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It's not your email address unless the part after the @ belongs to you.
It's not _your_ domain unless the registrar belongs to you...
Original tweet, rather than screenshot toot: https://twitter.com/jeremyvaught/status/1687223289482035200
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I hate being that guy but if you have a self-hosted bitcoin account or ether account or use some of the naming services on those platforms, this isn't the case
What the point to have self-hosted, self-owned account if popular services ignore it? You can own land that no one wants, you can own anything that no one wants.
too few people care about true sovereignty to change the behavior of popular services
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Instagram has a web interface. You can use it entirely without an app. And there is no reason Uber or WhatsApp couldn't work on the web.
You used to not be able to access the camera or camera roll from webapps on iOS. The only way to take or upload photos was with a native app. The file upload input control on websites simply did not work on an iPhone. This is a relatively recent development. I'm fairly convinced it didn't happen sooner in an anticompetitive move to promote native apps over the open web. (Same with web push notifications and a million…
Ironically, given your conspiracy theory, it was Meta that broke Instagram for the web.
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It's not _your_ domain unless the registrar belongs to you...
So only way is to find my own nation state... And get it recognized. As then I can have my on ccTLD. And then only slight issue is staying in power for rest of my life...
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I have no love for the banks. But crypto is open source in name only. The deflationary nature of it ensures that expansion of adoption is exclusively to the enrichment of current holders. It’s a glorified ponzi scheme, posturing behind sham principles of openness and inclusion.
I feel like you are at an inflection point of understanding. The fiat economic system, which has been the global system since the gold standard went away, is a glorified Ponzi scheme! You are so close
Was an objectively awful system. The 19th century economy was on a permanent boom and bust cycle alternating between severe inflation and deflation. 2009, let alone what has happened over the last few years would've been very mild by gold standard standards.
> I feel like you are at an inflection point of understanding
It's funny that the edgy people who are so excited about the gold standard/bitcoin/deflation are so clueless about economic history.
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I feel like you are at an inflection point of understanding. The fiat economic system, which has been the global system since the gold standard went away, is a glorified Ponzi scheme! You are so close
Neither is a ponzi scheme, but I think you're both trying to say that each rewards the already rich, which is true. But replacing one "rich get richer" economic system with another is not an improvement, except for a very few people who might become rich during the transition.
However deflationary currencies reward them significantly more than inflationary ones.
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Neither is a ponzi scheme, but I think you're both trying to say that each rewards the already rich, which is true. But replacing one "rich get richer" economic system with another is not an improvement, except for a very few people who might become rich during the transition.
I am using a rhetorical technique to point to the traditional economic system to contrast it with the crypto system, and in this way crypto is at least equally bad (if not (much!) better). That technique is for observers of the thread. Unfortunately, if you have a problem with “rich get richer”, I believe you are arguing against fundamental requirement of technological improvement. It takes patience to do anything of…
It's objectively much worse. Especially bitcoin.
> government cannot simply mandate that everyone can read
To be fair they did and it turned out it's possible. It just took a while. More or less everyone can read nowadays.
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> It takes patience to do anything of value. Anything. Learning a skill, mastering a job, earning the trust of your peers, becoming a leader I don't have a problem with "the hard working get richer", as in your examples. I have a problem with the way crypto would reward people for simply owning it as they did nothing.
It sounds like you have a problem with property in general. If I bought equities, or bonds, or a house, and sat on them for years, I would be rewarded for “doing nothing”. I took risk and was rewarded.
> It sounds like you have a problem with property in general
It sounds like you have a problem with economic growth and increasing productivity in general
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“my own domain” Which is a touch more solid (I use in in that way) but still an ephemeral rented thing, not owned.
You can probably sue if the registar just gives it to someone else. Which is as good as owning anything is gonna get.