Does the earth revolve around the sun? How many moons does the earth have? What is mass? What is energy? What is Gravity? What is dark matter? Dark energy? Do we have direct evidence for black holes? How did the solar system form? Is the Sun a thermonuclear fusion phenomenon? Are there more than 3 dimensions? Find out why your answers are wrong, and you'll be surprised to know almost all conventional wisdom is wrong.
BUT the answers are not ALL necessarily wrong. That is my deliberate attempt at being obtuse to make a point. Technically there are better answers that are not required for day-to-day interaction, depending on how exact the answer needs to be or exactly how the question was framed. Sometimes the definition of a word which was chosen in the question is not definitively accepted or a casual definition is incorrrect but more widely accepted. We can get around this by utilization of the the correct context and subjective/absolute qualification. We also need to pay attention to the correct phrasing (in terms of the way the question is posed.)
But beyond these is where it gets interesting. These are those cases where our institutions or conventional wisdom simply has it dead wrong, and its those issues which are usually explored in their own posts or will be explored at a future date in my upcomming podcast:
The Panel of QI react with understandable disbelief at the prospect of earths second moon.
3) Civilization started after the last Ice Age.
We now know that after the last Ice Age civilisation was more likely to have rebooted than started. There are many different theories and speculations but the truth is we really don't know the specifics for sure.
One of the more interesting takes emerging from new scientific finds casting doubt on the precise origins of humanity. An informal and interesting chat. Further reading on the re-think of the origins of our civilization:
Black holes are the most violent forces in the known universe.
There is something lurking in the night sky that is pulling the entire regional universe towards it. And we don't know what it is.
5) Do hypothetical "Black Holes" actually even exist at all?
This question is a Pandora's Box on the subject of cosmology. All I can say is that if you are ready for a rabbit-hole event, read this post:
6) There is no absolute frame of reference.
This is a surprise, yes and no, loosely related to the above its for the more technically minded.
What is mass?
What is energy?
What is Gravity?
How did the solar system form?
Is the Sun a thermonuclear fusion phenomenon?
Are there more than 3 dimensions?
Find out why your answers
reading from my blog where I report the most important cases of flawed understanding to you!
It's these cases where we are most likely to find institutionalised fraud, special interest groups or agendas being seviced which parade as unbiased clinical studies. In the medical feild the problems are self evident. For Astrophysics its the establishment preserving the status quo. With climate change its a matter of an entire feild of study being co-opted by globalist special interests of unimaginable wealth and resources. For commercial industry and publically funded matters it's all about greed, corruption and systemic nepotism that is subverted by stakeholders or powerful lobby groups.
This type of incentive gets very problematic for something that has become undervalued in the age of misinformation: TRUTH!
Just a collection of articles reminding you of this so you dont act surprised when cops go "gaza" on your ass. Its to be expected. I varied the sources so you know its legit, casual research can easily confirm it.
Many different empires, cultures and nations have existed in history and while the details, styles, values and aesthetics keep changing, the core structure remains unchanged.
In order to benefit from social coperation and steal reward in excess of the labour and value you invest, you cannot take it by brute force for extended periods of time without facing the wrath of the crowds. The crowds need to give it to you willingly or unknowingly.
There was one exception to this synopsis, the Feudal System but there is more to that than people realise, it's a post for a later day and deserves full scrutiny and parrellels do manifest. The feudal system though was more a sovereign system over a nation and would little use to globalists whose aspirations are not to rule a nation, but to reduce entire nations to vassals and rule over EMPIRE. This would require a a sophisticated interplay of managing a home population with that of the conquered nations on the frontier. We see that strategy burst almost fully formed into the world stage with Phillip II of Macedonia, who along with his son Alexander (the great) provide the first detailed records of how it may have worked. No doubt there were earlier versions, but there are no reliable means to dissect it. Certainly Alexander was a master at maintaining the a support of his army in difficult conditions.
