100%. I just watched Lizz Truss's interview of a journalist. I don't think she was fired from her gvt solely because of the bond market. In fact, it might just be that the biggest holders of UK's bonds simply dictate politics in the country. Anyone can see the same power being exercised both in the UK and in the EU, a globalist power. The names George Sorros and Open Society come back a lot throuhout the interview. https://youtu.be/KIMdv3UqX7w

An absolute masterpiece, De Gaulle, a two-part movie by Antonin Baudry paints a very faithful picture of the second world war and the harsh reality of the war. The myth of american lead "liberation" falls apart when we are reminded that the US tried to steal St Pierre et Miquelon as they were entering into the war, that they tried to promote a stooge, general Darlan, so they could more easily turn France into a dominion. France's history would have been very different if a 20 year old french Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle hadn't taken it upon himself to execute him point blank bringing american-lead leadership to free France to a halt. Check where you can see this movie, in two parts, you won'rt regret it ! https://youtu.be/RTNzSKr3Hsw

It's a mystery to me how so few europeans, recognize the EU for what it is : a soft dictatorship where the mist important policies are decided by unelected officials who have never answered to the population. Yes, the propaganda pro-EU is total, not one media is offering alternative viewpoints and critique of EU power. But the control over our daily lives and the impunity of the political class is such that it makes me wonder, how much more pain, censorship and control must we endure before the masses wake up ? In the next french presidential elections, every party so far, including the far right, support the EU and it's handouts.

It's just a wallet.

When you use an external wallet like phoenix and connect to your node, the channels won't be opened on your server but through the app right ?

Is this a link you shared ? I can't open it on Primal.

Geeee, have a cold drink or something. No need to be another kind of maxi on here. Let's keep NOSTR thought provoking and keep the bad vibes out. Have you read 's praxeology of Privacy ? The full version is here and he mentions some issues with Privacy at the base layer like the size of transactions and the lack of primitives. But I believe Max doesn't see in XMR a replacement for BTC's properties which he develops in chapters 18 and 19. By the way, Max also works on XMR's code from what I've gathered. https://www.cypherpunklibrary.com/books/the-praxeology-of-privacy.pdf

- "once an asset fails at its primary functional mandate -being an uncensorable medium of exchange- liquidity inevitably migrates toward systems that actually function" : this is if anything the function Bitcoin fulfills. No-one can censor it. You might not like reality but its market cap proves how it's still recognized for this one attribute. Hell, Iran is taking BTC for insurance premiums over the straight of Hormuz ! -Corporations don't decide anything over or on top of individuals in the space. I run a node, as do tens of thousand other individuals. The area that needs to be monitored is the attemps by big corporations to influence the protocol with grants to devs. Saylor recently announced an effort to support research into quantum. That needs to be monitored. But BTC has already experienced attempts at capture like in the blocksize wars. Small blocks won in the end, users, not big caps. I find your second argument quite off topic really. You know very well that holding more BTC doesn't grant anyone more power over the network. Spot volumes, yes, could be in the hands of centralised entities. It still won't grant them anymore say. I understand if you dislike Saylor but follow me here. About a year ago I heard him support Mathew Krater, the BIP 110 supporter on youtube. Now Saylor has publicly said he's against it. Any big actor knows very well that the moment BTC is perceived to be less decentralised, captured or otherwise, it will get dumped, it ceases to have any relevance. I don't think we are there now. -Fungibility is another topic altogether albeit a very important one, I agree. And it's why I'm also interested in XMR on top of the privacy it grants. Can certain actors decide to stop accepting certain UTXOs ? Sure they can. Is the pb widespread ? Who else will accept those UTXOs ? As far as I can see we're not at the stage where fungibility is a make or brake issue. By the way, this weakness has always been part of the protocol. Let's see how it develops going forward. At a personnal level, I've never had any small transactions being rejected in lightning. -I agree with your 3rd point, again that's why I like XMR. But declaring BTC dead in the water because it lacks privacy is being idealistic about privacy whether you like it or not. I read a lot about it, I'm a big advocate but let's be honest, look around you. Who's interested in Privacy ? Snowden experienced a great sense of failure because the public reaction to his revelations were so underwhelming. And in a sense he's lost his big bet, look where we are now, 14 years later.... I'm not arguing privacy isn't important of course, on the contrary, but as much as we share about it in our seeming echo-chambers, I think dismissing BTC because of it at this stage in today's world is not realistic. Actors throughout the world need a permissionless medium of exchange. So far, it's BTC. But by all means I would love to see XMR grab some of the lion's share. You know what will slow XMR adoption ? Not the fact centralised entities want to ban it. I think that should accelerate it. But imagine the tax implications of transacting in it for small and medium to large entreprises. I appreciate the tool for what it is, untraceable cash. But I don't see my baker accepting it anytime soon. If he did, he would quickly have all sorts of issues he didn't have before. Sorry, not very cypherpunk I agree. I'm just trying to stay grounded in the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. Bitcoin as I view it today helps anyone opt out of forced monetary debasement. XMR helps anyone opt out of the control grid being built all around us.

But then said bitchat is cloned a 1000 times right ? Uncensorable !

Just listened to your essay. It's very well written and you sum up bitcoin's ethics beautifully. Whilst being 100% with you, I can't help but wonder, looking at all the people around me who are completely oblivious to what's going on with Bitcoin, how these narratives we push to justify our decisions to invest in bitcoin are not that of an echo chamber. Whilst we are correct with many ideas, the austrian economics justifications for bitcoin, there is a world where people are so brainwashed by mainstream media or whatever else that they don't move onboard. Hyperbitcoinisation could happen or it could not, still, at this stage. I'm taking the former hyposesis though, and positionning accordingly.