Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation
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You're going to call protestors "agitators" while the broligarchs keep coming up with the most outrageous, evil bullshit they could think of, just for the hell of it.
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""paradise"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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BTC has an unregulated currency (yes, it still is capable to function as that) to show for it. Probably somebody could have invented a better emission mechanism for it, but not being that somebody, I can't think of anything with the same qualities.
Its called paper money, every country has a currency they use to exchange goods and services.
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Look into the history of libertarians trying to set up paradises of like minded people to find out why this will fail. They start into the 19th century and just keep failing.
There are people who, disturbed by "big government" today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand "less govern- ment." Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.
—Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981
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Those are owned by Native Americans... Not white billionaires
Your point?
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What about letting them make another cruise ship paradise?
i mean nothing did go wrong with a bunch of crypto bros on a cruise shipI believe that was the joke?
Edit: it's basically a trope at this point. Crypto/tech bros, like the Libertarian scum they evolved from, yearn for the sea
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You're going to call protestors "agitators" while the broligarchs keep coming up with the most outrageous, evil bullshit they could think of, just for the hell of it.
You mean the US?
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You're going to call protestors "agitators" while the broligarchs keep coming up with the most outrageous, evil bullshit they could think of, just for the hell of it.
"Crypto paradise" is the first example in the dictionary when you look up Oxymoron
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BTC also uses massive amounts of resources, and we have an impending climate crisis on our hands. Tell me, how is that useful to further the climate destabilization for whatever momentary convenience you think you have. We're gonna be really sorry in 5-10 years as this thing accelerates. We are getting some seriously bad news in the scientific community right now bcz we are far outpacing even the most pessimistic studies on warming and CO2 output. We have dumbasses in charge who want to pretend climate change doesn't exist.
There are other cryptocurrencies without the overhead of bitcoin. Bitcoin is actually a really shitty implementation in regards to efficiency.
Cryptocurrency as a concept is incredibly useful and as time goes on it will likely be how most business is done.
Governments just aren't as good at regulating currency as computers. Look at inflation on the US dollar.
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Your point?
Idk why I'm asking this, but I'm genuinely curious why you think reservations exist?
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Idk why I'm asking this, but I'm genuinely curious why you think reservations exist?
For the natives to explore loopholes.
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BTC is useful though.
It's very easy to judge from the EU, but if you are in Russia and need to pay for something in the interwebs, it's very convenient to have an imperfect, but kinda functioning system like this.
(Idiots replying with "go rebel" or "change location" need not bother, I happen to have family, friends, dog, ASD and BAD, my sister who's on my support every time she makes a planning mistake can change location, I can't. I'm also not a Jedi chosen one to have useful options of "rebelling".)
You mean those really cool conductive rubber dome over PCB with slider keyboards, right?
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What about letting them make another cruise ship paradise?
i mean nothing did go wrong with a bunch of crypto bros on a cruise shipNGL, it would be great if they could make it work and go fuck off into international waters. Unrelated, but did you know that if you put big enough holes in a ship it'll sink?
