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Please have a listen to @kr latest episode with Ian Major from Joltz. This is real world integration that the "crypto" "web3" people could only dream about.
To hear RFK Jr. speak so eloquently about what might be the biggest issue to me - the collusion of corporate and government corruption - and then present solutions that make some sense gives me immense hope for the future as I realize I am merely a French peasant who has no clue what the most egalitarian or just solution is to this immense problem.
The attitude of his VP choice, “healthy planet, healthy humans,” does however imply too much a greenwashed compassion-as-power authoritarian response to the world than I like, personally.
Is there a 1099 requirement to the U.S. government? I would think there would be.
I feebly brought up asteroid mining, but you brought the argument to another level by introducing material creation via atomic fusion. Easy peasy, simply fuse iron (Fe 26) with iodine (I 53) to make gold (Au 79), amiright?
Curious what you mean by "need for capitalism". Do you mean the need of energy or do you mean the need for capitalism? And how do you personally define "capitalism". What does it mean to you I mean.
I'm just not sure what direction other people will go.
Given that El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender, and that central banks are trying to make CBDCs, it means that we're not wrong.
Even BIS ("Central bank of Central Banks") recently allowed central banks around the world to have up to 2% of their reserves in Bitcoin from 2025.
Ironically, we are today making the same mistake the largeblockers did.
The problem with LargeBlockism was that, eventually, a node becomes too expensive, people don't run nodes, and then you are just left with Bitcoin as an inefficient version of VISA / WeChatPay.
Today, we have many users of "custodial" lightning. Custodial = infinite blocksize node. We also have non-cypherpunk leaders, who do not care about privacy. A non-private node = an infinite blocksize node.
We also have people who address the "node problem" via shame. That won't work.
What we should do is:
I have actually already done all these things, so we could do all of this tomorrow. Instead, however, we are focused on the opinion of tradfi , etf , various laws, etc.
We must be focused on the user experience, of course.