The same passcode prompt appears after software updates, multiple previous failed Face ID login attempts, and maybe more.
Not a lawyer, but everyone has a password locked phone and its standard practice for device security. I'm not optimistic for a prosecutor winning on an interference charge.
Generally I'd rather be in a trade surplus; I would want my country to sell more things than it buys. Energy, technology, machinery, services, whatever it is, if I'm selling, it means I have productive capability/advantage over others and thus more independence.
If you have a deficit, you have free stuff. If you have a surplus, you have the ability to produce stuff, but you're throwing away the stuff you produce. The ideal value is probably zero — perfect balance, as all things should be.
You’d need to prove harm, which is somewhat nebulous here.*
Matt Levine has a prescient and depressing quote about the only recourse for being being shareholder lawsuits:
> I find all of this so weird because of how it elevates finance. [Various cases] imply that we are not entitled to be protected from pollution as citizens, or as humans. [Another] implies that we are not entitled to be told the truth as citizens. (Which: is true!) Rather, in each case, we are only entitled to be protected from lies as
shareholders. The great harm of pollution, or of political dishonesty, is that it might lower the share prices of the companies we own.
* To be clear, I don’t think it is nebulous, and you’re right to feel harmed. But, legally, I don’t know the harm in “they didn’t respond to my emails” after there’s no concrete damage.
I've never looked at the Coinbase agreement that's presented when you open an account, but chances are you would have to go through arbitration first. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Your observations are also a bullish signal for Bitcoin, as it sort of functions as a "digital gold". Cheaper to transmit, cheaper to custody, basically instantly auditable/verifiable, as a financial instrument. No need to inspect, ship and melt down to store in warehouses.
Bitcoin mostly follows the S&P 500 now. No one actually cares about the technical merits. If they did, it'd probably be worth nothing because it's worse than our current financial system in every way: slow, irreversible transactions on a public ledger.
Gold is a shiny, tangible thing that doesn't require electricity and it doesn't put all your transactions on a public ledger. Oh, and it lasts basically forever plus it's malleable so you can get it down to quite small denominations.
Ah, so gold is a shiny rock that doesn't have a decentralized transmission network (the internet).
Mining and smelting gold requires quite a bit of electricity. But Bitcoin the network undoubtedly uses more.
As for small denominations, Bitcoin goes down to a single unit of Satoshi (1/100 millionth of a btc) and since its digital, subdivision is trivial.
So despite this, there are far more retail and commercial opportunities to exchange your btc for goods and services, where as I don't know of any place I can trade gold coins for things.
Not a lawyer, but everyone has a password locked phone and its standard practice for device security. I'm not optimistic for a prosecutor winning on an interference charge.
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