Well, it is a different country than Brazil.

Or the VPN CEO never goes to that particular country. Proton, to take an example, is headquartered in Switzerland.

See my bio.

I know how it works. Perhaps I'm trying to play along by offering a short, uninteresting fleeting thought for the global feed.

You can do this anywhere. Hell, if this was all people were doing on social media, then nostr would probably not exist because there wouldn't be anything for the big companies or governments to censor.

Oh, I see, you wanted me to stop complaining about your lack of meaningful content.

Here, I'll give you something banal, since that's what y'all seem to be rewarding right now.

GOOD MORNING NOSTR. ✊💪

Seriously, either y'all have way too much #Bitcoin that you'll waste it on rewarding these crypto platitude posts, or this is some kind of money laundering. Either way, my main feed being blasted with a bunch of empty atta-boy posts really makes the experience on here feel like a waste of time.

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Not gonna lie, all of these short, meaningless, banal posts with hundreds of #zaps smells like money laundering.

Why are people sending money to people for these banal posts?

I challenge people on here to go one full day without posting a platitude about #Bitcoin.

Even if you have it in cold storage and you hide this from the state, they can still blacklist your coins. The public nature of the blockchain is a significant problem for undermining state control over money. The only true crypto cash would have to be something like Monero.

Right? Not every fleeting thought deserves broadcasting. Self control y'all

I'll concede that the purchase price of your assets affects the calculation of an unrealized gain, but in my mind this makes the unrealized gain tax less intrusive than a normal property tax. It's essentially a property tax with a write-off.

At any rate, the justification of a property tax that you're using is fun philosophizing, but the revenue that property taxes generate go into the same pot as any other tax. The state isn't demarcating police or firefighting services and saying "property taxes pay for this, income tax for everything else".

You can believe in a land value tax or something as a justifiable tax, but that isn't exactly what a property tax is, since improvements you make to your property increase your tax liability. If you're justifying a property tax by pointing to government services that you consider legitimate, that's fine, but this works for any tax, so it's really a non sequitur to talk about property taxes like this.

Idk what this means. The wealthy, by a wide margin, pay the most taxes in America. This unrealized gains tax idea would exclusively target that top 1%.

It is certainly possible that these billionaire Harris voters expect some loophole to be introduced that they can use, but as of right now, no such loophole has been proposed (at least publicly).

Your original statement that Harris voters don't have assets to worry about being taxed is just false. The Democrat party is not the same party as it was for the second half of the 20th century.

It can be used to protect your property and still be a tax on unrealized gains.

Taxing unrealized gains means assessing the hypothetical sale price of some asset and demanding a payment in money as a percentage of that assessed value. This is exactly what happens with property taxes.

Property taxes are an example of a tax on unrealized gains.

It isn't difficult to enforce with a public blockchain and businesses who don't want to run afoul of the law.

This is not true. The Democratic party has become the party of the ultra-wealthy. Except for Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, how many tech billionaires are Republicans?

Besides, many of these Harris voters do have assets, but they think they're safe because the threshold for this tax would be $100 million. They think their 401k is safe. They're wrong. No tax ever begins by falling on everyone, but eventually, everyone will pay it.

Their stance on this issue (and "tax the rich" more generally) is that they're fundamentallu incapable of conceptualizing second-order effects for any decision.

"epic short"

Come on guys

I didn't say it was the global feed. I said the accounts with the most followers, and therefore the most conversation, all talk about crypto all day.

Crypto, whatever. I'm saying that it is extremely niche, even if maxis aren't the only ones messing with it anymore. By "public" I'm not just talking about guys at the gym or friends of friends at Sunday brunch, but everyone.

Even if we imagine that crypto becomes ubiquitous, it still wouldn't be what people want to talk about all of the time. How many people on Twitter or Facebook spend all of their time talking about the US mint or fractional reserve banking despite dollars being what everyone uses in their daily lives?

Anyway, my whole point is that people like me understand the value of crypto, but it just isn't so exciting that it's the only thing I ever want to talk about.