The police are a way for us to delegate our self-defense to a third party, the state. We give the police a certain level of authority in return for (hopefully) safety.
In your metaphor you're suggesting, "don't protect yourself, you already delegated that responsibility".
Censoring speech on the internet is exactly the same delegation of responsibility. "Don't protect yourself, delegate that responsibility to the censors".
Your metaphor is making the opposite point that you're intending.
The twitter app literally has the same tipping over bitcoin/lightning functionality built in. Also there is zero way to paywall content (or anything) within the Damus app. Literally just (the) tips. Apple and Will have a call this afternoon to discuss - hopefully logic prevails.
Seems like a direct implementation of how Nostr handles verification. Nip-05 describes how it's done and is successfully implemented in most Nostr clients:
We want to be green so we're trying to stop drilling for oil. But we also need oil because our society runs on it. This guy has oil. This guy can therefore do whatever he likes.
This is obviously way better than drilling at home.
I do believe 99% of crypto projects vastly misrepresent their risks, their control/influence structures, and their intent. I do believe 99% of crypto projects are clever ways to hop on a hype train to farm dollars from retail. I do believe Bitcoin is different. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency -- 'crypto' is colloquial term to specify an industry.
I made characteristic claims about a solution I see fit for the OP problem statement.
When he asked if I was talking about ETH, I told them I wasn't.
You're hijacking a thread to push your form of maximalism.
Would you like to discuss the differences between ETH/Altcoins and Bitcoin/Lightning? Or would you rather just label me a maximalist to dismiss the claim?
Not Ethereum. Ethereum has a lot of massive problems. Not 'crypto' which is by and large a scam.
I'm talking about Bitcoin with The Lightning Network.
Most payments I make over Lightning, regardless of size, carry a fee of fractions of a cent. On an average day I make 50+ payments over lightning - on aggregate the fees add up to less than $.01
If only there was an instantaneous, nearly free (cost per transaction), opensource, anyone-can-access, infinitely scalable, infinitely interoperable, payment rail that we could start building solutions on top of...