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@MayaPar25 Isn't El Salvador's a thing?

A Bitcoin denominated Sovereign Wealth Fund, the first country to do that wins.

A kind of Reverse Babel

@LEME12 Her iPhone Pro is just trashed because she drops it all the time, either out of disrespect or she spends a lot of time with it spelunking

Tem um motivo bem obvio pra gente rica usar celular velho

This is gold….. a must watch 2020 @Albo criticising the government for not having 90 days fuel 🤣😆😆🤡 Jesus he has aged 20 years in the last 6.

@DanielMOakes @DrewPavlou MSM paying witnesses is an incentive to fabricate truth.

@DrewPavlou That’s a lot of words to say ‘can’t trust brown people’ you anthropomorphised toilet brush. Most pathetic thing about this is that these guys would step over you and keep walking if you were on fire. You’re a useful idiot to them and they would have nothing but contempt for you.

I spent three hours reading Ben Roberts-Smith court documents this morning and found something pretty incredible. TLDR: Previous court cases addressing Ben Roberts-Smith war crime allegations relied on the testimony of illiterate Afghan villagers who called him an infidel. Part of the war crimes claims made against Ben Roberts-Smith relied upon the testimony of Afghan villagers who openly told Australian courts that they viewed Roberts-Smith and Australian soldiers as infidels. Nine Media relied upon the testimony of three key Afghan witnesses in order to support the claim that Roberts-Smith executed a farmer named Ali Jan who he claimed was a Taliban spotter. These men were illiterate subsistence villagers who expressed hatred for ''infidels'' including Australian soldiers during the trial. Hanifa, pictured in court drawings wearing a green shawl, acknowledged directly that foreign soldiers were called ''infidels'' or ''kafir'' and that he did not like them. He also confirmed that persons killed by soldiers were called ''martyrs'' and that he hated Australian soldiers for going near ''our women.'' He said: "If they are coming to our houses, go inside to our women, of course that's what we call them infidels." Mangul, pictured in the court drawings wearing a blue shawl, expressed hatred of foreign soldiers and confirmed his view that they were infidels or kafir and that those they killed were martyrs. He said he did not like the Taliban but still referred to Australian soldiers as infidels. According to Daily Mail court reporting, when asked if he hated the soldiers who invaded his country and did not share his Islamic faith, Mangul said: ''Yes, it is like that.'' Hanifa also told the court that when the soldiers arrived by helicopter, he took a donkey from Ali Jan in an attempt to make them both appear to be nomads: ''I took one of the donkey from him thinking that we will look like nomads and the foreign forces will think that we are nomads.'' The actual mechanics of their testimony is incredible in and of itself. Hanifa told the Federal Court that a man named ''Dr Sharif'' paid for his accommodation, food and transport for up to a year in support of his ability to testify against Roberts-Smith. Dr Sharif worked for representatives of Nine newspapers as a fixer in Afghanistan. Each Afghan key witness said that a local representative for Nine Media paid their family's living expenses since moving to Kandahar, then Kabul, earlier in the year. According to Daily Mail court reporting, one key witness was accompanied by his wife and five children, another by his wife and six children and a third had 14 relatives with him. And the logistics regarding court translation were incredible. The only available court-certified Pashto interpreter lived in Ontario, Canada. When hearings commenced at 10:15am in Sydney, it was 8:15pm in Ontario and 4:45am in Kabul. The Afghan witnesses therefore gave evidence about murders in a Taliban stronghold through a three-way international audiovisual link at dawn, interpreted by someone in a different hemisphere. The court-certified Pashto interpreter conceded that he had difficulty translating from classical Pashto to the rural Pashto dialect the men spoke. All three ultimately testified that they did not see the alleged shooting execution of Ali Jan, but two said they directly observed Roberts-Smith kick him off the cliff. Roberts-Smith has always maintained that Ali Jan was a Taliban spotter in a village that was a Taliban stronghold. It is a matter of historical fact that there was confirmed armed Taliban presence in the village of Darwan the day of the raid and that Roberts-Smith killed a confirmed armed Taliban militant during the wider operation. Roberts-Smith was operating in the village of Darwan while searching for Hekmatullah - a Taliban sleeper agent in the Afghan National Army who massacred three Australian soldiers in cold blood as they prepared to sleep on their own base. This massacre of Australian soldiers was technically a Taliban war crime. By enlisting in the Afghan National Army and wearing its uniform, Hekmatullah had presented himself as a co-belligerent fighting alongside Australian forces - not against them. This made him guilty of the war crime of perfidy. Judge Besanko ultimately dismissed the infidel/kafir argument in a single paragraph for each witness, bracketed with the Dr Sharif financial support argument, writing: ''However, I do not consider (the infidel argument), or indeed the other general motive to lie advanced by the applicant of the sustenance (food and transportation) provided by the respondents through Dr Sharif, to be strong motives for Mohammed Hanifa to lie." In my opinion, this represents an instance of the Australian legal system failing to grapple with the cultural gulf between Australian morals and Pashtunwali morals - raised in a deeply conservative Pashtun culture in which foreign soldiers are categorically viewed as enemies of the faith, living day to day in a Taliban stronghold village, I believe the hatred that these men had towards Australian soldiers means that their testimony cannot be fully trusted. Roberts-Smith's barristers directly put it to Mangul that his religion permitted lying to infidels in some circumstances. Mangul rejected the suggestion — but the mere fact that Roberts-Smith's own counsel felt compelled to raise the question in open court speaks to the cultural gulf I am describing. It must be said that their testimony was not the only testimony against Roberts-Smith that day - their words were held up as corroborating the words of an Australian soldier, Person 4. Besanko J and the Full Court both wrote that even setting aside the Afghan witnesses' evidence, Person 4's account stood. That said, it feels deeply wrong to me that the Australian courts did ultimately choose to rely upon the evidence of men who openly admited they viewed Australian soldiers as infidels and subjects of contempt. It feels like a particularly troubling example of misplaced institutional deference - treating the admission of deep religious hostility as insufficient to question the reliability of evidence. These Afghan witnesses may now testify again in the criminal trial against Roberts-Smith where the standard of proof is ''beyond reasonable doubt'' rather than the civil ''balance of probabilities.'' The criminal standard of ''beyond reasonable doubt'' is substantially higher than the civil ''balance of probabilities'' standard at which the defamation findings were made. It is hard to see their evidence alone passing muster at a criminal standard.

