No, I'm trying to understand why so many bitcoiners are in denial. The blockchain is public. It offers little or no privacy. Its taxable when cashging, and every transaction nearly always gets converted to fiat when it is spent. You might as well use paypal. And while I prefer Monero I also think the public largely hates all crypto, and nostr is failing to attract users because crypto is turning them off. Crypto is also just too complex for most people, and L2 is not helping , making it worse, and even more centralized with KYC apps like WoS as the only viable way to send sats without self hosting nodes, which even bicoin fanboys struggle to do.
they denied for years that blockchain analysis was ever going to put anyone in harm's way. many of them still deny that it's a big deal. they are lazy and not proactive. you can count on them to continue believing that shoving everyone into a custodian is not a big deal. how someone can live through mt gox and ftx and go on to promote ruggable ecash mints is totally beyond me. they must just be stupid or something. there isn't a better explanation than that.
I think many of them do know this, they just don't want anyone else thinking of investing in bitcoin to know because they have so much invested in Bitcoin, they need more people below to help them cash out of their ponzi scheme
You don’t have to use zaps. There are clients that do not have them in the settings just as there are some that have Monero setup for zaps.
You guys love to go on tangents about everything when it just isn’t that deep. Have a good one.
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