Even with NFTs you are still receiving a useless token and NOT any form of "actual product". The only difference is basically the name and not much else. In fact ever since ICO scam failed by the end of 2017 they have been changing the name of the scam and have been trying to fool people into buying the same tokens under a different "category name". Here is the names they've used so far:

Self hosting is not that easy, the biggest challenge is providing security. You don't want someone modifying the code by gaining access to accounts and merging pull requests, etc. I think this is what @aliashraf means by "github goes beyond that".

Good thing that bitcoin is international not national...

I'm afraid that situation is a lot more complicated than what it seems like in the media.
It was part of a much bigger plan by US to make the best out of their defeat it Afghanistan. Keep in mind that the plan wasn't just to invade Afghanistan. As US commander Wesley Kanne Clark revealed, the plan was to "destroy 7 countries". They started the job on 6 of them but couldn't achieve their goals in any, also they couldn't even begin working on the 7th. The 7th country was Iran.

The recent leaked classified information shows that since United States does not have the military capability to face Iran, the replacement plan was to start another proxy war. The first step was to create a threat in the East to suck Iran into Afghanistan to fight the Taliban extremists armed by US (in the east) while 17000 armed and trained terrorists by US in Northern Iraq (west of Iran) attacked Iran and at the same time the corridor Iran uses for exports to Europe would shut down in North West by Baku army as they would invade Armenia. Meanwhile US navy would start threatening maritime safety in the south (the only sea access Iran has) from afar without actually entering any conflicts.

Long story short, this plan failed miserably as Iran's leader neutralized all threats at the same time without any conflict.
- The eastern conflict was neutralized by not backing the fake resistance in Panjshir while opening negotiation channels between the two fighting sides in Afghanistan.
- The western threat was neutralized by arresting or bombing all those 17k terrorists into oblivion in occupied parts of Iraq (last step was those hypersonic bunker buster missiles that hit the main terrorist base in Erbil earlier this year which also shook the nearby US consulate).
- The Southern threat was neutralized with the show of force and halting any passing US warships in Persian Gulf warning to sink them without hesitation if they became a threat
- The North Western threat was simply neutralized when Baku realized "the big plan" has already failed and all eyes are on him and the fact that we haven't forgotten that Soviets annexed Aran from Iran and he is considered a usurper. All it takes to liberate our city is an afternoon.

"Two of the ships that have left ports in Ukraine ~are going to Turkey~ to England. ~ to Ireland. ~to Italy".
Does the Wheat war get any clearer than this? Even European countries started doing what China has been doing for months, they are gathering and storing as much food as they can, filling up their strategic storages.

"the freed shipments will mean more grain on the world market and consequently lower prices".
I wonder how the handful of countries hoarding food is going to decrease the price on the world market. Specially if they resell a tiny portion of those grains at a much higher price to other countries!

This reminded me of Churchill in WWII and how they stole the food from Indians and caused famine in India, then blamed them for wanting to eat!

Your topic title is its own answer!
If they are anonymous then you can't count them, even looking at addresses with certain balance is not the answer because an address with a large balance could belong to a service not an individual.
And if you could count individuals with certain amount of coins (like whales) then they would not be anonymous anymore.

Users should never even download a .exe file from a source they don't know or fully trust. Verifying is not going to give you the required information specially using unreliable tools like VirusTotal with false positives and false negatives.
Specially if the project itself is closed source.

Usually the problem that open source developers face is not money but instead is lack of time. The main developers are usually busy coding more important parts like LN these days.
However, you still can offer a bounty for grabs if you want to put your own money in. Just create a new issue on Electrum's github repository and offer the bounty. If someone grabbed it you could place the amount with an escrow until the feature is finished.

I would still call this a sideways market until we break the $25k resistance and stay above it for enough amount of time. But we can also clearly see that there is a tendency to rise which may even be interpreted as an uptrend for the past 2 months ever since June 18 when price reached the bottom.

We are setting higher lows and higher tops:

What is described here is all about fairness which has nothing to do with democracy. Democracy is about people's participation in decision making which has been proven to be fundamentally flawed. All the laws that are unfair (involving economy, taxes and distribution of wealth) are democratically proposed, approved and enforced.

But bitcoin isn't having significant changes the way you think it is. Only new features are introduced to make it better.

I'm assuming you are talking about bitcoin core when you talk about code, in that case it is very well structured although core like many other open source software does not have enough documentation.

If we were to think like this then we should have never used bitcoin in 2009 either because there really is "no proof that original version isn't going to go wrong" either.

With the evidence we have so far, we can say that there is a high chance that the bottom is already in and it was the $17.5k price that was momentarily touched in June.

So far there has been about 5 attempts to push the price lower and they have all failed which is another good indication.

Price also tries going back up and fails but each time sets a higher low which is another positive indicator.

You should have looked at the British Pound's exchange rate before making this statement. Both GBP and EUR are dumping identically (both about -3% in past month). In fact this is the main reason why the English government fell apart and Johnson was kicked out of office. Brexit failed to achieve its goals.

Basically the well known scammer called Craig Wright exploited the legal system in UK to win a fake case against an anonymous entity called Cøbra who has control over a centralized website called bitcoin.org. The result was the court order to remove the paper from that website for UK IPs.

