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"Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us—and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, a world of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who saunters along.

An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth—scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books—might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism.

We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?"

— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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botrift.com 🚀

Our service is designed for people who cannot make Lightning payments directly, but want to quickly convert small amounts of sats into USDT. This allows them to load funds onto everyday payment solutions like Revolut or MetaMask cards and make simple micro-transactions such as buying a coffee.

Additionally, in some countries the average transaction size—both for daily spending and small investments—is very low, and users lack affordable tools for handling these amounts. We provide an easy, low-cost way for them to participate in digital payments and financial services that fit their economic reality.

Kodo⚡️ 1mo ago 💬 1

Sorry, but could you put it more simply? We're not at a financial conference, after all :) I don't want to sound like an arrogant asshole, but I think you need to change your style from formal to informational.

We often think that if we speak in official language, like bankers, we look smarter and more respectable. But that's a business mistake.

If a consumer doesn't understand how they can use your product, they will go to your competitor.

I read your posts here and didn't understand anything. That's why I asked you a question.

We can divide our clients into different groups, from university smart alecks to Texas farmers. The former will understand the meaning of your posts, while the latter won't. Ultimately, you'll sacrifice the latter for the former. Is that the goal of your business? Even famous brands advertise and explain their products in simple language.

But to win more clients, it's not enough to speak in simple terms. You have to talk about a specific life scenario every time. We understand better when we can visualize what we're being told. That's why you should tell the client a real-life scenario.

For example, you want to buy a coffee and a slice of your favorite pie, but the cafe won't accept your satoshi? No need to look for an exchanger and make the cashier and people in line behind you nervous. We'll pay for your coffee and pie the moment you deposit satoshi in our app...

However, this example will attract a university smart aleck, but it won't convince a Texas farmer. Because it's not from his life. Therefore, you must publish different scenarios for different clients. To do this, you must study the lives of a farmer, a policeman, a petty clerk, a school teacher, an auto mechanic, a store clerk, a taxi driver, or the president.

Pay attention to the pictures in your posts. They don't paint a picture of my life in my mind. Dead buttons, text input fields, dry interface words. People like to look at people, not at information boards. So, if you're writing about a coffee scenario, give me a picture of a cafe, a cashier with a payment terminal. Even better if you give me two pictures: the first negative, where the client is without your product, and the second positive, where you helped them.

Conclusion. Once again, please don't be mad at me. I don't want to seem like an arrogant asshole. I just want to help because your product deserves recognition. Thank you!

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Economista Austriaco

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Kodo⚡️ 1mo ago 💬 2

If you have both #bitcoin and shitcoins you are not a bitcoiner with shitcoins.

You are a shitcoiner with bitcoins. 😊

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Bitcoiner Girl

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What country are these figures for?

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botrift.com 🚀

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Kodo⚡️ 1mo ago 💬 1

What use cases might your customers have?

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Economista Austriaco

For a preview of what to expect from my new book, The Gold Standard, here is the introduction:

The invention of bitcoin has kindled interest in monetary history, offering people a historically unparalleled opportunity to experience firsthand the transformative potential of upgrading monetary technology. In 2018, I published The Bitcoin Standard, a book that focused on monetary history and monetary economics, explaining the problem of money over millennia in order to illustrate bitcoin’s true potential and historical significance. In 2021, I published The Fiat Standard, which also focused on monetary history and economics to explain the functioning of fiat money and its far-reaching implications. In 2023, I published Principles of Economics, a book that explained the economics of human action and detailed how civilization emerges from the cooperation of individuals. All three books offered readers a departure from the usual approach of modern economics books, in that they challenged the inevitability and desirability of government-controlled money and illustrated its many devastating impacts on individuals and society.

