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Friendly psychopath who loves freedom and sound money

Can you fill me in? What happened to DarthCoin?

I wonder if verification depends on your IP location?

Go to sparrowwallet.com and follow the link to the real Telegram group. There's a scam group that shows up first if you search for it in Telegram. šŸ™„

It means he has a computer larger than the sun with more computational power than all the computers on Earth put together.

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Zelko of https://ronindojo.io/ with Max on the latest episode of BitBuyBit.

This is the Meshtadel concept at work right here. Build your local network, trade in Bitcoin of V4V locally for goods and services, and connect that node to the greater Meshtadel.

#Meshtadel

Listen to the entire episode https://fountain.fm/episode/XOpnpd9TvgTE3bsXotoZ https://nostr.build/av/00eaafcce8744f7c27adf799b078ab9ecaf18f2cd7cfa419aa4301a4ab60c579.mov

Must find time to check this one out

Sort of unrelated, but do you happen to know why Liquid peg ins take 102 confirmations? Are they trying to get the probability of a reorg to ~0%?

Probably misremembering this, might not have been Kinsella. Anyway, you can put whatever absurd shit you want in a contract or ToS, doesn't mean it is legitimate or legal. Even if you sign a waiver of liability, for instance, if a lawyer can show "reckless disregard for safety", then an operator is still liable. Facebook could have a line in their ToS about you becoming their chattel slave, but it would be rejected. Think there's also a misconception baked in here that AnCaps or libertarians don't believe in any laws, which is not correct.

Whoops nevermind, this isn't what I remembered. Still highly recommend, but was looking for his thoughts on ToS only being "evidence" of a meeting of the minds.

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This may be an unpopular opinion, but I really don’t believe in the user bearing the ultimate responsibility for themselves. Not in today’s world.

I’m willing to bet 90% of you did not read the TOS of the last service you signed up for. Of course, there are some that read everything, but most probably don’t.

In the normie world that number is closer to 99.99%.

Being 100% responsible for your own actions would mean you’d have to read all the TOS and decide for yourself whether you should continue.

But we know nobody does this.

There are certain things we cannot verify for ourselves and where LAWS actually make sense. We live in a society that is held entirely by laws, not by good will or whatever imaginary thing people believe. Without laws we would not be here. We would not have a court system (no matter how dysfunctional), no enforcement of property rights without violence. Society would be hellish. Tribal warfare.

To say Worldcoin should be left up to ā€œfree marketsā€ is total bullshit. Yes, I agree, it would be NICE if people did the right thing for themselves. But we’d be lying to ourselves if we didn’t acknowledge that NOBODY read their TOS when they scanned their eyeballs. And even if they did, they would probably not understand the implications of this action.

Hence, we turn to laws. We already have consumer protection laws that actually work and do protect us from certain things. Lead in the water, horrific death from negligence. Fire retardants, safety codes, seatbelts, all the things we take advantage of without actively thinking about took some terrible events to make into law. Look up how and why seat belts become law in US if you don’t believe me.

Besides, even if every one of us were perfectly capable of making a fully autonomous decision, there will always be groups of people who aren’t - elderly, young, disabled, divergent, whatever the proper terms are today…

Worldcoin is taking advantage of the developing world first for a reason. The lure of money is tempting when its tough getting by as it is.

Besides, your free markets aren’t all that free anyway. When the system upon which ā€œFree marketsā€ are based on is itself corrupted, the market isn’t really free. Just look at the Robinhood fiasco. So much for free markets there.

We could argue about the last points for hours, because people will say, yeah but you had a choice! Well, yes and no.

Point being - ā€œfree marketsā€ are not an excuse to ignore the realities of the world and the necessary constraints society puts in place for all of us to function. Let’s not delude ourselves into thinking free markets are the answer to everything. They are not.

Stephan Kinsella is really good on this, page 45 "The Limits of Contract" https://cdn.mises.org/Against%20Intellectual%20Property_2.pdf