Ever noticed that if you (have to) give something up for the good of the public, the community, or the collective, you never seem to be part of this all-encompassing group of recipients?
None of the things I like were invented by the government, except the MP3 format.
Everything I really dislike was invented by the government, except iPhones.
I buy things with it if the chance arises which it rarely does but I only sell it for precious metals because don't take my good money and leave me holding your paper junk 😄
I don't see why there can only be one, before the crime of 1873, the US happily used both gold and silver as monies.
Also gold and silver are never going to go away as ornamental and industrial materials which ensures continued demand and thereby at least some viability as a store of value. None of them enable you to trustlessly send small amounts to the other side of the world in an instant so they'll never be able to compete with bitcoin online because a digital IOU on some hunk of metal in someone else's storage just doesn't cut it.
When my friends ask to buy bitcoin off me, I tell them I only sell for precious metals because I think they're equally viable.
So what I'm trying to say is bitcoin and precious metals complement one another and any competition between them is entirely unnecessary.
Here's an old one I read on a sign protesting the Iraq or Afghanistan war: "Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity"
Finished it quite a while ago but if anyone hasn't, I can absolutely recommend it, minor wokeness issues but heaps of fun.
Sure, whatever bit of power you leave lying around, somebody will pick up and likely use against you.
This is probably the most brilliant thing I've heard or read in a long time, good on you, mate!
Ask me again in 3 months, I have a new hobby lined up that I'm dying to get into as soon as I have some free time and money 😄
Oddly enough, everyone I know who reads newspapers believes exactly what the government would like them to believe, funny how that works, eh? 😄
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Anyone here using nostr:nprofile1qqsd54k9fd0xwjwkttgr3svkg7reftu5una95nhacg95nxq7fmzkdscpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcdmwcdp ? How is the experience so far? The app helped remind me that I have no bitcoiner friends in my current meat space.
Same here, great idea but entirely empty for me.
Silly us, voting to join the EU and have it take away large parts of our national sovereignty, I remember well when I personally voted to join the EU precursor in 1951, four decades before I was born, and have regretted it ever since.