some companies have made them illegal ? I'm not saying you should comply

Be careful by what you call Bitcoin community. Monero is a tool that works as private digital cash, proof is free markets (aka black markets) are often forcing their users to use it, some even stop accepting Bitcoin, because lots of clients buy BTC on CEX and transfer funds directly to "illegeal" platform without using any provacy tools. Monero privacy is by default, it's proof of work too. Don't see interest in holding it tho, it's a spending tool for me.

If LN was stable enough for big payments and private by default I would use it but it's still not the case.

I know many come to lynch me here but is my humble opinion.

Yup It's not easy to make a priority of it in life tho, lot of engagement and savings needed. You can't make it pop with 1 btc

Simping for any kind of regulations is totally dumb, even against CEX and tokens.

"Lula again expressed his desire to see international trade move away from the hegemony of the US dollar. Dilma Rousseff, Lula’s former chief of staff who succeeded him in office, was elected in March as the president of the New Development Bank, also known as the BRICS bank.

Under Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chávez, Venezuela has strongly backed counter-hegemonic development efforts and blocs. The US-led sanctions regime on Venezuela is made possible in part due to the dominance of the US dollar as the monetary instrument for international trade."

"The biggest impediment to free speech is people’s belief that they have it. Not censorship. Not refusal to platform critical voices. Not the war on journalism. It’s the fact that most people are propagandized into saying what the powerful want them to say, and don’t know it.

What makes our dilemma so historically unique is that we live under an empire which makes extensive use of the post-Bernays science of mass-scale psychological manipulation to trick its subjects into believing that they are thinking, speaking, and gathering information freely. In this way our rulers suppress any revolution long before it starts, not by making people’s lives better, nor by violent repression, but by manipulating people into thinking there’s nothing to revolt against, because they have no rulers and they are already free."

BRICS countries feel the wheel turning

I got two nodes, mainet and LN on rpi4 Both are very stable. If I want to do routing then I need better HW.

on the market now the good choice is not rpi but mini pc of course

"Are you ready for a year and a half of this? Because you're getting a year and a half of this. A year and a half of all substantive questions about real policy of real consequence getting diverted into the most vapid culture war quagmires you can possibly imagine, because it isn't the US president's job to change the way the US empire operates, it's the US president's job to keep everyone dazzled with fake bullshit while the US empire marches along unimpeded by the wishes of the voting public."

Russians already strike ammunition depot full of deleted uranium provided by UK. Level of radiation are raising, not immediate threats for the body but will have desastrous consequences like in Yougoslovia and Iraq