{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"buckyfonds wrote","author_name":"buckyfonds (npub1x9…p6rta)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1x9hghmfunry8wcgg8s8w5e3drmkndw92r8qu0cp2l28u32aqqn9q6p6rta","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Very unlikely that Bitcoin ETFs could have been stopped with this design (no privacy by default and not fungible).\n\nTo make ETFs less appealing, you'd have to have a hostile to the state design (more Monero-like).\n\nIt is less likely they'd want to promote you and push you into the mainstream if you are private and fungible by default, and the community is straight up hostile to the state.\n\nBitcoin is safe for the state, that's why it got mainstreamed."}