Europe has passenger trains that work. What would be a short flight in the US, e.g. London to Paris is done more my train through the chunnel than flying unless you got a connecting flight.
Step 2, put the needle on a gantry (I suspect you'd need more like 5D CNC to enter the pore with the right angle) and seek and destroy hairs... As it is it saves money but not time nor skill...
That's one of the reasons I can walk in the main office of my registrar within an hour. It's clearly not available to everyone but it's especially important that if you can't do that you can at least conveniently sue your registrar... So at the very least in your jurisdiction.
The miners are the middlemen, and they can chose to take your transaction or not. Should bitcoin ever be actually used for payment, it's not to too far fetched to think miners could be forbidden to validate transactions involving a blacklist of addresses...
Partly true, the miners decide. However, "the miners" is not a single person or group, but are distributed world wide under control of different people and pools having different incentives - albeit, making money is the far most common incentive. I.e. a miner can reject your transaction, but you can gradually increase the fee (replace-by-fee) until someone picks it up.
Plus, on-chain transactions would NOT be used to pay 10€/Month subscriptions. The lightning network (a bitcoin layer-2 network) handles transactions instantly and with lower fees. No miners involved in individual payments here (only for channel creation).
The general point is not. Iceland and Easter Island were fully deforested way before the industrial age. Countless species went extinct in Britain and more examples abound.
Britain was a little bit industrialised even before the steam engine. There were windmills and water mills. Steam massively accelerated it, but industry did exist before.
Commons in England were being enclosed in the Tudor age. It caused a great deal of social unrest, even rebellion. It had little to do with technology, and was mostly caused by population growth.
"This is one of the few domains where having access to a quantum computer ahead of others could translate directly into financial gain"
Doubt, the moment people get vocal about their fund being stolen that will be it for crypto, it will crash the bank run. The only way it could work is that if you steal too little to be noticed, which will also be too little to finance your venture...
May I introduce you to a concept called "shorting"? You can make money from falling prices without selling the stolen coins. As I said just moving Satoshi's coins would lead to lots of panic selling.
The snarky reply would be that having their funds stolen is not something that seems to discourage people from having cryptocurrencies as it happens all the time:
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