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by npoc 3y ago
It's completely different to cRypTo though. Crypto is essentially 10,000 scams (or naive projects at best) while bitcoin is one of the most important inventions in the history of mankind. That deserves some distinction.
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by npoc 3y ago
The article is about bitcoin, not cRyPTo
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by npoc 3y ago
A policy decided on through a collusion between government and the private central banks, which benefits both of them and steals from the population through the Cantillon effect and the stealth real wage reduction. Workers are getting pay c
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by npoc 3y ago
That doesn't mean that enforcing a minimum wage is the correct way to fix the problem. It's not.
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by npoc 3y ago
In the case of most US states, I think it's fair to say that the minimum wage is moot. As you say, hardly anyone would consider working for less than that anyway. But why take away their freedom to do so?
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by npoc 3y ago
> I wonder where are these people. Do you know any? Would you be "happy" to work for less than minimum wage? I'd be very happy to work for less than the minimum wage if that's all my work was worth and the alternative
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by npoc 3y ago
It seems to be another case of naïve, clumsy legislation causing more problems than it solves.
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by npoc 3y ago
If you want that and you aren't producing enough value to warrant it, why should someone else pay for it? Find some more valuable work to do, work harder In the UK you'll get benefits to top up your wage anyway.
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by npoc 3y ago
The minimum wage should be scrapped. It either a) prevents people who are happy to work for less obtain a job which is uneconomical at the minimum wage, or b) it creates an effect similar to communism, where everyone doing a job at or belo
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by npoc 3y ago
I wonder if the availability of different food types differs between high and low altitude locations?
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by npoc 3y ago
Not open-source?
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by npoc 3y ago
HFSP
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by npoc 3y ago
Because Bitcoiners know that the nodes are what defines bitcoin, not the miners. Learn about the blocksize wars
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by npoc 3y ago
Not with the lightning network. It's anonymous.
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by npoc 3y ago
Gold itself? or the scams it enabled due to weaknesses in its monetary qualities? For example, coin shaving (difficult to quantify without a scale), counterfeiting (tungsten wrapped gold), fiat central banking with zero reserve (due to poor
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by npoc 3y ago
Do you think gold _is_ a scam?
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by npoc 3y ago
Are you classifying it as productive because you can receive compensation (rent) for lending someone your house? That's true for all property. In the case of money (which includes bitcoin and gold), it's called interest.
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by npoc 3y ago
That's where the fee model comes in - its a free market where relays can charge for access.
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by npoc 3y ago
Nostr is extremely anti-crypto and pro-bitcoin. The trouble is that most people don't appreciate the distinction, they will in time but at this stage, without deeply researching and understanding the topic, most just include bitcoin in
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by npoc 3y ago
Its popular with people who understand the importance of decentralisation
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by npoc 3y ago
In what way is bitcoin a scam, and gold isn't?
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by npoc 3y ago
Fun as in buffoonery.
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by npoc 3y ago
The difference is that only one side have, at one time, been on the other side. Until they saw the error of their ways. The desperate rationalisation will only increase with each halving cycle. The oh-so-clever "tulips" joke is be
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by npoc 3y ago
Everything moves in price due to people trading it, so in that sense all assets are speculative. And housing for example is non productive.
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by npoc 3y ago
The 7950X eats large C++ projects for breakfast, especially those with lots of boost includes. Every logical core counts.
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by npoc 3y ago
> as even sensible investors consider putting small slices of their pension pots or portfolios into crypto for diversification. I love it: even _sensible_ investors. This is evidence of a big factor that thankfully helps to regulate the
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by npoc 3y ago
> pretty unlikely you've mastered the art of understatement > I don't know about you but I prefer something tangible that is physically in my possession That comes with serious drawbacks, the primary one being exchanging it
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by npoc 3y ago
Speculating on what exactly?
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by npoc 3y ago
Care to list your perceived failures?
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by npoc 3y ago
is this effective over TOR?

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