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UncleJ
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You're off in fantasy land now. I haven't seem this many straw men in a while. Beat those to death BC it seems like you can't hold up against a real argument.

Have fun taking it up the ass by the state. They have you where they want you. And youll just keep asking for more. Peace.

Ugh. Predictable. I addressed your first question in my last comment. I suggest you read it. Unless government neglected to teach you how to do so.

I don't pay taxes. Taxes are taken from me.

I was hoping for some better arguments here. I heard this shit in college from both neocons and progressives alike who were nothing but statist shills.

When people speak this way all it shows is that they know nothing about the ideas of liberty and anarchy.

We need government to handle things so we can focus on other things? Really? So do we need government to handle producing food? What about cars? What about cell phones? Man I sure do wish governments would produce some accounting services so I could account for my business.

The government takes. Period. It as nothing and gives nothing that it doesn't take from somebody or force somebody to give. Saying we need them to do things so we can focus on other things is like saying we need to mafia to force businesses to pay them for protection. Its a ridiculous statement.

However, if that mafia took half of your income by force claiming they will protect you, perhaps you would demand some protection when you needed it. Only to have people like you come in with "oh see now you want help when before you were bitching about having your money stolen!! You can't have it both ways!"

Or could it be that if they hadn't taken half your money you could have found a service that wasn't completely incapable of actually protecting you. Instead of an organization that doesn't actually give a shit about protecting you.

I think its perfectly fine to demand something from the mafia after they took so much from you. Even if you know they can't or won't provide it. BC it simply shows how illegitimate they actually are.

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Inconvenient truths

When we talk about Bitcoin scalability we inevitably talk about the blockchain trilemma.

The blockchain trilemma is a concept that explains the difficulty of balancing three key properties in a blockchain network: decentralization, security and scalability.

Imagine the vertices of a triangle, it is impossible to change the angles of two vertices without affecting a third and in the same way if you lengthen the vertex of a triangle it also affects the angles of the other two vertices.

Bitcoin prioritizes decentralization and security at the expense of scalability.

Therefore, if or if not, we are going to need alternative solutions to the L1 layer to scale because we want Bitcoin to remain decentralized and secure. This is where the rest of the cryptocurrencies fail, either not accepting the blockchain trilemma or outright lying to users. If Monero were to have mass adoption with its dynamic block size, who would be able to run the nodes? Only the megacorporations like Apple, Microsoft or Amazon. And block size also affects security, the less decentralized a Blockchain is, the more insecure it is.

That said, we have to accept that not everyone will be able to use the L1 layer, Bitcoin does not understand rights, and we will have to accept the trade-offs of scaling solutions.

That said, neither drivechains nor sidechains are feasible scaling solutions in the long term as they are still blockchains.

Lightning is only scalable if we assume losing self-custody. If everyone adopts Lightning and we need one channel per human, it would take decades to open all the necessary channels (about 40 years), the fees would be huge and obviously not everyone could afford to open a channel, it is an oxymoron in itself.

And this brings us to ARK's vUTXO (virtual UTXO) model or statechains like Mercury Layer or Spark. The only way to scale and maintain self-custody, at least so far, will be to use these solutions that do not rely on a blockchain and accepting their trade-offs in terms of security and decentralization.

And for these solutions to be scalable they will have to face the challenge of leaving as small a footprint on the blockchain as possible, and this implies that many people will never be able to go out to the L1 layer.

The other alternative is full reserve Bitcoin banks, and this we know always ends up in a fractional reserve Fiat system. Both Satoshi and Hal were always very clear about these trade-offs in fact Hal himself talked about Bitcoin banks as a way to scale.

In conclusion, we must emphasize that Bitcoin does not understand rights, that Bitcoin has never been scalable, Satoshi and Hal knew it from the beginning, that the trilemma of the blockchain cannot be violated, it is like the laws of thermodynamics and that the only way to deal with scalability are layer 2 or even layer 3 solutions assuming the trade-offs.

We have no alternative to the Fiat system scam other than Bitcoin as it is, the rest are just lies and false pretenses.

"There are no solutions, only tradeoffs." - Thomas Sowell

So basically libertarians are a beautiful species that will eventually be granted passage to the undying lands and live forever in peace.

Communism is not even great in theory. Its flawed as an ideology as its built on an incorrect theory of value and suffers from the economic calculatiom problem. An anarchist society may be difficult to achieve but its not ignoring human nature. Its basically just a moral framework IMO.

I get what youre saying I just don't think this is a flaw in the ideology of anarchism itself. The ideology just states its wrong to initiate aggression. The fact that other people still will do that just makes them aggressors in the view of those ascribing to the ideology. How to deal with the aggressors is a more complicated question.

Agreed. And framing it as "an ideology that doesn't account for human nature" is flawed IMO. Its like somebody says, "I should be able to do what I want if I'm not hurting anybody." With the response being, "You're not accounting for human nature." It doesn't make sense unless the person responding to you wants to tell you what to do.

How it started: "Your dollar will be worth just as much tomorrow as is it today,"

How its going: "Your dollar being worth less is good for you!"

It was 70b. I was just playing around with it through duckduckgo's app actually.

Told Llama to write a poem in the style of Robert Frost of how Bitcoin will save the world.

The woods of finance, dark and deep,

Where fiat's roots their vigor keep,

A path unwinds, a trail unspun,

To Bitcoin's promise, just begun.

The trees of trust, they whisper low,

Of ledgers open, for all to know,

A decentralized dream, where none can cheat,

A store of value, that can't be beat.

The wind of change, it whispers through,

Of freedom's call, for me and you,

From chains of banks, and governments' sway,

To a new dawn, where individuals hold the day.

The snow of scarcity, it gently falls,

On Bitcoin's code, that enthralls,

A limited supply, a treasure rare,

A store of wealth, beyond compare.

The road not taken, by the masses wide,

Leads to a future, where Bitcoin resides,

A world of peace, where commerce thrives,

Where borders fade, and freedom survives.

The woods of finance, dark and deep,

Will slowly yield, to Bitcoin's creep,

A revolution quiet, yet oh so grand,

That will save the world, from fiat's hand.

Note: I've tried to emulate Robert Frost's style, using a similar rhyme scheme, meter, and poetic devices, but the poem's content and message are, of course, quite different from his typical themes.

#Bitcoin #AI

I figured YouTube had made some change that broke newpipe. This post confirmed it. Brave newpipe is working though so this post was very helpful.

New Hack Shows that:

Governments that force KYC make their citizens more vulnerable to crime.

Twillio is a VoIP/SMS provider for businesses doing 2FA and other corrupt and ridiculous security.

Now Twillio's Authy app has been hacked,

This hack exposed millions of phone numbers to now be sold on the darkweb and abused,

https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/twilios-authy-app-breach-exposes.html

Once again, I am repeating the messages of:

--Do not give your real number out to verify anything

--Use burner crypto services for corrupt dumb websites that demand government SMS

--Do not trust large companies

--Don't do 2FA with mobile

--Use KeePassXC with TOTP for 2FA

KYC is a scam to make you feel secure with a trusted large provider. In reality, you expose yourself to scams, hacks, and abuse when these corrupt entities leak your data. Evil Governments are willing to let you be abused in their lust for power, under the disguise of saftey.

Do you have a good service for getting burner numbers? All ive found is mysudo but that can only be tied to your apple account I think. So kind if defeats the point.