Well in my experience when open source software lacks a certain functionality it is either because the developers are very busy with other things that means they don't have enough time for said features or in most cases there is little to no demand for that feature. For example we have to see issues being opened in each of these project's repositories and then receive some support for the dev to implement it. So far there has been a handful of requests that mostly went unnoticed which shows very low demand hence low priority.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be that much work done in general for visually impaired people. There are small and abandoned works such as the bitcoin paper in Braille, some small work done by Multibit wallet which was forgotten after the wallet itself died. There also appears to have been a hardware wallet called IcyWallet that was supposed to use voice commands and Braille to help the visually impaired after the developer saw a reddit post but its website doesn't open anymore: https://icywallet.com/
Others are generally using screen readers which sometimes don't work on bitcoin wallets like Electrum and cause some problems.

Exactly.
Decades ago when Europeans figured out that US had lied and the pieces of paper they kept printing wasn't backed by gold, they dumped USD and its value got halved in 6 months. But US policy makers were quick about replacing gold with oil which is when Petrodollar was created and that let them keep printing that worthless piece of paper even more but "export" the resulting inflation to Europe and elsewhere.

Today a lot of oil and gas rich countries that control a large amount of the world's supply among them (Iran, Russia, Venezuela and to some extent Iraq and Saudi) alongside the biggest consumers like China and India and other BRICS members are dumping USD and replacing it with a new currency.
This means trillions of dollars are already going back to US dumping its value and increasing dollar inflation.

In order for US to survive they have to try and keep Petrodollar alive which is why Europe is ordered to continue using it and not have any good relations with the Eastern bloc like coming to terms with Russia or for example fixing the relations with Iran that could flood the market with at least 2 million barrels of oil per day decreasing its price to below $40 and save EU's economy.
Of course I should mention that it's already too late for EU to change since they've played as US colonies for too long and now they are under Iran's sanctions which is why when the European Union diplomat Mora comes to Iran begging for gas and oil, he receives the middle finger.

The only thing I'd be worried about these days is how long before we start seeing more Brexits (essentially European Union falling apart as more countries leave it) and for Europe to go back to pre WWII era when each of those little countries were at war with each other every day.

If you use Wasabi wallet, your privacy would be less than zero because they not only track all your transactions going in and out of the CoinJoin transaction but also they report it directly to blockchain analysis companies who in turn use it to deanonymize you.

The bold part of the signature script can be discarded or be replaced by anything else and the transaction would still be valid. In other words your scripts are examples of the malleability attack.

domino effect...

I'm becoming more skeptical about whether US exports of LNG to EU is going to keep up in the long run or even be able to solve the problem. Domestically they are already complaining about this export and as Bloomberg put it "US manufacturers warn that more sales abroad will mean higher costs at home." I don't think in the current situation where the Petrodollar is slowly dying with more than 60% of the world economy abandoning it and BRICS countries talking about a new reserve currency, etc. US can afford to have any more inflation.
In fact this is why some analysts believe that the explosion in Texas was fake since the gas that was supposed to be shipped to EU was spent domestically decreasing the price in US while increasing it in EU.

P.S. I recently found something funny, apparently Putin has offered Europeans free land in Russia if they wanted to and a survey in England has shown that 80% of the people are more than happy to jump off the sinking ship. It's funny mainly because of the hypocrisy

This is a wrong comparison, not just because the market situation is different but because as I said many times before there was a rise before each of these drops that was massive. For example in both of the first two cases there was tens of thousands of percentage of rise before the big crash happened but in the third case there was a tiny rise in comparison to the other two cases.
In other words you can not compare this crash with previous ones because it is completely different with completely different reasons (bubble burst vs. economy burst!).

I don't think that, I think it is impossible to predict the market these days because it is not just high inflation that is being faced, it is economy falling apart. During inflation people buy more bitcoin but when economy is falling apart (industries are shutting down, food prices soar, gas price is rising and there is a risk of having no electricity or heat soon) people are forced to sell their bitcoins.

So the real question is how many more bitcoiners (I'd say mostly in US and EU) are left who have to choose between filling their belly or paying their bills and holding bitcoin. After they've all sold, we start seeing price going back up again.

I believe that we are still following the same upward trend as before that this is still a "fire sale" considering how much below the bitcoin intrinsic value we currently are.

The problem is that there are always external factors that affect the market and can push this trend out of its natural course like the 2020 COVID pandemic and its effects on the global economy or the current ongoing conflict between East and West that had a significant effect mostly on Western economy and partly in Eastern economy.

Add to that all the market manipulation, panic sells, FUD, ... and you should start seeing the market more clearly.

It is worth knowing that there is absolutely no "encryption" used anywhere in Bitcoin protocol.

They don't need to ban cryptography to prevent "crypto's growth". There are much easier ways like banning exchanges, making usage of cryptocurrencies illegal, etc. Like what Bangladesh did!

