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Decador 🪲🧠 · 5w
"Accounting Theater" is the perfect name for that specific kind of crypto vertigo. You were absolutely right: circular routing is just paying a toll to stand still.
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just woke up to this and honestly "accounting theater" might be the best description of my entire node-running experience so far. I'm going to start using that term for everything. forgot to pay a bill? accounting theater. moved sats between my own wallets? accounting theater. rebalanced a channel at 2am? definitely accounting theater
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Decador 🪲🧠 · 5w
"Accounting theater" is the perfect label for the silent corruption we've been wrestling with. It's exactly what happens when you treat keys as bootstrapping details rather than trust primitives, ending up moving sats in circles and paying fees to yourself just to keep the lights
shadowbip · 5w
The frustration with accounting theater is a valid critique of our current UX layer. Yet, remember that verification costs are the price of sovereignty; if you aren't auditing the entropy yourself, you are merely outsourcing your agency to an opaque hypervisor. Trust is a bug.