Our children inherit the output of hundreds of years of Western civilization. FTFY.
Feel free to emigrate to Zambia no one bugging you there with taxes.
Seems more like badges or trophies than a currency. The value of a currency is literally tied to the amount in circulation. A currency that doesn't circulate is like a library you're never allowed to take a book off the shelf from.
The way you describe it, holding a stash of Bitcoin is some sort of merit badge or badge of honor. It identifies you as holding some set of beliefs the way a cross on a chain around the neck or a kippah on the head identifies you as holding some set or beliefs.
Of course you wouldn't sell your badge or trophy the same way you wouldn't sell the family bible or that trophy you won in a high school hockey tournament.
That's why you have to hang out on "Bitcoin Twitter" as the dude in the video says, it's the congregation where the set of beliefs is agreed on.
In that case I have some questions.
(a) Why such an expensive badge. A cross on a chain around the neck can literally cost $10 even made from silver, but still identify you as a Christian. The "gold medals" from the Olympics aren't expensive to manufacture either. It's your actions that make you deserving to display one.
(b) Why all the talk about currency and how it will replace the US dollar. It will clearly never do that if it gets squirreled away like a set of rare postage stamps. If Bitcoin represents other beliefs then why not promote those.
(c) The currency problem still remains unsolved. Bitcoiners, that's one of their beliefs, want a degree of decentralization and independence from governments, monetary independence most of all. If Bitcoin itself doesn't do that and is just a symbol for the desire to wean oneself from central banks, then what steps are you actually in undertaking to achieve that. Because if you don't undertake any steps you're just dreamers the way Jehovah's Witnesses dream of the apocalypse that never materializes.
Literally all of my notes are addressed to no one in particular.
The % for sale will always go down but never reach zero? Is that possible? Like an exponential decrease?
"Never selling" is literally the definition of its value being zero. It can only have value if it's offered for sale on the market.
You know how the price of something is a function of supply and demand? There has to be supply. No one selling means no supply. No supply, no price.
I've got one on my desk to calm the nerves every now and then. They're like $5 on AliExpress.
SQL databases are 20th century legacy tech. Append only event logs rule.
CARE not CRUD
Is compact binary. The "C" and "B" stand for "compact" and "binary". What more do you want.
Would you prefer JSON.
FYI the chip in them is something like the popular NXP PN7150 which is like $3.
https://www.lcsc.com/mobile/product-detail/RFID-ICs_NXP-Semicon-PN7150B0HN-C11002E_C513804.html
I make my own NFC readers.
Plenty of examples on GitHub too, like https://github.com/sbc-fish/NFC-Hat
https://www.coincorner.com/TheBoltCard
"This new NFC enabled physical card allows you to spend [...] GBP and EUR [...]."
Sounds like a plan. However my Visa and MasterCard already do this somehow if I'm not mistaken?
Or I've been living in a bubble of weirdos totally detached from reality all these years and I just never noticed lol.
In my circle of friends, coworkers, neighbors, relatives, pub mates and that one barista that knows my coffee preferences literally no one has any Bitcoin.
I wouldn't "buy in late" I'd be the first one. (Totally hypothetically of course.) Do you even go out and talk to people sometimes.
But. Does your code have bugs.
Ah thanks for keeping track. Has it come this far.
Exhibit A: Distributed systems made by 5 year olds.