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I know everybody is dunking on the random governor who decided that she could just wave her hand and unilaterally suspend any right she dislikes simply by hissing the word "emergency," but the problem is that she's only wrong if another political force — the courts, politics, disobedience, or Locke's old Appeal to Heaven — proves her wrong. Enforcing the limits of official power isn't some American $currentYear problem, it's a recurring issue throughout history.

The question is why we're suddenly seeing the authoritarian instinct activating so much more openly — and frequently. In prior decades, they had to be cute in how they went about it, often requiring laws and lies. Now they're remarkably comfortable simply stating "because of the 'emergency,' you can no longer {travel | donate | engage in commerce | read | communicate | carry}," and that's the whole of it.

The next question is what you're going to do about it.

The fact that Bitcoin isn't yet accepted everywheree and for everything really underlines for me how few people have actually used Lightning. Whenever I show somebody how it works, there's always that "wow" moment. But why was it a surprise?

The problem is that normal people still understand BTC from the one half-remembered opinion piece they read in 2017, and are operating under the belief that transactions still take an hour to settle, rather than being instantaneous and irreversible — money transmission without the Paypal Problem. The public mind needs a cache refresh.

Some of my posts seem to have disappeared. Especially the ones where I mentioned #faggot's and #homosexual #sodomites.

Not good if true..👎💀

“Prove it, Prove it” 😉😋

“Prove it, Prove it” 😉😋

Nobody gives a shit about that platform.

what’s the app/site you learn the most from?

what’s the app/site you learn the most from?

What a sheltered position

Pray tell how is a Chinese Bitcoin user going to get saved by “legal and policy people”?

You know who's paying DC FUD ? Liquid/blockstream and competomg projects like the RGB crew. RGB is also great but their args against DC have been spiteful ad hominems.

DC relegates Liquid to a counter party country club. Follow the money.

* With the current state of mining centralisation, IMO it would be pretty dumb to send any bitcoins to a drivechain. There are better ways to burn bitcoins or donate to miners.

* But it's not my place to dictate what you can/can't do with your bitcoins, so if there's sufficient community support for drivechains, it should be available for those who want to use them.

* Drivechains were arguably a good idea back in 2017 with the risk of bcash splitting off, but that ship sailed a long time ago. I don't think there's a point now.

* Yes, L2L is funding my work on drivechain code. The code/PR is not an endorsement of drivechains. Many Bitcoin devs receive funding for their work. This is not substantially different.

There is too much mumbo jumbo in DriveChains. If the stuff you are working with is too complicated to be digested by your peers, it's probably not ready for prime time. Keep building it, though. You will get there one day.

GM.