skells @skells@qoto.org
Joined Feb 2021
@Prodigal figured it would be the case
this is one tent I'd rather be well outside
@Prodigal what was the cause
lizards or idiots
@augustus he would have been 96 in 2000 so not sure if that theory holds water
@augustus oh you mean if Orwell was still alive today?
@augustus applying Orwell's method to today =/= Neo-con
One of his issues was with the abuse of language, particularly in political contexts; he would have been anti-woke but beyond that it's hard to say.
doubt he would have been pro-Trump either.
not sure where your equivalence of Trotskyism and Neo-con comes from but can't say I know much about either
@11112011 this is almost good news blitz, thanks
@lukedashjr good to hear, still ominous af
are there any other limitations on your account or is it back to normal?
skells
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Twitter finally unbanned me this morning.
But they didn't admit wrongdoing or say it won't happen again.
Let's keep Mastodon alive and growing as the primary social media network, and use Twitter only as a fallback to interface with normies? ;)
@lukedashjr hypothesis:
as long as a large enough segment of the population refused to accept forked coins, people would be getting burned by accepting them.
people would spend their forked coins as fast as possible (like counterfeit cash) and get wise about how they accepted coins in the future.
"bad money drives out good" but it's very easy to identify bad with a node, so you'd quickly train people to check their change
questions are:
1) what percentage of "intransigent minority" is required to effect this?
2) what are the incentives for inflationary cash and who are most tempted by them?
my sense is that most people would prefer to hold the real McCoy even if they tawked otherwise
@lukedashjr good point
skells
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@skells To differentiate between "real" bitcoins and "forked coins", you need a full node of your own.
A risk of decentralised networks, is that they're vulnerable to takeover by centralised actors if too much of the economy trusts those centralised entities to verify their transactions.
A minority selling forked coins won't likely be enough to prevent that.
@lukedashjr depends on the stacks of the minority
but I see your point, thanks
@coolboymew SO FUCKING BASED
@lukedashjr what does this look like, practically speaking, for non-devs?
selling all forked coins seems like a good first line of defense
skells
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Bitcoiners should be careful not to let the failure of inflationary fiat result in #Bitcoin turning into nothing more than a new, non-inflationary* fiat.
This is a risk as people who don't necessarily care about decentralisation flock to Bitcoin for safety.
* for now (nothing prevents a non-inflationary fiat from adding inflation later)
@jeffcliff @11112011 @Prodigal I think you have to be pretty loopy to think that covid doesn't actually exist
Chinese bioweapon and rushed vaccines too mainstream for the conspiracy hipsters
Joined Feb 2021
