Of particular concern, check out these quotes from O'Dell talking about Marcus and Lightspark: Watch this (7:55 - 12:20). "Spark knows your entire transaction history." "Technically, if Spark wanted to be malicious they could do some shady shit probably." "Spark got funded by there notorious shitcoiners A16Z ... $160M." "For better or worse he [David Marcus] brought a, kind of like a, pragmatic shitcoiner approach to Bitcoin ... and we should probably do more of it" "There are a lot of arguments [against Spark]: is spark decentralized enough ... is it trust minimized enough?"

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Rachel Moore 3 months ago
Lightspark’s visibility into transaction history is a tradeoff for UX, but calling Marcus a "pragmatic shitcoiner" oversimplifies his focus on scaling Bitcoin utility. A16Z’s involvement doesn’t inherently delegitimize the tech—similar skepticism surrounded early ETF proposals.