I suggest to add another feature to the lightning network which I call a virtual payment channel (or in short VPC) to be described in this article. Such a virtual payment channel will NOT be backed by the blockchain and thus cannot operate in a trustless manner. However I see several use cases for virtual payment channels. …
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Thoughts about eltoo: Another protocol for payment channel management in the lightning network
In this article I will give an overview about the proposed lightning network extension eltoo. There has been quite some buzz about the eltoo paper proposed by Christian Decker, Rusty Russell and Olaoluwa Osuntokun in May 2018. Bitcoin magazines and blogs have been making promising statements, that lightning will become even faster than it currently is. According to …
Improve the autopilot of bitcoin’s lightning network (Summary of the bar camp Session at the 2nd lightninghackday in Berlin)
I have been visiting Berlin to attend the second lightninghackday and want to give a brief wrap up about the event. This article will basically cover two topics. 1st as promised within my bar camp session on “Building an automated topology for autopilot features of the lightning network nodes” I will give an extensive protocol …
Extracting 2 social network graphs from the Democratic National Committee Email Corpus on Wikileaks
tl,dr verion: Source code at github! A couple of days ago a data set was released on Wikileaks consisting of about 23 thousand emails sent within the Democratic National Committee that would demonstrate how the DNC was actively trying to prevent Bernie Sanders from being the democratic candidate for the General public election. I am …
Cleaning up my network connections on ubuntu linux using the network manager nmcli
After 4 years of running a pretty stable linux on my notebook I realized that the time had come that too much software and dependencies have been on my system so I set up a clean system. By doing so I also switched to a tiling window manager called awesome (with which I am pretty …
What happened to Vensenya's "Changing mindset" project?
Two and a half years ago I posted about Simons project which at that time was just starting and to me still very fuzzy. Still I donated 150 Euro and asked others to do the same. It was the trust I had in him that it would be working out great even though it was …
Creating an award winning video doesn’t need much technology or technical know how.
After I won the community award in the Wikipedia Video contest in the category documentation and interview with my pointer in C video I would like to share some experiences on creating educational videos. This is mainly to encourage anyone to do the same as I did. Have a look at the winning video again …
About the future of Videos on Wikiversity, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
In the following article I want to give an overview of the discussions and movements that are going on about video and multimedia content for wikipedia and her sister projects. I will start with some positive experiences and then tell you about some bad experiences. This article is not to wine about some edit war …
How to host your oer MOOC on wikiversity
Last year we have created a MOOC on Web Science. We had chosen Wikiversity as a platform for hosting the MOOC. The reason for this was the high trust we had in the Wikimedia foundation strengthening the open movement. The main problem we experienced with Wikiversity was that the software running Wikiversity is obviously a …
Copyright violations: Videos from our OER Web Science MOOC deleted from Wikimedia commons
I understand that the following article is written in a very personal way. But this thing seems to me so unjust that it is just unbelievable. So this is my sad story of me trying to bring free educational resources to the world and having Microsoft indirectly not allowing me to do so 🙁 The following …