Maybe we are supposed to "succeed" in a different way. I wouldn't say that internet has "failed", even though the original cypherpunk ideals haven't been realized.

I know it's a difficult pill to swallow, but please don't blame the messenger.

I agree. But normies will use it anyway. And nobody can stop tether from using the bitcoin/lightning networks. I'm not saying that we should applaud them; just that we cannot stop them.

If usdt is going to be used no matter what, I'd much rather have that value being transmitted over the bitcoin/lightning network, than over fiat or shitcoin networks. The same way normies use HTTP and TCP/IP everyday, yet they have no clue what that is.

Yes, the new models have.

I agree. I want to add that landlords should also be stacking instead of using houses as SoV.

Science is supposed to be about replicating and verifying by oneself, not about "trust".

So ironic.

Yes, but it would be good if you add your lightning address to Stacker News so that you can receive real sats for the SN zaps straight to your wallet instead of getting "cowboy credits".

Here: https://stacker.news/wallets

WTF is this garbage? This has nothing to do with bitcoin. Of course that thing is not going to surpass bitcoin.

Sounds like AI

If you don't feel close to them, you don't have to get close to them.

The ministry of culture has given the seal of approval to this work. Very likely, the government is giving money to support this or their approval makes it easy for them to get money from other institutions.

Woke culture is a consequence of peak fiat and it has also infiltrated the Peruvian state. It looks like nobody will escape wokism. Mandibles, then bitcoin standard.

Who is "we"?

Did people buy a mobile phone and leave it in a drawer? Some people would only use the mobile phone occasionally, but nobody said that the purpose of mobile phones was to never use them.

That's not my definition of adoption. And I wish they would stop calling bitcoin an 'asset'. That's diminishing and degrading. Bitcoin is much more than that.

One olympic pool per query 😆... oops, that was per bitcoin tx. Hamburger also bad. How many gallons for a beyond meat fake "hamburger"?

BrainrotGPT and wasting time in front of the TV good.

I see a pattern here.

Interesting. They follow the same pattern in most countries: first, they introduce digital, instant, free payments; then, when they have enticed people into the system, they start monitoring transactions to detect "undeclared" income, "excessive" spending, etc.

I have been minimalist / nomadic for over 4 years already (I started because of the covid craziness) but sometimes I would like to have my own house arranged my way. But when I think of the burden of having a house, taking care of everything even if I am traveling, making sure that everything is OK and in good order, and mostly complying with ever growing government demands... I don't want to go back to that.

I am being asked to live in a pod and to pay for the pod. If private property is not respected (it isn't), then maybe it's better to "own" as little as possible.

Pathetic and cringe.

The question is why do they collect all that information in the first place?

Then there is Tesla, who in trying to prove that the Las Vegas explosion was not their fault, reveals that they can lock/unlock your car remotely and watch and record through its cameras.

Electric vehicle = privacy nightmare ?

Not endorsing wokepedia, but:

Safekeeping the ledger of humanity is well worth the energy and capital cost of mining, imo. All that without any human being killed. But why should anybody say which energy uses are "good" and which ones are "wasteful"?

I just edited the message to post the github link. Haven't read the license, but I guess it is.

Edit: MIT license, according to the repository.

Yes, it is on Zapstore.