Which begs the question: what is to be done about it? I'm not sure the average human being likes the fact that we live in the most unstable of times, even if these are the most interesting of times! For example, how can anything be planned in this environment?

I wonder why broken countries couldn't simply make the jump to Bitcoin, I guess they're not free after all? What a revelation!

Was it?

Also have the same doubt: how are there buys actually happening without almost any visible price effect?

I see what you mean. This has never sounded like a compelling argument to me: wouldn't the ideal block be full of actual transactions, with the associate utxo lookups and signature verifications cost? The opposite to me feels like saying that I prefer to use my car as a container for stuff because that's cheaper than actually going places.

>Saying that spam kills bitcoin is like saying if bitcoin gets used, it dies.

What do you mean exactly?

How is that the case?

Pubky and home servers might be a solution for this, but that would be an alternative system that awaits bootstrapping and its challenges.

Do we know more about it?

I was half joking of course, but why should negative zaps exist? Imagine you walk down to the pub and you really don't like one of their burghers, the fact that you don't buy is a signal in and of itself.

There you go, this is a downzap

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