But you still need trust in that system to be secure. Over 50% consensus of the severs required for a change to be accepted sounds good until some bad actor like a government or two or more working in cahoots decide to subvert it. There’s already work in progress to de-anonymize the TOR network, these agencies love control and there’s no way they won’t attempt the same for digital currencies. With banks, employees and owners are known and public record and if there’s fuckery, you have someone to go after legally. With the bitcoin network, if a person gets scammed there’s no one to turn to for recompense. You’re just shit out of luck. Exchanges have been hacked and people have lost millions, so you can trust them to be secure. You have to go through hoops and store your coins in offline wallets, and then incur risks when you put them online to use them. With the network decentralized, there’s no governing body to oversee and provide security, you HAVE to trust that the network hasn’t been compromised. How can you be sure of this? How can you check to see that China hasn’t infected 3000 servers and placed 20000 more online and gained 51% control and now determines what is and what’s isn’t an authorized transaction?
While I love the idea of getting rid of the middlemen (in everywhere from finance to useless middle management causing bloat in every business sector), bitcoin and digital coins still haven’t gotten there have they? When switching between digital coins, there’s still a fee. Many a time have I heard the digital coin bros complain about the gas fee on X, and the network servers them selves are a middle man. Unless you’re printed out the code to a bitcoin on a piece of paper, and handed it to someone else and exchanged a good or service for that, you need the network as a middle man. Hell, even doing it that way the guy you gave the printed out bitcoin code to still needs to do something on the network to add it to his wallet officially unless he’s just going to trade the paper to the next guy in the chain of trades.
To say it has no value relates to its lack of a physical state. Gold has value outside of being used for currency as it can be made into jewelry, tooth fillings, plate electronics for anti-corrosion and thermal characteristics, or just sit on your desk and keep your papers from flying off when the door opens. Fiat currency, if it goes completely worthless, could be burned for heat/cooking in the case of paper bills and melted down in the case of coins and made into something else. Bitcoin and digital currencies have none of these possibilities. They’re merely a digital token to be used for exchange and that’s it. No use outside of that, no way to use them for something else and if the network is compromised or taken down, then completely worthless is the proper description. It’s like an online game that shut off its servers. I had one billion VDollars in 10Six, then the owners shut the game down, now I have none, that kind of a deal.
I miss the days of debate with Christopher Hitchens.... and debates with a proper moderator...
I think you’ll see people trade a truck for a cow before you see Billie-joe trade bitcoin to Jim-Bob for a tractor.
I like Gavin, haven’t watched him in a while but Destiny looks like he traded his soul for a soy drink and is about to cry because he still hasn’t got it yet.
Except there’s nothing to make bitcoin valuable at all to most normies in a post-fiat world. Being able to buy and sell goods online when there’s no one getting paid to truck it out to me or worst at a post office to handle it for me until I come and get it doesn’t really work. Having someone show up and ask to get some diesel from a farm tank in exchange for some bitcoin? Or rather “part” of a bitcoin? Or some shitcoins? Good luck getting that trade to go through. Maybe, just MAYBE there’s would be a chance for bitcoin to slip in as a dominant currency if it was the only game in town but with all the other coins like monaro, etherium, etc etc etc all eating each other to try and be worth something? There’s nothing to back up any shitcoin at all, or bitcoin. Don’t care if you bought it online or mined it yourself in your basement, it only has use as a medium for exchange if both parties agree to it, and most people simple don’t want or need to take these digital coins.
Yet they won’t watch a 20 minute video of experiments they can perform to show its not. They want to believe they’re special and are better than everyone by know “da truth” or believing “muh holy book” that they won’t listen to reason. They’ll just plug their ears and yell LA LA LA LA LA when you ask them to describe their flat earth models for lava coming to the surface, plate tectonics, astronomy, thickness of the earth if flat, thickness of their precious ice wall, why no mad villain hasn’t just drilled through the flat earth and drained the oceans out the bottom or blown a hole in the ice wall and drained them that way, etc. They have massive daddy issues and need a god overseeing them as the father they never had to keep them in a divine snow globe protected by a firmament and an ice wall on a flat disc before they’re transported to heaven.
Test liquid dish soap, straight out of the bottle. Or laundry soap.
