What are you going to do with btc in a cabin in the woods?
Off the top of my head I'd say the easiest use of extra energy in that situation would be to power equipment directly, alternatively but a bit more complicated is run an electrolysis system to make oxygen and hydrogen for fuel that you can use to power your chainsaw/car/whatever. Obviously, it depends on your resources but I have a very hard time seeing any circumstances where btc is more useful than electricity in a cabin in the woods.
That solar energy could be going into any other number of things that actually produce something.
What is the value in turning electricity into complex math on a computer (nothing) vs using it to smelt aluminum or create nitrogen fertilizer or even pulling carbon out of the air to make synthetic fuels?
I mined BTC early on before I realized it was objectively bad for the planet/economy, its made me plenty of money buts it's objectively bad for the earth and I dont see much benefit. Etherium less so but any of these crypto's that do nothing seem about as bad for the planet/economy as anything we have ever thought of, like it might be worse than communism if it diverts 50% of our energy into producing nothing.
Yes lets turn energy and computing power into nothing, that will surely improve the world!
How much of the worldwide energy supply should we dump into doing nothing? 10% 50%?
To be clear blockchain is great tech but bitcoin is backed by nothing but hopium and wasted energy.
According to article below (not sure how legit the source is) it sounds like there are two brothers adopted by the Air Force general and the other one is an America-loving Proud Boy.
So what I'm reading here is that somehow Jews are so much more capable than non-Jews that they somehow dominate culture and leadership even though they are only ~5% of the population?
That sounds like some kind of Jewish Supremacy, must be depressing to think another group is so massively superior to your own...
Washington State (along with Oregon and NorCal) is still full of small-L libertarians who remember the freedom of the West. The massive Californian immigration only started in the 90s, there are still millions of who love freedom here.
Look into Starlink, as the other commenters are saying* this sat internet is very different with much shorter distances than geostationary.
People are running it now in remote locations across Northern portions of America and recording 31ms to 94ms ping times with numbers dropping every fresh launch as more satellites populate the ring.
Let's not forget arguably Americas most powerful company and THE international tech giant of the day, IBM
Adolf used their machines to tabulate and experts to help design the "census" he used to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, gays and etc.
There has long been buzz that Snowden is just another limited hangout. Lately there has more push that he's actually a CIA asset part of the interagency feud with the NSA.
Obviously, form your own opinion but I don't think it's as cut and dry as "just trust everything he does and says".
Honestly, I was just talking about hightech new hawtness (like for example I know a lot of FLIR sensor manufacturing is airgapped, I've heard similar about nightvision systems) but that's a very solid point. Lots of older computer-controlled manufacturing equipment that never gets updated (why risk breaking it if working?) is probably very very vulnerable. Luckily a lot of those are non-networked but defiantly still an issue.
What actual harm? Like general discourse of sources and methods or something that actually cost lives? Because AFAIR his whistleblowing didn't directly out any individuals... whereas we've got swamp mosnters like hilary and biden who seemingly got dozens of US agents killed face zero consequences.
The history of the Turkish/steppe people vs China is incredibly fascinating! Very interesting how the USSR used them after the Sino/Soviet split.
I'm also kinda amazed Turkey and/or prominent Muslim countries like Saudia or Pakistan seem to care so little about the situation. That plus the pretty widely spread Hui people in China it seems like there is real potential for escalation, although I hear they have been used to oppress their fellow Muslims in Xinjiang apparently resulting in a chant of "Kill the Han, kill the Hui." in the 2009 riots.
I'm not overly familiar with that particular coin (?) but it appears to be a token tied into an oz of gold. Why would a token for gold be better than gold? What benefit do you get from the custody fee you need to pay? As far as I can tell the benefit is its just that its easier to transfer and divide? I've never had a hard time finding someone to offer me spot price for physical gold in real life so not sure the value there... and part of golds value to me is that everything can go to shit and I've still got gold... this seems to fully abandon that benefit.
Etherium provides contracts that are of value and this appears to be built on that base... but to use it costs eth/$.
I don't see value in currency (and what else is something that is a token for gold?) that isnt backed by a nation, its army, and with an inherent demand that can never be avoided or paid in anything but the official currency (taxes).
As a general rule buying assets like this works as a hedge vs inflation, this seems basically the same as buying physical gold or equities in a gold company/commodity fund but without the stability of a long-term stabilized and regulated market with insured companies. I personally do own some gold production equities and holding funds but generally prefer REITs for that type of function in my portfolio.