Exactly. For a pool that has about a 30% chance at winning each block, it should be expected to win 8 in a row once every 15000 blocks or so on average.

Not really. I mean: it's already concerning that so few pools control such a large share of the hash power... but, that 1 of those dominant pools occasionally wins several co blocks in a row is just an expected statistical eventuality. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe it's just becoming less likely for non-virgins to bother responding to surveys?

Another really useful alternative is . Every Nostr npub automatically has a corresponding @npub.cash lightning address. No setup required (you don't even need an email address). You just login to npub.cash with your Nostr ID, and whatever lightning payments (e.g. zaps) that were sent to you will be waiting there for you in the form of Cashu tokens. It's trivial to copy/paste the Cashu tokens from npub.cash into a non-KYC wallet such as @cashu.me that will allow you to send your new cashu tokens via a NWC connection in your favorite Nostr app; or even directly via lightning. PS. I believe @cashu.me even has an option to automatically retrieve your Cashu tokens from npub.cash for you (alleviating the step to manually copy/paste); but, I haven't personally taken the time to play with that function yet.

Given Google's history, I wouldn't expect a revision for the sake of clarity... rather, I would simply expect arbitrary enforcement of a policy that has likely been intentionally worded to support broad interpretation.

Cool! I'll take a look and get back to you to let you know what I think. In the meantime, I wanted to mention that my comment about Bitcoin fixes this wasn't in regard to fixing U.S. debt. It was in regard to providing a viable alternative for the would-be creditors of U.S. debt. (also, I mistakenly said 'debtors' in that comment when I should have said 'creditors'. oops).

Yep. Pretty much. As it is, debtors are already not particularly happy about the melting ice-cubes that are U.S. dollars, treasuries, etc. There just haven't been many better alternatives. Of course, Bitcoin has the potential to fix this (or break it - depending on your perspective). 😄 One clarification: the rate that represents the amount of money that is printed each year to pay for the additional spending not covered by the taxes raised has been more like 8% (sometimes more; sometimes less) for at least half a century (that's as for back as the Fed chart I found goes). The 2% 'inflation' target represents this 8% after accounting for technological deflation of consumables. That is, advances in technology cause consumer products to get like 5-6% less expensive in real terms every year (on average); but when you add 8% due to monetary expansion, the result is a 2-3% higher nominal price tag. Conversely, the price inflation rate of harder assets that don't really benefit as much from technological advances - like gold, real estate, etc - tend to track the 8% monetary expansion rate much more closely in the long run

Better yet: memorize your seed AND keep a secured hard copy just in case.

I think the average person is entirely capable of learning self-custody - even multi-sig - quite easily. The average person is just not really interested in learning anything on the fly with real stakes on the line. I agree that this is not the general public's fault. This is on the bitcoin community in general (the social influencers in particular) for not more strongly pushing the general public in the direction of learning in a risk-free Testnet environment.