Appreciate the kind words. I think you're especially right in the regards that I finally needed to do something instead of just being an employee at many bitcoin companies for many years.

With this comment, I just meant that I did a lot of hard unique things, but in the end it didn't really matter, especially from the aspect of shutting the wallet down after a relatively short lifetime for a wallet. I think the talks and insights may have made a bigger longstanding overall impact, but again, lightning privacy is still pretty laughable and not much has changed since the article I published many years ago.