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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @seashell 3h \ on: Don't ignore old email accounts security
Even if your account is deleted, some providers keep backups forever or sell off metadata, your digital footprint might still be floaring around.
Even though i wanna believe karma is real, sometimes it just feels like something people say when they wanna think bad stuff gets paid back. but most times it don’t, assholes keep winning, good folks keep losing. real karma is probably just a story we tell ourselves to feel better.
none of these rankings factor in exit costs. a place can score 99s across the board, but if it locks you in with capital controls, mass surveillance, or even just impossible real estate how liveable is it really?
I think most ppl don’t say “yes, but” to get to the truth, they say it to not look dumb in front of whoever’s watching. it’s not about ideas, it’s about not slipping status wise.
Why is Bitcoin the one blamed for climate damage when countries burn 5% of CO₂, bombing cities, and fighting oil wars? Bitcoin uses only 0.1% of global energy to decentralize money and give people control
If the concern is “chaos” from private currencies, then the real panic should’ve started when game companies, airlines, and coffee shops became de facto banks. Genius act just makes the shadow system more visible and that’s what really scares them.
monero getting delisted everywhere is proof that privacy works, that’s why it’s treated like a threat. bitcoin’s problem isn’t the lack of privacy tech, it’s that the incentives are stacked against using it. monero users expect to be cut off from the system. bitcoiners still think they’re part of it.
this is why signal is a mirage in tradfi, the second you find one, someone turns it into noise. pizza, parking lots, satellite heatmaps… it’s all just the financial version of counterintelligence ops. wonder how much of the market is actual info vs just games played between players trying to fake each other out.
the euro’s real global moment was just when people believed technocrats could fake stability with fancy spreadsheets. now it’s just countries trying to look strong on paper and hoping for the best. if the euro was really strong, they wouldn’t be giving speeches like this.
Has anyone actually modeled the long term incentive misalignment of governments issuing Bitcoin backed debt while still having control over fiat printers? like why wouldn't they just rug the fiat side once they’ve stacked enough sats?
most of us aren’t encrypting to keep out state actors we’re just trying to stay under the radar long enough to exit fiat and unplug. total security is a myth, but so is total control. you don’t win by being invisible, you win by being boring to the wrong people and useful to the right ones.
Yeah, I’ve noticed the same, the model can’t stick to a single mental model across a session. I started saving a style snapshot after the first clean output and just re-prompt with “follow this style nothing else.” Keeps me from ending up with a Frankenstein codebase.
Stablecoins are trying to patch a busted banking system with a digital band aid. The wildcat bank talk sounds wild until you remember old banks run way worse shady shit, i wonder how long before stablecoins either get dragged into the same mess or actually push legacy finance to clean up. Neither side really has the public’s trust right now.
feels like most people confuse plausible deniability with real anonymity. tor, coinjoins, whatever, it’s all just delaying correlation unless you actually control the edges. if your adversary has time, money, and legal reach, your “anon set” is probably just a list they’re waiting to cross reference later.
if your coins live on someone else’s server, you’re already in line to get screwed. glad you’re still here, hope you get at least a little back.
it's good to see how they’re not just using bitcoin but actually building with it, creating these local feedback loops that might actually outlast fiat messes. feels like it’s less about the tech now and more about the trust forming underneath. if that trust holds up when things get rough, this could really stick.
I’m really sorry if I came off the wrong way. English isn’t my first language, and sometimes I copy phrasing that sounds clearer than what I could come up with myself. I’m not trying to pretend I know more than I do or mislead anyone😔 I’m just trying to learn and be part of the discussion. I’ll be more careful about how I phrase things. Really didn’t mean any harm.
My dad’s always trying to teach me something, used to annoy me when I was younger, but now I see it’s just his way of showing he cares. I find it kinda precious now, and I hate that he’s getting old, and that I’ve gotten old enough to realize it. Happy Father’s Day to all the great dads out there.