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HopelesslyHopeful 2 points ago +2 / -0

Replace taxes with financial acumen, the taxes could be simplified, greatly reduced, or removed in a way that allows the citizens to fund projects without the complicated time consuming money grabbing that it is today.

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HopelesslyHopeful 1 point ago +1 / -0

Go read the whitepaper. Go read the BitcoinTalk.org posts. Go back in time and see that Bitcoin was being used to buy pizzas, alpaca socks, Steam credit, Microsoft purchases, Newegg purchases, it was used at physical stores, and many many more. It isn't propoganda. "Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System". It wasn't ever meant to be just stonks numbers go up ponzi.

As for AntMiner, the company name is actually Bitmain, not ANT, Jihan Wu was far from the originator of Bitcoin Cash. They were just the biggest miner and ASIC manufacturer around and Jihan backed BCH but has since then distanced himself publicly from Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash was FORKED off by Amaury Sechet (who later went on to fork eCash from BCH).

Satoshi mentioned that mining operations would trend toward larger more centralized farms but that doesn't stop anyone from mining in the first place. The issue was blockspace...The issue was that big blocks would prevent people from home running a node to validate the ledger.

Go read the Lightning Network's whitepaper, 133MB blocks are stated. Not to mention the centralization that Lightning brings in it's current state.

It was always supposed to be for all kinds of transactions. What you wrote is literally Theymos and Blockstream propoganda, goal shifting, and misinterpretation.

Segwit fails to appropriately scale, RBF fails because it is a horrible replay feature that prevents 0-conf to be safely used, forcing transaction times to take longer for confirmation blocks. And by design, block times average out to 10 minutes, not 30.

What you're arguing for is a coin that was literally hijacked by the CIA and bankers trying to 2.0 the Babylon black money magic system.

TL;DR Bitcoin Cash was the "brainchild" of ANT - Debunked: It was forked off by Bitmain, bitcoin advocates and activists, along with a handful of developers after the failed XT blocksize increase project.

Pushing the little guy out of the mining space - Debunked: It was about the blocksize, miners were always going to trend into larger farms, as Satoshi indicated in a forum post.

BSV bull, CSW was always low hanging fruit, a tool used by people way above him.

SoV vs MoE - Debunked: The very first line in the whitepaper states that bitcoin was to be peer to peer electronic cash. The digital gold narrative came about well after that.

Context is important here.

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HopelesslyHopeful 3 points ago +3 / -0

You really only need the one gun and the one(few) bullet(s) that will save your life. However, the last purchase calls to the next, ad infinitum. A brass hole, if there ever was one.

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HopelesslyHopeful 5 points ago +8 / -3

I need to make a copypasta for whenever crypto gets mentioned here. DYOR but I am a cryptofag.

Bitcoin (BTC, the coin; the bitcoin protocol gets denoted with a lowercase "b") was hijacked prior to 2017, specifically, around 2015 is when Blockstream cemented their control.

Fees were slowly rising on the bitcoin network and in 2017 things came to a head with "The Blocksize Wars". There came about opposing views on how to scale bitcoin, one side wanted to scale bitcoin the way Satoshi intended by removing the 1MB blocksize cap that was put in place to prevent those that might seek to spam the network with transactions (because the transaction costs were cheap and affordable, those with ill-intend could bring the network to a halt) by increasing the blocksize (in a reasonable way). The other side wanted to not change the blocksize and went about manipulating the code with SegWit, which activated in 2017, causing a split in bitcoin, Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). This separation of the witness data that was originally in the block then moved to it's own separate thing "freeing" up blockspace, resulted in a new definition, block weight. Segwit gives Bitcoin a theoretical size of 4MB, but in actuality they're closer to 2-3MB at most. It has an estimated transaction speed of 7 tps (will come into play later as well with Lightning/L2 solutions). Hardly a threat to Visa's 1000+x tps. This was all done to fight off centralization of miners and allow hobbyists to run a node off their Raspberry Pi.

