Lightning This Week #

Bitcoin-infused Counter Strike, trampoline routing nodes, revamped LND documentation, and new techniques for anti-UTXO probing on LN dual-funded channels.

To start things off on a happy note, the team behind MintGox ESports tournament have released the details for the next event on Sunday January 31st. A total prize pool of 10 million satoshis are up for grabs for those willing to be challenged in matches of CS:GO, Bitcoin Rally, BBH and Turbo84.

The team was interviewed on the latest Swan Live Lounge podcast and released a video that explains the thinking behind MintGox and how it is different from any conventional ESports tournaments. Join MintGox and witness the future of Bitcoin Gaming.

Infusing Counter Strike with Bitcoin

If you’ve been living under a rock you may have missed the announcement, but the ZEBEDEE team have officially infused Bitcoin into Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Yes — that Counter Strike!

(...) read more: https://andreneves.substack.com/p/lightning-this-week-666209?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=reddit

Busy times in Space last week. Apart from launches by Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Astra, ULA & Roscosmos, two missions came back with samples from outer Space. The Chinese Chang'E5 mission brought back some Lunar samples (see below) after almost a month in Space, and the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission delivered grains of the Asteroid Ryugu (see above) after being out there for 6 years! Both missions will provide better insights in how the Solar System was created some 5 billions years ago. Very impressive efforts that were concluded successfully!

SpaceX Starship SN8 launch attempt is imminent. Expected at 22:00 CET on December 9. Check it out via the livefeed!

In general, I have been working on Bitblog for some time now, which is a kind of competition for Zapread (but also not entirely, so I am counting on cooperation between projects). For now it is still a very early phase.

Such a description of various curiosities.

1) Iframe + logout ...

According to the conversations with @fwtf I had to set X Frame-Options to Deny. And if it makes it impossible to display the page in Iframe, it's done. Very strange, because I would expect full blocking ... On the other hand, can a browser know how a given page is configured without entering it?

2) Markdown proposal

Markdown has cool features that ordinary HTML code does not have. It is usually a safer form, but it also takes less disk space (and in decentralised systems this is important information). I don't know if Markdown will be available, but tests are ongoing and there is an editor (add_articles2.php). Unfortunately I'm not good at Javascript and configuration of this editor ... but it works quite well for now (but it would be useful to throw away HTML completely).

Two landmark events this week in the Solar System. First of all, an asteroid sample is on its way to planet Earth and it will hit the Earth's astmosphere with an incomprehensible speed of 14 km/s. This sample was snatched off asteroid Ryugu back in 2018. Secondly, the Chinese moonlander Chang'e 5, that will bring back a Lunar sample, is now in orbit around the Moon and landing can be any moment now!

Hayabusa2 is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from the Hayabusa mission which returned asteroid samples in 2010. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. Capsule landing will be on December 5 around 18:45. See timeline below.

The Chang'e 5 spacecraft launched on Nov. 23 intent on becoming the first mission to bring lunar samples to Earth since 1976; the mission reached lunar orbit on Nov. 28. According to China's state-run news agency Xinhua, the mission's orbiter/return vehicle and its lander/ascender vehicle separated in lunar orbit  yesterday (Nov. 29) at 3:40 p.m. EST (2040 GMT; 4:40 a.m. Beijing time on Nov. 30). That move sets the stage for a landing near the peak of Mons Rümker, a mountain in the Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") region of the moon.(space.com). When the landing will occur exactly is unknown yet, but it sure will be somewhere in the coming days.