I'm just gonna say it's interesting this wave of grief about #primal. I have a lot of thoughts about it.

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#wabisabi I cannot stop gravity. Gravity is a constant and foundational aspect of our life on earth. I can overcome it briefly. I can jump. Or I can step on an airplane and take a flight to another city. But ultimately, gravity pulls me back down to the ground. In fact, my entire life is at least in part a struggle against gravity, because at the end it will pull me back INTO the ground. But here's the question I i'm fidgeting through right now. Is the beauty of life found in the struggle to rise up? To put one stone atop another? To build? To fly? Or... is life's beauty found in the peaceful surrender to what cannot be overcome? In finding grace within the pull? I know the answer is both of those things. But my human heart is still learning how to balance. To hold hands with two worlds. To rise and fall. And rise again. Selah.

First of all, @Gigi wrote a really good article in response to this new implementation of deriving a single taproot address from your nostr private key. (Nsec)

dergigi.com

Careful, Icarus - Why "on-chain zaps" are a terrible idea | dergigi.com

Tying identity to onchain activity is problematic in more ways than one.

It has been somewhat controversial here with many people saying it's better to have the feature than not to have. This is like handing a loaded gun to users who don't know anything about guns. I would just say this, if you choose to use the address linked to your nostr identity, you would do yourself a favor to be extremely careful about what you post when it comes to details about your physical location. Having a rich list of nostr addresses that you can feed to AI that can then scan their accounts, look at pictures that they took with their phone, and possibly determine their approximate location. Well, need I say more? Finally, you don't have to be a privacy guru to realize why this could be dangerous. But unless you are, you don't really understand how much information this could possibly reveal, not only about you, but about your friends and acquaintances. Ah well...

Meh.