That is not what "success" means. Success is defined with having real adoption in the real world not just having a price on an exchange. For example there are currently altcoins that don't even have a blockchain anymore but they are still being traded on some exchanges like Yobit and have a price. By all definitions these altcoins are dead but they have a "value" still.

The main point was to have a currency that unlike fiat currencies is not printed until the end of time. In other words an alternative currency that is different.

Technically since you can always create more NFTs that are exact copy of each other, their supply is unlimited regardless of what one of them does.

You should know that just because you see a lot of people talk about bitcoin as an investment, that doesn't mean bitcoin has made a "full transition". The fact is that people talk about price and profit more than they talk about bitcoin as a currency but the adoption as a medium of exchange grows side by side with the adoption as an investment.
For example if you check the number of "payments" using bitcoin in shops accepting bitcoin payments, the bitcoin payment processors, etc. you can see this growth clearly.

One question that people forget to ask is how many of those who bought in early days have actually held on to their coins. We see this all the time, people buy bitcoin at a price like $5000 and when it drops to $3200 they panic and sell their coins. Then after a couple of months when price is at $70,000 they complain about missing out.
Things weren't that much different in early days either. There were a lot of people who bought at $1 but panic sold it at $0.8.

The problem is always the same too. They want to become rich overnight.

It is not about what they lose but about what they gain. China is the only country that has a CBDC that is actually being used on a large scale (with a high transaction volume) and they wanted to force more people into the direction of using their centralized altcoin by putting more and more restrictions on any decentralized cryptocurrency that people may want to use like bitcoin. Hence the ban on mining bitcoin and the exchanges.

P.S. Of course there are other reasons for said actions. For example one of the reasons to shut down the exchanges were the massive amount of money they were laundering (with their 0 fee fake trades). Or ban on mining was because of their energy crisis.

You can't because there is no relationship between "part of the private key" and the "address". You will need the full private key to be able to convert that to an integer, then compute the public key of that private key and finally compute its hash to get the address.
When you don't have part of the private key, you simply can't compute the public key and the rest either.

Yeah, the benefit is that you give an address instead of a hard-to-transfer script. But there is only one HASH160 applied to the script (RIPEMD160 of SHA256 of the script).

Yes, otherwise the old nodes would reject any transaction that doesn't have that dummy item. But we could add an additional limitation to require the dummy item to always be OP_0 (one byte) instead of arbitrary. This change was still backward compatible.

That's not entirely correct. It depends on what kind of hashrate is "small scale mining" in total. If it is significantly less than the current level (eg. 20% of it) then bitcoin is in a big trouble because 51% attacks start becoming easy.
Besides the governments don't have to crack down on everyone, they only have to make it illegal for regular people to stop on their own out of fear.

Agony?!! Are you serous right now!
If someone has been felling that way just because price hasn't been "shooting to the moon every day" then that is their own fault and you can't call such people "investors" because they have no idea what they are doing.

Token is referred to what is built on top of another platform known as token platform and relies on that. Like whatever you build in Ethereum platform.
Bitcoin is not a token.

You mean some idiot on the internet who claims to be an "expert" just because he makes some posts about the price.

The reality is that nobody knows since it is not predictable.

Turkey can not afford to enter any war considering how it is surrounded on all sides by conflicts ready to explode. From Greece that is being armed to the teeth to fight Turkey to the Resistance on the entire southern Turkish border ready to burn Turkey for its war crimes in their countries. They can't afford to get involved in another conflict in the North with Russia.
Not to mention that the ~90% inflation that Turkey has been experiencing has crippled the economy and has increased public unrest. If they are stupid enough to enter a war, it would push the country over the edge for a civil war inside Turkey where Turkish people would attempt another coup to remove Erdogan but this time Iran won't save him like last time.

That is nonsense. It is Azerbaijan that started attacking Armenia and is trying to wipe it out from the maps not the other way around.

Was that supposed to be an insult? LOL

The forces already crossed the border and the recent announcement by the foreign minister (Armenia's security is going to be ensured by Iran) put an end to any possibility of Azerbaijan's terrorist attack on Armenia.

P.S. I really wish the idiots in Baku are stupid enough to attempt something. The trigger fingers are itching to take back our occupied cities like Aran and cleanse it from terrorists including but not limited to ISIS and Zionists.

Creating the new world order is always painful and it always happens over decades. It is more painful for those who didn't accept the new world order to plan ahead which is why we see much higher inflation in some countries compared to others. This is true on a smaller scale (businesses) too, they had to plan ahead knowing USD will eventually be abandoned by a large portion of the world.