The support of the home crowd is also needed to win wars. No army has ever been effective fighting under duress, they would assemble, arm and immediatly turn on you.
In the mainstream if you research Divide & Rule or Divide & Conquer they are typically conflated. The empasis is more on the Machiavellian angle. Machiavelli formulated the divide and conquer strategy as an axiom in his own version of Art of War where the enemy can be forced to break up their forces or where the mutual trust between the opponent’s leader and his men can be sabotaged and broken.
Economically in the corporate world it’s used to gain advantage by triggering smaller competitors to take business away from each other and in effect canceling each other out, leaving the larger corporation to move in to reap greater profits, an indirect way the bigger fish eat the littler fish. Business models also use it to successfully tackle a large project by breaking it down into smaller, more manageable components. Read more HERE
Before the reigning Judeo-Christian Anglo-American Empire of today there were other more monolithic empires that the current crop of loosely ideologically aligned old money banking dynasties, globalists and corporate fascists either studied or even modeled themselves on.
Alternatively, with or without engineering society themselves they found that the institutional relics of these early social engineers remained, such as in Babylon, and that the self perpetuating setup was an environment they could flourish in. They then gamed the system commensurate with their agenda.
This way the social climate itself nurtures the success of such types and the situation really does becomes self perpetuating. This has been perpetuated but would probably be the case long after the original social architects are gone. We could conceivably be battling a legacy that outlives it's creators by decades or even centuries if we blunder on without the introspection to guard against it.
As it stands right now the danger is as real with one guise as it is with the other. Let's be serious here. In reality there is no immediate ideological motive driving politics. The ideology is not in the campaigning, it is in the unseen design of the puppet-master globalist interests. This means that historically wherever ideology is given for public consumption as motive, I would advise a degree of skepticism. Behind the dull ideological sheep, even those running for public office is one of two possibilities. Either a big money, or a smarter social architect, and the latter is ultimately what this post is all about.
More often than not elite Zionists don't really indulge in peasant pursuits like Judaism, they are atheists who use it for control. Elite Neocons likewise are not really always Zionists, Christians or even patriots. I would make the case that they are in fact just the opposite, they are traitors. Globalism today is what Empire was in the past. Globalists do not really want a "Global Village" because that would be based on peer to peer tech and decentralized cryptocurrency. The evidence points to them wanting something more akin to a globalist ghetto based on centralized central bank fiat currency, massive debt and.... well, that can only end in tears.
All of the Neoliberal capital finance trends speak to us and reveal that they want franchises and employees not entrepreneurs and owned businesses. Real power is not elected, but is not a monarch either. There is something behind the throne that is more powerful than the king himself.
The ancients learned this the hard way. Their elites streamlined some highly sophisticated devices to engineer society through its institutions and that way they were able to produce values to which that society aspires. This is the true art of social engineering. The art of using spin and propaganda to manipulate our contemporary values. These values are then enforced by social regard and punished by social shame. This is more powerful than a police force enforcing laws by the sword or the gun. Adhering to these values could then be what is rewarded by status, praise or financial means. This effectively recognized our Darwinian nature before the science was even known!
Once the values "we" stand for are institutionalized, we instantly differ from "them" and our tribal instincts are now ominously poised to be used against us. But by which methods?
Herein lies the brilliance of a legacy of ruling elites, each studying and improving on methods that were successful for previous dynasties, with the mistakes eliminated.
Since Roman times, and probably well before, the method has been to use labels and values and tribal instincts against the peasants via two channels. The Romans were essentially frauds in many ways. Merchants and bureaucrats spreading census and survey long after military might. At their core their elite wanted land, power and control much like the capital finance multinationals and offshore tax havens, mercantile traders and bankster cabal of today.
