@justin_shocknet - as a lightning maxi, could i trouble you for your take on ephemeral anchors - their pros/cons, please ? and do the complaints around the dust limit have anything to them ? TIA

ah, the good old bad old days.

SN in dark mode

'The prevailing power balance will be preserved'

'what we call money may well continue to be controlled by traditional banking institutions in 2025'

this is what they are talking about, and what is going on here.

dismal statist derangement

no.

yeah i got that, however, your post linked others that Darth has contention with - maybe that led the thread in a certain direction - plus the post defines him as a bully - i don't accept that he is - grumpy, yes, and confrontational in disagreement, sure...

anyhoo, i'm just passing traffic here, so who (or what) anyone is or isn't doesn't matter much to me, so i'll leave it there.

meh - honestly, looking thru the thread, OP comes off as overly sensitive, a few others glom together being snide, and Darth mostly seems on point - i don't have hard evidence as such, but over time it's become apparent to me that there are various trolls and spooks roaming here - personally, i don't mute, and rarely engage too much for it to matter anyway, but it might be something for you to reflect on that some accounts here are inauthentic, for a variety of reasons (if indeed yours is an authentic account, after all...)

not sure if this counts - plus it's now December... but this track, hey -

This is the plan for Suriname - Bitcoin recognised as legal tender day one, and moving to Bitcoin as unit of account going forward - the export of it's resources settled on the blockchain so the allocation of funding is transparent to the public and insulated from the endemic corruption and fraud it's affairs are routinely subject to currently.

Never could get any of those mag games to work on my Sinclair Spectrum - i seem to remember the print/stapling of the pages would make some lines unreadable, and i had no clue as to what to do with it.

Loading games from a mono tape player worked, mostly, though. Ultimate games were far and away the best - how many hours went to Jet Pac, Trans Am, and Cookie rather than homework, lol.

looool

'the return of the sausages'

the crazy eyes on the interviewer, lol

you have 4 options -

surrender to government.

defy the government.

change the government.

leave.

i have made my choices, you and everyone else must make theirs, including authoritarian regressive governments themselves.

they, and all those who choose to suffer them will have to play catch up further down the line.

there is a bigger reality to experience - far from plato's cave and those that exist in thrall to the play of the state's shadows on the wall.

where are these things happening ?

to whom are they happening ?

are they happening to you ?

none of the things you mention are happening to me, because i make the choice not to use Bitcoin on those terms, in those places.

all your positions seem based in fear - fear of what someone else might do.

Bitcoin is something that YOU can CHOOSE to DO.

the people, and the places that allow others to choose for them will suffer for as long as they do so.

maybe they will invoke tyranny, maybe they will experience collapse, maybe they will get wiped out, it's on them (and maybe you).

the solution is of course, to make choices for and by themselves, be it individually, and/or societally.

individuals, networks, and countries are making their choices - this is the journey to Bitcoinisation the world is on - whether it is faster or slower, lumpier or smoother, dramatic or incremental for anyone, anywhere, is entirely dependent on themselves.

it's there for anyone to notice, and experience.

there is a bigger game playing out than your myopic argument can accommodate

no, it's the reality that anyone can make a choice and act upon it - the choices people make are what matters - different people, in different places, are making different choices - a casual look around the wider world clearly shows that.

the ability of any Bitcoin user to reclaim power, and assert it, is undiminished.

it is only within your frame of reference that anything is being undermined - Bitcoin user unaffected.jpeg

anyone is free to choose to use Bitcoin, or not - and anyone who chooses to use Bitcoin is free to choose the terms on which they do so.

each approach has it's own characteristics, and defines the experience for the user - which at large, over time, is the path, or journey, to Bitcoinisation.

acting in this awareness, anyone can experience the use of an open access, permissionless protocol in any context they prefer - that is the reality.

given the subject matter, i'd be reluctant to click any of the links

it's the same picture.jpeg