And Monero improves non-custodial privacy solutions for onchain L1, so in that sense and using your "logic" it's as much of a speculative shitcoin as Bitcoin is.

(contrast with my logic, where neither is a shitcoin, there are tradeoffs to each solution, and there is no silver bullet.. do you know this thing called nuance?)

Ecash is indeed a speculative shitcoin if you want to be narrow-minded, you're speculating that the mint operator won't rug you. Your precious ecash note might be worth roughly $BTCUSD_NOW or zero.

Surely you also realize that ecash has nothing to do with bitcoin. It just happened to be ressurected in a bitcoin context. But you can have ecash IOUs for anything else too, and in fact if the idea ever takes off, it's an inevitability that it will be used for everything else too.

Anyway, keep seeing the world in black and white, I don't really care. I do care that bystanders and passer-bys read something that makes them think, and that's already happened.

You, on the other hand, don't really want to think, evidenced by the note I'm replying to. Whatever is not what you believe is blasphemy, and you've got no time to engage in heresy.

It's a bit sad but hey, you do you.