It is centralized and it gives customers no guarantee of safety whatsoever. they keep giving you empty promises of safety just like all the others and eventually it is like a ticking time bomb that will explode some day. it could be today or years from now.

I don't know them both. Furthermore, if you want to give others good exchanges or any good platforms, you must give them in full links, rather than just a name. With a name, we can find bunches of different domain names and sure only one of them is legit for one exchange. The rest are fake, phishing sites.

Literally every single exchange that's custodial will be prone to attacks; it's pretty much just a matter of 'when' not 'if'. With that said, since Binance isn't currently strict with KYC, I've been using it for a while when mid-long term trading altcoins. But again, since custodial platforms are prone to attacks, it's heavily recommended to immediately withdraw your funds every time you make an exchange transaction to protect yourself if ever something happens to the exchange.

Don't let history repeat itself: http://cryptosec.info/exchange-hacks/

This is a quote from Wikipedia about shapeshift. I have personally never used it, but have come across several bad reports about it on various social media sites about it. Also I've come across positive reports about it. Do extensive research before using their service.

Binance is a more reliable website in my opinion. Still do your research.

Blockchain is not an engine, it's just a data structure, and it's really wrong to think that it's some sort of a platform or the most important part of cryptocurrency. Because other parts are just as important, there wouldn't be crypto without consensus algorithm like proof-of-work, there wouldn't be crypto without modern cryptography, there wouldn't be crypto without peer-to-peer network protocol and so on. Blockchain is just a part of something greater.

Kudos for such an additional comment.
When someone unfairly and unjustly give one a negative rating can one write to the admin for such occurrence?

As the quote goes "there is no utopian system". What we have is a mixture of both sometimes.

If the Supply of Bitcoin is centralized while the block chain is decentralized it can be said to be a hybrid cryptocurrency model.

Will the hybrid model be more effective?

Slight clarification - as many ratings as you receive from different users. If I were to leave you 10 different positive ratings, your score would only every increase by a maximum of 1.

An excess of negative trust does not directly lead to being banned, no.

Some activities which can result in negative trust, such as linking to malware or phishing sites, are against the rules and can also result in a ban, but the ban is entirely separate from the negative trust, and the presence or otherwise of negative trust plays no part in the moderator's decision as to whether an account should be banned.

The first number indicates a positive trust, if you receive a positive rating from a member in DT or on your trust list it changes to +1 and is green in color, the middle number is for neutral ratings while the last is for a negative trust.
Yes you can build a positive trust on the forum overtime, if you prove to be trustworthy in issues like trading on the forum etc
Yes, if you do things against the forum rules like selling and buying accounts, buying merits etc, you will receive negative ratings from other users and have a bad reputation on the forum.
Signature campaign managers do not take participants with negative trust/ratings, you will also find it difficult to trade with members of the forum plus a ruined reputation which is bad enough.

it's a little hard to explain but i'll try. cryptography comes in mostly in two parts in bitcoin: the proof of work (hash algorithm) and asymmetric or public key cryptography. decentralization works partly with you creating and controlling your own keys and handling your own money without needing a third party using asymmetric cryptography, and partly with the entire network being peer to peer so there is no "server", no "centralized authority" to decide which transactions to accept and which to censor. it is only peers who enforce all the rules as a very large community of individuals. the miners as another part of this network are also decentralized as they are also individuals and are spread around the globe, they are all competing to find the same solution (step 3 above) using that hash algorithm.

considering that you can only create tokens on another platform i don't think we can even call these two "blockchain development languages" because you aren't developing blockchain you are just writing contracts.
additionally it is just hyped up because of the ICO craze that we had a couple of years ago with all the pumps that happened.

Most problems focus on scalability, low fees, and privacy.

 - Scalability & low fees: All altcoins attack Bitcoin in this respect, they have nothing to provide except low fees and short confirmation times, so you find that all currencies claim to be the best in that. Litecoin, BitcoinCash, BitcoinSV^*,....etc.

 - privacy: We all know that Bitcoin transactions can be traced, so some currencies try to make this impossible.

In short, if you examine the currencies carefully, you will find 5 or 8 models that are unique and the rest are duplicates.

