0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 27 Apr \ on: On May 3rd, 2024, @PhoenixWallet will be removed from US app stores. bitcoin
Why is that happening?
Hopefully the github apk continues to be there, but GitHub is owned by Microsoft, an American company, so who knows how much that would last.
Admiralty law exists. And it is used as the base of this conspiracy theory.
I enjoyed the parts that are true though, it was interesting.
Ordinal theory is just a made up thing trying to add value to something based on someone's arbitrary definition.
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state.
It's just being a member of a club. You can in some cases be a citizen of multiple countries, or also stateless.
The most common case is people get their citizenship by birth, but there are other ways of getting it, depending on the country.
The origin of the maritime law conspiracy theory is unknown, though it may stem from a misunderstanding of some nautical-sounding words in common usage in the English-language judiciary such as ownership, citizenship, dock or birth (berth) certificate. This theory is entirely devoid of merit: when invoked by litigants, it has been consistently dismissed as frivolous.
BSDs are nice, but I don't think they can be used reasonably well in a professional environment for example where you need to interact with multiple other projects.
Something Debian-based seem to have won this battle in the last decade or two. Ubuntu kinda solved this and created a massive community of experienced and inexperienced people sharing their knowledge and comments.
Maybe another distro is better for some reason, but there's basically no community for it compared to Ubuntu.
And then you have the Desktop environments as well... but that one has a clear winner, KDE of course.
In 2001 El Salvador added USD as a second legal tender there through their Ley Integracion Monetaria:
You can see that defining the USD as legal tender there also came with a lot of definitions, similar to the Bitcoin law:
Todas las obligaciones en dinero expresadas en colones, existentes con anterioridad a la vigencia de la presente ley, podrán ser pagadas en dólares al tipo de cambio establecido en el Art. 1 de esta ley.
So, in El Salvador, they have 3 legal tenders, colones, USD, and Bitcoin.
Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment for any monetary debt.
After this law passed in El Salvador, the courts of law there are required to recognize Bitcoin payments as satisfactory payment for any monetary debt.
You have the option to pay it with USD or Bitcoin if you want in El Salvador, as both are considered legal tender there.
https://www.diariooficial.gob.sv/seleccion/30534 page 13 and 14:
Art 4: Todas las contribuciones tributarias podran ser pagadas en bitcoin
Art 7: Todo agente economico debera aceptar bitcoin como forma de pago cuando asi le sea ofrecido por quien adquiere un bien o servicio
Art 13: Todas las obligaciones en dinero expresadas en dolares, existentes con anterioridad a la vigencia de la presente ley, podran ser pagadas en Bitcoin
Etc...
The law says you can pay debts with Bitcoin.
It's right there on page 13 of the official document: https://www.diariooficial.gob.sv/seleccion/30534
On Article 1 it literally says that this law regulates Bitcoin as legal tender, and then goes into the exact details of what that means in the next articles...
It is very clear:
Regulación del bitcoin como moneda de curso legal
That text in Spanish is very clear if you're a Spanish native speaker.
It says "Regulation of Bitcoin as legal tender".
En el modo o la manera que, del modo o la manera que. U. sin antecedente expreso. Arreglé la mesa como me explicaron.
"As you explained to me"
Here are the multiple definition from the Real Academia Española: https://dle.rae.es/como
In this case the closest word in English is "as".
For starters, Facebook (Meta), Google, Apple, etc, all of them are tracking people as much as they can so that they can then sell that data to the highest bidder. Remember that Google (Alphabet) is an advertising company first, that's how they make their money.
Then you have the multiple Intelligence agencies all around the world such as Five Eyes.
You can read more about Internet Privacy to have a look at how much stuff is being tracked all the time.
120 sats \ 28 replies \ @nullama 26 Apr \ parent \ on: Last year I "laundered" 100M sats through LN bitcoin
You're probably not a native Spanish speaker, as anyone who is one would know that the word "como" in this case means "as".
That's the official place where the law was published (in Spanish, of course).
It might be that you're having issues translating it:
Regulación del bitcoin como moneda de curso legal
That word "como" means "as" in this case, not "like". So, basically it says the law will "regulate Bitcoin as legal tender", not "like legal tender"
Because my sats are NOT "legal tender"
The concept of legal tender is defined by each country.
This post only applies to the US, whereas Bitcoin can be used anywhere.
For example, Bitcoin actually is legal tender in El Salvador.