You are confusing security with privacy. You start by talking about security (cold storage, etc.) then follow up with privacy (checking history in a centralized block explorer). The two are not related. In other words even if you have zero privacy (eg. posting all your addresses with your driver's license on the internet) your coins can still not be stolen (unless they find and physically attack you!).

So if you create a cold storage properly, your coins will remain safe.
Now if you want to improve your privacy, there are many ways to do it. For example you could start running your own full node where you only import your addresses (without private keys) to create a watch only wallet. You could also run the node through Tor to even further increase your privacy.

Mixers are an entirely different matter. It is an option to use when you have coins that you want to be "mixed" so that the link between the new coins you receive and the old coins you had is severed.

At much smaller capacity now and under the full control of the Iraqi authorities not the separatist occupying the region and controlling the resources mass exporting it cheaply to EU pocketing the money themselves.

I said they are "poking" their enemy. Over the past day or two the Lebanese forces wiped out 5 major Israeli bases in Northern Occupied Palestine near the Lebanese border, these are mostly the radar and spying bases with high troop concentrations.
Region is not gonna see any conflict unless US gets involved, which they won't.

Quite the opposite, they are actually trying to increase the oil price and keep it up.
Check out their endless efforts in decreasing production willingly over the past year. You see it not only benefits them to sell their resources at a much higher price but also it helps them put pressure on US economy to force them to leave their region so that stability can come back.

Yeah, that's what I think too. Although I say he has overestimated the number of bitcoiners and the support they may give him. I said this in the other topic too, I don't think he even has a chance to be one of the candidates for presidency even less so now that he is running as an independent.

Awww he's so cute

He either has no understanding of how United States regime works or he thinks his audience doesn't understand it. To be honest if he had said "he would end the war with China" it would have been an impossibility closer to reality than saying this about bitcoin.

Simply impossible to do. Because:
1. He has to first tank the dollar price where the exchange rate would be something like 1 Venezuelan bolívar is equal to 1 US dollar thanks to the massive amounts of dollar they've printed over the past 20 years alone, not to include the circulating supply before that.
2. The US economic structure has to change. They can no longer print money whenever they want to. Like the $10 trillion they printed for the War in Iraq and Afghanistan. The trillions they printed in COVIC pandemic and the $3 trillion they printed in the past couple of months alone to battle the US recession and fund the proxy war with Russia!

This dude is speaking in a way that one would think that he has not spent a single day in US political scene!
By the end of this month most probably another "war" will begin between the US government and the US parliament over the second raising of the US debt ceiling.
Where does he plan on bringing all this money if my some magic he won the election? It's not like the US regime's foreign adventures are going to stop to reduce its ridiculously ginormous expenses. He would have to print money out of thin air like his predecessors.

There's a reason US regime killed the Bretton Woods system. The system is broken and it is impossible to fix it without a literal revolution in North America and possibly a civil war.

That's true but also even for those bitcoiners that have adopted bitcoin as a currency, not that many  have large amounts of bitcoin accumulated to be willing to spend a large portion of it (something like 7BTC) for a car.

I'm not a fan of digital storage of anything secret, such as using a password manager. A hard copy is the best solution and if you want encryption, then you can still store the physical copy of the encrypted seed phrase.
Besides, the only case when a thief that enters your home is going to steal your seed phrase is if they are specifically targeting you for your bitcoins which means you shouldn't let anybody know you are storing your coins this way! Otherwise thieves are always looking for valuable things they "understand" like jewelry, cash, your TV, etc. They don't really know the value of some words on a piece of paper or better yet if it were written on a page inside a book in your bookshelf.

I seriously doubt that there is a high interest among those who own bitcoin to use it to purchase an expensive car like a Ferrari. In fact I believe the same problem existed with Tesla and I believe this was the real reason why Musk removed the bitcoin payment option not the nonsense he said about the energy consumption.

In other words the only thing that this news is going to do is for a short time it is going to introduce Bitcoin to some people who would hear about this decentralized currency, then it is going to be forgotten until possibly the day they remove this option which there would be some FUD and again it will be forgotten the same way Tesla and Musk are.

I don't know about Russia but there isn't anything left in Iran that US has not yet sanctioned. Over the past couple of years more than 90% of what they've been sanctioning were already sanctioned.

As people of Palestine say: "it is better to die once than die every day".

(Finally! You made a post that is on-topic.)

