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moonsettler7d ago
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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moonsettler7d ago
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 lightning is absolutely constrained by what exists on-chain. Ark and other covenant pool constructs and rollups can not double pledge sats, every satoshi is expressed on-chain. and i know for a fact there is an easy magnitude of scaling there. with a level of trust (it's not completely trustless) but no perverse incentives and no capability to issue paper bitcoin IOUs. trust is not inherently evil, but fall-back on settlment without trust and unilateral exit capability are necessary, not optional.
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