They offer buying and selling of bitcoin and facilitate bitcoin transactions in CashApp. According to their corporate reporting, that part of the business generates some profit.

I don't disagree that there are large areas of the oceans where there is minimal life, but the north and south Atlantic, the north Pacific, and equatorial regions are not deserts in terms of their photosynthetic activity.

It's seems pretty unlikely that a geoengineering project such as this would be able to prevent the clouds from floating over the productive areas.

It's not like the photosynthetic life in the oceans needs the sunlight to convert CO2 into O2 for the aquatic animal life to use in metabolism or anything like that.

It has been banned several times in various jurisdictions around the world on multiple occasions since its inception. Now that Wall Street is on board, there is a vanishingly small probability it will be banned in the US, but maybe you're talking about some other dictatorship that feels threatened by its utility?

Bitcoin surpassed its previous all time high on March 5, reaching over $69,000. It then fell to just over $59,000 in a few hours, shaving nearly $10,000 off its price, before it regained to its upward momentum.

On March 13, it reached about $73,700 before retreating again, marching down to a local low of under $60,800 a week later. It saw two daily price swings over $5,000 in that time frame, one down and one up.

For reference, the price on January 1, 2024 was about $42,200, so the price has risen over 50% YTD.

Now that the centralized mixers are blacklisted, they are fading into the obscurity. But decentralized N to M transactions are common on the bitcoin network. They have been use regularly since the protocol added support over a decade ago.

This joke never gets old for us old-timers, but I doubt even the nerdiest of the current generation would have any clue.

If it can be restricted to people in your contacts list, it's seems pretty clear that it has some identifying features, even if they aren't well documented. I don't remember Apple ever claiming that it was intended as an anonymous method of transfer.

The GPS data source would need a cryptographically-secure channel, as well. Otherwise, spoofing it is pretty easy.

No

If you have cash in your pocket, it is unhosted.

If you have gold or silver in your safe at your house, it is unhosted.

Your car parked in your driveway is unhosted.

Movies on disc in your cabinet are unhosted.

A freezer full of meat is unhosted.

A garden growing vegetables is unhosted.

The default is unhosted. Reject the narrative. Hosted resources are not in your control.

You don't understand what you're looking at on that chart. But I'll just reiterate that sending $1,000,000 or more of value for about $1 worth of processing fees in about 10 minutes with final settlement is an unbeatable value proposition. Try that on Visa or Mastercard.

What does any of that have to do with a mining ban?