UK try to go a day without banning something challenge: impossible

That’s not wrong, but it’s also reductive and borderline misleading.

To be fair, this is mostly self inflicted. Nobody forced them to strip the NIH, NASA, etc.

Jesus fucking Christ on a bicycle.

“Domestic violence reporting at an all time high”

You can commit money to a payment channel with a third party to create a private ledger so the third party can perform payments in your name to someone in using their shared channel on their private ledger.

Motherfucker, that’s just a bank and two bank accounts with extra steps.

And twenty bucks to the Chinese miners as a “transaction free”.

Lightning network, taproot, all that shit, just paper over the fact that Bitcoin cannot, by design, handle enough transaction volume to become a general purpose currency without reinventing a lot of mostly centralized payment infrastructure.