IANAL, but 3rd party payment gateways cannot legally accept anonymous electronic payments for the merchants in the EU. So even the projects like Taler, trying to meet the regulators and law enforcement half way, are probably de-facto illegal to use.

https://anti-money-laundering.eu/travel-rule/

The only way to ensure the financial sovereignty is to separate the money from the state.

I’ve noticed over the years, that the british legislators seem to be overly obsessed about porn.

Obligatory Dan Bull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTeENEQkBKE

government funded, yet independent

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Slovakia and hungary. Not sure how poland is doing these days, but there was an infamous news segment a few years ago that got international attention, because it was basically 5 minutes of simping for Andrzej Duda. Right before the elections.

I recognize the quality of work people in these institutions achieve. Not everything they put out is a political order, they still do decent journalism. It’s just that every now and then, you need to be aware of who controlls them. About what they say, or most importantly, what they don’t say when it comes to reporting on certain topics.

It might seem nice to have a funcioning “public” media, but all I see is a ticking time bomb, waiting for one bad election…

There doesn’t seem to be technical vision behind the proposal yet.

Jesus Christ, you’ve just savagely described the europe in a nutshell 😕

Could Europe build a public-service social media model, inspired by public broadcasting

Sure. The government owned broadcasting is working great… not being abused at all. #JustEasternEuropeThings

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Yes. If you can’t fight the death of the www, embrace it! Help making it happen!

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Last time I tried an electric, there was a 0.5s lag between me stepping on the pedal and motor starting to spin. I got used to it pretty quick, but on that first intersection I did not feel especially in controll of the whole situation.

And I think it’s about time we do something about it!

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Forgot to switch from personal to work account? :D

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I record all my phone calls. It allows me to pretend not to forget all the names, dates, places and other important details we just talked about with the other person as soon as the call ends.

This post has less upvotes in the politics community, where it belongs, than here. Why?

A favor is just a form of debt, and debt is money. It does not matter whether it’s written down on paper, or just remembered.

Wait. Bitpay is still around? That was the company Valve has used before. It was the de-facto standard for every eshop accepting bitcoin. Until they decided to implement identity checks, and only support payment from wallets implementing certain protobuf-based payment protocol. Which made them slide into obscurity pretty fast.

It was the support cost as far as I remember. Way too many people were too confused about how Bitcoin works.

Volatility was not the concern, at least for Valve. They’ve utilized a payment gateway that just swapped the BTC to USD right away. Which was still a single point of failure, but in case of bitcoin, the company switching a payment gateway does not affect the UX for the customer as much.

Next up: Un-inventing fire!

It is a buerocratic nightmare, but filthy bolsheviks has zero rights to criticize it.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Capitalism, is in fact, Fascism, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Government with Benefits.