I agree. I also think that people being unsure about the model initially is a fair take, and one that leads to deeper research into the history and critical thinking about the pros/cons - and also healthy discourse within the community. The alternative would be blind tribalism. Willingness to respectfully disagree, debate and talk through ideas in the open is one of my favorite aspects of the ZEC community.

"If—" is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings ⁠And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you ⁠Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, ⁠And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

just a thought, but many people who are about to be wildly liquid could perhaps engage in noblesse oblige and breathe life into the spark of a new renaissance / enlightenment era. that could happen next, if you wanted

It took me a few hours to write a Lean formalization of the theorems and proofs in a recent paper of ours. I used Fable + 5.6 Sol. I found the exercise shockingly eye opening. I don't think we should publish papers without Lean proofs at this point.

Solid arguments against Lightning's privacy. In the early days of Lightning people predicted it will end up as a hub and spoke system with centralized liquidity and got a ton of abuse for it. You cannot meme an inherently bad architecture into a good one.

We've been with Zcash for over 10 years, from before the first block. The time horizon on freedom has always been measured decades, centuries, millennia. Free2Z hasn't moved for many months. We are letting the pressure build to explode into the next generation.