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mircea_popescu: i think it's the fundamental cluelessness of people missing this obvcious poitn that has everyone trying to push bitcoin on any and all, as if that's a good idea
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the fact that people do is what keeps things moving along smoothly.
mircea_popescu: see, many things that exist today are sueful to you indirectly.
mircea_popescu: other than because its existance keeps governments in check.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no reason. btc is for rich people who want to keep savings.
mircea_popescu: jurov so centralised store credit on top of bitcoin :)
mircea_popescu: in), you will probably cash into whatever local currency from Bitcoin (be it Unified Standard Dubaloos or Universally Simplified Dosidoes or whatever else) but all that is entirely different a story.
mircea_popescu: For the reasons noted and for many other reasons I am pretty much satisfied that Bitcoin is not nor will it ever be a direct means of payment for retail anything. You may end up paying for a month’s worth of coffee vouchers at your favourite coffee shop via Bitcoin (so shop scrip built on top of Bitcoin), you may end up settling your accounts monthly at the restaurant in Bitcoin (so store credit built on top of Bitco
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla atms are designed to work offline on a reconciliatory basis, it's a complex thing
mircea_popescu: your application could be safe, in which case you're safe.
mircea_popescu: your application could be buggy, in which case you'll get owned, maybe.
mircea_popescu: be it a stick, the net card or some hid, a data feed is a data feed.
mircea_popescu: well so inasmuch as it's some datafeed i fail to see the problem.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` is this some sort of windows specific thing ?
mircea_popescu: i dont know much about trezor, never used it, never considered it.
mircea_popescu: tyhe internet just hums along, so it's psychologically small.
mircea_popescu: it makes you physically insert something, this is psychologically big
mircea_popescu: you only perceive higher risk because it's more visible to you.
mircea_popescu: you're just protecting against something that's more visible to you, hence the shamanism.
mircea_popescu: understand. as long as you're on the internet it's already thus tattooed.
mircea_popescu: seems out of place, we'd think your resistance is inside, or else you wouldn't be doing the deepthroating.
mircea_popescu: your concern however comes while you've got a number of dicks down your throat already
mircea_popescu: it boggles me that you think plugging in a hotwallet is substantially different from plugging in a net card.
mircea_popescu: but seriously, what's the big deal ? you trying to ALSO run all this on windows or something ?
mircea_popescu: every good whore handles a lot of money, so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what's the big deal with letting your pos make sweet sweet machine love to random sticks ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you're confusing me. which is the boy again ? the one with the tits ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller corporate scrip is as american as apple pie.
mircea_popescu: i still think for coffee etc the method described on trilema last year is best, ie, buy company scrip monthly.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` if they know aforehand how much the coffee will be.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure how either these perfectly functional methods differ from what's currently done ?
mircea_popescu: what is wrong with going there with a blockchain wallet loaded with the exact sum and giving them the url ?
mircea_popescu: props to you for writing it in forum prose, which is a good thing.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you're going to have to supply anexecutive summary, im not reading all that
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it is an offense, and they're not going tgo heaven.
mircea_popescu: you may trade with a retard, you may not give him money.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah we defo need more of those, splendor.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you just can't see them, cause you're not addicted enough.
mircea_popescu: dumbravita is the diminutive of dumbrava, which means glade.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` wasn't gold. oldest scam in the book is guy "finds" some gold item together with you
mircea_popescu: but you never ever under any circumstances give money to retards
mircea_popescu: if you do everything else including raping your infant mother and killing random people a la johnny the homicidal maniac,
mircea_popescu: nope, it's the only sin. as retards should never havem oney.
mircea_popescu: it's always the fault of whoever gives money to retards.
mircea_popescu: i think he's the first idiot that gave money to these retards with their advice to be cool.
mircea_popescu: manual writers in the decades to come will find it useful.
mircea_popescu: this sort of retarded flailing should be in the record.