okay I read "Hijacking Bitcoin"
I never paid much attention to Roger or BCH, he always seemed whiny to me.
and he is kinda whiny, there's a fair amount of rehashing of Twitter and bitcointalk drama ...
>it's ridiculous people are now arguing we CAN have trusted banks for scaling with custodial ecash, but we CAN'T have SPV nodes for light wallets and good UX for self-custody L1 transactions.
My only minor dispute with this framing is that the "Bitcoin bank" talk never went away, since Hal Finney was talking about that concept as early as 2010-11; the obvious concession to that counter would be that he was talking about it from a transitional point of view, with a traditional bank adopting and then gradually replacing their financial backing with a (at that point in time) better money. I'd also speculate that he was speaking from a far more optimistic lens on eventual efforts like Xapo Bank and the dozens of on/off-ramps that exist today, when we know where we are a decade and a half later on those fronts, with primary usage of them being existentially necessary but not preferred to the users of those services (I'm in that camp).
The rhetorical framework was adapted, sure, but the talking points never changed; in turn, that serves to highlight how fucking delusional the EBSC hypemen are with their continued prophetization of an overtly compromised currency and its backing members.
My only minor dispute with this framing is that the "Bitcoin bank" talk never went away, since Hal Finney was talking about that concept as early as 2010-11; the obvious concession to that counter would be that he was talking about it from a transitional point of view, with a traditional bank adopting and then gradually replacing their financial backing with a (at that point in time) better money. I'd also speculate that he was speaking from a far more optimistic lens on eventual efforts like Xapo Bank and the dozens of on/off-ramps that exist today, when we know where we are a decade and a half later on those fronts, with primary usage of them being existentially necessary but not preferred to the users of those services (I'm in that camp).
The rhetorical framework was adapted, sure, but the talking points never changed; in turn, that serves to highlight how fucking delusional the EBSC hypemen are with their continued prophetization of an overtly compromised currency and its backing members.
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