I know its heresy but I'd really like to entertain a discussion on both sides regarding a concern of mine. What if transaction fees aren't enough to incentivize the miners to secure the bitcoin network? I think this is a potential problem we may see in the next few decades as the halving continues on. My hope is that we will have enough people using the bitcoin network to have a healthy fee market, but if we have weak periods like now where there are several unfilled blocks, wont miners just turn off their equipment as they are unprofitable? What options or solutions are being discussed to help mitigate this?

Or any other alt coin for that matter? I'm wondering if and how it would damage/tarnish Bitcoin's reputation as the Gold standard of all cryptos. I believe it may also affect how institutions view bitcoin, and it may even affect the idea of digital scarcity. No longer can we assume that bitcoin (or its usurper) will remain #1 forever, so how can you imagine it as a safe long term store of value or preserver of wealth? Is the idea of true digital scarcity threatened if bitcoin loses it's #1 rank?

For example, I imagine it would be like silver flipping gold's market cap, (which is practically unthinkable)  however, this event would forever alter how gold is perceived, especially by new potential investors.

Is there an official electrum lightning node? Trying to support the LN network and would love to open a channel to it to help out. Can't figure out if its this:

Electrum:
https://1ml.com/node/0284a249ee165723f01ae08dc340f9f60bcbce8dda2140401f1bd7548ef11dd5e6

or this:

Electrum Trampoline:
https://1ml.com/node/03ecef675be448b615e6176424070673ef8284e0fd19d8be062a6cb5b130a0a0d1

Or perhaps both? Which one would be the best to connect to in order to help provide liquidity and connectivity for electrum wallet users?

If a large amount of unused receiving addresses were accidentally revealed (say 50 or so), is there any risk to the funds that may be stored in that wallet? Assuming the revealed addresses remain unused. I'm wondering if there's an increased risk of reverse engineering the private key if enough public addresses are known.

Looking for a wallet that can connect to my Trezor T and support the following: Multisig, Full Node, Bitcoin, and Ethereum.

I have an old gaming laptop that I purchased used in early 2011. I reformatted the hard drive at least once with windows, used it for maybe a year, and its been dormant since 2012.  The chances are slim to none, however, before I chuck the laptop I thought it would be a good idea to at least see if there may have been a bitcoin wallet on the hard drive. Is there any easy way of doing this? Or totally pointless.

https://forkmonitor.info/stale/btc/666833

Did a doublespend occur?

Trying to figure out if all this news about tether being a scam/ticking time bomb is a black swan event threat to bitcoin or if it's FUD. Would love to hear your thoughts.

I think I did some recreational mining during the BTC hype of 2017. I didn't do it for long and I doubt its worth anything, but I figure I should try to recover it. Does anybody know where I could start looking? What popular mining software was being used around 2017?