Bitcoin is about to experience a civil war 2.0. The core developers seem to be acting in suspicious and unreasonable ways. Bitcoin Knots has grown usage by 700%+ this year. Bitcoin v0.30 is introducing a concerning change regarding the OP_RETURN filter. Vote. Run a node.
Spain’s Tax Office accused of coercion, harassment, and privacy rights violations
Who do you think creates and allocates ***the majority*** of money supply? A) government B) central bank C) private banks D) mix between all
gm pv. anyone out here?
Bitcoin’s killer use case will be global payments. In a digital world, talent will be outsourced to its cheapest location. But with traditional payment rails, these workers will get taxed ~50% right out the gate! Not to mention income tax 20-40% later. Death, taxes and tax avoidance will always live on. image
The system will collapse. Most people refuse to believe this possibility. Especially the older generations that have heard these warnings time and time again over many decades or the better part of a century. Can't blame them too much - but one has to remember that a broken clock is right twice in a day. It’s coming, although nobody can predict when. Society changes when money dies. Take for example the Roman Empire which went fiat by way of diluting the denarius of its silver content > From a purity of greater than 90% silver in the 1st century AD, the denarius fell to under 60% purity by AD 200, and plummeted to 5% purity by AD 300 (Wikipedia) People became more degenerate whether by social engineering or just declining societal morals and ethics. People in occupations that were deemed beneath them also became celebrities in a way. Gladiators, actors, entertainers, chefs and so on went from being looked down on to becoming celebrities. Ring a bell today? Time will ultimately show us. Better be stacking sats in the meantime.