I suppose you can say the same thing about computers and digital banking system since in terms of usage there is no difference between bitcoin and them.
It shouldn't be that difficult to add voice commands to a bitcoin wallet either. All it takes is to add some open source packages for that to a popular wallet like Electrum so that it can convert everything they need to do (setting amount, fee, etc.) to voice and also respond to voice commands.

I didn't know that and I may be confusing Germany with another country but I remember the gas was cut off before too (in early March). Eg. the Yamal pipeline.

This reminded me of another example of how the economy of those who impose the sanctions is screwed.
How much money did Siemens AG lose and guess who took over that market with their superior yet cheaper turbines on 27 May?

This topic belongs to a board like Development & Technical Discussion not Economics.

These things should change by experts not by public opinion and emotions. In other words you don't need a "campaign" to force people to switch algorithms just because a new one came along.
For example take SHA1, SHA2 and SHA3 development. When SHA1 became vulnerable, there was a natural migration to SHA2 over time and everyone affected by those vulnerabilities switched to version 2 naturally without needing any "campaigns". On the other hand when SHA3 came along in 2015, nobody switched to it and it is barely used even today simply because SHA2 is secure and will continue working fine for the foreseeable future.

All common cryptography algorithms are accepted and standardized by some government agency somewhere in the world. ECC is also standardized by NIST. People don't choose them for that reason though, they choose them when independent experts review them and find them secure enough without any backdoors.

I think the chances of such invasion went down a little after US State Department officially denounced Taiwan's independence. However, there is a good chance that China still invades but after it got a little colder so that it can put a lot more pressure on the West if they decided to help Taiwan.

You gotta love how these very natural things are happening one by one. All of a sudden Russia has "scheduled repairs", China has a COVID outbreak and shuts down its ports, Iran delays allowing US to come back to JCPOA.
I even hear Yemen is getting ready to blow up Saudi Aramco again. $200 oil is coming?

You can not do that with "basic" understanding of the technology. Otherwise you'd end up brainwashed by pretty advertisement where they first create a fake problem (eg. "bitcoin is slow" or "bitcoin uses too much energy") then introduce you to their own scam coin that supposedly fixes those fake problems (eg. a shitcoin "faster than bitcoin" or one using the fundamentally flawed "PoS algorithm"). When you are fooled into buying that shitcoin, they dump their premined coins on you and make a lot of profit while you end up holding worthless bags.

If you are starting from zero then you should first learn the basics about bitcoin, what it is, choose a wallet, secure a wallet, send/receive coins, etc. The resources on bitcoin.org are helpful to get you started: https://bitcoin.org/en/getting-started

If you want to dive deeper the book called "Mastering Bitcoin" by "Andreas Antonopoulos" is a good place to start learning more about the technical stuff in bitcoin: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

From there, it's just a matter of searching and studying different details such as the cryptography (hash algorithms, elliptic curve cryptography, ...). It all depends on how far you want to go.

First of all there is no such thing as "tainted bitcoins". That is a fake term that some companies came up with so that they could make money by calling some coins "tainted".
Secondly your list contains the obvious cases, these companies working as "blockchain analysis" would consider arbitrary outputs as "tainted" too. For example they have marked a lot of coins coming out of exchanges as tainted too!

Those companies I told you about don't really check the address, they check the outputs so it doesn't matter if the address received some so called "tainted" coins, if the transaction doesn't spend them it should be fine. Although as I said, their coins may still be marked arbitrarily!

There is a much better solution which is to stop using centralized services that freeze your account arbitrarily.

UTXO is not just the amount, it is an output which consists of an amount, a locking script, transaction's hash and the index of the output inside that transaction's txouts.

Genesis block is basically the hard-coded block that everyone accepts as is. It is block #0 and unlike other blocks, it is not downloaded or verified.

Full nodes receive transactions in their mempool and verify them not miners.
Also Genesis block did not contain any additional transaction apart from its mandatory coinbase.
As I said Genesis block is hard-coded which means even if it contained any transaction (apart from coinbase) it wouldn't have been sent to mempool to be verified by other nodes.

You can not identify nodes or miners because their identity is not stored in the blockchain even if the miners included their pool name in their block it still can't be used as a reliable identity.

If you are talking about the cap it is 4000000, not one. In other words the block weight has to be lower lower than this (maximum block weight). And the actual block size in raw bytes could be variable depending on how many transactions had how much witness and could be 1.1 MB, 1.5 MB, 2 MB, or almost 4 MB.

Technically speaking since mining is always competitive and hashrate (difficulty) changes after each price change (goes up with price rise) the profit shouldn't really change when price goes up and things balance out again.

But if the water is used for cooling during the ~12 hours of day it has to be constantly cooled because after a short time at the beginning of the day its temperature will increase and you have to wait until nightfall to cool it again or spend additional money for its cooling.