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Just like anything else, it's worth what people are willing to pay for it vs what people are willing to buy it for.

Currently bitcoin is just a digital commodity with a finite supply which makes it a good store of value if people continue to use it.

The thing is, there's nothing preventing bitcoin from tanking and becoming essentially worthless besides people buying it because the price is low.

If in a hypothetical future the bitcoin price becomes stable then it will become a valuable commodity. It's value is wholly derived from it's users and nothing else.

It's not very convinent for governments or large institutions to hold it in it's current form since it's too easy to steal without leaving a trace. For government use there is going to be needed some development to allow for government or Central banks to have complete control over the currency without giving that control away which I think might be possible. In that case settling international transactions in bitcoin as opposed to the dollar for BRICS countries might be an option which doesn't use the US dollar.

All the other uses IMO are pretty much fluff such as paying in bitcoin.

If you're a land mammal reading this you're a land based fish

One alternative is that it only applies to companies that are listed as gatekeepers in the EU make it only hit megacorps

Came to upvote this

Why work on something quietly when you can work on it loudly?

That sounds like an article that starts with a heading "What is flossing?" and ends with "We don't know because it's private"

It's a flatpak://url that opens the app store on the computer where you do a one click install. So technically it's two clicks.

I think he's referencing the flathub install button where you can just hit install.

Snap is not all bad if you're on a Ubuntu based distro, I just don't like the way it's pushed and that it comes from Ubuntu mostly. Startup time is a major issue for me also, but all in all it works.

I'm still sitting on the fence, heavily prefer flatpak but when Ubuntu is going to package nvidia drivers in a snap it's a thing I'm up for trying.

My understanding is that if I'm on Ubuntu and the snap uses the same underlying Ubuntu version as my distro it should be fast but I haven't seen it.

What the actual fuck. Just redistribute the money like a normal person instead of creating subsidies for things with negative externalities.

I had this issue for a while but about a decade ago I stumbled upon someone who said "every thing should have it's own home, and you put that thing where it lives" and it becomes somehow a lot easier.

Living with other people throws a spanner in the works but at least the thing is there much more often.

Every year is the year of the Linux desktop