Writing an entire ECC library in ASM is impossible, we are talking about thousands of lines of code that would be a lot more in ASM and as I said before the benefits is not as great as you'd think. However parts of the code can be written in ASM like what libsecp256k1 does by writing the field element code in ASM.

The principle is about freedom, which means in order to acquire bitcoin or use bitcoin in any way you don't have to use centralized services including exchanges but you are free to use them or use bitcoin in any centralized manner if you choose.

You are confusing bitcoin with centralized services that use bitcoin.

Bitcoin has never gone through any theft. Exchanges were hacked and they stole people's money but that has nothing to do with bitcoin.

If you read Satoshi's posts more carefully you'd realize that bitcoin is not created for investment but instead as a currency.

Again this has nothing to do with bitcoin. It is all about exchanges and fiat (ie. banking system used by exchanges)

Not at all. Bitcoin wasn't created to change what centralized services do. It was created so that you have the option to not need the centralized services anymore. If some people decide to still use them, it is their fault not bitcoin's design.

Nobody should read negative news all day every day or they'll go insane. But also they shouldn't be ignored or swept under the rug otherwise they would lead to catastrophes. Every crisis today was a small problem yesterday. Like energy crisis which was a small problem when they ignored it and didn't diversify their sources!

If you read US or US linked sources, obviously you will think that way. Similarly if you read Russia or Russian linked sources they are denying all that too!
Also if you visit Iraq and talk to people there the "residents of Iraq" would also tell you the same thing about NATO and Ukraine as you are saying about Russians as "resident of Ukraine".

I don't think this chart includes COVID deaths as it is the "excess mortality" and some of the COVID death peaks don't match this chart either. eg. the COVID deaths are low on Nov Dec 2021 and there is a 2.5x rise in Jan and Feb 2022 reaching a peak whereas in this chart the peak is in Nov and Dec 2021 and it drops in Jan and Feb 2022.

No arguments there.

US hasn't left West Asia or other parts of the world they are occupying. They were kicked out of some parts like Afghanistan and to some extent Iraq and Syria but they haven't actually left. They still have dozens of military bases that are destabilizing each region.

As for similarities they are more similar than you think, the details are different which depends on a lot of factors like the country. For example what the West did to Palestine over 70 years ago was exactly "ethnic cleansing" that replaced population of Palestine with Zionists that is an Apartheid regime acting like a guard dog ensuring US interests in West Asia.
However, they can't do it everywhere so the strategy is different but the goals are the same. Usually the easiest strategy is replacing the regimes with US favored ones that fulfill US interests.

Take Afghanistan for example. The government that was installed there was a US made government that was pursing every single US interest that they ordered them to. From backing terrorist groups that had their guns pointed west (ie. at Iran) like Daesh or Uzbek militia to starting a water war with the neighbors. Even handing over Afghanistan to Taliban was somewhat similar strategy specially since they practically donated $100 billion worth of weapons and military equipment to these extremists.

Same with Iraq, the political infrastructure that the US has installed there is an absolute mess that has prevented any actual work to be done for the country and it is in constant internal conflict while they too fulfill US interests!

It is impossible to ditch fossil fuels for good because energy is not their own usage. From your mouse and keyboard that are made from oil products to fertilizers that use gas and gas products need fossil fuels.

As for nuclear energy, the problem is that the technology is in the hands of a small number of countries, and they have to build nuclear facilities for 90% of the world (they will not allow you to have the technology at any cost either). On top of that the nuclear fuel is also in the hands of a small number of countries (like Russia!) which means switching to nuclear energy comes with the same dependence as fossil fuels.

Binance is simply abusing the DEX and P2P terms so that they can corner another part of the market with a considerable number of users who are looking for real decentralization. By lying about it, they may be able to fool a small portion of such users.
There is nothing we can do about it expect informing others about the lie, otherwise there is unfortunately no laws prohibiting them from doing this.

This is could be a much bigger news that it looks like right now in the near future. When you consider that Brazil is a member of BRICS and kind of a "leader" in South America since they can convince a bunch of other countries in South America to do the same specially because they have good economical relations amongst themselves.
In other words in the following year or two we could see a lot of other countries accept bitcoin as a legal payment method...

You need to provide more information than that if you want "advice". What was the link between opening the PDF file and your Electrum wallet being emptied? It just doesn't happen like that and a malware won't give you a warning when stealing your coins. Why do you even think the pdf file was the problem?
Besides, are you sure your coins are stolen? Maybe the wallet is having problem syncing. Is it 5 year old wallet opened today or are you regularly using it? Was your wallet password protected?

You are right there are also other factors affecting the hashrate like the introduction of more efficient hardware, manufacturing and more importantly delivering these hardware to miners who filled an order a while ago (this could take months).

All the drops that we've seen so far and the struggle to go back up have nothing to do with some dumb correlation or even the regular cycles since that was also broken a while ago. It is all about the economy crumbling down all around (most of) us. The bitcoin market with its stupid gamblers are reacting to that very predictable crisis in the economy.

