The problem the CCC is presenting, is that now the Taliban probably can identify workers that helped the US. And everyone knows what they do with every single one of them.
They don't need to find all.
The coin is transfered to your public key. This is saved in the public blockchain. Air gap means here, that you store your private keys on a device without internet.
The main point here was to remove certain blocking rights of environmentalists, that normally block such projects for years. They still can go to court but this is not blocking anything anymore. If someone brings real issues up, they now can be handled while building, nit in the planning phase as before.
You still can do it, the main feature is: it just works. You don't have to follow the hype. One problem could be that new devs never experience the simplicity of such a setup, but that is not your problem.
Why would that be? Marketing did a great job, engineers okayish (no one knew where their latency came from). I'm not sure for the compliance department, but the web devs building the homepage and trading page probably will be doing fine because they can show something.
I for one just don't like stuff I have the feeling I can't control. With those intelligent loudspeaker and microphone devices I have always the feeling I need to cut the power supply to switch it really of.
I didn't even know webring.org but used quite a lot own build webrings until the mid 2000s. Probably something like this has a chance again as google does not work anymore to find multiple niche sites.
Tickets are personalized and can only be transferred via one platform, that does NOT allow to take higher prices. It might be a bit to socialist for american hearts, but not everyone is living in Amerika.