I agree that there is always a solution but there is also costs. For example the massive industrialization of EU and economical growth had a dire cost because they never had nearly as much energy to feed those industries. The cost was getting in bed with Russia. The cost of getting out of that bed is also de-industrialization and the almost all of that economy evaporating.

Why not? Money is money, besides both India and China are reliable customers which don't go with the US sanctions program.
Keep in mind that it is in their favor to buy Russian energy (even with small discounts) as long as they are putting their competitors in Europe out of business. This de-industrialization is mostly celebrated by them and of course US that are all sucking up all EU's industries like a vacuum.

Things are just like previous months without any change. We are not in a bear market nor a bull market. And the price is not going to go down unless some negative event takes place like FTX crap that happened and caused a drop or the Russian invasion that was the beginning of all this.

In short if nothing changes we will continue seeing sideways with a little rise...

As a special field defined under programming field or something like that, it is a good idea to add bitcoin and blockchain technology but not as a general field or course in schools or universities just because bitcoin is going to reach mass adoption some day.
At the end of the day you don't need to have a technical understanding of bitcoin in order to use it. Bitcoin is like any other technology, you can use it without knowing how it works academically.

Yeah, this error is returned whenever your transaction is not final meaning the nlocktime you chose for your transaction doesn't allow it to be spent yet so the node rejects it.

It is actually not as bad as you think it is. This is also not a new thing, every halving cycle we have the same discussion on bitcointalk which they even have a fancy name for it called "bitcoin death spiral". What you are forgetting is that the block reward you are talking about is from 0.0244 to 0.0122 which is A LOT smaller than the drop from 50 to 25 BTC and we didn't have a big issue back then, we aren't going to have a big issue in the future either.

I don't think it is mathematically possible to solve this since you have 2 equations with 3 variables (k, d1, d2). Having two signatures for each key isn't giving us any edge either.

You keep digging a deeper hole with increasingly hostile language...

That only works for complex equipments such as an air defense battery, a radar or a fighter jet (eg. F35) not for a ridiculously simple drone that has a single purpose such these drones. If anything is changed about these, they become a different product entirely. For example a shorter range and faster speed would be Toofan 2 which looks very similar to Shahed-136, a bigger warhead faster speed and different control makes it Saeghe 1 & 2, lighter faster and smaller versions are Ababil family.

You should ask your military about it
But be careful who you ask though, (according to the Syrian Al-Watan news citing military officials) a lot of those fighting in Ukrainian army these days are Takfiri terrorists from Syria who were promised land. They think of you as an infidel and would cut your head off because that would help them go to heaven!

The Ukrainian officials made this claim a while ago so how could I not have heard it
This is actually another proof that Iran is not involved in this at all otherwise they would have given our other drone versions that are designed to work in very low temperatures that parts of Iran experience specially close to borders where these drones have to operate and provide security. Temps such as -46°C.

Looking forward to that.

That washes all the crimes committed by Ukraine LOL.
What about Afghanistan and Iraq? Maybe Ukraine is still part of USSR and that bloodshed in middle east was also USSR fault

Reading your posts on how you deny all the crimes that Ukraine has committed over the years in dozens of countries from cooperation with Nazis during WWII to supplying Iraq's dictator Saddam all the way to sending the third largest number of terrorists to Iraq to murder people.
Specially with your support of the apartheid regime killing children in Palestine and your direct contact with those terrorists, you are starting to change my mind that maybe Russia was right about wanting to denazify Ukraine!

As far as I could tell from the publicly available evidence, so far Europe has only been capable of substituting a small portion of the gas they have been importing from Russia. The only reason why they claim their storages are full (which I doubt that too considering the shortage and blackouts that are starting, but that's a different story) is that they significantly reduced consumption by shutting down industries. A de-industrialization so to speak.

Contrary to what you may think, in many countries the biggest consumers are not home users but the factories. When you shut them down, you decrease the consumption or "demand" by a lot so that you can manage the low "supply" you already have for home users. This is actually one of the reason why gas price came down slightly.

I don't think that many users on bitcointalk have actually heard about this exchange, if any at all. Specially when searching it on coinmarketcap it is near the bottom of the list (176 out of 240) of exchanges with a very low daily volume which means not that many users actually know about or use this service!

In any case this is the wrong board as @Doan9269 pointed out. Use the move topic button at the bottom of this page to move it.

