Looking at my Lightning wallet, I make 40+ off chain payments for each on chain transaction.

I noted down over a dozen topics that I wanted to write articles about. Then I realized this would result in anecdotal ranting unless I compiled data to prove my points. So I'll just slowly dump a summary of these "hot takes" on Nostr instead:

We are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them. - Hal Finney