Various ways are done to bring down Bitcoin and even they look hypocritical, just to bring it down and be able to buy at a low price.

If i'm not mistaken the whitepaper mentions bitcoin as a peer to peer electronic cash .

And how have you come up to the conclusion that bitcoin can weaken and breakdown political strongholds ? By buying senators like Max Keiser said ? That's what bitcoin has become ? A means to create another caste to rule the world ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bh3ObPjcFE&t=52s
I think that you are the one that have a different definition and understanding of what bitcoin is . Try read the whitepaper to understand why bitcoin was invented .

I'd like you to point me to any post that satoshi makes such a political statement .

This community here that has posted the graph on Bitcoin adoption vs others a million times on this forum!


Miners protect the network because they get the block reward, when there will be no block reward they will rely on fees, right now, we had an instance where the fees from the transactions were the same as the block reward, in that block the median fee was around 20$.

So to get the same level of protection for the network in the future as we have now, that will have to be at least the average, 24/7, forever!

I think China took Blinken's current visit as a sign of US weakness, which it actually is. The United States realized that it was not possible to frighten China with large-scale exercises and that the American military-industrial complex could not pull a proxy war on two fronts. You have to bend and flirt, but without much success - Blinken was received much worse in China than Bill Gates.

And isn't it ironic that we like to compare the penetration of Bitcoin to the Internet, smartphones, tv, etc and we tend to forget every single one of them become widespread when it became affordable for the average Joe?

Much unlike a 20$ tx!

Another question, "Would high fees (caused by usage of Ordinals and other similar protocol) lead to decreased usage of Bitcoin on another aspect (buy goods, paid for service, etc.)?"

Why would someone try to hide their Bitcoin involvement from their friends that tried to teach them all this while?

I feel somehow about my friend because I just found out that he has been into Bitcoin for a long time, probably before me, what's surprising to me is whenever I tried to enlighten him about Bitcoin he always Shawn me down and say he has no interest..

Today I get to know from a relative of his, who thought that we are into Bitcoin investment together, a coincidence that brings up some suspicious thought, now I am left with thoughts of why he was hiding this all along from me?

At first I though maybe he was scared bringing me along, but it doesn't make any sense because I thought I knew better than him and I needed to teach him.

What do you think is probably ongoing here?

Good at least there are still companies like Microstrategy and BlackRock who knows how to play this game and then buying with the price is down. I can't answer the question though regarding if SEC will approved or deny it. But looking at the SEC on how many companies have applied for a spot and Bitcoin ETF, they just keep on rejecting it. So I wouldn't be surprised if this will be case here again for BlackRock as it seems that the US government or at least who is sitting right now is going anti-crypto and having a hard line stance.

Oh, but they can! The only thing is that you need more than 500 000 a day, if we look at block 788766 which had nearly the same fee/reward ratio you will see the median fee was 20$. So in order to get the same revenue that would guarantee the same level of protection you will need to have 4000 users paying on average $20 since the reward is gone.
OR!!!! You could have 40 000 and pay $2. Or 80 000 pay $1.

But that would imply every node would need to spend $100 on a 2 TB SSD, so let's go with a $20 per tx cause it's cheaper!
 

1. Would Ordinals and other method to store arbitary data on-chain remain popular after next few halving?

2. On long term, would usage of Ordinals have good impact on Bitcoin price?

And why would people do that when the fee could be >2% of amount they're going to send?

yes it is a trust.. learn what the T of ETF means
but ontop of being a Trust, it's a trust based on Funds. (rather then property like real estate, art, IP, cars)
so thats the F part
and they have an Exchange system too which explains the E part(as oppose to just being a locked value trust, storing value until a richguys offspring/relative reaches a certain age)

edit to respond to below

exchange and traded mean the same synonym.. most people in the finance world treat the T as TRUST

If you check the tweeter's previous post, you can see that he linked this GitHub page: https://github.com/osarjuhcnus/atomicwalletsdesktopource#readme

So apparently, someone who lost money from this hack decompiled Atomicwallet and posted its source code for people to try and find the vulnerability.

As others have said, I'm smelling rejection from a far, there is going to be a big resistance from Gensler himself.

On the other hand, why not just those wealthy directly invest on Bitcoin itself, just simply buy a hardware wallet and put their investment simply as that. I guess this is one reason why old and traditional investors are into into Bitcoin because of too much technicalities involved. And the same reason why BlackRock created this Shares Bitcoin Trust, so that their customers wouldn't go on the intricacies that I have mentioned.