They realized it doesn’t help their narrative if Jews aren’t able to suffer “racial bias and injustice”.
I’d rather they take a drug test and pass before getting benefits rather than forcing a dressed up ineffective flu shot upon people. And if they claim that’s too expensive then drop the mandatory drug testing and “vaccine” mandate for other jobs. Make things better and make sense, not race to the bottom and state control for everything.
Wait, why the hell is tax returns on that list? You paid, and in fact overpaid and your government owes you YOUR money back, why the hell would you require a clot shot to get your own money?
Same reason I had to piss clean to work on the rigs, but not to collect EI. Clown world. Honk honk!
This is only a problem if you subscribe to your particular holy book. Consider someone living by the tales in Grimm’s fairy tales coming at you complaining that all candy is a tool of witches used to deceive children so they can eat them. You’d look at them as if they were a fool. Well, the same applies when we swap Grimm's fairy tales for the Koran, the Torah and yes even the bible. There’s plenty of religions and plenty more that’s have flourished and faded away to obscurity. I have no more reason to believe christians understand and have recorded “the truth” anymore than the Egyptians, the Aztec’s, the Japanese, the Greeks, the romans, the Norse or any of extinct civilizations. I honestly don’t believe any supreme creator of a universe that’s made stars, planets, galaxies, radiation, gravity, life, and all manner of things we don’t even know about yet gives two shits about every human, soul or not, simply because of our need to feel special. Our hubris and fear of death making people want an easy way out to live forever doesn’t mean there’s a heaven or a hell. No proof of limbo, Valhalla, hel, Elysium, you name it. Tales made up to make scared people feel better. Tales made to control the weak minded. Why would you hire an army to enforce your made up rules when you can simply convince the sheep that an invisible man living in the sky is watching everything you do every moment of every day? And you have to follow these rules or he’ll be mad at you, oh yeah and he needs money. 10 percent of your gross income. Just give it to us nice holy men, we’ll make sure he gets it. It’s Santa Claus but believed by adults. Instead of toys and chocolate you get eternal life on a cloud playing a harp with angel wings? Give me a break. And for the REALLY deluded they’re a personal soldier in gods army against the super evil devil! I really wish we had a Christian.win to banish all the christ posters to, they’re all over the board. Any other cult they’re happy to point out and laugh but they’re own sacred cow must never be questioned or mocked.
As we’ve see already, too many sheep follow blindly to the “official narrative” and never look into the truth. Won’t matter what the truth really is, MSM said you couldn’t charge your car because the power was used by evil scape goat so now you don’t have enough in the battery to drive to work and there’s not enough in the grid to run their air conditioners. Never seen an armoured car that’s an EV, funny the elites 3 inch thick armour glass toting vehicles don’t come in electric...
In areas where the power grids are already taxed, you’re gonna see the EV pushers and their cult demonizing the bitcoin miners for taking away the power and they’re the reason they can’t charge their cars at home. Just watch.
Online Karen’s, that’s all they are.
Local facilities making the chips means faster delivery time of finished chips. When a company orders chips from Taiwan, they’ll generally ship them as cheaply as possible meaning slow boat from China style delivery. With shipping delays, supply chain interruptions, boats waiting in queue to get into the harbour and then unloaded, you could have the existing factories keeping up before but now deliveries haven’t been made and bam, shortage. Having a local supplier can help drive down prices through competition and remove dependency on a foreign nation which SHOULD be a goal but globalists gonna globalist. If it takes them say 2 weeks to process your order of chips, and it’s 3 states away, you could have your chips in a couple of days by truck. Your order from Taiwan could be 6 months from arriving. This is why we need more chip facilities.
As long as they’re right and the first female president elect is named Lisa Simpson, it mean something Kamala and Hillary get bump-kiss.
You’ve got some good points concerning gardening and protections of said garden. And you’re right on needing your own separate internet if you want to have any real control over it.
