Other benefits are for NATO which are massive:
3. Some say Baku will be added to NATO overnight if they succeed in taking that little corridor.
4. Europe would gain access to the gas-rich Caspian sea and can manage their energy crisis a little better.
5. Gaining access to that sea means NATO military bases right at northern Iran's border and bringing their navy to the Caspian sea threatening the whole region that includes both Iran and Russia.

For now it seems like Baku knows better to get into a full invasion of Armenia so they will most probably have a lot more of these "little adventures" with high casualties that end too fast in a cease fire like the recent one but each time advance a little more into Armenia.

Things could escalate real fast though, if a third party gets involved... I wouldn't rule out possibility of "something" hitting Istanbul out of "nowhere" either... There is already a conflict between Greece and Turkey too...

Ever since this comment, some more information has come out (both sides are still denying it though).
1. Iran's Army commander recently confirmed the Su-35 purchase which approves the second part of my comment above.
2. An unknown picture surfaced where they claim they've shot down a Shahed-136 drone!


There is no image of video of it flying or being shot down or even if the picture is recent or from Ukraine not somewhere else like Syria which they've been used against terrorists.
If this is indeed Shahed-136, due to their size, material and speed they are impossible to track and shoot down specially when they are diving. Not to mention that they are used in a swarm and in coordination with everything else, not as a single unit to be shot down alone.
Which means if the image is not all propaganda, then it is the remainder of the drone after successful impact and destruction of its target.

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The way these loitering munitions (or the layman terms: suicide drones) work is that a swarm of them are deployed easily from for example back of a truck:


They remain in the sky until they detect their target(s) and are equipped with AI and are usually accompanied with a "mothership" that acts like the commander and can perform air-to-air fights, shoot its own missiles or deploy its own drones out of the back (I don't think the "mothership" is sold though since it is too high tech and is basically considered classified).

If the picture is not pure propaganda then what happened could be something like this for example:
A RU fighter plane is getting close for operation, the NATO intelligence reports that so they activate Buk-M1 (medium-range surface-to-air missile systems), the stealth drones already dominating the sky detect Buk-M1 and send a single unit of the S-136 to dive for the kill. After the success was confirmed and the operation ends, the rest go back home.


You can see them in the video below during a military exercise from a while ago (the last 2 pictures are from the video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcZEJ40Gt9M

If there is any interest I'll try to post more analysis if more information comes out.

There is a global food war going on and the only way things would turn around is if that war ends.

Crops don't just grow on themselves, livestock don't just flourish and give you product automatically. You'll have to work on the land for all of it. A city resident has a job in the city and can't just go work in a field every day.
If you mean buying the land and hiring the farmers, they are already doing that and it is called capitalism which is one of the reasons why the food war is harming food security.

The good thing about a market is that the history of that market is always available for the public to view for free with just one click. All they have to do is google price history and look at some charts to gain the experience they don't have of a bear market. Those who complain because of the drop are the same people who are too lazy to research what they've bought! They just bought bitcoin because someone told them "it is profitable"...

In other words the countries with the biggest arsenal of all kinds of Weapons of Mass Destruction (one of which is nuclear) have sanctioned a country that might want to build nuclear weapons but so far there has not been a single evidence of it.
Hypocrisy?

FYI the beef they have with Iran has nothing to do with nukes, it is all about fossil fuels (oil+gas) that Iran has the most of in the world. In the media they can't tell you that "Iran has the most sophisticated defenses that we want to force them to give up under JCPOA disguise so we can eventually invade and steal all those fuels" because you won't find it appealing. But if they tell you that "Iran is building nukes" then you feel threatened. So they do that instead.
BTW they did exactly the same with Iraq. They first told you Iraq has WMDs but under the hood they were forcing them to give up their defensive capabilities. It took about 10 years of sanctions and disarming and attacks to weaken Iraq enough to start the invasion with the help of dozens of countries!!!

It is most probably an exaggeration or at the very least it is a rumor to act as a scare tactic to maybe get some people to reduce their energy consumption/wastage. Not to mention it is extremely difficult and expensive to find, prove and prosecute anybody who breaks such a silly law!

BTW the spokesperson for the Department of Economic Affairs, Markus Spörndli started this rumor or whatever it is... based on Federal Act on National Economic Supply that gives NESA authority to take "measures" that include fines and imprisonment to ensure supply of essential goods and services that includes energy sources, foodstuff, etc.

Almost all the tools like these are being released under licenses that prevents you from suing them if you end up losing any money. You should be able to find it under the Terms of Services for web wallets or if it is some sort of open source browser based extension or tool you should look at its license on github.
For example if something is released under MIT license you agree that any damages or loss is not the developer's fault before you begin using it.

That's democracy. Heat your home and they'll imprison you for up to 3 years and you have to pay a fine of up to 3000 Francs! And to think they started this energy crisis themselves...

But in all seriousness this is another evidence added that to the list of reasons I posted here about how Europeans claiming their storages are near full is most probably a big fat lie.

Nah, Turkey can not afford to be a threat to Russia because they heavily rely on their energy and their economy is already in ruins and any new tensions (like a single loitering munition hitting an infrastructure in Turkey) would have dire economical consequences.

