He is NOT saying Bitcoin is useless. He states in the first sentence that Bitcoin is full of potential use cases. Then he exercises some critical thinking to determine how "ownership" is likely not one of them.
He's criticizing blockchain for it's touted ability to facilitate the Transfer of ownership of something. This is what happens in a supply chain, ownership of goods changes hands from the manufacturer to the shipper to the retailer.
There are people of the opinion that blockchain makes this transfer of ownership (of the goods) completely transparent and truthful. That is not the case.
In the article, he's talking about transferring a physical item (like art) by using a transaction on the blockchain. He gives an example why this doesn't offer truth of ownership. It offers truth of the transaction.
Blockchain enthusiasts would love the blockchain to be the source of truth for so many things but this is exactly where you run in silly problems as I described before (essentially the French state having to give up ownership of the Mona Lisa because the blockchain says so).
The mistake is in thinking blockchain is a "source of truth". You have to add context. What is it a source of truth for? Transaction validity.
You miss the point. He's not trying to say Bitcoin is useless / has no utility. He's not saying the real world is messy.
He's saying that people are confused what "source of truth" means when it comes to blockchain.
Someone can steal the digital keys of ownership (crypto hashes) for a physical item like an art piece, but that doesn't mean the owner automatically changes to where the thief now owns the art piece, and it would be upheld legally in a court "because muh blockchain decentralized proof of truth SAYS so". That's dumb. The courts will hash it out, which is a centralized process producing a final record or report in a "Court database" which creates an authoritative, overriding source of truth as to the real ownership.
It doesn't matter if the entire blockchain world agrees that Thief_Hacker_X owns it. The court has the final say, and their decision is centralized in a court database.
Explain your reasoning sir.
I thought it was a great read, what don't you like about the article?
Start with 2-year asparagus crowns. An asparagus plant can produce spears for up to 20 years.
Don't forget potatoes, they're easy and abundant.
Fruit trees. You can get dwarfs for limited space, or prune them often.
Citrus tree. Vitamin C and citric acid. Remember Waterworld? He had a lime tree on the boat.
Definitely makes sense. I knew this would happen. He's team FBI/Obama/Neocon.
ADL and SPLC are fronts of the deep state.
The biggest trick was when Obama held office as a democrat and did the bidding of the right/GOP Neocons! Partisan politics is a scam.
Look at how the chairs have been arranged for Biden's term. Shadow President Susan Rice. People of the black race in high positions in office, while race war / anti-white rhetoric is pushed by the media.
OSHA stated if the employer forces the employee to take the vaccine and they suffer adverse reactions, it's the employer's fault.
So this is actually hilarious, and sad.
Watch America Die.
10 mil is the amount he publicly stated he would leave for his kids, so that they're not too spoiled.
Is Bill about to be deleted?
Yeah, here's why I think that is.
Their language was not as abstract as ours, so they spoke in very direct literal words, pulled from their surroundings, to express psychological things.
But then we read about their psychological things with our abstract language and interpret them literally, big mistake.
For example, they used words like "waters" to mean the subconscious, before a time when they had a specific word for subconscious that couldn't be confused with actual water. And then take it one step further, actually believing that a man named Jesus actually walked on water. It all seems to be metaphorical, and it is, but only to us, because of how the languages have evolved. Plato was into making analogies.
Some 2000 years ago, the Roman architect-engineer Vitruvius used an analogy to figure out how to build an excellent theatre. "As in the case of the waves formed in the water, so it is in the case of the voice," the architect wrote.
Voices are formed in the waves of subconscious that appear and disappear, briefly begging for your attention to allow them to rise to the conscious level.
One might say that the analogy of Jesus walking on water represents "being above the subconscious" (enlightened). He sits on the throne, as the King of his Church (mind). *Jesus is King."
Have a look at this image of an Ojibwe indian "surviving the flood that leaves most others behind":
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/a-flood-of-myths-and-stories/
It is about how consciousness evolves and our understandings change, leaving broken ways in the past.
Here is a funny thing.
You have the Tetragrammaton "YHVH", which is said to be the four letter name of God. It is pronounced many ways like Yaweh or Jehova.