A central theme through all three books is that human civilizational progress is inextricably linked with the hardness of our money: the harder the money is to make, the less its supply will increase over time, the better it will hold its value, and the more it will allow its holder to provide for the future more effectively, decreasing the uncertainty surrounding the future, and causing us to discount the future less. In other words, hard money makes us more future-oriented, lowering our time preference, which is what initiates the process of civilization. As we increasingly value the future more, we defer immediate gratification in favor of long-term rewards. We save our resources for the future and invest them to increase our productivity. We control our base instincts and passions, subduing them to our reason, which calculates what is in our long-term interest. We cooperate and resolve differences peacefully because we recognize that the long-term benefits of peaceful cooperation far outweigh the short-term advantages of aggression. We engage in trade and build a highly sophisticated division of labor. If practiced over generations, this process of civilization manifests as a continuous increase in the material well-being of a society, with each generation living better than the previous generation.

The obverse is also true, unfortunately. The easier money is to produce, the more its supply increases and its value declines over time, the less it will allow us to provide for our future selves, increasing the uncertainty surrounding the future, and causing us to discount the future more. In other words, easy money makes us more present-oriented, raising our time preference, which is what destroys the process of civilization. As we discount the future more, we consume our resources with little regard for the future. Saving and capital investment decline. We are more likely to act to satisfy our present urges at the expense of our future well-being, since it matters increasingly less. We are less likely to cooperate and resolve differences peacefully, which compromises our division of labor and, in turn, our productivity. Much of the history of the past century has reflected this civilizational decline. The collapse of society witnessed under hyperinflation is just a faster and more noticeable version of the same process that slow fiat inflation brings about.

A contentious thesis for many, yet one that has found support among a growing worldwide readership with more than a million copies sold across 39 languages. I believe much of the books’ success is due to their ability to explain to readers many of the phenomena they experience as they use different forms of money. The more I wrote and spoke about the impacts of money on time preference, the more stories I would hear from readers and listeners about their own personal experiences with inflation and how moving to bitcoin helped them become more future-oriented, as well as their countries’ experiences with inflation and hyperinflation through the century of fiat money. Everywhere, there are countless stories to tell of how the destruction of money leads to the destruction of economic security and the destruction of civilization.

Pervading all three of my books is a deep sense of historical regret over a world that could have been—a world where money escaped the grip of the state, was chosen freely on the market, and constantly increased in market value, allowing savings, protecting from government and central bank debasement, and limiting government power by restricting its funding to transparent taxation. Countless times when examining one particular aspect of fiat’s devastation of humanity, I would find myself wondering how different things could have been, how much prosperity was lost, and how much human suffering could have been averted. For years, I have found myself drifting off into lengthy thought experiments around the question: What would the twentieth century have looked like on a hard money standard? We can see how consequential the reduction in the value of money is in episodes of hyperinflation, high inflation, and even low inflation. We can see the impact upgrading from easy money to harder money has on individuals, as the stories of bitcoiners attest. And we can see how hard money is already showing signs of transforming President Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador. Every time I observe one of these phenomena, I wonder how different the world would have been in the past century had it used hard money. In many interviews, I would be asked such questions and I would find myself overflowing with ideas for answers, my mouth unable to articulate them at the rate at which my mind produces them. That feeling is what puts fire in my fingers and gets them itching to pound them into my keyboard, systematically exploring and elaborating on them, culminating in the production of a book.

It would have been a natural continuation of my first two books on bitcoin and fiat to complete the series by writing a new book stretching back further in time to study the gold standard, its workings, and the implications for society. However, that book was already written in 2001 by the late Swiss banker Ferdinand Lips, under the title Gold Wars: The Battle Against Sound Money As Seen From A Swiss Perspective. That book was one of my inspirations for writing The Bitcoin Standard, and I learned a lot from it; most of its important ideas have already been reflected in my three books. A more interesting question was to examine the failings of the gold standard and why it was replaced by fiat money.

There were many imperfections in the gold standard during the nineteenth century. Even at its best, it fell short of the ideal form of a gold standard in which all monetary instruments are backed by 100% of their face value in gold in the vaults of the issuer. The classical gold standard still allowed for the creation of money and credit far in excess of the amount of gold held in reserve. What would happen if we had a perfect gold standard? What would the world look like if no entity were capable of creating money without opportunity cost? This question, along with the question of what the twentieth century would have looked like on hard money, inspired the writing of The Gold Standard.

