Blog Post: LTS Grant for René Pickhardt #210
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Thank you very much for this very respectful and nicely written text! While one dimension of a grant is certainly about the financial support it is also nice to see that you have digested my work and were able to summarize it accurately! I have added in a few comments feel free to reject / ignore them but I thought while being at it I could just annotate them
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| We are very excited to award a Long-term Support Grant to René Pickhardt, |
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you could link https://ln.rene-pickhardt.de (but I don't think it's important)
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We are very excited to award a Long-term Support Grant to René Pickhardt,
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| Over the years, he has achieved an almost endless list of invaluable | ||
| contributions, including creating [Pickhardt | ||
| Payments](https://github.com/renepickhardt/pickhardtpayments), renepay, actively |
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I think I only helped answering questions to the developer who created renepay
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maybe best to just scratch that one off the list for the sake of simplicity
| This LTS grant is now instrumental in René's ongoing efforts to enhance reliable | ||
| payment planning, efficient payment routing, and explore innovative liquidity | ||
| management strategies on the Lightning Network. He’s currently focused on | ||
| researching non-minimum cost flow-based methods to optimize the expected |
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maybe one could also link this open stack exchange question: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/117447/how-to-compute-the-expected-number-of-sats-to-arrive-in-a-probabilistic-payment (as it is still open)
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He’s currently focused on researching non-minimum cost flow based methods to optimize the expected delivery of Satoshis and is inviting feedback on this question about how to compute the expected number of sats to arrive in a probabilistic payment flow
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| [if]: https://github.com/renepickhardt/Maximum-Expected-Value-Flows-For-Redundant-Overpayments | ||
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| What’s more, he’s planning to host free online webinars. These sessions aim to |
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would it make sense to set up for example a mailchimp mailinglist with a call to action (so people could sign up if they want to be notified for the webinars?) I mean I will announce them once they are ready anyway and I kind of don't want to maintain a mailinglist.
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maybe easier if your webinar software has a built-in mailing list feature?
no worries if it's a hassle
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yeah I think I can announce it later. I think the announcement doesn't need the call to action yet
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| He has consistently shared commercially significant knowledge for a long time | ||
| without seeking prior funding. All major LN implementations have integrated some |
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BitMEX have generously supported some of my work mainly in 2022 and 2023.
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Fueled by gratitude for his scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, his four consecutive Bitcoin Developer Grants from BitMex, and the everyday benefits of the open-source software he uses, René has centered his career on giving back to the communities that supported him on his path.
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just one more tiny note: Even while just in german I am fairly proud that I have tought a class about bitcoin together with J9 at Deutsche Schülerakademie |
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| He has consistently shared commercially significant knowledge for a long time | ||
| without seeking prior funding. All major LN implementations have integrated some |
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Fueled by gratitude for his scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, his four consecutive Bitcoin Developer Grants from BitMex, and the everyday benefits of the open-source software he uses, René has centered his career on giving back to the communities that supported him on his path.
| This LTS grant is now instrumental in René's ongoing efforts to enhance reliable | ||
| payment planning, efficient payment routing, and explore innovative liquidity | ||
| management strategies on the Lightning Network. He’s currently focused on | ||
| researching non-minimum cost flow-based methods to optimize the expected |
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He’s currently focused on researching non-minimum cost flow based methods to optimize the expected delivery of Satoshis and is inviting feedback on this question about how to compute the expected number of sats to arrive in a probabilistic payment flow
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| We are very excited to award a Long-term Support Grant to René Pickhardt, |
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We are very excited to award a Long-term Support Grant to René Pickhardt,
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LGTM Thank you! |
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Read through the post. Looks great to me! |
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No changes necessary. All the links work and point to the right place. Congratulation's @renepickhardt
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