Then in relation to the Tetragrammaton you have Metatron which states "my name is in him". The word Metatron can be found within the word Tetragrammaton.
Now maybe you know of a dude named Osiris. Have you also heard of Isis? My name is in him. The word Isis can be found within the word Osiris.
Tetragrammaton and Osiris represent God. Metatron and Isis represent Jesus. Isis is another way to pronounce Jesus. Metatron means Mithra's Throne. How many letters in the word Isis? Four. How many in King? Four. Jesus is King.
What does a church have? A father.
Peter means Pater, father. Think "at the potter's house". What does a potter do? Shape mud into urns, he gives form to the formless.
What does a child have? A father. The child needs a father to give form to his formless mind.
Church is a physical place meant to resemble the mind. You go into the church (mind) to pray and respect God (consciousness).
With the Temple of Solomon, there are two pillars outside the door you must pass thru to enter the temple, called Boaz and Jachin (but that's not important to the metaphor). These pillars are symbolic for going beyond the known realms of mankind in the old world (beyond physical/material world). You see, the pillars were a copy of the pillars at the Straight of Gibraltar, the pillars of Hercules, which marked the gateway to the vast ocean, an endless unknown territory. This is much like the mind. So you enter Solomon's Temple, passing thru the pillars, and it's symbolic of entering your mind where God is.
Jesus walks on water indeed. Like the analogy of Solomon's Temple and the Straight of Gibraltar, Jesus is exploring that unknown vast ocean of consciousness. He walks upon consciousness (water).
Also, "Greek life" is a thing (college fraternity). Most Ivy League schools have the Greek life experience and some community colleges mimic that.
America is a mashup of all things, all races, all religions. It is merely presented to us in a different, newer synthesized format. That's the illusion of "western civilization".
God is consciousness and we have used it in bad ways.
The Bible is a story about the different ways we have used it.
By reading the Bible we can gain consciousness, learn of the bad our ancestors did, and instead aim to do good.
You don't know how to do good unless you have something bad to compare. For every Hero, there was a villain.
The knowledge of good vs evil, is just consciousness itself.
To know good, you must know evil.
The Bible contains everything needed to understand all this.
When "God" sends an "Angel" to stop Abraham, it is a voice of in his consciousness debating right vs wrong. Debating the potential consequences of actions. This was merely how they described the conscious experience. We actually do have "voices in our head", many of them, instructing our ego about conditions and feelings of our environment. When these voices are too prominent over the ego, or too loud in general, modern science calls it schizophrenia. But this is essentially how consciousness works. There is a subconscious made of many subtle voices.
We read the old testament and see an angry god, pushing genocide, supporting conquests, stoning people to death for picking up sticks on the sabbath. But hey, at least he sent an angel to stop Abraham from performing a human sacrifice.
What do you think, that the Bible is telling us to act in this way? It's merely telling us how dumb this behavior was, as an example of what not to do with consciousness. Their bad behavior came from God (consciousness) so we have to get smarter and better about using it. That's why the Bible doesn't say these horrible actions are wrong, because God is not wrong, consciousness is not wrong, God is unbiased and almighty, he (we) can do anything, but the way we use God can be wrong or not conductive to our prosperity. That's what the Bible points out.
A carpenter knows how to create useful form out of useless things.
A potter (pater/father) turns mud into urn, and this urn can now hold substance/source (consciousness). The Holy Grail.
A shepherd takes care of his flock (family/husbandry).
Jesus is about building good things in your mind and life.
Francis Bacon likely wrote the New Testament (KJV).
Consider the point of reading the Bible is to (re)gain consciousness, nothing more. It's not there to instruct people to do anything or act in any sort of religious way. That's our doing. Consciousness is God. The reason the Bible is everywhere ("a bible in every home") is so that consciousness can never be destroyed. The book preserves it forever. Nobody can destroy all the Bibles in the world, even with a mass book burning. It would be found and recopied and reproduced once again.
There are many people we could attribute the Jesus (Messiah) archetype to.
That's what it is, an archetype. Someone who understands God (consciousness).
There were many people named Jesus, still is. There was probably an ancient Jesus (of Nazareth) who carried the Messiah archetype.
Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Muhammed, Zoroaster and Plato carried the archetype as well. There are many others like Francis Bacon, Ghandi, Moses, Heracles, Thomas Jefferson.
It's not about a person's race or era.
Over the span of 20 years, 2.3 million granite blocks, with an average weight of 2.5 tons, would have to be cut, quarried from hundreds of miles away, and absolutely perfectly placed at a rate of 1 block every 4 and a half minutes.
This is an assumption probably based on carbon dating.
The Pyramids are without a doubt over 1000 years old. It's hard for us to imagine a span of 1000 years. Think 1021 AD, are you familiar at all with that time period?
We have only had the electric light bulb since 1802 (219 years). A lot of progress has been made in those 219 years since the light bulb. We have 2 nanometer microchips and turn-by-turn GPS voice navigation, we can map out and modify DNA. These are amazing things for 219 years.
Egypt is not the oldest place of human stonework. The Pyramid builders were not slaves, construction was commissioned, and guilds bid on the work. They were generally called "stone masons", there were several guilds of stone masons and they don't seem to be from Egypt's own brood (hence the myth that they were "slaves"). The stone masons probably left their home nation, which they helped build, after some falling out as pilgrims much like the story of the American pilgrims goes, coming from from the surrounding cultures or nations like Levant (12k BC)/Mesopotamia(4k BC)/Arabia, and these cultures are amalgamations of other surrounding cultures like Greece/Turkey (Theopetra Cave 130k BC / Gobekli Tepi 12k BC). China has pyramidal structures dating to a Hongshan culture 4.7k BC. Although the stone work at Gobekli Tepi is not as astounding as ancient Egypt, it is nonetheless perfect evidence that humans could do megalithic works long before the Pyramids were built. There is a lot we're "digging up" (mud flood anyone?).
Egypt's stonework is amazing no doubt, and well preserved, highly symbolic, and imbue a lot of "encoded" knowledge within them (the mathematical precisions and clever tooling of the stone masons), nothing comes close that's why it's a wonder of the world.
The wheel is not a difficult discovery, any human from any era could figure this out in a few years of observing nature. Tumbling acorns/apples/stones, rolling logs, wheel of Dharma, Ezekiel's wheel, etc. Recall one of Egypt's most revered symbols - the scarab beetle that rolls dung into balls. This is a wheel created by a bug. Egypt had the spoked wheel and the chariot at some point.
Lizard Squad, wasn't that related to the Dominion voting machine hack?
Think: Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, Deep State.
Recall this story:
They can probably push down bad stuff thru a targeted Windows Update. Or it's already on the machine in some encrypted file, and they send a signal (could be just a tiny 6 character code) to the machine to have Windows decompress it.
Yep he's the establishment pick.
Ghandi rolls in the grave.
Saw a debate with Russell Brand and some Indian guy explaining some stuff about India's government/politics, Ghandi rejects vaccines, and the Indian guy was basically like "Ghandi wasn't a good leader for India". Now they have Modi, the NWO yes man. I'm sure they'll call him great, for agreeing to whatever deals Rockefeller Co. and the UN sends his way.
I don't disagree with most of what you said, and most of what I said is definitely accurate, but believing that crypto is the revolution society needs to break free from the Fed / CIA / Deep State / partisan right-left divide / what-have-you, I'm afraid you'll be wrong in the end on that one. But I hope you're right! I myself am always working on solutions to the problems I see...
This forum's main utility is that it allows the community to keep each other up to date on serious current events. It's not really populated by plebs, it's not really a place to convince sheeple of ideologies at the moment, so let's not try to market new paradigms as savior to our problems, and actually be skeptical + philosophical of what it entails. However a good debate needs the thesis and antithesis approach so I appreciate your comments.
It’s not a database. A database is a centralized store of data which someone ultimately has the power to change at will.
So you haven't heard of a distributed database? Server shards?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_database
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_(database_architecture)
The easiest way to understand crypto is to understand that it's just a huge database, but instead of being on one server, it's spread across many clients. I said this in my previous comment.