@elonmusk Unintended consequences of translation feature - Grok matchmaker

@techexe 🎯

@AussieHodl You nailed it. Legacy economists completely misunderstand Gresham's Law. Over 74% of the supply is completely illiquid because you simply don't trade absolute scarcity for a melting fiat ice cube. You don't sell the Mona Lisa for Chuck E. Cheese tokens.

Every four years, the network's thermodynamic security budget is slashed by 50%. • Pre-2024: 6.25 BTC per block. • Current (2024-2028): 3.125 BTC per block. • 2028 Halving: 1.56 BTC per block. • 2032 Halving: 0.78 BTC per block. We rely on the assumption that the fiat price of Bitcoin will simply double every four years to bail out the miners. But the math eventually breaks. Going from a $1 Trillion to a $2 Trillion market cap is one thing. Demanding the asset hit tens of millions of dollars per coin within two decades just to keep the mining farms profitable requires market caps that literally exceed the total sum of global wealth. You cannot mathematically rely on infinite fiat price appreciation to subsidize network security forever. So what is the solution?

@4mambo Solar and wind power generators (which require mineral mining and manufacturing with diesel and petrol) still won't produce diesel or fertilisers needed for agriculture.

This idiot stands under a brilliant blue sky with sun beating down which could be generating huge amounts of electricity via solar power (and wind, no doubt) and talks about an economically non-viable project years away from providing any energy!! Conservative logic!!!!!

@MmisterNobody It's like saying the germ theory is fake.

Why do people get so angry when you say the moon landing is fake?

