what's even more hilarious is that lightning payments are onion routed

all this ecash shit gives you is asynchronous payments possibility, this really should be wrapped in a separate layer anyway, can be done with custodial based LNURL routing easily... yes, any which way you look at it, async requires trust... this is a tradeoff that has to also be made for direct messaging but sadly most of the nostr devs don't seem to have wrapped their heads around this - and nostr protocol ephemeral events do actually allow non-stored message broadcast to active subscribers, as well as the fallback for async purposes where relevant

i have never understood how this dude gets so many followers but maybe that was something to do with him exploiting the X algorithm back in the day