Half truths for the naive.

Both wasabi and Samori are ass in their own ways and I personally shill joinmarket. Not much I want to add to that section.

However, when it comes to lightning, I think there's a misunderstanding here about "Well how come the other L2s aren't cool". I've defined it before and I believe other people have pointed out as well that what we look for in an L2 is n-of-n multi-sig (where the coin owner is one of the signers) with unilateral exit. To explain the intent behind this definition and maybe to be able to apply it more broadly, the person who has the coins is in full control of those coins even when every single other actor in the protocol is against them. Show me L2s that do that and I get a lot more excited. Heck Mercury as an L2 doesn't even fit that definition, but its so close as to be at least interesting (its just that I would prefer over ways of moving forward as in , something that does meet that definition)

To speak to LSPs specifically, even if the LSP is against you, you can force close on them and take your money. I would like to see more pleb LSPs tho. Darthcoin wrote a guide on pleb LSPs before #329312 but the current version of pleb LSPs is still a bunch of channels all connected to a user. I really think multi-party channel pleb LSPs are the direction we ought to be moving and a timeout tree such as that described in John Law's paper originating from a multi-party channel pleb LSP would be even better.

The half truth is that you're right about people falling for narratives based on cultural bubbles. I think a large number of people both gold bugs and bitcoiners alike don't realize that the national debt really can go on forever and that it actually works very well for certain types of people, its just that we tend to be people who fucking hate it lol. You know FIAT may actually not be dead even while simultaneously having hyperbitcoinization because people just like debt that much lmao. I'll make a smol post about debt and war real quick actually because now I'm a little inspired.