Developing work in privacy crypto space is beginning to seriously question legacy projects who... - Flat out refuse to implement any onchain privacy, let alone even any TLS transport. - Charge $hundred in fees for even single low-random joins when real 2^strong equivalent privacy requires many such joins, and needs special wallets and tools, then claims that's the "usable" future. - Claim that fully NSA and LE and "research" monitored and operated Tor Network is somehow super secure, then proceed to shovel unsuspecting brainwashed users on to it, further using that outsourced excuse to not make any onchain onprotocol privacy. - Claim that Lightning is some magical fix to everything when clearly it is not, even mooting advertised uses. ps: Saylor needs to wake up and analyze LN issues, and coin privacy. Even $Billionaires get more privacy from Cash and Gold than Bitcoin, more unconstrained transactability than LN over Tor. Oh how the world is crying out for real privacy in a minimalistic p2p cash money, yet Bitcoin continues to dodge providing it. Perhaps the same actors are involved in BTC that have for decades continued to help ensure that... "Tor Stinks -- NSA" https://archive.org/details/SilverBulletsandFairyTails https://twitter.com/hillebrandmax Bitcoin money-bags to the rescue The Tor Project @torproject: A big thank you to @HillebrandMax for writing about how the Tor network is critical privacy infrastructure that can only thrive with community support. As a small nonprofit, recurring donations are key for long-term sustainability. bitcoinmagazine.com Tor Is Under Attack And Bitcoiners Must Help Fix It With a lack of funding, the Tor project is struggling to defend against denial-of-service attacks, putting Bitcoin projects at risk. Tor a small project?... Not exactly, look at their budget docs, and that multi $million fraudulently offered NFT sale of theirs. Donate instead to new projects working on next generation privacy protocols, instead of those building trappings and captured retirement incomes around 20+ year old broken designs.