Roman brilliance seems centered around their shadowy cults, or indeed the more known ones such as the Imperial Cult, all of whom wanted power above all else. They were nothing like the enlightened ancient Greeks they sought to sell themselves as. Most of the early art, engineering and philosophy attributed to the Romans was in some way or another taken from various groups such as the incredible iron age Etruscan society. This is borne out even by the genetic record. They were also ultimately social engineers in a defacto sense although likely happened upon it by chance. The two channels that came to define The Roman Empire (more than any claims of being civilized) were tactically almost perfect. They were a marked improvement on the methods of Philip the Second of Macedon. Philip II may have been the first internationalist with his supranational project, the League of Corinth. Divide and rule at home and divide and conquer at the frontier.
The story of the Etruscans
Before Macedonian emergence, Greeks had colonies all over the Hellenistic World as well as around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. The difference in those times is that there was no centrally commanded strategic template of the sort I am seeking to describe. In fact the Greek city states were more inclined to compete or even fight wars against each other.
During the Peloponnesian wars between Athens and Sparta, they did happen upon a tactic that would become central to the developed empire in the modern globalist sense. They found a way to engage in deficit spending despite using gold and silver. They did this by diluting more and more copper into their coins of the day to make their limited supply of precious metals go further to finance military campaigns. This financial aspect would later be improved upon by blending it with Babylonian "money magic" and later still with Keynesian economic chicanery. This is essentially the invention of macro-economics.
Rather it is macro-economics by virtue of abandoning all sound fiscal policies and economically sound Austrian Economics principles embraced later (and possibly as a result) by the likes of Andrew Jackson and the libertarian boom times of America.
The Mongols and Black Russians / White Russians all have fascinating sub plots. As did the Byzantine chapter of the Holy Roman Empire. I should include groups historians mistake as more simple such as The Hun and the later (now controversial) Khazarians and many associated with the ancient Babylonian "money magic".
This is not restricted to nations. Tax-exemption as well as usuary, money changing or money renting would characterise both the sovereign vs empire struggle and globalist structures for centuries to come.
It took many forms such as:
The Knights Templar
The Crusades
The Merovingian Dynasty
The Alexanders
The Medici
The Roundtable of Rhodes, Milner, Rockefeller and Rothschild
The Catholic Church
The Blue & White flag UN organisation
The CFR & Trilateral Commission of the Neocons Deep state
The Vatican etc etc.
The Sumerians were endlessly fascinating but most of these are left out of school text books or get an insulting two pages dedicated to their incredible societies. This is deliberate because elites have borrowed their secrets on how to rule. Divide and rule were elements of all of those elitest groups, secret societies or custodian cabals posing as leaders of the key internationalist nations in past civilizations.
Still today whether its by race, creed, custom, ethnic, religious, partisan, nationalist, red state / blue state lines they will divide us and they will get us to turn to them to protect us from ourselves. This is the essence of it. If they need to do on duck season/rabbit season lines, trust me, they WILL do it.... with proper control of the media and indoctrination devices of society that is.
Bugs demonstrates how easy the system is to game
The objective is to ensure voting never effects the institutions that secure the stranglehold of the status quo on the establishment.
If the population of the home sphere should ever unite against power, the system straightaway fails. Prevention of unity must be the primary objective of "Divide and Rule" Fail here and the entire system fails.
Let the peasants contest elections
over peasant politics (nowadays identity politics)
These are generally tokenism issues lacking in focus on systemic injustice, this is not a coincidence. They pushed based on how successfully they acheive emotional attachments to that this aspects ensures the media coverage of the issues never produces advancement of the issues but rather produces teams, tribes and serves only to sew division with the proles. That way you need not surpress coverage, the more coverage you give the further away unity gets. Keep opening the borders and forcing cultures of different cultural values into close quarters and give media attention to the most militant minorities rights groups and sabotage movements seeking social equality on moderate, sound principles to ensure sectors of the population remain disenfranchised and bitter.
