It already is.. It was taken over by a group called 'Core' that had nothing to do with the original creation of Bitcoin and that group slowly got all of the original Bitcoin programmers removed.. It also immediately started introducing protocol-crippling limitations like leaving the blocksize at an unnecessarily-small 1mb - as if being able to run a full node on a Raspberry PI 2 for the next 10 years is the main purpose of Bitcoin. The price was allowed to inflate hugely while suppressing the price of Bitcoin Cash - a fork of the original Bitcoin before it was compromised. The price of Bitcoin Cash - despite at one moment skyrocketing to more than $4000 each - has been artificially kept low despite much of the original Bitcoin community (and those with new found wealth from the Bitcoin price increases from 2009-2013) moving much of their BTC into BCH.
I still have some BTC.. but plan on it ultimately dropping and being replaced by BCH. I think BCH will be the highest-priced crypto and most used in the next 10-15 years - or at least it will be a major player. The more this information gets out, the more it will be impossible for 'TPTB' to keep Bitcoin as the dominant crypto and keep it artificially crippled..
The new crypto ETFs appear to be a good thing short term for the crypto prices - but I think they are ultimately going to be used to inflate the 'liquidity' of crypto and manipulate crypto prices. There is no fucking point of having an ETF that allows you to invest into crypto other than there are numerous onerous laws and regulations attempting to control your financial investments - and crypto was designed to route around that bullshit. Not your keys.. not your crypto.
BTW, I'll be throwing some of my 401k money at the crypto ETFs because I do see it being a hedge against the market and the $USD at the same time.. for the very short term.
Anyway.. I'm going to be right.. so my advice is to just hold one Bitcoin Cash on your own wallet (like a Ledger or even just a piece of paper with your private keys printed on it and kept safe).. and keep it as a hedge against old money and power losing their grip.
Seeing the 'officials' do the most irresponsible things over and over puts the average person at wits' end. The police fired teargas indiscriminately into the crowds. They were instigating until the crowd forced them to be polite. I wore a helmet that day because I thought Antifa would be throwing batteries and rocks at us.. instead, it protected me from a police teargas ball (at least I think that's what hit me).
You don't know what you are talking about. They are making real diamonds in a lab now. They're the same chemical composition. They will not become yellow or cloudy.
If you are specifically talking about fake diamonds like cubic zirconia or costume jewelry, that's one thing. But the lab created diamonds can't truthfully be called fake any more.
My dad had a massive stroke and nearly died.. While in the hospital, they served him grilled cheese and french fries for dinner the next day when his blood pressure was still through the roof. My mom, a licensed nutritionist, flipped out at the staff and had them serve him grilled chicken with no salt and mixed veggies. She regimented closely his diet at the hospital for the next two weeks.
I'm not sure the hospital saved him or made him any better. In fact, they said it was a minor stroke at first and they 'removed the clot' and he should make a full recovery. The next day, it was 'he has massive bleeding in the brain' and he will never walk or talk again and he might die.
Anyway.. I'm going to go play golf with him first thing tomorrow morning.
so they're not our agreements just like the US govt debt isn't our debt to pay - since we aren't the ones that made the purchases or the agreements.. like.. none of it is our debt to owe and none of it makes us contractually liable for anything
The only contract I care about is the US Constitution.. all others outside of it are null and void.
Digital security works both ways.. If you have a copy of the key, you can re-create the lock; if you have a copy of the lock, you can re-create the key. Once your biometric parts are scanned for security, they're reduced to a digital set of data. Once that data gets compromised, the 'key' can be recreated.. whether it be fake fingerprints, a mask, retina.. or any other biometric component.
In using any biometric security, you are trusting the system to keep your biometric makeup private.. It's one thing if your password gets leaked.. If your biometric data gets leaked, there is no changing it for the next use case.
The main reason I do not like Biometric Digital ID for anything (besides privacy) is because it is a huge security risk for the following reason:
If it does get compromised, you cannot change it.
If any other current mechanism of authentication gets compromised, it is easily changed by a person with the right credentials. Passwords can be easily changed. Hardware keys can be replaced. Fingerprints, voice recognition, and faces cannot be changed without effort.
Maybe the best thing for the United States is to completely hamstring the intelligence community to a point where they must follow the will of the American people.. I'm tired of them telling us what to do and what rights we must give up. They haven't even been good at their jobs for the last 40 years - unless you define their jobs as 'continue to curtail the rights of Americans.'
My biggest beef with the media is anyone complicit in covering up for Pizzagate. If Pizzagate is investigated correctly - and it appears there was no crime - then media should freely report all detail. However, if Pizzagate is investigated, and there is crime, then everyone helping to cover up for it or make it seem like no real investigation is warranted were assisting with that crime. If the crime is child sex trafficking, it should carry very heavy punishments.
I have never seen a popstar so desperately branded as Taylor Swift has been the past year.. like.. it's a total coordinated effort across all media desperate to make even the least interested person know something about her. She's the new covid vax.
Bitcoin cash sold but not yet purchased will cause it to skyrocket in value.. at least the ones people have the keys to.. Bitcoin's value is already too high for retail (real market) to control it.. Bitcoin Cash, on the other hand, is distributed much more evenly and the value is too low already for it to crash and stay crashed.