“Large” is not a number. “Large” to who? This is the problem with the Orange and Purple People; they’re parochial, insular and navel gazing.
It’s not a general problem; it’s a problem with them and contained in them, and so, it will be overcome very quickly once all the pieces are in place.
And it’s all coming together. Isn’t that special?
That three letter word “Buy” leaves out a multitude of sins. That’s the problem. It’s being worked on.
As bitcoin crosses $100,000 there are still people out there, who absolutely should know better, who are directing users to buy it from KYC Gulag Services.
Out of one side of their mouths, they complain about censorship, government overreach and tyranny, but out of the other they openly promote bad services that abuse users. Why?
Worst of all, they do this to people who are new to bitcoin, giving them a completely false impression that it is a requirement for you to identify yourself to use bitcoin.
What is wrong with these people?
What's wrong with them is that their thinking is incomplete, and they have a slave mentality, brought about by years of being in opposition.
Also, many of the services people recommend are USA only, which is yet another arbitrary restriction. Why is it so hard for people to think?
They simultaneously want bitcoin to change the world, but refuse to help it do that, by recommending inferior services that will not move that ball forward.
I'm sorry to report, dear reader, that it will always be like this; there is an upper limit to the imaginations of the majority of people, even very clever and expert ones, that prevents them from connecting the dots.
It's a tragedy that people who also have large platforms don't take that responsibility seriously. But there it is.
Not to worry; bitcoin is going to spread and dominate globally without them, just as it reached $100,000 without their aid.
As Bitcoin crosses $100,000USD read:
“Man From The Future Shares His Story” from June 29, 2011 By michaelsuede
President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on bitcoin: “Everyone will strive to reduce costs and increase reliability"
And of course, "increase reliability" means not using western payment rails that are riddled with and plagued by fraud at every level (from the fact that fraudulent fiat currencies are what is being mediated, to the fact that impersonation is rampant, both of which are eliminated by bitcoin), but settling on bitcoin which eliminates both, and the systemic risk of having Uncle Sam being the controller of the currency and the payment rails, enabling him to both steal from your citizens, expose them to fraud and surveillance and weaponize the payment rais as "Sanctions" levers.
No.
Bitcoin is the answer to all of this, and it's incredible that it has taken Russia so long to understand this reality.
Now that they do, spurred on by GEPOTUS openly threatening them like a gangster, perhaps Russia and BRICS will go full retard for Bitcoin. If they do this, they cannot lose.
Just as the International Community rejected the CDMA mobile phone standard for GSM, and America grudgingly followed along, the entire world can settle on Bitcoin and American will join in.
BRICS winning does not mean America losing by the way.
BRICS winning means America wins.
Only America has the political system and the software engineering culture and genius to pull off becoming the world's centre for bitcoin.
They did it with Silicon Valley and will do it with bitcoin.
Other cultures cannot compete with American culture. Think about it; do you really believe that FRANCE can compete with America as a centre of software businesses? Or Britain? No one in their right mind is thinking about incorporating in INGSOC to establish offices in Shoreditch.
INGSOC in particular were warned about this:
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/b%C2%B3-boris-bitcoin-britain-3cbb57751aa7
again..
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/priti-patel-is-wrong-about-encryption-5bbfaab62cc1
and again...
and again...
and so they can't say they were not warned.
Russia is in a unique position to weaponize bitcoin and Americanism against Americans.
They can leverage BRICS to adopt bitcoin, and at the same time, obliquely encourage America to "FOMO" into unleashing American genius to protect itself from dedollarization by deregulating bitcoin businesses (which they are already obliged to do by law: https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794) causing bitcoin to be the absolute winner.
You couldn't make it up if you tried...and you don't have to...it's REAL!
Signal is not perfect, therefore, do not communicate or coordinate with anyone. Stay in your silo, inert and neutralised, watching the world burn while you are “safe” from being meta data spied on.
Meanwhile other protocols that are fundamentally ill conceived or weak or flawed get a pass, “because purple”, “because e-commerce”, “because Orange”, “because there nothing better than democracy”, etc, etc.
There are now many developers and software entrepreneurs, and a few software developer entrepreneurs, and a few software developer entrepreneurs who are not cowards.
There are enough of the latter intersection to completely change the world for the better, and it doesn’t matter what anyone “thinks” about what they’re doing or whether or not it’s fit for any particular purpose.
Central to their power is the ability to grasp scale and properly assess threats. They don’t suffer from Mind Blindness; they understand that software is about serving people, and not about perfection. They also don’t make breathless impossible claims or promises either, or let weak minded fanboy imaginations run wild…
These are the people, the focussed, determined and most importantly, fearless people who get things done for people, who are…PROTIP: Real. nostr:note1qqqy29072nvdvlqvx58wusuzd3uqekrtm74d8pprfqackeur78nqjzyta3
“If President Biden is pardoning his son, we are pardoning Ross on DAY ONE.”
Why wait? If you have this power, why not pardon him right now?
PROTIP: The people don't have the power of pardon; only GEPOTUS has that power in January.
And what happened to "simping for Trump"? Now you have to simp for Trump for Trump to Free Ross!
Oh dear, how things change!
Some people are so delusional it beggars belief. Why not start small, and do what you can do in your own small way, and stop exposing people to the threat of identity theft?
Start with the small things, then build up to storming the Bastille and freeing Ross with an army of Bitcoiners bearing pitchforks at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson, Genius.
Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.
“But there is a problem.”
You can hear type? Fascinating!
Stop swearing. It makes you look unintelligent.
Is “Socialist Nostr” a real phenomenon? I’m beginning to suspect that it is. Tsk tsk tsk SHAMEFUL!