What was the source of static electricity? Was it just ambient, or did they apply a field, and in that case how strong in comparison to what can be expected day-to-day?

True, there probably are few to none. However the tried alternatives have been worse (see the Soviet union or East Germany). I don't know if there is a solution that's actually good. Some think that in a perfectly free market, corporations wouldn't grow to such sizes, but I doubt that's correct.

Good idea, but how to make sure they aren't fractionally reserved? If technology became cheap enough, maybe they could contain something similar to an Opendime or Satscard. But it would have to be really cheap, and still there's probably the problem of the UTXOs being too small to be spent.

I very strongly doubt there's anything to this grounding thing. I think it's placebo. But if you believe it, a simple way would be to take a wire from a ground point, whether putting it in the earth literally, or the earth connection of a wall socket, and the other end onto your bed sheets which you have washed with fabric softener. The resistance of the fabric softener treated sheets, even though extremely high, is going to be way lower than that from you to anything exerting an excess or deficit of electrons, i.e. static buildup, effectively grounding you, all night.

Unnecessary. More things that can break. If you just want a toaster that automatically lowers the bread, and also sensed how much it was toasted, that existed ages ago. Check out Technology Connections' video on the Sunbeam toaster.

Hi from Norways neighbor Sweden!

We desperately need such a law. This is one of the instances I'm definitely not agreeing with the hardcore libertarians. Cash is the only thing that can protect financial privacy and partial financial sovereignty in the short-to-medium term, and it's quickly being done away with in this country. I recently read that about half of the stores here don't accept cash!

However, it needs to be more thought through. Many businesses stop accepting cash because they have trouble getting rid of it. A law was passed a few years ago saying that the banks must have some way of depositing cash, but unfortunately they only have machines that accept bills, not coins. (Most bank offices don't handle cash at all.) And there's only one value-transport company, Loomis.

I think a good way to think about this is to turn it around. Whatever your job is - operating a machine, handling a certain kind of documents, etc. - do you think it could be done better through democracy within the company than by yourself? You who obviously have the education and/or talent for it, since you were hired, and the first-hand experience of doing it for however long you've been doing it.

Probably not. And just the time it would take to vote on every button to push, every word to write, etc. would slow things down considerably.

The same goes for the people deciding. That's their job, and if they don't do it properly, they, just like you, risk not getting a raise, getting a pay cut, or being fired. Only not by a superior in the company, but by the market.

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It's not. Incandescents are about 2% efficient. There are different efficiency converters though. A common technology is to rectify and (hopefully) smooth the mains voltage, then put it through a linear current regulator and then to a series string of LEDs with a voltage drop of just a bit less than the resulting voltage. The efficiency of this varies extremely with the applied voltage, the higher the voltage, the less efficient.

Some do, some don't. Not necessarily according to price, but it's more likely that known brands like Philips and Osram (now Ledvance) are flicker-free, or close to it. (They also generally last longer.) I can see the worst offenders just sweeping my gaze across the room, but some people seem to be completely incapable of detecting it, even with tricks like waving a pen.

I hope this comment won't age well, but it wouldn't surprise me if Brunner will push it even harder, even though I know nothing about him. Just because it seems like something that's independent of individual people (at least the visible ones) - many who have been strongly against have made a 180 degree turn when it counted.

So, basically what religion has used to scare grown-ups with in order to make them do what the people in power wants, including dying in wars etc., is considered more child friendly than death. Got it...

Yup. That was about my estimate just looking at it. The question is whether the author of the chart didn't think about it, or intentionally left it out in order to plant a picture that bitcoin is no longer owned by average people.

The majority of BTC is outside these blocks. They should've included an "other" block for comparison.

Control over the internet is strengthening every year. If things continue in the direction they are going, without any pushback from the people - I.E. the beginning of said fixing - bitcoin will be gone as soon as they realize the level of threat it poses to them.

I'm not saying everything needs to be fixed immediately, but if it doesn't start soon, particularly with stopping the buildout of surveillance and censorship online, it never will. Literally never, bar a disaster throwing humanity back to the pre-digital age or further.

Yes! New episode of the best Bitcoin podcast IMO. Will listen at work tomorrow!

Nope, I read through the comments and there were actually a couple lower than me. I won't congratulate or send condolences, since I don't know what they want to do in their lives.

11. Probably the lowest score here. But also many of these are things I don't see as life goals or even something I want to do. E.g. I'm not someone who particularly enjoys traveling, even though one of those questions was a yes. Living in Europe (Sweden), having driven a stick shift vehicle is pretty much a given though, like for most people with licenses here.

I don't remember its name, but I know that I read somewhere that there's a browser plugin that adds a comment section using NOSTR, to any webpage.

On a purely technical level, because I mined some, back when doing so was still profitable for an average person. I thought the governments would quickly ban it, and it would essentially go to zero, so I bought stuff from webshops that accepted it (some of the stuff I still use), but I saved a little bit just in case. Which of course turned out to be a good thing.

I'm not as convinced as most of you that it will survive for a long time and appreciate extremely much more, but I didn't pay that much for it, so I might as well hold on to it, or at least most of it, "just in case it catches on". If it actually becomes the money of the world like most people here think, I wouldn't want to be without, and I'm not the kind of person who likes to have flashy things etc., I never was, and I have a job, so I don't see any immediate want or need to spend it.

I have also mined a little bit more with old tech that works well as a space heater.

War, tyranny, inflation. Maybe seed oils cause the latter though, however of a different kind :-P