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For one, unilateral exit has been around since the early days of Spark. Many developers and users have used it.

A thing to note is that unilateral exit does not exist in any production apps. I tested all the big Spark apps recently because I wanted to see how they handle the exit, and could not find a single mention of exits in any of them. A regular Wallet of Satoshi user who bought into "The worlds simplest bitcoin wallet" is not going to hop on the CLI. I do think we can expect this to be properly implemented for end-users, when there's $175 million investment behind it, a big ecosystem with millions of users, other Lightspark products built on top of it, and the CEO making a big deal about it on podcasts. If not at this scale, then when? And where's the bitcoin ethos? It is also playing with fire, because if something happens, users are screwed, and the whole bitcoin payments ecosystem gets the blowback. Maybe a bit of pressure is healthy here.

Thanks for doing that work. I played with the idea of working through one or two open implementations but then I figured that I will never use it for production moneys, even if this were perfected, and I think that no one else should either.

This is the same trap like FB or Reddit, where the public gets tricked to feed it as much data points as possible because "it's cool" or "it's useful", and then, this gets turned into profit in ways which, if it were disclosed upfront, would make a lot of people think twice. Prime enshittification material.

So as much as I can be triggered to say "yo, let's just build it", there is a very good reason of not becoming a steward of future betrayal now. And I'm honestly trying to stay far away from this crap.

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