Without making any idealistic 'ought' statements or ideological theorizing, it's not farfetched in 2025 to claim that: •Governments steal and rob more than any other institution in the world •Governments kill and murder more then any other institution in the world •Governments commit more confiscation and trespass of property more than any other institution in the world •Governments keep people stuck in poverty and destitution far more than any other institution in the world •Governments kidnap and enslave more people than any other institution in the world •Unowned, government-leased or 'publicly' owned government land and resources are the most polluted, exploited and dirtiest parts of the world •The biggest immediate threat to mankind in terms of destructive capabilities come from government military •People associated with government lie more than any other type of people, and make liars of people who otherwise wouldn't lie if not for them •Governments surveil people without their explicit consent more than any other institution in the world, with no way for them to opt out •Governments prevent people from saving and investing more than any other institution in the world

One of the most basic Web-of-Trust features that is super important to me as a user

'Austrian vs. Neoclassical Analytics' by Robert P. Murphy Bob Murphy does a great job in this lecture. Highly recommend watching this.

Found an interesting concept in property rights theory: 'Ad coelum doctrine: Asserts that a landowner's rights extend not only to the surface of their land but also indefinitely upwards into the airspace above and downwards into the earth below, potentially to the center of the earth.' If ownership is derived from homesteading/first-use, i.e. transformation of an unowned resource by mixing it with one's labour and making it an extension of their self, I don't think this can be valid.

I've been closely following @ZEUS as I think their model represents what I think is the cutting edge when it comes to self-custodial Lightning on mobile. Here's a timeline: •Mid-2023 they started testing a feature which runs an 'embedded node' on your phone (Neutrino node on your phone with LND). Stable version was out a few months after. •After that they set up their own LSP and started letting people purchase and lease channels from it. •Slowly brought in taproot channels, seed recovery (aezeed), swaps (in-house and external services), LN addresses (with tradeoffs i.e. hodl invoices), point-of-sale, cashu, coin control, multiple embedded node setup, along the way. Coming soon: Watchtower, NWC and Payjoin. If they enable Bolt12 on the embedded nodes and also figure out how to let people use their embedded nodes for routing I don't think any other wallet can hope to come close to being as good. But Bolt12 is an implementation-level thing and I don't even know if routing is possible in this model.

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Language is a politically charged issue in India. Union govt preferably wants people to learn and speak Hindi in the name of decolonization. While state govts preferably want the language of the respective subcultures in their jurisdictions in the name of cultural preservation. And yet, English - spoken by probably 10% of the population - remains the language of supreme and high courts, formal contracts, laws, legislations and regulations. Neither levels of govt really stress the importance of people learning English. Food for thought.