There are various other risks with Monero, such as the continual hard forks, potential for node centralization etc. The comparison is more, can we have a fedimint where the overal trustworthiness of the federation similar to that of the Monero system of incentives. You could also make the same comparison to bitcoin, but overall trust in the base system is much higher than Monero.

You could also set up the lightning protocol to allow external funding. E.g:

* Perform initial setup with channel partner

* Setup transaction depends on an input that doesn't exist yet

* Once everything is ready, send a taproot address to someone who was about to pay me anyway

* that UTXO now becomes the input to the channel, and therefore it is open

Not an op-code expert so can't say for sure if it's possible, might require sighash noinput.

So what we should be really comparing monero to isn't bitcoin, but fedimint. Fediment can definitely offer greater privacy if you use a mint with a large enough anonymity set. Question is whether we can have fedimints that are more robust vs state attacks than Monero.

Is there a reason zaps are based on LNURL, and not some nostr based protocol? Being able to request the invoice over nostr would avoid the need to have a public facing doman name.

How does one find a mint that fits the criteria?

* Small enough to fly under the KYC enforcement radar

* Large enough to provide a reasonable anonymity set

* Trustworthy enough that you'd be willing to leave funds there

I'm honestly leaning more towards accepting the more pejorative definition of capitalism, which libertarians would usually refer to with terms like merchantilism, crony capitalism or corporatism. To me it just seems to be the more popular definition and has a greater connection to the historical period in which the ideas were formed. Switching to a new term to describe what we are aiming for could help differentiate it from simply defendind the status quo.

Since twitter is called X now, the words "tweet" and "retweet" should be fair game to be used on any other platform.

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Can't figure out from the reporting whether the side effect was truly the cause of the withdrawal. The admission of the side effect apparently happened months ago, and AstraZenica are claiming that it is simply superceeded by newer products. However it's authorization was also withdrawn in in the EU.

It's a great way for blackrock to get all the bitcoin.

Barrier to entry is very high for a single transaction. If every second customer was coming in asking the same thing maybe he'd look into it some more.

I think it's built to solve the same problem, by creating a single server which holds the keys and signs of behalf of your various apps. I'm thinking you just publish a note saying "from now on trust messages signed with xxxx as if they were signed by my master key", and have peers do the verification.

Need to be able to have a different set of keys for each client, all linked to a single account. You could just sign a nostr message granting that key to act as your key for a limited time or with limited priviledges.

What's the downside of immediately withdrawing, to a mind I DO trust?

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Perhaps given the context you are using, you could replace the word "ownership" in the original post with poesession. The state can grant legal ownership over some bitcoin, but proving that you don't posess coins which the state claims you no longer own and must forfeit would still be impossible.

Why should anyone believe their "official" credit score actually influences banks descisions to offer you a loan? It seems more like a guide to you on whether banks might want to loan to you or not, but it's certain each lender has their own internal propriatary scoring method that includes all sorts of data you don't even know they have on you.

The issue here is that eventually most npubs that aren't connected to you in some way will be automatically filtered due to spam.

Would be an interesting excersize sans cameras and some balaclavas added: