Hot take #3: Convincing normies to pay with Bitcoin instead of credit cards is hard. Credit cards allow you to dispute payments if you were scammed, spend money you haven't earned yet, and get 1%+ cash back on your purchases. Merchants demanding Bitcoin has been and will be the driver of adoption.

Talent hits the target no one else can hit. Genius hits the target no one else can see.

Hot take #2: As a libertarian, I would voluntarily fund the use of military force against scam call factories in India. Literally drop a bomb on the office and kill all the parasites inside.

This just pushes the question further away: What difference does it make if the average age of the population is 35 years instead of 45 years?

I can't understand why people think declining birthrate/population is a problem. What difference does it make if you live on a planet with 5 billion people vs 10 billion people?

I noted down over a dozen topics that I wanted to write articles about. Then I realized this would result in anecdotal ranting unless I compiled data to prove my points. So I'll just slowly dump a summary of these "hot takes" on Nostr instead:

No trust is required for WabiSabi coordinators (other than server liveness). You would be able to detect any tagging attacks by comparing your client's round ID with the public one published by the coordinator (see https://coinjoin.kruw.io/wabisabi/human-monitor )

Any recommendations for purifying water?

Tiny amounts could be made anonymous with a coinjoin transaction. handles this.

Keet still isn't open source 😑

~7,500 new BTC entered coinjoin transactions over the past month, so that's the relative liquidity for Satoshi to hide up to 1 million BTC 🤐 has the statistics.