What is best is subjective. It depends what you are measuring.

In terms of security PoW is significantly more secure than any other consensus protocol out there.

If you want decentralization and security you really don't want to use anything other than PoW.
Bitcoin was created so we can have a decentralized secure payment system and you can only do that with PoW.

Other systems provide some level of security and decentralization, but so do banks.
Bitcoin is just significantly better.

I'm not sure how exercise will help with diabetes.
I simply wouldn't eat sweets and drink soda. Really any amount of these foods/drink is bad for you, the least the better.

This post is incomplete.

Who in China ranks Ethereum as #1?
It is a big country, 1/6 th of the World.

In which characteristics is it #1?
It is definitely number one in the amount of time you need to dedicate to synchronize a blockchain from the start.
Their synchronization is unusably slow if you want to run a full node, at least in my experience.

Bisq v0.7.0 is out!

https://twitter.com/bisq_network/status/995011448714776581?p=v

Apsolutno nista. Zato niko i nista ne prica o tome.
Malo su nas izignorisali.

I am still sure it is not a cryptocurrency.


I have a bit of a problem with these two contradictions in your post.
If it is centralized then trust in it is centralized, therefor you need to trust some group of people.

And if doesn't use a blockchain and it isn't decentralized, it really has no place to be called a cryptocurrency.

A cryptocurrency needs to be decentralized and open source in my opinion. Anything else is simply not a cryptocurrency.
There is not a lot of difference between Ripple and online banking. Online banking uses cryptography as well and has a certain security protocol.
It just isn't a cryptocurrency, it is a digital currency.

If something is more like a conventional banking system than Bitcoin, then you can make your own conclusion on what it should be called.

I don't know about that.
Venezuela is not a normal situation. It isn't poverty, such countries can survive from their salaries. This is just a horrible unstable situation where I don't think anyone can survive in a long run.


I have a lot of questions OP...
Firstly, how do you survive?
Secondly, do you use Bitcoin instead of your currency and if not, why?

Proof of Stake protocol is less secure than Proof of Work. Calling it more successful is naive. It has it's costs and it's benefits.
It trades security for energy consumption, it isn't better, it is just different.

Technology for decentralizing these things was there for a while, but there is a reason why we don't have high adoption of these things.

Just look at Linux, it is quite decentralized development and open source. It has been around for a long time and it is actually free while Windows is not.
And yet almost everyone uses Windows.

It isn't easy to promote an open source technology. There is no revenue so there is no marketing fund. Microsoft spent a lot of money pushing it's OS onto people. Although Android is the most used OS nowadays, which does have a Linux kernel, it still takes time for open source technology to win.

It isn't just the technological requirements, it is largely social.
We need to either crowd fund marketing of open source projects, ask our governments to do so or market them ourselves. Or a mix of all three.
It isn't going to be that easy as writing some code.

I guess transaction malleability is still possible as non-standard transactions, I am not sure about this though and I would assume it only works with legacy transactions.

As far as I remember, there were pools out there that confirm non-standard valid transactions. So you could send them a malformed transaction and in case it confirms first, I think victim's client would be confused and would need a rescan of the blockchain to check it's balance.

Same. I am pretty sure we would all post on this forum even if we weren't payed for it, but we would simply post less without an incentive.

It doesn't work that way.
If it did, this would be a bubble and they never turn out well.

If you only hold bitcoins so you can get rich, I suggest you sell them right now.
There is no sense in investing in something you don't think is useful simply because you think other people will buy it so they can get rich.

You should go be part of some pyramid scheme like Bitconnect. Bitcoin is not a place for greedy people like you.

I wouldn't say they did a lot of good, I would just say that they are making excuses to make few of their military equipment manufacturers rich.
They take the money from their citizens, create some weapons, create some trouble and some stupid unverifiable reason to invade and they don't think about it twice.

It ain't a mistake, they would figure it out by now, it never made any sense.
They knew what they were doing, they just have no reason to care.
Money will always mean more to them then other people's lives. That is a problem with US politicians.

The question is, which Monday?

It can take a lot of time here to get payed recently. You will be payed though, money can just be late a bit.
I guess you will have to keep on your toes for Luptin showing up.

You should just be able to import your seed words into a Bitcoin Cash version of the Electrum wallet (I believe it is called Electron Cash).

That should generate all your private keys from that wallet.

Although this is true vast majority of times, sometimes hard forks do happen in Bitcoin.
In the early days there were some bugs in the software and a hard fork needed to happen to correct it.

This was very early though, so there wasn't much of panic when blockchain reorganized. I assume no one really cared that much as Bitcoin wasn't worth what it is today.

Lightning network should provide this.
It will incentivise people to run their own nodes and open channels with their friends, earning money in the process.

I am actually even more confused. Do you maybe know your seed words? You can import those in your bitcoin cash wallet.
I found some tutorials on exporting private keys in Electrum as well https://medium.com/@kareninsf2/electrum-101-part-2-how-to-find-your-private-keys-to-extract-bitcoin-cash-for-tech-dummies-444091fc3815

No, I don't think anyone here knows what you are talking about.

BCH private keys are the same as Bitcoin private keys. You literally just need to copy them to a different wallet that runs on Bitcoin Cash, I don't know why you wouldn't be able to simply import them if you already have them. Either way, whatever you have done to import your Bitcoin private keys, do the exact same thing, just in a Bitcoin Cash wallet.

I am talking about willing human shields, I am talking about a first major publication that Wikileaks reviled. The footage called "Collateral murder".
You really don't have nothing to debate when you see wounded unarmed children being gunned down from a helicopter.
Really a shit thing to do. Not to mention that US involvement in these things are often (maybe even always, I don't know) unwelcome by the government of those countries (which they technically invade, against the rules of the UN, as Russia and China veto these things).

US is not a warrior country. 200 hundred years can barely be considered history in my opinion. That is nothing compared to thousands of years most countries exist. Those people you fought in the first 100 years either had to come to you literally all the way across the ocean or didn't have more advanced weapons than sticks. There was never a war with American Indians, they were never equipped for war, that was a genocide, just like holocaust was. Poor people never stood a chance and to this day you still call them Indians. They aren't American Indians, they are Americans, you are immigrants and very brutal ones at that.
You still don't give a shit about them.

During those 200 years the rest of the World went through things that your country never saw and never will. Times were only more violent the further you go back and Europe was always the epicenter of it.

PS: US helped only in the last World war. And Europe would not be speaking German now without you. It would take more time to defeat them, of course, and everyone is very grateful for the lives that were saved with US involvement (unfortunately a lot of them were lost in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well).
Of course battle of Stalingrad was a pretty big deal in defeating the Germans, but there is a lot that US did as well. It was a joint effort, so I wouldn't get that into a debate on who has done more. It is very shitty to get into that and very arrogant to assume that nothing could be done without US. Every super power did a lot there and none of them did majority of the work alone.