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Will humanity rise to the occasion?

We shouldn't normalize WoS. Alby + Zeus for self custodial zaps until BOLT12. Ideally all wallets should consider three levels of custody.

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Lightning was never meant for such large settlements. It's a payments protocol.

That level of foresight seems cypherpunk.

During the ICO bubble, shitcoin companies offered Nick Szabo millions just to be an advisor. Szabo refused to even talk to any of them.

One ICO company: Nick, what are you doing with your life that you won't even respond to a multi-million dollar offer?

NS: Living it

But would you pay 10 sats to read an article?

Avoid shitcoin normalizing companies

https://unchained.com/

This Hal Finney message from 1992 on the Cypherpunks Mailing List applies to both #Bitcoin and #Nostr

β€œIt seemed so obvious to me. Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization...

The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them. Unlike the world of today, where people are more or less at the mercy of credit agencies, large corporations, and governments.

Naturally, in today's society, with power allocated so disproportionately, such ideas are a threat to large organizations. Balancing power would mean a net loss of power for them...

It's going to have to be a grass-roots activity, one in which individuals first learn of how much power they can have, and then demand it.”

https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/archive/1992/11/3d0123214e4f2b0df38cfb9fcf34ee54c8b89841b8c522c7dca561de5bf1cbee/

Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both

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