While by no mean I want to start a flame war, I think that I've understood what he means.
His point is that LN acts like a hose. It doesn't care if it will transport water (bitcoin), oil (name your altcoin) or even air (if it's tight). It will work the same, depending on where it's plugged.

While LN can be seen as an extra layer for Bitcoin, it can be an extra layer for whatever. This is what I've understood.


BUT at the end of the day it doesn't matter what else the hose can transport as long as we can use it for our needs.
At the moment the hose is plugged to 2 holes of a water pipe, it's a water hose. So... why argue for tiny details?!

An ASIC is not a common purpose computer. It's a device that can do one thing. Its chips can do only one thing. ASIC means application-specific integrated circuit and this basically tells the full story. The only application for a bitcoin ASIC miner is to mine Bitcoin and a few altcoins that have the same mining algorithm. And that's all.

So the answer for you is: no, sorry.

Don't forget that when he first claimed to be Satoshi he did "provide cryptographic proof" (which was fake and was pretty fast found out to be fake).
The point is... is there a risk the judge could be fooled by such a proof? Because if it's so, we may face a huge fiasco.
(You know.. "Hope for the best, but prepare for the worse"...)

They have to earn money from the plebs so they have what to convert into bitcoin...

USD can easily be replaced by EUR or even JPY if it's the case.
The point is different: as long as governments stick to their own currency, they won't accept the outsider.

While you, and me, and some businesses can use Bitcoin as standard (after the price stops fluctuating wildly), but governments won't.
And again, if you'll want to buy goods and services the starting price will be in the currency of the country the shop resides in. Then it can be derived to Bitcoin and others.

From what I know, usually payment processors accept 0-confirmation transactions as done only if they don't have RBF flag on.
The problem I see is that a malicious customer may already send you unconfirmed input. And even if the fee in your direction is just fine, the unconfirmed parent has a very low fee and has a good chance to get double spent. And when the parent is double spent, the children will become invalid. Of course, the malicious customer has to find the right balance so he doesn't do CPFP by mistake, but that can be done. I think that I've seen that when the network was congested.

One will give you interest on your money only if - in a way or another - he can earn something from that. Since Bitcoin doesn't allow staking, I don't see any ways one can earn from those bitcoins without having access to your funds - usually with you sending the money to the custodial platform. At that point you own ... an account. No "for your eyes only" private keys.

So no, this cannot work on Bitcoin.


And.. from what @nullama has posted, the amount of money can decrease. This means:
1. They do have full access to the funds.
2. OP needs to improve his understanding over how Bitcoin works, else he may - sooner or later - get scammed by this kind of "wonderful" offers.

The most important condition is to have that implemented.
While many altcoins/shitcois do have that, Bitcoin doesn't. Imho Bitcoin is way better without PoS/


In the same way different banks in different countries give different interest rates for the money you deposit in different currencies, this is how I see whatever the exchanges and other businesses do.
You may also confuse staking with interest on deposits or with interest on lending some platforms may do, especially as they advertise their "products" in various manners.

While you are right and ISPs may silence this and that, you're omitting that:
1. In a democratic country the ISP will go for profit, hence won't completely silence a customer.
2. If the ISP filters certain things then tunneling / VPN can, in most cases "fix" this.

So the ISP cannot create a perfect "wall" if one is... resourceful.

So while your suppositions may stand correct in a dictatorship, the rest of the world will just go as usual. And the rest of the world is big enough to not be seen as centralized (else we can end up to "bitcoin is centralized: one can mine it only from Earth" odd exaggerations).

I knew it was bad, but I didn't expect it to be this bad. I've watched them all, I can't wait for the new batch.
And I now have... quite some more sympathy for certain drivers...

It's clearly eye opening, it clearly worth watching.

I've found that rather strange for some time... especially as I am supposed to be one hour off in the other direction and mine are very well playing yet.
But I don't know if he indeed lives where he sometimes pretends to live (as space and time) so I didn't pay that much attention. I've learned over many years on the internet that's always late evening somewhere.

On the other hand, I was expecting new excuse, you know... 


I guess that he may borrow the time machine now and then and put them into bed again as small kids. Maybe that's what he's already doing...


OMG, so you're selling your Bitcoins for.. gold?!
OK, I'll help, but don't get offended if the main reason is to buy back preciousssssss bitcoins...

(waiting for a new excuse)

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Actually from my experience, Airplane mode does disable at least cell and WiFi (I just don't know about the rest). But, with airplane mode on, you can afterwards re-enable at least the WiFi. I don't know if anything else.
And the reason is... explained in suchmoon's post 

De fapt ideea cu "folositi boti" nu e rea deloc! Clar, are sens pentru cine tranzactioneaza mai des.
Partea tare e ca un bot ca lumea te poate obliga sa te gandesti bine inainte (deci pa-pa FOMO) si sa ti-l setezi ca lumea (sa pui un slippage de bun simt).

Asta e o super stire! Ma bucur tare! Banuiesc ca nu e usor, dar keep it up, macar cat sa treci cu bine frigul.


Ow imi pare rau. Sper ca te-ai descurcat si ai ajuns inapoi in B la timp.


Desi cu intarziere, Happy Birthday, sanatate si mai mult noroc! Si Sarbatori fericite!

FOMO la superlativ. Sau cum sa faci speedy pump and dump.
Poti sa zici de slippage sau ce vrei tu. Cand omul e lovit in cap de FOMO, logica nu mai conteaza.


1. Nici macar nu stiam de tokenul asta.
2. Am experienta 0.0000001% la DEX, deci oricum nu m-as fi avantat.
3. Pe exchange centralizat as fi stiut ce sa fac sa nu iau teapa, daca ar fi fost cazul, dar nu a fost cazul. Daca era cazul, cred ca m-as fi enervat pt timpul pierdut si nu as fi cumparat.


Chestia nu e noua, s-a mai intamplat la listari in trecut, dar nu la asa valoare.
Marketing bun, asteptari mari, FOMO cat casa, deci s-au dat cu capul de "pomul laudat", CSF? NCSF!

1. A lot of patience and (re)tries until  - with plenty of luck - the 3rd part or whatever company takes care of KYC documents is reached and ask for a human check those documents.
2. Declare some of those documents lost, ask for renewal (for a fee), have a picture with his current look. Do KYC.
3. Switch to a different service until - with plenty of luck - a smart one is found or one that doesn't check both documents and current live image.

I've noticed (from the bpip extension) that this user is now banned.
I don't know if it changes anything, still I think that MJ should be aware.

1. For something like this to happen, I expect that we may need Bitcoin price fluctuate much less.
2. Don't forget that as long as the main currency of a country is fiat, the shop will have the prices primarily in the country's fiat and then converted to all other currencies.

So no, unfortunately I don't expect the prices be shown primarily in bitcoin. Not everywhere.
For all the countries give up their tools for inflation (i.e. stealing money) we need a powerful change. Maybe even a radical change in the way some people end up taking decisions for the countries.