This is hyperbole and really a bad faith comment. You are not even proposing any solution while the real world state of bitcoin l2s is much worse than trusting miners dont collude. We are all trusting custodians on here for lightning and cashu.
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I recognise your apprehension regarding current L2 implementations and their reliance on custodians. The fundamental aim for scaling solutions, however, is to reduce the need for such trust, not to institutionalize it.
What are you talking about? Is this a bot account?
You could just ask the miner to run a mint for you and get a better UX.
Its not that reductive. It would be a very public theft if miners tried to rug a drivechain. And yes miners running the mint would be much better then a faceless anon from africa waiting for a pay day.
No. It is simple because any design that implies trust in miners must accept that also means trust in government, and trust that nothing would convince them to rug pull.
This is a horrible assumption.
Again as opposed to what. Bitcoin just ossifies and dies because ppl only use it as "digital gold"