Yes and science should always be amenable to new evidence that rules out existing theories. Science does not establish truth as many misinformed people believe, it only shows our best understanding of the subject so far.
That’s objectively not true. Just look at climate change. Science has been corrupted and in fact is worse than churches these days.
You are discouraged from deviating with the orthodoxy in a way that is not present in Christianity, because it is accepted and normal to have disagreements.
We have entire denominations showing it is acceptable to disagree. Science is still monolithic so far and has not even recognized its own errors yet.
Well they did it in Gitmo because theoretically it’s not legal to do here. Guess laws don’t matter much anymore.
Reddit was long consumed by bots and other things and they lost the war against spammers to become the spammers.
If the bots respond instantly, then reddit is running the bots.
In a chaos scenario, only the essentials needed for survival have value. Food, water, shelter, weapons, medicine, etc.
Money is a concept used by civilized people to trade more efficiently than by barter. Gold/silver were fine historically, but there are better options today.
You seem lost.
The difference between the two is that one is decentralized and the other isn’t. Your transaction can’t be denied, your money can’t be frozen, you can’t be restricted as to where you send it.
Sure a visa card transaction is cheaper. You just have to give up any form of ownership of your money to use it.
Also Bitcoin is just one cryptocurrency. There are many alternatives that do not use the same level of energy so calling all crypto an “energy hungry virus” is missing the mark.
Really? The owners can’t just sell the crypto whenever they want? There are much better ways to kill the population than re-introducing them to the idea that they can actually create forms of money themselves that have nothing to do with an utterly corrupt government.
How do you know the difference between truth and lies?
So why cant you choose to be how you want to be?
If you have a free will, why don't you will yourself into being happy and content at all times?
Oh the cats would know. Mine won't even eat the low quality chicken-based cat food. And they coat that stuff with fat to try to make it more appealing. He definitely wouldn't be tricked by bug food.
They would have to ban it in the name of "saving the environment". Only the lunatics will voluntarily eat bugs. I can't wait until people are arrested for black market beef lol.
I wouldn't even feed bugs to my cat. He's as picky as I am so good luck with that.
There is no free will.
Donald Trump was pushing anything that he thought might help.
No other lifeform uses electricity either. I’m not going back to living in a cave. You can’t make me.
You mean the pictures and video of him doing gross stuff? Or are you talking about something else?
The problem with running your own wallet is that you have to run your own security, and trust me, even if you run linux and you're very skilled at hardening it, you're nothing compared to a company with 65B valuation that can leverage entire, active 1000+ person cyber security force to protect and secure your private keys.
Actually I’m in a much better position than they are because I’m not a target. Oh and my computer is not a server so I’m not allowing anyone to connect to it lol. They have a lot of security I’m sure, but they need it because everyone knows what they have and they must maintain a public interface for their customers to access their funds.
The biggest threat for me would be forgetting my key, deleting it by accident, or maybe having the hard drive die on me. (And losing my backup seed phrase, or forgetting the combination to the safe, lol)
You know what the best security measure is? Not announcing your wealth to anyone.
I agree generlaly what you're talking about but all of these exchanges are being run by leftie silicon valley technofascists who are making decisions on who can use their services.
Absolutely. That’s why I never left my crypto on Coinbase. I don’t trust the exchanges just like I don’t trust banks.
The conservatives have tons of money and not a lot of technical skill. There has to be people to bridge that gap; and when it gets bridged, the left is fucked.
That’s me, right here. I have the technical skill, just not sure what I want to make yet. I’ll contribute one day, I promise.
His big mistake was trying to use amazon and cloudflare (why? WHY???)
It’s funny. Not his fault imo, it’s just that his people are trained to use what everyone else uses, and that obviously doesn’t work when all the big companies are against you. You either need to trust someone with a good track record or build it yourself.
It’s supposed to be traceable. That’s how the global ledger of transactions can exist.
What does it matter if it is? It’s not like Nick Fuentes is a private person. He can put out a wallet address that people who like him can donate to and he can do whatever he wants with it.
The government won’t even take anything unless he tries to convert it to dollars on an exchange.
I have to correct you here.
All block-chain based algorithms work on a basic formula: 1.) "Data Miners" have to "mine" the currency. This is primarily being handled by GPUs at the moment. GPUs made in China.
First, the top miners use ASICs. Made mostly in China as most hardware is made there.
Second, not all blockchains are based on proof of work. That is one model. You have proof of space and proof of stake as alternatives. In proof of stake, there is no mining, while proof of space relies on storage space.
For any of this to work, obviously, everything has to be connected to the internet. An internet held together almost entirely by hardware made in China.
Well if you believe China controls all our hardware or the internet, then we have far bigger problems than crypto.