Immigration (purposely send assimilated citizens whose parents were from barbarian tribes into Roman cities to sew civil discord, have one party (creative license for comparisons sake, they never had "parties") Champion pro-barbarian rights and have one traditional values party address the threat to Roman values the Barbarian ways represent. This goes on ad infinitum. Have Pagan (conservative) issues set off against, for eg Christian (or Progressive) issues.
Taxes Have each elected party reverse what the previous party did.
Past equivalences to what later became Womens rights, minorities rights, LGBT, Gay Marriage, Legalizing Pot, Abortion, etc these are all issues that stemmed from tribal/ cultural values, that the elites believed should obsess the peasant mind, because the peasants sense of who he is should by now be linked to whichever group he collectively identified with, and he should vote along these lines. Media must always report along these identity lines and threats to the various collectives must get regular and thorough coverage, invite community leaders to answer questions or debate pre-selected topics, but never to volunteer advice, on social issues. On monetary and foreign policy only ask closed questions.
The evils of prospects of conquest of nations or tribes that the empire has designs on be reported on by media, report on the brutality of their leaders or the ills of their customs, design the incidents around the regions our armies need to secure to control the resources or routes we covet.
The institutions have always been:
1) Money Supply (the treasury, fitness of coin, mint & now the central banks)
2) The religious institutions (temples, texts, then later churches AND THE RELIGION ITSELF )
3) The media of all varieties
4) The educational curriculum (the indoctrination device)
5) The Military & Police
6) The Democracy itself where applicable.
The practice of democracy was rolled out to service the existing power structure, not just to give the illusion of choice as most people believe, but also as the catalyst to channelling the psychological enslavement of the masses and have them believe it to be the very source of their liberty. A masterstroke, but it can only be run at home not in the frontier and colonies because the state institutions are only by design and established at home, the colonies must be run by authoritarian means.
Nothing has changed since Roman days, the United States still has managed democracy at home and still installs dictatorships in its conquered lands contrary to its stated values, but if the institution of media is securely controlled you control the news narrative. If you control today's news narrative then you effectively control tomorrow's history. If you control the past and the sense of where we come from, then you effectively control the future because you have the means to weild the divide and rule spell. Sheer brilliance streamlined over centuries.
When to switch the divide.
The one time the divide must be bridged is just before declaration of war. That is when media is in the unique position of having a mandate to create unity in the broader population. Never do so during an election, rather just after. Now we are all "us" and in solidarity as the nation. The nation we are to attack is now to become "them". Every exploited military nation must have an enemy. Having enemies is what ultimately unites us (against the enemy). It creates unity in the population during war, and spoils for the rulers. The only cost is the blood of peasants. From the elites perspective we are just peasants so all that needs be done is to enshrine dying for the cause is the ultimate honor. "He died for his country". Simelarly enshrine not fighting for your country the ultimate disgrace. Make this the core national value and entrench it via your controlled institutions and you straightaway have absolute control.
George Orwell understood how to undo perpetual enslavement, but stopped short of a formula. This was likely because he was essentially one of them and only given scope by British intelligence agencies to write his dystopian novels because it serviced a useful and more immediate propaganda exercise against the communist rival of the day than any intangible abstract possible future danger would concern people with.
The key objective: There are none so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free, for they shall fight and die protecting their enslavement, so long long as the values of freedom (as understood by the proles) reconcile (in reality) with circumstances commensurate with control. This is double-speak in the ministry of truth. Society must financially reward enforcers, and status recognized by achievement in enforcing and furthering these apparatus.
Spin. Success. Shame. Scorn.
