Of course it wouldn’t work. That’s the whole point. But I say we just ship them there whether they want to go or not.

Well that sucks.

Don’t know how you did that but thanks

Sorry I meant second from top (edited now).

What’s second one from top on 30?

In high school in the '90s we were pretty close. It was a handful of places but not that many, basically anywhere we could get away with sitting for hours nursing a coffee or iced tea. If they had pinball, big bonus. Maybe not every day, but certainly many days in the week.

No we’d come up with something else. We need to gene edit everyone to edit out the tribalism gene and replace it with a “we’re all in this together” gene.

Yeah we had our sources too ;-)

If I were a teenager again, I’d be headed straight to all the grocery stores in town.

All I’m saying that is if someone hacks the banks computer and takes the money you will get it back. Same if someone steals your credit card and makes a bunch of fraudulent transactions or the bank goes out of business. If someone does any of those things with crypto (which happens distressingly often), your money is gone.

Finally Europe pulls its finger out

Just bring in some eagles to take care of the mongooses.

Have you heard of a bank? That’s where non criminals tend to keep their money.

This is 2 week deadline #4 or #5 for Russia to end the war now? I’m losing track.

It depends greatly on how it’s stored. Most people just keep it in an exchange, which are robbed fairly often. Which wouldn’t be a problem with real cash as there are laws in place to protect you. With crypto you have no recourse.

The TV and stereo aren’t amazing for that time. I had better in my teens and twenties just from my restaurant jobs.

I had that TV back in the day. It was an amazing TV for it’s time.

It’s accepted almost no where. And the list of issues go on. Crypto is easily stolen, very difficult to secure. Difficult to use for most people. Proof of work crypto is still in the majority and wastes absurd amounts of energy, etc. But the biggest issue is that it doesn’t solve any problems that were not solved long ago unless you are conducting criminal activity (which I do have to acknowledge as it’s one stand out use case).

A banknote is accepted as a means of exchange, ie a currency in a way that bitcoin and other crypto coins are not and cannot ever be due to the fees and delays in the system, not to mention the absurd volatility or lack of liquidity in the smaller coins.

I think it’s because, at least in the case of bitcoin, it has no practical real world use other than hoarding like beanie babies, and therefore no real value. As a currency it’s entirely useless.

I have a bit more sympathy for ETH, maybe someday DeFi will produce something truly useful enough to justify the money in crypto, but it hasn’t so far.