The case against Roman is a tragedy. Allowing closed source chain analysis tools such importance as evidence would be laughable if not so sad. Only a few more steps away from just asking a closed source AI for a verdict.

Think it is a bootstrapping problem on clearnet. Not many people ask to pay with Monero, so not many merchant implement it. Not many merchant accept, so fewer people have it. https://monerica.com/ maintains a list of some places to spend Monero.

Scaling: if a lot of people suddenly have a need or want to use Monero, can it handle it? There is the dynamic block size, but no layer 2 to move transactions away from the chain. How many transactions per day can be handled before fees get to BTC levels? And how much would that grow the chain per day? It is my understanding that Full Chain Membership Proofs will increase the transaction size, so prefrebly add that to the equation.

undermines global systems of trust – the interplay of institutions that underpin economic activity and social order.

Or you could say it attempts to increase freedom from these institutions.

As I understand it, the Monero based tech will be dropped for Ethereum based? https://getsession.org/blog/upgrading-to-session-network

OK, I'll take some free tokens. 0x9E38E753f0E2c2F4cCF13dCb07937E9044cEc418