You are assuming a lot here.
One, I don’t coinjoin.
Two, I don’t have a problem admitting Bitcoin has fungibility issues, I just add the caveat “if you care about what a government thinks”. Note that I don’t care if a government calls Bitcoin “tainted” because Bitcoin exists outside of any governmental reach.
Three, you assume that I check it in any way care about a bitcoins transaction history when I transact with them. Here again, I don’t give a shit what it has or hasn’t been used for in the past. For me, one Bitcoin is the same as every Bitcoin. If that’s not the case for you, that poses no threat to me whatsoever. I see that as your loss, not mine. You are free to disagree, and not buy any of my tainted coins, ever, if you so wish. I’m not selling anytime soon anyhow.
They are the same to me.
My comment wasn’t meant to dismiss your point. Only to confirm that fungibility is a function of those of us that use and accept bitcoin. If a government bans a particular “batch” I don’t care. I will still treat them the same. If enough individuals behave the same, the government ban becomes useless. So what you are describing is possible, but only if bitcoin’s user base allows it to become so.
I, for one, will not. Others may do as they see fit.
Plus, the amount of Bitcoin that either one of us owns doesn’t matter to me.
If you buy #Bitcoin looking to sell it later for more fiat, you are falling for a ponzi scheme. Stay away, go buy apple stock or a shitcoin instead. Like blackrock, you are still stuck in the Fiat mindset and you don’t understand bitcoin’s true value.
If you buy #bitcoin looking to escape the fiat system, you get it. You rejoice at fiat price drops. Owning Bitcoin is your goal, and how much of it you have defines your wealth. You would never trade Bitcoin for fiat as doing so seems completely and utterly idiotic and counterproductive.
Indeed you can. As I can reply however I see fit. See how this works?
Internally consistent arguments do not seem to be your strong suit.
But anyhow. Carry on, simple human. Leave growth and change to the grown ups.
Larry Fink thinks #bitcoin will make him even more Fiat. Simple as that. He is not your friend.
Bitcoin doesn’t need him. It works fine as it is.
If you are asking this, you are part of the problem.
Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. Go read more.
Buy #bitcoin to escape fiat. You don’t go back to your slave masters once they offer you a slightly bigger cell in their prison.
And yes, I know I’ve used the like button myself. I will stop being lazy. :)
@jb55 and @fiatjaf
Why not do away with likes entirely?
Only #zap is nice but why even have the like option at all? Only legitimizes the other bullshit app model by replicating it in #nostr if you ask me.
#zaps are just so much better. We don’t need likes, it’s just the fake shitcoin version of a #zap.
Well I can’t claim to know anything about what a God would want, I’m just a human, but if you have that much figured out already, way to go! I’m both impressed and happy for you.
Dangerous opinion: good marriages are “boring”.
I put boring in quotes because this is the way bad marriages are typically portrayed in the media. Ie: one spouse loses that “spark” which causes the audience to pity their partner and applaud when a hot and exciting alternative appears that gives them the attention he/she “deserves”.
What bullshit. I understand that a marriage marked by predictability and reliability won’t sell many romance novels but holy shit, if that ain’t one of the most valuable things on earth, I don’t know what else would be.
I believe marriage or human partnership (whatever you want to call it) succeeds when both people can count on the other to mostly take care of themselves but help each other out when needed. Instead of being grounds for concern, being able to take each other for granted from time to time is some of the best ingredient for a successful marriage. As long as it’s not always one sided, we should cherish, recognize, and celebrate that kind of thing far more often.
Again, I suspect the reason why we aren’t exposed to this kind of thinking is that it does nothing to make others money if we can find contentment even in the sweet banality of our mature relationships. Better to keep people striving for unattainable and unrealistic ideals. That’s where the profit lies.
Screw that. Give me some of that sweet predictability any day.
#grownostr
#thinkdangerously
#getoffended
Hahaha I know. Remember the Nobel peace prize?? :)
How to recognize extremists:
1. They are incapable of/prohibited from questioning their beliefs
2. They will have a significant persecution complex
3. They will view non-members of their group as homogeneous and attempt to dehumanize them
4. They will attempt to tie extremist views to other common sense views such that common sense views become tainted by association over time
5. Will tie 1-4 together into a shared mythology
Be careful out there everyone. When it comes to #bitcoin especially, don’t become the very thing we are trying to defeat.
Always keep an open mind, practice kindness and forgiveness, and leave significant room in your own beliefs for error.
It’s good to defend and even promote your opinions, but bad if you expect others to always agree with you.
#grownostr
No kidding.
Just goes to show what a load of crap/advertisement these awards are.
They lend fake credibility to fake people, nothing more.
Here’s a simple test to determine if a “crypto” is a scam.
Do you want the Fiat price of it to go up or down?
Now be honest. Lots of you want the Fiat price of #bitcoin to go up. If this is true, you want fiat wealth more than Bitcoin and you should run, because for you, bitcoin is a scam.
People like me though, want all the people looking to make fiat gains from bitcoin (like blackrock) to simply disappear. We buy Bitcoin because we want bitcoin, NOT fiat. We hope that the Fiat price drops because that means the fiat seeking scammers are getting shaken out. We don’t see the Fiat value of our wealth go down, we only see the Bitcoin value of our wealth go up.
The wealth that I seek from Bitcoin is self-sovereignty and freedom from the exploitation and corruption of the fiat debt slavery cartel. And I am very wealthy indeed.
Yep. This is why DCA is such a powerful weapon. Just complete apathetic purchases, day in, day out. Complete immunity to the noise, all signal instead.
Give me Fiat? I buy #Bitcoin with it and put it in self custody. That’s all there is to it.
Simple joy.
I think about the problems with the world everyday. I mean, they are many and somewhat impossible to ignore once you can see them.
Then I remember that #Bitcoin and #nostr exist. Then I smile a little.
So yes, I probably do think about bitcoin everyday.
Appreciating your body’s function while you still have it will be one of the greatest decisions of your life. Even when I see people in the gym who are clearly there for vanity reasons I think “hahaha your stupid vanity is tricking you into doing something smart”…
Not very often that happens.