There is no doubt that bitcoin will recover eventually and smash through all resistances very quickly reaching new highs that some people these days are calling "impossible to reach". But the start of it is going to be when the economy has crashed and the ruins are stabilized. Otherwise as long as it is crumbling down I don't see it stabilizing for bitcoin to rise.

I'm starting to think that EU actually covered it and lied about the missile being from Ukraine. In other words I believe that there is a good chance that it was indeed Russia that intentionally attacked Poland to send a message.
The reason why they are covering it up is because NATO is not ready for a direct war (as opposed to the ongoing proxy war through Ukraine) that could bring nuclear annihilation. Specially when we read the news about more than half of NATO members are already out of weapons and the rest are starting to run out!

No arguments there but you are forgetting an important bottleneck which is the supply. ASICs don't grow on trees, which means even if they kept printing money to buy them to increase their hashrate they would still have to wait for shipments from China or start building the factories and come up with the technology that could compete with the existing ASICs which is still in Chinese possession.

Philosophically speaking you can define anything as anything (eg. Bitcoin and Speech) but that doesn't mean it is right!
But about this part I have to say it is impossible because the hashrate is already too huge and too spread around the globe for US to jump on board at this point and start owning a large enough percentage of it to have any kind of control. Keep in mind that US neither has the cheapest electricity nor access to ASIC production (the factory is in China).

Actually it depends on the country and their government. They are not all the same dictatorship wanting to shut down anything they cannot control. For example el Salvador government has been accepting bitcoin with open arms, if they could manage some excess electricity they would accept mining with open arms too. There are others like that too. For example the Iranian government has accepted bitcoin mining with open arms too specially since the electricity is by far the cheapest ($0.002 /KWH).

Adoption rate (speed) is different from adoption itself. I honestly don't see adoption increasing by 50% in such a short time since it has taken us 13 years to reach this much adoption. But the rate/speed changing is possible specially after the recession in West reaches its height.

Such major change in the consensus rules that is also not backward compatible requires a hard fork. We are never going to have a hard fork for something that is highly unlikely to happen.

Hashrate is mainly affected by the price. So any change you see is because of the highly volatile market and the huge market crash that we have had ever since the start of this war (from $70k to $16k).

Not that much hashrate is located in Europe specially this year since electricity price has been shooting up.
As for US the same arguments apply, there is only a portion of the hashrate in US not all of it and not a significant percentage. And they are spread across USA and they use various electricity sources that includes for example solar power (that is not a grid to go down).

Have you ever published this code or has anybody else (more specifically a c++ expert) seen the code because 120x speed up does not sound right to me unless the code written in c++ is bad or entirely different (eg. simple implementation of SHA256 vs using intel SHA intrinsics) or your benchmark could be flawed.

Any country with the least amount of power has influence in other countries, that doesn't mean anything you read in those secondary countries' media that doesn't agree with the status quo is a propaganda from the first country.

Here is a chart from Eurostat, an official website of the European Union. It shows between 25% to 40% increase in excess mortality (it is an epidemiology term which simply means deaths that are not normal) in December and January. In other words the speculation by the Economist is not a new event. It happens every year:


That's true, by shutting down lots of industries that used energy some European countries have managed to barely cover the energy needs for home users. But that is irrelevant here because if you read the article the main reason is high price not shortage, for families who are already suffering from high inflation and decreased income.

Sadly that is what all invaders do. In fact it is surprising it took Russians this long to start focusing on infrastructure considering others do it from day one. For example one of the first three main targets NATO barbarians hit on the day they invaded Iraq were farms, water treatment plants and power plants.

Sadly they don't seem to want to even acknowledge these serious problems let alone want to cool it. I'm afraid there could come a day where we see it's already too late.
Any of the "wars" I mentioned have been denied and are still being denied.

• Everyone (from regular people including those on this forum to the governments and decision makers) denied the food crisis earlier this year when I started that topic in OP. a couple of months later and European Fertilizer Producers announced that they are in a "full-fledged crisis".
  
• Everyone denied the NATO's expansion eastward and a couple of years later we have Russia fighting NATO in Ukraine. They are denying the US intervention in Taiwan and we could soon see the same there too.
• Everyone denied the inflation caused by reckless money printing and a couple of months ago we saw the inflation shoot up and exchange rates of currencies that remained fixed like euro dump.
• Everyone denied the energy crisis and claimed their storages are full but we keep seeing gas hungry factories shutting down and even talks of "temperature laws" in places like Switzerland and of course the article in OP!

Sadly the Russians have destroyed most of Ukraine's infrastructure which will also lead to yet another crisis that Europe will face: immigrants.
Some sources say about 20 million Ukrainians have been displaced because of this war already and there will be more due to winter and lack of electricity or heating. About 8 million of them have already entered the same Europe that is facing all the above crises and will make things that much worse.

Cryptocurrency covers more than 10000 different projects and more than 90% of them are scams through and through. So there is no reason to be irritated here specially when people say "crypto" or "cryptocurrency" they usually mean altcoins not bitcoin.

It depends on why you lost money. If it were because of normal market conditions, that is OK but if it were in a manipulated altcoin market where you got the dumping side of the pump and dump stick then you can't really call that a loss because you gave up your money when you bought that shitcoin not when it was dumped..