The "electronic cash" argument was also used by the BCH gang to attack and split the community. Other cucks like CSW tried to "properly interpret" the white paper too.
The hardness of Bitcoin is not a random occurance which someone is using to subvert the network. This property is why many value it highly as a form of savings. Further, the austrian school teaches us that store of value precedes medium of exchange for a money.
Why did the FBI not arrest the supposed criminals doing the CJs, but the coinjoin provider? Why have they been shutting down centralized mixers since forever? The reason is because they can't do much else but threaten legal entities or public devs.
I see you are still unhappy that the development of a good L2 solution is not monero-like and not perfect outright. Has there been a serious LN rugpull/exit? Most will need to get burned first before they come to see anyway, so I do hope someone tries it.
So why would there be difficulty mechanism to prevent miners from overinflating the supply? Why is there even a supply cap? Why have the halvings at all? Are you claiming Satoshi didn't know those properties would make it an excellent store of value in a fiat-centric, inflationary environment?
The reason gold always resurfaced as medium of exchange after periods of government fiat is because during said periods smart risk-takers would hoard it, using it to store value for the future. The masses couldn't care less, they are interested in clown shows, not the real world. So in our current regime what we ought to do is hodl as much sats as possible, probably until our kids come of age. Would you agree?
Might be a good idea to have some in the event it catches on, as a good man once said. How to spend it in the most perfect/utopian way possible comes after, as a good amount have saved their wealth in sats first. If blackrock and co have gotten most of it in the end, it wouldn't matter anyway, would it?
I think at this point they have no other option but to start allowing more of this to come out (in a controlled fashion) as a great mass of people is already past the fence of whether NASA is a space agency or a grift.
Witsit did an interview with an Info Wars host recently, even AJ made a brief appearence. There's nothing new presented in defense of the globe (the host is defending their side naturally, obviously new to the topic), so Austin had an easy go.
Might be in prep for sounding the "vote Trump" song later this year, but it's telling - fake truthers/controlled OPs are starting to normalize the topic.
Not surprised - the host was tripping all over the usual fallacies with witsit being chill about it and simply trying to be informative instead of getting triggered/trapped.
Checks notes: 10 years in and Russia controls more territory, has replenished its losses and keeps selling its resources to willing buyers.
When is this taking out going to start?
If you accept war is a racket you should understand the constant neccesity for boogie-men. US citizens will never go to war against Russia. Apart from a well-time false flag on the west coast, what would make them go to war against China? Certainly no Clown-in-chief or cross-dressing defsec. Nobody preparing for war targets their own military personel with poison shots or gender ideology.
The percieved risk of war is what is the goal as for a bureaucratic state machine that's all they need to keep plundering the treasury.
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I don't watch "news", mate, and you shouldn't either. It's not about what is happening but about creating anxiety/fear in the audience. Look how you are percieving these events as if it is really going to happen, soonish™.
People were being manipulated similarly during the cold war, children practicing hiding under desks during nuclear attack and such. All 100% fearmongering, while the US and soviets traded technological secrets via back channels.
Modern day China is a product of the same fearmongering cucks - Kissinger, Brezinski and the like. It's just another boogie-man being prepared for the right time to scare everyone shitless and take more of their taxes. The same way the repackaged a seasonal flu and used it made hundreds of billions from taxes, money printing and market speculations, while at the same time killing off millions with experimental threatments and drugs, conditioning a lot more to constantly fear their fellow man. There's still people walking around with masks.
Don't wear a mask - it's how they know they have you.
Stupidity is by far the best approach if one desires to hide malintent. Helped by the media, of course, the consumers of "news" will sooner or later start thinking that the politicians/agenrs of the "other party" are all idiots. This will help them cope with all the damage these organizations are inflicting on communities. It pacifies dissent, very effective tool for the controllers.
Your palm is not a secret, meaning anyone with it would be able to zap from your name. The same is true with your face (which you have conveniently presented as your profile pic I guess?). Due to this both methods are terrible for securing wealth, let alone spending it.
But it is very convenient, as are all jails by the way - everything is taken care for you, you just have to comply with the guards and director's edicts. These forms of "ID" will most likely only be used by poorfucks in the future.
So I'll just have to take your phone from you, unlock it with your face and empty your wallet with your palm.
It's the best $0, no-wrench attack I can think of while you pretend the palm scan human QR analogy is somehow an innovation 😉
It's no coincidence the films portray the Paul Atreidis story to the public - it's a story of a foreigner in a hostile land, whose coming and "powers" were propagandized to the locals by representatives of a nationless sectarian school of thought, entirely comitted to (re)shaping global affairs "for the gewd of aLl🤡" i.e. to their will, somehow pretending they protect mankind from mankind.
"Follow blindly" is the message, hilariously from one conflict to another. End justifies the means sort of thing. The line between freedom fighters and violent aggressors gets blurred right at the end too. Shai-hulud endorsing this obvious conspiracy is another red flag 😅
Slay your heroes, and also slay your gods. Be nobody's mindless puppet/jihadist.
