routine infant circumcision is a cultural disease disguised as an adaptation. it implements a rite of passage and it enforces an ingroup-outgroup dynamic. it's especially sinister in that it can overwrite knowledge on how to care for an intact child. see the widespread practice of american pediatricians falsely teaching to forcibly retract a child's foreskin, which causes damage. routine infant circumcision causes people to be stuck in a pattern of behavior once they know no other way. it is very hard to uninstall cultural diseases like this.

adam back is a glowie alphabet boy

custodial lightning wallets are also corporate money

at some point it won't matter how hard you work on computer programs. you'll have to do something in meatspace to prevent totalitarianism

market cap doesn't determine the winner. by that logic, the chinese yuan would be superior to bitcoin. and nobody believes that.

until I see DNMs going away from XMR and back to BTC, these maxis who claim bitcoin is private enough or could become private enough can eat shit. convince real people doing real things or it's all talk.

cool hacker mans who use custodial wallets

clara sorrenti made transgender dominatrix fart porn. then she taught 15 year olds on discord how to purchase bathtub estrogen while she flirted with them sexually. one person ended up with a vial of estrogen with cat hair in it. then she found out she could make money from twitch donations by doxxing herself and blaming it on e-gossip websites, and she spent all the money on trips to europe, heroin, and benzodiazepines. clara sorrenti has never had a real job in her entire life.

watching people on lemmy flailing around with bitcoin's sabotaged UX because they want to pay for pornhub. maximalists will never understand how much they tarnished the image of cryptocurrency with their failed scaling plans. "there is no second best" ok well your UX is fucking horrible and fuck you

>A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.

custodial lightning and ETFs can go to hell

you are willing to overlook the limitations of lightning today because it is built on bitcoin. I doubt that you are able to evaluate it fairly. lightning suffers from centralization and UX issues too and you are just pretending it's not a big deal. if lightning was first introduced for another currency, you would find reasons why it falls short that don't have to do with that other currency.

those silver fabric garments aren't cheap

the fact that you have to consult a fee chart before you are brave enough to use this as a response is proof that your argument is faulty. we both know that L1 fees are high all the time and they are intended to go higher. a good L2 would enable self-custody without mandating L1 transactions. you can't make that happen with payment channel tech.

this reminds me of when kids in school would say the PSP is better than the DS. it's childish nonsense.

yes it is. does the tooth fairy open your channels for you?

I'd be 100% fine with offchain transactions if I didn't need to do an onchain transaction to start my own wallet and own my own money. I am sick of lightning

it's never okay. if you feel the need to do this, something is broken.

custodial lightning by the looks of it.

>trust me bro

the fact that BTC maxis don't treat the widespread use of custodial services as the emergency it is is proof of their dishonesty when they eagerly tout its benefits.

you could use this article in a case study to teach college kids about "not invented here" syndrome