Maybe you should add the volume-weighted avg to that graph too, the steep price rise is due to maybe one or few small outliers, right? form your other post: Price (volume-weighted avg / median): 1 BTC = 176.9474 / 139.2758 XMR 1 XMR = 0.00565140 / 0.00718000 BTC (avg weights larger offers more heavily; median is the middle offer rate, less affected by outliers)

That would be the highest honor. Removing the anti-establishment from the establishment means giving up on trying to assimilate it. A parallel, circular and if needed dark economy must be the goal. Eff them banks and their political lackeys. “Ooh, the Clarity Act will line our pockets”; eff them too. All regulation brings is heavier and tighter chains. Next we end every post with: "And grant us this day our daily surveillance, dear Overlord in your ivory tower. Amen"

Just published my first lil JavaScript Library. What, why and how it came about and what @anhdres has to do with it, read here: https://ascend-digital.net/blog/en/if-nobody-does-it-diy-pdf-encrypt-lib/ #javascript #library #encryption #pdf #password #monerokon

Everyone is talking about the European Parliament’s extension of the “Chat Control” law, but the war is being fought on other fronts as well. I’m reporting from the German front, where the government has NOTHING more important to do than to water down the Freedom of Information Act, which allows citizens to hold the state accountable, in order to effectively undermine and abolish it. #chatcontrol #privacy #transparency #government #blog #eu #germany #ifg https://ascend-digital.net/blog/en/how-democracy-abolishes-itself/ Cheers, Alexander

Love it, pal. That’s exactly the point, or rather, those are exactly the points! Two of them, to be precise: participation and scale! Democracy only works if everyone actually exercises their right and duty to participate. That’s the first point I take from your answer; the other is “clubs, families, etc.” That is scale. Direct democracy works wonderfully on a small scale, but with 100 million people in a country, and everyone expected to participate in the discussion leading to a decision, now that’s difficult. On a large scale, we won’t be able to avoid representation. But career politicians are the death of democracy! Those who represent the people should of course receive compensation for lost income, but it must be TRANSPARENT AND COME SOLELY FROM THE SOVEREIGN, i.e. the people. Greed and the lobbying that goes hand in hand with it are the true enemies of democracy. A kind of continued pay during leave of absence, paid for by the state, with the amount of the allowances determined by voters based on performance. Well, what do you think politicians could accomplish in four years under such a system?

great episode, to answer you question where arctic mine got the shirt from, 😉 he received it as a gift the night before. https://ascend-digital.net/blog/en/monero-tail-emission-day/

https://ascend-digital.net/blog/en/us-independence-250-years Happy Independence Day, the best thing about it might be the BBQ. Anything else is basically a lie, an illusion at best. Peace out!

Love your text, lass! How they all fixate on the marriage example - funny, given that the topic imho is the social contract based on natural law in general. What these wannabe-libertarians (they all ultimately come back into the protective fold of society) fail to grasp is that humans are inherently social beings and ultimately depend on living together in community. In their moments of supposed omnipotence they all shout 'leave me alone, I can do without you'. Yet even Ayn Rand drew social welfare benefits at the end of her productive life. Well, how about that. If you REALLY want to leave the oh so oppressive socialist society, then effing go ahead, damn it - but please don't come back either! Stay in Galt's Gulch! But because a social community is NOT made up of monsters or parasites, it failed to truly barricade the entrance/exit to your Morlock valley. Even though the society doesn't need you, they know that you need them, and will therefore always remain open even to the biggest douchebags. Cheers all!

always up fo' a good action movie and this one even has a good story 😄 the hero does not shoot back just keeps going.