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So if they showed the onchain data you would agree that it's not "paper bitcoin"?
It's a spot ETF, which means they have to acquire the Bitcoin. There are other ETFs which they don't have too.
It likely was banned because this photo is from a Taiwanese MacDonald's. The bottom left corner is the word Taiwan, which would have hit their filters.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Self-custodial...
Congrats! It's going to be a great year.
The humble BIP39 passphrase is an under appreciated aspect of Bitcoin custody.
Just cell phones living in the moment.
Not a person in sight. https://video.nostr.build/c1511021ce95928bc625e37ddae0749221b059df48131bfd8eec3b0afc3a247b.mp4
If you don't watch fireworks happening live, why would you watch them later on a small screen?
That is pretty much the current scientific view, billiard balls bouncing into each other, but with quantum uncertainty and no absolute spacetime. Modern science doesn't say anything about value, intrinsic or otherwise. That belongs to the world of human action theories and possibly Aristotleian physics.
This one should really bake your noodle then. Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.

Give a Bitcoiner an on-chain transaction and he eats for a day. Teach a Bitcoiner the way of a really big lightning channel and he eats for a lifetime.
Ultimately science is a belief in a way, but slightly different to most other beliefs. One of the pillars of science is induction, which has no justification. Induction happens to align with our natural functioning, so therefore we accept it as true without any reason to believe otherwise, just like axioms of mathematics.
Speaking of which, science is supported by mathematics, which itself has these underlaying axioms which depend on our belief in them. Combine all this with our rules of logical inference, we get the scientific method, all from a set of basic beliefs that any "rational" person would agree on.
Dark matter and energy are just explanations for observations for the size of galaxies and their increasing acceleration, respectively. Explain that with whatever cosmological model you are using. While you are at it, explain the offsets for GPS, the orbit of Mars, blackholes, gravitational waves, neutron stars, and the cosmological background radiation.
Helicentric model? We've moved on since Copernicus. You have 100 years of physics to catch up on :p
I would take $500. Sounds fun.
Our motion is relative to other objects. Einstien assumed no absolute space, as opposed to Newton, therefore eliminating the concept of absolute motion, in favour of inertial frame of reference.
Our clocks run slower here on the surface of the earth relative to the orbiting GPS satellites, thus if we didn't account for that through General Relativity, then our satellites wouldn't sycronise properly and any measurement of a position would make no sense.
If you have a theory that explains dark matter and energy you're free to give it a crack. There are many physicists that are doing such a thing, questioning some of the base assumptions both Newton and Einstien made, e.g. assuming that space-time is not fundamental, that it is an emergent property of some other phenomenon.
It hurts the most when your priests themselves tell you that there is no experiment one can do to prove the motion of the Earth... because it doesn't move
Relativity is a bunch of shit, Einstein was a fraud. Relativity ended up at dark matter, which is where this bullshit ends.
https://video.nostr.build/7d234e12440cbdf0e223c9063ce40b3301b687c650e1b26c106076321a87b6cc.mp4
If you understand science, the fact that these "high priests" don't have a theory of everything, makes perfect sense. E.g. General Relativity is good enough to explain the motion of planets in our solar system and for us to operate GPS, but has gaps when it comes to the cosmological scale.
Science is about slowly pushing the boundaries of our knowledge forward. It's not perfect. You seem to make an assumption that a theory needs to explain everything for it to be valid, so a theory that does is valid even thou it's a false belief.
Voltare seemed to sum it up, "Doubt is an unpleasant condition, but certainty is absurd".


