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USA is in denial of its own decline and looking desperately anywhere and everywhere for scapegoats and diversions.

As China builds its global infrastructure and coalition of trading, military and monetary partners, USA is disintegrating into hateful fractious factions of denial and disengaging and alienating its former allies and friends.

We are witnessing an epic meltdown - of western civilisation.

Thanks for the link- Got time to watch it today- have to agree that he is very much on the same page as me. He may not present as well as the deniers, and as he points out - its not a message people want to hear- but it needs to be heard.

No rewards sats sent to my attached coinos wallet- looks like they are sent to the SN wallet. Of course I can manually withdraw them but it does appear like the automatic withdrawal function is not working.

Ok will do

I had done that already-

heres what s shows-

'desired balance applies globally to all autowithdraw methods desired balance (10) sats will attempt auto-withdraw when your balance exceeds 11 sats'

There's no error lines - just the msats 'warn' along with 'info' and 'ok'.

Yes - if you could check my autowithdrawal threshold that would be great thanks.

Yes that could be it- in the wallet log there are many comments like this-

'20 Jan [lnAddr] WARN wallet does not support msats'

Could this be why some transactions are not processing?

I set my auto withdraw if balance over 10 sats but theres over 500 sats in the SN wallet.

Yes I can see some sats there (assuming they are a missing daily rewards) but don't understand why they are not automatically sent to my attached wallet..or don't they automatically go to the attached wallet like zaps do?

Let me explain. In the late 1970s -early 1980s neoliberalism emerged in western democracies under leaders such as M.Thatcher and R.Reagan. They deregulated economies, dismantled state monopolies and much of the Keynesian legacy which had been in place since the 1930s. To be clear not all about Keynesian policies were good- but they were not all bad either- and this is not understood by most Libertarians who are effectively the next generation of neoliberals. Keynesian economic policy used the states fiat monopoly to stimulate the economy when it was depressed by investing in infrastructure using state issuance of fiat. But the Keynesian model decayed and came to be misused somewhat to fund government spending that would not likely build a stronger economy. So neoliberals emerged with their anti government rhetoric and strong corporate sponsorship. Bankers were major sponsors of neoliberalism and used the era to deregulate the banking industry- they saw to it that the prohibition upon private for profit banks funding housing purchases was removed- and so the housing price boom started- a flood of debt surged into non productive housing assets. The bankers assumed under neoliberalism a level of power and lobbying influence that effectively undermines democracy. They still enjoy that level of dangerous and undue power and influence in most western democracies. They have become since neoliberalism parasites destroying our democracies and economies.

Bitcoin emerged to provide an alternative to being a fiat debt slave.

Now perhaps you might see how 'leftists' or more broadly those of us who see the government as having a valid role in the economy and a major factor in the wealth of nations and who recognise that where not regulated bankers and other cartels will rentseek and undermine the overall wealth of nations.

My SN notifications show I have stacked rewards but they are not showing up in my coinos linked wallet. Eg 18/1/25 says 'you stacked 210 sats in rewards' but no sign of them in the wallet.

Ordinary zaps on comments appear to be going through ok though have not checked them all to be sure.

So we agree ~ they cant be stopped...and they are trying.

The only hope and potential solution might start in first acknowledging the problem...instead of pretending there is none...for example educating that ETFs undermine the purpose and principles of the protocol and thereby undermine Bitcoins longer term potential and value...

Coinbase hold them mostly.

The Big Players enjoy their power due to their ability to censor and control payments.

Capturing the majority of Bitcoin market defends their position of market dominance.

Hard to see how you could stop them since you don't even understand or acknowledge the nature of the problem...although you at least admit they cannot be prevented from doing what they are doing already.

And yet Chinas challenge to US hegemony is ongoing but remains under the radar of most superficial US exceptionalism biased analysis such as this. Bitcoin is inflating due to the awareness that USD hegemony is eroding and facing imminent collapse- because US power is now largely reliant upon USD siegniorage and debt leverage...but meanwhile China has won the trade war and is now attacking militarily via proxies in a medium term strategy to usurp US hegemony. Capture and control of international protocols and institutions is a significant part the next logical phase of Chinas incremental advance...in combination with already running proxy wars across the Middle East and Europe. Trumps tariffs, threats to BRICS and other bluster may stave off the collapse of USD hegemony but its far from decided who wins in the medium term. If the Saudis joined the Chinese led Iran Russia alliance against the US it could be all but over very swiftly. The clock is ticking.

Institutional custody of Bitcoin is growing rapidly already. Within five years, at current rates, they will hold most of the available sats. Bitcoin as a censorship resistant P2P payments protocol is being captured and controlled and neutered into a speculative commodity plaything. Hard to see how you could stop them.

You may not know what the Opium Wars were but the Chinese remember.

China has decimated European manufacturing. Europe is addicted to the low cost imports China provides. Europe has not enjoyed a trade surplus for decades. China is reverse engineering the global monetary system via Hong Kong.

The Chinese are now receiving the Russian oil and gas that was formerly fueling Europe- and China gets it at a nice discount while the payments for it make possible Putins attack on Eastern Europe. Russia is Chinas military proxy challenging NATO at its periphery...and dependent upon Chinas support.

China is the threat to US hegemony and Europe is monetarily and militarily subservient and tributary to the US.

Russia is Chinas proxy and is completely dependent upon Chinese support. Russia is a bad joke- but not a real or credible threat to western hegemony. China is.