People like OP look at sites like https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html and since they don't even know how bitcoin works they make silly conclusions like this topic.
Most of those addresses with large balances are from exchanges. For instance the biggest on right now is from Binance and it holds 252k bitcoin or 1.32% of the supply that is holding bitcoin on behalf of lots of users. On top of that a large number of addresses (about 25% according to bitinfocharts) are holding dust amounts of bitcoin which swings the percentage towards that 2% OP mentions.
Otherwise the distribution of bitcoin is actually pretty good.

Not directly. By seeding the torrent file you are going to help those who want to download the bitcoin core binaries using torrent network which has nothing to do with bitcoin network.

They promised to implement it but never gave any timeframe and so far it is not yet implemented. You can use hardware wallets that support Taproot with Electrum though.
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/7544

We have to wait to see what they implement but P2TR is the script name used to describe Taproot outputs so that is possibly how it would work.

Technically you only need the chainstate to verify blocks which is a lot smaller than that, that is what pruning does anyways (with the addition of storing only a handful of blocks). There may even be some ways to pretend to be a full node

It's more accurate to say that miners follow "profit" not demand. For example bcash never had any demand, specially in early days but it could attract a good amount of hashrate simply because they manipulated the difficulty adjustment algorithm so that miners could mine 1000+ blocks per day (for comparison you can mine about 144 BTC blocks/day). So even with the low price and low demand that bcash had, the miners could make more profit in total so they made the switch in that period.

Biden is the best manifestation of America, the shortest lived empire that is currently in its last stage of life. It puts on expensive pretty clothes but internally it is all decrepit. It may die today catastrophically or it could continue living on borrowed time for more years but the inevitable is approaching.

@DrBeer did you even read my comment?! I'm pointing out the only case in history where a nuclear armed nation nukes another unarmed nation and the effects or rather lack of it elsewhere. Where did it even talk about "Russian greatness" and all that other nonsense that you keep repeating in all your posts?!!!

Because democracy and people's vote is only good as long as it gives the result that the big players want (ie. United States), otherwise they oppose it just like what the West is doing these days. It's actually quite funny how Russia used the same "democracy" the Americans always advertise in those regions.

Government prints fiat --> fiat value drops --> inflation goes up
Government prints more fiat --> fiat value drops more --> inflation goes higher
Government prints even more fiat while playing with interest rates --> fiat value drops eve more --> inflation happens with recession

One thing to remember about money printing and inflation is that it doesn't have to happen immediately. For example a part of inflation in US today is because of the money printed in 2020 pandemic.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/ shows the US national debt and how it is constantly going up. It recently set a new ATH at $31 trillion!!!
The site also has a list of other countries, none of them look good.

You should remember the whole story not only parts of it.

Bitcoin price was already rising and Musk's tweet just became viral adding to the existing hype but the media tried to convince everyone that the rise was because of his tweets.
After that when the drop began, he started spreading FUD about bitcoin contributing to the drop and again the media tried to convince people that the drop was because of his tweets!
Finally he tried to spread more FUD about bitcoin and its energy consumption but because price had reached a bottom, all of his efforts failed. This is something the media never told you specially when he was still insisting on his FUD and price kept going back up setting the ATH at $70k.

I think it is worth remembering that Binance (and some others like it that don't list BSV today) have been supporting this scam altcoin for a long time before they removed it. Basically they were all happy to list this obvious scam as long as it had a high volume and could give them a lot of money and delisted it as soon as the volume dropped and the pressure from the community became bigger than the profit they could make.

Lest we forget how Binance was offering mining pools money to commit a 51% attack just to reverse their stupidity (when they got hacked).

It's because some people got into this world wanting to make money and at the same time were too lazy to research what they were buying. Most of them think bitcoin is like PayPal where the only way to use it is to sign up somewhere!

It gets worse when it comes to altcoins since they don't usually have any decent wallet or any SPV clients at all. So you'll have to run the full node of that shitcoin or buy a hardware wallet or store it on an exchange, they obviously choose the last option since it is cheaper and they can dump them any time they want without needing to wait for hundreds of confirmation.

You don't need to reveal your identity to "get bitcoin", you only do it when you go on a centralized exchange and use your centralized payment system (banks, credit cards, etc) to swap your fiat for bitcoin. It has always been like this from day one. And it is not specific to bitcoin, whenever you use centralized services you are revealing your identity one way or another. Sometimes the degree differs but your identity is revealed nonetheless.

Governments have never been concerned about people being scammed. What they are scared of, specifically US is when companies start "print their own money", ie the stablecoins. So they will do anything they can to put an stop to it. Lest we forget their anger at Tether and their inability to shut it down so far.

Besides, Biden should really worry about United States National Debt that just set a new ATH of a ridiculously high value of $31 trillion. It grow over $1.5 trillion over the past 30 days! ....and yet they keep printing more dollars...
https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Except that Saudi's oil production has been dramatically decreased after Aramco was hit by the Yemenis resistance so they are not selling as much oil as before. On top of that ever since the failure of the American weapons they bought (like the Patriot system that proved to be completely useless in protecting Aramco or even US bases in Saudi Arabia from being bombed), they started buying weapons from the Chinese and Russians and also sell more oil to the Chinese instead of selling it to US...

I'm curious about the source of your claim about "peeps" being against bitcoin adoption in El Salvador. Specially since it doesn't really cost anything to adopt bitcoin! How much money did the El Salvador government spend on it anyways? Hire some programmers to create that wallet and pay them a grand?! You can't build health facilities with that much money.

I honestly have not seen anybody who actually thinks holding bitcoin in long term is a bad idea! There are definitely a lot of idiots who spread FUD but even those people don't think that since they are buying bitcoin themselves, specially in the dips.
13 years of going up and more up has proven that.

A good advice but irrelevant reason. Companies aren't going bankrupt for no reason these days. They go bankrupt because of the economic situation in those countries, for example in Germany they go bankrupt because of the high energy costs and the shortage of it.
Exchanges, specially the big ones, are not going to go bankrupt that easily. They mostly go bust when they get hacked.

A much better advice is to not trust anything centralized which includes USDT which is one of the most centralized altcoins that can go bust at any time.

P.S. There is no reason for bitcoin go any lower than this.

It is called "dust attack" (not dusting) and that is not how it works. They send a small amount of coins to an address that is usually empty so that they can force you to combine that output with another coin from a different address so that they can find the link between the two (or more) addresses. They still can't track you or find your identity this way though.

Exchange are not wallets and if you are keeping funds there, you have a lot more to worry about. Not to mention that in most cases your identity is already known!

There are more people warning about the wave of bankruptcies in Germany every day.
The most recent one is the head of the German Institute for Economic Research, professor Marcel Fratzscher. In his recent interview he "warns of a wave of bankruptcies in German companies".

Just as I said before, the biggest challenge German economy is going to face from now on is bankruptcy and the fleeing capital since due to competition the products made inside Germany would be a lot more expensive than same product made elsewhere. Consequently they would either be forced to shut down or move everything abroad, in either case lots of regular Germans will lose their jobs.