As far as I know private message always were encrypted and relays operators could never see it. It was more about metadatas, who is chatting with who etc that NIP17 fixes.

Yes WoS moved to Spark few months ago already and imposed the switch from the custodial version for regulatory reasons (most users not to say all of them are already using Spark I'd say). With Spark they can pretend it's self custodial even if it's more trust minimized than trusless in the curent state of the thing.

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How can they handle WoS and not Primal ? 🤔 🤔

If they can handle Wallet of Satoshi, they didn't even notice Primal lol Unrelated IMO

What I don't get in your "fear" of upgrading is that: 1- your current Primal Wallet is 100% custodial so all the risks you mentionned are much higher with this wallet actually. Their Spark wallet is still an improvement compared to their former custodial one IMO 2- you don't HAVE to use their wallet you can chose in the settings to use your own (Phoenix, Albyhub + nostr wallet connect etc...) if you prefer At the end of the day I'd say you can upgrade without any second thought

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Spark wallet developpers could you please answer that ? True genuine question: What don't you create your own Spark entity independent from Lightspark ?

That's what I feared. Deep thinker you seem to be friend 🤣🤣🤣

I know what you think, just wondering why they don't use the open protocol to create "super cashu mints" with no KYC possible AND a possible unilateral exit. That would be better independently of the fact that you think it's unnecessary.

Man if you are not a libertarian you are literally a criminal. Imposing your will to others in not good. It's bad. You should feel if not understand it. Violence is not the way to build a peaceful and prosperous society.

Why couldn't they (the SPARK wallets developpers) gather and create their own Spark entity as operators alltogether and add blind signature on top of it ? Is it out of their reach technically ? It yes it's a crappy protocol without even considering the technical details and background story of it...

It's a bug for sure. The funds can't disappear like that they are just regular UTXO tied to your private key so...

Libertarians don't care about politics because they refuse to play the slave games that their overlords want they to play in order to keep their chains tight. This is just a way to say no to the humiliation, and to show that they are aware of being slaves and are not fools. Don't know where you see that they are regards have no impact, bold claim. They are all around you and are those that make Bitcoin work. If you still care about politics you are literally in your pod not seeing the matrix with clear eyes. Politics is a psyop to make you fight your fellow brothers while your masters laught at you, can't you see that ? Only Bitcoin matters, a tool for the cypherpunks a movement clearly very close to the libertarians movement you should know that

The privacy side of the issue is valid for sure, but the trust model in terme'of custody is not so bad from what I understand, if there are enough Spark Operator involved at least. Any LSP could also try to cheat as they perfectly know that no is running a watch tower so... The most important issue I see is about privacy indeed, still but I can't unsee Spark as a good thing compared to full custody that many people used through WOS until now. I prefer to see the glass half full. But we can imagine informal Spark entities runned by federations "Liquid like", with blinded signatures on top of spark. That would be cashu on steroids actually. Best case scenario is obviously Ark + CTV + chaumian ecash.

Afaik you have the unilateral exist way always possible with Spark if they try to KYC shotgun ? If unilateral exist is possible then how is it really different from a LSP disabling your channel if you don't KYC ? Last question, wouldn't blind signatures on top or Ark\Spark be a reasonable trade-off for good UX and almost impossible denial of service attack ?

Super Episode nice et Ulrich https://fountain.fm/episode/lz3HWU63RTzRD136krmH