Where is the proof of that?

What do you mean 'Japan has proven China rare earths are already falling apart'? What is this incoherent baseless nonsense? Can you explain? Silence.

You are just grasping at straws while I am simply stating the reality now faced. I am not an apologist for US militaristic imperialism- you are.

USA must now do precisely as China asks ~ or face the consequences. China has already BLOCKED supply of RARE EARTHS to the US military and will maintain that block leaving the US military incapable of any sustained military aggression for the foreseeable future.

US Imperialism is effectively finished- without a single shot fired. Sun Tzu would approve.

China won the trade war and achieved global domination over strategic supply chains leaving the USA a helpless headless chicken beholden to the CCP. Government and its strategic development of a nations power projection capacity is a significant factor in the wealth of nations.

Again in New Zealand we have similar problems. Immigration has been used as a cheap form of economic stimulus by politicians and their corporate sponsors who want cheap labour and increased consumer demand but the longer term societal consequences can be much less beneficial. There is a limit to how much cultural assimilation any community can absorb without damaging and complex consequences.

It is much the same here in NZ with the exception of Queenstown where lightningpay.nz are onboarding dozens of local businesses. On the whole most NZers remain skeptical of Bitcoin and if they do use it it is not as a MoE...but as a speculative commodity. Hopefully this will change over time. The way I see it both NZ and Aus are to a large extent monetarily and militarily subservient to the USA and our politics are equally subservient to US bankers and politics.

What do you see as the growing threats to freedom for Australians?

How is Bitcoin MoE adoption going in Aussie/Sydney?

Here in New Zealand we have a growing hub around Queenstown - all visitors and especially Aussies are most welcome!

Good to hear! I have noticed even in some autocratic nations where the government has outright banned MoE use some brave businesses simply ignore the ban. In contrast in some more 'liberal democracies' the courage of businesses and consumers often seems much less. We need to assert the right to denominate in Sats as we can do here on Stacker news and as more and more people are doing globally.

All organisms are dependent upon their environment and ecosystem. The idea of a sovereign individual is a highly hyped illusion demonstrative of late western civilisation and its loss of appreciation for the significance of organised group hierarchies (governments) in determining the wealth of individuals and nations.

No I see a hypocrit who cannot be bothered participating in an operational Bitcoin circular economy (Stacker News) when it is right under his nose...and who is actively and deliberately boycotting the opportunity.

Probably because you are more interested in hoarding/arsemiliking sats than using them as a P2P payments protocol.

Is consumer use of Bitcoin as a MoE in Argentina taxed under capital gains ?

The point you fail to refute is that you CHOOSE to not participate in the bitcoin MoE circular economy on Stacker news where you have the opportunity to.

Does Bull Bitcoin require KYC?

You cannot buy USDT KYC free in USA?

You have not enabled your LN wallet on SNs - like the legendary 'Bitcoin Maxi' hypocrit @DarthCoin you refuse to participate in one of the very few globally accessible circular economies using Bitcoin. I will never zap you, or @DarthCoin until you enable your LN wallet.

It is the only decentralised online agorithm that treats all participants equally in contrast to the proliferation of centralised algorithms that harvest data and centralise power and wealth. In this respect Bitcoin is both new, original and philosophically distinct.

China has won the trade war. Nearly all countries would suffer significant economic loss if trade with China ceased. China not only produces manufactured goods most efficiently but pays the best price for commodities. China has beaten the west at its own game- capitalism. USA can no longer fight a war of any scale without Chinas support and supply of rare earths and other strategic supply chains. The west neoliberal delusion that financial derivatives are sufficient to maintain wealth and power has been proven delusional. The west cannot make anything much anymore except more debt and increasingly outdated military hardware- debt and death.

You record and calculate every use of bitcoin for CGT purposes? Yes or no?

You might be the only one on SNs doing so.

When it is outright banned some will still ignore the law.

Either way lawful use of Bitcoin as a MoE is impracticable almost everywhere.

Citizens MoE use of Bitcoin is banned in most autocracies. In nearly all the 'liberal democracies' MoE use requires tax event recording and calculations so burdensome as to make lawful consumer level use impracticable. You are deluded if you think Bitcoin use is not massively obstructed by the fiat debt slavery bankers cartel.

Bitcoin has already demonstrated its worth as a SoV- because people like you and me chose to use it to store our liquid capital, because it offered us a more attractive option than the state imposed fiat money and its debt leveraged risk based stocks, bonds and property derivatives.. But we must still mostly use fiat for everyday MoE, which leaves the fiat operators still with effective monopoly over everyday MoE. They can accept Bitcoin as a speculative commodity, taxed and tracked and traced, and increasingly custodied by them for a fee, but not as a MoE- because if Bitcoin is used as a MoE directly undermines their monopoly monetary power and their ability to control all commerce and trade and individuals involved in any commerce and to as a consequence extract rent from all participants by way of debasement and debt. For me, for Bitcoin to succeed fully it must remove the layer of wealth extraction currently taken by the fiat operators via debasement and the ability to sanction individuals or entities they wish to marginalise. As a reserve asset it does partially erode their monopoly but as a MoE it provides a fully competitive monetary market where fiat can only survive if its parasitic wealth extraction from participants is minimized. Either way Bitcoin has succeeded already to an incredible degree- empowering many individuals and projects that would have not otherwise have been possible.