Yeah, typical shitty opt out where 99% won't even know about it. It should be mandatory opt in, but who am I kidding, right.
And that is exactly what we need in first place - a payment mechanism where both clients and servers can provide or use services. Then Wero, GNU Teller and others could just work without much fuss.
But how many online and offline shops accept it? If it wants to succeed, it has to be at least EU driven.
Those wires are high enough to avoid problems. Unless one tries to, that is. OTOH EV might burn (though with newer types of batteries less and less).
Yep, in the past they went against US invasion of Iraq and as a consequence freedom fries were born. Nobody else dared to object like that.
Yep, lithium can be tricky to obtain if there are political or other issues. OTOH as you say, sodium is everywhere.
Why isn't genocidal Israel mentioned?