It wouldn’t be terrible for privacy if Core had ever done anything to give Bitcoin the properties of money. zk-Snarks has been reliable for 14 years. Ring signatures are 25 years old. They had every option to fix Bitcoin fungibility — which would have fixed privacy as a side effect. As usual, Core’s complacency and corruption have held Bitcoin back from being usable currency. Bitcoiners are fucking furious about people using Bitcoin! They are furious about *receiving free Bitcoin*. It makes it obvious that Bitcoin is not only *not money*, but *will never be money* unless there is significant changes made to the attitude and direction of Core.
If you are upset about on-chain zaps there are two obvious solutions:
1) Demand that Core make Bitcoin private, either via universal zk-Snarks or ring signatures.
2) Instead encourage people to abandon Bitcoin and subscribe to a secp256k1 derived chain that *does* have these properties, so that Nostr pub keys can *safely* and *privately* be used for tipping and money transfer. There is a coin that has these properties! It’s called Pirate Chain, and it has the best ticker, ARRR. I’m normally a big Monero guy but it is also a good coin, and for the specific purpose of money transfers on Nostr, it is the best option.
Lightning is trash. Normal people don’t want to use it. I certainly don’t want to trust a Lightning custodian, or even run my own server with a domain that can be stolen or censored. Lightning is a cult that has objectively extracted over 100 million dollars of value from Bitcoin and not delivered an actually useful product that will ever make Bitcoin money.
weev
npub1we…409xg
2026-05-18 09:10:17 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…l54m
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npub1weev88wc43slz6jjlq2h30ltmd0ccu9utfe8wet2kkax0w6epavqw409xgPublished at
2026-05-18 09:10:17 UTCEvent JSON
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