That would take decades just like it took decades and some word wars to become the world reserve currency. If I recall everything started from Eisenhower back in the mid 1950's when he started basically forcing people to hand over their gold to the regime.

If gold buying spree was an isolated event then we could argue about other possibilities. But it is not. We have an actual dedollarisation going on which has gotten surprisingly faster ever since I started this topic about 4 months ago. It tells us that all these banks/countries buying up gold at large quantities know of things to come, some from over a year ago.

Also it sometimes feels like they want to turn bitcoin into a solution for everything so I wouldn't be surprised to see someone claim that "bitcoin cures cancer" too! Basically people have been making weird claims like this for nearly as long as bitcoin has existed. Whoever made the claim about Bitcoin stopping wars has no idea how the world works and has probably never read history.

The challenge is that we would be going against strong propaganda centers that have been spreading the FUD about bitcoin through the media that they also control or have tight relationships with. It is extremely hard to counter that because we don't have the same reach.
The only thing we can do is to first educate ourselves and then give those people "facts" about bitcoin with indisputable data.

Bitcoin is a tool so like any other tool it can be used for many different purposes. Just like you can't make a kitchen knife that couldn't be used as a murder weapon you can't create a currency that criminals don't use.

The amount field can technically be treated as an unsigned 64-bit integer which means the max value is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 which is more than enough for a slight increase in the division, something like shifting the value left and using the extra bits as the fraction of satoshi.

We could come up with a complicated soft-fork that would handle such a thing too. Like adding an extra field (like how we added witness through a soft fork) to handle the extra values (ie. fraction of a satoshi) then round the values down to remain backward compatible.

Read my comment again! As I said, in that scenario bitcoin price in dollar would also go up and it would be be worth $56,000 meaning if you sell that iPhone for dollar and get $1600 you can still buy the same amount of bitcoin 0.02854BTC not more.

I'mt not saying that either. I'm saying that everything has a "value" and because of that value they gain an exchange rate when exchanges for something else. That something can be dollar, bitcoin, gold or groceries! As long as that value remains the same, the exchange rates remain the same too. But if value of one of these (like value of dollar) changes the exchange rate of everything (iPhone, bitcoin, gold, etc.) against dollar would change.

The discussions here are all over the place sometimes
I haven't seen any discussion on the semi-recent decision by OPEC+ countries (that was mostly voluntary) to reduce their production and turn the energy prices back up again. That keeps the pressure on the Western economy up which would also force the deindustrialization of Europe to continue further.

Exactly.
This is why independence of countries and the allies they choose is of paramount importance. The position Yemen (a country that is invaded by the US-Saudi coalition for the past 8+ years) took in support of Palestine from 2200 km away shows that. Meanwhile Ukraine, a US proxy is begging for rockets with more than 300 km range

You are again forgetting the difference between value and price. Things are not valued in fiat, they are priced in fiat. Value of all currencies (dollar, euro, yuan, bitcoin, yen, ...) is in their purchasing power.

Lets say bitcoin price is $28000 and you want to buy an iPhone that is $800 so you pay 0.02854BTC. If dollar tanks and loses half of its value today, you can still buy the same iPhone with 0.02854BTC tomorrow even though at that time bitcoin should technically be worth $56,000.
This is the difference between value and price in simple terms. Bitcoin value and the iPhone value remained the same so you paid the same amount of bitcoin for its purchase despite the price of both bitcoin and iPhone going up against dollar.

To answer your question, we don't need any system for transition. Bitcoin is a stand alone currency that does not rely on fiat currency of one country. The market may be affected because it is still a small market and market participants are known for their emotional reactions but that's about it.

That's a challenging question because things are changing too fast in the world these days. A couple of years ago when I talked about dedollarisation nobody believed me. Today it is the hot topic around the world.
The economy is facing a lot of radical changes too. With high inflation in countries that never believed it alongside recession and deindustrialization are all pushing the people in the world into thinking about alternative ways to store value. Bitcoin is an excellent candidate which means in the following years we could see a lot more adoption and at a much faster speed.

With all that said my choice is the first option in the poll (2029 or sooner) even though it is such a broad time-frame since as I said things are changing too fast and we could see $1 million in a year or two instead of 6.

This seems to be your mistake, you are making a wrong assumption!
Bitcoin is NOT a distribution of wealth system. Bitcoin is simply a decentralized payment system, how it will be used and how this currency is going to be distributed has nothing to do with the design and it was never the goal of bitcoin.
The goal was to create an alternative currency that can not be censored. And bitcoin does that well.

Bitcoin mining hashrate should technically increase in countries with the most amount of energy where the price of it is also super cheap. In other words if what you said is reliable, it is just an energy related natural growth which has little to do with the "situation".

In any case I have yet to see a solid work with reliable data that proves the percentage of hashrate coming from each country is what they say it is. So far the existing stats is disappointingly based on news hence it is either fake or unreliable.
For example the stats about US hashrate is mostly based on a fake news a while ago that "Chinese miners migrated to US after the ban" among other things whereas in reality the Chinese miners migrated to Kazakhstan and other countries in Asia and some to Hong Kong.
Or for example last year during summer a news came out that "Iran has banned mining during summer to prevent network overload" and then all these stats sites which pretend to report "reliable data" started reporting Iran's hashrate as zero while in reality that was just a news of a proposal that was never enforced hence the hashrate never really changed.