The industry does this all the time. They take existing technology and repackage it into a "new" paradigm. It's marketing. The technology behind crypto has existed for years. Look at Bit Torrent, or distributed databases. Smart contracts existed before Bitcoin. We saw this repackaging/marketing thing a few years ago with the emergence of "the cloud". It's the fucking internet, dude.
No, not all of them consume large amounts of energy the way Bitcoin does.
Yeah lol. Some of them consume insane amounts of storage space instead of consuming insane amounts of energy.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chia-crypto-farming-can-destroy-ssds
Sure, there are some newer cryptos that use less energy. But they ride on top of Bitcoin's price and legacy, which uses a ton of energy. These green cryptos are an extension to Bitcoin, not a replacement (yet).
Name something that isn’t, other than God lol.
That was my point. Crypto doesn't offer freedom from tyrannical governments. It gives tyrannical governments more power and ability to control people's lives adhoc, on the microtransaction scale.
God can also be manipulated. Look at what the religious institutes did. Look at what the social engineers and CIA do to control our minds. God is consciousness and for most people in society they are part of the unconscious hive mind, where everyone confirms each other's beliefs and moves in unison like sheep, it is a womb created for them by government for them to feel safe.
Do you expect people to do all this hard work for free?
I have low expectations of people. Should people do hard work for free? Yes if it can bring prosperity to the world, no if the purpose is to bring prosperity to oneself. Fine line between helping out and selling out. Lots of crypto gurus are going to show their colors soon. For example creator of Litecoin doing a news interview about "the surging crypto market" when he actually sold all his Litecoin already. For many of these crypto gurus, it's a quick path to an exit strategy/retirement plan. They don't care about YOU, man.
It doesn’t hurt the integrity of the crypto if the founder holds some for themselves.
That's debatable wouldn't you agree.
The critical thing is that the supply of crypto is fixed and not manipulated, because then nothing would separate it from fiat currency.
Some cryptos supply is not fixed, and that is their main feature.
Don't you think the federal reserve is looking for a compromise? Wouldn't they want something like DOGE, where they can "print more money" when they need to? Elon made a joke about this, but he was kinda serious. The Fed's job is to manipulate the finances to keep things afloat and prevent huge shocks to the market. There is a new crypto out that also injects more (new) supply into the system every so often. Wouldn't the Fed want something like this? I think they would...and I also think they would want physical (printed) fiat with crypto codes on it, backed by a Fed coin. Not sure what they'll do.
That's interesting. So the tick transfers some stuff into the human, probably more than just alpha gal. The alpha gal is what triggers the immune response, then the immune system also finds the "other stuff" and categorizes it as hostile too. So it's probably a combination of alpha gal and animal protein entering the body at the same time, creating an immune response, that causes the allergy.
This is how I've always thought that vaccines are giving people allergies. If you look at the ingredients of a vaccine, there is a whole bunch of stuff in it. Some stuff like the adjuvants provoke the immune system to respond, then other stuff in the vaccine like peanut protein, egg shell protein or aborted fetus cells, training the immune system to identify these things as hostile, so that the body is allergic to them. So you see people with egg and peanut allergies. What about baby allergies? Well yes, recently with the COVID vaccines have been causing child birth problems. They are training the immune system to see a baby's stem cells as hostile/invader so that it cannot even grow inside the womb.
The Rockefeller eugenecists are up to no good.
We're seeing some new type of phenomenon where entire industries become a joint monopoly.
Mass extinctions haven't happened as far as DNA is concerned, which made it from the "first" life form (creature X) all the way thru single celled organisms to trees to insects to us, and it did this in an unbiased way about it's form/shape (it's interface with Earth), and unimpeded by Earth's major events.
Where does it come from? Is it Earth's will? Aliens? God?
Researchers now say that a symbiotic bacterium called Carsonella ruddii, which lives off sap-feeding insects, has taken the record for smallest genome with just 159,662 'letters' (or base pairs) of DNA and 182 protein-coding genes
That's pretty amazing isn't it. How did it even get that way! What was DNA before (or on smaller scale/less complexity) than that?
Biosecurity.
BioWatch.
DHS.
King Hussein.
Seems like you got it all figured out champ. We should delete this whole post, and ban that dumb author who hates Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin good, and author doesn't think good.