You keep digging a deeper hole with increasingly hostile language...

That only works for complex equipments such as an air defense battery, a radar or a fighter jet (eg. F35) not for a ridiculously simple drone that has a single purpose such these drones. If anything is changed about these, they become a different product entirely. For example a shorter range and faster speed would be Toofan 2 which looks very similar to Shahed-136, a bigger warhead faster speed and different control makes it Saeghe 1 & 2, lighter faster and smaller versions are Ababil family.

You should ask your military about it
But be careful who you ask though, (according to the Syrian Al-Watan news citing military officials) a lot of those fighting in Ukrainian army these days are Takfiri terrorists from Syria who were promised land. They think of you as an infidel and would cut your head off because that would help them go to heaven!

The Ukrainian officials made this claim a while ago so how could I not have heard it
This is actually another proof that Iran is not involved in this at all otherwise they would have given our other drone versions that are designed to work in very low temperatures that parts of Iran experience specially close to borders where these drones have to operate and provide security. Temps such as -46°C.

Looking forward to that.

That washes all the crimes committed by Ukraine LOL.
What about Afghanistan and Iraq? Maybe Ukraine is still part of USSR and that bloodshed in middle east was also USSR fault

Reading your posts on how you deny all the crimes that Ukraine has committed over the years in dozens of countries from cooperation with Nazis during WWII to supplying Iraq's dictator Saddam all the way to sending the third largest number of terrorists to Iraq to murder people.
Specially with your support of the apartheid regime killing children in Palestine and your direct contact with those terrorists, you are starting to change my mind that maybe Russia was right about wanting to denazify Ukraine!

As far as I could tell from the publicly available evidence, so far Europe has only been capable of substituting a small portion of the gas they have been importing from Russia. The only reason why they claim their storages are full (which I doubt that too considering the shortage and blackouts that are starting, but that's a different story) is that they significantly reduced consumption by shutting down industries. A de-industrialization so to speak.

Contrary to what you may think, in many countries the biggest consumers are not home users but the factories. When you shut them down, you decrease the consumption or "demand" by a lot so that you can manage the low "supply" you already have for home users. This is actually one of the reason why gas price came down slightly.

I don't think that many users on bitcointalk have actually heard about this exchange, if any at all. Specially when searching it on coinmarketcap it is near the bottom of the list (176 out of 240) of exchanges with a very low daily volume which means not that many users actually know about or use this service!

In any case this is the wrong board as @Doan9269 pointed out. Use the move topic button at the bottom of this page to move it.

It is not only about frequency of a fixed number of people who open/close channels but it is also about the number of people who want to open or close a channel per day. For example we have a hundred users opening a channel every day who wouldn't want to close it in a long time, on-chain congestion makes it harder.
Bottom line is second layer works best as long as the main chain is operating "normally".

Some people are still bag holding shitcoins that they bought years ago (a lot of them in 2017 when they were over-pumped already) so they are in a huge loss (some in 95% loss!) so they will keep talking about that shitcoin trying to convince others to buy it so that they can get their money back.

Block reward has nothing to do with difficulty adjustment period. You could halve that reward every 8 years and still readjust the difficulty every 2016 blocks. It also requires a hard fork to change these not a soft fork.

It requires a hard fork because from year +4 to +8 the reward has to remain high whereas it is violating the existing consensus rules.
You may be able to reduce the period (eg. 4 to 2 years) with a soft fork not increase it.

I disagree since quite the opposite is true. For increased LN usage you want normal mempool so that more people could easily open and close their channels any time they want.
The point of LN is to give users the ability to send virtually unlimited number of transactions without worrying about limitations of a capped block space (regardless of the block size).

Is that even possible? Do you have any reference to support this being in the "agenda"?

This FUD is nothing new. They have been spreading it from early days that bitcoin was created and challenged the centralized banking system that was corrupt. CBDC is part of that corrupt system.

A good question. It depends on how spread the developers are in the world. For example if the top devs are all living in one jurisdiction then we are facing a real risk (similar to if all hashpower were from the same jurisdiction), but the more spread they are the lower the risk. After all one government deciding to crack down on developers in their own country would not halt bitcoin development in other countries.

They don't have to move, they have to already be elsewhere. As I said like mining. For example when China banned mining, none of the miners in other countries cared about it and the Chinese miners also moved their equipment abroad.

Assange situation is different though since they attached "national security" to that, it is going to be pretty hard to do the same with the globally recognized Bitcoin.

When they shut off the valve to their gas pipelines going towards Europe or when they stopped grains shipments, etc. that is also a form of a sanction without branding it.

Like any war, this energy war result is also not possible to predict. There are battles in this war that West wins and some battles that East wins while the war is not yet over.
Considering that so far the oil producing countries are working together and reduce production and keep the price up, the chances of Eastern Bloc winning is higher.

P.S. The recent disruptions in China which is one of the biggest buyers of oil has helped the price dump recently. We've to wait and see how their comeback and their big buys (specially after the recent visit to Saudi Arabia) is going to affect the market.

In other words an attention seeking idiot made some statements and the attention seeking media published it. Otherwise he has no idea what he is talking about and is just making random statements which is not entirely wrong nor right.

Bitcoin is a currency and what you do with that currency makes it Islamic or not-Islamic (or better said halal or haram). It's just that simple!

Try learning Separation of Concerns principle and implement that into your application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns

Basically you split your application into "distinct sections" and each section is responsible for a different stand alone concern. For example one part is responsible for sending/receiving transactions another part is responsible for evaluating the value and deciding what to do with them. You can inject a "mock" of second part into the first part while testing and give it any value you want (eg. $3000 for production and $0.003 for testing).

