I suspect the government views the framers of the constitution the same way we all do Satoshi's vision.

I'm not sure an ecash mint can comply with the law even if they wanted to. Custodians require KYC because they are obligated to report someone when their activity is suspicious and must attempt to prevent further suspicious activity. I guess you could detect suspicious activity on inramps and outramps to the mint? I'm not sure that's full regulatory cover, but for appearance's sake this could do wonders.

I suspect this is mostly to provide protection to cashu's developers. If a cashu mint gets indicted, the cashu developers can claim they gave them the best compliance tools possible with ecash.

The word modern is slang for “the present way we are conforming.”

We insist problems are solved until someone creates a categorically better solution. Horse and buggy “solved” medium distance travel to people that hadn’t seen a car.

I'd guess the chilling effect of all the recent arrests with ambiguous charges.

Link to the pr?

Nah I think they just partnered with Swan so their customers had an easy, custodial exit.

People have been saying this for SN's entire existence. Why hasn't it happened yet?

Send it back. What man wants to live off someone else's mistake? Better to be poor than despicable.

When people say "lightning usage is low, XYZ is the future," it sounds an awful lot like "bitcoin usage is low, ethereum is the future" to me.

Decentralized things are hard and take longer to work well, but that doesn't mean garbage is the future.

I gather because more becomes known about the current bitcoin system overtime.

Into your lightning wallet. If you are super new to lightning you might not have a lightning wallet yet.

I agree. "Unknown unknowns" is a silly argument and demonstrating it's silly isn't accomplishing much.

It means you don't have enough sats in your wallet to complete the action. If you pay via the QR code the action will complete.

Impressive Balzac

I would think you're right.

Their point seems to be that # softfork UUs = infinity = # nofork UUs = infinity - N, where N is some finite number of risks that time has reduced.