scaling via custodians and permissioned consortium sidechains is the single biggest threat to decentralization. every coin that is deposited into this type of system is immediately no longer protected by the decentralization that the base layer is supposed to provide. going down this path and promoting custodial garbage is stupider and more dangerous than even gigablocks.
I learned about so many things he did but it took me a long time until I bothered to allow myself to hear what his voice sounds like. his voice sounds exactly like you would think it does.
polymarket cannot be accurate or inaccurate. it doesn't tell you what will happen. it tells you what its users think will happen. that's all it does.
ugh now I'm gonna have to buy two of these why would you do this to me
I want things like BIP300 to happen too but I'm too pessimistic to let myself believe it will ever happen. they are too dysfunctional to do anything like that ever again and there are too many bad actors poised to do social engineering attacks against any more serious innovation. bitcoin can only scale via custodians now. I hope it changes but I am done holding my breath.
scaling via custodians represents a monumental failure. the number of concurrent non-custodial users that bitcoin can handle is fixed in place and the developers are too dysfunctional to do a single thing about that, so now they are giving up and scaling via custodians. number go up doesn't mean shit when most people are coerced into owning fake bitcoin IOUs and not the real thing.
I told myself I wouldn't buy into meshtastic until the devices can do something cooler than instant messaging, like bulletin boards or something
a large percentage of australians have celtic heritage. halloween originates from celtic tradition. they should do halloween
not good to be over-reliant on custodians. the time will come when cryptocurrency networks which can't support a large number of concurrent non-custodial users will start to fail. say no to custodial wallets, centralized escrow payment processors, and centralized exchanges. they can't help you.
some guy noticed that banks and financial institutions have really complex procedures for trusting each other and following the same rules. he came up with a way to use proof of work to get rid of all of that stuff. when I see lightning people having to resort to this kind of behavior it looks like a sad regression to me.
you literally can't evangelize self-custodial lightning usage. it causes people to interact with L1 more, which makes it worse.
you don't have to listen to this clown. NOBODY on the DNMs is using lightning. the number of DNMs that accept lightning is zero. it's always been zero and it will always be zero. that's not going to change. everyone who knows what they are doing and has something at stake is using monero.
if it took you this long to figure out that saylor is bad you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I knew instantly. he was saying stupid things since the beginning. it felt exactly like the first time I ever heard craig wright speak.
I just hate him so much. he's the epitome of throw everything good in the garbage in an attempt to make the price go up.
"the virwox method"
easiest way to prove you're not a poser coward. download bisq2, original bisq, or haveno-reto and try at least one of them. TRY IT TRY IT TRY IT TRY IT
you are confusing antisocial, which is a personality disorder, with asocial, which just means not social. it's insulting to use antisocial to mean asocial.
the soviet union caused some of the worst environmental disasters in the whole world. taking away the profit motive won't save the environment.
the war thing is really just democracy. under democracy, everyone becomes an enemy combatant and every piece of property becomes a munition. wars are more destructive and last longer under democracy. there have been no gentleman's wars since the beginning of modern democracy.
there's not a single situation where an ecash mint makes more sense than using cashapp as a custodial lightning wallet. if the mint sees a modicum of success and is doxxed enough that I could hold them accountable for rugging me, then they are able to be compelled to behave like any other kind of traditional money transmitter. if they play fast and loose and act all cyberpunk and sheeit, then there is nothing I can do when they rug me. it's a pointless system for unaccountable strangers to hold onto my pocket change.