[+] -18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Imo it has nothing to do with head of state, no one living abroad permanently should vote in their home country. I get the reason, they're citizens and one of the fundamental right that comes with that is the right to vote, but it makes no sense. People should vote where they live and where their vote directly affects their them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    No it doesn't. The government has nothing to do with the money supply (as long as the CB is independent). Central banks create currency, commercial banks borrow from the central bank and create by far the largest part of money supply by giving loans.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    You're clearly still in the honeymoon phase, so I won't argue further. I know how Bitcoin works and all my points stand. In any case, this thread isn't about crypto, but about banking. As the other person noted, having credit cards in your home is obviously not the same as BTC keys..

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I'm a bit torn on Bitcoin. I used to think the same as you, but now it seems to me that Bitcoin is way too easy to control. State actors could quite easily acquire enough hash power to take over the network, mining is too concentrated already. I think Monero is much more true to the original idea of Bitcoin, probably also one of the reasons it's always branded as a coin for criminals, to prevent people from looking into it.

    It's also, unfortunately, just not that practical. Most people don't want to be their own bank. Your "unless you fuck up" is not quite true, what do you do if someone breaks into your house and threatens to shoot you if you don't hand over your keys? That's the true purpose of a bank, outsourced security.

    While crypto is cool, it's not required to solve this, full-reserve banking would be sufficient.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 week ago (16 children)

    Banks are the largest mafia on the planet. They literally have a license to print money. Not even the government can do this. When things go south, they are bailed out with our money. Even after the worst crisis, they have a ridiculously low capital requirement of 2.5%.

    Never expect criminal scum to just accept one of their sources of income being taken away.

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    The difference between forgejo and codeberg.org is clear. Forgejo is the software and codeberg is the entity that owns it, provides the domain name, etc. and also hosts a public forgejo instance at codeberg.org.

    Lately, I've seen that there is also code.forgejo.org, which I assume is run by the same people. Why are there two public instances run by the same organisation? Are users supposed to migrate from one to the other? I see that code.forgejo.org currently has version 11.0 deployed which afaik is not released yet, so is that instance just for testing purposes?

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