If you’re mining for anonymous sats, the hash rate becomes irrelevant.

Where are we on improving privacy and fungibility to defend against such things? We are in a privacy arms race. Devs need to spend more time on privacy and less time on useless improvements

FOX, MSNBC, CBS, CNN are the entertainment industry.

The corporations that own them profit from your fear, and depend on redirecting your attention from issues that serve the establishment, to issues that have a negligible impact on their pocketbooks

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mQUhJTxK5mA&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

“The only places in the world that don’t have central banks are North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. In 2000, this list suspiciously included Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.”

The BRICS alliance is the world’s response to 73 years of financial exploration, resource theft, privatization of public services, and proxy wars in the name of “spreading democracy.”

Let’s say since NSC 68 was written in 1950.

The Bible said seven years of feast, seven years of famine.

Then the overlords figured that didn’t apply to them, so long as they incorporated everything, wrote their own laws, and controlled the currency.

The only way to successfully evaluate ideas about social structure is to evaluate them on their individual merits. The temptation is to allow our ruling class to bundle them together and package them with a term that they then convince us is bad.

In this way, many of the important liberating philosophies of past social movements are stolen from us using our own cognitive bias and tendency to ad hominem reasoning and the appeal to the masses fallacy.

Awesome :) How’d you do that??

American understanding of the conflict in the Middle East is very much filtered and designed for us. Before doing a mission trip to Palestine, my colleague and I had to seek out a better understanding to separate reality from propaganda. If you’d like to understand the crisis, read Noam Chomsky’s “Fateful Triangle”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/permanent-apartheid-in-palestine-why-israel-wants-to-reactivate-e1-plan/285009/

If we allow ourselves to understand the motivations of corporations, then we will no longer be surprised when they exploit us and abuse the power they have secured for themselves.

Profound book of the month suggestion for Bitcoiners:

Sheldon Wolin, “Democracy Incorporated”

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual’s own.

— Herbert Marcuse

“The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.”

Attributed to either James Madison or to John Adam’s, depending on the source. Likely 1787

“What will it take to convince Americans to turn their backs on empire and war before it’s too late? When will we conclude that Christ wasn’t joking when He blessed the peacemakers rather than the warmongers?”

https://tomdispatch.com/clinging-bitterly-to-guns-and-religion/

There aren’t many people who have had a more profoundly deleterious and less well appreciated effect on the wellbeing of humanity as Henry Kissinger

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Relying on centralized exchanges to onboard people into Bitcoin…relying on YouTube to allow a free flow of Bitcoin Information to the people… are also not proving to be sustainable ways to onboard the people. They would be convenient.

Our protocols are peer to peer by design. This should only confirm our commitment to decentralization and to understand the insidious nature of corporations and their rule over the word.

I get that.

But if you have to ask one of the biggest monopolies in the world to give you permission…to push back against the biggest monopolies in the world, then you haven’t yet pushed back in the right way