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That there can be only one.
Nothing will happen until one of them accuses her of being in on the assassination attempt, officially.
Which they won't.
So they're all complicit in my book.
He needed a way to tell thugs and the mafia that he doesn't have a bajillion bitcoins anymore... Thankfully, I doubt they'll believe him if he points to this page.
The wiggle room is all cultural, but the underlying problem isn't changed in any way.
In Japan's case they can shoulder so much debt because the mindset of the average Japanese consumer is incredibly obedient. They'll work 80-hour work weeks without vacation for decades at a time just because it is expected of them. When their government expects things from them the story is the same. They obey blindly.
Sadly, the central banks have propagandized their product so hard that schools & governments around the world are quite intolerant to the idea that fiat money is weak money. They believe it is the best form of money BECAUSE the state gets to print as much of it as they "need" to. It's pure propaganda we're fighting.
The only thing that will get an alternative money to be widely accepted is the failure (i.e. full hyperinflation) of fiat... And even then, it will be restricted to a per-country basis because people refuse to care about their neighbor's problems until they arrive.
Crickets tell you the temperature. (In Fahrenheit)
Simply count the number of times a cricket chirps in a 15-second period and add 37 to that number. That's the ambient temperature, which for some reason crickets like to talk about all the time.
What in the world are you talking about?
Linux went everywhere years ago! Every phone. Every server. Every router. Every web-enabled appliance. Every device in your life with an operating system except a few Windows or Mac PCs is running linux today. It's a vast, vast, vast supermajority of the OSs that run on this planet.
I'm pretty sure we have as much or more of a social movement as those Linux nerds ever had...
What is the #1 operating system globally right now?
So lemme get this straight... They are hoping that the demand for 2nd-tier USD will grow so much that it will increase demand for their 1st-tier USD?
The same USD that just went out of fashion when the petrodollar ended?
They are only grasping at straws here... So desperate it reeks.
I've been imagining & researching that AnCap society since 2009. There are literally hundreds of books by libertarian anarchists on how to smooth out those spots like jurisdictional law.
One very common theme is a system of Dispute Resolution companies called Assurance Agencies. Nothing like insurance, Assurance is a service that everyone who wants to participate in society subscribes to and it has your back during all justice-related situations. They'll read the law books for you. (But of course anarchist law books will never be even 0.01% as thick as today's statist law books...)
Fragmentation doesn't mean basic rights change, which should all be based upon the NAP in the first place.
Man... I remember using Namecheap to buy domain names with waaaaaaaay back in the day, like in 2013! Can't believe I wasted 100's of bitcoins on those names I don't even have anymore now. :(
If you really want to stay private with a domain name I hear great things about a swedish service called Njalla. (https://njal.la) - Bitcoin-only, Zero KYC possible.
It's about the target. If you write dubious code and deploy it on other people's machine, it's that deploying part that makes you a criminal.
If you simply write dubious code to keep to yourself, you're not a criminal. I mean how else would you teach others how to protect themselves from dubious code?
This is the way.
I've often thought that here in the 1st world we're already at max adoption without some kind of major banking failure event to force the normies in.
Global south adoption, specifically circular economies (like the http://FBCE.io) are bitcoin's largest adoption metric right now. By miles.
But if we, like the OP says, improve every existing app out there with a bitcoinized version then we'll do far better at capturing 1st-world normies too.
And let's not forget nostr! Don't just add tips when you can add zaps!
- This is a form for the Bitpays & Coinbases of the world to fill out, not citizens.
- Unhosted wallet to them means when they provide a non-custodial wallet, such as the coinbase wallet app... This has nothing to do with your trezor because Coinbase can't know you have one.
- It will have a chilling effect, however, in what these companies do offer after they figure out all the pain involved with filling out these forms per customer.
I don't think it'll become meaningless in any way, but it should not be taken for granted that lightning will become the dominant L2. Technically, Fedi may be more desirable to more people than lightning, and something could be created in the future that is more usable than both of them.
If anyone is unaware of lightning's shortcomings (mainly channel balancing maintenance) then they typically are overly excited at first and then harshly disenfranchised when they come to understand the challenge. That's the majority of the FUD we see, IMHO.