Because the best way to keep his wealth is to push wherever he can towards corporate fascism.

Or deliver the Aid. Win Win. (Doesn’t seem like the right word, but nevermind.)

The downside to the plan failing is that they alleviate suffering.

You think that means one or two might slip through?

I’ve only heard of Jamón ibérico.

He can have a voice, but he doesn’t necessarily deserve to be paid.

Gaza reporters are being censored and they aren’t even asking for money.

Tate deserves less than nothing.

Other people deserve a voice.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and

Stopping people being slaughtered is more important than being able to put 2 specific words together.

The only excuse is if the arrests make the anti genocide protests more prominent.

Can’t all the protesters support Palestine ActionS and sidestep the law?

What about swapping Crimeia for everything upto and including Moscow?

Ballpark calculations

Winning a block gets you 3.125 BTC + approx. 0.06BTC in fees (2%). $6000 in transactions fees with 4000 transactions per block = $1.50 per transaction.

When I first looked at Bitcoin it was around $10/BTC and electricity to mine (on a cpu) was about the same.

The people who make money mining bitcoin have a combination of very cheap electricity and/or next generation asic hardware.

mining has not compensated for mining for a long time.

Fees are less than 2%

The average commission payment is now 1.5 bitcoins. almost half of the reward

I think you have the wrong units. The average fee is 1.5 USD.

And it will pay off only in 1.7 years

This is quite quick. Last time I looked the it was around 3 years. Most of the cost comes from buying the hardware.

The assumption that bitcoin is only used by criminals is much less accurate.

It came from here but this source has more detail.

Because they can’t run out of money, central banks can be the largest buyer and seller over the short term.

But there is no economic rule that demands those entities exist. For example, from 1863 to 1913 the US had almost no use for a central bank.

Note that I’m very far from suggesting the world’s economy should run on bitcoin. Just that central banks are not as essential as they are made out to be. They are used as much to cause inflation as they are to control it.

I copied that from Wikipedia which got their reference from through NY times.

For specific details, this is probably a better source https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/reports/the-illicit-crypto-ecosystem-report-2022

Valuable to the people creating debt in that currency. Not to other stakeholders.

USD FX pairs are currently cheaper using traditional transfers.

However going from a non G20 currency to another non G20 currency can be much cheaper using crypto.

but those costs don’t give bitcoins any inherent value.

Because bitcoins cost X to produce, people believe they are worth X.