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> Your post comes off strongly as cultish/MLMish That's because I strongly believe in its ability to have positive change on our civilisation... environmentally, economically, poli…

If you're interested, but want to skip the noise on Twitter, uou can read most of his work in regards to Bitcoin and its humanitarian impact here: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/autho…

> I think that I see in my network of people that the more technically apt they are, the less they believe in it This is because they just see the blockchain as an inefficient data…

The metaverse (not Facebook's/Meta's version) can be whatever you want it to be. That's the point. You could sign into different worlds, or turn different layers of reality on/off.…

The post I replied to was about the viability of Bitcoin being a currency I made the point that it being used as a currency, right now Discussion about the morality of legal tender…

Bitcoiners Thousands of people are doing it and these sorts of things make it easy to do: https://getumbrel.com/ https://start9.com/

Well... neither does your's, or this one for that matter.

You think they're going to shutdown the Internet to kill Bitcoin? Even if they did, once the Internet was back up and running what would stop the Bitcoin network from continuing wh…

The people of El Salvador would appear to disagree.

You've revealed plainly that you haven't got a clue what you're talking about. Miners can't change the protocol of the entire network. The only malevolent thing they could do is pe…

You can get around many paywalls with 12ft.io https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.economist.com/leaders/20...

I'm sorry, are you saying Bitcoin is hyper-inflating? Am I getting my wires crossed or are you confusing terms?

I wonder if cemerick has any more comments on "absolute fantasies"... probably not.

People still talking about high Bitcoin transaction fees pretending like the Lightning Network doesn't exist... it's almost as though they aren't keeping up with latest development…

Alex Gladstein has written about this at length. He works for the Human Rights Foundation and advocates Bitcoin for its humanitarian use cases. He has spoken to many people in thes…

The only thing fiat currency across the world has proven is that it's subject to the whims of bureaucrats and has the theft of inflation built-in. Even the "best" fiat in the world…

>Finally, the fact that Bitcoin proponents have to point to poor authoritarian countries to find legitimate usecases is telling in and of itself. It's basically a blunt admission t…

Before addressing this comment I want to pick up a point from your previous post. >But say you want to flip a switch and turn off a single cryptocurrency in order to do it, and you…

Scroll down to the bar chart showing the country rankings. Look at the top 3 countries (China, US, India). Compare those to Bitcoin... can you honestly tell me that Bitcoin constit…

Some people will never change their minds. They've made their choice and changing their mind would be more painful than not. Bitcoin could be the world reserve currency and the sam…

Someone was telling me that the general problem with HN is that they're all very technically capable, so they look at Bitcoin, understand it from a technical perspective (not alway…

Do you understand the tradeoffs of why it works that way? That for an open and fully accessible, decentralised system that exists in an adversarial environment there has to be a la…

Lots of people disagree with you about that. Sorry you see it as a waste, but we're going to keep using it and dedicating more energy towards it because we understand its value. ht…

But if you're actually curious to know it only takes a quick search to find info about proportions of use around the world https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-global-crypto-a…