I agree with most of what you said except that "I don't mind not having cashed out". I do mind not having bitcoin'd out my gains at the right time. I do wish I had sold some of my shitcoins at ATH to get BTC. LOL.
Other than that, yes. When you really read about the history of this tech, the old posts on the forums, links of bitcoin with the cypherpunk movement and its insistence on decentralization and privacy, you realize that some really smart people have been working on this in a very principled sort of way.

Such history. Much wow.
I am sure a lot of greedy noobs would have got burnt. Loads of them will now leave and we can start going from the lambo discussions back to "why-my-tech-is-better-than-yours" discussions.

You are right but as the market matures, we can hope that people will start o make informed bets depending on their own research and not just hype. The market will stabilize and those of us stuck between "learning to know" and "trading to earn" will have the time to not look at blockfolio every hour.
Right now, its like when you read too much, you miss all the 100x gains while other people make a killing right and left..

Where do all you brainwashed zombies come from??

You are an idiot if you believe that Bitcoin cash is more technologicaloy sound. Its a bloody copy with an increased blocksize. Increasing blocksize is no technological marvel. Every other alt-coin does that.
You really think that scaling can be as simple as increasing blocksize? Who runs the nodes then to prevent miners from forming their own consensus.
A full node with low blocksize can be run by anybody while only data-center scale operations can run mining alongwith full nodes if yoh increase blocksize indefinitely.
That creates a clear conflict of interest because then only miners control the rules and consensus. What part of this argument is so difficult to understand?!

Difference no. 1: LN is a scaling solution for bitcoin. Not for fiat. You are still only transferring 'bitcoins' over which your payment node, the bank, has no control like they have over fiat money.
Difference no. 2: Suddenly if the bank decides to shutdown or goes bankrupt, it won't forefeit your funds as a normal bank can. This changes the whole paradigm of banking as it makes these bitcoin-banks behave much more responsibly to keep their business. They cannot hold your bitcoin ransom like fiat.

Aren't these big enough reasons to support LN?
Moreover, If you see it positively then we can have a future where responsible bitcoiners with enough funds will act as nodes just like they act as escrows now anyways. Its just that they'll be much more trustless than even escrows.

Smaller nodes for smaller, low-fee microtransactions and bigger, wealthier nodes for higher transactions.

Yeah, it was kind of a surprise. Here's the link:

https://m.economictimes.com/news/economy/policy/another-experiment-with-currency-rbi-is-looking-at-its-own-bitcoin/amp_articleshow/60710700.cms

Of course its like media reports citing media reports. Still.
Yes bank has had tie-ups with Ripple and even our own SBI has been dabbling its feet in the water.
Hopefully, we'll see a clearer picture after this years budget in February.

Add India.
The governemnt is yet to come up with a concrete policy and most announcements till now are the same uninformed blabber about "its not legal tender" etc. Reserve Bank of India, the central bank has formed a committee and there is talks about launching of Indian's own crypto called "Lakshmi".

Earlier, fewer people used to run mining machines. Mining is just a process of dedicating your processor power to the network. Gradually, this became an arms race of sort to put the fastest machine on network for mining.

Thats why we now have a situation where bitcoin can only be mined using specialized ASIC miners (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). To mine profitably, you need to procure one of these specialized miners which are not easily available. Even then, your income will regularly reduce as more institutional miners keep adding more processing power.
Thats why its not a profitable thing as of now. Though, my advice would be to that if you can invest, then its still worthwhile to get a bunch of the fastest miners and keep those BTC as it'd keep appreciating in value.

You can easily find about the profitability from a simple google search on "Bitcoin mining profitability"

There has been a sudden spurge of interest in the RX 580 too now. These too are not available anymore. So sad. I could manage to get my hands of 3 of these.
2 x Asus RX580 8GB (Hynix) ( and 1 x Sapphire Nitro RX 580 (Micron).
Sapphire Nitro is the workhorse absolutely. They are doing 29,29,30 ETH and total of 800 DCR at 430 Watt at the wall meter. I think I ca go higher with the dcri.

My question is regarding the fan temperatures. The temperatures are running at 65 with fans at 60-70. Are there any tweaks specific to fan speeds for better temperature management??
Its still winters in India and I can only imagine the difficulties that'll come with the summers..
Any suggestions on temperature management would be really cool.

Its anonymous in the way that you can disconnect your identity with the trace of your spends. For example, if in a moment of weakness, you go and buy a Brazzers subsrciption on your mobile/ laptop, you won't be bombarded with advertisements about "hot girls nearby' everytime you go online..Lol..Our CC histories, browsing histories, Amazon shopping lists have become a huge database and these people know what we want even before we want it, Like "hot girls nearby"!!

