Yes, agreed. I’m familiar with the dynamics as I’ve written about this. I, too, have hope for StratumV2 and DATUM.

I’ve recently opened my mind to BIP 110 for the sake of trying to hear where supporters for it are coming from, as I believe many of them care about Bitcoin as much as I do. I get some of the arguments, but what I can’t wrap my head around are notions like the one below. Are BIP 110 supporters okay with getting rid of Bitcoin’s PoW algorithm? I’m asking this out of genuine curiosity, not trolling.

YIL that Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker, who just signed a bill that mandates a 0.2% tax on companies transacting with or storing crypto, once had five toilets removed from his second mansion as part of a tax fraud scheme. He had the mansion rendered “uninhabitable” so to pay significantly less in property taxes. He ended up not paying over $500k he otherwise would have had to have paid (until he got caught and had to pay some of that money back). The point is that the person who wants to make it more costly for reputable Illinois-based Bitcoin companies like @npub1ex7m...vyt9 to do business is also the person who isn’t a fan of paying taxes himself. https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654201077/illinois-gov-candidate-removed-mansions-toilets-to-dodge-taxes-report-finds

Sometimes I take a break from hanging out with cypherpunks to hang out with regular punks.