Listen to this song to the end, brilliant :)

Thailand, Pattaya city. A very strange place, present religiosity and debauchery ...
P.S. you will finally see me, because there is a shot at the beginning of the movie, have fun;)

video: Go Pro Hero 7

The guide has been prepared for non-technical people and contains loose comparisons so that a person not familiar with computer science can understand them. Various simplifications are included, and some "important" technical themes have been omitted.

What is Bitcoin?

I suspect that you shop every day with your card or cash in your currency. Euro? Dollar? Bolivar? Yen? It doesn't matter, but you've probably noticed yourself that there is no single currency - many countries have their own currency and it seems logical.

But why? Of course the law obliges you to do so if you do not follow the rules - e.g. pay taxes in a particular currency, you will be punished.

But a group of programmers decided to create something revolutionary - global money that is independent. There is no owner, no government - there is only programmer code and rules. The rules that define Bitcoin.

It may seem strange, but every currency has its own rules. You may have encountered the concept of "inflation target". The state sets a so-called "inflation target" for money, which shows that, on average, money should lose value e.g. 2% per year. It may seem strange to you, but these are the rules of many countries to encourage you to spend, because if you save money in your account, it will lose value.

Bitcoin has its rules - the maximum amount of Bitcoin is 21 million, 1 Bitcoin consists of 100000000 Satoshi and so on.

What is blockchain?

You may wonder how it is possible that something "computer" is safe. The answer is Blockchain.

But before I say what a blockchain is - You may have watched the movie "Matrix" from Keanu Reeves. Morpheus gives Thomas Anders a choice - if he takes the blue pill, he will continue living. If he chooses red, he'll see the real world, outside the Matrix.

In the movie, Thomas chooses the red pill, what if he chooses the blue one? We decide to change this decision in the photoshop and change the color of the pills. But this one change changes the whole film - you have to make an alternative version.

The same is true of blockchain - it's a decentralized computer database where the change of one thing (e.g. my account balance) changes successive values. A domino effect.

What is the Lightning Network?

So we have a "book called blockchain." We want this book to be distributed for free all over the world. How do you do that? It is best to send it to as many people as possible. Then in case of flood, hurricane or fire, the book will survive.

But this attitude has its price. As it is an endless book, it will take up more and more space. It will turn out that e.g. home users will remove the book from the house because they will have no room for their clothes, electronic equipment or beds.

Removing a book from the house even slowly - increases the chances that one day the book will disappear irretrievably.

That is why the cards added to the book should be as rare (and dense) as possible ... but it reduces the amount of text that can be saved anyway. It's a big problem.

But someone comes up with an idea - maybe instead of writing everything down exactly - let's write summaries.

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Lightning Network is a computer network, where instead of creating hundreds or thousands of transactions and saving them to blockchain, users make such transactions between themselves (in a safe way, of course) to finally save only the final state of transactions on blockchain. In this way we can save a lot of space and reduce the cost of storing blockchain (books).

The second problem is the time of adding blocks (cards). It's about 10 minutes in Bitcoin. Which means that you can normally go to the store, do your shopping... and wait for confirmation for a few minutes (confirmation - information if your message is saved in the block). In Lightning, blocks don't matter, so you can make a transaction in e.g. a second and make sure that everything is ok.

What is Zapread?

Zapread is a social network project where your voice matters. Here you can earn Bitcoin and spend. You can develop through writing, but you can also support other writers. You can reward for good content ...

How to withdraw funds from Zapread?

The easiest option (although not the best one) is to install Phoenix Wallet on your phone.

After starting, select the New Wallet button. The wallet works immediately, but it's worth saving the "seed". (make wallet backup). The wallet dictates 12 words to be written on the card.

If you want to receive funds from Zapread, press the Received button, then the 3 icons - resembling a notebook - and enter the amount you want to withdraw.

Pressing "Create invoice" will create a new payment confirmation. Using the first icon you can copy and paste it into Zapread. Done!

well-organized city-state, I felt safe and comfortable there. Everything is perfectly organized and thought out. I could move there;)

I think it's time to think about how to promote Zapread. I would like everyone to think about it and maybe together we can advertise the project?

Personally, I have some money for donations and small sponsorship. I also have some games on Steam, which you can give away to people who will encourage most people to interact on the platform.

Maybe you need to do it differently? I would like to collect feedback from you so that I can sit down to the problem together. I've never "bootstrapped" the platform from a small level, so I don't know how Facebook or Steem developed.

I don't think anyone has this experience, but we are a community that is building the foundation of different projects ... and we have our thoughts. And I'm happy to find out how you see the development of Zapread and how you see the advertising of the project, the reward system and so on.

I finally managed to raise funds and buy a laptop - wow. The choice was quite a lot, although the most interesting and intriguing was only one model - MSI Alpha 15.

It is probably the only laptop in AMD-AMD combination. The processor is 3rd generation Ryzen 7 and the dedicated card is Radeon. So I have two AMD cards in one laptop.

The laptop cost 4049 PLN (~$1000). That's a lot.

In fact, the title says it all. When asked on Twitter by John Carvalho to the Kraken board of directors, John got the answer that Lightning will be supported until the end of 2020, or Pierre Rochard will leave the Kraken.

I don't know if this will happen (hopefully not), but the more exchanges and cantors - the better for users.

Kraken is the second large exchange that supports Lightning right after Bitfinex.

https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard/status/1265835635862093824

https://coinfomania.com/kraken-exchange-support-bitcoin-lightning-network/

Tincture on ...? , scorpions, a young cobra, some mysterious snakes and various spices. Tested. It is difficult to determine the taste, because I have never drunk vodka with a scorpion, a snake, and other animals. It's acceptable, even quite. We didn't bring it to Europe, because they could rather put us in prison for smuggling: D, But in Cambodia it is normal. Enjoy

Cambodia, Siem Reap, February 2020