"100% faith" not consistent with Bitcoin/crypto Ideal of "don't trust but verify". Faith in the system sounds like what centralized and opaque systems would encourage
I will only have that kind of faith in a Perfect BEING. And you can't have faith in things made by humans... they can't be perfect no matter how well built.
 I'd expect problems and hope it get solved  when necessary. I believe that is part of the reasons it's transparent, immutable, encourages checks & balance, etc for the security , monitoring and verification of things that happen within the network by participants.

If you work for the system and controlled by it, you are part of the Matrix. You don't have to work in government or corporations to serve the Matrix. If you live the kind of live they want you to live or do the kind of businesses/jobs they want you to do, then you are working & contributing to the system. It's an evil system and the only way out is be broken free and be protected by a far Superior/Benevolent BEING .
The evil one controls the Matrix and basically uses those under his control to run this world. You are basically serving the evil one if you work for him and do his will. Lots of people would rather work for the him than serve the Real CREATOR of this World nor let HIM rule over them.

Currently, people who work for the system  are working intentionally/unintentional to hand full control of earth over to the one who controls the matrix. You are helping satan take full control of our world by your deeds, actions, inaction.

Better to decentralized things that affect the price. I would avoid anything that can centralized (or potentially centralized) Bitcoin in any way. I believe a system/org that regulates price should be very Transparent, decentralized, Based on Good rules approved via Consensus, and is bounded by other important Bitcoin Principles.

The Right System should keep the price volatility moderate without necessarily changing anything on the main Network/System.

I think badly run financial institutions will eventually pay the price. Well decentralized, transparent, immutable, censorship resistant, permissionless, deflationary, consensus-based, rule-based.. financial system/network will be used by people it is Willed by GOD to use. Anyone/anything that tries to go against GOD's Will is evil and will be exposed and face the consequences of their evil actions.
GOD have mercy on them and help them do what is just/right.

It's Important to let people know when to use such exaggerations and when not to use them. Not a good idea to use them when communicating to  people who expect you to be precised when comparing things, or people who won't understand that they are exaggerations. It important to "highlight" when using them for publications, and it's also  important to also highlight even if you are sending them to people who are aware they exaggerations ... because they could be misinterpreted if accessed by people they aren't meant for.
 I prefer to be precised when comparing, unless maybe I don't see/know any publicly known things to compare with. I still try to be very precised when using the non-public things that are probably known by me alone.

Interesting. I believe there will be very talented/skillful bettors who understand or see what the crowd doesn't see. The strong ones will end up betting oppsite of what the crowd believes has low/high chances. A true outcome will result to win for them on fair betting site.

I have heard people use the elephant comparison here too. Most likely exaggerations... and I believe the society where things are said that way usually know they are exaggeration. I have heard people say someone is as tall as a particular tree. "The lady is as big as an elephant" is occasionally used here too. Many of them probably exaggerate that way to get people to understand the importance/magnitude of the things they are describing. And society that use them seems to know it's an exaggeration. They assume that the exaggerated things cannot do or be what they are compared with

I actually prefer to wake up around that time for almost thesame reason.

I guess people won't feel very comfortable when they notice you have been awake on thesame bed with them while they were sleeping, Or they just find it weird/non-random that you regularly stay awake around that time while everyone was asleep, Or they're probably concerned that something may be bothering you, etc .

I think telling her why you stay awake around that time will make things easy for both of you. It's important you don't get misunderstood by her.

Just seeing this post for the first time.
Was wondering if this happened to you this year February 14th or the past year/years, then I noticed the date on your post.

Glad to know you are doing fine now.

I agree. They should be easy to type and memorize. The current long addresss can be quite intimating to use especially for the new users. Problem like that could easily be solved within Wallets.  You could have a Wallet provider with lots of users who can simply send people their usernames and get them to send them coin through thesame wallet provider. Users should be able to also buy and sell crypto within the wallet, so they don't ever have to worry about sending crypto to the long address from another wallet.
I guess the wallet provider could prevent impersonation or identity theft by requiring users with names of popular people to prove they are really the popular personalities. Those that share thesame names with the popular personalities could just choose different usernames so that many people don't get misled into thinking they are the popular ones.

The strange practice of not letting customers withdraw their coins sound worst than using fiat currencies on traditional banks. Atleast the banks allow people to withdraw their funds inform of physical currency like paper. Guess people will simply convert the "crypto" to fiat and withdraw them physically if they can't withdraw them to their crypto wallets outside of PayPal space.
By the way, this one the the reasons people should be suspicious of cashless economy, especially on centralized platforms.

