Theft: the illegal taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another
Taxation: the taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of citizens

It's ok when the government does it.

Also "safeguard the freedom of the citizens of the country"...

umm...you don't really believe that bullshit do you?

Please...when in the history of the Universe have governments safeguarded freedom? Seriously...nobody cares one bit about freedom, believe me I've tried to be free but run into nothing but roadblocks from...guess who?...governments and their order followers.

They're just following orders.

It appears that this technical challenge is being overcome by the development of RGB.

I have also learned that many countries are trying to figure out how to have their own crypto currencies based on Bitcoin becoming a bit more mainstream. I do not doubt that within the next 4-5 years there will be some nation in the world that adopts a cryptocurrency or allows it for payments of government services.

This strategy would give the nation a transitional period while also providing them the huge benefits of a currency with DEX, smart contracts and fast low fee transactions.

I have spoken to some people here in Panama that are open to the idea (Panama uses a national currency pegged to the US dollar). The government started working on a cryptocurrency during the pandemic when they were giving out food vouchers to people, they wanted to have the cryptocurrency used for the vouchers accepted at all of the grocery stores.

We already have stablecoins in Tether, DAI, USDC and others so the idea is not too foreign. Having a stablecoin using the Bitcoin Lightning Network that eventually transitions into the nation using bitcoin as their currency would be even better.

It looks like they plan on inflating the dollar to trash status, in so doing they would eventually lose Panama as a nation using their currency. And Panama would then prosper with a currency that doesn't purposefully lose value over time (they really get screwed by using the dollar, the US prints the money and spends it while Panama's currency loses value).

Lessons from my past shitcoin purchases:

Converting from Bitcoin to ETH:
If I had kept my ETH in BTC the value of my coins would be higher.

Converting ETH to DeFi shitcoins:
If I had kept my DeFi shitcoins in ETH the value of my coins would be higher.

So:

BTC > ETH > DeFi shitcoins

All Doge stuff is due to Elon Musk.

I sort of feel bad that when the Robinhood thing happened I told my family to get their money off of there. My sister had bought some Doge for some random reason. She was like "at least I made some money on that Doge thing, I bought it at 2 cents, now its worth 3 cents".

Not to toot my own horn but....

They didn't censor all of the Internet...so...there's that...

I certainly haven't spent 8000 hours on this. I hardly paid the whole thing any attention over the past year instead focusing on the likelihood that the government was full of lies and that industries like the cruise ship industry would collapse due to the whole "2 weeks to flatten the curve" being a lie. So I spent my time planning on buying a cruise ship at scrap prices.
Just like I didn't spend hours going through Bitcoin's source code even though I'm a software engineer but I know it is the solution to the horrible governments destroying government currency.
I would say it's more like 8000 hours of expertise in the government overstepping their power at every opportunity as opposed to any sort of knowledge of vaccines. I don't see how "this time they're looking out for us". If there is some evidence out there that the government has somehow suddenly become benevolent then I'm all ears.

This is what I was wondering early on in this whole thing. When they roll out the vaccines how do they choose between the elite who live and the lowly scum that die. When brainstorming this with a friend we wondered if there would be separate vaccines but that would likely require too much coordination and thus leakage of information.

It doesn't really make sense to have a deadly vaccine that is given to everyone who supports the state, leaving only those that don't trust the state. So, unless Bill Gates is a closet libertarian that's been playing the long game for decades it just wouldn't work. My only thought is that they assumed that everyone would get the vaccine and they didn't consider that their propaganda wouldn't be believed. The military is going door to door in some locations vaccinating people so it makes sense that they thought that they would vaccinate everyone.

Reading more into the actual mRNA drug it appears that it may just be profit driven. Get everyone to trust the mRNA medicine which actually does have the possibility of being a miracle drug which cures disease, cancer and anything else. This makes a lot more sense. A lot of very rich and powerful have invested heavily into this technology and they need it to work. How better to prove it works than to inoculate people against a disease that kills only .002% of people (while claiming it kills billions), ramp down the PCR test threshold and voila...success! A lot of rich people get a lot richer and they can move forward with their new drug with full public confidence.

Which would mean that it really doesn't matter if you take the vaccine or not. They just need people to believe that the vaccine is what stopped COVID.

The way the propaganda was framed early on I think they had planned on having the vaccines ready last year. But they ran into trouble so this whole "pandemic" has been drawn out soooo looonggg...It feels like chatting with one of those random scammers online and you know they're a scammer but they're not getting to the "send money to me part" so you have to go through their whole game to finally get to find out what their scam is (if you're bored enough to keep talking to them). You know it's a scam, they know it's a scam but it's just taking much longer than necessary. There's really no point in calling out their scam because they have plenty of experience in scamming that they'll have an answer for anything you throw at them. So you just wait and wait, playing along. Some people got tired of playing along, protesting and such but nobody really cares. They were ready for that...calling those people extremists or whichever.