To be clear efforts like LBC is not to "find addresses" but instead to "solve a puzzle" which means they can only find the key to an address that was meant to be found not random addresses with balance that were created using a "normal" RNG. If you check the keys they've found so far you can clearly see that all those keys are in a very tiny range making it easy to be found.

The term "inscription to each satoshi" is used to distract the public opinion from the spam that is taking place. Otherwise they are not actually "inscribing" anything least of all satoshis, the junk they inject is in the input and it is in one transaction that has nothing to do with the satoshis being sent to the new address(es).

Besides if they wanted to "inscribe satoshis" they could have used the outputs, like limiting it to 2 output the first being the satoshis being sent to an address and second output being an OP_RETURN containing the "inscription". But since the main goal is to spam the chain they use inputs instead or more specifically they exploit Taproot script's lack of size limitation to inject junk into the chain.

Dumping dollar doesn't mean replacing it with Yuan. It just means different countries would stop using dollar as reserve currency and that would in time destroy US economy. Countries like Brazil, Colombia, etc. are also not adopting Yuan, they are using Yuan to trade with China replacing dollar and they are using other currencies to trade with other countries again replacing dollar in all those trades.

It is unprecedented for fiat to go down to zero even with the nonstop printing of it. The value of it will crash hard when they print it a lot and also in case of dollar when the world abandons it and all the supply goes back to United States itself but it will cause huge hyperinflation not drop down to zero.

The effects of that on bitcoin is only a massive price rise because bitcoin's value doesn't magically change because of value of dollar ergo as dollar value dumps if bitcoin value remains the same it has to massively rise in "price".
Of course the market is so much more complicated than that. For example when the price rise starts it also attracts more investors hence increasing the value and price a lot more.

P.S. keep in mind that there is a difference between price and value. Price is measured against fiat and has different ups and downs in different fiat currencies depending on the value of that fiat. For example when Bolivar dumped, bitcoin went up against it while remaining the same against dollar. When dollar dumps it will be the same, bitcoin will go up against dollar while remaining the same against other fiat currencies (of course as I said it could attract more investors which leads to its rise against those too).

This seems to be the same problem as above. A block containing transactions like this one [1] that are creating P2MS outputs (1 of 3 which is strange itself) hence inflating their sigopcount (884 in case of [1] which is the highest in that block) and the miner doesn't check the limit ergo produces an invalid block exceeding 80k sigopcount limit.

The miner/mining-pool also seems to be the same since coinbase script contains F2Pool string again.

[1] https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/0450a1fc590465796e9a1099328fdc4726b86558b7010704ae04cf2cca9643ae

That's true, specially when it is a pool where miners are trusting to not waste their hard work.

No because the block has to be changed and if you change even a single bit the final hash will be entirely different meaning it will no longer satisfy the target check so it has to be mined again.

I don't think this is intentional. To give a better answer we have to know the client the said node is running which may be acquired if your logs stored the IP address of the node that sent the invalid block. In which case we may be able to connect to that node and see if it sends its useragent and that may give us more information like the client name which we could find on GitHub and report this bug.

Electrum uses two forms of encryption, a full wallet file encryption and partial encryption where only "secrets" are encrypted. Electrum should be able to load a wallet file if it is not fully encrypted and I don't think the "full encryption" option existed in 2016, I believe it was added mid 2017 in v. 2.8 but I could be wrong.
Make sure to create a backup of the files before loading them into Electrum.

Loading them into Electrum is also easy, you just use the File > Open option to navigate to the file location and open them.
Then Electrum should show you a list of addresses, history and then sync up and show you the final state.

That requires centralization of the Bitcoin protocol to "censor" how people use their money. It is not going to happen.

Bitcoin is not an investment, it is a payment system and as a payment system it should not and will not care about these things.

This only contains transaction hashes no the full tx data that is needed to verify the block manually and see what the problem is. I checked a couple of transactions in the block, the first being coinbase is obviously not found anywhere else but also the second transaction is not found either.

P.S. I noticed something in the previous block's coinbase transaction, the signature script contains the word "F2Pool" in it. Could it be the F2Pool that messed up or is it someone else using that name?
If we had the full block of this new one we could speculate if this is from the same miner/pool.

This is exactly why US is waging war against the whole world. From the armed conflict they started with Russia to the cold war they are fighting with everyone else. Just google China's one-road-one-belt route on the map and then check the news about the countries that are involved in that route. Every single one of them had a short lived but major riots that started from a fake news!
US has indeed been very active over the past couple of years trying to stop dedollarisation ... and failing to do so.

The entire US gold reserves only covers a teeny tiny fraction of the total amount of dollar they've printed all these years!

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On another news US dollar usage as world reserve currency is at a 25-year low at this point while many countries are dumping dollar and sell the bonds they were bagholding.