And the influencers are out in force, capitalizing on those losing life savings for their own personal gain. Kudos to those of you using your platform to actually help people.

I agree. And I don't think people are asking for it, per se, but they sure are loving consuming it. As a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult and have freedom at the expense of responsibility. I yearned to escape control, even if it meant full accountability. And its been everything I hoped it would be. And I want more of it, not less. The masses that consume this stuff are akin to the Hebrews selling themselves into slavery, only this famine was intentionally created by the state for this very purpose.

One of my children going through the same, basically living on my couch and needing help for some basic movements. Its a tough recovery, amigo. Grumbling is very merited.

Holy crap!

Some optimism: this will further incentivize more and more implementations of the protocol. It needs to be like Linux - so many implementations that it makes you question "why".

So you believe these flock cameras to be an effective deterrent to crime? If so, do you have any evidence to support this?

I hear you. But that's not what people think of when they read "alternative to flock". You're asking a bigger question. One that flock doesn't even really address any better than a neighborhood watch does. The data flock gives is extremely cherry-picked and manipulated. Consider the scale of their rollout. If it was really effective at all, you'd be seeing crime dropping throughout all participating jurisdictions. But we don't.. I haven't seen one ounce of data that starts to suggest any kind of efficacy. So, you see, flock is a farce. It is surveillance masked as crime prevention. It's up there with "for the children". So there is no viable alternative. It was never about crime.

There is no "viable" alternative to mass surveillance. This is a scourge that needs to be excised from "public safety".

Lol. They can *try* to enforce it...

I don't get concerned by this, at all. It paves the way for more amateur miners and home miners, both furthering decentralization. Then, the AI road ahead of us is not paved with giant warehouses of compute. It's composed of smarter MoE models that can run on consumer grade hardware. Costs and security incentives guarantee this. This means these mining corps will either pivot back or die. Either way, bitcoin continues on.

Realizing how much I write and speak like an LLM. To be fair, though, I was here first.

Supposedly origin of the term "computer worm". The tech still operates on phones, but its pretty close to where we're headed. Check it out.

Perfect response! We will nit get there in a straight line. Bitcoiners forget the old adage that the masses will not choose bitcoin, but that it will be forced upon them. This pressure isn't just from economic and legal pressures, but institutional. Its a natural part of the process. This is why we should cheer it on. Not because we went institutions to take it over, but because it means have passed another major milestone. But then, rationality has never paid well for the influencers.