Privacy thread...

If you want to help the privacy movement, but you're not very technical, you can still contribute...

You can run a Tor 'middle' relay. Your computer could then donate bandwidth to anonymous Tor traffic. You have no legal risk or obligations as the traffic comes to you encrypted and leaves encrypted.

There are other types of relays, like Gaurd, Exit, and Bridge relays that are not as straightforward, still legal, but can attract pesky law enforcement letters and can give you a headache. Some think it's worth it.

With Parmanode, if you run it on Linux, it's easy to set up, just a few menu choices, and it's automatically configures it for you. I offer the 'middle relay' only to keep it simple. The default values allow up to 100Gb per month at 200 kilobytes per second max flow. You can change it if you know how to tweak the config files, but this seems like a conservative amount for most people who might have 'unlimited' internet data plans.

Just install it and let it run in the background, there's nothing to do. If your computer restarts, the tor relay will start itself. If you are sick of it, you can uninstall it cleanly with the Parmanode menu.

Parmanode is available on Mac, but on Macs, the Tor stuff works differently, so I have not made this particular add-on available - Linux only, sorry. I have guides on how you can set up a Linux computer on an old Windows hardware (get rid of that shhtt).

If you're an early Bitcoiner, I think it's worth making the "bitcoin of operating systems" a part of your life and embark on learning it. You don't have to become an expert, just start somewhere and chip away. You'll start slow, and that's ok, it's all cumulative and very interesting. It's a lifelong pursuit, like bitcoin. You don't have to abandon your work Windows computer or your beloved Mac touchpad, you're just welcoming a new addition to the family.

Finally, you don't need to do privacy perfectly on day one - no one can. You should do SOMETHING to improve your privacy. Then later, do something more. Over time, you will not be the low-hanging fruit.

If you add new places/numbers behind the point (right side), its deflation.

If you add new places/numbers before the point (left side), its inflation.

I feel bad that you're taking it the wrong way my g.

But that's why Satoshi added extra halvings into the code.

lol. alright dude. you win... enjoy your day.

Don't lose the forest for the trees. Regardless of what you're breaking, it doesn't change the value of what you are currently holding.

Inflation has a definition. It's when you expand the monetary base and adding decimal places doesn't change the value of one 1btc... period. it just means you can buy BTC at even smaller fractions.

1.0 =1.00 =1.000

0.1 = 0.10 = 0.100

Remember when you idiots used to think Jews were screaming antisemitism for no reason.

Now the curtain gets pulled. It's in vogue.

Always has been.

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Absolutely

2.094 quadrillion sats after the last halving epoch.

If we add more decimals it'll trend to 2.1.

That's minor inflation but we quote 21M BTC already so people shouldn't have an issue with changing the value of 1Sat from .00000001 to .000000001

inflation is when you grow the monetary base. you don't call it inflation when you break a dollar into pennies. even thought you now have 100 pennies, it's still just a dollar.

0.100 = 0.10000

How difficult would adding more zeros actually be?

I get the OP’s question a lot from friends and am curious about what it would look like to implement this.