Mainly yes. Giving up custody is not a scaling solution to Bitcoin. Calle says this himself (one of the many reasons I have the utmost respect for him).

Outside of that, I really don't think there is, or ever will be, a large appetite for people willing to become mint runners. High profile ones will be regulated into oblivion and grey market ones will be a huge rug risk to users.

What does that leave? Small knit 'community' or 'trusted' outfits like Bitcoin Beach etc where workable solutions (albeit with inferior privacy) already exist.

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Just to add - I'm not against or ridiculing ANYONE building solutions to improve Bitcoin ecosystem usage.

All of the people doing so are far smarter than I, and I commend them for taking action. I just don't think custody is a viable long term approach.

However, right now, there aren't many other viable alternatives. Tradeoffs everywhere!

Thanks for your assessment.

Agree that mints likely become centralized and this comes with a potential rug risk.