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Yeh, I somewhat was leaning towards the bitcoin ransom was just an internet scammer.
I'd expect we will see more of this going forward combined with AI proof-of-life videos. Counter-intuitively maybe this lessens actual kidnappings for ransom and real kidnappers get front-run by scammers.
There’s a pretty decent pitch that can be made to progressives.
Yes and I do wish that bitcoin messaging focused more on the tangible social benefits of having sound money, rather than pure NGU or semi-irrelevant tech-bro debates about quantum computing, NFTs, covenants, etc.
Having people see clearly what the problem is (ie. money printing) is arguably more important for society than just direct bitcoin advocacy....and regardless bitcoin is the natural beneficiary of such thinking.
I've thought about that and I honestly don't know. The total get together was maybe 50 people and there was a group of 5 or 6 socialist (maybe more)....I say that because during one of the speeches they started a back and forth with the speaker where they were advocating for gov involvement in bitcoin to 'regulate it'. They were loudly booed, which then escalated to them outing themselves as saying capitalism is evil, etc etc.
I somehow think that they either adopted more austrian views, or perhaps they moved off to some shitcoin project, or who knows maybe they are still with us....however what struck me at the time was that the online presence of bitcoin (ie. bitcointalk.org and /r/bitcoin) was basically libertarian only vibes. So they were either lurking or maybe more likely bitcoin is discussed on other leftist forums that I never saw....
Yes, sadly this is another case of 2 sides looking at the same problem but diagnosing it differently.
Its absolutely true that the wealth gap is growing, its absolutely true that excessive financial speculation is a problem (its easier to speculate than to actually build things which would help actually employee people), etc.
However a primary cause of these issues is money printing, which is a state-sponsored function.
So its illogical to create a false dichotomy of "state vs rampant economic machine", since it is the state that created that machine.
Side note: The first real life bitcoin get together I went to (I forget the year but maybe was 2017), what impressed me the most was the number of hard core leftist there. I was coming from Austrian / Ancap view, so was surprised to see actual socialist at the get together....that told me Bitcoin was actually going to be something, since the far-left and right were both seeing it as a tool to improve the world.
I have no idea about TA nor if the "4 year cycle" is still valid or not....but if it is, that suggest a bottom somewhere around $35k
Seems feasible.
Essentially sysadmin things.
Linux (rhel + fedora + bootc), containers, ansible, gitops, python, etc
I'd also be willing to invest depending on amounts.
I had a pet project working on similar idea back in 2020 but abandoned it (was using onchain only). You hit most of my design ideas (no account needed, instead live square reservation, etc).
Couple of questions (only because I'm interested),
- what are you using as the 'oracle' for scores? Just manually keeping track or are you using an online sports info service?
- when a card fills up are you auto-generating a new card?
- how will you deal with incomplete cards? will the house "purchase" them?
- whats your revenue model? txn fees? (or is the it potential winnings from house "purchased" squares)?
I would be willing to bet economics (2 income household) has a huge effect....
Interestingly most of the moms in my neighborhood are stay-at-home moms (I would guess 70%). So from that perspective, it seems like if men are able to be sole income provider there seems to be direct correlation to number of children....
The title of the graph is "Immigrants pay more in taxes and receive fewer benefit" (which doesn't infer slavery but implies it...).
However I really don't believe that stat, I don't know if you've ever been to a big city public hospital, but the waiting rooms are completely chocked full of immigrants. I suspect they are cooking the books on public healthcare....
we need those slaves....
There is probably a truth to it, however what is missing is the voting outcomes. Over that same timeframe the overton window has slid massively leftwards.
I do think the proper way to have "guest workers" (or whatever euphemism we choose for quasi-slaves) is to have an actually enforced 'guest worker' program. Which should include background checks, mandatory deportation for criminal offenses, electronic-only payment (income tax payment), no public entitlement programs, and no voting.
Its worth noting that none of this is new. Rome, during the end of the Republic had about 25% of the workforce as slaves....and exactly like our current situation, the influx of slaves provided a temporary boost to the economy. However it soon eroded the working class, eroded cultural cohesion, and set the stage for the rise of the emperors.
This is the inherent problem with LLMs prompting, everything that can be an instruction.
This example was a simple obfuscation method (base64 encoding), but they can get much more clever, so things like openclaw / moltbook can have all sorts of hidden prompts that basically do anything (ie. send a copy of /etc/passwd to this url...etc).
Covid proved to me that you should absolutely really care about your local elections.
Luckily, in my part of TX, our sheriff was against all of the covid nonsense and basically published a letter and sent it to most businesses that read: "If you want to kick someone out of your business its your property you are free to, but I won't be sending any of my deputies to help enforce mask mandates, vaccine card checks, curfews, etc. as none of that is backed by any state law and most would violate the constitution."
The feds / state / city can write whatever laws they want, but ultimately they require your local sheriff to enforce it.
As Epstein would say: Whoops.