Torrent is actually a good example since "peers" actually store the data themselves and share it with others. It also stays alive as long as the file is relevant and there is demand for it. Which is a much better solution to storing something "forever".

US is not protecting anyone now either, they are only being used by US for resources and an inflation export destination. Besides it is impossible for India to get into such a conflict, they've already proven that they prefer to sit on the side watching others fight each other while India expands its strength. As for the rest, it is not possible to say for sure which side they will play for in an actual war, there will be lots of side switches.

To be fair most of the times when we see someone making an outrageous speculation about big drops or even big rises, they don't actually believe it themselves nor do they wait for it. They are merely stating their hopes and dreams. For example someone who panic sold their bitcoins below $20k resistance and have been setting up buy orders at $10k is not going to accept the fact that price is now above $20k and their buy orders are never going to be filled...

UASF might have acted as an extra push to encourage everyone into accepting SegWit but it definitely didn't "force" anybody to do anything considering that to "force" the network into accepting a proposal they had to be a lot more than 5-10% of the network!

We can only speculate and only for short term that can be changed in the future.
Let's just say that there is no reason to see any more drops at this point and there are more reasons to see price continuing to rise up higher from this level.

We also have a better confidence in the market considering that things that previous affected bitcoin negatively are not having the same effects. For example over the past couple of weeks the US stock market has been dumping but bitcoin price has been going up. This means the panic seller newbies who tend to panic sell each time US stock market crashes are either out completely or they have finally learned that they should buy bitcoin when that market crashes not sell it.

You are contradicting yourself by claiming my statement about "users having an affect" is bending reality while admitting that "users have a strong effect"!

Wrong.
A small minority of nodes and miners that were less than 10% of the whole Bitcoin network were enforcing an attack known as BIP148. It would have never succeeded even if SegWit hadn't been activated when it did simply because they were the minority and would have created an altcoin.

You are correct about the limit of OP_RETURN as @ETFbitcoin pointed out but you are forgetting that the examples you used (documents related to ownership of a car or a house, etc.) has centralization attached to it so you don't need to store the whole document on bitcoin blockchain, but only some sort of link to it like a serial number or document hash, etc. and OP_RETURN's 80 byte limit is more than enough for that purpose.

Here is an example of real world application. Land registry by the government of Georgia using bitcoin blockchain:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/02/07/the-first-government-to-secure-land-titles-on-the-bitcoin-blockchain-expands-project/

This is another case of what I've been warning about for the past couple of year. The case where people look at cryptocurrencies and then judge bitcoin whereas they are very different. Altcoins have no usage and what was said here is correct about them. Bitcoin on the other hand is unique and provides a real world utility hence the statements make no sense about it.
Lets see

100% correct.
We have seen this over the years. One altcoin is replaced by another. If you look at the coinmarketcap stapshots you can clearly see this. Although I'd argue that altcoins are not assets, they are gambling tools.

100% correct.
Altcoin investors are fooling themselves and shouldn't "invest" in any of the altcoins. Only bitcoin is a viable investment for the reasons I said at the start.

100% correct.
Altcoins are the stupidest store of wealth since they get dumped and eventually disappear which is because they are useless and will eventually be replaced by another useless altcoin.

This is bullshit.
For starters Microsoft has been around since 1975 (48 years) whereas bitcoin has been around since 2009.
Besides Microsoft is not attacked by literary everyone spreading FUD about it, restricting access, shutting down bank accounts, banning its usage, etc.

That is not possible to do globally since the inflation is not a global matter, it is local. It is also not possible to achieve with decentralization since inflation is again centralized.

Good thing bitcoin is technically money not currency.

100% correct.
The hype surrounding altcoins is all fake and the price they have is not a representation of their value since majority of them are worthless.

100% correct but I should add that in the current economical situation people should find a store of value that is not directly affected by the dumping economy, credit bubble, inflation, ... that makes bitcoin the only choice.

Yeah, this is the new form of scam although I don't know how successful it is going to be because until this point the main hype is just in social media and hasn't completely manifested itself into a market where money changes hand to turn into full blown NFT 2.0 scam.

Well, it's a war and maybe those who don't have the stomach for it shouldn't participate.

Bitcoin's very existence where it gives the option to the average Joe to stop using the corrupt banking system is a threat to the corrupted entities. Everyone should know that they won't just stand around and watch. Sometimes it is just propaganda and FUD, sometimes it is legal battle, and sometimes it is outright banning. On top of that we also have the abusers, trolls, criminals, scammers, etc. who would stop at nothing to do damage.

That doesn't mean we should stay silent either or discourage others from joining in the battles. Sometimes people forget the Bitcoin ethos and need to be reminded of them. They need to be reminded that bitcoin isn't just something you buy to make profit...

No, this is not how things work. Bitcoin as a system consists of all groups and each have a say in this decentralized currency's future. Nodes, miners, businesses, investors, etc. One group can't really force other groups into something they don't want.
The best example in 2017 where the hard fork step in SegWit2x proposal had a huge support from miners but only had minimal support from everyone else. Consequently it failed.

