It's a fallacy to assume that if they don't like X then they can never like Y even if X is an integral part of Y, in this case it's bitcoin and decentralization. Decentralization is just an aspect of bitcoin so I don't think that they will necessary like it because there are other things that bitcoin has to offer with financial freedom being one of the examples. Also, there's a lot of people that have been interested in bitcoin and have been using it since but doesn't know squat about the technical aspects or what even is the true purpose of bitcoin is. My point is that, you don't have to cover all the bases when it comes to things unless you want to be an expert on that thing then by all means go for it so don't stop preaching about bitcoin even if they don't like the idea of decentralization.

When we are spending or buying goods and services, we are already participating the growth of the economy so we don't need to worry too much about whether we are contributing to the economy because it's all automatic and that's how it was designed, that we won't notice it until something significant happens, so when we are talking about bitcoin helping the economy, it's kind of redundant when they put it like that. Of course there's always people that's going to lose some, not everyone can win in investments although I think it's an individual problem, investments are supposed to make you profit in the long-term and if you were to easily falter when something negative that everyone knows will be temporary happens then you're bound for losses. Be mindful that I'm only talking about individual and small investors, I think it's a different discussion when it comes to that.

Don't listen to this man, panic sell so you can save your money from depreciation because of the temporary price dump, bitcoin is volatile so you will never know what's going to happen to your money. When a FUD like this happens, remember that you need to save your money first before believing that bitcoin will eventually bounce back. Remember that you can always get back in when the price starts going up again. Hopefully, newbies will take this advice because I want to buy and accumulate bitcoin at a much lower price

I don't think that there's a grand design as to why they want to acquire bitcoin, their ulterior motive is not something that we will know until they take action on it. Let your imagination run-free when it comes to speculating about their goal, it's a limitless endeavor but if we're basing what Saylor has to say in an interview by Bloomberg, Saylor said.

I think it's not worth your salt solving the issue (I don't think it's an issue), it's just an individual ick so I don't think I would elaborate it more. I can use it just fine already is what I'm trying to say and complaining about something minute is kind of a waste of time for the two of us. Thanks for the signature campaign link though.

The problem is it doesn't prompt me to upload a new image, it just shows a dropdown list, try to upload an image and then click the Upload, that's what I'm talking about. I don't really mind if you don't change it and I think the reset is just fine. I shouldn't complain that much considering I use it for free.
You should design a signature and host a signature campaign that promotes the website for free, I would gladly promote it for free, I'm not in any signature campaign so I won't mind.

Shouldn't the Upload and Reset button function as the same thing because when I finished uploading one image, I try to press upload but it doesn't prompt me to the upload function, I always have to press the Reset. Anyways, it's a minor inconvenience for me only so I don't mind that it's changed but I just want to say something about it and let people be aware of it.

Easy, when the mining power becomes centralized then that can only mean that bitcoin will just become any other banking institution that prioritizes the well-being of their own rather than the people that bitcoin was made for. It's unlikely to happen though, I'm sure that the major players are going to be in support of decentralization which increases even more the unlikeliness that a centralization happens. but I think that's what's going to happen when bitcoin becomes centralized.

Unless, they create a fucking consortium

If you consider what the energy output is used for then that would be a different story since that's a different equation when it comes to carbon emissions. Couldn't disagree on the fact that it's negated if used for a selfish stuff but that's a societal or individualist problem I think. Maybe if we got the real numbers on how it's used and how much these renewable resources offsets in carbon emission, you might reconsider if you're not right.
I think when it comes to good or better for the environment stuff, I think that it's a subjective thing, a dam wouldn't be a good thing for a salmon who goes upstream to breed but for humans it's good since it helps them preserve water and create artificial watersheds to foster wildlife and fisheries. Regarding nuclear waste handling, I don't think it's difficult, it's more on politics because there's a country in Europe(I forgot the name of the country) that has a very good handle on their nuclear waste by turning a small island into a nuclear waste storage, plus developing your nuclear power means cheaper electricity and fossil fuel companies don't want you to do that.
Depends, if there's too much dam built on a river, I think that that's when the benefits outweigh the costs like what's currently happening in the Mekong River, China has 12 dams built in it while the other countries that are crossed by that river on has a total of 2 and now those at the lower end of the river are experiencing droughts.

Think about it this way, say a hydro dam causes 100k in contribution to carbon emissions when it was built but in an estimated 10 year period, it will be able to produce electricity that would otherwise be worth 1m in contribution to carbon emissions if it was produced by coal, and in this example it shows that the hydro helped prevent 900k worth of carbon emissions which makes it considered a green energy since it offset it's initial carbon emissions. I agree with your stance about bitcoin not being friendly to the environment, it sounds goofy asf. What would be the right term is "Good for the environment" is a misnomer?
When it comes to politics, I'm on your side. Politicians not listening to scientists has been an all too common trope in sci-fi stories about disasters so I get that part.