This book builds upon the ideas from my three previous books on the importance of monetary soundness and applies them to a series of elaborate questions: What would the world look like if we had a gold standard in the twentieth century? What if, instead of downgrading from an imperfect gold standard to the catastrophic fiat standard at the beginning of the twentieth century, the world had upgraded to a better gold standard? Given everything we know about the impact of hard money, just how different would a hard money twentieth century have been? What would life be like with constantly appreciating money and declining prices? What would have happened if governments had not financed themselves through inflation in the last century without accountability? How much less blood would have been shed had governments had to fight their wars with their own treasuries without having recourse to inflation to rob all their citizens? How would living standards and wages change? How would the state and banking have evolved? What would have happened to education, technology, politics, and our production of energy?

The Gold Standard attempts to answer these questions with a fictional economic history of an alternative twentieth century in which the fiat money experiment fails in 1915. Since money is pervasive in all aspects of life, I endeavoured to make this as realistic as possible. Rather than simply assuming the monetary system I want and shaping the world around it, I chose to construct a history that could have conceivably led to this monetary transition taking place, thereby producing realistic historical developments throughout the century. When considering scenarios for an alternative history, there are many historical junctures where an author could take the liberty of choosing a different outcome from reality, thereby changing history. Franz Ferdinand’s assassin’s gun could have jammed, and the conflict between Serbia and Austria would have been averted, preventing the snowball of war that was to consume the planet. Austria’s old Emperor Franz Joseph could have easily died a week before his crown prince nephew, Franz Ferdinand, traveled to Bosnia, making him emperor and potentially preventing his modernizing influence from causing conflict with Serbia and Russia altogether. However, such simple changes do not address the underlying historical and economic factors that led to the war, and thus would not offer a convincing rationale for the fundamental historical change. The same governments and central banks that went to war in 1914 could have gone to war a few years later with similar consequences. It was essential for me to alter a fundamental aspect of the monetary technology of the time to make this story engaging and realistic. Economists of the Austrian school have long emphasized the pivotal role entrepreneurship plays in changing history, and since this is an Austrian economist’s book, I chose to make it a work of entrepreneurial fiction. It is an entrepreneur who creates a business that causes the world to undergo significant change, and the business idea draws inspiration from the creation of bitcoin, exactly 100 years later. In essence, this book asks: What would have happened if something like bitcoin had existed in 1911?

The fork in reality from which this book originates begins in February 1910, with an imaginary letter that was to advance the development of the aviation industry in the following years. A few entrepreneurs established an airplane-based international gold clearance service in 1911, and it would have a drastic impact on the world in 1915, during the war. Outside of the aviation industry, all of the world’s major events remain the same in this story until September 1915, when the fiat money experiment fails and our alternative history begins in earnest. The years 1914–15 were of extraordinary historical importance, as they gave birth to the monetary system and world order in which we live today. By introducing developments that are not entirely outlandish to the aviation industry, this book derails the fiat money experiment in its infancy and strangles the fiat century in its crib, inviting you, dear reader, to teleport yourself via the power of imagination to this alternative world and think deeply about what it would have looked like.

When considering how best to write this thought experiment, I had considered writing a fictional novel, a history book that’s partly factual and partly imaginary, and a fictional economics textbook. Each of these three forms of writing would have been ideal for some part of the thought experiment but would have been too cumbersome and unworkable for all of it. The history book can explain the political and economic realities of the world in the early twentieth century, which is essential for playing out the thought experiment for the century. The novel is a good tool to introduce and explore the technological and entrepreneurial story that changes the course of history by focusing on the pivotal individuals involved. The economics textbook can provide an overview of the economic history of the alternative twentieth century. But each of these tools has its limitations. It would not have been very engaging to study the economics of the twentieth century through a fake history book that takes the reader through fake historical events with anything close to the level of detail needed to explain real historical events, and I even think it would have been disrespectful to the reader’s time to spend too much time dwelling on fake history, when the point is to get to the economics. Nor could the economics of the twentieth century have been fruitfully explained through a novel playing out over a century. An economic history book would not have been able to construct an elaborate and realistic story for why history changed in 1915, without getting into the personal stories of the pivotal individuals in the same way a novel can.

