I have that understanding. But in places where I am from, getting into custody means that their job is done for 99%. And here I am pretty ready to expect very adversarial scenario.

Maybe it is a good strategy to tell on every corner that the service is compliant. I think it is time to stop paying attention to that.

Found it. Nodeless case. May be not exactly LN router but very close to it.

This is sad. The network keeps running however, there is at least one case in Canada when LN node was considered as money transmitter.

They will probably use it for restrictions. IMF + BIS has a load of projects oriented for gov coins interoperability.

Bitcoin works well there. But this is a European country, well-connected with all the possible services. Also, the country is amongst those with the highest adoption rates. This is why I tend to think the Ukraine case is exceptional.

Probably still a few gold coins.

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I respect runes for simplicity and merketint but "token economy" was always possible since 10 years ago.

Nowadays better to use Liquid. It has even a DeX for them.

Bitvm doesn't outsource ZK into some opcode. Also catvm requires soft work while bitvm merely benefit from it.

Runes can go into channels.

Yes. Better Mastercoin/omni. Very likely will have the same fate but there is important long term mechanics inside runes, plus it doesn't require dev efforts to exist.

You could maintain some degree of utxo fragmentation by using pay join and re mixing utxo. But not every wallet supports that.

NVKs products cost people money and he doesn't care even explicitly tells this is by design. Just avoid using Coinkite products. There are plenty of others for any threat model.

Yes. I think bitcoin banks are important but probably nany states should sink first for them to be able to make difference.

Bitcoin bank in EU offshore jurisdiction.

They made an announcement simultaneously with Binance and they are fine so far because Binance has bigger issues. Their business scales are comparable.

I think they couldn't handle properly LN privacy and preferred to outsource tech and legal risks.

I think they do. Coinbase gonna be MiCA compliant.

Sure. But as Fiatjaf once well put, Eclair is Phoenix's backend, essentially. It is very good and faster than any other implementation out there.

About a bug, I feel really bad. This is a migration issue that should have been tested.