Aeon is one of the few, if any, CryptoNote coins without RingCT and Bulletproofs. If a venerability Or exploit were Found in this code, almost all CN coins would be affected except Aeon.

So many coins forked from monero and or just created from copy pasting monero code to say they aren’t a direct fork, can become obsolete from a major exploit in this code. It’s nice being in the sidelines due to this while still maintaining a private blockchain.

 

This should be implemented around the globe but seems this regulation is hard to get up since there are so many unlicensed exchange popping up these days.

You'd better have an absolute stranglehold over mining if you attempt this or some other pool will scoop it up instead. And if these coins are red hot then no sensible pool will hand it back either. None of it makes sense but money laundering via fees doesn't either.

LOL.. They want to disband the police force? There can't be anything more lunatic than this. A country such as the United States won't be able to function without the police force. This is pure insanity.

From what I have seen, the pandemic is affecting the blue states more than the red states. Even in the red states, the impact is being felt more on counties where the African-Americans, Hispanics and Amerindians make up substantial portion of the population. A few examples are Hancock County (GA) with 3.5 deaths per 1,000 people and McKinley (NM) with 2 deaths per 1,000.

AEON use case is same as Monero. If opaque ledger cryptocurrencies will prevail, then AEON will have much higher marketcap and will do perfectly fine.  If something bad happen to Monero and AEON have few things different then Monero have and I am sure will have more in the future, then AEON will super moon. That is how I see it.

I'm really not surprised that some exchanges do this in my opinion(along with wash trading). If you sort the exchanges on Coinmarketcap through 24hr volumes, there are a good number of unknown exchanges near the top.

https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/

I also see a problem with this scenario as I seriously doubt that an exchange whose operators are stupid to fail for fake emails phishing attacks is using multi-signatures  

Also, another problem:

So, rather than simply proving with a series of small 1$ tx than they are in some kind of control they decide to trash 2 million worth of coins, and then...demand a ransom. Man, it's like kidnapping somebody for a reward and burning their family house and assets to the ground and  THEN asking for money! Good luck getting money after bankrupting them.
Besides, if they would have done small transactions they could have defended themselves if ever caught with some sort of vulnerability reward testing, trashing two million to make a point it's a lost cause from the start.

It doesn't mean that since the chances of winning is 50:50, the result is going to be equal between players. In 10 tosses of a coin, it could happen that the result is 0 heads and 10 tails.

Therefore, on an infinite timescale with finite bankrolls, one will always prevail over the other. And with absolute certainty.

What's the people's claim, by the way, that this truth is in contrast to?

That's not the case here

It is indeed about a very finite and, moreover, equal bankrolls. So the question is that whether one of the players is going to bust or it will be a "zero-sum game", i.e. no one winning or losing anything (give or take) provided the player's bankrolls are big enough to allow for a very large number of tosses

We have two polar opposite outcomes which exclude each other, and I'm utterly curious to find out which one is actually going to play out in real life (as it may have very important and practical implications in other domains). So far it looks more like one of the gamblers will invariably bust eventually

To be honest, no move, no matter how crazy or dangerous, would surprise me when it comes to Trump. But any war at the moment is of no interest to anyone because of the global economic situation. It is easiest to start a war, but it is extremely difficult to finance military ventures. China knows its limits very well, just as the USA knows them - and all you can see is actually a game of cat and mouse. If these two forces got into some serious military conflict, it would be much worse than a pandemic, because that would probably be the beginning of World War 3.

If we think logically, decentralization of mining power is something absolutely desirable and in the interest of all of us. But there are reasons why, according to some, almost 3/4 of all miners are in China. Cheap electricity, cheap labor, cheap infrastructure and the blessing of the Communist Party to carry out such operations. If similar or better conditions occur somewhere, some miners will certainly migrate (as is already the case), but it is a process that will take some time.