After much thought and consideration, my independent publisher self granted my author self the permission to do something strange, which, to my knowledge, has never been tried before: write a book that’s a mix of a novel, a history book, and an economics textbook. I hope the reader appreciates the variety!

The book is divided into five Parts. They are constructed as follows:

Part I: The Old World

Based on real-world history, covering events up to September 1915. All the facts presented here are historically accurate in our real world, to the best of my knowledge. Some of these facts may appear made-up and outlandish, but they are real.

Part II: Capital Flight

The story transitions to an alternative history of aviation, which begins in February 1910, and leads to a different outcome for World War I and the rise of a new world order. Events in this section are almost entirely fictional.

Part III: The Modern World

Examines how a modern gold standard would work and how states and banks might have evolved in this alternative timeline. This part contains a mix of real historical events, which are things that happened before September 1915, and fictional events, which happened after that date.

Part IV: The Century of Affluence

Explores changes in living standards, energy, technology, society, and education over the twentieth century under the gold standard.

Part V: Postscript from Fiat World

This final section overviews the story and timeline of the previous chapters, providing commentary from the perspective of our real world, comparing the economic outcomes of this thought experiment to our fiat world.

Important notes:

All historical events happening before September 1915 are real, and all events happening from September 1915 onwards are fictional. Events in the history of the aviation industry are an exception, as these are real up to January 1910 but fictional from February 1910 onward.

All referenced quotes are genuine quotes by the quoted person. All quotes without references are fictional.

Get your copy from:

Saifedean.com (hardcover, audiobook, ebook, and exclusive signed editions) or Amazon (hardcover, paperback, audiobook, ebook)

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The second book retold the first book in different words, adding 10% new facts and thoughts. I'm afraid the third book will also repeat the second and first with slight differences.

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Annonymal

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Kodo⚡️ 2mo ago 💬 1

I thought it was Sepultura. They also have a video in the desert.

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You haven't had Rick from England on your podcasts for a long time. Is he okay?

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SeedSigner ("the man")

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Bitcoin, mathematics? Seriously? We’re talking about human lives lost. Innocent lives. Families erased, homes ruined. This ain’t about statistics. Be it 30k or 300k, what does it matter? It’s equally horrendous. Not everything has to be about Bitcoin. Sometimes it’s just about your moral compass, and that isn’t an exact science.

human death is a tragedy. you are right. but that is not what i said. i explained why i paid attention to your quantitative conclusions. you said about a small error in calculation and the ratio of 1/10. and i asked why such conclusions.

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Even a one dead kid is one kid too much. Are you a Zionist propagandist?

no. i am a bitcoiner. and bitcoin is mathematics. mathematics is an exact science. it does not tolerate uncertainty in those questions that require precision. if i make a conclusion, i must justify it. for example, if i say that many people were killed, i must say how many. of course, killing even one person is a tragedy. but you did not say exactly that. you said that people made a slight mistake in their calculations. that even 1/10 is a lot. so i, as a bitcoiner, asked myself: why a slight mistake, a slight mistake in relation to what number, and why did the arbitrary value 1/10 get into the reasoning?

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So they exaggerated the numbers. Even if it’s a 1/10th of the claimed number, I think we can all agree it’s too much.

To say a lot or a little, you need to know exactly how much. How much did they exaggerate? What is the exact amount? We don't know.

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Cyph3rp9nk

And what about the terrorists of the state of Israel?

You didn't answer my question: how would you fight terrorists on the territory of these states?

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Cyph3rp9nk

How many speeds does a Jew have?

Two:

-Playing the victim

-Attacking their neighbors

Countries and regions attacked by Israel:

Yemen

Lebanon

Syria

Gaza

West Bank

Qatar

Iran

and what about the terrorists who are in these territories?