You are confusing "banning bitcoin" with "banning bitcoin mining". Nobody can ban bitcoin because it is decentralized and based on peer to peer network that can never be banned. But a mining farm that is extremely hard to move or hide which has a fixed location and relies on a bigger than regular household electrical source is easy to find and shut down.

They want to do the later. And they can easily do that in their own jurisdiction (not globally). For example a couple of years ago one of these Asian countries (I forgot which one) banned mining and then seized hundreds of ASICs. Then they used heavy machines (trucks, etc.) to destroy them in the middle of the street. That action didn't do anything to bitcoin mining as a whole, just in that country.

There is two problems with this which is why price isn't yet rising.
Many people still don't know about bitcoin or still believe the FUD they've been fed over the years so they stay away from the only reliable hedge against inflation.

The other problem is that people invest their money if they face small inflation but in most countries like in Europe we have much bigger than normal inflation and even hyperinflation. Not to mention that in many cases inflation is mixed with recession like in US which means people don't have enough money for their regular expenses let alone have anything left for investment.

If you know this then maybe it is not such a good idea to create your own wallet, even if you are using an existing library because you will end up with serious security flaws that you may not even notice.
Hope you are just experimenting.

Calculate it from what exactly?
You either have the WIF already but have lost part of it (like a damaged paper wallet) or you have the private key in a different format like Hexadecimal and that is damaged in which case there is no reason to convert the part you already have to another format like WIF to recover that, you should use what you already have.

Even if it is something crazy like what @PrimeNumber7 with what you think is a flawed RNG and you think you have part of the key, there still is no reason to convert it to a base58 WIF since recovering this format is actually harder than recovering normal bits you may already have.

The fact that you use 2018 and 2022 as comparison points shows you are making a mistake. It is naive to think they are the same since 2018 bear market was because of the bubble in 2017 and it was part of the same old 4-year cycle whereas what happened this time in 2022 had nothing to do with any bubbles (since we had none) and the 4-year cycle is already broken.
Consequently what trend bitcoin will follow in the future can not be predicted based on past performances anymore.

These things are very accurate until they are not correct at all.

The thing is, history repeats itself but there are also two dozen other factors affecting the market. For example nobody could foresee the effects of the pandemic in 2020 on global economy and the effect of economy crashing on bitcoin price. Same as today.

In my opinion we are indeed in an accumulation phase but next move depends on the global economy:
If the economy continues crashing slowly like this there is a good chance that bitcoin starts reviving again.
If economy stops crashing then the chance is higher.
But if the economy sees a sudden big crash then bitcoin could be panic sold and crash too.

Thank god we have basically free universities in our country otherwise I don't know what kind of money I should have paid and owned to get my masters degree.

They may be counting on migrations. A lot of graduate students migrate to US. It's no wonder that almost half of NASA scientists are Iranian

For what you said to make sense you first have to prove why you think bottom should have been $13k-$14k and then you should prove why bitcoin price has to change with inflation?
Not to mention that we are talking on a global scale not local so which country are you talking about and why do you think that has to be the only factor affecting bitcoin price? Right now we have inflation that goes from 1% all the way to above 100% (Turkey for example is almost at 90% inflation).

To be honest I've never experienced or heard anybody be double charged when using debit cards here.

First of all there is "file" involved in any of the cryptocurrencies or tokens. There are only transactions.
Secondly you can neither duplicate nor falsify a transaction output (aka coins). It is simply impossible.
Double spending is not about duplicating the same transaction, but spending same coins more than once.

This is the most incomprehensible thing I've read here!

It has always been easier for the politicians to find an scapegoat or a "bad guy" to blame everything on. In fact one of the reasons for the mass protests in Europe these days is that they have been blaming all the inflation and economical hardship on someone else (in this case Russia) to fool people into forgetting that they've been printing a shitton of money for the past 3 years and we've been warning about this day all this time. Now people see that lie so they revolt.

Bottom line is some countries may ban bitcoin mining but it will definitely not be because of "fears of climate change" even if they insist on this being the reason. They will only ban bitcoin mining when they face an energy crisis which Europe and to some extent US are facing it these days which is why we are seeing an increased number of discussions about this matter!

It is worth mentioning that China banned bitcoin mining because they were also facing an energy crisis and it didn't solve a thing considering the fact that China's electricity usage continued growing like before, it didn't even have a small drop!