By destroying its value proposition for early Bitcoin investors like me? That are exactly the unintended consequences I am talking about.

Why not use drivechains on BTC today? Because you need to change its software! And I don't agree that drivechains are needed on Bitcoin. So even if drivechains are done in a soft fork you add complexity, which I am against. I want Bitcoin to be an immutable store of value and excel at it and nothing else.

You can use other networks today and you even can easily fund it with your BTC (think of it like an investment in stocks). Once you got the value you looked for from your use case transfer back those leftover back to Bitcoin.

Ethereum is miles ahead when it comes to "drivechain" solutions. Every network other than Bitcoin and Monero offer certain smart token capabilities. Even BCH has "cash tokens".

Taproot had unintended consequences. If you add more complexity and you unknowingly (at first) might kill its most valued qualities.

I am a fan of freedom and choice

and I use what works for the intended use case.

Why?

Why? Bitcoin is a perfect store of value. Keep it as it is and don't destroy its value proposition.

Use other networks as you see fit. There will always be trade-offs involved.

The same applies to #Monero.

Competition and choice between monetary networks is a good thing.

Because it's meant to be a store of value. If I want to use it I want both privacy and fungibility and that's why I always end up spending Monero.

One could spin up sub addresses like a HD wallet but for different nostr identities and apply different modes like (one time addresses for sensitive things or an alt account to build a network of personalities to engage with others)

How can we be certain that our money #Bitcoin / #Monero is more valuable than theirs?

It's all about unenlightened force vs freedom to choose the expression/life you deserve to live.

If I am not free to decide on "the matter" / what matters my support for the unenlightened regime has zero substance and zero meaning as I am either forced to comply.

Becoming a matrix super villain by living outside their mental grid/grip is not for everybody.

If we look at what they call "money", physical cash despite its shortcomings is certainly more valuable than their fake numbers they enforce on you via regulation and taxation.

Low time preference + non compliance + dedication to build is all it needs.

It's not just you. It just tells me where to not spend my money.

If they don't value my choice/freedom they are not worthy of my money. The problem will sort itself.

It's best to keep BTC the same as it is.

For bigger blocks and updates through hard forks there is BCH and it could inherit SHA256 miner security if some assumptions in BTC don't play out as intended.

And for everything else there is Monero.

You want to look into "earth ships".

Killing the manufactured scapegoat is how most three letter agency projects end.

and X

The proticol closest to P2P electronic cash will suck in all the energy of different monetary systems that lack soundness, decentralisation, fungibility...

Bitcoin for now takes out a lot of energy of the fiat system.

But: I believe Monero is currently the best shot at P2P electronic cash.

Monero is civil disobedience. It's the new paradigm that waits for the world to be discovered. One by one.

In reality there are only a handful of just laws, as too many laws create injustice through accessibility/knowledge about said.

After a certain point and to an ever growing degree unjust laws are passed by governments around the world.

Civil disobedience is the answer. Ignore. Route around. Build. Create choice.

Free fall/explosives.

NIST even needed to invent a new term "progressive collapse" for it, that was never heard of before.

Monero

Imagine to not list #Monero as a tool for cypherpunks.