So we'll ignore for the moment the fact that as more and more people use the system, there's an inherent "slowness" to Block Chain that would ultimately result in a backlog of transactions that would exponentially grow to the point that NO transaction would be able to be completed within your lifetime... We'll ignore that glaring problem for the moment entirely.
You are talking about Bitcoin. Not all cryptocurrencies work like Bitcoin does. Even then, Bitcoin has various solutions to that issue. This is an evolving space where answers are still being determined.
And it’s not that a transaction can’t be completed, it’s that you will have to pay more to get it processed more quickly.
The only thing we know for sure is that no decentralized system will be as fast as a centralized one, because it has to contend with the overhead that comes with verification over blind trust.
Now how fast it can be nobody knows yet.
But over time, they came dangerously close to owning more than 50% of the nodes in Bitcoin. They knew that if they DID get the majority, the value of Bitcoin would drop to zero.
Well it would go to zero if they attempted to cheat with the majority, yes. What you don’t mention in your analysis is that if adoption were global, then China would not be a problem. Bitcoin is very small, even now. By the time you see a country like the US adopt Bitcoin for day to day transactions, China would just be one part of the overall market. A large part, but not >50% of it.
What if they embed something in the chipset of the GPUs that recognizes bitcoin farming being done on the GPUs, and purposely return incorrect information on rare occasion?
Wouldn’t change anything about how Bitcoin works. Or any other crypto. The GPU, or any piece of hardware, operates on a very low level. It can’t affect a high level protocol like Bitcoin.
What if they quietly mandate that all GPU chipsets return false "primes"?
They can return what they like, but the network is looking for a particular number. The wrong one would just be rejected.
Just the muddying of the bitcoin operations this would cause would be enough to crash faith in the currency, causing it to devalue entirely.
You think it hasn’t already been tried? People have flooded Bitcoin with garbage transactions before. They fix the oversight that allowed such behavior, people update their software, and the network goes on.
So on this day, the hardware simply drops all bitcoin protocol packets that are not bound for the whitelisted servers. On this day, those whitelisted servers authorize false transactions. Creating coins that shouldn't exist, moving coins from one wallet to another, etc. It doesn't matter. The point here isn't to steal the coins, the point is to kill ANY faith in the currency.
Can’t happen. To participate in the Bitcoin network, you need to be running the software. The software is what determines the functionality, not the hardware, and this software is open-source so everyone can read what is in it.
So basically, the thing that makes cryptocurrency "secure" is specifically that it isn't popular. As soon as it becomes a "worldwide" currency for a state actor to take interest in, it will be destroyed. And no amount of fiddling with the algorithms or wishing will change that.
You have it backwards. Crypto is at its most vulnerable right now when adoption is low. Not because any state actor can stop it, but they might kill its utility through regulation and make it a black market technology. People would still use it, however they would risk being labeled a criminal and maybe even imprisonment depending on how crazy governments get.
Any currency that is based on wishes and dreams (read: not physically backed by a tangible item of value) will ultimately collapse. And this includes the U.S. Dollar. It's just a matter of time. A currency is only as valuable as the faith that people put into it. And with Bitcoin, there are many ways to destroy that faith.
Cryptocurrencies are based on mathematics and electrons, and the fact that you don’t need a central authority to run it.
There is no such thing as a “tangible item of value”. Objective value doesn’t exist. Money is a concept. It is a set of objective properties that something must have to be useful as a medium of exchange. Anything can serve as a currency, but money needs certain properties to be trusted.
Bitcoin fulfills those properties the same way that precious metals do, and it has advantages that they don’t, in terms of security and portability.
We live in exciting times. I wouldn’t second guess crypto yet. It has only just begun and Bitcoin is only the first version.
Crypto is not a honeypot. Coinbase is an exchange, which is crypto’s version of a bank. If it is not in your possession, then you don’t own it. This just proves that Coinbase has been compromised.
Nick is free to move crypto to and from his own wallet as he pleases. No one can stop him. It does require more technical expertise than using Coinbase’s app though.
Why announce it? I can understand maybe acclimating citizens to the idea of the military taking over to make the transition easier, but otherwise you are giving warning to your enemy.
What are the odds Macron will suddenly do the right thing as opposed to just working to undermine the military?
UK cops are so feminine. I just laugh imagining if they had to try and handle people in the US like that.
Where did I say “all science must be condemned”? I’m saying that science has been corrupted to the point that you can’t simply trust that the community is putting out honest material and self-correcting.
When I say monolithic, I mean there is no such thing as branches or subgroups in the scientific community because they are all expected to be adhering to the scientific method.
The problem is that there are many examples of falsifying data to get conclusions because of grants, status, political views, etc.
So when you say you are a scientist, you are not able to differentiate yourself from the scammers, since they also call themselves scientists and say they are adhering to the scientific method. How is the average person supposed to tell the difference?