I would never move to El Savador until they legalize marijuana, until then the drug cartels are still too powerful and thus pose a threat to everyday life.
People still don't understand both the progress that LN has made in the last few years and how early we still are.
We're literally at the command line days of dos circa 1980s in terms of evolution and though LN is growing as fast as the internet did in early days it's still tiny.
People didn't understand exponential growth with the internet until after it penetrated the planet, and the same will happen with LN.
What people don't seem to understand about Runes, BRC-20 an the like is that they're completely centralized and require complete trust in order to view what's on the decentralized chain.
No your JPEG will not be there forever, yes an arbitrary representation of the data will be, but will only remain viewable as long as that centralized company is around.
In addition to this each company that actually could read your arbitrary data could end up interpreting that data differently.
Obviously tBTC should have very little value and not be used for anything but testing bitcoin related software.
The fact that degens are trying to do anything more with it shows you how early we are.
Very much love how companies like Cash App and Strike who are using LN at scale right now continue to prove LN haters wrong every second of every day. LN is only just getting started. Buckle up.
Ossification folks are not developers.
They're shouting into the void with only other non-devs to hear them.
Do you actually think developers passionate about bitcoin will ever stop wanting to improve it just because of some non-devs shouting on twitter?
Not going to happen.
To be clear if you want to categorize a network as a Bitcoin L2 then it has to have direct unilateral exit to a UTXO and a native token that doesn't have floating market value.
Absolutely bonkers for HRF to focus on CISA.
It's such a huge change all for a different address format or in other words a very large amount of work for very little benefit.
Strange thing to focus on given there's so many more important things we need first.
The war for the best, most free, and neutral money will not be fought and won solely on the battleground of privacy. Instead, its fate will ultimately be decided on the battleground of custody.
Because unless a significant enough portion of the supply is held in self-custody, control will inevitably revert back to those central authorities who would gladly prefer to hold your bitcoin for you.