They already do this in NZ, in fact it happened to me last year. Turns out we hadn't been paying our regional council tax (they had been sending our tax invoices to an address that was 10 years old) so the council got in touch with our bank and just took it from our account... Now we are on a bitcoin standard, we keep *very* little cash in our account for that very reason.

Yep the Bitaxe is configured to solo mine by default. If you want a steady trickle of a few sats (and I mean a trickle - this is not a money maker) you need to point it to eg. Braiins or another mining pool. Plenty of resources out there on how to configure.

No, your maths is right. Median house price is ca. $440k. So only 3.3 kg of 24k gold, vs 7.2 kg in 1929 (according to ChatGPT)…

OMFG this is hilarious...

Holy shit that’s impressive

The Shitcoiner-in-Chief…

And that's the way it should be - don't live your life online...

They really missed a trick by not colouring it orange.

He means Banksy… 😊

Oh my…

Oo great I have got a buttload of dry powder just in case…

Lemme guess - you're the one in the bright orange t-shirt.

My god, Trump really is a world-class cunt.

170% I used to be able to swim 125m (5 laps of a 25m pool) underwater. No chance of that now...

I remember watching the film Minority Report (2002) and there's a scene where Tom Cruise uses a wireless earpiece kind of like the airpods. I remember thinking "well that's just total fantasy, no-one is ever going to bring out a device that small". Only took them 14 years...