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29 sats \ 0 replies \ @Artilektt 16 Feb \ on: The Most Popular Dog Breeds in the U.S. charts_and_numbers
Kind of surprised at a couple of these
Sam Harris wrote a whole book on this called Lying if you're interested
True, the thing that could keep this in check compared to the past though is the ease of assaying and proving availability of bitcoin reserves. Not at all as easy to do with gold or other backings.
30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Artilektt 6 Feb \ parent \ on: Hardware wallets - are they really necessary? bitcoin
If you are rich and a public person I would go with a third-party like Casa to help in case of kidnapping or physical attacks.
You can also do your own multisig it is not that hard these days
Maybe collectors, any random reason could spark it.
To me, Satoshi nails it here. For some reason, I don't know why, people seem to never consider collectability as a "use" that generates initial value. In fact, this is the whole point of Nick Szabo's paper Shelling Out on the origins of money as collectibles.
In the beginning, some Bitcoin users just wanted to collect bitcoins. They wanted to have a higher balance. I don't know why this is not considered a "use".
It's funny how quickly I can tell these days that someone simply doesn't understand money. It's like I'm seeing the matrix.
haha oh god sorry I realize now I wasn't clear in how I wrote that. I meant I visited the prison. It is called S-21 outside of Phnom Penh and has been a museum now since 1980.
I went to the prison and one of the main killing fields in Cambodia. It's hard to put into words how horrific those years were for the Cambodian people. The perpetrators never even really faced just for those atrocities.