It is certainly interesting

The force is strong with that one, and yet he is still trying to find his way

He has gone to the Dark Side....

Define Television :)

This is an interesting question and viewing it from a technology/Bitcoin lense it is even more of a rabbit hole...with really intense juxtapositions...for me anyway.

When I think about the comment "everything is going to zero against Bitcoin"

I can't help but think that the actual TV manufacturers and content producers saying the exact same thing to the Newspaper and Radio professionals....shit for that matter the Newspaper professionals were probably saying the same thing to book binders....

World history sure does rhyme a lot....

I barely watch any TV programming now... yet I still hold onto a couple streaming accounts.... I imagine it is just a matter of time before Rumble/Zap.stream and others really take off as the new "Netflix" of the world... It certainly looks to me like it is happening...

I mean netflix - demonitized the blockbusters of the world... (I can still remember asking this guy at the checkout of blockbuster what it felt like knowing his job was being eliminated....and he was pissed at me for even asking - like he really didn't see a future for himself doing something different with his time other than checking people out and giving them late charges???)

sorry not sorry if you worked at blockbuster at some point in your life....I am sure it was a good gig....

zap.stream will demonitize the netflix's of the world....

Just as Bitcoin is demonitizing the entire world....

It would be a trip if Netflix decentralized themselves but I don't think that is likely....big corp's seem to be to stuck in their own product to see the future...Just think how much better all our favorite streamers would be if they had access to processing power behind netflix....I mean RHR through netflix's infrastructure would be the shit...instead it will continue to be the shit on Zap.stream (though they need a marketing team)

Anyway - that's a longish way to say....

Not much - I really don't watch much TV - that time has been replaced by what I believe to be more constructive, educational, and productive uses....like writing SN posts :)

All I can say - is that all our systems are broken and need to be re-engineered....I find it hard to believe that we haven't figured that out yet... With that in mind - you may find my perspective of base, and I welcome any and all feedback :)

Bitcoin is blowing our minds each and every day as it pertains to how we exchange value between each other! It seems like some of us haven't figured this out yet and/or (probably more likely I am just a dumby and confused!)

It seems to me that Coinkite "the business" is conducting a "Bitcoin" business in the FIAT world, using some of the FIAT systems, built upon the faulty FIAT code as many "Bitcoin" companies continue to do.... "Trademarks" - seems like laws/rules whatever put in place by people/businesses/organizations attempting to control what other people do?

It's kind of sad really - so many "Bitcoin" companies seem to make really bad mistakes when they come across these "lines of code" that drive the systems in the FIAT world and they end up getting WRECKED.... by bad press or at least face a severe backlash from the community...

Now I do not know everything there is to know about Bitcoin, in fact I would consider myself to be pretty dumb...but I am pretty sure about a few things and one of them is.....

Bitcoin doesn't care - One of its primary uses is for the honest and open exchange of value amongst all its users and when our "new Bitcoin" businesses run into "old FIAT" artifacts - they have to stop and ask themselves....WWSD? What would Satoshi do? ...

or What path is most aligned with a system built upon Bitcoin and pick that path. Even though the "software" or "system" isn't built yet or hasn't fully been Bitcoinized....we have to run our businesses better...They don't just magically operate better simply because you accept Bitcoin as payment or HODL Bitcoin in your reserves.... We the people...though soon the AI will...operate this system and we just have to remember that so many "legacy systems" are written on bad code - that we have to change.

Seems like one could benefit from a tool/program that would alert users that they are crossing into FIAT built systems and remind us to shut down and reboot and use or develop a new system that is best aligned with our goals. If that is our goals really are to rebuild a new world and all its systems based on free, open source, immutable systems that allow us to truly provide value to each vs. the system which is only focused on extracting value from others and enriching oneself?

This seems to me to be "much to do about nothing" - when viewed through the lens of FOSS - As all our everything should be -

If we are getting all phillisophical - can you every really repeat an experience?

To stick with the meat of your post though....some of my past experiences which will likely I will never come close to repeating would be....

Walking about a mile through snow, in shorts, carrying my boombox on my shoulder to go meet a girl at the mall :) didn't end well... (but I was cool just not in a cool way)

A certain shared hallucination between a buddy and I - feels like it happened yesterday though it was 30 plus years ago

Falling 30ish feet, when the top of the pine tree I was swinging from broke and getting up and walking away...of course after finally getting my breath back after having the wind knocked out of me... (I sure hope to not come close to this one again - pretty sure this experience is the cause of the bone spur I have on one of my vertabrae? but I never went to the doctor after so I can be sure)

This post is timely as I was just speaking with my love about having experiences that feel aligned with the universe....and these are some of those....apparently they don't happen to everyone?

I think we have figured out how to use tools and medicine for good reasons and there is nothing wrong with that. I also think we get in our own way and fall into routines that become norms and then requirments and that then becomes problematic.

It is important to remember that we are (or should) all be free to choose whatever path through life is right for us.

There is nothing I would ask my parents - they long ago showed me that they are only living their lives for one purpose (their own self fulfillment) and as such any information they attempt to pass along to me is categorically worthless.

