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0 sats \ 15 replies \ @DarthCoin 13h \ parent \ on: A quick question - who is still buying this crap? bitcoin

I trust NO ONE of those...

were invented by Blockstream

No. Blockstream is just a company. Not the inventor of LN.

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @SwapMarket 13h

ElementsProject is part of Blockstream afaik

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @DarthCoin 13h

Yes but that is long way to say that "Blockstream invented LN"... You could say that Blockstream funded. It is a club and we don't know much details about... that's why I question everything and not take it for granted.

0 sats \ 9 replies \ @SwapMarket 13h

Maybe, but Adam Back is the original cypherpunk behind proof of work. What they also do, is running free seminars for developers around the world:

https://liquid.net/bootcamp

5 sats \ 8 replies \ @DarthCoin 13h

That's how they brainwash young devs...

Adam Back is the original cryptopunk behind proof of work

So what? Do I have to follow him blindly? Do not underestimate the power of the dark side...

And "cryptopunk" is not the same as cypherpunk... And cypherpunk doesn't mean that automatically is not a fiat maxi... I never saw Adam promoting heavily the use of Bitcoin as money, but the opposite... He's always making price predictions like any other shitcoiner... and that is a red flag for me.

5 sats \ 4 replies \ @SwapMarket 13h

Was a typo, he was cypherpunk like Satoshi. Adam is building a FOSS finance infrastructure to compete with banks. I respect that a lot. More choice is always good. If Liquid starts KYC or AML etc, we can always spin up another Elements sidechain and opt out.

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 13h

We do not have to compete with banks. We have to build a parallel economy based only on Bitcoin. Anything that touch fiat system is doomed to fail. That's all.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 12h

Adam is building a FOSS finance infrastructure to compete with banks

Like latest integration of a crapto platform into Green wallet (https://www.meld.io/crypto-stack) ?

Just this is a big red flag for Blockstream.

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SwapMarket 13h

I don't. Knowledge is power for both sides. I take what VC projects offer to increase my own freedom and freedom of others.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 12h

I take what VC projects offer

Would you also accept USDT from Tether to build a tether based app?

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SwapMarket 13h

And if you think they make too much money, take their code and run it yourself at swapmarket.online ! )))

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 13h

yes I use sometimes swap.market but only to swap sats between LN channels and onchain. No liquid and tether crap.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 13h

Haha, I know! But that is the beauty of FOSS: you don't have to trust the devs to run their code!!