Seemz appropriate to remind you that it's dangerous to put all your eggs in one basket. Maybe you can think about that when admiring your transparent surveillance coin.
On the one hand tax authorities say it's okay to use chain analysis tools, it's okay to share and collect personal data from foreign countries, and that data hacks are encouraged because it's illegal to destroy customer data...
But then on the other hand, tax authorities demand a declaration of holdings because they don't actually know what you purchased or if you lost it. Because if they do know what you have, why the fuck can't they automatically fill in the details themselves and send out the appropriate bills? Even better, they can just take the tax due directly from your bank account, because why not?
What they want is to, on the one hand, know what you buy and sell, but not tell you they know, because this way they can declare perjury as the illegal act. "You lied and we can prove it", so why the fuck did you ask me?
Only scumbags of the highest order can operate this way.
#bitcoin is a "stay brain dead" tech.
To date, bitcoin has had at least two Near Death Experiences, the most recent infinite inflation bug was 2017 IIRC. So, while the maxis are prancing around with their "we're not crypto" stupidity, the rest of us are living in a rich market of ideas and innovation. Not just fixing bitcoin's shortcomings - chiefly the lack of privacy - but also not putting all our eggs in one basket.
Defund the cunts. No need to touch filthy fiat. Earn, spend and save crypto with your friends, family and locality.
#Bitcoin maxis say crypto = endless inflation. Yet these same people support CEXs and ETFs, where the real inflation scams are endless rehypothecation.
bitcoin maxis = more $$$, publically announced TXs, KYCd CEXs and ETFs
PriFi maxis = moral value, control who sees your TXs, no KYC DEXs, no front running exchanges
Web3 maxis = data driven, real utility, free market catalysts
Bitcoin *is* #crypto, it just does a pretty shit job of it.
Those who think bitcoin is not crypto should probably go back to school and redo math.
Not least that bitcoin has already had at least two Near Death Experiences, the last infinite inflation bug was 2017. So no need to get too comfortable on your throne.
The first scam I can see here is the US dollar.
The second scam I can see here is that trashpile of transparent bitcoin shite.
You're being an idiot. It's like saying the Penny Black is not a prepaid stamp because it was the first.
Not only that but, frankly, it's a discredit to all the cypherpunks before, during and after bitcoin. This evolutionary process continues even without lame ass comments like yours.
The Diffie-Hellman discovery of public key cryptography is, imo, probability the single most critical turning point in cryptography, but not the last because a few other critical components were yet to be thrashed out.
Again, this process continues and bitcoin becomes a blip in the history books, albeit somewhat interesting. For a start, the transparent UTXO model has completely blown apart any hope for privacy. Sure, we can talk about Schnorr signatures and LN nodes, but how about MimbleWimble, ZKPs, Lelantus and other works? Bitcoin MIGHT assimilate some of these technologies but it couldn't possibility represent all monetary policies to all people. That's why bitcoin is crypto, just one of many.
OTOH, there are a lot of shitcoins lol, but let's not throw out the baby with the bath water.
Bitcoin can't even cope with ordinals let alone absorb other use cases.
Well, after all these years, the newbie experience is still shit. Only yesterday I read how someone's lightning node was down for weeks and they didn't know about it. If an experienced IT guy can't get it right then what chance is there for regular folk?
As a newbie I could just use Dash on any wallet and get instantly settled payments without installing anything else. Am not so much shilling, my point really is that Lightning is such a complex machine, it walks and talks like overkill.
Maxis, what they say publicly and what they do privately are two different things.
#bitcoin #crypto
Nexo, Mastercard unveil the world’s first dual-mode crypto card
#cryptonews #crypto
https://cryptoslate.com/nexo-mastercard-unveil-the-worlds-first-dual-mode-crypto-card/
AFAIK nexo actively bans VPN users, which means they don't give a shit about their customer's personal security or privacy.
Do you have an opinion on #hive vs #nostr ? I ask because hive has been around longer yet it is my impression nostr is making more waves. What do you think?
For anyone still defending the Tornado Cash developers, I would encourage you to read the DOJ indictment...
1. This was always a for-profit enterprise;
2. Which means they knew they were profiting from money laundering; and
3. They went so far as to try and pump their token to maximize their profits.
Y'all need to find some other heroes to worship because these guys ain't it.
https://www.justice.gov/media/1311391/dl?inline
#TornadoCash #Crypto
Did you say money laundering or tax evasion What criminal activity do you disapprove of?
It seems to me, writing a law to make it illegal to break it, is not a crime in itself, you should at least be doing something immoral.
One account for crypto, another account for location based, another account to publish my own work, another one for art / photography.
Dash Platform is on testnet and has paid storage via SQL like queries, plus versioning if you want it. Storage is proved mathematically correct where results are not just complete but proving there iare no other data in that set. Or did you mean something else?