It's all fun and games until one day you go through your normal routine of getting up to take your morning piss and have to kick 5 people out of your way and step over the rest... Then convince them that cleaning your house builds character... While they end up breaking and stealing your shit during the partying and the clean up.

I had over 5k in video games fucked up in less than a year because people are lazy and can't even put shit back in the case... Nvm using a coaster or ashtray properly.

Impervious.ai has been going this route with forking a browser, might be the simplest way to have it implemented: an existing product still early in development

We need a massive bounty for somebody to fork a browser.

Congrats! Sad to see the boring and forgetable cover art though.

Author proofs so that I can check the details.

The gray stripe is a not-for-resell indicator as an author proof.

Orange circuits grow across the cover, representing the future.

Welcome back Mr. "bye bye 👋" 😂

You bring up some fair points about data centers.

What draws more energy and produces more heat/noise?Your average CPU or ASIC? Disingenuous to imply it is anywhere near the same level.

If I buy a bitcoin ASIC miner it is obvious what it is and what I'm going to do with it. If I buy a general purpose CPU you have no clue what I'm using it for. You don't even need to buy one you likely have several lying around.

Welcome back Mr. "bye bye 👋" 😂

You bring up some fair points about data centers.

What draws more energy and produces more heat/noise?Your average CPU or ASIC? Disingenuous to imply it is anywhere near the same level.

If I buy a bitcoin ASIC miner it is obvious what it is and what I'm going to do with it. If I buy a general purpose CPU you have no clue what I'm using it for. You don't even need to buy one you likely have several lying around.

And I can pick at tight ASIC manufacturer chokepoints, vulnerable corporate mining farm centralization, and less than discrete energy draw, heat, and noise.

But fair enough, we choose our trade offs.

Yes. Long term value that comes from a scarce fixed supply (no inflation). That is my point.

Bitcoin has been a great SoV so far. But ~14 years is hardly "longterm". Extrapolating into the future is speculation.

If microscopic inflation and privacy improving hardforks from a FOSS project still scare you...don't save in Monero. Use it.

This. Tbf I can't blame bitcoiners being traumatized by fiat inflation.

But what makes fiat inflation terrible is the unpredictable and severe nature. Monero is neither. Less inflation than gold and % is constantly shrinking.

But sure, if all goes as planned, technically, Bitcoin is more scarce in the future no argument from me about that.

PV. Here is your morning serving of bull juice, courtesy of Blackrock (and Mike Hobart).

That was probably the most bullish thing I have ever read lmao

Not in our lifetimes. And as you said, both bitcoin and monero could easily hard fork for something else.

The unfounded part is that they would be able to.

There's also motivation to break sha256 with quantum computers. Will that happen? Probably not, it's literally just FUD.