I like to read where you're getting these, hope you can drop a link since I like to do some good reading regarding the topic of alternative power sources.

Nope, true green energy should be carbon negative. I think dismissing them as not green at all is one dimensional. Green energy is only given to something if it's output is lower than it's impact to the environment or it's effort to offset what it emits. Let me ask you this then, if solar, hydro and wind doesn't make you happy then what type of energy source are you proposing that's carbon neutral? Those that you've mentioned are really good for the environment I think that there's a lot of independent studies that can support that.

If it's a viable option for many, then how come people are still innovating on stuff that reduces the wasted energy? If it ain't broke don't fix it right? How are they lying when they argue that bitcoin is beneficial though? I don't get how you can lie when it's an opinion based on the facts that were given to you.

As much as like the idea that there's no intermediary when it comes to P2P, I don't want to be a victim of a scam or anything malicious like that because when it's a raw P2P trade, the possibility that the other party won't commit to their agreed trade gets much higher and they don't have to crafty about it unlike having a middle-man/intermediary where they need to fake some confirmation to even pull off shit like that. Also, I don't get how it's confusing, you're just using the exchange as a platform to conduct a P2P trade, it's not like they actively meddle in the trades itself.

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That's how it should be, criticisms should be take with a smile and not being offended on some strangers comment about your post because you're going to waste your time trying to combat them which makes you go down to their level. I agree with the not deleting the criticisms but I can understand to some degree that deleting some nonsense criticism will only flood the thread with them thus making it hard to find the right criticisms.

Regarding rating OP, I don't think you should worry too much about what others might say about your post, there's a lot of forum posters out there that have a mixed style in their posting meaning that they can create long post without making the readers yawning and they can create one-liners that garner merits. At the end of the day, it's a subjective thing, some will see your post not a quality, some will see the quality in it, your only goal should make your post or topic informative and will help build the discussion.

So what the study says, is that there's a surplus of energy that's wasted and that bitcoin mining is the one that's helping make sure that those surplus never gets wasted? If my understanding is right, then how come this only happened when bitcoin mining became a thing, the surplus should've been known ever since and the energy regulatory commissions should've thought of a way to harness that surplus.

Now if I'm wrong and that I misunderstood it completely, can anyone do a TLDR because I don't have the drive right now to read a 17 page reading as I am doing this post in my work computer.

This.

Also, if you're that concerned with your post, maybe try tools like Grammarly or other grammar checking tools most of them already have a spelling checker so you no need to worry. And if that's not enough, you can write/type your thoughts in your native tongue and then paste it to a translator and if you are confident enough about the translation, post it.

Currently, things are already going south for me so I don't really have any solution to give you or anyone who cares about my opinion but what I'm experiencing right now, if things are worsening, I just try to distract myself by playing games, watching movies and eating some good stuff which I notice does alleviate the feelings of being blue.

Yes, no matter if it's dictatorship, meritocracy, capitalist, monarchy or "democratic", everyone should be involved because the policy of those in the seat of power will affect the masses the most, if the masses were to let those in power go wild and be stupid and abuse their power, they're the ones that's going to suffer the most. I mean you can take Stalin's era as an example, before him, we didn't know that such evil could be contained in one person but Holodomor and Cannibal island and countless gulag prisoners proved otherwise, if the people acted early on before the paranoia set in, Stalin wouldn't be able to commit those atrocities. That's why I feel bad when people are apolitical, they don't want to fight for their right to a better living, they're happy that they can eat 3 square meals a day when all of us deserve more than that.

Free tools most of the time online means unreliable though which means that it's not an accurate measure if you want to deter AI usage in this forum, some people use grammar checker like Grammarly to make their grammar almost inhuman. I would take those tools with a grain of salt. Pro tip though, you can ask ChatGPT if they've written those statements but that only works if they use ChatGPT for their posting. To me, detecting AI generated content is difficult because sometimes it's in the way they construct the statements which the AI can copy to make it sound like a human wrote.

But then, there will be loopholes that can exploited if that bill comes to a pass, like money launderers can funnel their money through bitcoin and then altogether avoid taxes since it's considered gambling. Even legal businesses would be getting into this which will cause taxes to fall short and if I recall correctly, people in the UK enjoy an almost free healthcare which I assume comes from taxes and I think that if those taxes were to suffer from these bill, I am sure that healthcare will probably be affected with budget cuts.