especially without even Germans living there

Germans were brutally deported after WW2

I still store offsite backups on CD and DVD disks

so cosy and minimal!

Guess I would not want to maintain a webpage so web servers are nixed

You could still use WebDAV. It’s simple and works with most file managers.

be my wifi

cat bud

or moves at constant speed

Short answer: Yes, this is stupid.

P.S. This analogy is only relevant if the number of crunchers is constant. The more people crunch, the more valuable (not as in “market value” but as “socially necessary labor time value”) each GRC is because of fixed rewards. But I think getting more crunchers in short term is barely possible.

I assume if threads users follow fediverse users the content makes its way to their feed as normal.

No. https://woof.group/@aphyr/113596102626961803

You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, but the accounts aren’t searchable and their posts won’t show in feeds

what’s the point then

They can be URNs (like magnet:), as shown above.

Or a bank. Or a billionaire. Or a hedge fund. Or a stock market maximizing algorithm.

Only government has full control over its national currency via central bank and taxes. It’s not decentralized, as every commercial bank needs to get a loan from the central bank, and people have to pay taxes in national currency.

It’s not true, all ActivityPub IDs are URIs

and the size of some of the largest hoards have no significant relation to the availability of physical currency

Also true. Only MB money aggregate is in active circulation.

Taxes don’t fund government expenses

“Printing money” is a metaphor, of course most money now is just virtual numbers.

Which makes it even easier for a government to create and spend it :)

Money is free and infinite according to MMT

ActivityPub spec allows content-addressed IDs, just nobody implemented them and now it’s too late.

https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org