You brought it up...

This is the depth of your nuance? It's respect-the-memes, or be a shitcoiner? All because we are discussing zero-conf? Do you see how this is like arguing with a child? Is that what you want to be, someone with a childish grasp of Bitcoin that resorts to name-calling when challenged? It's your choice, but have no issue speaking to you like a child if that's what you want (aside from it being very boring and depressing for me).

Yes, that's me. Do you have a point, or are memes your only language?

Most of that research is still in draft form and low-priority. However, the Atomicity project is a good, nearer project to keep an eye out for. We should have a public spec for that this summer. But Atomicity skips all the explaining and arguing and just provides a new network for coordinating it all. These problems are not Bitcoin-protocol problems in the first place (mempools, trusted payments, scaling...) because they are ultimately not enforceable.

After all these years, I expect more from you.

There are more interesting designs for zero-conf than you realize, mostly because the topic has been taboo. I could design multiple designs that would re-enable zero-conf. Anyway, LN is a zero-conf system too, right?

Yep. zero-conf was a blessing and Core did ruin it. It remains true that trust is much simpler than complexity. I could easily spec a way to make zero-conf come back, and be more excellent than LN, but Bitcoiners are too retarded to support that.

Not my fault if you are too blind to understand my wisdom.

You will be able to rotate delegated keys soon (it is how Pubky Noise works), but pure root-key rotation is a fake idea. It always requires a separate authoritative source/network. You can do social recovery things with shamir, or pre-announce other identities that you may rotate to, but all of it will be clunky. This is one of the reasons why we set up Pubky to allow cold identity keys.

I am here for all your phone numbers! I am going to call you and call you and call you! mwooohahahahaha

the difference with pubky is you can actually use central providers safely if you keep backups because your key is used as a domain name and you can point that to a new server anytime

I dont hate nostr, it is a protocol, but i have a lot to say about the nostr culture and people

You were always a little slow.

The universe orbits around the USA, Joe, c'mon, you know this!