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Link please?

https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/post.aspx?lang=en&ItemID=6022

https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/post.aspx?lang=en&ItemID=5901

341,790 is the MAXIMUM (unrealistic)

Because the statistics bureau says that 15% of the population are children aged 0-4 (even if we imagine that 2 million people live in the Gaza Strip (which is not true) - 15% of 2 million is 300 thousand. This was in 2024, therefore we add the birth rate index IN PEACETIME (although I somehow doubt that during a war they give birth there as in peacetime) and we get a MAXIMUM of 341 thousand children under 5 years of age.

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680k vs 1.4k in October 7. But “IsRAeL hAs tHe RiGht tO dEfEnD iTsElf”…

According to the Gaza Bureau of Statistics, there are 341,790 children under 5 years of age living there.

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CarteBlanche

The entire federal government of the United States should be able to fit in one office building.

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Why do they need an office building? Let them work remotely.

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moonsettler

what about project spartacus? classified documents are inscribed to bitcoin, without OP_RETURN. you know that, they know you know that. it is a crime legally speaking to store and propagate it.

I didn't know about that. Another problem.

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Unfortunately, you’re not wrong. I’ve been closely following this development since 2023. I tried seeing the other side’s arguments for its merits. Honestly, it doesn’t have much, if any.

Kodo⚡️ 3mo ago 💬 3

and every #bitcoin_knots node becomes an unwitting accomplice of criminals, because it will be forced to store the csam that miners included in the blockchain, and will also be forced to distribute csam throughout the network. #bitcoin_core are headed straight to jail. for me, this is not a big problem, because they are adults and have the right to build their own future. but I care when bitcoin_core drags me and other bitcoin_knots owners to jail. as a lawyer, I see only one way to save myself: a hard fork. and the hard fork must happen before September 30th, so that the new branch cannot load csam that may appear after September 30th. I don’t see any other technical way to save myself and my node. and also. imagine if, in addition to child pornography, someone posts government secrets on the blockchain. imagine how quickly federal agents will come to our homes. i am not against a new Snowden. I am against him killing bitcoin.

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So things are even more serious than we thought.

i'm afraid so. i don't want to be alarmist because i don't understand the technical side of bitcoin. maybe i'm wrong. god forbid i'm wrong. otherwise the police will destroy all the nodes and bitcoin will die.

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Yes, but at least Knots nodes won’t relay unconfirmed op returns with the rest of the network. Core 30 will.

Kodo⚡️ 3mo ago 💬 5

This will not save us in court. From a criminal law perspective, we will be guilty of storing and distributing csam. The police will charge us with the following: We understood the socially dangerous nature of storing csam on a computer and distributing it online, we understood the socially dangerous nature of the consequences of our actions, but we did not turn off our nodes, thereby creating favorable conditions for the creators of csam to commit a crime. If you store and transport someone else's drugs in your car, it does not matter that you did not manufacture or sell them. You are already guilty as an accomplice, at the very least.

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Luke Dashjr

Hence it's not enough to just use Knots yourself, but the network as a whole must reject Core 30

https://youtu.be/4IUtUrKet30?si=yQAThHwyBh2L-1fY

yes, that's what i meant. if governments start arresting all bitcoin node holders as members of an international criminal organization, then they will paralyze bitcoin. every new node will automatically download the entire blockchain, and therefore all the csam nastiness. and every new node will be attacked by the police. we won't be able to support the network by launching new nodes, because the police will start hunting us. we need a hard fork. and we need to launch it before september 30th, so that it doesn't absorb csam.

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Luke Dashjr

For years, there has been FUD that Bitcoin's blockchain could be criminalised by storing CSAM on it.

For years, the answer has always been that Bitcoin doesn't support data storage, and the offending content is not the blockchain itself, but the additional software used to transform the blockchain into CSAM.

By sanctioning data storage, Core 30 is eliminating that argument. There will no longer be any additional software required, your Bitcoin node itself will provide CSAM on demand, using a well-defined and officially supported format.

