Discussion
Build me a scenario.
Weird as fuck?
Yeah and dystopic vibes with it.
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Entirely false dichotomy.
There's Phoenix, CoinOs, Breeze, Zeus, Alby... Umbrella, Start9... literally dozens of sovereign lightning options with unilateral exit, without the risk of getting rugged by an ecash mint.
Ecash shilling is honestly starting to make me nausious.
Personally, I'm with you. I have the ability, curiosity, and patience to just run my own node, manage my own utxos & channels. Full sovereignty FTW.
But the market shows that most people don't want to be bothered with any of that. They just want to get some sats, hold a balance, and spend them.
Free markets aren't wrong. Custodial solutions clearly solve actual pain points for the majority of bitcoin users. Ecash is orders of magnitude better than your standard custodian today.
I'm happy it exists & will support it.
Sure. People want convenience - until they get rugged. And then they wish that they had a time machine and made a different choice.
I've lived and worked in a lot of small communities. Exit scams lead to generational savings being wiped out; broken families; suicides etc. I'm currently typing this from an isolated community of a few thousand people. Ecash would be an unmitigated disaster, and is accordingly being treating as threat.