FiniteBanjo

That’s like the same concern as waiting in the store for two weeks while the bank transfers cash via armored truck to the store’s bank. That’s not how anything works.

Mastercard and Visa have been threatening to shut down online platforms they don’t like, recently they blacklisted a judge from the international justice court for ruling against Israel. And hey, if we suddenly want to release the IBM source code and banking secrets which are the backbone of almost all modern transactions, I’m all for it.

The only reason to use BTC is its adoption rate being so much higher than any other cryptocurrency.

Also, the majority of power wasted is due to competing miners racing to mine the same blocks, which is presumably about to end given the 21M coin limit and the 20M mined so far in 2026.

But let’s not pretend to care about the power for digital transactions when we as a collective race are spending terawatts generating AI Porn and writing worthless inaccurate articles.

LINK an exponential chart with a collection of surveys showing increased number of BTC owners at about 520,000,000.0 people in 2024 up from 390.0 in early 2009. If it were a linear chart it would probably look like an almost vertical line.

You can also purchase cards with which to buy stuff from stores from some exchanges and they convert to your currency of choice on credit, you can use BTC kiosks in most major cities, and you can use it directly at a variety of stores in several countries including Switzerland, Venezuela, and it was widespread in Zimbabwe until their central bank banned it.

Every 3 or 4 years for over 20 years there are droves of people like you saying the value dropping is permanent, that it will never go back up, and yet it has gone from pennies a coin to over $123,000 USD per coin. As BTC adoption rate increases so does price and stability, and BTC adoption rate has always increased and in my opinion will continue to do so for many decades.

I don’t know how to tell you this but nations have on many occasions made their currency worthless.

The pressure to stop despots and morons from destroying their value is meaningless when BTC DOESN’T EVEN HAVE THE SAME MECHANISMS TO DESTROY VALUE.

All the whales can do is sell, and its not enough to harm the value long term because when they sell then somebody else will own it.

And you should, but it’s foolish to think that the nations will.

Assuming a world of only rational actors only takes you further away from reality.

Market cap on BTC is 21M coins and the largest individual owner has 1.1M coins while the next two largest owners is 70k coins and 30k coins respectively. I think a small country and the FBI are also major holders.

The capability for those owners to devalue it via selloff is infinitely less than the capability of a country to devalue its currency via selloff, inflation from minting and loan interest rates, poor trade practices, etc.

TBF Hayha’s confirmed kills is another digit higher than White Feather.

I’m really surprised that BTC has dived alongside it. You would think people would see the risks of a compromised state-owned currency and want to flee towards a decentralized alternative (which is currently below 70K down from it’s all time high of 123K).

You’d be surprised, the courts blocked most of his federal worker firings from DOGE and forced him to renew funding to Medicaid, SNAP, and other federal programs. They’ve shut down ICE camps before, lots of ongoing cases such as U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi refusing to even hear the DOJ’s case for DHS detaining without warrants or hearings unless all 3 highest level DOJ officers testify under oath.

There has been a lot of capitulation by the courts to the Trump Admin, we haven’t been able to prevent ICE building camps for the most part and we weren’t able to save USAID, but there has been a lot of resistance as well and I don’t think enough credit is given for that.

Pretty sure its illegal but its less illegal than his face on it.

LMFAO

The new local ordinances have really made waves in the community.

Honestly really depressing that I read this and said “thank god its not Tate”.

If the courts would give him that then I wouldn’t complain, but without a long term legal solution these problems will just keep happening. Better to sentence him and take back all the money than carry out some petty revenge, create precedent and framework for the future.

Hopefully we can arrest Peter Theil and conspirators for robbing US funds for bullshit.

I disagree with about 78% of what he stands for, theocracy is pure evil and religion being the foundation of his political beliefs is inherently corrupt, but I disagree with the GOP candidate 98% at least, so obviously we need this fucker to win.

“I’d vote for him a thousand times” is a pretty glowing review, imo. The alternative is a theocrat with a red tie, and fuck those guys.

I’d vote for him a thousand times in the general, but fuck do these religious type of politicians sicken me. Check out these nerds trying to at me about his separation of church and state stance, blah blah blah, he’s literally campaigning in the literal church.

Maybe he’s whats needed in a purple state, though? Unlikely, Republicans fall in line while Democrats have to fall in love.

If my doctor is unwilling to inspect my body then I will find a different doctor. I really miss my old doctor, he served in Vietnam and had good discipline, but he retired.