However since the bitcoin paper and the original bitcoin software were both released on public domain and under MIT license, nobody owns the right to it and no court can legally force their removal unless the whole legal system is exploitable which it was in UK.

This is a wrong comparison. For starters the "crypto" market capitalization is fake simply because you can create a shitcoin/token out of thin air without virtually any cost and sell 1 of it for whatever value you like and have trillions of dollars of market cap added to the total. Which is why token market does.

Secondly there is no reason to even make such a comparison to begin with since there is no relationship or even similarity between the cryptocurrency market and the real estate market. If anything you should compare bitcoin market cap with total monetary supply and compare the altcoin market cap with the penny stocks market size.

It depends on what you mean by "change". Certain principles of bitcoin will never change no matter what. Such as being decentralized or having a capped supply. Everything else can change like the new script interpretation rules that improve Bitcoin.

A standard rule like fee has nothing to do with a consensus rule like max supply.
Changing the rules involving fee does not even require some proposal, any node can do whatever it likes.

That doesn't mean improvement should be stopped.

Not at all. Bitcoin, like any other computer program, needs to be always improving specially with the new needs that may arise in the future.

That's not an argument about adding or not adding new features to bitcoin. This is an argument about coding style and whether a developer is capable of writing clean and scalable code.

Bitcoin is a good option for us (regular people), the governments want to have full control but they can't control anything about bitcoin. That includes the price which is volatile and that makes it a less desirable option for big trades.
But a gov-coin or CBDC is basically the same as fiat, they can control everything about it just like the existing banking system.

The amount I mentioned above was the total in multiple countries not SK alone ($7 billion in SK), and it is not a "story", there has been a long conflict over this money for the past 4 years and they still haven't given it back simply because US doesn't let them!
This is for example part of this long drama last year:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2021/02/24/south-korea-agrees-to-unfreeze-1-billion-in-iranian-assets-following-tanker-seizure-by-tehran/

Evidence suggests that you can. Take United States for example, according to what CENTCOM commander Gen. McKenzie told the House Committee on Armed Services a year ago, US hasn't had air superiority in countries they are occupying for the past years. That's all because of the drone threat they are facing, and we are talking about primitive drones like Qasef that poorest countries like Yemen use to hit US bases occupying their country not even the advanced ones owned by Iran such as those with artificial intelligence.

That's just media putting a magnifying glass on a normal thing that has been going on for a couple of years. Considering the fact that Iran has been mass producing modern weapons, export has always been one of the plans; ever since the UN arms embargo was removed in 2020 the Iranian advanced weapons have been sold in global markets. For example earlier this year in Doha International Maritime Defense Exhibition in Qatar, the Iranian made AD-200 long-range air defense missile system was present among other things (the selling point was the US stealth aircraft right across the hall that the system had shot down the previous year!).
Or the drone production line that was installed for Tajikistan to help them fight terrorism in the region using the multi-purpose Ababil drones.

As for this particular news it's hard to say if it is true unless some evidence comes out.
- On one hand the media has been filled with a lot of nonsense lately (like the recent thing about Russia needing the Iranian satelite to spy on Ukraine lol). Neither side has either approved or rejected these claims.
- On another hand there has been a military relationship between Iran and Russia (clear from things like the naval drills over the past years in Indian Ocean and soon in North Atlantic Ocean). Also considering that Iran's drone industry is leaps and bounds ahead while the airforce is behind in regular manned planes, this could be true and about a swap (Shahed family for Sukhoi technology).

Bitcoin is a part of economy and it is affected by what happens to the economy as a whole, inflation is only one many factor.

Also there is a huge difference between inflation having an effect on bitcoin and bitcoin price directly following US inflation rate to the point that the numbers reported change the bullish/bearish state!

I also think the method is too complicated. Compared to writing the randomly generated words (12) inside a book that you carry across border may be a simpler option. Worse case scenario is storing an encrypted version of it on a cloud server and retrieving it after crossing the border.

I also can't help but think methods like this where the user has to be the entropy source all share the same weaknesses that humans are not a good source of entropy. You know that there is a good chance that someone is going to choose a weak pattern and have their coins stolen.

Some opposition does not mean al-Saud is going against the boss. They have seen some weakness and have been trying to capitalize on it to maybe get something more from the deal. For example they get closer to China and Russia to oppose the fact that US stopped fully backing them in their genocide against Yemen or suspended F35 sales. They also know that even if US wanted to invade an oil rich country they would never do it at the peak of energy crisis at home.

Oil output is the same but also it is about the capabilities. Ever since Aramco was hit, they haven't been able to fully rebuild it which is why they can not increase oil production despite being ordered to.

They still haven't fully opposed the colonizers which is why when they cut the heads of more than 30 people 10 of which were children, you don't even hear a word of it in the news or from human rights foundations!

I disagree with this because of how Saudi Arabia works. They are super rich but they heavily depend on imports due to lack of self reliance. All it takes to topple the regime is to sanction them. Basically see what happened to Iraq when they were sanctioned right before the invasion (a million died of hunger each year!) and multiply that by 100.

They know this very well which is why they try to keep the balance between opposing the boss and obeying the buss.
They have no military power to stand against US either. Their coalition couldn't even finish the poorest and weakest country in Asia called Yemen for 8 years.