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It’s not “less traceable”, bitcoin is a public ledger, literally every transaction is documented on the blockchain for anyone and the IRS to see.

Site reliability engineer here, your application is both alive and dead until the monitoring server pings its health status API.

You’re good! Succulents are easy to propagate from stems, just leave it out of the soil and direct sunlight long enough for the wound on the stem to callus over (2-3 days after cutting, already done in your case), then plant it in dry soil and wait a couple of weeks for new roots to start growing before watering. Some of the lower leaves may shrivel and drop off, but the rest of the plant will be fine once the stem grows new roots.

That leaf that fell off might be viable still as well, just let the wound callus over before planting it in the soil.