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moonsettler on Nostr: no. but i'm afraid to look it up after your rant about hawala. i'm very familiar with ...

no. but i'm afraid to look it up after your rant about hawala. i'm very familiar with that cope. i don't think it will work for bitcoin or that you need bitcoin for it.

it's not that i'm dead set against credit in general (see my credit ecash writeup!). i'm dead set against the custodial trust relationship. it's a cope and a perversion. and when you say "all we need to do is give up the most defining feature of bitcoin, that it works without trusted third party intermediaries, and then we can have everything" (paraphrasing) then ofc i get incredibly irritated.

you may think you are some pioneer but it has been the defining characteristic of bitcoin discourse for the post 2017 era, that it copes about the trust creep and tries to pretend reintroducing trust is a feature not a bug.