This shows the flaws in the educational system and the "wrong knowledge" that people sometimes learn exiting that system. For example OP is so wrong that he is referring to the most centralized shitcoin with a massive premine, serious flaws in the protocol and worse of all a mutable blockchain a "creditable blockchain".

If someone with a "PhD in blockchain" has so little knowledge and is this misled, what can we expect from regular people with no background in the field who hand over their money to the very shitcoins that OP thinks are "credible" just because they were pumped by these newbies.

"int" is short for integer which is a whole number (without fraction) that can be positive, negative, or zero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer

As far as I know bitcoin has never been "illegal" in Hong Kong or even in China for that matter. They just banned certain things in China like mining and even less things in Hong Kong where people are still mining bitcoin.
So it depends on what "legalize" means in this context. The regulations they put in place will determine their effects. For example it could be positive regulations for exchanges and mining farms which means it would attract a lot of investors from China and possibly elsewhere to build the industry there.

There are so many things wrong with this statement
First of all what you are looking at is not "market dominance" at all. It is "market capitalization ratio" where you divide bitcoin's market cap with sum of thousands of shitcoins' market cap.

Secondly market cap and its ratio has nothing to do with value at all. It is a product of price * supply and since shitcoins have huge supplies and there are thousands of them, the ratio is small and shrinking as new shitcoins are created or old shitcoins like ethereum with unlimited supply create more supply.

Finally a useless shitcoin that relies on being pumped such as ethereum is never going to be able to gain a value higher than bitcoin specially with unlimited supply and lack of real world applications. Just look at the charts from 2017 to 2023, this shitcoin has been dumping consistently ever since the ICO mania in 2017 where it reached about 0.15BTC and it is currently worth half of that since it's been dumping!

Wrong.
Bitcoin didn't "have to" do anything. Bitcoin is A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System just like it was on day one. It is always an "option" for people seeking financial sovereignty and is not supposed to replace anything or dominate the world as a money.

Lots and lots of people. Just look at the number of merchants accepting bitcoin as payment, look at the payment processors that help many merchants receive payments, etc.

LOL bitcoin transactions don't have a "purpose" field attach to them for you to see their intention.

Every second of every day.
You want real world examples? Get out in the world and look around. For example there is a computer hardware shop near me that accepts bitcoin payments and last I asked them they said they receive a decent number of payments in bitcoin.

If you look at that website's history you see that the market capitalization sorted list is always updated with the new hype trend. For example in early days the hype was innovation and new ideas so we saw coins like Namecoin, Litecoin, etc. on top. Then it was copycat coins that could pump a lot so we saw a wave of them be on top. The most recent hype is token scam so the token platforms are hot and on top until a new hype comes along.

Nonsense. Bitcoin is a currency not a platform.

What you think you are doing is not new. Many years ago someone else tried corrupting bitcoin and making it irrelevant like other shitcoins by changing the protocol and introducing flaws into the system. He failed so he went on to creating his own shitcoin called ethereum that is known to be the ultimate scam, a platform for creating useless tokens that have only managed to attract scammers and gamblers and has been dying as the fever wears off.

Reachable IP addresses don't help the network (like Tor), running a "node" does. And to verify someone is running actually running a node is more complicated than just reaching their IP. In other words it is very difficult, whether it is a Tor node or a cryptocurrency full node.

Correct me if I'm wrong but that cold war didn't contain any armed conflict between two sides. It was all "chest pounding" so to speak and flexing muscles. This time it is an armed conflict between Russia and NATO inside a third country as the proxy.
Although I agree that suspending START isn't an indication of a nuclear war but there are many other reasons why the risk of one is high.

If you want to use land then you should use people to "livable land" ratio because in some countries a considerable percentage of the geography is not livable like Russia, Japan, Canada, etc.

I'm not sure if it is a typo or there is a mistake here. When majority of countries are setting negative economy growth and are battling inflation and recession, China is experiencing economic growth!
For example US expects at best case scenario a 0.3% GDP growth, Germany and UK had -0.6%, etc. while China is already having 5%+. It is not just GDP, the export amounts are enormous and all their destinations (like US) are having increasing amount of trade deficit each year.
If anything the only economy in the whole world that is not-sinking is China's!

The world is moving in a direction that being neutral costs more than choosing a side which is why sooner or later all countries will have to choose one of the handful of big players or superpowers to play by their side. I dare say US and China are both evil with different approaches though.

There is no reason to use Ordinals attack to do something like that. In Ordinals you will have to first create a new Taproot address created from the script containing the "document" then send some coins to that address (1st tx). Then you'll have to spend those coins so that you reveal the script and the document inside it on the blockchain in another transaction (2nd tx).

You could already do that using OP_RETURN as it has been done before. All it takes is one transaction with an OP_RETURN output containing the information related to the documents proving possession of the thing in real world.