I must be lucky. the first thing I ever tried was sumatriptan and it worked the first time. it has never not worked. this is the peptide thing I'm talking about. there is a good chance your physician doesn't know about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcitonin_gene-related_peptide

migraines are best treated with triptans. there's like 11 different ones. they have a new peptide that can treat migraines, and then there's the old cafergot. I'd try all of that before even considering SSRIs

spark is junk https://www.bitcoinlayers.org/layers/spark

not well researched. for BTC, does it do the same trick as tBTC to secure wrapped tokens?

"people are disagreeing with me/mad at me/complaining about my actions... this is proof that I am right and should continue." stay the FUCK away from any deranged lunatic who thinks and acts like this.

yes they are. any network that allows block producers to discriminate and choose which transactions to include in a block can have any degree of OFAC compliance. it's entirely dependent on government pressure and the quantity of illicit transactions. you are seeing significantly less of this on bitcoin because fewer people use bitcoin UTXOs as money, including criminals. there's no technical reason why bitcoin is less vulnerable than ethereum. and once again, it's just stupid FUD. if just one block producer doesn't care about OFAC, your non-compliant transaction will eventually be confirmed.

reality bends around the bitcoin religion. you keep wasting your time talking to unserious idiots. they made a conscious decision to not understand the misery brick.

every network with a transparent mempool is equally vulnerable to OFAC compliance. all it takes is one entity who doesn't want to do it, and your transaction will be confirmed eventually.

KYC is like rape

he has some good ideas and general principles. he is basically right that the only way to guarantee miner income going into the future is with a mined L2, and his remarks about self-custody are solid. but I am not a huge fan of the pegging mechanism used by his drivechains. I think you can do better than drivechains. if I were a betting man I would gamble that the softfork required by drivechains is never going to be activated. rootstock is very close to being a mined L2, but the pegging mechanism it currently uses also has a defect. it's a bitvm bridge that ends up creating a federated peg, similar to liquid. as such. it's not really a L2 and the RBTC on it aren't really bitcoin. but it is close to what we want because at least it's merge mined and has decentralized block production. visit delving bitcoin and learn about the effects of covenants on bitvm bridges. it makes them incrementally safer, nudging us in a direction where perhaps eventually a bitvm style bridge can support genuine unilateral exit. this would be a good way to create more room for self-custody. another approach would be rollups. currently they are the world's most popular L2 scaling solution, with the top rollup having more than 30x the TVL of the lightning network. rollups have a pretty big L1 footprint. in a future scenario, activity on bitcoin rollups would end up indirectly contributing to miner income by keeping blocks saturated. the most popular rollups on other networks have already implemented unilateral exit. they are good L2s. but this would be significantly more difficult to build on top of bitcoin. I don't think the necessary opcodes are even on the negotiating table at the moment, and without them you'd end up with something inferior. then there is ark. you can do ark right now, but the UX of covenant-less ark has some problems. there are posts on delving bitcoin describing how covenants can improve the situation, but there are still lingering doubts about what VTXO expiry would look like and the kinds of problems that ordinary people would still have. another really big issue is that ark isn't designed to contribute to miner income at all. the L1 footprint of an ark service provider would be very tiny relative to the number of users of that ASP. you don't have to worry about any of this stuff if you are not a part of the bitcoin religion. I am perfectly comfortable with using monero and also ethereum rollups like arbitrum. I would love if I didn't have to, but here we are.