Banning Bitcoin won't change the direction of Bitcoin. The government just doesn't like to adapt Bitcoin officially because they don't want to lose control of the economy. Don't expect any government to announce Bitcoin as the national currency. Centralised governments won't adapt to decentralised currencies where they have their own fiat. So a war will exist between the government and Bitcoin. Even many developed countries allow people to use Bitcoin, but they really don't like to adapt it. Any country won't have double currency. So the government will always oppose it. El Salvador adapts Bitcoin as legal tender, but I don't think it does help them a lot. Rather, they are forcing citizens to use Bitcoin. So other governments are monitoring them as well, but still no one is in. There are many factors; if everything becomes decentralised, then the system will collapse.

Grifters, scammers, fantasists, narcissists & a mixture of all of that I suppose. Bitcoin is perhaps the greatest innovation of the last 100 years. To be able to say you are Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of such a phenomenon is kind of a big deal. All of these people who want what comes with that, want what it would bring to be the great Satoshi. Ignore all the noise though, I don’t believe Satoshi will ever come out of hiding, it goes against everything that he is/was. Certainly none of the scammers who have claimed to be Satoshi so far are the great man.

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First of all, a CBDC doesn't work like a cryptocurrency or operates on a blockchain network but they are digital currencies that are controlled by the banks or authorities that release them, so they can't really replace stablecoins in the cryptocurrency market. People will not and can't abandon stablecoins and start using CBDCs even if they are forced to do so because some just don't want to use coins that are totally regulated and centralized.

And, who told you that exchange-based tokens or coins are decentralized? They are not completely decentralized despite the fact that they run within blockchain networks and the transactions aren't really controlled by the parent exchanges but they can easily be modified or manipulated.

It is always better to save your money (extra savings) in Bitcoin than in your bank account. Every person in the world is putting efforts into a safe and secure future for themselves and their family. Bitcoin is providing a way to fulfil your dreams. If you invest in Bitcoin now, you can be rich after ten years. You can be financially stable, in your dream house, living a happy life. For example, imagine a person who invested in Bitcoin from 2011 to 2012 and held it till the last bull run; he became a millionaire from a few hundred dollars in BTC investment. Now imagine the price of Bitcoin after a decade. It surely will change your life if you invest in BTC. Be patient and trust Bitcoin.

There are other tokens with much APY reward actually, you can check through different exchanges to get that, I’m sure exchanges like Bitget has some cool APY % reward.

Why are these people obsessed with being identified as Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin? In 2019 this website reported a list of self-proclaimed bitcoin founder;

• Ronald Keala Kua Maria
• Pakastani Bilal Khalid and his PR firm Ivy McLemore  
• Debo Jurgen Etienne Guido
• Jörg Molt
• Craig Wright
• Paul Calder Le Roux

There are more who have claimed to be Satoshi but why? Why do they want to be Satoshi so bad they look stupid to the public with all their self proclamation. In fact there are so many dangers in being Satoshi because he would be the center of every backlash, investigations, arrest warrants, and what have you. And besides, it would make no difference because he, Satoshi technically would have no say on how the bitcoin network should or should not run based on the consensus. Which other faketoshis do you know? And have you ever taken any of them seriously?

Government and their fear for Bitcoin!

Bitcoin as a decentralized digital currency that operate without a financial system or without being controlled by the government is really creating panick and fear in most government officials.

The government just want to be in charge of everything, from monitoring your transaction to knowing how much people are worth financially, but Bitcoin is becoming too powerful for them too handle, which to me is understandable, but to them it's a ugly reality.

Financial power and control is returning back to the people, which is a welcome development.

The sweet reality is that Bitcoin is here too stay, if they ban Bitcoin the mass will rise up against them, so they are just looking for a way to contain the influence of Bitcoin and discredit it.
 To me Bitcoin is one of the best thing that has ever happened to finance because everyone loves privacy.

One thing I love about Bitcoin is that when the haters voice grows louder and the value drop base on their policies, just to attack it, Bitcoin still fight it way back up,

Please the government need to know this, they have already lost.
All the bitcoineers cheers

It's impossible to know where bitcoin's bottom will be during this bear season, but we're probably so close to the bottom that waiting and not buying now is a really bad idea. Those who are still waiting for lower prices to buy will have to buy at higher prices because their greed is too great.
Furthermore, they will also be the ones who miss the opportunity to take profits during the bull season because they always want to buy at the lowest price and sell at the highest price. But they don't know that no one can know where is the bottom and what will be the highest price until everything passes.

i know OP is a LN supporter.. but its already a failed network. 6 year of bugs and flaws. other subnetwork bridges have more liquidity so dont point fingers that people should move to LN if fee's cost more then $1 per sat.. LN is not the sanctuary
.. many people are already using other subnetwork bridges

anyway onto the point of the topic.
bitcoins code allows sat/kb  meaning people can make a tx for just 1 sat that represents 1kb of data

however the blockspace competition would be that not everyone will get priority if everyone paid the minimum. so space competition will have rankings of people paying 4sat+ per kb where 1sat/250byte* as the min (*a lean 2in 2out tx)

so if 1sat is $1 then a average tx is $4 which as any economy of payment systems of history show. no one likes to pay $4 per wire transfer.. at current inflation value of $4 purchasing power)
even if we take bank wire(mainnet EG) vs paypal(subnet bridge EG) even if paypal offers tx for 1 cent people wont want to use paypal if it costs them $4 to close and open an account each month to rebalance
at current $4+ real world purchasing power... just look at the social drama each time there is a fee war exceeding $2/tx

