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it's about freedom

cents are dollars

dollars are hecto-dollars

ridiculous, can't remember of anything "re-"named by the exact same phrase. and yes, in the BIP it refers to "bitcoin" and BTC. so I cannot refer to bitcoin any longer, when I mean BTC?

it'll cause massive confusion and loose of trust, memes and myths which grew naturally over 16 years. why now, why right at the brink of mass adoption?

unbelievable - confuse the hell out of every newbie for what? last try to prevent mass adoption? 2.1 quadrillions, a term which sounds like high debt in fiat world. 21 million cap, sounds like perfect sound hard money.

I'm always fascinated how mankind is capable of fucking up over and over again. Just let the most perfect invention in millennia be. Don't touch it, don't rename it, don't get people confused before mass adoption. OMG

Wouldn't tamper with that before hyperbitcoinization. It could destroy naturally grown trust over 16 years and confuse people. They will learn. When finally billions use it daily the market will decide what it's called.

Maybe that mindset is a remnant of the dying fiat system and people need to learn that it's not neccessary any longer to lever and outperform and maximalize profits. If nobody can debase your property it's fine to be a humble individual again.

Wouldn't feel free to me owing someone.

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Whenever I visit Germany or the Nordic countries i’m always surprised at that the way everybody just assumes i speak the language. It’s kind of nice, but a little weird too. My mom’s family immigrated to the US in the 1880’s but only switched to speaking English at home because of WWII. For obvious reasons of not being down with the politics of Germany at the time. After the war, they didn’t go back to speaking German, except for songs and keeping cultural traditions.

It’s really interesting to be in a place where your ancestors come from. A few years ago I went to the tiny village of Plath, a couple hours north of Berlin. As far as we know that’s where my family came from. It’s a very small place, a couple hundred houses, a church, a bunch of farms, and no shops or restaurants of any kind. Honestly it didn’t look like any buildings had been built in the last 150 years.

Now when I’m in Germany, like I find myself today, I just feel kind of weird and incompetent when i have to explain that i don’t speak german to everybody I interact with. A few times today, getting through the airport in Munich, they’ve just ignored my protestations that I don’t speak German and went ahead trying to tell me something in German anyway. Maybe they think i’m acting the way German’s claim they don’t speak good english but then proceed to be entirely fluent. Germany isn’t very helpful a language to speak in New Zealand, I’m going to try Te Reo first, but maybe someday i’ll spend more time with focus in a german speaking country and try and learn.

Go to France or Italy once and compare. šŸ˜‚

Gna sit next to the Linux guy and try to convince him to switch to FreeBSD on his servers, until he leaves for the wolves and I can relax finally.