Why does this all matter? Transaction costs, banking the unbanked, giving the power of money back to the people, being in control of cash used everyday.

Bitcoin is no longer any of that, the narrative (who likes to change definitions and narratives?! Hint: It often isn't the good guys) has shifted to digital gold, numbers go up nonsense. It's become a get in, get out, get rich ponzi where you sell your stack to an even greater fool, or worse yet, the forever HODLers (what's the point of buying Bitcoin if you're never going to use it, it's become a pet rock at that point). Bitcoin was supposed to be used as a way to transact in a fast and affordable manner, now, at 7 tps, with even just 100,000,000 people making one transaction, how many years will it take (you do the math)? It's just not feasible and actually leads to heavy centralization, the very thing they were supposedly trying to avoid.

Bitcoin Cash is the continuation of the bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto created and scales in way that allows for the world to use it, on chain, with cheap fees, and in a fast and trustless manner.

Monero (XMR) while having no relation to bitcoin and cannot claim to share the genesis block (both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash have the same point of origin, because of the fork; Bitcoin Cash isn't squatting on the name Bitcoin as a brand new coin made in 2017 as some might think, it has traceable lineage to the very beginning) aims to be a form of digital cash, similar to Bitcoin Cash and the original intent of the bitcoin protocol (with some added privacy-rich features added to it).

TL;DR: BTC is a coin that seeks to recreate the status-quo of a centralized system (because it was hijacked by the bankers, and we know who control the bankers here) where the real value (on-chain, layer 1) gets redirected and routed through centralized hubs (Lightning Network, L2) bringing about an asset that the masses can not affordably move and transact with.

Bitcoin Cash seeks to scale on-chain by increasing the blocksize in a reasonable way that allows for the coin and network to be used and operated in a decentralized way so that BCH can be used here in the West as well as in lesser developed nations where a $5 BTC transaction fee (compared to a BCH tx fee of $0.009) might be all they make in a week.

TL;DRx2;

Take $10 of BTC and $10 of BCH and/or XMR, then take them off the exchange and put them in a hot wallet (think of a hot wallet as your actual wallet or checking account and a cold wallet as your savings account) and see how many transactions you can make and how fast BTC gets eaten up in fees. Actually use the coin and you'll find that the real world has a way of bringing things to light that tend to stay dark on twitter/internet.

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HopelesslyHopeful 10 points ago +11 / -1

How many more stolen elections do we have to go through? That doesn't make sense. People are going to make the 'insurrection' mongers eat their words 17 times over with actionable kinetic retaliation if things get to a certain point. Giving the DS ultimately what they want, but at least going out on their feet, not dying on their knees. If 2024 doesn't go to Papa Pepe then the plan is dead. The goalposts can only be moved so far before the enemy is in the endzone. 2024 is THE FIGHT. The FINAL FIGHT to this long war.

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HopelesslyHopeful 5 points ago +5 / -0

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that Epstein was working with the intelligence agencies and had a handler. Who was giving him the inside knowledge?"

We getting to the clowns and decepticons and how they relate to one another now? :popcorn:

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HopelesslyHopeful 1 point ago +1 / -0

"John-117 was originally named by Eric Trautmann as a reference to the biblical verse Revelation 1:17, which reads as follows according to the New Revised Standard Version of the text: "When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, 'Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last'."[170] The author of this biblical text names himself "John" within it. According to Trautmann, this identifier was a the origin of one of many "huge fights" between himself and Bungie concerning ideas which came out of the writing sessions of the Halo Story Bible, a work originally constructed by he, Brannon Boren, and Matt Soell"

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HopelesslyHopeful 7 points ago +7 / -0

Great actors help make great movies. chef's kiss

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HopelesslyHopeful 4 points ago +4 / -0

The whole point of crypto is to self-custody AND use it. Not keep it on exchanges or self-custody and hold it in cold-storage until it hits a price that you deem acceptable to sell at. They can't control it if you pull your coins off the exchange and shift your mindset from asset to currency and begin to use it in a looped economy.

