Sure sounds better than custodial lightning with no privacy.
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You still have to trust someone with your bitcoin. Which is not what satoshi had in mind for bitcoin.
There’s no rush. Bitcoin works for its current user base, and could probably scale to between 250M and 500M active self custodial users as currently constructed. Maybe in 5 years the drive chain scaling discussion will be more interesting, but for now it’s a non-starter.
Some level of trust is needed for society to function. Let’s reduce the amount needed, especially for money, but it will never go away.
If you’re going to trust (many people will), you might as well get other benefits in the process. Privacy is a good benefit to get.
Read the bitcoin white paper sir. The very first paragraph.
Do you think custodial wallets are going away anytime soon? If not, wouldn’t you rather a user have privacy?
I agree that self custody for everyone is the goal but there are steps along the way as more people learn. Self custody for everyone in the world is currently not technically feasible, so let’s give people trade offs that add benefit to the users. Ecash provides privacy as a trade off for an already establish model of custody.