Why don't they just print more Monopoly money? 🤷
It wasn't until Nostr I realised how much self-censorship is subtly enforced on Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Twitter is at least somewhat upfront about it with those annoying "other people won't like this" messages if you dare to type "fuck" in a tweet.
But in a sense that kinda makes it worse. Even here on Nostr I still find myself thinking "if I say that it'll get hidden by the algo" then I remember "oh wait fuck I'm on Nostr I can say whatever the fuck I want and use as many cunting swearwords as I pissing well like, shit!"
For real though I'm still having to "deprogram" this behaviour out of myself after deleting Twitter months ago and not even using it at all months before that. It's almost muscle memory.
I feel bad for people still trapped in these centralised prisons.
Basically because the fundamental system is so corrupt, that's why the real shit is never addressed.
I also think they don't want to let the public know what a house of cards fractional reserve banking is.
The money printing happens through credit creation in the form of commercial bank money as I'm sure you know.
Bankers, policians, and corporations are all close and look out for each other.
Same goes for leaders of central banks. You will never hear them call out their banker pals because most of them came straight from Goldman Sachs themselves.
See I bet you thought my comment about Vitalik eating bugs was a joke... nope 🤣
Just letting the wave of free speech wash over me
Reminder: this guy is king shitcoiner 🤣
Not to mention even CPI with everything included is still CPI which is intentionally misleading and not a true representation of inflation
"Acting in secret is not freedom."
- Edward Snowden
All the social media and other tech companies are PRISM members so they come hand in hand. One is a tool of the other.
100% Snowden should be pardoned.
A permissioned, government regulated stablecoin is just a CBDC in disguise.
Circle, creators of USDC, even tried to sell USDC as a CBDC to governments at Davos.
Btw I haven't forgotten about the long form note on medical cannabis in the UK. I will be posting that. But I'm moving clinics so I'll finish it off after I can talk about how that went and why I did it (tl;dr: costs slightly more but is much more flexible and much wider range of strains).
I find it interesting how the MSM was talking non-stop about the Twitter buyout right up until an executive chair of the WEF was put in charge... now it's crickets... wait sorry that's what Vitalik eats for dinner.
Next week I'm finally moving in with my girlfriend.
I don't think it's possible for me to be happier.
https://video.nostr.build/376a8ea43567faf5b29d7c9b408f37c51fe97434635c35869b804191d740b31e.mp4
"How exactly is the media controlled by the elite?"
"That's like asking how do the elites control General Motors. They own it."
Glad I'm not the only one.
Exactly - a lot of CEX's now refuse to accept any coinjoin BTC, which isn't a problem for most plebs but it absolutely affects fungibility and matters for wider adoption.
Hopefully as non-custodial lightning wallets continue to improve, it can more easily become the norm for actually spending BTC as it already is in ES, and if we're all using LN the sats are pretty much fungible since once they've been zapped through a few different wallets it becomes close to impossible to link them back to the original on-chain deposits.
Is Bitcoin truly fungible? This is the only bit I'm not entirely sure about, because all transactions are obviously on a public ledger, so for instance if I had 1 BTC that I withdrew from SR and 1 BTC I bought KYC'd from Coinbase say, I wouldn't call those two coins interchangeable.
If I try to spend the first coin, feds are gonna be watching every movement from that wallet.
If I spend the second, since it's KYC it links my tx's back to me.
There are obviously solutions for this (e.g. tumbling, coinjoin, LN) so it's not necessarily a problem with Bitcoin itself, but it is with on-chain transactions.
Maybe I'm just nitpicking a bit but it's something that's been stuck in the back of my head for a while.