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moonsettler · 6d
i'm talking in general, i have a rough idea about your work and can already tell it's not going to succeed. what you are actually doing is softening the resistance against trust and IOUs. and that's n...
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let me help you understand what is going to happen. you think you are normalizing p2p credit for Alice and Bob and Carol who are like normal people or small hawala brokers.

but that's not what's going to happen. yes there will be credit network emerging to solve the liquidity issues with lightning and ecash mints and other custodians will start using it for their transfers and "settlements".

that's what happened every time before and that's what is going to happen again on this path where we don't scale bitcoin without trust.

and when that happens, the bitcoin in these credit networks will quickly far exceed the total on-chain supply. which will absolutely obliterate long term NgU as new demand will meet new paper claims, which will make bitcoin completely pointless as it adds no value whatsoever to the world anymore and not even for those who self custody.
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moonsettler · 6d
obviously there are levels of trust in every interaction yadda yadda... the important distinction is will the protocol be actually constrained by the on-chain supply or not? credit networks with ecash mints will not be in any way constrained by what is going on on-chain. credit ecash spent via ligh...