ECash is a server authentication scheme, not a currency It doesn't make bitcoin more private It doesn't make custodians more trustworthy The new payment specs associated with it are an attack on Bitcoin, specifically the network effect of bolt11 It's astroturf for the new EDollar It's a well-funded psyop pushed by spooks, scammers, and their useful idiots

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Correct. Bitcoin nodes run on servers. Ecash allows you to authenticate with the server on a 1:1 basis. It makes bitcoin usage more private. It's separate from bitcoin for sure. Custodians definitely aren't trustworthy so don't use any old ecash mint recklessly. Bitcoin is anti-fragile and should be attacked regularly. Edollars are happening everywhere. Including lightning. It was inevitable. Most dollars are digital now. How much physical cash is in your wallet right now? Well funded? Can you name the funders and how much capital has been allocated? Compare that to other endeavors in the braided bitcoin space?
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Lethal Lee 1 year ago
Do you have your full argument written or recorded somewhere? I’d like to explore this viewpoint more.
Would pay 100k sats for a long form write up with explicit detail on the claims. Probably wouldn't get it because he has no grounds for his claims aside from speculation and gross misunderstanding of the ecash protocol.
Might start a pod for pro lightning propaganda, would make this a priority topic
Congrats on having a passport 👏 This is considered normal in the rest of the world. It only needs be asked of Americans because only 40% of them have one. Now answer the other question - how much time have you spend outside the US Justin? Cancun on spring break and Canada don’t count.
Totally related. The only people who are shitting on ecash have no concept of other countries or cultures. They see the world through their yankee lens with its yankee fincen regs and can’t imagine any country having different laws or culture having different trust models. Somehow I think you’re telling porkies about how well travelled you are having rarely if ever, actually left the Shire. Calling ecash an attack on Bitcoin shows mental deficiency at a minimum. I was simply trying to give you some plausible deniability.
It's an RFP you dullard Introduced coincidentally as funding started to rain
I've seen your content, it still lacks clear evidence of your claims. I'm running technical workshops at BTC 2024 for Bitcoin Veterans. Will give you a workshop slot and we can chat there. Recorded or otherwise. Public forum and debate. And lol. I'm not funding your project.
Comrade Calle is funded by US NGOs aligned with the Atlantic Council Fedi and Fedimint are funded by US vc's and neobanks
Oh no. Comrade Calle, you’ve got some splainin to do boi!! Justin says you’re aligned with the Atlantic Council and I’m inclined to believe his retarded arse. This ain’t no Seth for Monero you’re dealing with here, this is a real OG. Spill!
Westerners view the world through a western lens. They shit on Muslims who want anti-riba money because they think Sharia Law is coming to their neighbourhood and they’re gonna declare jihad on all of us to get it, and they have no concept of the social hierarchies of Asia nor their relationship to money Westerners, in particular Muricans, don’t understand the wider world. They’re kings of projection.
Talk about projection... You're full of it Fwiw I think Muslims are great, most of my team are Muslim. Sharia is far preferable to Western leftism It's almost like there's been an international banker war-machine conspiracy to pit Muslims and Christians and their shared reverence for Jesus against each other 🤔
I’m full of projection? 😂 I’m an Aussie, well aware my little shithole country is a slave to your regime and yet you want to claim I’m the one in a position to be projecting shit? What can I project exactly? How cucked my country is doesn’t need projection - even the M5M will tell you this on a daily basis. If you want to enter the Jewish rabbit hole here Justin then go ahead and lay your cards on the table. Ecash does not appear to me to be a Jewish conspiracy. They’d have to actually control sufficient corn to operate the mints and given no-one trusts mints yet, that seems a futile endeavour.
You're the one that brought up nationality and religion. Total Projection. All because you won't admit you're shilling a banker psyop that is of no benefit to Bitcoiners and an attack on Bitcoin as a means of exchange.
I bought it up 17 hours ago when Seth for Monero had another idiotic potshot at ecash: View quoted note → You yanks can’t see anything outside of your own lens. We all follow your shit because it has a big impact on our lives but we know you’re not long for maintaining hegemony and others will do things differently based on their laws and culture. This is what you lack - an ability to conceptualise the world outside of an American context. If you think I’m shilling for bankers I encourage you to search my npub on nostr.band with 6102 or Saylor or BRICS and see what I’ve posted on this stuff previously.
> I'm not funding your project Scared? You should and then convince other ECashers to do the same, then you could say with a clear conscience that Lightning.Pub is an ECasher funded hypocrisy 🫴
I think Seth is a larp wrt privacy and XMR is one of the most vile shitcoins out there... But even a broken clock is right twice a day, ECash is a scam taking advantage of morons (just like XMR)
Ecash is an option. An option that will suit certain cultures and legal systems, not Americans with their waning superpower who threw it all away to enrich the MIC, Big Pharma, Big Ag and Big Tech; who gives a fuck about that system being flushed down the toilet? You don’t think we’re scaling to 8 Billion on the base layer do you Justin? Don’t make me get the pamphlet out again!
> 8BN That retarded point again? Anyone who even suggests that as a need is in fact retarded Maybe get a clue who you're talking to, I'm the original Uncle Jim builder for whom you wouldn't be using Nostr without my prior work on GUN nodes
I’m using nostr thanks to fiatjaf. He created this protocol. Not thanks to you Justin. I have no thanks for you. I have thanks for people who don’t go around claiming I should thank them for their amazing uncle Jimness whilst shitting on solutions which don’t work for them but do work for others.
And what do you suppose it was an iteration on? You're simply too ignorant to understand how these things work, if ignorance works for you hfsp
Why should I care what it was an iteration on? Do Bitcoiners worship Wei Dai? No - he is a footnote that most barely know even exists. So why should I give AF about GUN nodes whatever the fuck they are? Did you invent the system of using keypairs to send notes and other stuff over relays? No, you didn’t. That was fiatjaf. If you were brilliant like you clearly think you are, it would be your name in the history books. It won’t be, because you’re not. Funny how you are the one to accuse me of projection when this is your spiel.