I get the privacy angle, but what I don’t understand is the apparent sentiment that all of humanity should aspire to transact with only strangers in an anonymous capacity. If they feel this way, Im not sure they understand how human civilization works. We need each other and we _have_ to get to know each other sometimes to thrive.
I agree with this. I think some people dont understand that money is for commerce which is a fundamentally built on establishing trust in the goods and services proximate to their provider. You dont have to trust someone vis-a-vis the money, but you do need to build trust with respect to what you’re trying to get for the money.
I agree with this completely. There is a place for privacy, an important essential place. But broadly commerce cannot operate in a perfectly anonymous marketplace, that would be nuts and I get the sense some people want that or want some kind of magic solution where they can pop seamlessly in and out of anonymity which is of course impossible.
I appreciate this take and agree. We should be able to have control over our level of exposure. What I take issue with is the idea that privacy is costless.
On the latest TFTC pod I had a hard time getting through it because they kept saying we need to “push back” and “keep them accountable” but at the same time poopooing voting as a complete farce, but without saying _how_ we push back or keep them accountable. It was confusing to me. And while I love her work, it was a very noisy rip to me.
@Alby I just loaded alby hub and scanned the QR code to send to savings balance from my River account, the transaction was confirmed on chain but my alby node savings balance still shows 0. Please advise
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