I'd consider it, but I'll wait until you can run Linux on one.

It is, but that's the story, it always had to have a climax, our darkest hour, where we grab victory from the clutches of defeat. If not today, tomorrow or the next day. Its a dark time, but the last couple of years have hardened my resolve beyond what these lizards are capable of breaking, its always darkest before dawn.

I don't think tik tok should be delisted, and I don't care what they say about VPN usage, if they want to send then they'll have to come get me. They can't prove fuck all about what I'm doing on the internet, they won't breach any of my devices, they won't get my bitcoin, and they won't get me to bend the knee.

This bill will never pass, but if it does then the government will have finally striked out.

No, its "jack Dorsey after a visit to a sports cut and a men's warehouse".

Do you think that G7 getting knocked down a few pegs by BRICS will open the way for us to change?

I just had a coworker show me on his android, using PIA, seems to work just fine. It does seem like a lot of people have this issue though. What's your exit point?

That's weird, my proton is active, set to always on, I'm using secure core, no split tunneling, all brave shields are up except for JavaScript, and it works just fine. I wonder if something about graphene os helped fix this faster. Can you provide any details? I could ask a coworker or two to try to replicate the issue.

I would try updating your phone and proton. What OS? Are you using the app or a browser?

I don't think that twitter is blocking this activity. I am using proton and it works fine, although like 2 weeks ago there was a bug that broke search, that was a bug though.

Schwabstika, hope you don't mind me stealing that term.

As for wealth redistribution to miners. There is, say, currently 19,000,000 bitcoin in existence. There are, say, 1,000,000 people that have used bitcoin to store the value they created; you create a car, you sell the car for $30,000, you store that wealth in bitcoin. 10 minutes later, there's 19,000,006 bitcoin, there isn't a corresponding increase in people storing their wealth in bitcoin, there isn't an increase in total value of bitcoin, we have just divided off a little morsel of bitcoins value and handed it to whoever mined the block.

Yes, the miner provided a service, for which they should be entitled the transaction fees of the peoeple who sent bitcoin in that block. But they shouldn't be entitled to my wealth, my value, when I have not made a transaction. They haven't facilitated some financial service for me, I don't owe them anything, yet they have taken a sliver of my wealth through inflation, the block reward (mining subsidy).

I'm not mad at miners or anything, my point is just that this is a redistribution of wealth, it is a subsidy that holders pay for on a service that should be paid for by people making transactions. Its just, the least shitty way of initially allocating all the bitcoin into the economy, and helps prevent a 51% attack until the network grows to support mining through fees.

Let's start with the deflationary spiral. Its a long topic to understand but I'll do my best. So let's start by defining 2 different monetary systems.

System 1, commodity money: this is a system where the money is a commodity, a scarce good, like gold or bitcoin, but for the sake of simplicity I'll use gold. In this system, economic resources (land labor capital) must be expended to create new monetary units (mining for gold).

Of all the commodities in the world, silver, iron, salt, cars, plastic etc., gold is the hardest to produce more of (except for bitcoin). So, if you think about it, all other commodities will be produced in greater quantities than gold, the exchange rate of gold to any other commodity will always rise over time. This is deflationary, the value of the gold is always going up.

System 2, credit: in our current system, money is created ONLY through lending. When you get a loan to buy a house, the fed is writing that money into existence on their ledger, and loaning it to your bank for interest (this is the fed funds rate, currently 5%). The bank loans you this money for interest, usually 2-3% above what they get it for. You spend the money into the economy, paying for the land, the material, the labor for your house. The same thing happens at the government level, money is loaned into existence by the Fed to pay the governments bills, the government pays this into the economy, but they owe the fed interest.

Now, this presents a problem, because the Fed is owed more money than the total amount of dollars in the system, in fact, a lot more. So much more, that almost all debt is only serviced (paying minimum interest payments), its never paid off, its only rolled over (which can mean paying higher interest), meanwhile new debt is being accrued. In this system, the currency is always being devalued by the creation of new credit.

So to see the difference in these 2 systems, in a commodity money system, investment has to be funded through savings, there isn't a central bank that can print money into existence. In fiat the same investment is funded through credit, printed money that's owed back to the fed at interest, meaning a failed investment on the part of the bank is a real issue because they owe money up the chain. In a commodity money the bank loses their investment, but since it was funded through savings the contagion is naturally more contained.

When banks default on their loans in a fiat system, the debt hole that's created quickly spreads to other banks and the system as a whole, the money is sucked out of the system, bank runs, unemployment, depression ensue. This is the deflationary spiral, the rapid repricing of dollars because the credit bubble collapses. This effect is far more contained in a commodity money system, because money is real and doesn't get evaporated away by interest payments.

To put this into a final bit of perspective, there's less than $1T dollars, even electronic dollars. There is $32T in government debt, the banks have in excess of $2,000T (yes, you read that right) in debt exposures. When the value of the dollar rises too much (when, not if), these debts will default and the dollar chart will look like OG bitcoin pumps, the effect will be so catastrophic that everyone will call for a bailout, the final act, also known as "monetizing the debt". This is printing money to paper over losses that never existed outside of a balance sheet.

My friend, please use a VPN, I literally do nothing without one. Proton is great and my #1, nord works perfectly well too, literally anything. My money goes to my VPN bill before my mortgage, before food, before drugs!

Yea maybe, but then you are beholden to the other signers, who may disappear for a variety of unrelated reasons, I need to be able to contribute and ghost.

I think in this case, a board of trustees using multisig is the best, where each is well known in the community but also pseudonymous (think Gigi).

In other cases, someone like jack might need a more corporate solution like a legal trust.

Why would you expect them to not turn the printers on?

Narrator voice: but the deficit would not be decreasing as planned

I once heard something like "people always look at people who help since double/triple digits and say they wish it were them, but they often would not have had the conviction to hold through the ups and downs", I find this to be pretty accurate.

Spend a bit of time looking at mempool.space, you'll see some transactions physically take up more real estate than others, fees are for the square footage they take.

At times I agree with you, at other times I find these people to be closely ideologically aligned, just missing some flip-of-the-switch that gives them hope or an attitude that morals should come first regardless.

What is the scale here?