It is not only about frequency of a fixed number of people who open/close channels but it is also about the number of people who want to open or close a channel per day. For example we have a hundred users opening a channel every day who wouldn't want to close it in a long time, on-chain congestion makes it harder.
Bottom line is second layer works best as long as the main chain is operating "normally".

Some people are still bag holding shitcoins that they bought years ago (a lot of them in 2017 when they were over-pumped already) so they are in a huge loss (some in 95% loss!) so they will keep talking about that shitcoin trying to convince others to buy it so that they can get their money back.

Block reward has nothing to do with difficulty adjustment period. You could halve that reward every 8 years and still readjust the difficulty every 2016 blocks. It also requires a hard fork to change these not a soft fork.

It requires a hard fork because from year +4 to +8 the reward has to remain high whereas it is violating the existing consensus rules.
You may be able to reduce the period (eg. 4 to 2 years) with a soft fork not increase it.

I disagree since quite the opposite is true. For increased LN usage you want normal mempool so that more people could easily open and close their channels any time they want.
The point of LN is to give users the ability to send virtually unlimited number of transactions without worrying about limitations of a capped block space (regardless of the block size).

Is that even possible? Do you have any reference to support this being in the "agenda"?

This FUD is nothing new. They have been spreading it from early days that bitcoin was created and challenged the centralized banking system that was corrupt. CBDC is part of that corrupt system.

A good question. It depends on how spread the developers are in the world. For example if the top devs are all living in one jurisdiction then we are facing a real risk (similar to if all hashpower were from the same jurisdiction), but the more spread they are the lower the risk. After all one government deciding to crack down on developers in their own country would not halt bitcoin development in other countries.

They don't have to move, they have to already be elsewhere. As I said like mining. For example when China banned mining, none of the miners in other countries cared about it and the Chinese miners also moved their equipment abroad.

Assange situation is different though since they attached "national security" to that, it is going to be pretty hard to do the same with the globally recognized Bitcoin.

When they shut off the valve to their gas pipelines going towards Europe or when they stopped grains shipments, etc. that is also a form of a sanction without branding it.

Like any war, this energy war result is also not possible to predict. There are battles in this war that West wins and some battles that East wins while the war is not yet over.
Considering that so far the oil producing countries are working together and reduce production and keep the price up, the chances of Eastern Bloc winning is higher.

P.S. The recent disruptions in China which is one of the biggest buyers of oil has helped the price dump recently. We've to wait and see how their comeback and their big buys (specially after the recent visit to Saudi Arabia) is going to affect the market.

In other words an attention seeking idiot made some statements and the attention seeking media published it. Otherwise he has no idea what he is talking about and is just making random statements which is not entirely wrong nor right.

Bitcoin is a currency and what you do with that currency makes it Islamic or not-Islamic (or better said halal or haram). It's just that simple!

Try learning Separation of Concerns principle and implement that into your application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns

Basically you split your application into "distinct sections" and each section is responsible for a different stand alone concern. For example one part is responsible for sending/receiving transactions another part is responsible for evaluating the value and deciding what to do with them. You can inject a "mock" of second part into the first part while testing and give it any value you want (eg. $3000 for production and $0.003 for testing).

What you explained is suitable for a solution on bitcoin chain itself although I don't think it is a good idea to have something like that on it.
If the names database is supposed to be on a side chain then there is no need for Taproot. We already could create side chains without it and all the rules (the owner, the ownership transfer, etc.) could be enforced on that chain entirely.

The payment could also be to an OP_RETURN output (instead of just pushing hash in an arbitrary script that would create a UTXO in all nodes' chainstate db) and the data inside it should be evaluated inside that sidechain with its own rules.

Keep working on it but know that you shouldn't only focus on reducing the energy cost but you should expand your view and pay attention to what the alternative solution you suggest costs the system. That cost should not be harming the decentralization, security, max supply and other important principles of Bitcoin.

It is all about using Elliptic Curve Cryptography and the part where you compute public key from private key is using a process called Elliptic curve point multiplication you can read about it on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_point_multiplication
Here is another page explaining elliptic curve cryptography in general: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/

It is always good to have multiple backups in different forms BUT you should always try to figure out all the pros and cons of each backup method or medium that you use. For example paper could be damaged easily by a lot of things like by water (getting the paper wet ruins it). USB disks and generally the digital storages could also be damaged from the obvious physical and electrical damage to the little known data degradation which is where the data stored digitally could be lost over time.
There is also the matter of encryption and using extended keys for seed phrases that others mentioned that could be categorized as cons of paper wallets.