Do we need ecash, mints and all the other custodial services if we now have Bolt12?
The main added value with ecash was increased privacy; Bolt12 seems to do the same, so what's the point?
#asknostr
Given the current discussions on soft-forks and lack of leadership in Core devs – primarily propelled by the argument that it will much harder to do it down the road when tradfi solidifies itself in blockchain – the only viable answer that is to preach:
Run your own node
Verify your own TXs
Run a lightning node
Manage your channels
Run a bitaxe
Work towards enhancing decentralization; fuck the states and their cronies in WS. Bitcoin's essence is against them and we can't sell it out because "ehm, we need funds".
Everyone is declaring victory over deep state and it is just funny because it seems nothing can stop statism except mass adoption of agorism through bitcoin.
Power that are will always use trickery and social engineering to fool the masses into yet another epoch of enslavement.