* https://www.investopedia.com/tech/history-bitcoin-hard-forks/

Yeah, it doesn't adjust over time, it adjusts every 2016 blocks.
So, if this doomsday scenario where not all miners, let's just say 90% of them quit the difficulty will now adjust in the standard 14 days but in 140 days with a block every 100 minutes.

A lot of shitcoins have been attacked like that in the early days, with GPU frames switching to mine them, raising the difficulty 10 times and when that adjusted leaving them to die with no blocks being mined. That's when Kimoto Gravity Well, Digishield appeared.

Will the protocol survive? Yeah! Will the confidence and trust behind the coin....I have doubts, depending on the scale.

Fortunately, the scenario is close to impossible right now, and it's because of the good old $.
Not only is there still a financial incentive to mine, but also if some farms try to drop out of the business there is a lot of formerly inefficient gear that was retired (millions of s9) that will come back online since it is again profitable for them to mine.


Actually it will be not dead and also not alive, more like a virus.
If all miners quit there will be no more blocks, no more confirmed transactions, so no activity on the chain but at the same time, even if 100 years pass and suddenly a single miner decides to mine it will come back..alive.

Bitcoin is a protocol. What distinguishes it is the amount of consensus that it possesses and the large number of people who agree to follow that "law" and therefore has a more fundamental value than Altcoins.
In fact, most alts are attempts to solve some Bitcoin problems or create copies similar to it.
So, continuous development is what makes it unique.

I think this answer is general and you can view more details here ----> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wg6aPEkc5k.

If you want a comparison with a particular Altcoin, you can ask the question again.

blockchain itself is not a "software" it is a database. as the name suggests it is "a chain of blocks" which means blocks of data that each is linked to the previous one like a chain.
considering the fact that a very large percentage of altcoins have copied bitcoin, their blockchains are exactly the same.

i'm not sure what you are asking here, but as far as blockchain is concerned i can think of three topics: the block structure, the way the blocks are linked together, and the method used to set a cost for creating the blocks.

1) the block structure is not really that important. it is the way transactions are serialized and put inside a block, what part is there to be hashed for part 3,...
2) the way blocks are linked together is (in bitcoin) with each new block having a reference to the hash of the previous block. there are other methods in different chains that someone more familiar with them should answer here.
3) the "cost" is the proof of work for bitcoin and all the similar coins which needs to be an irreversible one way function that could be adjusted to be fast or slow depending on the needs of the network (difficulty) and it should produce a result that could be compared with a desired target. the function is usually a hash function (double SHA256 in bitcoin, Keccak256 in ethereum, scrypt in litecoin, prime gap in GapCoin,...) and the target is usually an integer (little endian 256-bit number in first 3 and a set prime gap in GapCoin).

Since you mentioned it. There is no prime difference how blockchain of bitcoin works differently on altcoins. Satoshi's goal in layman's term is to create a peer to peer enviroment that doesnt restricted by such authority or entity. Like what has been explained by @pooya87 this is major building blocks that linked together called chain. Now for these chains to connect we execute transactions that has been systematically recognized in a network.

Difference to other blockchain will be restricted to speed, weight, algorithm and scalability of their using consensus.  But if your looking for more detailed comparison you can refer to this simple guide. What is Blockchain Technology - A step by step guide for beginners

Not that good of an assumption. If bitcoin mining completely stops, sure there wouldn't be any bitcoin to enter the markets hence more scarcity. But you're completely assuming that people would want to buy something that no one is mining. Who cares about scarcity if you can't even send out the asset? How will they be able to receive or send the bitcoin in the first place if no one is mining? Take note that we're talking about ALL miners stopping; based on OP's title.

We know a few days ago there are completed halving of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV. After halving of Bitcoin Cash there was no block created almost two hours. On the other hand, Bitcoin SV lost value after the halving.
I am very curious. What will happen for Bitcoin if all the miners stop their mining?
Will it have value?
will it possible to transfer?

Still, irrespective of how it's recommended to employ the service of an escrow when transacting on the forum, you should be very cautious when choosing the escrow to use. If you get a suggestion from the other party, make sure it's a very trusted individual with no history of untrustworthy behavior before you accept to use his service.

Cautiously, any user without a previous record of escrow services or have not carried out countless amount bof successful transaction involving funds to be deem worthy, shouldn't be trusted. Here's a complete list of escrows on the forum: Few Trusted Escrow Provider, choose wisely.