I have no problems with gold or silver, but you can't transact with silver over the internet in a decentralized, trustless way. That's what Bitcoin was supposed to address and Bitcoin Cash actually aims to accomplish.

I am actually of the opinion that this bull-market is short on time (be greedy when the masses are fearful and be fearful when the masses are greedy, and there's a lot of hopium and greed going on right now in the cryptosphere) and will actually lead to a big crash (as we get closer to or at the same time as our expected financial crisis that is to come).

Bitcoin was created to solve a problem (a big problem but not THE problem) before Q ever came out publicly to us anons. Crypto may have been brought into the operation and will have a real use after the operation succeeds, or it may crumble away and the experiment will have failed.

Either way it doesn't matter if you are for crypto or silver, in the end you can't take it with you when you die.

Best wishes fren!

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HopelesslyHopeful 2 points ago +2 / -0

Cardano is a cool science project, but it isn't a commodity like Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, it's a centralized security with a known creator, a Proof of Stake (piece of shit when it comes to currency utilization, Satoshi used PoW for a reason to solve a very important problem), and funded by a foundation that takes money from the very people Bitcoin was created to deplatform. We the people were to rally around Bitcoin and use it, and in time force the governments and their ilk to play by our rules, not us play by theirs.

Bitcoin Cash (and Monero you could argue) is the only coin that is attempting to carry on Satoshi's design, sharing the genesis block and all other blocks prior to the fork in 2017. Kaspa seems to be the new sweetness around in regards to peer-to-peer currency but I've heard that before with RaiBlocks/NANO so time will tell whether Kaspa develops into an actual contender or not.

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HopelesslyHopeful 2 points ago +2 / -0

This isn't quite right. Bitcoin started out very much as a cash system, not a ponzi. People were exchanging Bitcoin for pizza, alpaca socks, Steam purchases, Newegg, and various other places, both physical and on the internet.

It wasn't until later, around 2015 or so when Bitcoin went from ~$300 to ~$1,000 (maybe due to maleficence) that this digital gold narrative came about and didn't fully develop fully until the 2017 bull run when people all over began hearing about Bitcoin around the Thanksgiving dinner table.

In 2011 Gavin Andresen went to the CIA to talk about Bitcoin. He held the keys to the git repo for Bitcoin after Satoshi handed them to him after visiting the CIA. He held the keys until they were revoked around 2016 (I want to say) due to supporting Craig Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto (He was wrong but he later admitted to being fooled).

It was when Gavin Andresen lost commit access to Bitcoin Core (the lead bitcoin node software) that Blockstream, a company started by Adam Back (and funded by such greats as MIT DCI, AXA SV, and other DS interests) in 2014 began the takeover of Bitcoin as we know it.

Adam Back, while credited in the whitepaper as a source (for his Hashcash PoW system) was not really involved in Bitcoin until the creation of Blockstream. It was then that he along with others such as Gregory Maxwell (a shitposting Wikipedia editor turned Bitcoin Core developer) began to direct the masses to the idea that Bitcoin can never hard-fork and that layer-2 creations (such as the Lightning Network (funnily enough in the LN whitepaper they stated that the base layer would need ~133mb for world scaling adoption) would be where transaction traffic would be diverted to and so Blockstream along with Lightning Labs began developing the layer-2 solutions (creating the problem and selling the solution).

During 2015 and all the way leading up to the middle of 2017 Bitcoin became more and more expensive to transact on. It was no longer fast and cheap. If you wanted to be included in the next block you had to pay up. Prior to the start of 2017 a Bitcoin tx would cost around $0.05 or so, but in January of 2017 fees jumped up to $0.30 - $0.40. The blocks were getting full and concerns addressing scaling (while they were brought up much earlier, they became very real and needed to be addressed) began to become more commonplace. In December of 2017 at the height of the run, fees went as high as $40+ to place a single transaction (and they only spike upwards as Bitcoin reaches higher).