There is no other way to describe the world views of MSM than as conspiracy theories. Tin foil hat wearers also sprout conspiracy theories which in their paranoid heads are everywhere. People don't take the time to find out, and that leaves holes in their understanding, but the truth lies somewhere in between. Same with ideology of all kind. Are you socialist? Capitalist? Religious? Patriot? Partisan? As soon as you adopt a label you are finished. Once your identity is tied in with any predetermined wholesale set of beliefs your ego now requires you defend it as if it were your own personal standing. The best way to position yourself as an emergent thinker, if you value freedom of thought and objectivity and don't want to be enslaved to an unseen hand by cool & calculated design, is to keep the separate aspects of things you are passionate about as stand alone principles without adopting any package-deal/ pre-constructed labels that require adopting the entire ideology. The down side is that people are used to taking sympathetic or antagonistic positions against predefined labels and will assume if you discuss one element you are in for the rest. This takes time to clarify and can be a chore but its worth it since the predefined narratives are not producing engagement that is advancing the issues, its producing teams, camps, tribes and clans. Again, this is by design. The most important device in divide and conquer method is get the peasants to identify collectively. You can't divide unless there are tribes to divide into. Where there are no ethnic/racial/sectarian/religious divides to inflame you engineer them along partisan or ideological lines but this fails if the lines are blurred so labels are the single most important ingredient in the divide and conquer recipe.
It is no accident that every aspect of MSM is crafted around this premise, and the issues processed through them by reductionist principles. It follows logically that it is impossible to protect yourself from this trap unless you shed these labels.
If you class yourself as any of the below my suggestion is rather engage with people based on the merits of separate principles, not your identity label.
Partisan (team red/blue or labour or conservative or democrat etc). The most obvious and cheapest trick.
Capitalist. Isolate the free market principles you value without selling yourself a capitalist, its a wide and deadly scoped term that has a cost of judgement related to all the empire conquests rather than the Libertarian origins which were well-intentioned. Never fall into the capitalist vs socialist trap, keep the debate focused on issues not teams.
Socialist. Isolate the comunity values you believe are beneficial. There is no shame in wanting a society that takes care of its sick and old rather than all its welfare going to big banks, but there is divisive prejudice in the commie/red fear baggage. As above never succumb to socialist vs capitalist controlled narrative, that is the trap that is set to create division on ideological lines.
Religious. Only use your religious freedom to protect your religious integrity, do not allow it to define you as a social dynamic even if it defines you personally, otherwise it will be used against you. Never VOTE on religious lines, this will result only in exploitation.
Race. The easiest thing to exploit by rulers. Use race descriptively or in cases of rights violations. Avoid groups, politics and social movements parading as pride movements and don't be guilted in defining yourself by race, your individuality is your most precious freedom, your racial identity is a descriptive reality not a stereotype prison.
Feminist. The only thing you need to change is defining yourself by a label designed to enslave you. You can still champion the same causes but without the desired divisive label.
Patriot. Never submit to blind support of nationalist causes because the elites use this label of last resort when most desperate to blackmail and shame. Rather be critical of power, hold it to account, just do so by issue not by partisan party wholesale team politiking, or you play straight back into the system and your descent will end up benefiting the systems engineers even if it hurts one political party (starting to realize how well crafted this system is?).
This unaligned resistance, by issue not by party alignment, is the best way to service your pride in your nation, to keep it free and honest. Never do it the disservice of allowing cheap peer pressure to prevail or you risk becoming a brown-shirt thug that threatens everything you believe you stand for.
George Orwell's Chilling look into a dystopian future that seems almost unavoidable now.
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Shashi Tharoor – Inglorious Empire What the British Did to India
Jon Wilson, 2016, India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the chaos of empire, cited in a review of Tharoor’s work by Elizabeth Buettner in “Debt of Honour: why the European impact on India must be fully acknowledged”, Times Literary Supplement, August 11, 2017, pages 13-14.
Markandey Katju. “The truth about Pakistan”. The Nation. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
Pernin, Christopher G.; et al. (2008). “Unfolding the Future of the Long War” (PDF). US Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Army Capability Integration Center – via RAND Arroyo.
“France: The Roman conquest”. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 6 April 2015. Because of chronic internal rivalries, Gallic resistance was easily broken, though Vercingetorix’s Great Rebellion of 52 bce had notable successes.
