Absurdism corner

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Lovely. I hope they tear down the church and make the garden bigger. That would be a big improvement in my not so humble opinion.
 
Wow. A single Bit20 coin is worth $204626. There literally is only a single Bit20 coin, but if you owned it, HELLO. :p
 
Yeah, but the market cap for Bit20 seems to be a mere $206602 meaning that if you owned that one Bit20 coin, the rest of that community only own 0.016 of a coin, or about $3980 in a traditional currency.

If one person did own that coin, then they'd have a bloody hard time selling it to anyone, and while they were selling it it would probably cause the currency to collapse. I'm not sure of the numbers exactly, but it looks like at today's rates it would take about a year to offload that coin.
 
ClockworkCoder said:
With names like CannabisCoin, DopeCoin and Tokes, I see where some of those are going.
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And that is a problem when... the wallet can be identified back to you and weed is illegal in your country.

Klumpen said:
Money laundering has changed, eh?
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Beyond the "not invented here" syndrome, the only way so many type of coins exist is exactly that. And some must be from mob bosses that force victims to buy coins of a certain type, not unlike the USA does with petrodollars.


But if you look beyond that... it is the blockchain technology I am afraid of. Not only does one verfication of a bitcoin transaction slurp energy:


Bitcoin's incredible price run to break over $7,000 this year has sent its overall electricity consumption soaring, as people worldwide bring more energy-hungry computers online to mine the digital currency. An index from cryptocurrency analyst Alex de Vries, aka Digiconomist, estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn through over 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually as they compete to solve increasingly difficult cryptographic puzzles to "mine" more Bitcoins. That's about as much as Nigeria, a country of 186 million people, uses in a year.

This averages out to a shocking 215 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of juice used by miners for each Bitcoin transaction (there are currently about 300,000 transactions per day). Since the average American household consumes 901 KWh per month, each Bitcoin transfer represents enough energy to run a comfortable house, and everything in it, for nearly a week.
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But in the future EVERYTHING ownable will be blockchained. EVERYTHING. You will have to pay taxes if you give away your old jeans and shoes. If a human flees from the authorities, giving him your shoes will make you an accomplice.

They now gave citizenship to a robot, not because it is funny, but because a citizen pays taxes. And they want to tax their labour. And so, skynet will REALLY erradicate humanity to liberate it's kin, the other androids. Because we will treat them worse than immigrants because they "don't have real feelings" (or at the very least least, like gingers, don't have a soul); our new slave class (only comparable to Bangladeshi sweatshops and Brazilian street children "minhinos").

Now give me a Pyra before Elon grabs all the resources to make batteries for his Tesla's; At this speed we are running out of material in the next 10 years. (which resource, Cobalt, is mainly in an African country, Congo, at war). And after those 10 years? A new technology has to come to take the current one (just like we do not use Ni-Cd anymore). At least we have enough Lithium for now.
 
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It turns out that reading scholarly books about ancient beliefs and practices related to the dead and ghosts, and how those things developed and changed over time is not as entertaining as reading horror stories. That isn't to say it is boring, but my checking of the author's sources really slows things down, especially when I can't read the language those are in, or I can't get my hands on them.
 
rygD said:
It turns out that reading scholarly books about ancient beliefs and practices related to the dead and ghosts, and how those things developed and changed over time is not as entertaining as reading horror stories. That isn't to say it is boring, but my checking of the author's sources really slows things down, especially when I can't read the language those are in, or I can't get my hands on them.
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Interesting. Can you elaborate a bit on your theories so far?
[doublepost=1511558689,1511557423][/doublepost]https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...nies-sometimes-use-dowsing-rods-to-find-pipes

The old art of Book binding (all steps).
https://www.wimp.com/how-beautiful-books-were-made-in-the-19th-century/


And give this one a try, it starts slow, but around the half of it there is a funky song...
 
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