It's not even an all-or-nothing thing. We can each expand our grey market activity, which will dramatically help the merchants trying to earn a living outside the state.

It takes a certain kind of person. Literally a hero. Who risks everything. Even if you do everything anon with perfect opsec, you have to maintain perfection forever. That would be incredibly stressful. Imagine you have a family, children. It rules out a lot of people.

We often wonder the same thing. Why are more XMRBazaars not popping up, more P2P labour markets, more P2P Airbnb on Nostr kinda alternatives to the Oligarch platforms. And the conclusion we've drawn is rather terrible - there's no money in it. No funding, no glory in anon networks, and that's primarily why a majority of people Buidl. Remember feeling the same way attending scoooores of crypto events over a decade and getting exhausted by the copy-pasta and no substance. If there was more money, more fame, they prolly would. What does this say about devs who call themselves Degen though?