topic creator raises the points about issues with bitcoins network. but things can be done. but are being avoided because its more financially beneficial for devs to just promote their altnet as the solution.

its like saying pepsi's taste is a lil off in recent years. so go have walmart own brand cola instead. rather then actualy tweak pepsi's formula a bit to taste as it should be.. pretending that walmart cola is pepsi

LN is NOT a bitcoin feature. its not a bitcoin layer
no blockchain. payment raw binary data does not get accepted on bitcoin
the bridge transactions at end sessions have even lost the independant non middleman authorisation
the in LN payment unit of account is not the same.
(the fluffy front end graphic user interface emulates pretends to be bitcoin. but the hard data passing between users is not)

LN is like visa. by which you have to understand that Visa is not the dollar. visa is not gold.
even though people 'perceive' it as being about the dollar.

LN is a separate altnet that multiples currencies can utilise.

the issues with LN are that it has no consensus. it has no network wide audit. it loses alot of the security features of bitcoin and leaves it open to all the vulnerabilities of other systems.
and by ignoring trying to actually make bitcoin useful for all. LN becomes an offering to offramp people away from bitcoin. and once away from the bitcoin network then offer altcoins as the exit from LN. thus removing peoples utility of bitcoin

a solution to bitcoin 'growth' is not to remove its utility by taking people away from bitcoin.

making or even just ignorantly allowing bitcoin transactions to be expensive is not going to make people want to exit LN back to bitcoin. bitcoin transactions can be made cheaper. devs just choose not to

so its like showing the person the toll gate out of bitcoin town saying the towns congestion charge is too expensive to own a bitcoin car. then once outside bitcoin town, pricing them out from ever being let back into the town. where by. any new people wont even bother entering bitcoin town because the price of entry is high and so they go to altcoin cabins instead

devs should never EVER be the economic decision makers. and yet for last 5+ years they have been allowed to be. and its actually not benefiting bitcoin

the two main upgrades of the last 5 years. have not been to benefit bitcoin. but to provide exit roads to other networks away from bitcoin.

who would want to run bitcoin full nodes if they never touch the bitcoin network for 3-6 months.
who would want to run bitcoin if it takes hours to confirm and at a price more than a hours minimum wage
who would want to run bitcoin if its being hindered to pretend its still 2010 technology limitations

essentially..
person A in a different market/company. is buying futures contracts where they want to buy bitcoin at X price in Y weeks. whereby at week Y deadline.. that coin for them 0.2 seconds are owned by person A. and is then sold. leaving person A with a profit or loss depending on what the price is then.
^ thats futures

the ETF is creating seperate contracts and letting person B buy these.. which the B contract pays person A at week Y. meaning person A never loses any fiat because the fiat risk is shifted to person B

person B never even gets the bitcoin for 0.2 seconds. he is just hedging, gambling person A's fiat

well i some what agree..
having both trump or biden ramble on too much they both start to show their age..
trump was far far worse.
but maybe your also old and you forgot the rambles of trump..

but hey. your american and it seems you care about who your leader is and you dont want old rambling guys leading your country..
.. atleast come out and say it. or are you just going to throw around random youtube links and not get to your point.

maybe americans should find a younger leader in 2024

in my view. america is only a population of 320mill.
if you combine all the english speaking nations it only comes to 0.8bill

yet other countries like india. china, africa. have populations of other languages/cultures.
so why exactly is america even being seen as the number 1 country. being in main control of things like IMF, UN, and other world stages

i personally am white british. so i personally dont see trump/biden as 'world leaders'
its called having an outside prospective
and thats what grounds me to not care when it comes to american leaders rambles.. but it obviously affects you and makes you think that the world can be over because of them

so heres some advice. instead of going on some bitcoin forum to just blast out random youtube links hoping other people realise your point that you are angry about your current and last leaders waffling.. how about do something to get some new blood into position of being electable for 2024

"there must be what?"
debunked 23 seconds. yawn

its called tele-vision.. she was watching them zombie movies.
old people with dementia, (something you inherited) watch things on tv and the next day they recall it as if its something that happened to them.
mostly they recall air-hostess jokes in the first person, even when never personally getting on a plane. but sometimes its stories of war, UFO or zombie apocalypse.