Those micro countries like Azerbaijan are not even considered big enough to be a threat. A handful of missiles are enough to neutralize each of them.
It's just that these countries have stupid politicians who are being abused by bigger powers and they think that they can gain some interest while everyone else is too buys to look at what they are doing. For example Baku is trying to take the area linking it to Nakhchivan but they won't be allowed to finish this ever simply because it is a very strategically important corridor that acts as one of Russia's main lifelines not to mention an important corridor to Iran since it is one of the routes used to link Iran to both Russia and Europe.

The misinformation Baku got was that the UNSC would busy Iran too much to distract it from their adventures. What they didn't count on was our military moving to the borders and the trigger fingers itching to take back Nakhchivan and possibly Azerbaijan (originally Aran) and reattach them to the motherland...

AFAICT it is quite the opposite. The monarchy has all the power in the country. From appointing the prime minister and the parliament to their day to day reports to the monarchy and not doing anything without their say so. From the ability to shut down the entire government from all ministries to the parliament itself to full control over the armed forces.

That's not enough though since even if they had bitcoin 1:1 they are still owning those bitcoins and they can decide to never swap bitcoins for their own shitcoin or sell those bitcoins and go away. There is nothing people can do about it.

Basically everything in your topic was wrong!

How long it takes for your transaction to confirm has absolutely nothing to do with your internet speed. After all bitcoin transactions are normally very small in size (less than a kilobyte) and it doesn't take that much to upload and then propagate them throughout the network with "normal" internet speed.
Dial-up internet speed is 56 kbit/s (8 kbyte/s), even at half that speed for upload that means it takes 0.28 second to upload a 1 kb transaction!

It is all about (1) how congested the mempool is in general. (2) how much fee you paid compared to the rest of the transactions in mempool. (3) your transaction itself and whether it had any unconfirmed parent(s), non-standard input, etc.

But that makes no sense!

You see it is one thing to describe an attack where the "lazy miner" doesn't download the whole block (eg 1.5 MB) and only gets the 80-byte header to skip merkle root computation and updating its database (eg. 2000 entries) to save a second. Which is SPV mining.
But it is another thing to say that the "lazy miner" doesn't receive 4 bytes out of 80-byte header (the nonce) and blindly accepts it as valid.

The article is describing the later which makes no sense because unlike the first case there is no benefit in doing that.

You misunderstood the question here.
In bitcoin you do not use a signature to spend coins, you provide an unlocking script that contains whatever is needed to spend those coins. That script may or may not contain one or more signatures.
If you look at the example provided in OP you can see that the unlocking script (scriptsig) is just an arbitrary data that has to have the same double SHA256 hash as the hash provided in the scriptpub (aka locking script).

I suppose they should be used to it by now since regular Americans been getting poorer for decades now. Besides, it is not them throwing money at NATO,etc. it is their government that will always keep squeezing them for every last penny they have in the name of taxes. That's is on top of the money they earn because of this war from the garbage their military is selling idiots at prices that are up to 4x higher than pre-war times!

It's just a painful transitioning phase that happens every now and then. For example when the US economy fell apart in 2008, over a million jobs were lost and millions of people lost their homes and income. After the transition was completed and some elites got fatter and bitcoin was created, the world went back to normal again.

2022 is the same with only one small difference, bitcoin is around and can be bought as the only existing hedge against the ongoing recession.
In fact that is why bitcoin price is being heavily manipulated these days preventing it from going back up. Otherwise just imagine what would have happened to US economy and US dollar if bitcoin had been soaring over the past couple of months and was worth something like half a million by now... I'd say half the world would have adopted bitcoin as legal tender and would have had replaced USD already.

Obviously those bag holding ETH don't understand or care about their security otherwise they wouldn't have bought a centralized altcoin with a mutable blockchain in first place

When you talk about Chinese economic growth or their economy in general you have to keep in mind that the system there is not the same democratic capitalist nonsense. It's different which is why some economy experts claim that China already had the growth they wanted to for now and they are shifting their attention to improving people's lives by closing the gap between different classes.

If you look at the past 40 years you can see that in China they eliminated absolute poverty (from 85% down to 0%) meanwhile it all those democracies with capitalism the gap is increasing fast as the poverty spreads, number of homeless families increase, quality of life deteriorates, ...

The first part regarding 51% attack depends on what cryptocurrency we are talking about. Unfortunately when the quote says "blockchain" it can be any blockchain, for example if I create a PoW coin today with nothing to offer you can 51% attack it with your own CPU without really spending any money! But that doesn't work in bitcoin due to how huge the hashrate is and how well distributed the miners are.

The second part doesn't make any sense. If a single node is disabled, then that single node is disabled not the whole network and it doesn't affect the "blockchain" at all. After that single node comes back online it catches up to the rest of the decentralized network by connecting to multiple other peers. Which means there is still no "compromised" state defined for that disconnected node.

This gives me flashbacks of 2017-2018 when newbies who closed their eyes and selected any altcoin and make a profit from its pump during 2017 thought they were "experts" despite everyone warning them and ended up losing all their lifesavings during dumps.
It is worth noting that most of those who made profit by pure luck thought themselves to be good "predictors"...

The internet didn't exist in the form we know today but in a way it did exist from the 60s. "Paul Baran proposed a distributed network based on data in message blocks in the early 1960s".
It was basically a smaller "network" between computers that could communicate with each other. It is like Bitcoin, there were other works done prior to Bitcoin but none of them could come to success. There were also no successful "blockchain" in any of them that solves the problems that Bitcoin did.