You are going to come off as a crazy fuck,
Heh. Not the first time Ive gotten that. But then, I agree with this:
It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Hows this for what, from your perspective, would be a crazy fuck: I have at various times spent several portions of my adult life voluntarily unbanked. Cash-only. On principle, because I hate the banks and I do not wish to associate with them, much less to depend on them. Do I not have a right to choose not to have a goddamn bank account? Yes, they have made it exceedingly difficult to live this way.
(And here, I was nearly drawn into professional finance as a lad... its been a long road...)
Bitcoin allows us to commit to it, ideologically, and to live well at the same time. [...]
I am saying that there is no reason to die for the cause because you can get rich and you can support bitcoin.. no need to die for the cause, here.. unless you are merely suicidal (but that is not necessary.. as I already mentioned).
Yes, I wish that with my current level of life experience, I could go back in time and tell my younger self some more general version of thisnot only about Bitcoin! I have consistently screwed myself over this way. Much of that thing I didnt post a few days ago had to do with that.
Most naïve youths lose their characteristic idealism in the moment that they catch the scent of money; I didnt. Instead of being pulled into the system, I went against it... I sincerely never cared about money, until intense personal hardship beat into me the importance of having some; and at that point, it was too late to go back and spend wasted years differently.
As for the rest: I see that you and I have some fundamental disagreements about economics. It will take some thought to communicate my position sensibly in the context. Meanwhile, Ill just toss out the foregoing with the idle thought that it may help some idealist:
Make money. Dont stick your nose up at it: Generals think logistics, and you can only paralyse yourself by lacking resources. If you get corrupted in the process of making money, then your precious principles are anyway too weak to sustain the hardships that you will undoubtedly endure for want of money. Trust me, I know.
I really don't know. I rather expect that JJG had no idea that 'tangle' refers to an alternative database structure as the basis of several altcoins. Why don't you ask him/her directly?
Hmmm... Because to anyone who is not
totally stupid, its ridiculously fucking obvious that he knows?
Any other brilliant questions?
Given this level of incomprehension, it may not actually be incomprehensible for someone to misunderstand what will happen if miners try to steal Segwit coins.