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Now that I think about it, what's even the point of paying someone in crypto, if you know they'll just convert it immediately in state currency, and you're likely buying it yourself with normal currency in the first place? How exactly are you subverting the USD and bank system, when for every bitcoin transaction there can be up to 2 regular bank transactions taking place?

Yes, there is the potential to make a parallel crypto economy, so that you have bitcoin transactions that don't cause bank transactions. If the payer has a decent store of bitcoins, and the receiver uses the payment to pay others. But I've yet to hear of bigger companies that receive crypto payments/donations say they'll commit to pay wages in the received crypto, or their bills or whatever.

I do wander though, would the average employee agree to being payed in crypto, and would the average company want to risk holding on to crypto?
I think bitcoin rate would stabilize if more people used it more like currency, but would people be willing to take the risk now, hoping that things improve in a few years?
At this point, it's not like bitcoin is that new anymore.

Makes 17 minute video. Only 6 minutes of it is not connected to Elon Musk or Hyperloop.

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Is Thunderf00t autistic? He tried to make a video debunking some old battery research, and it ends up being a video on Elon Musk somehow. I didn't even finish watching it....

Elon Musk should take his satellites and make them write a big 69 in the sky. Then everyone would say "nice" at the same time and we'd achieve world peace.

Battle of badass suited FPS protagonists

meow?

>Why Master Chief is badass
He was genetically engineered from birth to be the pinnacle of mankind. Given the best training and the best equipment, he goes against the odds to fight for the survival of mankind.

>Why Doom Guy is badass
He's not a mere human, he's a force of nature, stuck in an eternal battle against the unending forces of hell itself. And he's winning.

>Why Prophet is badass
Through sheer willpower alone, he uploads his own consciousness into the nanosuit, merging with it's AI, and attaining life after death, all the while battling an alien force that humanity can barely comprehend.

>Why Gordon Freeman is badass
He was not forged for combat. He has no special training. In fact, he's just your average theoretical physicist, and his equipment is quite standard for the work he's doing. But when his life is on the line, he rises to the occasion, and if necessary, he will destroy a tank with just his lucky crowbar.

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Battle of badass suited FPS protagonists

>band I like
>HOME MADE Kazoku
>what's a "kazoku"? sounds like a type of food
>looks it up
>it means "family"
aaawwww... wholesome overload.

reject Android
reject iOS
reject macOS
reject Windows
reject Linux

EMBRACE MS-DOS :MeguWoke:

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