What you explained is suitable for a solution on bitcoin chain itself although I don't think it is a good idea to have something like that on it.
If the names database is supposed to be on a side chain then there is no need for Taproot. We already could create side chains without it and all the rules (the owner, the ownership transfer, etc.) could be enforced on that chain entirely.

The payment could also be to an OP_RETURN output (instead of just pushing hash in an arbitrary script that would create a UTXO in all nodes' chainstate db) and the data inside it should be evaluated inside that sidechain with its own rules.

Keep working on it but know that you shouldn't only focus on reducing the energy cost but you should expand your view and pay attention to what the alternative solution you suggest costs the system. That cost should not be harming the decentralization, security, max supply and other important principles of Bitcoin.

It is all about using Elliptic Curve Cryptography and the part where you compute public key from private key is using a process called Elliptic curve point multiplication you can read about it on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_point_multiplication
Here is another page explaining elliptic curve cryptography in general: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/

It is always good to have multiple backups in different forms BUT you should always try to figure out all the pros and cons of each backup method or medium that you use. For example paper could be damaged easily by a lot of things like by water (getting the paper wet ruins it). USB disks and generally the digital storages could also be damaged from the obvious physical and electrical damage to the little known data degradation which is where the data stored digitally could be lost over time.
There is also the matter of encryption and using extended keys for seed phrases that others mentioned that could be categorized as cons of paper wallets.

What bitcoin offers is a lot more significant than the energy that is being consumed to provide that. It is not a small thing to offer a global censorship resistance payment system that works 24/7 with high security.

You missed the whole point. The point wasn't about Russian oil price but the shittiness of mainstream media.

One day bloomberg is focusing on the shipments that are sold under the price cap with the title "swaths of Russian oil is trading far below G7 $60" and the other day they are focusing on shipments that are being sold above it just because the social trend has changed specially with the ongoing protests with the title saying "easy freight helps Russian oil hold above G7 $60 cap". Keep in mind that majority of the audience only reads the titles not the content.

To put it in bitcoin terms, it is very similar to what the bitcoin news sites do. One day they are talking about how bitcoin is going to the moon ($1 million) because the social mood is up and price went up 10% and the other day they are talking about bitcoin is dying (down to $1) because price dropped -10%.

Every military in the world has someone on the ground in Ukraine studying this war and gathering intelligence about the tactics and technology that is being used between NATO and Russia. They all work anonymously and without being recognized.
But if you want to claim something like this you have to provide actual proof rather than "a Ukraine official said so".

FYI Shahed-136 is remotely launched, there is no need for someone to be standing beside the launcher! That's usually a pilot sitting in a secured bunker in a far away location. That's basic Drone Warfare.
When you want to lie, you should at least get your basic facts straight.

It's funny that to this day I've seen hundreds of videos and images of these drones in the skies and some from their remains after they've hit their targets. Yet not a single one of them contained any text on them in Farsi.

For your information the actual writings such as serial numbers, etc. inside and outside actual Iranian made drones are in English.
English is used because it makes it easier for exports to about 25 countries that are currently officially buying these drones. This is also why their names are changed too. For example our Bavar-373 air defense is being sold as AD-100 (stands for Air Defense) to make it easier for target countries to understand and pronounce them.

What you did was to give him your full support from September 22, 1980 to August 20, 1988. Ukraine specifically was sending him wide-body aircraft so that he could move his troops around easier among other things.
When he was defeated by Iranians and his usefulness ran out the tables turned and then you guys started sanctioning Iraq while hitting its military bases, airfields, etc. while disarming them. Finally invaded Iraq after about 15 years in 2003.

I already know what you think they did there, you think the women and children that the armed forces of Ukraine raped and killed in Iraq were part of a peace keeping mission.


You know what, I think we should actually sell Russia drones and missiles. For real and officially and publicly and at a very large scale (tens of thousands).

We are already being accused of something we never did and they have even sanctioned Iran for this lie, so we might as well do it for real and make some money out of it. We already know Russians are desperate for our superior weapons specially our missiles that have pinpoint accuracy and can not be shot down by any existing ABM. Ask the US troops who were in Al-Asad airbase on 8 January 2020 for firsthand information.

But know that you guys forced Iran into selling these weapons to Russia.

Yeah I was talking generally but also stablecoins check all the boxes needed for fake supply too. They are centralized and their supply is in full control of the company that issues them and on top of that they don't have to be backed by anything. Like Tether that has a high chance of not being backed by real USD 1:1 and they can issue more at any time they want.

Bitcoin is too new for us to even talk about its replacement! The innovation has also not progressed that much to give us any kind of hope for a better solution to have the potential to push bitcoin down and take its position as far as real usage and real adoption is concerned.
Keep in mind that even if such new coin were created in the future it is still very unlikely for it to "replace" bitcoin, it could work alongside it though.

I think it is practically guaranteed for something like this to happen since market capitalization is very easy to fake.
It also did happen in the past at least one time (that I know of) but it lasted a couple of hours before the shitcoin got dumped.

I personally love my job as an engineer so I won't quit that ever regardless of what kind of "work" you have in mind when you say "work on Bitcoin full time" and the amount of money I would earn in such a work. At the end of the day bitcoin is that extra option for me both as a currency and as an income.
What I already do on bitcointalk is in my free time and the the extra coding projects you don't see but I'm involved in are also a hobby of mine where I contribute to open source projects.