Can someone find Martin ^ a girlfriend. He is considered not unattractive by his friends.

Adults were talking. Even non Irish ones.

A lightning channel/transaction starts by locking up a total settlement amount of bitcoin and then sending incrementing promissory notes that cannot be reneged on. The notes can be sent via any fast messenger system and thus are instant and do not cost anything to send. Each incrementing note negates the usefulness of the previous notes because you can ultimately only cash in one note.

When the final amount has been incremented then the receiver can post it to the blockchain and close out the account thus occuring the fee only once.

This is also how p2p poker can be played without worrying about the slow expensive blockchain. Open a channel for the balance of a players chips, and then play poker via promissory notes, which is just like playing via text. Instant and costless until you settle out.

Sounds fishy to me. What's the enforcement mechanism? What prevents reneging? What prevents the loser from refusing to settle out? How does this facilitate buying coffee at Starbucks? It sounds like you need a bank to keep a ledger of floating promissory notes and enforce settlements. In other words, you're back to the same system we have now.


PairTheBoard

If I open a 1 bitcoin channel with you by timelocking my bitcoin, I can then digitally sign an otherwise unforgeable transaction that sends .001 bitcoin to your address. Then I can send you the signed transaction.

You can either post it and collect the .001 and end the transfering or you can wait and then I can sign a new transaction that sends .002.

If you claim the second one, the first transaction becomes nullified. If you claim the first one the second becomes nullified.

I can keep incrementing, and I cannot stop you from posting the most recent incremented transaction to the blockchain to claim the highest amount that I have "promised".

If you die and never claim the transactions, a clause in my timelocked bitcoin allows me to refund it after a certain time (That time is set to after our agree upon period that gives you reasonable time to claim your proceeds without me being able to refund).

Other than the comment on your wife, those are my genuine opinions. I expect that she is pleasant, but her giving you a book isn't sufficient for my opinion to be strong.

IMO, your wife purchased and gave you the wrong book, as wife’s usually do. For a more informative read, and some research, I suggest the list below, starting with The Ascent of Money:

https://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Money-Financial-History-World

Then research a particular coin, its rise and fall, value, and usefulness, and influence etc.; I suggest this one (just a starting point, wiki is about as useful as a bitcoin):

Coinage_of_the_Republic_of_Venice

And couple that research with some history to give you the flavor of what intrinsic value really means and how it is and is not maintained:

City-Fortune-Venice-Ruled-Seas

By the way, I just finished reading the last book on the above list and it is a fantastic read, and full of excellent and useful information that dovetails well with this thread.

there is definately utility in a layered currency system, where some of the currencies happen to be blockchains or graphs and are deflationary, there is also utility in inflatinary microcurrencies, in my opinion. municipalities with their own central bank...and mass debt monetization.Everyone tries to figure out is it this or that. its both.

The problem with science is mask and zeno can't find a flaw in reason: