Quote from: JollyGood on January 21, 2025, 11:40:31 PM

There is no point in anybody giving up hope on any government doing what it is supposed to do (which is to serve the people) even if many politicians and those in power seem to be self-serving opportunists.

Somewhere along the line of being squeezed between religious fanatics and many bankrolling politicians through a legal donations route and facing pressure from their lobbyists (including from the finance sector, arm manufacturers and medical corporations), somehow it seems Bitcoin and crypto has managed to get a foothold and now that door is open it is highly unlikely crypto can be excluded from the conversation no matter how much chaos prevails.

Quote from: JayJuanGee on January 21, 2025, 07:39:25 PM

Hard to imagine ramification of the government getting back to its seemingly intended roots of serving the people, yet we probably should not give up hope, otherwise, we might not even consider bitcoin to be able to help to temper some of the outrageousness and chaos through its tick tock next block fundamentals.

Just because politicians may well seem to not know the difference between bitcoin and shitcoins, and they are perverting and convoluting categories, that should not mean that any of us should be afraid to call them out for their bullshit and their creating confusion, in their pursuit of personal profits or even their abuse of public office perhaps in the name of either wanting lesser government, trying to sabotage government or even engaging in behaviors that attack bitcoin through perverted means.

Surely we can have some advantages in our interactions when there is chaos, yet governments will still engage in selective prosecution, so none of us can use the excuse that Donald Trump was scamming people, so therefore your allegations against me are not valid.. whether it is KYC or peer to peer interactions, self-custody, allegations of money laundry or our attempts to communicate about ideas that are critical of governments, financial laws or our abilities to freely transact value between each other including transacting monetary value.

I am fairly sensitive about the convolution of bitcoin and shitcoins, so I am not going to give up attempting to clarify when people speak in gobbledy gook terms because they are trying to act like bitcoin is the same as shitcoins or if they might be using other kind of vague language because they might be pumping their project while acting like it is similar or better than bitcoin - it is not correct whether done by individuals or by financial institutions or supposed governmental leaders who might also have questionable agendas.

Sorry about getting away from the topic of this thread, since this thread is surely more open to being able to exchange between coins, and I don't have any problem with that even though surely I would not necessarily own too many shitcoins myself, but I understand that they can serve some purpose and there can be value in exchanging between them.