I agree there are good arguments to avoid getting into debt, I just don’t think “I have to persuade the lender to buy bitcoin instead of lending fiat” is a good argument.
I don’t have any insider info, but it seems like they had to outsource deposit/withdrawal functionality to a third-party due to regulations, and it seems like that third-party happens to not support Lightning. I don’t know if the lack of support is for regulatory reasons or just not a business priority.
The metaphor is incorrect, because if a txid is censored, it just sits there in the mempool. Bitcoin is not destroyed, it’s not over, the transactor can simply CPFP/RBF until greedy miners defect.
Transactions being censored is a hypothetical problem.
Mining can’t be monopolized, it’s the most competitive industry in the world.
Anyone can fabricate arbitrary centralization metrics and declare a hypothetical of theoretical censorship-resistance, for example 100% of hashrate is on planet Earth.
If you’re right they’ll get attacked, and if I’m right they will decentralize in response to that attack. That’s what I mean by anti-fragility of censorship resistance.
You’re welcome to pour resources into pre-emptively tilting at windmills, but I have to pushback when someone claims that Bitcoin is not censorship resistant when they have no censored transactions as evidence.
Your claim was “Until further notice, Bitcoin is NOT censorship resistant.” I think you’ve appropriately backed off that claim to a more nuanced “there’s a risk of Bitcoin maybe not being censorship resistant in the future”
Today I recorded a podcast episode with @stephanlivera - be sure to subscribe and give it a listen when it comes out!
We discussed a wide range of topics: savings technology, Lightning, government strategic reserves, and life philosophy
https://stephanlivera.com
I still remember when I first saw a Max Keiser clip in 2011, he was talking about silver and JPM.
I never would have guessed that a decade later we would be together at the inauguration gala of El Salvador’s President. Hugely grateful for Max’s energy and humor, a hero of bitcoin! https://image.nostr.build/a27a5748fe24075223833b384a95510de22b29345874ab796ffa62bb9026d625.jpg
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