so badeckers response is

"95% of people will be dead in 2 years unless they subscribe to a daily supplement he advertises"

hmm. badecker sounds like the "big pharma" he is pretending to hate. the difference is:
a. badecker doesnt even know the science of that stuff.
b. the supplements he offers have more ranging side effects
c. the supplements hit deeper the wallet over the 2 year
d. require people to be more like sheep. endlessly pill popping daily

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everyone knows badeckers list of ointments and supplements do not do as they are advertised..
but lets enter badeckers fantasy land.

imagine his list of supplements were as effective as a vaccine.
would people prefer a single vaccine every 6-12 months FOR FREE. or pill popping a dozen products every day at $XX a month.

now back to reality. his supplement list doesnt cure what its advertised. but he wants 300million americans spending $xx a month on his list of advertised products to make some large pharma company lots of money

badecker is upto now.. what is it 6-7 different products.. manufactured by pharma companies that he wants people to take every day.

oh and yea remember badecker in the past wanted people to inject or drink johnson&johnson soap.. yea. badecker didnt really think too deep about any issues with that

yea i said it. if you need to buy it in a shop, in a container with a brand.. then your probably buying it from a pharma company..
and those companies bottling these supplements badecker advertises, he cant even understand his influencers are using badeckers ignorance and idiocy to advertise big pharma with products not even proven to work.

its only 2% of ACTUAL bitcoin trading.

ofcourse first day markets will be high.. its like the movie industry first week box office numbers are high, then it settles down.

point is that these gambles on futures have nothing to do with the investors actually ever owning or grabbing actual bitcoin. its just betting red or black on a roulette table in essense.

the real drama and actual long term boost to the real bitcoin economy will occur when the real ETF that actually have custody of basket allotments of BTC come to fruition as thats when large trusts then have to buy large amount of bitcoin to fill up their custodian quota's to back the share numbers they want to sell

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so right now. this futures gambling company is just playing the buzzword game for 15 mins fame and its just temporary headline drama. mostly a bit of pump and dump speculation for a short while.

so yea enjoy the waves for a bit but dont expect massive economic investment into the bitcoin seas. just expect some splashing about for now

and by such. do you think cambridge knows more about a pools stratums/workers then the pool itself.

just saying.
cambridge has also said recently and in the past that the CO2 level of bitcoin mining is like 3-4x more than other calculations. simply because they used old outdated hardware, and heck they even couldnt do basic math of daily hashrate.
(they took hashrate of ONE DAY and used that as basis for whole year rate. even though real hashrate was lower for most other days.)

but hey. lets believe a source of data just because it sounds academic

a proper bitcoin ETF collateral trust has not yet been approved

this "etf" is not more then a gambling website offering 'shares' of a groups betting slips of horse racing. but the website never owning a horse or racecourse.

in short. lots of buzzword drama using the word bitcoin for 15 minutes of fame for the company. but nothing really substantial is changing in the actual bitcoin economy

"fund does not invest directly in bitcoin"

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translation..
its a FIAT ETF that gambles but never holds an asset that it pretends to be involved in its title

a proper bitcoin ETF collateral trust has not yet been approved

"fund does not invest directly in bitcoin"

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translation..
its a FIAT ETF that gambles but never holds an asset that it pretends to be involved in its title

its in short like a gambling website offering 'shares' in fiat, of other peoples gambling slips.. based on horse racing without the website owning any horses, or race courses


a proper bitcoin ETF collateral trust has not yet been approved

seems OP wants to make reddit.. only issue is not about a system of rating, commenting, editing.. but the problem is that any such system ends up getting highjacked by trolls wanting to social dramatise and create their own cults of mis-information.

a good rating system first needs good researchers/fact checkers. and a way to ensure social drama queens dont upvote stuff because it entertains them and pokes at their sci-fi craving for fantasy

eg.. even this topic creator thinks rogan is a 'news source' and doesnt understand rogans leaning for satire and entertaining the ufo lover crowd

says a unemployed teenager not even old enough to vote nor have a job to pay tax..

he has no clue how the real world works.
oh and gues what. his life is not even a 'struggle' his life is not affected much. he still gets to play on his xbox while buying hats and caps on ebay and flirting with girls. (basic social limits of teenagers)

what he dont know will slap him in the face when he grows up. things like him contracting covid (not get badly sick) but then pass it onto his grandmother he has mandated that she not have the vaccine, with all of his own ill advised rhetoric about his views.
then she gets badly sick and he would be like 'why didnt the government or hospitals help her'.. then he goes on a b!tching whinge about how his grandmother paid taxes for 40+ years and that she still got sick because no one tried to help her avoid getting sick

blockchain does not solve every businesses database need. but what it is great at is when different divisions of a business need to agree on something.

