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Definitely a catch-22 as Bitcoin is not a democracy. Participating in polls is cheap and running a node is work. So abstain.
What is really the probability that CSAM gets included by any of the large KYC pools?
It seems somehow unlikely that such a block would be constructed by a large pool due to legal risks.
And if it is constructed by some other miner I could imagine that such a block would be orphaned by the other miners.
Yes it happened on the BSV chain, but who care's about that?
Data storage on the chain is undesirable, but this fear about CSAM seems exaggerated.
This hype about treasury companies may pump the price somewhat but actually it is part of the fiat mentality as well.
A lot of energy goes into this type of financial engineering that will also be obsolete when the fiat system finally vanishes.
Is that not a classical example of high time preference and fiat mentality?
Fees may be low now but what is in ten years?
You have to be prepared and not optimized for the short term.
Bitcoin has failed if it is "only Gold 2.0", because then the exchanges like Relai will be the choke points.
If humanity loses the general purpose computing devices on which you can run software without permission, they will try next to force the chip implant on you.
Yes, according to some news article1 (in German) they will move part of the operation to Germany and Norway.
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I do not understand why smart developers try to figure out how to make transaction even more efficient and on the other hand also enable more spamming?
Are they corrupt aka. having another hidden motive, are they cognitive delusional or are they some kind of neo luddites that want to protect further work as optimizing a dysfunctional UTXO set will be a challenging task that will occupy them for decades.
In case of reddit etc. it's actually not that much per user.
Would you prefer to pay one dollar per month for e.g. private mail without any advertisement or a VPN service for a day for less than a dollar?
We now have a payment system that makes it possible to collect payment for small amounts.
If google would fire all their engineers whose tasks it is to make people click on buttons they do not actually want to click, then a lot of these services that are finance by advertisement today would become even cheaper.
A lot of rethinking on user and on business side is necessary here.
Like Mozilla. They have a mission but in all other topics even if it is closely related they are mainstream. I would even call it cognitive dissonance to favor open source software and privacy, but on the other and reject private uncensorable money.
Years ago I rotated out a Nano S before the support by the current software was discontinued. At that time I migrated the address format and therefore did it onchain.
Coldcard allows to create backup files to the SD card. Are those upwards compatible e.g. from MK2 to MK4? I guess using such a backup saves some time.
Does anyone have experience with that or can confirm that this works as expected.
I'm somehow missing a nostr login that works like on https://coracle.social/ or https://coinos.io/ with scanning a QR code with an app like amber.
I would say, out of the frying pan into the fire. Is the "chat control" in the EU dead? This juridical walking on eggshells for centralized services will not end soon. More decentralization, more self-hosting, mesh networks etc. are needed.
You can find numerology everywhere including bitcoin.
Examples:
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The port number used for lightning is 9735. That is the decimal value for the code point of the unicode character "LIGHTNING": ☇
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Difficulty adjustment takes place every 2016 blocks. This number reversed gives you 6102 which may be a reference to the "Executive Order 6102" aka the banning of private ownership of gold in the US in 1933. This was the turning point to a bad money regime till bitcoin arrived in 2009.
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The bitcoin white paper was published on October 31. The same date as Luther (beginning of the reformation) published his thesis
There are more...
I guess more and more the costs of not have to buy new hardware all the time will be the reason to change to a GNU/Linux desktop as you can run those for more than five years. These company projects to switch from Win10 to Win11 are ridiculous expensive. People that care about privacy etc. have switched already a long time ago.