@bramk Bitcoin is a crappy Ponzi scheme. 1. The guy running it left without cashing out. 2. It's been running so long that it no longer classifies as Ponzi. 3. The blockchain is so transparent it can be verified in 10 mins. 4. Every institution that called it a Ponzi now owns some.

There is an anti-Bitcoin commenting bot army active on YouTube and you can't convince me otherwise. 2.5 years on YouTube with 2 episodes a week and the amount of similar comments to this one have been STAGGERING:

We're not going to travel beyond the solar system, according to Leonard Susskind. And neither are aliens, coming to visit us. We may not be alone, but we are stuck here for, essentially forever. 1. The nearest star is 4.24 light years away. The fastest spacecraft ever built would require 6,600 years to get there. 2. Surely we can just build faster spacecraft. The problem is to get to anywhere close to the speed of light, we need exponentially more energy. 3. Chemical rockets will just not work. Even fusion rockets won't work. Even 10% of the speed of light is not achievable. The Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation prevents it. 4. Interstellar dust becomes hand grenades when traveling anywhere close to the speed of light. Ships break. 5. Space radiation will kill us over the time need to travel interstellar distances. Impossible to protect without massive shields, which require massive energy to accelerate and de-accelerate.

@thetrocro @nytimes They will use QC to hack bitcoin They will use QC to identify Satoshi Same BS

If @nytimes misidentifies Satoshi after an 18-month investigation that selectively attends to only confirmingevidence… What are the odds they get it right on bitcoin’s energy use, utility, value, security, etc.? Wrong on all of those too. What about everything else? The news?

@Bitcoinmaxxi 💪

I have accomplished a great personal goal Finally reached 0.1 Bitcoins The Hodl journey continues This will be Generational Wealth..!!

@spectator You want Back to be Satoshi to make Britain feel more relevant in the Middle East war. You failed.

@adam3us Adam isn't Satoshi. He's just a naughty boy

i'm not satoshi, but I was early in laser focus on the positive societal implications of cryptography, online privacy and electronic cash, hence my ~1992 onwards active interest in applied research on ecash, privacy tech on cypherpunks list which led to hashcash and other ideas.

@SirBylHolte Amen

I was born in 1961. Our cartoons didn't try to turn us gay. Movies and TV shows didn't try to depress us about our world or our lives. Actors didn't tell us who to vote for. We had smart comedy and nobody told us what jokes were allowed. We never heard the n-word or f-bombs coming out of our radios. There were no TRANS kids. Nobody told you their pronouns. Nobody had food allergies. I could go to school without getting jumped. We played outside until the streetlights came on. We had family dinners with no phones at the table. Families didn't break up over politics. A man was a man, a woman was a woman, and nobody pretended otherwise. Nobody lost their job or their home or their family or their friends for merely stating biological facts. We respected cops, teachers, and the flag. We celebrated CHRISTMAS, not Kwanzaa. Nobody was "offended" by EVERYTHING. If anybody WAS offended by something, it was THEIR PERSONAL PROBLEM, not a national crisis. And here's the good part: Women hadn't willfully destroyed every aspect of entertainment - from movies to tv to video games. Call me old-fashioned and outdated - but I really miss those days. I'd give anything to go back to BEFORE 24/7 cable news, social media doom-scrolling, and algorithm rage machines. So God, if you're listening, this is my prayer: Take us back to the good old days of American civility, PLEASE. AMEN.

@MurrayWatt If you read any of the replies to any of your posts, you would intuit a general loathing of your political opinion, but carry on...

One Nation aren’t on your side.

@techexe Short anything @nic_carter touches

2021 Nic Carter: "The future is the Metaverse." 2026 Nic Carter: "Quantum computers will destroy Bitcoin unless BlackRock takes over the code." It’s a Trojan Horse. The VCs didn't leave; they just changed costumes to manufacture consent for an institutional takeover of the base layer. #Bitcoin #NicCarter

@Symply_rhoda1 More kids die from bullying-related suicide than getting a bloody nose

Parents, please stop sending your kids to school with the mindset of “if someone hits you, hit them back.” You are part of the problem.