I had no idea, and personally stay the hell away from liquid, but to play the devils advocate, isn't one of the greatest risks of the pow-less blockchains the ability to pressure the verifiers to misbehave? A close second being collusion? Don't get me wrong, this is a pretty crude way to fix those ...

Agree up to "storing your money in Coinbase is way more sane". No idea how a single kyc exchange could be a better option

https://blockstream.com/liquid/ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=liquid+federation+adds+member&ia=web

Damn, weren't you a cofounder...

Still 11of15? I think I heard there were plans to grow that number. I wonder if secrecy is to try to protect against government/regulatory attacks. Its use in wallets like Aqua & Breez is quite convenient. And extra privacy of blinded payment amounts much appreciated. Main chain bitcoin in and out o...

Liquid is best considered a pass-thru vehicle, more of a bypass lane than a parking lot. Like Lightning, it's meant for petty cash spending, either by exchanges or LN channel balancing of accounts. Storing value is best done with self-custodied offline key-signers, in large amounts, on an infrequent...

what’s Blockstream reasoning on this? safeguard the signers?

Disagree completely. What's the attack surface for liquid vs coinbase?