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basically they will follow the majority of the community in regards to;

majority of community agreement based on
hashrate
services(exchanges, merchants)
and yep follow the chain core devs are authoritarian of

Nobody's supporting mass surveillance here. Quite the opposite in fact. Delivering a Bitcoin privacy solution that's lightyears ahead of the others, is the best testimony to that. zkSNACKs operates with utmost transparency, pushing for a future where privacy is respected and mass surveillance becomes increasingly difficult. The folks at zkSNACKs are dedicated to this cause and tirelessly work on innovative solutions. One of these solutions: Wasabi Wallet, became so successful that the people behind it do not have the luxury to live in lalaland anymore. Working on privacy is risky and it does no good for anybody to go head first into the wall.

you do realise the name of this topic..

i know you love ordinals and dont want it to stop.. but there are many people that see it as junk that should not be in the blockchain and should be fixed

i have more then you think but it doesnt matter how many i have because its none of your business.
and my hoard has no impact on code or features or this topic.
so waste months playing guess the number if thats what entertains your distracting mind, but it will just make you look more stupid
or
concentrate on the topic of ordinals and how to fix it(code) and why its not technically difficult to fix(code) but it is politically difficult to fix(core)

i know you and your cult clan dont want me to talk about cores political challenge against change to fix it.. but thats the stumbling block of why the fix has not occured.

i know you want to pretend code has nothing to do with it and somehow you think coins has something to do with it. but your wrong. its all about the code and politics

reading into the filing.. blackrock are trying to be vague about the conversion rate..

In the event of a hard fork of the Bitcoin network, the Sponsor will, if permitted by the terms of the Trust Agreement, use its discretion to determine which network should be considered the appropriate network for the Trust’s purposes, and in doing so may adversely affect the value of the Shares.
 
In the event of a hard fork of the Bitcoin network, the Sponsor will, as permitted by the terms of the Trust Agreement, use its sole discretion to determine, in good faith, which peer-to-peer network, among a group of incompatible forks of the Bitcoin network, is generally accepted as the Bitcoin network and should therefore be considered the appropriate network for the Trust’s purposes. The Sponsor will base its determination on whatever factors it deems relevant, including but not limited to, the Sponsor’s beliefs regarding expectations of the core developers of bitcoin, users, services, businesses, miners and other constituencies, as well as the actual continued acceptance of, mining power on, and community engagement with, the Bitcoin network, or whatever other factors it deems relevant. There is no guarantee that the Sponsor will choose the digital asset that is ultimately the most valuable fork, and the Sponsor’s decision may adversely affect the value of the Shares as a result. The Sponsor may also disagree with Shareholders, the Bitcoin Custodian, other service providers, the Index Administrator, cryptocurrency exchanges, or other market participants on what is generally accepted as bitcoin and should therefore be considered “bitcoin” for the Trust’s purposes, which may also adversely affect the value of the Shares as a result.

I'm tired to read all the comments in the vein of "the SEC is threatening the crypto world" or "the SEC wants Bitcoin to stay small".  

The SEC's action against Coinbase and Binance has quite clear accusations: these exchanges allowed trading of securities without being authorized to do so. And they offered services like "staking" which are quite similar to bank products and thus also need authorization.

Is any of these accusations related to Bitcoin? No. The SEC has already clarified that Bitcoin is not a security. So the accusations have nothing to do with Bitcoin.

Instead, the accusations are deeply related to the mess the altcoin world has become in the last years, mostly since the "ICO craze" of 2017/18. More than 95% of all altcoins, I would estimate 98-99%, are managed in a completely centralized way, with a team in charge of everything collecting large profits. The most notorious example are the premines. These businesses create coins out of thin air - just a "bug" of the fiat world many Bitcoiners want to "fix" - to pay for marketing, bounties and shills with tokens. These tokens and coins are ... securities.

You don't have to be even a Bitcoin maximalist - I tolerate altcoins with decentralized components and ICOs which are clearly focused on a non-crypto product - to see that these developments have nothing to do with Satoshi's ideal of a decentralized peer to peer cash.

So let's calm down. This is not against Bitcoin. It's against shady business models where companies pretend they are decentralized but aren't, and want a cheaper and less consumer-protecting way to finance their businesses (or directly run away with your money). And it's also about crypto exchanges pretending they aren't banks - but they are, as long as they offer products like so-called "staking" (which nothing has to do with real proof-of-stake).

It brings me hope that Bitcoin seems to be the least affected by the last price drop after the SEC accusations. People seem to begin to understand

So everyone who's part of Bitcoin, one way or another. So mining pools included.

You can't kick anyone out of a censorship-resistant, permissionless network.

Completely agree. That's why I made this thread. I just don't think it's entirely against their benefit to pretend there's network congestion.

The "community" can't kick mining pools out of the network, only revenue-sharing miners who are mining at their pool can do that.

But the problem is, why would they have the incentive to do that, if they too are earning a bump in pay rates from the increased transaction fees?

Ultimately, the game theory design of Proof of Work only includes miners as participants in this game, as how it was envisioned in the whitepaper. So for full node users to wrest control of fees, they would need a second layer to govern. But however it ends up, it is certainly much better than using PoS (where only exchanges and rich entities have the absolute power).