@Mictorrani 30 September 2021 edited

Suggested Reading 4

*In* *this series**, I assume the role of a reader instead of a writer, discussing articles by other writers... things I recommend.* https://read.cash/@Mictorrani/index-over-my-articles-at-read-cash-5f7c1e34#suggested-reading In a recent article, When People Choose crypto the Government get scared, @alberdioni8406 wrote: https://read.cash/@alberdioni8406/when-people-choose-crypto-the-government-get-scared-568dafcb “Governments are at constant war with the decentralized world not because they don't want the free market to exist but because they are always looking for control and monitoring of their citizens' finances.” They are looking for exactly that with their ongoing crypto regulation: This is what @Pantera wrote yesterday: Subservience To the State - Custodial Wallets Invalidate Cryptocurrency. I fully agree when @Pantera says: https://read.cash/@Pantera https://read.cash/@Pantera/subservience-to-the-state-custodial-wallets-invalidate-cryptocurrency-1df5c08b “With custodial wallets, crypto is not ours. It is like holding your crypto in an exchange. Put trust in these services that the money will be available upon request. [...]” “Your crypto will be in the custody of a third party, which completely invalidates the point of cryptocurrencies.” Is DeFi, Decentralized Finance, a threat to traditional banking? I think so, and, in my opinion, that is a good thing. The same author, @Pantera, discussed the question a couple of weeks ago in DeFi: A Threat to the Banking Establishment. https://read.cash/@Pantera https://read.cash/@Pantera/defi-a-threat-to-the-banking-establishment-16128592 Another article about freedom from “Statist” involvement, not only in our finances, but in everything, is Voluntaryism: The Reasonable Alternative to Statist Chaos, by @VoluntaryJapan . https://read.cash/@VoluntaryJapan/voluntaryism-the-reasonable-alternative-to-statist-chaos-6cb09e47 Then follows naturally Secede Today, the easy way by @sanctuary.the-one-law . https://read.cash/@sanctuary.the-one-law/secede-today-the-easy-way-f651fa05 And while we are on the theme “Big Brothers” and their abuse of power, let's pay some attention to a non-state with state-like qualities and perhaps state-like ambitions – namely Facebook. Read Beware the Zuckerberg Nation State by @MarielB22 . https://read.cash/@MarielB22/beware-the-zuckerberg-nation-state-596ba99a I never liked Facebook, not even when it was new, and I have never had a Facebook account and will never have one. The more it evolves, the worse it becomes. It is a quagmire of privacy violation and censorship! Read also this by the same author: Correction: The Revolution Will be Televised. https://read.cash/@MarielB22/correction-the-revolution-will-be-televised-2f14f120 How safe is Bitcoin? Read this article by @Telesfor : The danger of a death spiral with Bitcoin BTC. In my opinion, @Telesfor describes a “worst case” consequence of one of Bitcoin's major weaknesses, a weakness that has been eliminated in BCH. https://read.cash/@Telesfor https://read.cash/@Telesfor/the-danger-of-a-death-spiral-with-bitcoin-btc-ce9c8ec7 Bitcoin BTC is the first genuine cryptocurrency, but to see it as an ultimate solution to the problems it tries to solve, is just naïve. It was naïve already in 2010, and it is even more so now. It is merely the first step in a new line of the evolution of money. New and better cryptocurrencies undoubtedly will follow. BCH definitely is a better one, and, as I have to agree with many other authors here, it better satisfies the initial goals as they were expressed by Satoshi Nakamoto. BTC has not evolved well, but BCH so far has. Another read-worthy article is The Bitcoin Moral Panic by @dave_gutteridge . https://read.cash/@dave_gutteridge/the-bitcoin-moral-panic-0fe6884c If you don't know how to create a secure password that is still easy to remember, the method described by @JLoberiza in How to create a secure password that you can remember can be useful. https://read.cash/@JLoberiza https://read.cash/@JLoberiza/how-to-create-a-secure-password-that-you-can-remember-cd4c3f98 “Streaks can demolish your advancement.“ writes @jamesmichelea in Breaking a Series for Better Improvement. This is quite relevant for people being obsessed by streaks, and I think that is a quite common obsession. https://read.cash/@jamesmichelea https://read.cash/@jamesmichelea/breaking-a-series-for-better-improvement-b76f85d9 In You never know who you might run into in the future, @Kitki presents a thought-worthy little story. https://read.cash/@Kitki/you-never-know-who-you-might-run-into-in-the-future-56c62180 I think most of you agree to that lying is wrong. But is it that simple? Can it never be right to lie? That's what @Greatwolfman asks in his article Lies - good or bad? https://read.cash/@Greatwolfman https://read.cash/@Greatwolfman/lies-good-or-bad-061effb9 “I don’t remember the things I did that hating life has completely gone in my mind. I think it was that I live my life with a purpose. I set my own goals and attend to my priorities. It was like I slowly understood the meaning of life and forgot about hating it.“ (@Bjorn) Have you hated your life so much that you wished to die? @Bjorn discusses this in Eye Hate Life. https://read.cash/@Bjorn https://read.cash/@Bjorn/eye-hate-life-40a37ccd I must admit that I cannot relate to the feeling he describes. I have had my share of bad times and more than that, but even in the deepest darkness, I always found life interesting and thus in some sense enjoyable. Yet I think many people feel as @Bjorn, although not always with a happy ending. Recently published Mind Anxiety is a thought-worthy article by @dark_spirit666 . https://read.cash/@dark_spirit666/mind-anxiety-e71d728b I also think Building love is better than falling in love by @Luna1999 provides insights more people would need to share. https://read.cash/@Luna1999/building-love-is-better-than-falling-in-love-d5c1d0f2 My mother used to say that “there are no bad children, only bad parents”. This is exactly what @adereign expresses in Failure in parental responsibility. https://read.cash/@adereign https://read.cash/@adereign/failure-in-parental-responsibility-a2dcdb9f @NakamotoBch recently wrote The Power Of Thinking And How To Improve Your Thinking Skills. What he says is something that can never be repeated too much. https://read.cash/@NakamotoBch https://read.cash/@NakamotoBch/the-power-of-thinking-and-how-to-improve-your-thinking-skills-55b7789f Finally, I want to wish @aniruddhasen welcome back in his capacity as an author! After about 3 month's break, he has posted 2 articles: The more things change the more they remain the same and The price of security. https://read.cash/@aniruddhasen https://read.cash/@aniruddhasen/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-remain-the-same-1b2640e2 https://read.cash/@aniruddhasen/the-price-of-security-1366e4e7 Read the whole series, ”Suggested Reading” and my series “Retrospection”. https://read.cash/@Mictorrani/index-over-my-articles-at-read-cash-5f7c1e34#suggested-reading https://read.cash/@Mictorrani/index-over-my-articles-at-read-cash-5f7c1e34#retrospection Copyright © 2021 Meleonymica/Mictorrani. All Rights Reserved. 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