I share your frustration, and appreciate the negative tone. We need more adoption and less talk about it. However, this is the kind of news I like to read and discuss in this thread, it's relevant.

While trying to be optimistic and perhaps a tad bit delusional, I'm waiting for that crucial moment when Bitcoin price breaks free from the "black hole stonk market" and takes off on its own merit. I think this will happen gradually as the masses stop chewing the misinformation (propaganda) and start making the right moves, not necessarily because they are smart, but because Bitcoin will be one of the few lifeboats around when the hyperinflation takes off. The sooner the adoption happens, the better off the world will be. If countries do this as a national effort to mitigate complete collapse of their economy, even better.

I feel robbed of a future, or at least it looks pretty dark now. Tired of the masses not realizing a good thing like Bitcoin when it's right in front of them, even during hyperinflation (facepalm), and then more idiots begging for NATO hot war with Russia.

Really good advice, and something I struggle with sometimes, live and learn.



What's the hurry? It will happen to all of us eventually. Take a step back and evaluate worst case in your situation, make a plan which involve as little risk as possible, aim low.

Exactly this, anything like BIP 119 should be in a higher layer, maybe even on top of Lightning in the current framework. I think the reason Bitcoin is king is in part due to its solid foundation development wise, core needs to be minimal and secure, lets keep it that way.


Agreed, one of the risks with BIP 119 is the potential for blacklisted coins, that would make Bitcoin less fungible, this is a bad idea, especially at the core level.

Checking the 15 minute chart, looks like a dead cat without the bounce part, it just died.

The BIP 119 ordeal doesn't help either. I'm against smart contracts support in Bitcoin, don't want Bitcoin turning into Ethereum with all that entails. I'm fairly optimistic BIP 119 will be rejected eventually, but it's going to get worse before it gets better.

As of writing this Bitcoin fell off another cliff, from mid 36k down towards 35k USD.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/russian-ruble-hit-over-2-040728315.html

Petro Ruble?

ChartBuddy brought that rocket down, it's a dud.


I read rich assholes some people care about commenting about Bitcoin being worthless, that's a bullish signal to me, means they want it lower so they can invest.

Can we rename the "fear & greed index" to "ignorance & competence index"?

It seems more relevant to call the current situation "extreme ignorance".

In a world where logic makes sense the "worries about inflation" should mean buying (more) Bitcoin, but somehow that doesn't happen, perhaps due to the fears of WW3 being overwhelming.

This is great....but riddle me this; if you are a person buying an Alexa (or similar device), even after realizing that the constant recording loop must be sent to a cloud server somewhere because the hardware doesn't have the CPU power or storage space to deal with the trigger word detection on its own, would you really think panopticon is a bad idea?

Fork off. 

Totally agree, the moniker needs to be inherently discouraging.

Maybe we can have a poll to let people vote after getting more suggestions?

I think 'bendovercoin' is good because it somehow combines "bootlicker" with pain well deserved (ran out of merits again).

I like NRYC.

Lightning constructs on top of Bitcoin can be designed to offer some of this functionality (at least the non-dystopian ones), no need for pedo.gov.coin (CBDC).

I think CBDCs are worse than the majority of shitcoins regarding fungibility, dystopian control by design, so what would be a proper name for this?

govcoin (Bad suggestion, people might confuse "gov" with something positive.)
1984coin (Not shitty enough, and confuse illiterate.)
pedocoin (Seems to be a common disorder among those in power truly benefiting from such coin.)

****coin

Help me fill out the "****" here, need a catchy one.

I think Bitcoin mainstream adoption rate is increasing due to its "lifeboat" properties, if this assumption is correct we will see an upward trend even during serious threat.

Losing friends suck, especially when they die, remembering the moments with them helps even if painful at first. (I don't know you personally but can relate.)