I probably used Bitcoin for the first in 2016, and really liked what I read about it when I started visiting faucets. It almost sounds like a community-owned, peer-to-peer bank/currency that is decentralized and censorship resistant. Really like alot of the terms/metaphors used in describing Bitcoin back them... like transparency(was compared to transparent/glass bank vault) , immutablity, etc.  Learning it was actually very easy for me mainly due to the fact it was taught in smplified manner, it's compared with things that are well known like precious metal mining, coins etc...and it also solved very important problems that bothered me about building on centralized internet and using centralized platforms

In regards to the Odolvlobo post you quoted, I think thesame could be said of something like Holding & Staking. Instead of reinventing the wheel, you could simply replace the word Stake with Hold in Bitcoin World and make things work like typical staking. An investor buy some bitcoin, hold, timelock for certain period of time and earn extra income from future increase in price of Bitcoin... Or the investors could be paid with another coin/token during the holding/staking period. This could even earn better than staking on coins that are not that scarce or don't increase in price like Bitcoin.

By the way, I wonder what they didn't continue with the colored coins.

I recently notice some increases in the price of egg where I live. I do not notice this with meat yet.
 I think most people should try subsistence farming in order to individually increase the production of foods rather than relying on big or few farmers. Unfortunately, it can be quite challenging to farm in towns or cities, unless you find free lands or buy/rent lands which could be expensive in certain parts of cities/towns.

I assume you think everything on earth is (or will be) known and understood by the dictators\tyrants?
Well, there are people who will be kept safe during their tyrannical reign and safe from the problems people will be plaqued with on earth. An invisible LORD who made this World will keep them safe. HIS name is JESUS CHRIST and HE is a Good LORD. Any one who believes in HIM will be kept safe too.
Ofcourse, there are believers who will be killed when their time on Earth is up. Others will be be "taken away" alive together with the killed believers.


I don't really know about skynet, maybe I have watched it before but don't remember anymore.  This is about very reliable prophesies about what will take place on earth in a not-too-distant future. It's gradually being fulfilled in this world and has been very reliable.
I believe those in position of authority, researchers, and others are aware of what is going on and have developed/developing plans to counter it. Unfortunately this will only lead to drastical changes that will end up getting mankind more enslaved to an evil entity. Besides they won't be able to solve the problems. It's way beyond them.

I usually assume that certain people who don't know much about crypto and its technical side would invest in projects with sophisticated words , that sound professional and complicated.
I actually prefer projects that can be very easy to understand by anyone, so that it won't be hard to understand by people who wish to be part of developing and securing the them. .

Ofcourse.
I stopped discarding my phones few years ago for thesame idea and other reasons. I believe smartphones would be one of the most important tech to continue thriving with in the time of serious crisis and when the internet  shuts down or something. Laptops would probably be used occasionally for mobility reasons and energy conservation.
So, I tend to focus more on mobile phones when planning the development of decentralized projects.   

 If  you could create a decentralized mobile application that runs as node and anyone could participate in through Wi-F/Bluetooth, you would solve the problem. The app has to be decentralized, transparent, immutable, censorship resistant, privacy-friendly/anonymity-friendly, etc.

Where I live, regular people would normally use things they are familiar with for comparing the measurement of something they're trying to describe. They rarely use the units of measurement as far as I can tell.
They would say something like "The man's living room is as big as our compound",   "The boy is as tall as this standing fan" etc..
I've probably noticed the local news people combined units of measurement with things people are familiar with while describing something. Not sure how often they do that.

Interesting.

Fees in crypto world is supposed to be fairer than stock market.

Anyway, I guess the Ethereum fee model is based on about 0.01% fee per eth transaction? . If fees really cost that much, that would mean the fee for transferring the 1000 ETH is about $17,500.

Well, one of the reasons for the invention of Bitcoin/crypto is cut out the middle men in order to help make fee cheaper than traditional banks.. .And the fee market is supposed to be competitive.   Been abit long i transacted on Ethereum, so I don't really know how the fee really works now. I imagine it will be possible to adjust the fee percentage to maybe down to about 0.0001% and you still get a reasonablly fast transaction. Hope that is possible. It should be.

That sounds like tyranny, and they are most likely overstepping their boundaries. Reminds me of a post I read about US making ownership of Gold criminal offense 30years ago or so. I guess If you dig up gold back then and keep it, you'll are considered a criminal?
I wouldn't bother too much if the Indians are limited from buying to much to prevent the devaluation of the Nation's fiat currency. But asking people not to own a currency/asset at all sounds like lawlessness and tyranny.