However, I can’t stand with you on calling Bitcoin the future and proof of work as good. Currency is socially accepted because of the thousands of years of society using it after switching off of barter. You give me this token, I give you wine, I go give this token to free_will_of_choice and he gives me a steak. It’s easily transferable, and separated by nations. Using my canuckistan loonies in Great Britain means I need to either convert them first or pay a fee during the exchange. The money itself is worthless, it’s just a medium for trade, and the same can be said for bitcoin and all the shitcoins. But a nations currency is backed by its government, meaning its police and military. If you take fake currency and attempt to scam people, the locals arrest you and put you in prison and often require repayment in real currency. It’s a system they don’t want fucked with, mostly because they control it but also because it works. It’s easily understandable. If little 4 year old Timmy wants a piece of gum, he gives the nice shop keeper 25 cents and he gets a piece of gum. When he’s 16 he gives Tony down the street $800 and buys his first clunker of a car. Simple, easy, nothing really confusing there.
But now we add a currency, ConversationCoun since we’re having a conversation here. CC is worth X. How much is X? Who decides how much X is? Who’s generating and controlling X? How was CC even made to begin with? I had a friend who was mining coins in his basement with graphics cards held up on the table by dishwasher racks. These coins are valuable? Because who says so? Someone we’ve both never met online says so, says it’s worth 30000 USD for one, and then tomorrow it’s only worth 15000. That alone makes the normal people in the crowd step back and say WTF. Gold as a currency worked because it’s hard to fake, hard to steal large amounts without lots of equipment, can be worn as jewelry or tooth fillings, plate your electronics with it for corrosion protection, my cpu waterblock is gold plated, the list goes on. It has uses beyond just trading it for something. What is bitcoin and shitcoin worth besides trading it for something?
Why do you believe proof of work is good and do you believe it adds value? If so, what value is gained from this proof of work? Why is ConversationCoin worth $5 USD each because of proof of some work? What is this work doing that makes it valuable in the first place?
When you’re an office monkey going from house to office and never once touching real dirt with your shoes, yeah, you get real soft no matter where you are. Plenty of us spent years (14 for me) on land based oil rigs in the middle of no where in weather from +44C to -44C and colder, with freezing temps in the fall and spring with no heaters (steam heater in the manifold shack instead of an electric one so if it’s 3 degrees out and raining and you’re stuck in there’s laying down pipe for 5 hours? Too bad, you get to be fucking cold.) I’ve spent 8 hours up in the Derrick in below zero winters tripping pipe in and out to replace the broken mud motor or bit that got run to death by idiotic company men, got my shit paid off and quit in March of 2020. Getting fucked out of 3 grand in 2 weeks in taxes for working 2 weeks of 12 hour shifts just flat out stings, but hey at least I’m tough right? That and a buck fiddy will get you a cup of coffee. I’m honestly ashamed of most of my countrymen for being spineless cucks after seeing what they’ve bowed down to in this plandemic but unless society collapses and takes most of the weak with it, the only way its going to change is by force and aggression. The freedom convoy is great and all, but peaceful protests don’t tend to remove tyrants. “Yeah please stop being mean and taking our rights away, eh?” “No.” “Well fuck, we tried eh?” Heads need to come off shoulders and cause panic in the remaining so called elites. Once people aren’t being executed for their crimes against their country then maybe we can see some real changes. Will they all be positive changes? Probably not. But it will probably be better than the soy chugging eat the bug peasant future they have planned.
A rapist, a coward, thinks a “financial donation” can help make up it, thinks he can magically change sex into a woman like it’s an outfit you put on, and also thinks he shouldn’t have to work hard to succeed in life. What a fucking loser
“Noooo you have to have people live in fear!” -some Hawaiian Judge that loves overruling shit
And yet instead of pointing this out, our government full of useful idiots simply bent over, said sorry we’ll do better, here’s more money for every native and hung everyone else out to dry for being indirectly racist.
Why would you fuck around with translations and delaying and cancelling them? These are people who love and covet control, the money to them is simply a number on the screen. They don’t have to work and toil in a coal mine to make a living, they can just type on a keyboard or more likely tell an underling to approve the project and poof the money they need into existence. They don’t play by the same rules we’re forced to.
I think something was lost in translation in regards to owning my car or a gold bar. If I place money in the bank, and someone steals that money, the bank is responsible for ensuring I get my money back via their insurance or other holdings they have. There’s people to sue or charge with fraud. My car or a gold bar in my possession I have no need for anyone so permission to use so not really a fair analogy. Try getting money back from MtGOX if you had coins stored there.