They do with the many diseases they carry.

Nope, still a puzzle says the business owner. We just have no idea what could be doing this.

Dude this is seriously cool as fuck. Valves contributions are priceless to the future of Arch and the rest of the Linux ecosystem.

alsmot like its all smoke and mirrors and they didn’t actually care who won, at the time. Now I think they get it but they did drop the ball, almost did this time trying to push biden.

You can still get the disc drive for it though. I mean, it is fucked up its sold separately but it isn’t just no disc drive availability at all.

Well, for now it is. Latency is also a big issue

Lease and rent, or piracy.

Wait are you talking about without the disc drive or even with it?

Anything drug related.

If you grow a few mushrooms they can charge you with manufacture and give you like 10 to 20 years.

But all this is assuming they want to convert it into another currency at all, I was thinking why not just use it in that form for international trade although some of the other comments have explained the dollar amount equivalent wouldn’t be able to exist right now due to mining limits.

But why not use a combination then of crypto, precious metals, and just straight up raw currency. I mean if chinas bank doesn’t want to accept it they could just ship a container with money in it directly to them right?

I mean criminal enterprises move BILLIONS all the time without banks so I don’t see how its so hard for two of the larger nations in the world.

Edit: I’m guessing the conversion into the Yuan would betheissue with sending them straight up cash huh?

See this was what I was really wondering. Some cryptp like Dogecoin and Monero have unlimited amounts that can be mined and while certainly not practical in my mind I was 100% thinking why not just mine a fuck ton of Doge or something and have it agreed upon that that is the international trade money.

I do see how converting it into a fiat currency would be problematic though but in that case wouldn’t gold or silver also he able to be utilized?

The points do make sense. But I mean at that point why not just use the crypto solely for international trade with other parties going the same thing?

Especially using the one that can’t be traced or tied back to any entity (Monero)

At that point it seems it would be trivial to convert into cash but also why would you have to if you could just use it between countries like that.

I mean I know people hatecrypto here but even they have to admit it seems like a better idea than getting no money through at all.

Lol well this depends on the crypto used and its hard to think that bank fees of any kind would be better than to just pay the fee to speed the transaction up.

Also, presumably they would use dummy wallets and not send amounts from their cold wallet with the full amount on it.

Idk, just seems like they deserve the trouble at this point if they can’t utilize the ways around it.

Not flexing. Its a way to make decentralized payments.

Why would they not utilize it more? I saw that Russia said they would and then they just keep talking about banks not accepting the cash.

Why would they not just use cryptpcurrency at this point?

Like, there is a solution right there. I don’t support either of their governments btw but I mean come on, the answer is right there

Eh, I would think that if they’re under fire for being a monopoly any non monopolistic actions like funding their rivals will be pretty well received.

Sounds too European for the “land of the free”

Shit, Google would probably offer a private jet fuck an RV.

Its almost as if even the better party of the two still has its own agenda that its trying to fulfill.

One that isn’t necessarily in our best interests.

Of course there is a worse side of the coin but you gotta love how any time it is something that really fucks the people good (especially about privacy) they all suddenly magically agree and can pass it in moments.

The fact that even the most progressive one out of the bunch who’s supposed to be the way forward and should’ve had that nomination last time even voted yes on it should jolt everyone awake. But it will not.

We were warned about a two party system.

Sure, a couple pounds or something.

5+ or 10+ and that’s their life on the line to protect. If they lose that, its over. Back to zero.

For someone like that that would be their entire life savings/work gone in seconds. You lose that product and can’t serve you lose your clientele. Forever.

Can’t buy groceries with no money. Your kids go hungry or miss school because you cant pay your car note and you get the cops at your door. Then you got some real problems.

This is assuming of course that whoever robs you doesn’t also have a gun and uses it immediately and kill your ass.

Depending on the situation, could be a lot more loss than you’re thinking.

I think the dumbest part of this would be someone in that line of work inviting people in or having them show up to their house in the first place. Super fucking stupid. If someone knows you have something that makes a lot of money they will try and take it from you eventually.

But idk I’m just some guy who watches crime shows.