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That does sound similar except you'd have younger employed members making money to add to the pool of equity and also working on self sustainability like farming to feed the members. Not all members in the aforementioned org lived together past the 1970s or whatever; they often were sent to live and maintain on properties the org owned all around the world.

I believe it is the norm, but nobody talks about the ones that are operating successfully. You only hear about the ones that end in shootouts with the feds.

I think you believe a "cult" only means a situation where people are held against their will by crazy religious nuts trying to assert their sovereignty. Those are the only examples the media wants you to know about.

Hearing about a group of people who have successfully implemented small scale communism with a religion involved and they thrived for over 100 years isn't something you want to shout from the rooftops as it would encourage more of this behavior.

There aren't any distributions if you don't personally own any assets or have any bank accounts -- the "church" pays for it all on your behalf. You also don't fit any legal definition of an employee either.

They sued the federal government decades ago for illegally collecting Social Security taxes and won. It's not fraud.

My best friend was in a famous cult half his life. That's nothing like a cult.

He had unlimited money ($25k a month was nothing) and freedom to do anything he wanted for 15 years. He was never harmed. The organization collapsed as the elders passed away partially due to the rule of no proselytizing so no new members.

edit: they had about $50M split between 6 people near the end. I don't really know why more people don't do this: register a religious organization, require all members to assign all assets and money to the organization, work together for the rest of your life building your wealth tax free and watch how quick your wealth amplifies as you acquire properties and make investments.

Change happens quick. We all started relying on smartphones seemingly overnight.

No kidding, I was threatened with legal action for significantly less shenanigans back in my day.

Sounds fascinating actually. Any good articles you recommend about NK doing this?

42.zip, yep. i have a copy if anyone wants it

You make good points I wasn't considering when I wrote that, and thanks for the mempool expiration info

Good point, but I bet this could be changed in ZFS.

It must be doing something because when I got my blue filtering lenses I could put them on and feel physical relief of pain/strain in my eyes

doesn't the zfs diff command mostly cover it? You have snapshots, diffs, and clones which is basically equivalent to commits, diffs, and branches. You're missing commit logs and that's it, right?

It's not about double spend. It's entirely possible two miners successfully mine a block simultaneously but one of the miners didn't include your transaction in the block they mined. Now there's two competing blockchains and every miner chooses which one is the truth... longest blockchain wins, so whichever gets the most participants is likely to be the final blockchain

Now your transaction may not be included until a future block or be lost forever, though I'm not certain what it takes to be dropped from the mempool.