ecash folks started by accenting how it solves the privacy issue, but now we have bolt12 spec which is way better and easier. Now they say but lightning can't scale as easily as ecash. Fuck custodians; bitcoin was created to eliminate third parties.
If one can't run a node, better keep your money in a bank.
You got a point. I still use it but I get you
This kind of frivolous nonsensical elitism is so idiotic.
Digital, global,sovereign p2p cash never has existed. Nobody took it away from you, nobody hijacked it with some conspiracy. We do have a global network, that has the ability for individuals to be sovereign if they so choose, but its is in no way scalable to all 8 billion people. It also has cash like properties like the ability to be transferred from addresses to addresses.
The key that lies here is that there is a base layer of IMMUTABLITY that allows the individual TO CHOOSE when to enforce the sovereignty of their keys. Life REQUIRES trust of varying degrees. You TRUST that the assumptions of the cryptographic primitives of bitcoin will work. You TRUST that energy will always have a cost and never be free. You TRUST that the incentives stay aligned to keep its ledger true.
So parading around like fuck everyone's ability to choose and sovereignty or nothing absolute-ism is a fucking retarded position to take.
Ark
