On stacker news yesterday I saw another example of the really distorted view people have of CISA ("cross input signature aggregation") (and, taproot!):
https://stacker.news/items/152614
CISA was discussed extensively before the taproot+Schnorr soft work was put together. It's a can of worms (which I certainly don't fully understand, to be clear).
But people think it (a) gives 70% space savings - nope, more like 15-17% (in weight) and (b) it makes coinjoin automatically 'work' and everything will be private - nope.
See some discussion here between me and giacomozucco (npub1au2…t53j) :
https://x0f.org/@waxwing/109835842173736177
That stacker news post is another example of how people have somehow decided the taproot SF is "bad" because they only now (see: ordinals) have even started to understand how *segwit* works (let alone, taproot!). There's some kind of generic mechanism behind this: when your lack of understanding of X is exposed by a new thing that causes cognitive dissonance about your previous view of X, you decide that X is the problem, not your lack of understanding.
If you want to say that the problem with taproot is that it's too complex then fair enough, but how many people understand *any* of this, e.g. p2sh, which has been around for a decade?
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