That idea of a 5% discount doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
Something tells me the article doesn't understand the way Bitcoin works. A transaction takes 10 minutes to clear on-chain, unless you're using the lightning network, and the lightning network is fucking terrible, especially for high-value transactions like this. Because you can be rug-pulled. That and you can't send high-value transactions on a lightning network because every link in the chain has to have the proper amount of liquidity to make that transaction occur.
True, a place like Iran could keep it untraceable, although they would have to take some extra care in order to do so. But for your average person that's not being looked at by a nation state, it is much easier to remain untraceable.
Oh, if they demanded Monero, people would figure out how to get it.
Honestly, the biggest mistake they've made here is that they're not demanding Monero instead.
It takes 10 minutes to get a single confirmation, but I'm assuming that it takes more than 10 minutes for a ship to transit this waterway, so it wouldn't matter.
Correct. Monero would be untraceable.
Well, thankfully, since on peer tube, your video is shared between all the peers currently watching. If your video gets super popular, your connection isn't actually hammered all that badly due to the fact that other peers are also supplying bits of the video for people.
As for the storage though, that's a very good point.
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Yeah, it's pretty well hidden. I wasn't aware of it for the longest time either, and just happened to stumble across it myself.
Oneplus nord n200 the device was released in 2021, but I purchased it brand new in the box in 2023. So I've had it for three years, although it's a five-year-old device.