Happy Juneteenth everyone!

Every aspect of Bitcoin is a giant grift. Luke Dashjr makes 750k/year running a mining operation but asks for donations from retards he convinces he is saving from Core’s malice. This is perhaps slightly less or more tawdry than Core, who are helping their allies fleece venture capital funds building useless “enhancements” to Bitcoin which will never see widespread use. Luke is more predatory because he is fleecing well-meaning people with far less money, but perhaps better because he is fleecing retards who weren’t ever going to be critical for Bitcoin’s future. Core and their allies are fleecing people with more money but burnt through most of the investment capital and goodwill of people that were actually willing to commit serious capital towards advancing Bitcoin as a cause. I’d say between the two the scale of the crimes of the Core/LN crowd are much greater. For its “developers” Bitcoin is just a means for everyone to find an audience of gullible patrons to separate from their wealth.

You can say something like this but you don't see how this is why Lightning is so full of problems? I’ve been told to use BOLT12 by multiple people if I don’t want a centralized LNurl and want privacy! You’re the first Lightning guy that has told me it is bad. Lightning is always bad because I’m not using the right Lightning rail! But then someone else has a thing that they say is the actual solution, and usually it has its own problems. It’s like using Linux desktop software in 1991. You’re always just using the wrong thing, and after listening to yet another fat GNUbeard tell you that you need to switch to X and then back to Y but correctly configure it and then try Z and you just want something that works as easily as everyone else, and you end up just saying fuck it and getting an Indigo or a Sparc because what you need works on it and your time has value. In this instance, the equivalent of a Tezro for me is called “Monero” and it has been battle tested among dissidents and grey markets. Lightning has failed to capture all of these users. People want to spend Monero. View quoted note →