I continue to work on my hedgehog protocol and I've figured out how to add some cool features to it. I wrote a "bridge server" which helps "translate" hedgehog payments into lightning payments, and it works right now, which means a hedgehog wallet can pay... ...regular lightning invoices. I also added support for something I call "unilateral channels." What that means is, someone can be fully offline, not even talking to you, not even aware of you, and if you have their pubkey you can...

How long to a trillion?

This is how long it took the US government to rack up its trillions in debt:

1 trillion: 1776-1981 = 205 years
2 trillion: 1981-1986 = 7 years
3 trillion: 1986-1990 = 4 years
4 trillion: 1990-1992 = 2 years
5 trillion: 1992-1996 = 4 years 6 trillion: 1996-2002 = 8 years
7 trillion: 2002-2004 = 2 years
8 trillion: 2004-2005 = 1 year
9 trillion: 2005-2007 = 2 years
10 trillion: 2007-2008 = 1 year
11 trillion: 2008-2009 = 1 year
12 trillion: Q1 2009 - Q4 2009 = 9 months
13 trillion: Q4 2009 - Q2 2010 = 6 months