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Here you will find a comprehensive explanation of how the Bitcoin protocol works explained by Andreas Antonopoulos

Here you can free download the book Mastering Bitcoin written by Andreas Antonopoulos

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https://sms-activation-service.com
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https://sms-activate.org
https://smsverify.pro
https://virtualsim.net
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What changes to do a "Ring of fire" compared to connecting directly to a large node like that of Wallet Of Satoshi (WOS)and then rebalancing via swap / loop?

Doing a ROF, in the end you have 2 channels, one opened by you, and one on the other side, so by investing for example 1M, you have 2 million capacity. Then it often rebalances, so by spending the cost of an opening, you have doubled the capacity and balanced 2 channels.
If, on the other hand, you open towards WOS 2 million, it costs you the opening and the LOOP (which is not cheap)

However, when you open to nodes like WOS, don't rebalance, as traffic will always flow in the direction of WOS. If anything, you will have to rebalance when the channel is completely emptied from the outbound

This is the way: Don’t trust, verify…

After you have download Electrum wallet from Electrum.org, it’s very important that you check it to make sure it’s genuine software and not a malware. Verifying the GPG signature of the maintainers Thomas Voegtlin (ThomasV) , Sombernight and Emzy is one technique to do so.

This is the way on linux:

• Download software (AppImage in this case) from electrum.org
• Download the pub key of the ThomasV, Sombernight and Emzy from electrum.org:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spesmilo/electrum/master/pubkeys/ThomasV.asc

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spesmilo/electrum/master/pubkeys/sombernight_releasekey.asc

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spesmilo/electrum/master/pubkeys/Emzy.asc

• Then you have to import the keys:

• Then you have to download the signature of the software (AppImage in this case):

wget https://download.electrum.org/4.2.1/electrum-4.2.1-x86_64.AppImage.asc

Write the Electrum path that you are downloading: Electrum release (4.2.1 or 4.3.2 or 4.4.4 etc….)

• Then you have to verify the software.
• Remember to specify Electrum release (4.2.1 or 4.3.2 or 4.4.4 etc….) on your terminal:

In general:

The message should say:

Good signature from “Thomas Voegtlin (https://electrum.org) thomasv@electrum.org
and

Primary key fingerprint: 6694 D8DE 7BE8 EE56 31BE D950 2BD5 824B 7F94 70E6

You can ignore this:

WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
as it simply means you have not established a web of trust with other GPG users

ThomasV fingerprint is uploaded on Youtube video, where you can find ThomasV speaking with his fingerprint behind him. So now you know that the fingerprint is genuine.