i mean, the 'retard' likely profited over a billion dollars in a few hours. not bad for a dishonest day's 'work'

lol, think we have bottomed for now. unless trump decides to tweet some more over the weekend.

Yeah and think about how thirsty trump is for one

I appreciate the info!

If you use rizful without your own node in their cloud, then it is fully custodial by them right?

Is there any reason to use rizful over wallet of satoshi?

Not sure, but the lag certainly exists.

My best guess, gold gets bid up when there are general worries about the economy and/or fears about monetary debasement (people go risk off).

Eventually those fears subside and people want to move "risk on" which they consider bitcoin to be so there is a rotation.

I think the fact that it has been used for money for thousands of years and is ubiquitous throughout the world is a pretty big benefit as well. It is also already on most central bank balance sheets, much easier to add to an existing position than justify a new asset.

hehe, couldn't have seen that coming...

I do use lightning for small transactions (my email provider for example).

Typically I convert btc to fiat 3-4 times a year in a decent sized chunk to take care of expenses. I don't think lightning can still handle transactions that large, but maybe things have changed. I remember trying a $800 transaction a couple years ago and it just kept failing so I assumed a several thousand dollar lightning transaction would still fail today.

Meant for and what reality is are two different things. The vast majority of my savings are in bitcoin. But I have fiat bills to pay for my family. Reality wins in that situation, I have to be able to sell little chunks of my stack to have a roof over our heads and food in bellies.

Therefore coinjoining isn't practical if it gets me kicked off the fiat rails.

One thing that has stopped me from coinjoining. I have heard random posts on the web about people who coinjoin and later either cannot sell the coinjoined sats or have their entire exchange account shut down if they move those particular sats to their exchange account.

While we should hope for bitcoin to be completely fungible with no concept of 'taint', unfortunately that does not seem to be true today. When you coinjoin, you may be mixing with the north korean or russian hackers stolen bitcoin and that may land you on some 'list' when you try to move your coins.

I don't know what the solution is to this type of problem. Perhaps the answer is everyone just coinjoins even more to make this 'taint' concept irrelevant, but unfortunately today it is extremely obvious onchain and coinjoin usage is extremely low so it is easy for exchanges to discriminate against coinjoin users.

I'd love to hear ways around this type of issue from bitcoiners, because bitcoin privacy should be the norm.

Please only speak for yourself and not for me.

I did not say that any illegal conduct like violence is acceptable.

Hate speech is generally allowed in America. You can say Fuck Trump or Fuck Biden. That is hateful speech. You can say it.

Netanyahu is committing a genocide and starving millions of people. 99.99% of people who protested this on campuses did so in a non-violent, legal manner. It was all shut down. That is perfectly legal, acceptable speech that was stopped by a government that seems to be very much in the pocket of Israel.

You can go arrest the 1, 10, 100 people who broke the law in these protests. It is not anyone's job to "turn over" people, the police should do their job and arrest who they need to. That a group did not "turn over" people is no excuse to violate everyone's first amendment rights.

Similar to the Jan 6th protests. 99.99% of people did not break the law. Many of them did. Trespassing and violence. They were blanket pardoned, including the criminals, but that is another story ;)

I'm not sure why that is relevant. So the congress allocated taxpayer money to schools because they believe(d) that higher education is net beneficial for the country. Whether because it attracts the most talented immigrants from around the world (who typically stay in the country and tend to be some of the most talented workers/leaders) or perhaps for research purposes as many of our military and scientific breakthroughs happen in these universities. The reason is irrelevant, all that matters is at some point congress decided there is a net benefit to the country to invest in universities and up to today, all subsequent congresses reauthorized said funding (they could have repealed it).

In a similar fashion, congress also authorized funds to provide in the form of grants and loans to Americans who would like to pursue higher education.

Now, the executive branch, has decided that they do not like students (paying customers of the universities) expressing their first amendment rights about a particular cause (related to a foreign country). So the executive branch both directly and indirectly stopped these students from expressing their views and violated their first amendment rights.

And the argument is that this is OK because the students are partaking in a system where they did not pay for 100% of their college costs?

By this logic, why can't the federal government tell you that the "Fuck Biden" sign you put in your yard must be removed because the government (fannie/freddie etc.) own or backstop your mortgage? Why can't they tell you to remove the "Fuck Trump" bumper sticker on your car because they paid to build the road your car is driving on?

I can't understand why one would argue for greater government control and for taking away first amendment rights. I imagine this is a partisan issue for you and that is how you reached your viewpoint? I would imagine you'd feel differently if it was your speech that was affected in the same manner or if it affected a cause you cared for.

So the schools took billions of dollars from the Federal Government.

The students, who are customers of the schools (the students pay the school), wanted to have anti-genocide protests.

But the Federal Government can have the school take away the first amendment right of the student because the government gives the school money?

What other rights do you believe should be taken away? What other infringements of the first amendment would you like to see? I'm sure we can take this even further and take away more rights from Americans!