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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @SqNr65 29 Jul \ on: Lowest Six-Month Human Death Toll From Bad Weather Ever (The Daily Sceptic) ideasfromtheedge
Idk man.. seems to me the skeptics spend all day and night conceding and it's never enough for the alarmists.
They're branded as "Deniers" and ridiculed and bullied into silence or smeared into pariah status. I haven't actually seen evidence for the inverse. Do you have any?
To say "the activists are terrified to enter into genuine dialogue" seems to me to be evidence of the opposite of what you're saying here. Its inviting a debate, not shutting it down. It may not be a particularly nice way to invite debate but it is nonetheless an invitation. A challenge.
The skeptics seem to say "look at this evidence, what do you have to say about this you idiot?" Which is not very nice indeed. But at least it invites a debate.
But the alarmists on the other hand say things like "look at this evidence, now shut up and do what I say because I'm trying to save you, you idiot" Which may be well intentioned, but is also not very nice, and shits down debate.
You don't hear skeptics saying absurd things like "settled science" or the tell-tale signs of trying to shut down debate like appeals to authority "99% of scientists..."
You may not like the style in which the skeptics express themselves, which is fine, but that's different from claiming that they shut down the conversation, that's simply not true. They're the ones opening the conversation.
I'm not sure you understand what prices are.
Actually, I'm sure you don't understand what prices are
Well I don't think it will die at all.
I think you think there's a "fee pressure problem" because you don't understand the difficulty adjustment or the dynamic nature of markets or the inherently ever-changing nature of existence given the passage of time.
I think you want to "ensure the long term viability of Bitcoin mining" by turning Bitcoin into Ethereum when there's actually no issue with the long term viability of miners in the first place.
You didn't understand the analogy at all.
within the context of the analogy, you just said you don't care why people go to church, the important thing is that they go.
Well in that case, put a pole by the altar and strobelights in place of the chandelier and fuck it, replace the organs with speakers.
But now you just have a strip club dude.
There are already plenty of those.
Churches are for prayer. If people aren't praying, let the church close.
Bitcoin is for transacting. If people aren't transacting, let it die.
Seriously. Let it die man.
I don't think you have any idea what I mean.
You're trying to "save" Bitcoin in case people don't want to use it enough for it to survive.
That's silly.
If not enough people use it, it will die from lack of usage.
If you succeed in trying to save it from lack of usage, it will die by becoming something else.
If this is a problem, you can't fix it, and will in fact make it worse by trying.
If it is not a problem (it's not a problem), then leave it alone.
I can go to 600 churches and less than half the seats are filled with people praying.
For all the drama about declining religiosity, there aren't a lot of people praying.
Ironically, strip club attendees seem more willing to attend strip clubs and spend money than church goes are to attend church and give to the parish.
Should we put stripper poles and strobelights by the crucifix?
The transaction fee is too low right now. For some. So they don't mine. It's high enough for others. So they do. This will always be the case because of the difficulty adjustment.
Those for whom it's worth it to mine will mine. Those for whom it's not, won't.
If enough people find it's not, difficulty goes down, making it worth it for more. If too many find it worth it, difficulty goes up, making it worth it for less.
Both scenarios are fine, I don't understand why people think this needs to be 'managed' somehow, it's fine.
Then how can you simply assert that Bitcoin is "anaemic"?
As though this were some kind of objective fact
Bitcoin fees may be too low for your liking, which is fine. Don't mine it.
They're high enough for other to mine it. Which is fine. They'll continue to mine.
The fees are not "too high" or "too low" in any absolute sense.
They're too low for some miners, and high enough for others. They're too high for some transactors, and low enough for others. This is how it always is, has been, and will be. It's called a marketplace. Prices vary. People make decisions based on those prices. Anyone who thinks the price is incorrect hasn't understood what prices are and how they work and what they're doing and why.
It won't be an issue. You just haven't fully understood the ramifications of the difficulty adjustment
Every dollar invested in the us stock market is a dollar NOT invested in the European one.
This is functionally the same thing.
Europeans sending productive capital to USA instead of their own companies at home.
In practical terms it means that a US business may survive that would otherwise have failed, and an European company might fail that would have otherwise survived.
In economic terms, it doesn't really matter if any actual physical business physically moves.
It matters where resources are being allocated, as this means they are not being allocated elsewhere.
This is like the CPI tho
It shows the dominance of the usd within the swift system
But it doesn't show what's happening outside of it
It may be the same picture
But more data is needed before an assessment can be made
When you say other currencies "play virtually no role in international business" you should replace "international business" with "the swift system". That would be more accurate given the available information.
Ya feel me?
I've been to/called a bunch of these places in my city to go use Bitcoin and every single one turned out not to accept Bitcoin, the people didn't even know wtf I was talking about when I asked and I looked like an idiot, this site needs to get it's shit together
The blue whale is bigger than the Megalodon. It's the biggest animal of all, past or present, no exceptions.
I really appreciate lil Bitcoin parafernalia. Nothing expensive, some blank seed phrase cards, branded pens, stickers things like that
Last one I went to there was a draw for a modified S9 miner/room heater. Could do this with some other Bitcoin product, an inexpensive hardware wallet or something if you want to bring down costs, or even just straight up Sats, Bitcoiners love sats hahaha. Nothing to break the bank(lol) just whatever you're willing to part with.
A venue that takes Bitcoin, or at least wait staff that take Bitcoin tips was a big winner for me too.
A lil area for local Bitcoiners to sell or advertise their Bitcoin-related wares if possible, books, shirts, bitcoin-themed baked goods, things like that. Make sure to keep this one Bitcoin only. It can get super messy if not. No fiat, no shitcoins.
I'd also look into seating arrangement.. arrangements? Every meetup I've been to has had awkwardly placed tables and chairs that make it difficult to have a conversation with anyone other than the person directly next to you. It's nice to sit and have a beer in bigger groups, especially for a meetup where the whole point is to meet new people.
Not too loud music, Bitcoiners tend to love to talk about Bitcoin, don't want to be yelling the whole time and struggling to hear eachother.
A - "not your keys"
B- "nacho cheese?" Calls the waiter over
Charismatic speakers if any. This is a massive one for me, could just be me tho. I really don't want to hear you studder and fumble up there for 15 minutes about profitability indicators and hash price if I can't understand 20% f the words coming out your mouth. Stops the event dead in its tracks for me, brings the atmosphere down.
As someone who's never been anywhere near the planning or execution of any Bitcoin meetups, but has attended a few, this is all I can think of. Reading back thru it it's more than I expected actually haha. Hope it helps!