Commodity is a fungible basic good independant of a specific group, which would exclude stocks.

Bitcoin miners are not a specific group much like bankers are not a specific group, nor are gold brokers, but these are general groups. Anyone can become a miner, banker, or gold broker and be a full participant (latter two have gov't regulations), whereas in a stock the specific group of the company determines who can participate in the group upon which the system functions.

Users of Bitcoin do depend on the miners/validator nodes to function, but the miners cannot individually change the supply, only how much energy is used to acquire it. Their influence in Boolean, whether it operates or not, and does not influence the manner in which it operates. In fact, the system operates perfectly well with only one validator. The redundancy is for security and to support the gossip protocol.

It's a tyranny because the pharaoh demanded two parts in ten, twice what God required of the Hebrews. Our wonderful and amazing leadership require three, though, and I for one am proud to pay my fair share 🤡

My 5y/o boy asked me today "what's your favorite thing?" I asked him whether he meant a thing to hold or a thing to do, and he specified activity, followed by "is it making money?" 😂

The blockchain is immutable, like "mutation", meaning it cannot be changed. Nostr makes you uncensorable.

They are securities, since we look to the company in which stick is held for ROI. Commodities do not depend on a specific group of people for ROI.

I guess one definition of "money" would have to be "abstracted commodity." Commodity would be some fungible, exchangeable asset. Gold has initial value as something material and aesthetically pleasing, but it is a good money because it is scarce, fungible, non-consumable, and exchangeable. Those attributes are abstracted from other goods, something that can represent the value of other things one needs.

USD/FRN are only commodities insofar as the current mainstream financial paradigm is concerned, but they will be German marks or Venezuelan pesos in only so many years, which we don't consider commodities.

Bitcoin on the other hand is an abstract basic good with absolute scarcity. It does not depend on a specific group of people like fiat currency does. Fiat currencies are, putting it lightly, non-absolutely scarce abstract basic good. You can at least say that between bitcoin and fiat, the former is the better abstract commodity.

Computations spent in principle, but then itself after mining.

Unless he's pretending to summon demons. He might accidentally be successful.

The earth is a gift. Nature is created and implies a creator. Nothing creates itself. The principle being must be one who must exist logically, something without which realty creases to exist. It is imaginable that nothing we see exists, but it is not imaginable a world in which 1+1>2, for logic transcends nature.

The author of such a language of reality must also transcend nature, something uncreated which makes no sense to create.

God is Existence, Being per se. Existence itself isn't created and cannot be but simply is. God is Goodness, Truth, and Beauty, for these also transcend ours reality but find manifestation and participation in reality.

Those two words are basically antonyms. Chastity is the practiced and formed habit of being in control of sexual desire, whereas "kink" is the indulgence of unusual and often unnatural sexual impulses, aka unhealthy fascination and perversion.

He doesn't mean chastity but getting a kick from rebellion, exchanging bondage or repression for indulgence, and corruption of innocence.

I'd team up with the hero to enable him to defeat the villain later.

Neither, I think. I'd be the inventor from whom the super villain steals his super weapon or whatever.

Looks like both to me

It is the first translation of the entire Canon and hasn't been touched in seventeen centuries, or however long 👌 Seems like a good basis. Readability may be limited 🤷 but that's what the other translations are for 👈

Passive sale of digital product through #BTCPay, #LNBits, or some such tech. That requires you to have a digital product, and putting up the cash/effort to acquire/produce is some risk, but still...

That's a good one too

For reverence: https://americancompass.org/2023-cost-of-thriving-index/

#COTI #costOfThrivingIndex

Not when real wages are half of 30 years ago.

#COTI #costOfThrivingIndex

Patents from 1985 to 2014: "You're not old enough to make such a life altering decision"

Next breath: "Now, to which schools do you want to apply?"