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Very happy Mutiny+ user here. Thanks for your amazing work. Start by patting yourself on the back a little. Seriously.
My pleb opinion is at least half of the LN issue is education/expectations. I love Mutiny and use it constantly and have personally "felt" zero downsides. This is because I took time to research, at least high pleb level, the pros and cons of lightning and thus I expected the channel liquidity and on chain fee limitations. You just writing this up and posing these questions to the public is helpful education for the masses, and needs to be elevated and repeated by others.
Fedimint, imho, is for sure the best immediate term step forward.
Beyond that an OP_CTV only soft fork is the best next step, again imho. The Mutiny team is EXTREMELY well respected and influential, I think more than yall realize. If you publicly, especially if jointly with other influential devs and/or influencers, come out in favor of a OP_CTV only soft fork it could be here in a few years (lightning fast for a soft fork). My wild guess if that if Mutiny, another big wallet, Odell, and a few well known devs came out for a OP_CTV only soft fork we could get it in a year. We need to build momentum on what is in reality a fairly small and deeply analyzed change but would have enormous impact.
Just one plebs opinion. Maybe I'm too optimistic and dreaming. I just feel and fear a general jaded malaise coming over the dev community that scares me. We have to get out of: 1) treating all change as a 10 out of 10 huge deal we should naturally resist 2) influential devs saying if it isn't a big soft fork with exactly what they want in it they're adamantly opposed - this is childish and needlessly holding us back. Not going to dox or shame but people saying "if I dont get at least X, Y, and Z soft forks I'm opposed to all soft forks" need to somehow be cajoled or convinced to chill tf out and get on board with a little incremental progress and momentum. CTV has been around a long time and has been super thoroughly analyzed by a lot of people and its a relatively small change, just an op code. Let's get it done, find common ground, and keep building.
Love yall, love Mutiny, long live lightning.
Really? You can't make this stuff up.
Locally we had this darling tech startup that the local politicians loved to tout. They were constantly doing photo ops with them. Then the company tanks and we find out they haven't paid their property taxes for years...
Taxation is theft but it is weird how when you are connected you get away with not paying much longer than we lowly plebs.