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Sandor Clegane
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In other words, it is to promote a tendency toward incompetence in the general population, which makes it easier to control.

That's not quite right though is it? You may require a type of thing but not necessarily a specific thing.

Wants & needs aren't really the same thing, parts for something you already have perhaps.

Whether the method is ethical or not, you still need to produce things at home, no matter how much some politicians preach a "service economy".

This is about where in the thread you tell me to stop wasting my breath right? πŸ˜‚

Or in the case of strike a cheaper decentralised payment network.

Are you?

To be "money" it must perform more than just being a store of value, it must also perform "currency" functions...

Just like in the good old ancient times.

But it isn't really going to is it, because the bad will drive out the good or keep it out unless the bad ceases to be accepted, even then, it never be "the only".

Now, go perform those currency functions with it & prove you can, because even in The Isle of Man that task didn't work out.

Actually better yet, eat only what you can buy directly with it for the next three months starting tomorrow.

Why don't you go and demand the farmer down the road sell you one of his cattle for bitcoin, just randomly pick one, see what happens.

If you fail to return with one, you failed.

You know what's money? Whatever the guy whose stuff you want to buy says it is. πŸ˜‚