The topic was brought up and through PsyOps and deceptive campaigns, Blockstream was able to keep the Blocksize at 1mb (The 1mb cap was implemented by Satoshi to prevent spam attacks and never intended it to stay at that limit) (adding the SegWit soft-fork that separated witness data into it's own 3mb block, effectively giving Bitcoin a ~1.7mb of data per block with a throughput of about 7tps). It was then, after numerous attempts by the "big-blockers" to get Bitcoin to scale the way Satoshi had intended, began to create forks of Bitcoin such as Bitcoin XT offering larger blocksizes and hopes of a scaling Bitcoin. Bitcoin XT (forked in 2015) failed but in August of 2017 Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was forked from Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Cash shares the same genesis block as Bitcoin but it's goal is to develop Bitcoin the way Satoshi intended, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. It has had it's setbacks with Craig "I am Satoshi" Wright weaseling his way into the community and Amaury "The Benevolent Dictator" Sechet forking off and creating eCash after his attempts to steer Bitcoin in the direction he desired failed.

Bitcoin Cash is attempting to take power back from the bankers and Scum That Be (STB) that want to turn Bitcoin into a gold 2.0 where they have control (settlement layer) (think staying on the gold standard but we're given IOU slips, usury madness and the like) and ensuring that Bitcoin stays a peer-to-peer money that scales for the world.

Bitcoin Cash is nailing the scaling debate once-and-for-all with it's Adjusted Blocksize Limit Algorithm (ABLA) coming out in May, is developing it's recently launched Cash Tokens ecosystem (after messing with SLP, a protocol similar to Bitcoin Ordinals but BCH found it to be a poor implementation) that competes with ETHs (sky-high fees there too) token systems.

Most of the crypto space is full of coins that don't really do anything, are expensive to transact on, are centralized (which could be useful in the tokenization of businesses and products to perform like decentralized stocks), or are just blatant pump-and-dump ponzis (I believe that the STB steered the crypto-space into such a numbers go up mentality but that is not how Bitcoin started and it is not where BCH will lead) but Bitcoin Cash, Monero, and MAYBE a few more are the only coins that address the need for peer-to-peer electronic cash.

If anyone wants to know more, feel free to reply or DM me if you made it this far and I'll answer what I can.

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HopelesslyHopeful 2 points ago +2 / -0

SPEDN N Replace is the way. :) BTC was taken over in 2014 after Gavin Andresen went to go talk with the CIA in 2011. It was then in 2014 that Blockstream (Good ol CIA naming, block the stream/flow of money) came into the scene and Bitcoin became more and more expensive to send along with the Willy Bot fiasco until it came to a head in 2017. Blockstream set Bitcoin back a decade or so but with the consistent upgrades BCH has been doing (it has had it's fair share of setbacks) BCH will eventually be peoples' money, not some pseudo gold 2.0 that enslaves us all over again.

BCH's Adjusted Blocksize Limit Algorithm (ABLA) that is coming out in May will address the scaling issue once and for all. And the BCH Cashtokens ecosystem that is growing allows BCH to have contracts similar to ETH functions. Cash Fusion is also built into several wallets so BCH has opt-in privacy via coin-mixing.

BTC can't scale because it was hamstrung (people were so worried about miner centralization they didn't see that the CIA captured the keys to development).

BCH and XMR are really the only free monies right now. Both with their pros and cons.

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HopelesslyHopeful 4 points ago +4 / -0

I know someone up there. It's crazy they haven't started rebuilding yet and that so many of their services like the post office are running out of small trailers and closed half the time.

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HopelesslyHopeful 1 point ago +1 / -0

Is that area on the south side of the base? I don't know what it was like when you were stationed there but it surprises me how many gates are closed all the time.

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