The ledger being public doesn’t prevent illicit use, like darknet markets. They use mixers or onion routed payments.

In the context of this thread, the centralized exchange is Taler Operations AG.

Taler offers anonymity for consumers but not for merchants. Every transaction everywhere - including Taler - has a sender and receiver.

Sorry if this is rude, but you are spreading misinformation, not knowledge.

I’m not condemning Bitcoin. I prefer to make falsifiable claims over unfalsifiable claims. Which claim(s) are incorrect?

Bitcoin allows the seller to evade taxes, lacks a central exchange, and has no distinction between Merchants and Consumers.

Both employer related:

• no biometrics
• birthday not for sale

You forgot to strawmanify the second to last sentence - it should be “we each voted for a good candidate”.

I want to believe you’re right. But everything else so far has just been a gradually applied multiplier on human labor, not a full replacement. Instead of a sudden tipping point, we’d watch each other become destitute one by one, perpetually looking out for only ourselves.

It would be cool to see an arrow with a pig emoji pointing at police out of uniform.

Small farmers are basically gone. Main Street is abandoned. They don’t own the land they live on either. Their way of life is dying. They’ve got plenty of real stuff to rage about - the control is telling them it’s because of immigrants and not because of the rich.

I was surprised it was so low! Doesn’t Australia have a lot of open sunny area?

Edit: it’s not low, they’re #1 per capita

This is like defending early flying machines with flapping wings.

ITT: “Everyone downvoting this hilarious meme must be really mad!”

All cops are extramarital offspring because they’re sons of bitches and you can’t marry a dog.

nor is any extreme ideology. Social direct democracy

Whoah hold it right there, that’s democratic extremism! You’re taking away all the representatives of bribery and extortion. Best to leave a few weak points, for balance.

communist leaders

Found the problem

Not our recent predecessors, they had communal social structures.

Ourcraft

Switch to disk 5 to continue.

“You should smile more!”

And likewise, oligarchy calling itself communism smells just as rancid.

It’s not insane! 3D printing is making huge strides. You were just a little ahead of your time.

If we can run Doom on 16 billion crabs, then you can carve a 3D printer.