Core devs in most cases are very highly paid NGO operatives employees

But players need the AstroTurf rolled out first, seems the field is almost ready

Had a problem last week paying a contractor, been sending to the same address every 2 weeks for years... Now blocked.

I've got an F150 with a 5.0 and every time I run into someone with an EcoBoost they tell me they wish they just went with the V8... If these anecdotes are any indication I'd say that the turbo psyop is wearing off on Truck owners... I assume Chevy has boosted trucks?

Ignoring the merits or hoax factor of quantum itself, the companies creating the computers already have access to untold amounts of coin just by nature of email and 2FA hosting, that's before even getting into OS backdoors, logged softkeyboards, password managers... blah blah blah

You can't be FUD'ing quantum chips made by google and microsoft when google and microsoft already have custody of a large part of the network.

Honestly a windows 95 sneakernet is a no brainer for SCADA and systems like this vs. anything Azure

Depends how "well spent" is defined.

Yes if we consider it possibly enlightened a few observers as to what a disaster everyone involved is and that Bitcoin's resistance to change by two-legged animals is the only thing that gives it value.

No if we look at the substance, outcome, and how relatively few people seem to have learned anything.

Very much no if we consider that both sides are part of the same problem and sanity is largely silent.

As you may have guessed, I reside in an irrelevant 3rd column on that whole thing.

Quantum fud is an IQ test for people whos coin is secured by Gmail and Google Authenticator

It's always shitcoiners/scammers/retards that want everyone to get along

Does feel like a splinternet is inevitable, China's great firewall is just a toe in the water...

Any state wishing to maintain autonomy without bending the knee to a hegemonic AI/Data/NSA singularity will effectively have to do what North Korea did with legacy comms and economic integration

It stands to reason that Europe's legacy banking plutocracy, servile population, non-existent technology industry will have to go through a stage resembling it being the next North Korea. The difference is some member states peel off and "Europe" as it is known today shrivels down to just a few countries.

It doesn't prove anything about Lightning because it doesn't need to, those facts are self-evident... it just proves that Monero users are LARP's that are under a shitcoin spell regurgitating astroturf narrative and have no understanding of how anything works

"darknet" being centralized message boards with a history of being honeypots and rug pulls

meaning the dumbest privacy larps on the internet

the fact that they're shitcoining instead of learning how to use Lightning is all the evidence one needs to conclude Lightning is infinitely more private

I thought I made it up, but a quick google and wikipedia yields poison... need some fresh branding for post-retarded ancaps

Nice, an open-source curriculum is a good idea actually, not sure if it exists... my wife is constantly printing out stuff from all over... maybe start a github repo?

--Thomas Sowell on Bitcoin Scaling and Fake L2's

The only scaling limitation of Bitcoin is its finite supply and distribution, therefore, it cannot be scaled without a supply increase or people with large amounts of Bitcoin giving large amounts of it away. These things are not going to happen, so when someone tells you there are scaling paths they are scammers and liars, or retarded.

Lightning is just re-usable chain transactions, so your complaint with Lightning is that people cannot afford even 1 transaction.

This is inherent to all fake layer 2's, the difference is they knock lightning and smuggle trust to scam you.

There's nothing that can be done about this. A transaction requires a minimum amount of sats even at a near 0 fee rate (which we're basically at now).

This means the upper bound on scale is how many sats available divided by the number of people that desire them, and sats are very rare.

Now you're getting it, if you cannot afford to make a transaction yourself, you must trust someone who can make it for you.

The only way to be self-custodial is to be able to afford to be self-custodial. This fact cannot be cheated.

Realistically this will take about 20k sats minimum, but in all economic practicality it's more like 200k+

ShockWallet with Lightning.Pub for example will use a trusted "credit" balance to then automatically buy a channel from the LSP market once it is economically viable to do so. Since it is an account system that solves node sharing over Nostr, your entire household and every app/device can use a single node (channel) for economic sustainability.

That gets into the definition of things but I tend to agree in spirit as a once self-described ancap, keeping in mind I think that its people within the state that created Bitcoin to save the state from itself... maybe best described as anarcho-nationalism?

Existing KYC law applied to a transparent ledger. That's the design, nation-state scale transparency. Iran can't move billions in Bitcoin without the NSA knowing about it (and if they really wanted to open Pandora's box they could probably just sweep it).

Of all the reasons retail MoE isn't a thing, taxes aren't one of them. That's retarded to even think that. Cash culture exists. Hell, if capital gains rates were even higher, there would be yet more incentive to spend it in small unreported amounts than there would be at exchanges.

The sub single percentage of people that actually want to pay/receive in Bitcoin is not enough network effect to matter in the meatspace.

Too generous, in this case it's not bitcoiners, it's the corpos that Bitcoin disrupts

Neither does anything else, thats the joke... but it does move the needle on people who are the subject of scaling virtue signals by reducing overall fee requirements.

I'm not in-depthly familiar at the implementation level to know if the fractional sats would work or not, I just think not, not a consensus thing but rather because I think a PR would be a little more complicated than changing the denominator.

Funnily enough, this is a real scaling thing unlike most of the scaling fud you hear about... the minimum spend inclusive of fees is the only bottleneck anywhere in sight for retail users, not throughput.

I think it gets a little trickier than this because there's no fractions of a sat possible in a tx, so needs to deal with whole sats. Should be able to just allow 1 sat (or 10? 100?) per tx.

It hasn't been "captured", it's always been a product of the national security state intended to serve as base money for institutional and global trade.

Security budget fud is always retarded, correlating it with retail MoE even moreso.

MoE is downstream of unit of account and irrelevant to chain activity.

Real chain-activity MoE is when institutions use it like they do wires today, still a decade out or more.