Either way, I'm glad it's finally almost over. The end goal of getting the vaccine out there is happening so they'll make their money and we can all move on with our lives.

Eventually I'll need a car, and all I have is bitcoin.

So...the last time I needed to buy a car I was selling and the local guy I sell bitcoin to was doing the buying.

At least doing it directly I save the 3% fee.

I followed one of the source links in that article going down the rabbit hole of looking into Moderna's history and it certainly does not inspire confidence in their mRNA approach.
Going back to scientific articles in 2019 Moderna was still facing problems getting things working (they began taking on billions in investment dollars back in 2011). They had just begun human trials in 2017 for this completely new approach.

So a year before getting the green light to start producing millions of vaccines they were having problems with their delivery system. And somehow we're supposed to believe that they got it all cleared up in a year (after spending a decade trying to get it to work).

Don't get me wrong, I hope their novel approach works but I personally would not take it until at least a decade of testing.

If you think nobody has died from the vaccine or COVID after the vaccine you're really going to be shocked by the VAERS data (over 2300 deaths so far, while this Harvard study estimates only about 1% of people report to VAERS).

Or the nunnery where all 35 sisters were never in contact with anyone, they got the vaccine then 2 days later they had a COVID outbreak that killed 2 of the sisters with 28 of them testing positive.

I feel so strange, I paid $11k for my current car. Almost every car I buy is at least 10 years old...by buying a 10 year old car I get the same feeling up getting upgrades every time I buy my next car.

But with Tesla accepting bitcoin I want to buy a Tesla, but if it's a battery technology I know that it makes sense to buy a new car. So the Tesla I'd like to buy is over $100k. I can certainly afford it. But it's such a huge leap. The first house I bought was nice, had 3 acres of land and only cost me $85k. I just can't imagine buying a car that's more expensive than what I'd pay for a house (don't get me started on the prices of houses right now...).

Reminds me of the inflation rate throughout my career. When I started work in the late 90s the Social Security cutoff rate was just above my salary around $45k. My last job in the US the Social Security cutoff was just above my salary around $90k. Which means that throughout my whole career I really never truly got a raise. I just kept up with inflation (which is the point the Keynesians make about making workers think they're making more money).

Great write up, I feel like WO is maturing to the point of people putting in hours of time to make quality posts (ie. the custom comic strip based on someone's dream). This thread is a hidden gem of the Internet and I hope nobody else finds out about it.

I would add to your post that the first Bitcoin wallets included a button for mining. That was eventually split out into separate layers.

Definitely, it was a one day thing to knock out COVID so all was well. I was under the supervision of my friend who lives on Vitamin C research. She gave me her super fancy stuff that's supposed to absorb better or whichever. Either way, I went from my lungs feeling like when I was in high school after running a 100 meter sprint (after the slightest amount of activity) to being completely fine.

I think there is something to the Vitamin D thing though. They are finding people with higher melanin are dying at higher rates than those with lower melanin levels. Lower melanin level folks tend to process Vitamin D easier. Though, anecdotally my wife is melanin enhanced and she was just fine...just a little tired those days. Though she's more apt to walk around outside than me.

I read this morning that the reason the price jumped was a tweet by Musk saying "moon soon".

I was never vaccinated as a child. It wasn't until I was made to take them in my 30s to go to Iraq that I got my first vaccine.

I wouldn't really call the COVID jab a vaccine. Moderna wasn't calling it a vaccine when they developed it. They considered it gene therapy. But then they found out they can get out of liability if it's called a vaccine so...*poof*...it's a vaccine.

They just started testing this mRNA approach on humans in 2017 for flu.

While I think the mRNA therapy may be something that can help with future illnesses, I remember my mom telling me growing up "don't try any new medicine unless it's been out on the market for at least 10 years". Sound advice. Though the reality is that I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever taken any medicine.

You can all be the guinnea pigs for this new medical procedure but I'm fine focusing on a natural healthy body that can take on anything. I already had the COVID, it lasted about 2 days. The second day when I realised what it was I took Vitamin D and Zinc in the morning with 1g of Vitamin C every hour. It knocked it right out.

You mean one of the only nations in the world that didn't follow the NWO WHO recommendations?

No celebrity or politician (except those that came out against COVID) died from COVID.

Now they're dying from the vaccine. At least those that didn't fake getting the vaccine on camera.

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