You’re not wrong. I think he let his early success in bitcoin cloud his judgment, and he decided what the world really needed was more a government-friendly blockchain that onboarded people through their legal identity documents and had exponentially faster block time than bitcoin. He thought the Lightning Network could never succeed, and as far as I know, still does. It’s sad, he could just have built a bitcoin product that interfaces with Nostr. But instead, he’s lobbying Congress for crypto-friendly regulations that would specifically help his company.