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When you pay with crypto you get a price in crypto and a time to pay it. Is not a random cost you know how much you have to pay


The dollar value of that crypto price is variable. Even if the price in crypto constantly updates, the cost to you in dollars is always in flux. For no discernible reason a cryptocoin can fluctuate in value.

Today one coin will buy a coffee while tomorrow one coin will buy a PS5. There's no incentive to transact with crypto if there's any assumption the value of that crypto will go up tomorrow.

For a seller they can get wiped out if they accepted payment for coffee in crypto and then the value of that coin tanks.

Knowing the crypto price is immaterial. You can never know what the value of the item will be. It's like paying for everything with lottery tickets.


Nevermind that most crypto systems are purposely deflating, because the whole point is to reward the people who were there first. So ANY purchase of coffee with crypto is self defeating. Your money is ALWAYS more valuable tomorrow. Actually smart people have known for a hundred years that's a stupid way to run an economy and people respond to it by hoarding and it basically eliminates economic activity from happening at all.


Yeah there this this problem where sellers want to acquire appreciating money and buyers want to dispose of depreciating money. So, the goal is to somehow balance it out so that you have money that both seller and buyer want to use. The rule of thumb is 2% inflation. Of course you might argue that 0% inflation is better and -2% as a demurrage/negative interest is better because this means prices stay the same and savings are not devalued.


Please educate yourself on a topic before pretending you know how it works.

Ethereum is deflationary ONLY if there's high economic activity. If there's lack of activity then it's inflationary. You can think of it as self regulated easing and tightening without the need for a central authority like the FED.

That said, you can also use a stablecoin to make payments.


Any purchase of anything for any reason is self-defeating by this logic, due to the opportunity cost of forgoing investment.


I'm so sorry this happened to you this is why is important to not have a single point of failure. Have domain name in X company, hosting in another, etc.

That way if one turns crazy there's More hope


Sounds like you need a guard dog


Your first responsibility is to protect your children from external threats, if you give them all the privacy in the world you won't be able to do that, so you need to somehow know what they're doing which means either an internet blocker or little privacy, both of which I'm fine with.

For kids as small as yours the internet would not even be a choice if they were my kids


Because work is a means towards an end not the end itself.

Pretty much everything in this life is a means towards the end.

We were created to know and love God which is our ultimate end that will satisfy all our desires. Without him you will always feel something is missing.


Meat is good for you


It is not good for the planet.


None of those things are in the best interests of the people involved. Homosexuals who engage in same sex activity are more propense to addictions and self harming behaviour, children of divorced couples do far worse than of couples that remained married. Abortion is killing your own child, and child abuse is reprehensible but it happens at any major institution religious or not, if you don't believe me look up how many kids are sexually harrased at secular high schools or worse see how many secular people want to talk to middle schoolers about sex


>None of those things are in the best interests of the people involved. Homosexuals who engage in same sex activity are more propense to addictions and self harming behaviour, ...

So you're saying being a homosexual is not in one's self-interest. As if it's somehow inherently bad.

Did it ever occur to you that the supposed propensity to addiction and self-harming behavior may stem from the fact society's historically been less than accepting of homosexuality, owing in no small part to religion?


So if every religion is a cult then why many mainstream denominations are easy to leave?

You're making it harder for people to actually share how to escape an actual cult by calling every religion a cult


You should look at sexual abuse at public schools if you're interested in the topic


If you need foreign gas to keep people warm during the winter you're not doing ok


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