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  • When I went to Greece, I was surprised to see footage of the war on TV. In the US we'd never see anything like this. We are really isolated from the reality of what is going on in the world and the consequences of our actions. This makes it easier for our government to create policy that is wrong and immoral.

  • I like driving in Reef Deckhand shoes, I have a pair without the insoles that I use for manual transmission. They're similar to Vans slip-on's, flat sole and made with materials that aren't too stiff

  • This is what you wrote, I was literally quoting you. I didn't even summarize what you said, I just copied and pasted it:

    "It's been great watching Bitcoin grow from this digital currency for buying drugs online to having all these layers added on to almost sort of make it comparable to the systems we already have."

  • The fact that one anonymous person could create a solution that "almost sort of make(s) it comparable to the systems we already have" is fucking amazing since all of humanity worked for like 70 years since the invention of the computer to create those systems.

  • Bitcoin is a great alternative to something like Western Union that charges high transaction fees. It's time to transmit is comparable to a traditional back wire, but days faster than an EFT.

    Everybody knows Bitcoin is too slow to process point of sale transactions on-chain but there are other Blockchain solutions that can do it. Another user mentioned the lightning network which still actually is Bitcoin but it's another layer.

    Also, I've just ignored the environmental impact of Bitcoin, which probably needs to move away from proof of work, or some other solution is required to lower the every requirements.

  • Bitcoin isn't good for making little purchases, firstly because it takes so long to get confirmations, if each block is 10 minutes and you need like 3 blocks to consider it confirmed that's 30 minutes. But that ties into the second issue which is that you probably don't want millions of tiny transactions on the Blockchain, you want them processed off-chain and then settled in bulk (to the Blockchain) periodically as a single transaction.