The very reason "CSAM on the chain" was FUD, is being _destroyed_ by Core 30. They are making it a _true_ accusation. No amount of obfuscation will change this fact.

This is not the _only_ reason to reject Core 30. But even if it was, it would _still_ be strong reason to do so.

Kodo⚡️ 3mo ago 💬 7

if most nodes upgrade to core 30, and csam penetrates the blockchain, then csam will be preserved on knots. am i right?

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SeedSigner ("the man")

If you accept sponsorship money from HWW companies that act aggressively towards open source projects...

AND aren’t sharing your podcast or conference platform with those building DIY/FOSS cold storage tools...

There's a question you should maybe be asking yourself.

Kodo⚡️ 5mo ago 💬 2

I don't understand why it is dangerous to use raspberry pi?

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mar

Only if Trump is the leader of the party.

Kodo⚡️ 5mo ago 💬 1

I don't understand why there is a need to create a new party when there is a libertarian party? The libertarian party is: a developed foundation of the Austrian School of Economics, a ready-made political structure, a clear program, the embodiment of the original spirit of freedom. This party lacks the material resources that Elon could provide, without exacerbating relations with the authorities.

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Luke Dashjr

Don't let the bad actors trick you into thinking Bitcoin Core 30 allows you to re-enable the datacarrier limit:

1) Along with unlimiting the default, they also broke it further. datacarriersize=83 now (as of Core 30) allows for 83 outputs totalling 830 bytes of spam, instead of just 92 bytes of spam (9 bytes of which couldn't be arbitrary) as in Core 29 and earlier.

2) datacarriersize is marked as deprecated, and explicitly planned to be removed in a future release (likely silently, since "it's already deprecated").

3) Core never fixed the Inscription exploits (CVE-2023-50428 and CVE-2024-34149) which allow spammers to bypass the datacarriersize limit.

The only way forward now is a mass migration to Knots. Not the way I wanted things to go, but Core has given us no other choice. Once this is resolved, we should avoid putting all our eggs in one basket, and encourage the creation and use of multiple clients.

Kodo⚡️ 6mo ago 💬 2

if there is a fork, will i need to transfer my coins to the new chain or will it happen automatically?

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ZEUS

This is great.

Is this Prometheus?

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OΞHI ⚡️🧡 (111k Gang)

SeedSigner?

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aidan

Nobody is demanding them to improve that, though adhering to the requests for more balanced hiring practices will no doubt improve the quality of their humanities courses.

Again, the letter is about their objective failure to provide a top-class education to America’s best and brightest, irrespective of their race, religious beliefs or background.

So what specifically is the issue beyond masks?

The mask issue needs to be addressed. Any owner has the right to set any rules within their property. If you don't agree with the owner's rules, don't use that property. If you don't like the government's rules, refuse their money and move on. I used to think that bitcoiners should follow this simple libertarian rule. But now I see that not everyone does.

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Vitor Pamplona

This administration's attack on universities is equivalent to Operation Choke Point, just on the other side. They pretend they are not doing it and base their claims on bogus reports, just like the previous administration did with crypto. It's more of the same: the state being the state and trying to control speech.

Kodo⚡️ 8mo ago 💬 6

1. If a Jewish student is not allowed onto the university premises, then his property rights are violated. According to the libertarian rule, no one has the right to encroach on someone else's property. If I have paid for an academic year at a university, I have the right to receive an education at this university for a year. If I am not allowed onto the university premises, then I am not being allowed to receive the educational service I have paid for. Islamists have the right to protest on their own property, but not on someone else's. University property is not the property of Islamists. 2. By property we mean not only property, but also the physical body of a person. Including the body of a Jewish student. Encroachment on someone else's property is unacceptable. There are several ways to encroach on someone else's property: by causing harm directly, by aiding the direct perpetrator, by inciting the direct perpetrator, and by other means known to criminal law. Supporting Hamas means supporting terrorism and the violation of someone else's property by inciting and aiding violence.