Calle is a scammer that gets paid by NGO's to pretend ECash is a layer of Bitcoin so that the banks can backdoor digital dollars into the ecosystem.

Calle made a tweet on the subject of ECash being a trustless layer of Bitcoin

AJTowns is a Core contributor with cryptography chops and is referencing Calle's tweet

Towns exposes the LARP in a subtle way that doesn't sound dismissive, likely knowing that Bitcoin is full of closet shitcoiners who fall for this crap and will earnestly try to understand the cryptography

Because the mint is trusted anyway, it is probably fine for the mint to perform a trusted setup for the zero-knowledge proofs here. After all, if the mint wants to steal funds, it can just spend the bitcoin, and shut all its servers down – no fancy cryptography required.

Calle responds with "I thought of that but I got a solution, just wait"

The result of this is more shady grant money will be wasted on non-Bitcoin development because banks are terrified of Lightning's ability to foster an economy outside of their custody.

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