Trust-minimized middle-men > Middle-men who can profit from stealing your funds Don’t you see miners are already like middle-men? The genius of satoshi is they are trust-minimized.

Yes, Lightning is not as decentralized as it should be but why not make Lightning better? Are Lightning’s deficiencies a reason to bring those same deficiencies into bitcoin? There are a lot of reasons to dislike the DC proposal, but I can’t get over how much of a hack it is. Overloading a transaction type is honestly something a junior dev would propose. It’s not how we should build the world’s money.