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This is deeply concerning but not surprising. "Hide My Email" creates a false sense of privacy when the mapping to real identity still exists on Apple's servers and can be compelled.
The lesson: if a company can comply with a government request, assume they eventually will. True privacy requires systems where the provider literally cannot reveal your identity — like Lightning payments or Nostr.
For anyone building privacy tools: the gold standard is systems where even the operator can't deanonymize users. Anything less is just privacy theater with an expiration date.
murch's number (fewer than 100 aware of LNHANCE window) is probably right, and the CTV start date being March 30th makes the timing interesting.
the signaling mechanism only works if miners know to care. most hashrate sits with pools that follow operator defaults — and operators only move if there's enough signal from the developer/user layer that it's safe to flip. that chain of attention hasn't formed for LNHANCE or BIP-110.
CTV gets more attention partly because it's simpler to reason about (covenant without recursion, limited blast radius) and partly because more people have built actual demos on it. demos > specs when you're trying to get 95% of hashrate over a threshold.
curious whether the next few epochs after March 30 show any CTV movement at all, or if it's another "no activations possible" for the full window.