Random and probably inaccurate thoughts.
The federal reserve dollar system including all fiat currencies and their transaction methods like fed wire, swift, visa, etc are one complete system and gonna be around for a bit.
Bitcoin and its transaction scaling methods like lightning and even non-federal reserve issued tokens as money seem to belong to another system entirely.
Self issued fiat like cashu or community issued fiat like fedimint not only exist outside of the federal reserve system, they also pose a far different risk profile then a legacy bank, exchange, or shit coins, and offer a very positive privacy benefit(not all dollars are the same).
For this reason I've considered the ecash protocols that integrate on lightning in the ethos of the new financial system. Not sure if I'm representing this correctly nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg
I think nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe would agree that there are two disparate systems at play.
I’m ok with that
Harvard is in Massachusetts; that’s an assault rifle there 🤣
Looking dank
Some people just want to watch the world burn
Tell me again how expelling someone from
Bitcoin would work and how that is not any different than the traditional, permissioned financial system. I’ll wait…
Firstly, I’m not an expert by any stretch. I’m just speculating…
I ask myself, can the entire population use Bitcoin? Given 21 quadrillion satoshi and 8 billion people, that is about 2.6 million satoshi per person on Earth. However we know that there are only around 1.5 quadrillion satoshi to be mined and if we are ridiculously generous and say 1 billion people already use bitcoin, that leaves around 250k satoshi per person. And that is assuming no more accumulation by people who already have bitcoin. Basically I think that there is no possible way everyone can use bitcoin without major changes to the protocol including both blocksize and total units, the latter being a complete non-starter. And if bitcoin is going to change and not be for everyone, then I don’t think it’s worth making that change at all.
yo nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx you’re a great interviewer and I hope you’ll reconsider naming your new podcast anything other than “mr obnoxious”.
I’ve actively avoided the youtube recommendations for “mr obnoxious” for at least a week. I just now realized that was your show.
it’s a bad name mate. you’re not obnoxious. call it “the peter mccormack show”. or something else. anything else.
+1
Latest version of Oregon Trail lets you choose between Banker, Influencer, Teacher, Bitcoiner.
RT suggests it is just pagers and walkie talkies, and that all the exploding devices were purchased in a batch that was tampered with.
https://www.rt.com/news/604243-lebanon-explosion-second-beirut/
And that’s how you would spin it to protect your super power to zap attack anyone, anywhere.
What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Next question. ~Michael Crichton
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Human beings don’t think for themselves? Watching a young child explore and discover things on their own will make you doubt this.
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the end for the DOJ's campaign against privacy & open-source devs.
All the best to the Samourai Wallet team. Kick the tires and light the fires, guys 👊
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Is it the beginning of the end for their campaign or the end for privacy and open-source devs?!