“Julius Caesar: The first triumvirate and the conquest of Gaul”. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 15 February 2015. Indeed, the Gallic cavalry was probably superior to the Roman, horseman for horseman. Rome’s military superiority lay in its mastery of strategy, tactics, discipline, and military engineering. In Gaul, Rome also had the advantage of being able to deal separately with dozens of relatively small, independent, and uncooperative states. Caesar conquered these piecemeal, and the concerted attempt made by a number of them in 52 bce to shake off the Roman yoke came too late.
Part one revealed that the Rothschild dynasty now has an agent not just in the shadow government, but an actual agent in the key government position of Commerce, much as the Rockefeller clan had Kissinger in the official administration all those years ago. Having and actual "man" in the position goes well beyond the usual scope of lobby. http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2018/05/trump-is-swamp-so-he-wont-drain-himself.html
We also learned that Jacob Rothschild, Dick Cheney and others use Genie Oil to steal the oil from Syria's Golan heights and others. Trump is going out of his way to accommodate this theft, that is patently obvious. Remember that Jacob Rothschild and his cousin Evelyn have both been pushing for the overthrow of Bashar Al Assad via their stranglehold on Qatar's foreign policy. US policy also backs this move although I have not been able to find any evidence linking the US position to them in this regard, the closest I can come is that this facilitates Israels position and Genie Energy in the Golan heights annexed from Syria. They (the Rothschild's) have already ruined Somalia and Sudan in this regard. The clip below explores these themes beautifully.
Wilbur Ross meanwhile was (along with Michael Bloomberg and other notables) was part of wall street alumni's middle finger to you and (Joe Taxpayer) when they dressed in drag and sung a cover of Abba's "Dancing Queen", called "Bailout King" (in reference to the multi trillion dollar bailout of the banksters by taxpayers, rendering in one foul sweep 99% of welfare to be the poor bailing out the rich). Here are the appalling facts. http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2018/02/facts-how-much-taxpayer-money-has-us.html
Trumps daughter was romantically linked to Nathan Rothschild don't forget, before she settled for Kushner (a Rothschild would never marry a Trump, but there was obviously some sort of fondness). And it turns out he thinks she would make an even better president than her dad, despite all he has done for their old money dynasty.
For those of you thinking Donald Trump plays 4-D chess and is always a step ahead of everyone, allow me to paint a different picture of a draft doger obsessed by the military , who would have squandered the millions his daddy left him if not for for his powerful connections. Connections who are at war with other powerful people. I don't mean Neocons and neoliberals, Neocons fleed the GOP and Joined the Neolibs at the Democratic Party when word on the street was Hillary Clinton was meant to win the election. Thats one ofvthe reasons Trump got so much heat, but with Neocons Bolton and Pompeo handling him now things should start gettingba little easier as long as he continues foreign coups.
High up Dems and GOP are more than ever lately two sides of the same coin on issues of monetary and foreign policy, I don't mean them when I say powerful groups are at war, but rather entrenched deep state apparatus from the permanent security state zionist faction seeking to enforce US hegemony and the old money banking dynasties who have hedged with China and by all indications are at some point seeking to cast aside the USD once the Petrodoller is no longer defendable and introduce the IMFs SDR. But that comes much later. First the backstory.
