That’s more inability than unwillingness.

The whole point of protesting is visibility. The whole point of burglary is invisibility.

Were the actual people who performed the action caught?

Thomas the Tank Engine had bricked himself into a tunnel.

Not a good policy for police to choose what laws to enforce.

It is a fine principle to uphold the law. In this particular case it is the law that’s an ass, not the enforcement.

I put alternative medicine on the far left with the hippies rather than the far right.

It’s pretty similar to the Hunter Biden “conspiracies”.

See. The left also believe in conspiracy theories.

LEGO: No guns

STAR WARS: These are blasters

LEGO: OK. Give us the money.

In an email sent after Gates went to have dinner with Epstein in his Manhattan mansion he wrote A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnishambles

Originally I thought Murdoch was the inspiration for the villian in Tomorrow Never Dies, but that was a different billionaire media mogul (and father of Ghislaine Maxwell).

I’ve billed a client for thinking about their problem while commuting on a train. I don’t see much difference.

Ballpark calculations

Winning a block gets you 3.125 BTC + approx. 0.06BTC in fees (2%). $6000 in transactions fees with 4000 transactions per block = $1.50 per transaction.

When I first looked at Bitcoin it was around $10/BTC and electricity to mine (on a cpu) was about the same.

The people who make money mining bitcoin have a combination of very cheap electricity and/or next generation asic hardware.

mining has not compensated for mining for a long time.

Fees are less than 2%

The average commission payment is now 1.5 bitcoins. almost half of the reward

I think you have the wrong units. The average fee is 1.5 USD.

And it will pay off only in 1.7 years

This is quite quick. Last time I looked the it was around 3 years. Most of the cost comes from buying the hardware.

The assumption that bitcoin is only used by criminals is much less accurate.

It came from here but this source has more detail.

Because they can’t run out of money, central banks can be the largest buyer and seller over the short term.

But there is no economic rule that demands those entities exist. For example, from 1863 to 1913 the US had almost no use for a central bank.

Note that I’m very far from suggesting the world’s economy should run on bitcoin. Just that central banks are not as essential as they are made out to be. They are used as much to cause inflation as they are to control it.

I copied that from Wikipedia which got their reference from through NY times.

For specific details, this is probably a better source https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/reports/the-illicit-crypto-ecosystem-report-2022