You are right, there are other things that are going on in the fuel market but read OP again, the point is that as a major diesel exporter Russia has been disrupting the market so that they can keep the pressure up on EU economy by also disrupting the economy as it is affected by diesel price.
They didn't even halt exports, it was a temporary ban which I believe was partially lifted after it successfully created the disruption they hoped for.

This is not the only disruption and not the only market and it is not only Russia disrupting different markets! Over the past year we have had every country that produces anything doing something to disrupt that market and play with prices.
We have oil and gas producers from Arabs to Americans messing with the energy market.
We have rice producers like India messing with rice price.
We have grain producers from Russia to a couple of East Asian countries messing with grain prices (remember the cooking oil shenanigans).
We have sugar producers disrupting the market specially after the El Nino hurricane hit some of them.
and so on...

They've done this in the past many many times killing thousands at a time.

How about with a coalition of 50+ countries and half a million troops already deployed to all around Iran in the Old Word Order where US was the only power?
That is early 2000's for you and Iran used to be a lot weaker back then. US couldn't even match Iran's strength at that time. Today Iran's strength is at least 100 times higher not to mention that Iran is now a nuclear threshold state.
Refer to memoirs of the retired United States Army officer, general Wesley Kanne Clark for more details.

Had enough? How about the former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter? He paints a much more dire picture that in comparison to my comments where I say Iran is the only superpower, mine looks like understatements

Shooting a bullet in Iran's direction would increase the oil price, attacking any oil facility would shoot both the oil and gas price to the moon. That means the first to suffer is the Western economy not Iran's. Western economy may be big but it is too fragile to perform if oil price is something like $500-$1000 per barrel and there is barely any shipments. Meanwhile Iran's economy has already survived when barely any oil was being sold.

Not to mention declaring war on Iran is a declaration of World War 3.
The first stage of such a conflict would be 60+% of the global oil/gas infrastructure either destroyed or stop production within first 24 hours. Also all international trades and shipments are going to stop across the globe as all the chokepoints will be completely shut off (Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Strait of Gibraltar, and of course Strait of Hurmuz).
I don't even want to get into what the second stage looks like

Keep in mind that when you are talking about previous bull runs and previous cycles you are talking about a decade that the global economic situation was more or less the same. Ever since the pandemic in 2020, things have not been the same as the years leading to 2020 (from 2009 that Bitcoin was created). And each year things significantly change so we can't use the past to speculate about the future like before.

For example by all speculation bitcoin price should have been in 6 digits by now but we are still stuck below $30k simply because of the very wild global economy that is experiencing lots of disruptions while struggling with both inflation and recession at the same time.

The explanation is pretty simple, every single word in the bold part has always been a lie
Israel has always been like one of those blowfishes, in reality a weak creature that if you poke it, it will perish but it blows itself up to a much bigger size to create the illusion that it is big and strong and scary.

All that aside you should also consider the intelligence work by Palestinians. For example over the past year they have captured many spies and traitors and that practically made any intelligence leak out of Gaza impossible.
Additionally large number of cyber attacks against the Israeli terrorists from half a dozen countries have been leaking all kinds of intelligence including highly classified ones that helped with inflicting the biggest intelligence damage on October 7.

Not to mention that as I've explained many times, Israel has been falling apart for some time now. For example over the past 4 yeas none of the "governments" could last more than months before falling apart. Over the past 40+ weeks there has also been mass protests by the Israeli terrorists against the government in office and majority of their forces in military, air force, intelligence, foreign terror group, etc. have refused to work and have abandoned their posts.

All of this means that the chances of them having the slightest clue about this operation before its start is nearly zero.

Well first of all it is called Fat'h not Fatah (that's another thing). I have no idea how those who supposedly are "experts" can't even pronounce the name correctly.
Secondly there are 32 different movements in Palestine and they are all now against Fat'h (formerly Palestinian National Liberation Movement) because they consider them traitors because Israel has created Fat'h and they are the literal definition of traitors because they legitimized both the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In other words Israel wants Fat'h not others. Claiming they deliberately weakened the only movement that was in their favor and in their pocket makes no sense to me.

That would have been true if this was the first attack on Gaza. But it isn't. In the pat the Israeli terrorists never needed an excuse to slaughter thousands of Palestinians at a time and they didn't need it now either.

haha. If USA had the balls or the capability of striking Iran they would have done it after January 8, 2020 when Iran openly bombed the shit out of two US military based in Iraq eliminating an estimated 140 US troops. Not to mention that it happened at a time when those in oval office were the biggest war mongers and have been pushing a war with Iran for months back then

Exactly this.
I've always said that one of the best things that happened to Bitcoin was that Satoshi went away. You see, people like to make "gods" out of people. They like to look at what certain entity says and follow that. If Satoshi were around, many would have looked to what he says and what side he stays on in any argument about any matter (like the block size war). And that goes against the spirit of a decentralized network.

