25 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 21h \ parent \ on: ‘Open-source’ CBDCs aren’t going to protect you from government privacy
Open source simply means anyone can read the code.
The code itself can be anything.
Exchanges with lightning support. Great for reducing fees.
In the game Hitman you are supposed to not kill anyone.
It is still possible, but the goal is to complete the missions without any kills.
Mario definitely kills the turtles and the other enemies in the normal platform games.
In Mario Kart I don't think they die because they always come back with the cloud, so they are never killed. This is probably because the game is a racing game, where there aren't any kills usually in that genre.
Any sports game, e.g. FIFA, Winning Eleven (Pro Evolution Soccer), Super Soccer, Super Tennis, etc...
Katamari_Damacy. In this game your objective is to roll a ball around that gets things stuck to it, making it larger and larger over time:
An old classic that fits this type is Myst, an adventure (puzzle-solving) game:
Here are some more examples from wikipedia
Money can buy a service, of course.
But money cannot make someone else feel attracted to you.
You can be ugly and poor, but if you know how to behave and what to say, you can make women desire you. Also men will want to be like you. Money is no substitute for this. Looks will usually help(check out halo effect), but it's not a requirement.
Note that money doesn't make a man attractive. It is simply the money the thing that is attractive. The moment the man stops having control of the money, the man stops being attractive. Therefore, it is the money, not the man, in that case what is attractive.
A man can be attractive even if they are poor. Or rich. It doesn't matter. Attractiveness of a man is independent of money.
You can pay with a card using lightning, connected to your own node.
No middleman, Bitcoin only, and with the same benefits of legacy card payments.
I wrote about it a long time ago here: #29647
Here is another write up I did in bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5411251.0
Make sure to backup the data in those disks.
Physical media only lasts a few years, a few decades at most. Same with CDs, DVDs, etc.
Usually the original designer makes them and sells them to resellers. Who knows for how much. That's a hidden cost.
But, as it is open hardware, you can of course just build it yourself for cheaper.
100 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 11 May \ parent \ on: Bitaxe miner pros and cons ?? 🤔 bitcoin_beginners
That's similar to what you can get with an USB miner, like the Compac F.
There are a lot of other components, plus making the whole thing, plus shipping, etc.
It's the same with any other electronic device. Maybe you are comparing this to PC parts, but that's different as they are all standard and you can just swap components. Here, and with other electronics in general, you have to design the whole board.
15 sats \ 2 replies \ @nullama 11 May \ parent \ on: Bitaxe miner pros and cons ?? 🤔 bitcoin_beginners
The main problem with that one is that it is closed sourced (like the Apollo II), and it is locked to one pool only
20 sats \ 6 replies \ @nullama 11 May \ parent \ on: Bitaxe miner pros and cons ?? 🤔 bitcoin_beginners
Any miner in theory can mine solo or in a pool.
It's a relatively small ASIC, kinda like those USB miners.
The cost of it is probably more than what you can ever mine with it though, but it's cheap if you just want to learn about mining.
That has always been the reality though.
But the concept of utopia, I believe, is wider than just your own mind.
It encompasses all society.
Today the average person is unaware that they are indeed a slave, with almost all of their wealth and freedom being stolen from them throughout their life.
Is Elon Musk a slave?
Is Bill Gates a slave?
I get the sentiment, and yeah, it sucks if you are a random worker in the US, but this is just not how the whole thing works, specially outside the US.