At this point what they learn in business schools is the full bestiary of legal and illegal tricks and scams you can use to extract money from us cattle and contribute as little as possible to the upkeep :(

Oh, was it gamergate that started the trend of calling each other a bot/paid shill?

Ok, fine, I hadn’t considered that and it’s a factor. None of the demographically declining countries like Italy, Japan, Portugal is doing great in terms of growth…but they don’t have deflation either. You also have the productivity growth factor into account with automation (meaning each citizen produces more but also uses more resources)

Why doesn’t even the far right want to reduce dependence on fuel imports from other countries? I thought fascists were all for “autarky” and depending on nobody else…

Sure, any economy can experience deflation if you have more goods chasing the same amount of currency, but the point is that most economies usually print money, that causes inflation (moderately that mimics around 2% (approx. linear resource growth) and 4% (rent extraction). Interest rates influence market behaviour that causes inflation but do not determine inflation.

This is just the easiest step of the green transition: reduce costly energy imports through efficiency and it makes sense even without a green transition point of view. If even that can’t be done with public assent, there is no hope for anything beyond that in countries that buy cheap and/or export fossil fuels :/

Probably a typo, but currency is *inflationary, cryptocurrency is *deflationary, that’s why it’s not for spending “now” (e.g. hodlbros)

Everyone uses “oracles” eventually, there is no true “trustless”, but you can have systems which are publicly “loud” about being changed, even ethereum needs “oracles” that can be tampered with and which you need to trust, that’s why I used the word.

There are examples like DNS or the Mozilla foundation or all sorts of repos. Due to the receipt system you can verify if the commit history has been tampered with (your image has been removed from the database or edited). For court documents each court could host its own database where checksums are verified periodically, by “oracles”.

Look, Git exists and image or document registration in an official onine database is Git diffs with less functionality because you can’t remove previous commits: you just append new lines. This is a solved problem. If you’re trying to solve a double-spend problem, then you need more than that, but it’s overkill for your problem.

PS: maybe I’m oversimplifying it, but here’s more discussion on this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46192377/why-is-git-not-considered-a-block-chain

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59509764/is-git-distributed-or-decentralized

A nonprofit with multiple synchronized copies of the database and you can get your own copy, synchronize, fork it if you have the space, like a GitLab repository. Remember this is not for secure transactions and to prevent double-spending like a currency. It’s just an additive database. You don’t need to overkill with a blockchain.

How is that better than an immutable database where you guarantee trust simply by gettin your own public hash receipt for the database every time you introduce a new item? Why obfuscate things by riding the “Blockchain” hype bandwagon?

And it will work, because we’ve grown used to Hollywood being so repetitive.

Yea, that’s the solution…or niqabs for everyone, lol.

Have you ever heard o Ariane rockets and ESA?

E.g. upcoming Ariane 6: Up to 21.6 tons per launch, up to 11 launches per year.

The moment my cryptofan buddy started talking up brave, I knew it was time to uninstall.

“Splitters!!!”

PS: looks less boring than monopoly, though, more chaos :D