In other words Bitcoin is more decentralized without Satoshi Nakamoto around.

There is a good lesson in this statement that one can not speculate on bitcoin price and adoption based on the drop from the ATH and the number of searches in search engines. The real adoption takes place in terms of usage of bitcoin, number of transactions both on-chain and on second layer, number of merchants that start accepting bitcoin, etc.

This significant growth in usage of Lightning Network is a clear indication of how bitcoin adoption has been increasing non-stop.
It also indicates how bitcoin current price is below its intrinsic value which makes the market state a manipulated one.

Bitcoin core gives you better privacy but it is not yet "total privacy" because of how bitcoin itself works.
As for security, you do get increased security too because it is a full verifying node which means you verify everything yourself instead of relying on other full nodes to verify it for you. Because of this SPV clients have certain weaknesses in comparison to a full node.
But you are right that about security of your keys, the environment is the important factor.

The disadvantages of providing financial incentive to run a full node are more than their advantages. That is because it is very difficult to verify if a node you are connecting to is an actual full node or not. It can be faked rather easily and any kind of verification process would just keep increasing the cost of running a full node. Even if we found a way to make sure it is an actual full node, we still can't verify if node A and node B are different entities because one node operator could spin up multiple sockets through IP masks that would look different from the perspective of someone connecting to them.

Not to mention that Bitcoin is not proof of stake or space, etc. it is proof of work which means the only incentive is to the miners that are actually and verifiably spending computing power to perform "work".

P.S. There are about 20k listening nodes but there are more than that running full nodes (about 50k in total)
https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/historical.html

It is tough when you summarize a very complicated situation inside 2 lines.
You see it is not that USA wants to directly eliminate Armenia and its people. It is the consequence of their plans. Armenian elimination would be collateral damage.

We all know that EU has been trying to fill the gap in its energy deficit. Caspian sea is an excellent source of all kinds of resources but because the surrounding countries are not members of NATO and the two powers from North and South (Russia and Iran) haven't allowed it both legally (categorized as "inland body of water") and by exerting power, there has not been any foreign presence in this sea to this day.

Some of these countries already have small energy exports to EU but NATO wants more, the plan has always been to use their proxy's proxy (Aliyev) to overtake the bottleneck known as south Armenia and create a link with Turkey. Then Azerbaijan would immediately join NATO and NATO forces would pour into the Caspian sea building bases there and bringing their navies.
This will also effectively choke Armenia geographically by cutting all its connection to the outside world while this then tinier country would be surrounded by all its enemies that would continue advancing in the following years taking more of its soil.

The outcome of this plan for NATO would be:
1. NATO presence in Caspian sea that would mean presence near the borders of the two super powers in the region (Russia in the north and Iran in the south)
2. NATO presence in Caspian sea to start building energy extraction infrastructure (for gas and oil) and suck all the resources out towards EU.
3. NATO presence in the area (that used to be Armenia) linking an important international corridor from Iran (East corridor and Chabahar port/corridor in South) that links to China and India and is used for international exports. In the ongoing Corridor Wars, NATO that used to have the upper hand in the seas and "sea corridors" now wants to have the same control in the land based corridors. This is one piece of that puzzle.

It is one of the considerable sources to supply Uranium, oil, gas and coal (exports to EU increased by nearly 600% last year).

I don't see the relevance. Crimes and genocide committed by a bloodthirsty Nazi dictator against Jews does not justify crimes and genocide committed by Zionists against Palestinians. Even if it did, Israel should have been built inside Germany not Palestine.

That was not a fact, that was propaganda that failed as quickly as they created it. Even POTUS who spread this lie 2 days ago went back on it and admitted that it was a lie.
You see the Palestinians who are now rising up are Muslims, in Islamic ideology they follow something such as "rape" is punishable by death. Not to mention that the channel 13 of the Israeli TV has already released at least half a dozen interviews with the militant Jews in the surrounding Gaza settlements that were released by Hamas who are stating how Hamas has treated them with respect and released any women with children.

They did not start it, the Zionists started it the day they invaded their country and occupied their lands (kind of like what happened to Ukraine). They continued it by ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. So when Palestine was presented with two options: to die or to rise up, they chose the later.
This recent battle is only one battle in a 75 year old war. The difference is that this time Palestine is packing a stronger punch compared to previous times. Also this time Palestine pulled a preemptive strike.

