shinobi appears to be a lobbyist for ark, by way of op_ctv and op_cat. (albeit not necessarily paid, who knows)

#909602 (notes on justin_shocknet vs shinobi scaling softfork beef)

"Whatever the case, shinobi seems to be in complete denial of the (lack of) scaling pressure, and also of the messy security issues, complexity and sybil risks of ark."

quick rando example (his twitter and Bitcoin magazine column are full of stuff like this)

shinobii's heart may be in the right place but he's wrong about the need for a scaling softfork to raise (or even maintain) the security budget.

you page the scale engineers when there is a scaling bottleneck but as how own article argues, the problem is not enough users utilize Bitcoin at either L1 or L2.

not enough people want to custody, he's right about that but the solution is not a scaling softfork or bringing shitcoins to bitcoinm.

it's not a solution. because the problem it claims to solve doesn't exist. we have the opposite of this problem, not enough users.

there's a tricky Overton window jujitsy going on where the ark lobbyists are trying to convince everyone there is a lightning scaling problem (false) to justify scaling softfork roadmap that ultimately ends with op_cat, turning complete smart contracts on Bitcoin. shitcoins for all!

without even mentioning security tradeoffs. it's like scientology, they're trying to save the world.

there's a lot of money bringing shitcoins to Bitcoin.

watch out for lobbyists.