The stripe gingers made an L1 to scale stablecoin payments and they didn’t call it nosol?
Huge missed opportunity!
"The cloud is just someone else's computer"
Take this quote ^ and apply it to your favorite tech:
- Nostr is just someone else's server
- Ecash/Ark/Spark is just someone else's Lightning Node
- Mining pools are just someone else's block template
etc
People that assert “the plebs and normies of the world are too stupid for self-custody, running a lightning node, running a server, etc” should not be trusted!
They do not believe in the enduring human spirit of the individual!
They are central planners who want to “solve” this problem for you with their miraculous solution - “you will not need the sovereignty of a server, a node, a utxo if you just adopt the solution!” they proclaim!
Do not accept the empty promises of “operators” and custodians! Learn to use the tools!
The barrier of entry to digital sovereignty is and always will be, running a server.
If you do not run the server, someone else is running it for you, they are your administer. You are their subject. You must be your own administrator or else you will be, in some way or another, a subject.