it can do things like voting.
if can do things like ensuring different regions can ensure they have absolutely the same data as each other.

seeing as its political science. then im guessing that you want something voting related.

unlike just a 4-year election. kinda boring and stagnant of the need for live updates daily. have an idea where every political decision in a senate/parliament requires citizen approval.
we are in an era where people can weekly vote on tv show singer/idols. and so why not have citizens vote on political decisions too.
EG citizens vote on military withdrawal of armies abroad. citizens get to vote on new reforms of state education policy.

the great thing about crypto is that you can design a system in any way you like. it doesnt have to be a single chain everyone gets involved in. it can be multiple separate mini chains which each region keeps, and the master chain of just the cumulative result of each mini chain. then after the results are widely accepted. the regions can just prune off their own mini chain and just have the final result archived in the master

that way giving time to review the votes, recount of they want. and when happy. drop that unneeded data.

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you can explain how citizens get to vote. like their 'key' being based on birth registration where by if there was any confusion a simple 'please sign a message to prove' can actually prove they are the owner of the vote.

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you can explain how a simple 'signature'(of a message) is the vote and proof.
where it makes it easy to vote fast and widespread, making it easy to vote regularly on important government decisions.

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you can easily fill 30 pages with not just idea's on the political system of regular voting, but also the design/shape of the data structure, and also how such citizen involved voting can change the political direction governments follow.

EG usually governments take months drafting, revision, amending, going through tiers of reviewing before even getting close to forming active policy. where as citizen involvement can just yay/nay aspects they want and dont want to see move forward.

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imagine it like having the ability that by having al birth registrations of every citizen. you can tailor government votes where government asks just women what their view is on the 6-12-24 week abortion law is. where women get the vote that affect them without men deciding for them. and on the flip side. men get the vote on paternal responsibility of a child.

its not a mass media vs independent media..
its a fact or fiction problem.

yes mass media narrative can also sound as uneducated as independant media. but before having a rating system you first need to educate and do some research on the topic.

actually have people that know the subject. not based on their social group preference but based on hard data and truth and fact. then those people can rate the topics of both social influnecer and mass media reporters

.. the amount of times i have wrote to things like the BBC to change their stories about bitcoin and other topics. but at the same time i see idiot social influencers making the same amount of mistakes..

just because something is talked about by social influencers rather then media reporters. does not make the social influencers narrative correct on topic B if someone found fault in media reporters topic A.

as for joe rogan swallowing horse de-wormer. he obviously has not done the research and is just following some trend that more then 50% of his userbase also follows.

anyone "serious" about bitcoin purely for a FIAT profit.. is not that serious about bitcoin

actually having everyone using one version of software from one brand is where bugs can cause havok.
its actually diversity that can protect it.

these days there is only one brand, one group of devs and most versions now require update quickly due to the impatience of devs not wanting to allow extended time for open choice to adopt an upgrade.(aka less review time)

these single design rush jobs can be more risk than in 2010

.. yes the opposite is true. fast upgrading can fix a known bug quick by getting everyone to upgrade to remove a previous bug. but that requires the devs knowing, re-coding and fixing the bug. which as seen previously most bugs remain at risk for many months plus.

in short. consensus(unified agreement/monopoly branding) can also be the cause of most vulnerabilities too

sinead ryan. a journalist..
hmm i think she is trying to sensationalise something to get some notoriety. EG make a tweet go viral for fame. we have plenty of people like that . piers morgan, katy hopkins..

both love to say silly idiot things to stir a debate and get things to spread. shame its the idiots with the biggest mouths and platforms

nope.. again idiot overuse of the word FORCED
actual policy if vaccinated or regular test.

boring and non-news. and of course totally fake

funny part is badecker does not even read the copy-paste stuff he posts.. because it clearly says people are just required to be regularly tested.. not fired


yes they add in buzzwords like "forced" but thats not boeings wording. its the conspiracy nutters additional buzzwordatory

basically idiots trying to extremitize normal policy of test or vaccinate. to make it falsely sound like vaccine or resign.
oh and i must add that alot of employees had the vaccine already so its not like its actually all 125k staff being asked. its actually a small number of laggers that they are in discussions with.

in essence boring. nothing to see. just silly comedy from the usual idiots