Its kind of like they are corrupt portion of my hard drive that has been and is still being overwritten.

The questions I would ask their databases have been asked and answered by new more dependable systems.

I do think that Bitcoin is at the point that it's use is increasing in commerce and trade (including online) everyday....

And you seem to have overlooked?? Fedi - E-cash - Cashu nuts.... which is going to melt our faces off over the coming months/years in its adoption due to its privacy improvements....

Or did you leave them out intentionally....

I skimmed the responses so if I missed something similar to the following please someone reply here and I will delete my post...

It strikes me that companies could and should be charging fees differently. (period full stop)

What would that look like you ask.... (glad you did as I have a suggestion that flows nicely with the "discount" I offer my renters at my apartment complexes)

I think companies like unchained could be perceived more fairly and less greedy if instead of charging some up front fee or % based on total account size (as is the status quo in FIAT/CLOWN world) they could instead simply charge some % of the FIAT price appreciation of your funds on an annual basis....and if there is no appreciation they gain nothing...

This seems like it would ensure they are running their business in as cost effective manner as possible and means you as the holder of funds with them are not losing any part of your base stack (I forget what they call this in trad-fi land? - I have had one or two cocktails already and I am too lazy to google that shit)

Anyway - like I said - if it has been proposed great....my guess is it isn't as I am pretty much the only crazy person thinking like this right now and am just dumb enough to open my mouth and spread - if you want to chat about it more I am happy to amuse anyone... this is going to be how succesful companies operate in the future so build a company now using this model and you are welcome....maybe if you remember me, you can zap me... I will be around till I'm not...and then hopefully my offspring will keep my spirit alive long enough into the future to have you zap them or theirs :)

Keep up the good work...

Had to double check....just to be sure :) None

Being strong-minded or strong-willed...

So many on this earth believe life is or should be easy... when the truth is there is nothing easy about living life when you are thinking long-term. So many around us are trying to coerce you into buying their "whatever" and promising it will make you "whatever" and it is all just sales...and its all because our base layer protocol we developed our systems on was corrupted...

We have to be strong of mind and will to reach out of the cesspool we have built to date and know that we can and will do better on our new base protocol...

I have bought some items with Bitcoin - and am working towards trying to buy more on a regular basis - I ask pretty much everywhere I go if they accept Bitcoin but that isn't a high probability of success.

The best for me is that I accept Bitcoin from my tenants (and offer them a 50/50 split in the FIAT price appreciation of their paid Bitcoin for upto 6 months after they pay it) back to them as a rent credit :)

I haven't heard of anyone else doing anything like that so I guess that answers this question pretty well :)

Guess I am not in any camp period...really when I think about it, I look at that like "closely held beliefs" of which I really try to limit but also seem to flow into and out of...

I was just trying to say that some people might call one's "frequency"....and also call it their "level" and be talking about the same thing or concept...

Its much like - everything is a part of everything....Hence the concept of the "Universe" which is supposed to be everything, and yet we kept looking for something outside of that. When really, if you just accept that the world we live in is our current everything - it will be a bit easier to all get along and work together to continue learning all we can about the world around us and what we can do to actually help all humanity and not just one or some countries???

This is a really interesting thought.... I'll never claim to be anything or at any level on any scale, this has just been experience, but it does point to one very interesting thought: is this how those why certainly are on levels beyond manage everything around them? Is this how at least some of them can be very useful to a lot of people?

I never really thought about comparing those that can seemingly manage everything around with people that just operate in a different level (or I am thinking at a different frequency?) So I have to think about this a little more....Very interesting for sure!

Waiting for my copy of Bushido to arrive...sometime next month - though I have managed to get a couple sneak peeks and I am super excited to see it all together!

As for Resistance Money - I like everything I have heard about it but haven't ordered a copy yet - I think the three authors certainly seem to be on a path that is similar to Bitcoin. I just hope their scholarly brains don't get in their way too much - according to their talk at Bitcoin Amsterdam they are working on another book and have written 2 acedemic papers...and are working on others as well....

I have so many thoughts on this post :)

The first of which is that I don't think most people ever become "rich on assets" and you can't become rich on time...??? None of us know how much time we have so to say you are rich on time is a false premise...

As to the rest of this idea...I can only speak for myself, but I cannot imagine ever being in a position where I would become a consumer of all things, no matter how much "money" or "assets" or whatever I had/have.... I think that the world is full of a variety of people, some of doers and others....well....aren't. That is just the way it is...those that aren't have and will continue having less than those who are and do. Some may get lucky and figure out a way to scam others of their hard earned value...but they will slowly find themselves fading into the sunset while those that are a net benefit to the natural world, will likely find themselves wildly wealthy in both value and time measures....

Alas, this still does not mean much as you can have all the time in the world but if you don't have anyone to share it with....does it really matter?

like everything in the world..."what comes around goes around"... or you know - two sides of the same coin :)

If it was easy everyone would be doing it - we will get there all in good time!