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.
Apparently author would like someone to buy him a taco more than he would like to show his project. :) ..... or it's a smart way to get money while users are testing out this tipping service.
I hate to break it to you guys but no one comes to hackernews for web design critique. It's much more productive to discuss the actual technology. A solo developer built something pretty cool and interesting and all you care about is the web design?
It's cool project, though I very often see critique (or tips) on web design.
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.
http://n-gate.com/ describes their hacker news weekly summaries as 'webshit weekly'. Read into that (along with all the other comments on this thread) what you will
I don't understand what you mean, are you saying normal electronic bank transfers actually involve someone moving a bag of coins from my bank to Ireland?
You mean value that fluctuates "randomly" on the daily in what was proven to be a manipulated market? A market plagued by corrupt, insecure or amateur on-ramps like Quadriga, Bitfinex or MtGox? Anonymity goes out the door as soon as you get verified on one of these on and off ramps.
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.
I want to congratulate the creator Sergio for building on Bitcoin. Whereas others would create an altcoin, ICO, make a ton of claims and then... nothing comes out of it.
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.
"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.
LN is a good solution imo. Bitcoin transactions only happen when opening and closing a channel (which is kind of like moving money from a savings account to a prepaid card) after that you can do as many payments as you want. Eventually I guess Bitcoin will move to having larger blocks, but that largely depends on the world getting faster connections for node syncing and hard disks price going down (to store the actual blockchain)
Hence Lightning Network. If you look at the history of innovation you'll find that it's all layered. The internet is a prime example of layering. Why should we expect Bitcoin to be any different?
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.