@SlicerDicer@TTimo@SwiftOnSecurity I almost shit my pants in NYC because there are no bathrooms anywhere, and I think it's partially because there's so little space in some of those old buildings but the city could have them. So I'd pay for sure.
I ended up in the basement of an Irish pub which had only one multi-stall bathroom that was unisex. I destroyed a toilet with a woman in the next stall. It was like one of those crazy dreams that doesn't make sense but it was real.
@TTimo@SwiftOnSecurity For real who wants to go in on a door lock that takes Apple Pay / Google Pay / QR code payment to open the door and market them to cities and downtown businesses? I bet we could make millions, we can get that Schlage money baby
@sun@breaker@polarisera I think the internet makes it easier for larger numbers of people to learn about and participate in social experiments and explore ideas.
When I was growing up all sorts of information was not available and accessing fringe alternative communities likely meant sending off letters to join postal mailing lists but first you'd have to be able to learn who to write to
I believe that seeing communication explode to the modern internet today makes it appear the groups of badly behaving people keep growing at concerning rates. I think we'll harden ourselves to it, but it's always possible this is our inevitable downfall and collapse; perhaps unrestricted global communication may always descend into chaos. The old ways were also better for authoritarians with repressing of information.
@gabriel@sun Resistance money has a problem with being the perfect tool for money laundering and other money crimes so governments will never want it, on-ramp / off-ramp will always be difficult which makes liquidity shallow
I don't think there's a good solution to this problem. If you could mix cash with people across the world easily they'd ban cash too
@interfluidity@Hyolobrika there is no community to trust. The whole point is it's trustless because math protects the network. Nobody can change bitcoin without getting 51% of the community to agree and install software that modifies what the chain is capable of doing.
@interfluidity@Hyolobrika calling the "institutional state" more decentralized than bitcoin is detached from reality and so is the insinuation that there is a "small group of people" controlling bitcoin
You're describing the exact same properties as Zelle which has 120 million users. All transactions are final and the company that owns it gets to analyze ALL your banking data