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I agree that in much of the western world these traditions have outlived their usefulness. For anybody I still engage with for this, which is few, we just give each other a list of things and the other person picks from this list. It's a nice way to get something you wouldn't normally justify buying for yourself.
I'm not sure what, if anything, is good to replace these traditions with. Perhaps they do not need to be replaced. If removing them causes us to lack something, certainly something else will fill that void organically without us needing to pre-divine what it is.
Because goods have become so accessible and inexpensive, a high percentage of people just go buy whatever they want, whenever they want.
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If you are storing any significant amount of BTC, you really need to be using multi-sig. Even if you hold all the parts, it's still going to provide more security, at the cost of convenience, than a single-sig. Multi-sig can also help prepare you against things like natural disaster, your own death (for passing on to heirs), etc.
You can't reasonably store a backup of you single-sig anywhere with any party without completely trusting that party. You can reasonably store a part of a multi-sig with another party without needing to trust them completely or really even at all.
Likewise, if you're the "bury your Bitcoin seed in the woods" type, if somebody finds your stash? They found your bitcoin. If they found 1/3rd of your stash? Good luck finding the rest.
This is unfortunately beyond my understanding of the intricacies of the protocol. My guess is that pool centralization is still required because you still need a pool. How much control does that pool have? Certainly less than before. But more than an infrastructure that doesn't need pools at all (for example, a truly P2P "pool").
As long as you need a pool for something, there is some centralization and risk of the pool being attacked for some nefarious purpose. But hopefully someone here can chime in with a source or explanation which is more well-explained.
My understanding is that is helps move more power from pool -> miners (miners can now choose what goes in blocks) but does not fundamentally change the mining pool centralization problem. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
There is a lot of "informal economy" in India which may be contributing to this. Also, very few women are in the workforce.
There's a great tongue in cheek economics explained video about how if we want to improve economic output by getting more people into the workforce, handing out free washing machines is probably the best way to do it. It frees up the time of the people in these societies who are traditionally relegated to housework, so they can then participate in the economy and have jobs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvsz_vc7B0
It's both and all. "Me time" is both time alone, time with a romantic partner, or time spent with a friend or social group. Basically, anything that isn't work. It's time taken and spent in a conscious way to better my enjoyment of life, who is there for that enjoyment doesn't really dictate whether it's "me time" or not.
This does absolutely happen via IMF/World Bank and international capital. The country gets to maintain it's "sovereignty" and independence while outside entities wholly own all their infrastructure via debt traps and restructuring efforts.
Mining centralization is absolutely an issue, and there is, as of yet, no good solution to it afaik. More effort needs to be done here. I do believe mining hardware becoming more accessible to home hobbyist miners is helping with this.
My hope is that as more governments get involved in mining Bitcoin and/or having strategic reserves, they will want to mine on their own pools for reasons of maintaining sovereignty and providing economic advantage to transactions originating from or going to nodes within their own country/economic network/ally. While this isn't good in an of itself, it will help break up the hashpower a bit.
Once again, Trump playing some serious 4D chess by alienating allies we have spent decades building relationships with so he can... well honestly I have no idea what the endgame here is.
Besides, we have ships all over the world and most every other whale are recovering. What's different about the blues and the humpbacks?
Well, we could have scientists investigate that, but then you'd disregard their findings as part of a liberal conspiracy or something.
One of the few thing I'm happy to see tax dollars go towards. Investing in science and technology is one of the longest-lasting investments a society can make and NASA is less than 1% of the federal budget.
If you're interesting in contributing some spare computational power to open source disease research (cancer, parkinsons, and more), check out World Community Grid. It's one of many #BOINC projects you can donate CPU time to. They have projects in all areas of science from medicine to chemistry to astronomy, even the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) has a BOINC project. You can process data for one project or many, personally I process data for around a dozen different projects and it heats my home in winter, similar to mining Bitcoin. All you gotta do is download BOINC, pick a few projects, and it handles the rest!
Note: WCG is down for maintenance this month but coming back.
Here's an incomplete list of scientific papers published as a result of computation done using BOINC:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php
You probably won't see any for the next two years because republicans control the presidency, house, and senate, so they have no opposition. Once mid-term elections happen, which typically swing against the party in power, that may change.
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Shame that Trump did his best to stop the investigation of the fraud which resulted in one of the greatest thefts against taxpayers in US history.
The strongest bi-partisan border bill in decades was killed by MAGA a few months ago. R and D senators worked for months on this compromise bill only to have it fail at the last minute because Trump wanted to run on the border during the election.
An absolute own goal by maga.