Not for you. And certainly not for the staff working in the shop.

Currently, you’re bartering with copious amounts of copium.

… And if the systems you actually interact with go down, you can get fucked as well.

If you want to buy food with Monero and the payment processor for the local shop doesn’t work, even if it’s a local machine sitting in the back office, you still can’t buy anything.

Bitcoin lightning is absolutely hilarious. Your solution to Bitcoins problems is - not using Bitcoin. Wow, galaxy brain move.

The energy cost to maintain the base chain is <1% of global energy use, mostly from renewables

Yeah, that’s bullshit. First of all, 1% of energy use for a network that serves a few million transactions per day is really bad. A single 1kW node in Visa’s datacenter churns through that in an hour.

Second, it’s not renewables. It’s everything they can get for cheap. And that’s often enough coal, gas, oil. Also, they’re driving up power demand as a whole, which means fossil energy is actually needed longer.

Most people (public and private) never go beyond disapproval, though.

You’ll hear people complain about this and that, but never even looking for an alternative.

“Self-inflicted”. If you don’t comply, we’ll break your computer, and that’s your fault. Why did you make us do that???

Then what else could you possibly mean?

Ok, so you’re completely bonkers.

So you want people to be able to drive several tons of literal murder machines without any form of registration?

more money.

…soooo someone paid money? Which would fall under the regulation.

For a supposed empath you act remarkably similar to an ahole.

You’re describing a problem that literally does not exist in the EU to justify that a law in the EU is wrong. That’s not very smart.

I wouldn’t argue for tougher gun laws in Germany because you guys keep getting your children shot either.

How do you think they’re paying for art?

So, because the US can’t get its shit together and you can’t get medical help for neither cancer nor psychological issues, the EU - with pretty good universal healthcare - should allow cash payments without limit?

You have to register a car anyway. Where exactly is the problem?

The 500€ bill was removed from circulation because it was used almost exclusively for corruption and illegal trade.

Or, and that’s gonna sound like a crazy theory - they just think, they can make money off of whatever they’re building.

Look at the track record of Zuckerberg. He’s not a visionary, he just has visions. He’s a manchild who never heard no or criticism. There is no convoluted long term plan. There are just erratic pipedreams that are sold as grand projects for marketing reasons.

It’s a tool to oppress dissent.

Realistically, you can’t enforce the law, but if you find an anonymous account for anything on someone’s phone or laptop, you can easily arrest or fine them.