You set this option on a per page basis, not per component.

The massaging of data that Nick talks about here has to do with data that is needed to build the actual pages, not runtime data (which you could use Stores for).

This is so exciting! Been using SvelteKit this last week to build a new version of the Svelte Radio podcast website. Works very well and the DX is amazing.

Can't wait for whenever a Cloudflare Worker adapter is out!

Why is it flawed as a currency?

They could and they probably will if LN keeps growing. You wouldn’t need to trust VISA at all, LN is “trustless”. They would just be a cog in the wheel, like all the other LN “nodes”.

Fair enough, that’s why I wrote ”in the long run”. Also, there’s always the option of moving somewhere that doesn’t have this issue. Well, unless you’re from the US and must file taxes even when you’re not even in the country, I suppose.

It does. You don’t need to leave the L2 solution. Why would you when you have the possibility to transact for free? Liquidity on LN is growing by the day and as more and more people join there will be fewer and fewer reasons to settle.

Define works better. Has larger blockchains? All transactions don’t need to live in the blockchain.

The idea is to never go off-chain, so no need to close your channel(s). And aren't you already committing cash if you're "in" bitcoin?

The tax filing doesn't sound so bad in the long run. I'm sure someone will write some nifty tool to extract whatever payments you've done.

It's just on-chain layer 1 transactions that are somewhat expensive. The lightning network solves this and works great, can do thousands of transactions per second and has close to 0 fees. Feels like magic to use it :)

Wondering the same. I hope they use the Lightning Network. If it's just another debit card on top of some exchange that's pretty boring.

Here you go: https://adamaltmejd.se/covid/

Elder.js (Svelte framework) has partial hydration OOTB: https://github.com/Elderjs/elderjs

This article doesn’t match with reality. Pretty much none of the restrictions put in place here in Sweden have changed since they were put in place. Swedish authorities haven’t given any sign of wanting to adjust things other than letting the elderly ho outside more. Number of infections have gone up since most people came back from vacation, yet it hasn’t resulted in an increased death rate, see https://adamaltmejd.se/covid/

I don't think your point about the handling fee rings very true. If you followed the news at the time when it was added you would know that it was put in place to counter the huge workload that came with handling all the packages from cheap Chinese online stores (like Wish). Before that PostNord almost never charged for handling packages from outside the EU. The same can not be said about DHL, UPS and Fedex who ALWAYS make sure to charge extra for handling any package from outside the EU, almost without fail.

It makes sense in my mind that the buyer should be the one to pay for the handling of what they buy. I don't want to subsidise your shopping/shipping via my taxes, they're high enough as it is.

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I provide workshops and training for front-end developers in Svelte (https://svelte.dev/). Anything from introductory workshops to more complex topics such as Sapper (the application framework for Svelte).

If your company is looking to explore this new and exciting framework I can help you with this.