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 Well said. As for bitcoin, just look at the number of users versus non zero addresses. Looking forward for a solution to this type of parasitism. 
 i'm not sure what kind of parasitism you mean... spam? 
 I meant users of coinbase, binance and such. Worldwide they claim there are hundreds of millions of bitcoin users. I say there are fewer than 10M. My personal estimate is 1M. 
 well, spam is a kind of parasitic mechanism like how many parasitic organisms produce shit that reduces the capacity of the organism to eliminate them... literal shithole organisms

one i am intimately familiar with is Demodex Follicularis... this little turd literally has no asshole, they eat your skin oils, specific kinds (i think they especially love seed oil contaminated skin oils) get all bloated up, fuck, causing great distraction and itching, and then die in your hair follicles, poisoning you with all of their waste products as well, which further improve the conditions for further demodex bastards to come and run around and fuck and eat and shit and die as a big bloated bag of shit

i'm pretty sure i have their number now

they are the product of oxidised fats, they feed on them, and they make more of them, and then they reach a threshold where it is difficult for your body to eliminate them

except if you stop buying fucking seed oil shit

and i'm addicted to chippy

and it's not just the oxidised overheated linoleic acids and whatnot that is toxic, they also tend to contain traices of petroleum oils used in extraction and the actual seeds themselves contain dozens of fat-soluble shit in them... i never saw cold pressed sunflower oil before until i was in bulgaria a few years ago, and if anyone realised what toxic waste the oils of that seed actually are... instant anaphylaxis this shit, smells like shit, looks like shit, feels like shit

anyhow, it's taken a long time to move away from that shit because the entire food production edifice is seething with these industrially extracted, refined toxic seed oils that diminish your immune system

the solution is of course that you start buying real fats, beef dripping, lard... extra virgin olive oil is on the borderline (really, it is borderline, IMO), and thus the whole carnivore thing is an example of a social technology to defeat the seed oil poisoning parasite garbage profit machine 
 Yeah, definitely agree with this conclusion. Real fats are the solution. It's funny how fiat fucked so many sectors of life. Bitcoin is truly a lifeline in the entire mess.