In The 1950's CIA director Allan Dulles along with David Rockerfeller established a front company for laundering CIA and Mossad black ops money. Benignly named the Mary Carter Paint Company. Due to the amounts of money involved and so as not to blow their cover, they changed their name to Resorts International in 1963. That way they were positioning themselves under the capable leadership of CIA asset David Crosby (with the help of mob connections) for the casino trade in Atlantic City, the premier model for money laundering of off buget operations as developed by mafia. In 1987 Crosby died and RI's chairman, Mayer Lansky (a known Mossad asset) sought legitimate investment to replace Crosby's and found an up and coming property tycoon called Donald Trump, notorious for wanting a reputation and mob connections Trump bought up Crosby's controlling interest in Resorts International. https://mobile.nytimes.com/1987/03/10/business/trump-buys-73-stake-in-resorts-for-79-million.html
Trump followed strictly conditionalities of RI's chief financiers Tibor Rosenbaum and Baron Edmond De Rothschild by allowing the CIA to continue certain irregular financial practices and would later be rewarded for this. Trump was almost ruined and in massive debt after the 80's real estate crash shortly thereafter, at which time he came to the attention of Wilbur Ross of Rothschild Incorporated. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-wilbur-ross-commerce-20161208-story.html
Trump speaks at length about these affairs in his book "The Art Of The Deal" and appears to relish these notorious connections and fancies himself some sort of debt king, rather than being ashamed of selling his soul to the devil.
And Trump would give him the position key for making policy changes that would later be required in the business, trade and energy sectors by the Rothschild shadow government now that they were in full control after orchestrating a strategic divestment of the Rockerfeller clan from oil to better synch aligned monoplies and establish Genie Energy, which by clever shareholder arrangement is Israeli owned. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-names-wilbur-ross-commerce-secretary/
The boring and done before "duality of light" routine raises more questions than it answers. Quantum theory is watertight mathematically but what if it's probabilistic take on reality is nothing more than an accurate model. Is light a photon? Is it an electromagnetic wave? Of what kind?
Finally, I have found a short video that deals with these questions in a way that appears to be in touch with reality and retains the spirit of invention and curiosity that has left certain sectors of the physics community.
Time to get real. If your blockchain:
* Has a CEO
* Contains pre-mined tokens
* Distributed tokens via an ICO
* Can execute a forced hardfork
* Doesn't use a consensus algorithm
* Can be changed in a short time.
...then it's most likely centralized.
It is more of the coins than you think. Take for example Ethereum:
* Executed a forced hardfork
* Has a central point, Vitalik
* 20℅ of the coins were pre-mined
It follows logically that Ethereum is centralized.
Here are the proper decentralized crypto blockchains:
* BITCOIN * LITECOIN * MONERO
I'm a hardcore ideologist more than an investor, but the upside of having a blockchain that leaves central banks utterly incapable of taking control of your blockchain is that they are probably the most fundamentally economically viable too. That being said I still think Ethereum, Dash, Ripple and Cardano plus a handful of others are great coins, but for different and interesting reasons.
When it comes to distributed ledger solutions remember that Blockchain is Open Source so any back-doors can be identified and nobody can own the source code.
Be very mindful of the fact that Hashgraph is patented, meaning it represents an opening for central banker takeovers.
Regardless of the underlying specifics of cryptocurrency technology, whether it's Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano or EOSfor example, all digital currencies are essentially borderless. They can be mined just about anywhere and generally, traded globally.
Still, not every location is as friendly to the burgeoning asset class as others. Some countries offer tax friendly considerations for crypto businesses while others have relatively easy regulations. Some are encouraging digital cash as an alternative to fiat money and some are even contemplating launching their own alt-currencies. Some countries have a variety of initiatives in play to foster cryptocurrency business and blockchain innovation.
Below are seven locations setting up systems that are cryptocurrency friendly.
Earlier this year, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) revealed its plans to launch an initiative called Project Khokha, to experiment with distributed ledger technologies.
The project’s goal is to replicate interbank clearing which currently runs on the South African Multiple Option Settlement system.
Click here. for the rest of the article on My Broadband.
Or here for a Steemit article regarding the SARB trialing Bankymoon.
SARS’S STANCE ON THE TAX TREATMENT OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES
PRETORIA, 06 April 2018- The South African Revenue Service (SARS) will continue to apply normal income tax rules to cryptocurrencies and will expect affected taxpayers to declare cryptocurrency gains or losses as part of their taxable income.
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