I probably owe you more than “you were right.” You were making this argument to me years before I was ready to seriously consider it.
I defended Bitcoin hard. I thought CoinJoin, Lightning and the broader privacy tools available around Bitcoin were sufficient answers to the privacy problem. Eventually I had to admit that privacy you have to deliberately construct, maintain and avoid accidentally undoing isn't the same thing as private, fungible digital cash by default.
So take the victory lap. You earned this one. You were right, I was wrong, and it took me a while to get there.
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npub16j…2gqp0
2026-09-09 01:37:48 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…fzmt
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2026-09-09 01:37:48 UTCEvent JSON
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