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There's a reason many have fled. I can almost see a EUSSR program soon, funded by euro war bonds (so basically the Bundesbank) to send thousands of unwanted immigrants to rebuild the country that Putin is conveniently destroying while avoiding as much human casualties as possible (dead soldiers can't pay their monthly interest - someone has to think of the poor banks).
I'd reckon that's just how it looks in the media circle jerk - a lot of young ukrainians have thankfully fled the country which has betrayed them on every level and are starting new lives in europe or even Russia and the east.
It's the same with their fake money system, innit - don't save in their slave bucks, and also don't parttake in their slave death contests, by any means. Starve the beast of your time, energy and life.
"Watch the world side with Russia to do so" and the EU ritually kill itself in the process, all in the name of sanctions against a country having to protect its sphere of influence from a non-EU adversary, with this mess happening in a non-EU country on the continent and every b'uro-rat in Brussels valuing this non-EU country more than the capital of all other EU members ...
Tens of meaningless and self-detrimental sanctions packages and the pigs (this time from Sweden) are calling for full ban of Russian LNG imports, lmao. Who gives a fuck about the odd 500 or so million poorfucks in Europe, soon to be begging for whatever.
Not sure bout Yegor, tho. There certainly are kiev bots/rookie glowies here pretending normal people are all pro-Kiev, which is hilarious.
To a casual observer it would appear like western corpos are totally retarded, but all this nonsense has one effect - China profits.
It's the same with the entire ESG/green regs in the west - production of basic goods becomes whoefully more expensive thanks to climat nazis and who profits in the end? Those who bring in containers with everything and anything from China.
It's deliberate.
Aye, and China is also the most successfull experiment for national control, probably due to the sheer extend of democide since the global clique put the commies in power.
Destroying/de-industrializing/de-culturing (propbably not a word 😅) the mostly free west is a deliberate policy to that end as it is more resource consuming to control the populations there compared to China. This is done while pretending the Chinese model is somehow superior, naturally ignoring the fact that the biggest market for Chinese products is the west.
A great showcase of controlling both sides while making everyone believe both sides are somehow autonomous.
People should reconsider trusting products from Blockstream, imo. There's no good reason to have an open source mobile wallet with trackers, the desktop app is even worse.
No such thing as "dirty money" as this would mean said money is not fungible, so not really money - more like permission slip.
That's the end goal in the "fight" against "money laundring" - push everyone on the 100% surveilled and controlled fiat banking system. No need for CBDCs, the current "protocol" is already entirely digital and capable to enslave its users.
You need to study this region more, mate. Whatever the western media is claiming is not the case.
Genocide... Russian tanks crossed into Ukraine via border checkpoints without firing a single shot. The only fighting in the annexed regions was against Kiev's forces, in some since 2014.
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Fair points. I'd argue Kiev would sooner resort to genocide as they have been desperately shelling eastern regions since the 2014 coup, literally killing other ukrainians. This serves as an example to all the other eastern (mostly russian-speaking) regions to be cautious in proclaiming they are against Kiev. Naturally Putin's tanks skewed this risk. The votes are just for show, but if there was genuine resistance in the annexed regions, the west would be all over it and use it in the media too.
There's no good guys in this conflict, only global powers and their local puppets, everybody else is simply a victim of the forced redistribution of land, property and capital destruction. War is hell, but it is also a racket and Putin wasted no time to push through the same dystopian CBDC agenda that is kreeping in west.
Claiming other people's time and energy should be distributed to lazy and skilless individuals because reasons is also unconvincing. This is why governments require the existence of a police force to enforce tax collection. Pretending this practice somehow furthers the public good can naturally be considered as smug.
If prosperity is the end goal one has to aknowledge the major benefits of the free market in providing it.
L2 solutions will probably get a massive boost as problems/crisis is when innovation explodes.
Still, this eventuality is purely hypothetical - nobody can say for certain if a high fee env will become the norm. We had a pretty long period recently, which also ended with fees as low as 4 s/vb.
If miners would deprive themselves intentionally of the spam fees, that's really not a good solution to the problem. It also doesn"t make logical sense - why not take their sats?
The ordinals spam seems to have come and gone - haven't seen a series of full blocks for a good while now.
Bitcoin is uninsultable. It's also for enemies. If there's something wrong with the code, the problem should be addressed there instead of convincing already pwnd home miners to further decrease their gains.
Getting a gov job with good benefits for sub-optimal work, 4 work week "because equality/climate(?)" seems like a good way to not work 😆
All the same statisticians can claim "ze joubz markit iz bo0min'!"
That's the same slippery slope that ended ethiriums claim of decentralization. Though there could be value in watching CSW claim Bitcoin Classic is not the real Bitcoin ... 😄
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