On a more serious note, If you intend to become really rich in 4-5 weeks and want to keep that a secret from people/ govt. to, say evade taxes, well then you really can remain anonymous if you take enough precautions.
Just make sure you don't use any identity or e-mail/ IP address linking you to your millionaire transactions. It would still be pretty difficult but with enough precaution, it can work.

There must be all kind of people who have become millionaires with bitcoin. Those who were using it for illegal trades on Silk Route, those who bought/ mined on a whim and then forgot all about it, those who held on through the years or those who held on and traded since last year after it became mainstream.
I think they all deserve it except the first category. The scammers are plenty. To give an example of my own country India, there was a drive by the Indian government to curb black money by suddenly banning all big denomination notes in November 16. A lot of corrupt businessmen and bureaucrats keep their ill-gotten money as cash.
This even includes people like lawyers, doctors etc. who earn huge amounts from private practices but keep it in cash so that they don't have to pay takes on this.

Immediately after this demonetisation steps, a few shrewd guys who had known about bitcoin back then started offering to turn this cash into secret currency for these people. A huge amount of funds changed hands and the people were given bitcoins in the form of paper wallets etc. People invested millions of their ill-gotten money when BTC was  under 1000 USD.
Guess what, those people not only were able to save their black money but multiplied it many times making themselves multi-millionaires.

The Doctors/ lawyers probably deserve it but not the corrupt govt. officials who keep their bribe money in cash.

The Ethereum foundation doesn't get a "portion"of the revenue created by the token. Tokens are nothing more than ideas being floated and traded.
We as common people are buying into the ideas thinking they would actually materialize and transferring ETH to the token makers. This increases the price of ETH, gives lot of easy money to anyone with an idea, some references and the time to manage online campaigns. Its all pretty fragile right now because we are all banking on our own crypto-startup becoming the next bug thing.

Haha! Holy shit!. So you think the answer is to keep increasing block size to 64, 82 MB. You either don't understand what a blockchain is or you have simply been brainwashed.
Sorry but i don't think you will get it. You are welcome to go on and use your Bcash for the next 300 years while btc will keep working on solving the real problems and march ahead. You can keep thinking that hollow marketing and false promises will work.
I wish that the people incharge of Bcash didn't take all common people to be a bunch of idiots. Someday, they will realize this hollow image management that you guys are trying to do.

That is the argument you can come up with. You think LN is not a solution because your grandmother can't understand it.

Does your grandmother know that the computer that is displaying images is actually just a combination of infinitely small pixels attached side by side and being lighted up in a perfect order by a background signal to ensure that just the right image forms on her screen. Or that those pixels are being manipulated at a rate of ~60fps to ensure that she sees them as moving images and not as still paintings.

Does your grandmother understand how a tiny transistor which is the basic functioning block of every single processor performing Arithmetic and Logical calculations is just a gate that allows a signal to be high or low depending on the input at its gate.

You see, you don't need your grandmother to understand how it works for her to use it. Even you don';t need it. The argument that it should all be understandable to an average user is childish.
What should be easy to understand is that big blocks will result in much more centralization as only miners and people with huge server capacities will be able to run a full node. That takes the power to validate the blockchain away from an average user. And it doesn't even begin to solve the real problem.

Wrong. Bcash blocks aren't full because there just aren't enough transactions yet. The same as Bitcoin used to have over the past years. As it has become mainstream, the transaction amounts have sky-rocketed resulting in more fees.
With simply bigger blocks, all you are doing is the inevitable. With real code and testing like LN, bitcoin is working to establish a network that will truly scale. At least, they are doing it in the true spirit of innovation and with the ultimate aim of giving people control of their money.

All Bcash is doing, is to tell the world falsely that big blocks is the answer and spreading propaganda about how they are the real bitcoin. If Bcash was fighting a battle of real abilities, any person who can think for themselves would support it.

Bcash is just fighting a trolling and marketing war instead of focussing on its own development. It has fallen to the level of those shilled campaigns run by alt-coins and only gives a bad name to the legacy of bitcoin. Attaching bitcoincash before an address is not an innovation. Its just another bunch of frills.

They are misleading the world and trying to win this through false marketing rather than with real arguments and technology.

Thats because Bcash is simply not being used enough to justify any fees. Bitcoin blocks on the other hand are almost full. A quick look at the sizes and no. of transactions in clocks will tell you the difference. Right now its a supply and demand thing. As LN gets deployed, these problems will start to get solved.