Not the whole world though. Only the Western Mainstream Media is with Israel. If you check out majority of Western countries, there has been lots of marches in favor of Palestine to the point that some EU members are now banning them. For example French authorities stated that supporting Palestine is punishable by 7 years in prison!!! The same in England that you are not allowed to even carry the Palestinian flag.

And of course in the East all people stand with Palestine. Right now the borders in Egypt and Jordan are packed with people who are trying to get into the occupied land and help Palestinians who are being slaughtered.
Today there is the largest marches by regular people across West Asia in support of Palestine.

Thanks for the compliment.
I try to provide a different point of view that is not the same as the status quo in the mainstream media which is mostly the Western line.

An stable region means countries with vast amount of resources would be able to advance in different fields. For example see what China has done to US industries, imagine if an entire continent did that.

The best example to understand what I mean is comparing the situation with Europe pre World War 2, we can see how very little development happened during that time and how the economy was during the time when the entire region was destabilized by annual wars. Then look at what happened in post-WW2 Europe after the Union was formed and the wars stopped, bringing back stability.
For example the Germany we see today as the biggest economy of the bloc was once struggling with millions of people in absolute poverty with high unemployment rate.

Roughly 20 years ago they started a war with Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. That cost them about $10 trillion.
If they can pull a soft-colonization on Saudi Arabia, etc. without shooting a single bullet, obviously they'd choose that!

I'm not sure what you mean by "modern infrastructure". A country like Saudi Arabia is riddled with poverty and is far behind in development for basic infrastructure in majority of the country.
Don't just look at Mecca that is basically a "tourist" place they've developed because that is the picture that would be broadcast to the world. If you go a couple of blocks over, people are living in ruins.
Not to mention that Saudi regime is a dictatorship that doesn't even allow basic statistic about the situation in the country from coming out and nobody dares report on it either after what they did to the Washington Post reporter (chopped him up into little pieces).

Of course. In this world there are only hegemonies that exert control and dominance then there are other countries that accept being dominated by the hegemony to try and seek their personal or national interests under its shadow.
For example United States is a hegemony and Saudi Arabia is basically its colony. US dictates its policies and Saudi regime obeys and fulfills them while trying to seek their own personal interest since they run a dictatorship.

It's the same with Syria, a war torn country that is still struggling with terrorism, separatism, US occupation, food and energy crisis has to try and get close to a hegemony and play their big geopolitical game. So they play in favor of Russia and in return Russia is providing aid to Syria to for example fight ISIS and US. Gives some air defense to defend against Israeli terrorist attacks such as the one today that hit two civilian airfields in Aleppo and Damascus. Helps rebuild the infrastructure US and its proxies destroyed. and so on.

Discussions are always happening in the development scene, for example once some devs were discussing the possibility of reducing the block size to smaller sizes while some others about hard fork to increase it.

I should look deeper into that myself but from what I've seen, this transition has been very slow to begin with. Then the COVID recession slowed it down even more because the budget needed to go somewhere else (trying to kick start the economy again) then came the NATO-Russia war and again the budget needed to go somewhere else (military spending).
Now another theatre of war has opened that Europe has to fund, this time the invaders so that they can use Europe's money to murder children.

I don't think we can consider them fully involved in this war at this point. To me it seems like both Lebanese and Syrian resistance branches are trying to divide the attention of the Israeli terrorists to two additional battlefields instead of one (like previous times).

So if they force the terrorists to keep 50k IDF soldiers in the Northern border and 50k in Eastern border + Iron Dome batteries in each theatre, and do it by only "poking" the enemy that means 100k less troops, air defense, tanks, armored vehicle, air force, etc. for the Southern border.
Consequently the South resistance branch can advance and reach the West Bank easier in which case a direct land based route to outside world can be created that can then be used to get humanitarian aid such as food, water, medical supplies, gas (for electricity), etc. to Gaza that currently has none.

Next stage is still unpredictable. But we'll definitely know that we're in the next phase. For example we'll see the 150k missiles in action, as opposed to a couple of shells and small missile attacks in the past couple of days coming from north and east side of the occupied Palestine.

Did you just read this topic and then rephrased the question or did you actually read it in a different "educational" source that led you to this confusion?

Because I'm curious as to what source mentions "magic byte" and usage in transaction and in what context that creates such a confusion. The topics are just too different and unrelated. Magic byte should be in under completely different category where the network messages and communication is discussed, that category should not create any link between "magic byte" and "transaction security" in the mind of the reader.