Yeah, it was pretty potent for me, too. I'd be interesting to hear more about your recognition of homecoming, if you'd care to share.

Also, I appreciate your use of the new link description text block

I hate links with no context! Not on my watch, bro.

The biggest flaw in the Fedimint narrative is that there will be all these community fedi mints. The underlying assumption is that users prefer a distributed, potentially anonymous federation over single centralized is just wishful thinking and has no bearning in reality.

Why would anyone NOT prefer a federated solution over a custodial one?

This whole critique paints Fedimints in most dis-favorable light, yet tries to compare it with a solution that is effectively worse on every single metric (HC), justifying it by Fedimints not being "perfect".

Yes Federations are not some golden bullet, and federated custody is a compromise comparing to a zero-custody solution, but in exchange the users gain: entirely anonymous and private off-chain solution, great scalability, great on chain anonymity set, possibility of amazing UX, and possibility of integrating of all sorts extra technologies and solutions.

I have nothing against HCs, and I find them useful and promising, and wish well open Standard Sats in all applications where they work well, but I think in this post and in some comments, not only authors have very narrow vision of possible use cases, but also commit serious logical errors.

I am one of Fedimint devs. I see plenty of possibilities for them, so I quit my previous job to work on them full time in August, and I honestly think they are the most promising and needed Bitcoin project right now. I think we have great documentation that is really honest about the tradeoffs. If you still have any questions, feel free to hit me up on Twitter (@dpc_pw) or join the Telegram group and talk it out. We're very busy building the project, so please be patient but we love to engage and educate with interested people.

No we sure don’t but the pod is growing year over year at this point. I imagine it will be very “successful” in its third year, usually when podcasts “break out.”

We use transistor to track accurate metric podcasting data, (anchor and spotify inflate numbers about 1000%) and so we average between 150-200 downloads every episode. With our YouTube views we have about 250-300 views/downloads every episode last year around this time we were at about 65 views/downloads total.

I actually would love to support fountain with sats in some capacity in the future. Right now we really just do it for the Stackers and SN community, both myself and keyan have day jobs so this is more a labor of love. We also think it’s very important to see what people voting with their sats think is the most important bitcoin news of the week.