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i feel that over all, gone are the days of halving events causing 100x price drama ATH, and 10x drama are gone per halving, so dont expect a $100m btc any time soon

in the recent halving cycles we seen a 3.5x from one cycle to the next ($20k to $70k)
the next one might me 2-3x meaning $140k-$210k

so in the next 2 decades(5 halvings) we may only get to a couple million per btc meaning 100sats being worth $1-$2 thus 1 sat being 1-2cent

where the potential of a 1sat $1 being many many many decades further along.. if ever(the $100m/btc)

the time where i see $1 =1sat is where $1 doesnt even buy you a can of pepsi, whereby $10-$100 is a can of pepsi due to fiat inflation.. thus a $4tx fee of 4sats is a slice of bread cost

I am. This price is too good to let it go, maybe it will go down to $22-24k, who knows, but it's not a big difference especially if we look at the big picture: halving and ETFs. If in the next 2 years reaches $150k or even more who cares buying at $24k or $27k, it's still a great profit anyway, and personally I prefer not to risk, some people always wait for a better price and they end up missing big buying opportunities.

BNB have future as long as binance still exists, but its indeed better to invest in bitcoin because bitcoin known to grow from year to year.
the only thing that will hold you from investing in bitcoin is probably the fact that $800 is not significant amount to invest, more likely have little profit even if bitcoin rise 20%.

With doge on 1$, it will have 141B$ market cap. Is that even realistic? Now, it's sitting on 8B so that's almost 20x.
Well, you can dream, that's not forbidden but I doubt it.

Choosing both ETH and BNB might seem peculiar, as they both operate on their respective blockchains. The differentiating factor lies in the decentralized nature of ETH, while BNB is centralized in terms of the applied consensus method.

It's important to remember never to put all your money in one bucket. Investing in both models, in my opinion, is a reasonable approach. If one doesn't yield profits, the other model could generate income. This aligns with the general investment objective, which is to seek gains.

The postponement means that they will accept the application when the time is right. So I think the process we are going through can only be called waiting for the right time.

I can't say whether the SEC chairman overstepped his authority or not, but I know that when the time is right, the SEC will accept the decisions that the SEC has postponed. I think it's better for Bitcoin that they don't make these decisions now. I think it would be more effective to accept applications when the halving happens or shortly before it happens.

At least in all these years of trading in the crypto market, you know it's not dependent on one coin, so I am sure even USDT's fall will have some impact on investors but not the whole market. And also, USDC and USDT are fine. There is a lot of fud out there; USDT did a lot of sketchy things, but I will say USDT has a bigger market cap than USDC. There are a lot of people trying to take out your USDT, and maybe in the future it dies, but right now I don't think it's that big of a deal. I think a lot of it is a fud. But what I will say is that you can't short the market without usdt on the platforms that I use, so I am cool with holding usdt right now. In the future, that might change, but yeah, just don't get caught in the fud.

If I decide to use some exchange I trust it enough to leave some funds hanging there. Some funds, for some time... never "all in" and never "all the time". If I don't trust it, I will not use it, simple as that. And yes, we will continue to trust CEXs with our money, numbers are clear about that, simply CEX has a lot to offer. Because of that I am ready to close my eyes on security and risk some amount just to take advantage of some stuff. In my case, it's mostly staking.

But I never risked some big amounts on that, for me it's like gambling, I will never risk more than I can afford to lose. But some people are ready to risk literally "all-ins", and that is not smart/wise! In years we saw many exchanges/casinos/cryptoservices falling down just like that, so that old one worked and will work all the time "Never keep all of your eggs in one basket"!

USDT is a crypto currency stable coin, which means it is supposed to be worth one dollar and can be redeemed, in theory, at any point for one dollar. USDT is widely popular, and it is used across almost every major crypto currency exchange, every major defi platform, and every blockchain's got Usdt, the wide-scale acceptance aside, has been plagued by controversy over the years. Constant questions regarding the company's reserves and their ability to actually meet their obligations never cease to circulate online. The founders of usdt were only doxed after the paradise paper leak showed that it was made by the same team behind the Bitfinex crypto currency exchange, and as a whole host of other allegations have basically circulated, they've all worked to tarnish the reputation of usdt and have led to constant fears that usdt could implode and take all of crypto right down the toilet.

Monero differs from the bulk of cryptocurrency in its high degree of anonymity, and this is the problem of its current state. Many understand that states will strengthen regulation of cryptocurrency and this will primarily concern the identification of participants in the cryptocurrency market. If this affects Monero, then its specialness and current attractiveness will disappear and this coin will turn into hundreds and thousands of them that are available in this market. Some states, including Japan, simply prohibit the circulation of this coin on their territory and this cannot but affect the decline in its popularity.

ASIC miner producers are billion dollar companies. They are not going anywhere and keep releasing new miners.

In terms of POW altcoins like Kadena, you shouldn't mine them 24/7. Miners are always checking the most profitable coins at the moment. So you may buy an ASIC miner for BTC but switch it to Kadena for some time (can be even a few hours) once rewards are higher so you don't need to buy expensive equipment for alts only.