Sure, moral rights and wrongs are tough. Nature is cruel in how it operates, and us humans are the worst. But what is an alternative to deal with "tainted" Bitcoin? Supply each UTXO with a provenance certificate? It is what it is - an electronic ledger that tracks full history.

After coins changed hands in a bona-fide arm's length transaction, they are no longer Koreans'. By your logic, most gold must be confiscated, because at some point in history those atoms were stolen by someone from someone else.

Maybe. I tried to argue that "stolen" is a legal construct, making sense only within the accepted definitions of common law. But "common law" are rules made by rulers for their subjects: citizens. Foreign nationals are not subject to the same rules. And since bitcoin is cross border, it cannot be stolen in a legal sense - because there are no universal laws. ByBit lost their coins because they did not see the holes in the Ethereum smart contract. Lazarus was smarter. Meritocracy in action.

It is stolen only from the perspective of specific nation states/their legal systems. It is lawfully acquired from the perspective of North Koreans. Russians and Iranians will likely side with the latter. It is hard to look at Bitcoin as a trans-national monetary system, though it is one. Governments try to mold it to circulate just like one's national currency, but like water, it will always leak. You can't exclude certain UTXOs from circulation, you can only exclude certain unlucky citizens from using those.

That was my view as well until yesterday. But then I saw in the Boltz telegram group that people are checking UTXOs they receive in a swap against chainanalysis bots like @BitOK_AML_bot. Because exchanges use the same services for AML and freeze such deposits. I won't send my UTXOs to CEXes, but most normies will sooner or later.

100mil will be enough because 99% of normies will never care. They are too comfortable in their invisible prison cells and don't want to climb the learning curve. For most, Bitcoin will always be just one more investment instrument, handled by a regulated entity. Especially now, when Travel Rule and AML freezes make non-custodial UTXOs scarier by the day.

Did you play all the previous versions? Steam reviews for Civ7 are sub-par, people complain about clunky UI and such. So I did not try it yet. Are you saying it is good?

Ah, I see you are new to Civ. Playing Old Earth for now, it is really good.

oh, sorry to hear!

The last couple of years AI really changed the nature of coding, and I love it. No more browsing manuals and googling debugging errors. This is the nature of progress and technological singularity we are living through. Exponential acceleration of productivity. Am I scared for myself? No, I'm old. For the young generation? Sure.

Notice how quarks assemble into protons and neutrons, they into atoms and atoms into molecules. There is an optimization algorithm guided by the principle of least action. Similar to a solver in Excel - try all variants and find one with the minimum energy. "Living" matter is doing the same on a higher and higher scale - optimizing for better use of available energy. AI shares the same basic idea called gradient descent. Everything in the universe is computation, from the most fundamental - space itself - to human consciousness. Google Wolfram Physics for more.

Umbrella Corporation

Oh, but they will. All gas stations have CCTV cameras. And traffic cameras will help find you if need be.

I know, because I've been there, with me and my wife scrambling to secure legal status before clock runs out.

Sure, but in many situations one can be legal for years, say on work visa, then laid off and only have one month to find a new job.

Financial engineering

I avoid public speaking at all cost. My current lifestyle facilitates this very well. When I did have to do it in the past, such as teaching a seminar, I picked one person from the audience and pretended that I talked only to him/her for a minute. Then picked next one etc. No rehearsing was needed because I knew the topic very well and certainly could discuss it with one person.

Truckers were getting serious sats personally delivered to them by specific bitcoiners. This app is for sending pennies into the void just to feel good about it. Do you assume people in distress will rush opening accounts here, in a hope to receive a few sats? Good intention and invaluable coding experience though.

Never used it, but it has 147 channel offers right now.

I am sure using Google Wallet is not obligatory. As owning a mobile phone.