The whole point of mining/staking/whatever is to be expensive. Governments can pigouvian tax it to high hell, mine workers can unionize, and it won’t make any difference to users whatsoever. So there’s literally no benefit to more energy use.
Bitcoin mines can’t do general computing. They use ASICs that can only mine.
My country is literally an oligarchy, not a democracy. The oligarchs don’t want to gradually reform based on democratic principles. But they sure want us to think they will.
We need a total revolution. The people who ought to be fined are the ones buying the laws.
C’mon Europe you’re supposed to be cool
Apparently they’re going to just make only the little guy’s copyrights effectively meaningless, so yeah.
Having read through these comments, I wonder if we’ve reached the logical conclusion of copyright itself.
IANAL, why isn’t it fair use?
Man, I wish Henry George could’ve convinced Karl Marx of that.
How shall we get started on burning down civilization?
He’s assuming infinite elasticity, which isn’t how prices work in real life.
The typical version of this argument is that the people who are being taxed in the first place are the ones increasing rents. In which case taxes can then be increased until the desired equilibrium is achieved.
That’s not to say we couldn’t also provide a basic safety net like he describes. But that raises the question of why UBI should stop there. If our economy can generate a surplus, then why shouldn’t all humans sharing their slice of the Earth get it?
I am a crypto bro and felt the same way. The vibe is too uptight. If it can work without a blockchain (like Mastodon/Lemmy), then adding one just makes it worse.
I think they meant call centers in general, for legal sales. No they didn’t I’m wrong
The kerning is still a little off
Like mana from heaven!
"Oh yeah I remember these keyboards! Good times, that was before the
My main thought is “this is a screenshot of a wall of text that’s hard to read”.
Yep! Sucks when it’s not our country, huh? If they want to do business in India, then they have to comply with Indian court orders.
“Bitcoin isn’t a get rich quick scheme, it’s a don’t get poor slowly scheme.”
— Jameson Lopp
Neoliberals: “OK how about we keep doing the thing that makes them care only about next quarter, but give them a $1 fine every time they’re negligent?”