Ideally, you should include a link to news you post. Also, this single update is not going to turn the market around or take Bitcoin to the moon.

I would be waiting to see if any action is actually taken as regards rising carbon emissions. The U.N has become largely reactive in recent years, not taking action to prevent situations, condemning them after it happens and still not taken concrete actions.
I would expect less from U.N considering any action would put them against China. In a separate situation China is ready with countermeasures should U.N make any anti-China motion agants their alleged crimes against humanity

Climate change is a global issue that needs to be addressed and fast. With continued advancement in technology, the waste disposal also increases, reducing quality of life on the planet.

You do not need to attend events or join some telegram group as you asked for in a previous thread. There are already lots of information on the topic of mining, here on the forum and on other sources. Check out this reply to one of your previous threads;

You could get yourself scammed or get wrong information from some malicious users if you keep searching for information which is already available.

You left out a bracket close for the opening img tag. Most likely an oversight, but it would mess up the code and it would not display the image.

Raised interest rates makes the option of borrowing less attractive as well as discouraging spending and investing. Bitcoin as an investment would be affected by this no doubt, how much of an effect it would have now, or in a week or a month, or a year, cannot be predicted however.

Every analysis is probable to an extent. There however are no guarantees and it cannot be relied on as a metric to speculate price actions.

There is a limit to how much tx data can be included in a single block, so mass adoption without a change in block size, would not make much of a difference.

Much of the question about how Bitcoin would respond to end of block rewards would only be answerable in the coming years; any thing else is just speculation.

They don't.
It's not possible to create a self moderated thread in the archival section. So posts which were created that way originally, would naturally lose that status when moved over there.

Privacy is to topmost reason I can think up.
Emails are designed to be private, except the user choses to reveal them, so by that, other users should not be able to search up forum members using email addresses. This could lead to users randomly running through public emails, to know if it has a match on the forum.

Great initiative Frankolala.

Just one small input, there is no specifics as to how many people "created" Bitcoin. Satoshi could be one person or a group, but with no accuracy, we cannot say Bitcoin was created by a group.
There were people who assisted somewhat, but they cannot be accredited to have created Bitcoin.

You are asking two questions, one in the title and one in the thread. Addressing the latter first;

Yes, it's a possibility. Digital exposure is quite high in the U.S, and having an extra layer on that using the block chain could definitely be successful. It could create a cheaper and faster way to transact using the USD, than what is available today, while giving the government more control of transactions.

Is the regular dollar a threat to Bitcoin? It isn't, so a digital version, or more specifically a blockchain version would not be any different.
People use Bitcoin for a couple of reasons;
• As a global currency,
• For privacy,
• For freedom,
• As an asset and/or hedge fund,
• As a speculative asset, etc.
A CBDC would not fill this and attract those users to hold them instead.

Judging from the fact that Amazon has earlier this year paid $2.25 million to the Washington state attorney general's office after a lawsuit on alledged price manipulation on their site and also discontinuing their "sold by Amazon" program, which was a way where sellers let the platform determine the best price for their products, it's no surprise they are getting another lawsuit now.

Big companies with monopoly like Amazon, Google etc are prone to unsavoury practices to boost profits and also fizzle put competitors.
I've not gone through this entire law suit to know the merits of the case which the state of California is bringing up yet, but with their antecedents, Amazon is likely culpable.

You are spot on here, such effects would only be noticable if that country has a global export which other countries depend on. There are lots of wars which go unoticed by the general public, cause it doesn't have any rebound effects on the rest of the world.

Russia and Ukraine are two heavy exporting nations, contributing to economies on different economies, reasons why the war is so pronounced.

Environmental degradation is also a major effect. Up there is also the displacement of citizens who now become refugges in other regions, depending on their economy.

The only benefit of war is selfish interest. A nation seeking to expand its empire or build one, would go about conquering viable nations to further their course.

It's just a hypothesis and would not be fully put to the test until a while in the future. The perspective of LN taking many of the transactions off chain and only needing to open or close channels on chain, increasing the fees of such individual transactions. The downside is such a situation would practically force everyone to go for off chain means of transacting as, no one would spend ridiculous amount on a single transaction.

Awesome idea and execution. The fact that your business is heavily focused on lightening network is also a good initiative, which would show other merchants how they can successfully accept Bitcoin, without worrying too much about huge fees and transaction confirmation time.

Which question; does accepting arts on ETH and XCP network contradict the idea of an"Satoshi place"? And do you see any other altckin based initiative coming up in the future?

I was thinking about this thread while reading this one, and it's obvious that coinbasw has shown to be very aversed to privacy of freedom over the years, from strict KYC policy, to selling users data and everything in between.

Moves like this one and creating a "perceived" non custodian wallet seems just like another way to whitewash their public image and attract more users to their platform. Coinbase are not pro Bitcoin or privacy.

That's just a little less than the last ATH, so it's definitely a feasible amount per Bitcoin. There would also still be a percentage coming from block rewards, at least for the next 30-90 years. And the significance of that could get much higher with increasing value. Maybe even to the last coinbase reward being claimed.

I've always had the perspective that the rewards to mining requirements ratio, is a system that can regulate itself, especially as there are so many years between now and the finite supply and many gradual decrements between now and then.

Great write up and a great read. After reading the title, I was half expecting some bogus link between Bitcoin and the economy and how it can prevent a recession or some like that.

Some reasons could be;
• They form the bulk of the population,
• They are younger and not so rooted into the traditional ways of doing things, hence they are more likely to adopt changes,
• They are more digitally aware.

Those benefits mentioned, such as freedom to transact internationally, cheaper and faster, as well as potential for Bitcoin to rise, are more of personal benefits to users and not to the economy.
It could of course grow local businesses which supplies internationally and bring in more revenue, but that would be until they convert to fiat. Same with potential ROI

I've recently read news about how third party sites and Dapps pose a security threat to wallet owners.

Ideally we should never give 3rd party platforms access to our financial or personal details (KYC). But if you must, it should be for a short period of time, and only limited to certain platforms.

This opens up a new perspective in the discussion, which I had not thought of before now.
At the current block reward of 6.25BTC, miners averagely earn $122k - $125. Using the current average rate of one Bitcoin. If you include the tx fee, that's an extra ~$3k.

For the reward of mining to remain commensurate with the current value (in USD), i.e, 0.15BTC giving miners about the same amount they are earning now, which is ~$125k, then the value of 1 Bitcoin needs to rise to above $800k. That's a huge leap from the current price levels.
Would we likely be seeing $1 million to 1BTC within the next 25-30 years?

Firstly, not everyone is savvy in using the forum search option, or is aware of it.
Asking questions is also a form of learning and research, if the said user follows up on answers and discussions bordered around their questions.

There is no singular form of manipulation, it could happen in various ways;
• Pump and dump: here a whale buys up a large amount of a small cap asset and moves the price up, attracting investors. When more people start to buy at that price, they dump,
• News and media can also be used to manipulate trader sentiment. Social media influencers are now becoming more popular to shill projects,
• Governments can also manipulate the market with policies they adopt.

Bitcoin as the most popular and adopted  cryptocurrency is somewhat inoculated from the effects of manipulation. It's mostly unrewarding and expensive to attempt.