My wife is from Brazil so I can live there but it seems like it’s pretty hostile to business. I live in a progressive state in the US so it almost seems better to just move to lower tax more business friendly state inside the country. It’s tough with so many factors to consider, Family, network, job, regulations, freedoms, safety etc.
Interesting, I didn’t expect Malaysia as an option. Georgia and Azerbaijan would be interesting for sure as well as Eastern Europe. I have a friend who recently moved to Estonia but I haven’t spoken with him in a while.
I have visited Paraguay and really enjoyed, it felt like very low regulation and very Wild West also low development outside the major cities I know they have an abundance of cheap energy and Saz Bitcoin mining is setting up some operations there.
What are your thoughts on El Salvador? I’m planning to visit there this year.
Where would you go if you could go anywhere?
Ok so when people talk about losing funds on lightning how does that happen? Is it that a force close in high fee environment will eat up the balance of my side of the Channel if it too small or are there other pitfalls? I’m trying to understand the mechanics.
They’re desperate
Noob Question for all the #lightning gurus out there. Since a channel is just a 2 of 2 multisig, does force closing a channel always result in burning of funds? If this is the case what is the point of force closing a channel other than being a dick? #Bitcoin
Thanks for asking the question. I have some more thoughts in the same vein and some of my own questions regarding scalability and adoption. Having trouble coherently forming them at the moment.
I agree its possible that technological advancements will make chain bloat moot.
For the foreseeable future it seems that the benefits of a multi-layer Solutions with all the trade offs and shortcomings is the best we’ve got. Its going to be interesting to watch it play out. Look forward to reading the piece.
I like to think about in similar terms as the internet and what we now call legacy social media like X. They weren’t perfect and had the current issues baked in from the beginning . But they were far more decentralized then the newspapers and tv news channels of the previous era. Freedom and decentralization is a continual battle and there is no panacea.
Also think that a major issue with big blocks as a scaling solution is that it inevitably leads to centralization because the blockchain bloat eventually means that no one can afford to run a node except large data center operators. Imaging a 1000TB+ chain. So while individuals have a level of autonomy in transferring on chain they trade off privacy and consolidation of nodes and don’t get to chose who operates the nodes.
With layer 2 solutions such as fedimint and cashu an individual gets to chose who they do business with and I believe individuals will do business with a number of them at the same time. Some may be fractional reserve, some may not but the important thing is that they will be auditable in real time and not enjoy protection as banking racket and be based on a sound monetary base. Will the system be corrupted or gamed in the future at some point? probably! But what’s the alternative.
On philosophical level I don’t believe that complete and unconditional individual autonomy is a desirable goal. Humans are social creatures and can really only exist in extended social realities. And it seems those social realities actually define the individuals and visa versa. So I think bitcoiners and freedom lovers need to be less individualistic and form strong social bonds around something coherent to bind them together in order to resist tyranny. Otherwise they get isolated and picked off.
Anyway those are some of my thoughts sorry for the long rant, you asked😂
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What do you mean when you say integrate Bitcoin? Accept it as payment? Or something else.
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Very interested to see what sort of things are built on #fedimint the Mutual cash value life Insurance model seems like it could be a possibility. #bitcoin nostr:note1qmz88drkjaujhk8fpfv363p6n26gg5450l0ck4740ecpecesd3pqx2wd5v
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Will have to check it out. I’m playing with several different cashu wallets right now.
