I was surprised it was so low! Doesn’t Australia have a lot of open sunny area?

Edit: it’s not low, they’re #1 per capita

“Get a different job” doesn’t apply when it’s stuff that everyone would want, like being able to call their family. The next person will just ask for the same thing.

Imagine installing your own satellite dish at work.

Hitler is in human heaven for the same reason some humans are in tiger heaven.

I think there are differences in the interests of both. Can you explain your argument here, without super obscure references?

So what? They already do that with every fiat currency in the form of stablecoins.

Right now the corporations OP listed can already do that. If you don’t want anybody else to be in charge of your money, then go use crypto.

Weren’t those problems solved in the 1990s with Ecash? If they have a trusted central authority doing time stamps, then they can just use blinded signatures.

It does. Here’s my fav concise critique of capitalism:

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man.

— Muammar Gaddafi

Do they not have full sized computers? It’s dubious that there is any legitimate educational value to smartphones in schools either.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

— Ayn Rand

I’ve got bad news for you.

It’s not enough that they need to work all year and deal with angry parents over every F. Now they need to be infotainment competing for attention with anything a kid can find on their cell phone.

I understand the paper, but why do they need wheels? Why are you leaving out guns?

As an optimist, I expect more expansions like Gay Tony and for them to simply make fun of microtransactions on the radio.

If there was a way to use Bitcoin more privately than USD cash, would that give it utility?

Why XMR and not BTC? Do the privacy defaults change how it’s seen?