For the long term, combination of robust scaling solutions like Segwit, LN will ensure that Bitcoin remains the truly usable currency on scale while the lies being spread by Bcash will be exposed.
BTW, Its not just Bcash that can do transactions at low fees. Every other Alt-coin with PoW can do the same. Talk about it when you come in that league. In the last hour BCC blocks had just 4-500 transactions while bitcoin did more almost ~8000. Go check the blockexplorers
BTC: https://blockexplorer.com/
Bcash: https://bitcoincash.blockexplorer.com/

Wow!!This is the kind of troll posts that people talk about when they say that Roger Ver is paying his troll army to post shit about bitcoin. You guys are simply pathetic to think that something like a simple blocksize increase will solve the scaling problem.
Fact is that BCH blocks are not even half-filled. Thats coz there are miniuscle transactions compared to bitcoin. Most transactions are from that circle jerk of people tipping each other on r/btc.
That sub-reddit is trash in itself as all you guys feed on is news about bitcoin.

On the other hand, here we have work going on to ensure that LN gets implemented and a network can be established that will truly be scalable. The blocksize increases can come anytime later keeping in mind the average capacity of a home node that will have increased by that time to accomodate a bigger blochchain resulting from a higher blocksize.

The innovation less, big blocks of Bcash can meanwhile be happy with the apparent speed of their network thats just not being used by them. You can have scaling problem only when you are on the same scale as btc.

The dev-team is simply trying to do this more professionally than increasing blocksize and risking decentralization long term. There could be some sort of fee cap? But then how do the miners who aren't generating the coinbase block get compensated?

If the idea of opening and closing time-bound payment channels becomes widely used by merchants and users alike, then there really isn't a reason that it won't work. Its already demonstrated on the testnet. I am positive about the difference that LN can make.

Could you elaborate on that block-matrix thing? One thing to keep it in mind that the payment hubs cannot steal your BTC. whether thats possible in alternate implementations or not?

You are trying to find reasons that why it'd fail so you are under-estimating the capabilities of a complex network, when fully deployed. LN is supposed to solve the problem of micro transactions particularly. These transactions are never going to be worth more than a fraction of a BTC (at present values).

The number of people who hold these amounts are not trivial. The number of people who would be willing to act as a hub will determine the success of the network. If you have enough people ready to commit part of their holdings to a payment channel for a fixed time, you will have sufficient routes available for any transaction. For the large transactions, there already is on-chain settlement.

I can't wait to see it in action and am going to look for reasons as to why it will work, rather than why it won't because clearly, there are no other ideas we have seen implemented or tested for scaling as yet.

Also, its quite easy to point out why a complex system won't work. Turbo-generators weigh multiple tons but they still rotate at mindblowiing speeds of 3000-3600 RPM suspended on a layer of oil. By all accounts, it seems intuitively pretty tough.
Any complex man-made system doesn't seem to work intuitively until it actually does.

Is this a business opportunity you are looking into considering that miners aren't easily available in India? Thought, this may only be a temporary situation.
Lets just assume that you are doing this as a hobbyist and DIY project. Can you link it to some sort of institution rather than a private initiative. If yes, then you can ask some of the organisations in Bangalore that have the required facilities to allow you to test this out.

And seriously man, its a shame that we don't have fabs in India yet. The Deity was supposed to be working on two fab projects by the way. Heard about this 3-4 years back.
Have you looked into crowdfunding this? Genuinely interested people who care about the technology are unfortunately hard to find in India, but there are enough of them. How are the chips being powered. What capacity and kind of feeder would you need? 6.3 KW can be taken care of by your average Switch-fuse unit. There are a lot of industries that have those available. BHEL, HAL, DRDO . If you can connect this with academics then it'd be welcome in IISc too i guess. Have you explored these options??

Also, can you send me a synopsis/ presentation on this project?

To the OP. You made a newbie account the day coinbase sneaked in BCH. Since then, you have been relentlessly spreading FUD about bitcoin and shrewdly shilling Bcash.
You don't sound like one of the trolls so my closest guess is that you must be one of the earliest faithfuls who were unceremoniously purged from r/bitcoin as well as the forum. That was some major upheaval back in the days of Bitcoin XT i think. A lot of people got hurt and angry because of the policies adopted by Theymos. That name has a sort of Greek mythology ring to it now.
Some of the people who really believed in this thing turned against it. Bitcoin and Bcash are almost like two long feuding brothers. Reconciliation seems pretty far off right now.
Big blocks aren't the only solution if bitcoin has to scale and I guess you people failed to agree on whether to increase first or get SegWit/LN first.There's so much drama in that story.

Back in the days, none of you would have wanted LN or Bitcoin to fail. In the words of King Theoden "Days have gone down in the West". Heck, Lets hear the full lament:

Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? 
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. 
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?

Well, that up there was a masterpiece and I hope, AT LEAST ON THAT, we can all agree..