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Demonstrations in Spain against private sector abuse of housing are Illuminating. A fundamentally social country where the strength of the family unit is still very strong. A nation with a rural population driven to the cities ( once forcibly by Franco and since by persuasive incentives by the economic system). A massive stock of empty housing in españa vaciada in communitities on life support in constant search of subsidies. How can nobody join these dots for a solution?

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When everyone posting in global is in your follow group...

After 45 days, then what on Blake2b chain? The claim from day one has been that home-computer-friendly mining is pointless because ASICs may eventually appear. That argument confuses permanent ASIC prevention with temporary but economically meaningful ASIC disadvantage. No proof-of-work algorithm can guarantee that specialized hardware will never be developed. That is not the correct objective. The objective should be to ensure that specialized hardware does not gain such a decisive advantage that network security becomes purchasable by a small number of industrial actors. A CPU-friendly, memory-hard algorithm can keep ordinary computers competitive, broaden the mining base, and make it harder for one investor or manufacturer to acquire majority hash power cheaply. A 45-day reward delay may discourage short-term opportunists, but it does not solve ASIC centralization. After 45 days, the chain still needs a durable security model. What if the algorithm were genuinely CPU-friendly, the delay may give a committed community time to build that model. If the algorithm is easily dominated by specialized hardware, delayed payment merely postpones the problem?

shame the blake2b community didn't set up on Nostr instead of X and Discord. The conversations are so triggered and shouty over there. Nostr would calm a lot of the heat down.

Sitting in a bar. Literally mental. I give Up on modern thinking. It is so screwed up

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Wisdom is not the antíthesis of free-thinking yahoo cyberhornet energy. Wisdom is the antíthesis of headlessness. Blake2b community needs to reel some of its neck in, and better focus that amazing freedom energy. Whatever they say, there is no cohesive plan around blakeb, there are loads of really obvious mistakes being made. Communication is diabolically amateur and disjointed. But the concept and the core mission (excuse that word) is 100% right. Hopefully the adrenaline wears off the hornets before the interest in the mission. I say this as someone all in on the XBT community. For some of us this is not a fricking game we can afford to lose. Already lost the hope of BTC, fronted up and pivoted on a dime. Idealism hurts. If you are in XBT and giggling, not hurting, you have no idea.

There a couple of fundamental dynamics in government. Governments have no money until the people create wealth and hand over a proportion of the value of that economic activity in the form of tax. Governments don't innovate, they at best fund innovation. Think internet. A government that stifles innovation and enterprise is not only an enemy of the people it serves, depriving them of opportunity in their one shot at life on this increíble planet, but that same government is also starving itself of tax revenue and opportunity to keep the flywheel going. When incentives are so poorly aligned, something has to give before a whole nation shrivels and dies. Yes, EU, that would be referring to you. You are using the tax system to drive the people to work for the "man" ( the least innovative but easiest to control centres of economic activity) and driving the wealth creators away from setting up innovative, small, local-oriented businesses, the backbone of a free society. The EU-wide grant system alone exposes this bias, favouring funding of businesses that already have capital, and by definition, have already lost much if not all of their innovative edge. Either EU politicians are evil and ideologically driven, or you are dumb as planks. We know you aren't dumb. Therefore you are entities that are deliberately stifling the people. It is hard to believe that every public servant is, by nature, the enemy of the people. But it is increasingly easy to see that public servants do enact exactly what "the man" sector says. The EU stance against companies like Google or VW was and continues to be pure theatre. The universal mentality of school leavers programmed to " look for a job" not "look to create a job". History shows that you cannot posibly stifle the commons for long. Every time evil makes a play, good has risen. Maybe not straightaway, and not before the corrupt state has made a few extra bucks and made millions of lives unnecessarily miserable, but those walls do come down, pulled down brick by brick. As you are part of the "people" too, there is no logical reason for not giving up on the restrictive policies and joining in on reaping the rewards of expansive ground-up enterprise. You aren't thick, be wise, and bring an end to this trend to restrict the people you serve. Everybody can win, you included. Or continue on your restrictive path as the architects of failure, yours included.

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Can the technical bitcoiners comment on this... The Bitcoin White Paper is the reference point for what Bitcoin is. The Bitcoin Blake knots software for Windows, Mac and Linux computers written by Luke Dashjr is the hardware and software combination needed to safely and securely run a bitcoin node and a wallet. That's It. That is the pure and simple strategy for anybody wishing to safely participate in and support the Blake2B Bitcoin protocol. Any twists on the Satoshi theme pushed by Twitter talking heads, any other suggestions for node hardware, any other proposals for hardware wallets.... It's a red flag. It doesnt mean dishonesty by default, it can be naivety, It can be the manifestation of years of subtle corrupting influences burying the simplest of strategies. Whatever the cause, deviating from points one and two is undermining the value of Bitcoin and injecting 3rd party Risk into the simplicity of self sovereign Bitcoin. If you can't read a White paper and get AI to explain the technicalities, you are unlikely to get better starter info from some guy on the internet. If you are steered towards plug n play hardware solutions from 3rd parties, ask why It is more convenient than downloading a piece of software, following instructions to verify it, and installing a handful of Gbs on your home computer? Like every great invention Bitcoin has no business model - from aircon ( a sheet a bucket of water and a draught) to batteries running for 100 years on salt and iron, anything that can improve the quality of Life of everyday people has been bought out and buried by third parties and sold back to the commons at great expense with inbuilt dependency. Keep It simple, or open yourself Up to smoke and mirrors middlemen undermining your self sovereignty. And we Will have to hard fork again till we understand the simplicity of genius starting use right in the face. Does this make sense?