He's a bit of a freak of nature, and I don't mean any disrespect with that either. The guy is very gifted when it comes to physical size, and the amount of speed he possess despite being so muscle bound, and considering he hasn't been doing MMA for nearly as long as others, kind of goes to show he has a certain knack for the more technical side of things which to be honest has been the most impressive thing for me, and what makes him a outlier in a lot of comparisons. Ngannou vs Gane wasn't exactly the most entertaining fight, but Ngannou did what he needed to do against Gane who has been training pretty much all his life, and was considered the vastly better striker, and wrestler, and the only chance Ngannou had was via his power. He proved us wrong that day. Although, having said that the reason he's a bit of a star is because he arguably as the hardest punch in the UFC.

However, ultimately its because he can deliver. He gets the highlight reels, and he's also a fairly likeable character. He isn't a Conor Mcgregor that sells the show, but he gets on with his business, and usually delivers. He isn't a super star in the same sort of comparison to other fighters, but he is most definitely a entertaining fighter when he steps inside that cage.

Unless you're running on a rather slow computer or you've made a lot of transactions, I wouldn't have thought it would take that long. If you're running it from the graphical console, you could attempt to run it via the terminal to see if that helps performance a little bit.

Goes without saying, if you're struggling with performance, terminate other programs until you've completed this step. If your CPU is maxing, you'll have difficulty with whatever you're trying to do.

For me, and this is only an assumption on my behalf. I genuinely believe that Elon was somewhat trolling. He always likes to take the mic a little bit, and it isn't out of character for him to basically shill something that hasn't got any technical merit at all, into something that is going to take over the future. However, when Roger Ver does it, I genuinely believe he probably does think its the future, since its consistent with his general beliefs involving cryptocurrencies in the past.

I'd probably eat my hat if Doge ever got anywhere near global adoption, I'm not even sure Bitcoin can do it, depending on what your definition of global adoption is, of course.

Anyone ever tempted to run a node off a solar panel? I assume a single board computer would likely be the most realistic way of going about it.

I know the vast majority of people wouldn't find it useful, and that's probably the reason it hasn't already been implemented, however as time goes on if we're going to expect more adoption, it could very well aid that. I know there are already alternatives such as a lightweight client or just not running a node, and don't get me wrong again the vast majority aren't going to be interested. I don't know, I just feel it could be worth it regardless, as it might just encourage someone who was already on the fence, to give running a full node a try, which obviously directly benefits the network as a whole.

What specifically didn't work in Linux, but works in the virtual machine?

Honestly, this backing is worth as much as a chocolate fire guard. Doge has no comparison to Bitcoin whatsoever, Bitcoin actually stands for something, and is providing something that traditional money doesn't. Doge, is ultimately a joke, and I don't mean that as an attack, that is exactly what it was, and remains as so.

It's annoying though, that people are claiming Doge will out perform everything else, and I do believe its no longer a meme in a lot of people's heads, they've just fallen for the sarcastic trend that was going on to promote Doge as the new revolution.

Sure, you could potentially make a profit on it, but its not by any technical merit whatsoever, and eventually it'll fall flat on his face, the problem is something as equally as silly will likely replace it.

Depends what your definition of a miner is, if its based on hardware sure. If it's the person/organisation behind that miner then it might not be directly indicative of more people entering the market, since a lot of existing miners will be looking to scale their operations, and earn the maximum amount possible.

While technically it does increase the amount verifying transactions, to a certain point it doesn't really improve it all that much. Unless, as you say there's new people entering the market, as that at least reduces the amount of centralisation. Mining being probably one of the more centralised parts of Bitcoin.

I don't blame Ngannou at all pushing for what he wants, after all there should be enough leeway to allow him to have one rather large fight in boxing against Tyson Fury; without it actually effecting his UFC career too much. Dana will take a cut, and probably earns more from it than he would if it didn't happen. I'm not sure what is holding up the negotiations, as from Dana's stand point it looks like a no brainer. I guess the only issue is the actual contract negotiations, particularly salary on the UFC side of things, so how much Ngannou gets paid per fight in the UFC.

For me though, it'll get done. Tyson will likely fight Ngannou in a sort of exhibition match without too much on the line. Ngannou will get a few more fights in the UFC. Although, I can't see Ngannou being around for long in the UFC either. His knees are already spent by the looks of things.

Yeah, Aspinall probably is going to be at the very least challenging for the belt, so it wasn't really a shock for Arlovski losing that one. Although, his last few fights against the no namers as you say, were entertaining. I personally don't count them as no namers, just not very popular fighters. The question is, Arlovski said he wants to keep fighting for years to come, but is his body going to hold out for that long. He looks pretty good for his age right now, normally fighters start a rapid decline way before, and ultimately are forced to bow out, due to the damage they take. Arlovski hasn't really been on the receiving side much even when losing. I'm not counting the Tom fight in that though, as that's the exception.

Maybe true, although it has got the point where like almost all are either outright scams, or very speculative developers hoping to get rich quick themselves, which actually if you look at how much they earn, proves to be true quite often. It's the users that get the arse end of the deal.

Seriously, if the project behind the airdrop doesn't sound very good or have anything interesting about it, then its probably going to go bad at some point. Very rarely these days are there anything of substance, most are copies, of copies. Plus, to be honest I get the impression that a lot of them are made by the same people, looking to recycle, and make as much money as possible. Well, a few have been outright caught, so we know it happens.

Confidence as a wallet? Pretty decent. Confidence of the company, and their practices? Low. There are better alternatives out there, at least which have yet to be proven to be selling/sharing customer data. So, if you care about privacy definitely reconsider, and research the alternatives. Although, as hinted by a few users here, storing your money on a closed source wallet or a exchange wallet is literally the worst thing you could do, so is Ledger better than those? Probably, yeah.

Yeah, it's slightly counter productive. If you want to be trustworthy, the only way to be trustworthy when it comes to wallet software/hardware is by being trustless i.e having the upmost transparency e.g open source software, as well as open source hardware. Obviously, that's really hard to come by in this day, and age.

For me at least, if you're offering wallet software the primary goal should be trust, as well as transparency. So, it should be open source. Although, for me I don't want to be pushed into a certain exchange or service, even if the exchange is like universally accepted as the greatest thing on the earth, I don't want to be pressured into it or only offered that option. By all means, link to documentation from multiple sources on what makes a exchange good, but definitely don't push a certain exchange. That's not because of the reasons you've mentioned above (those too), but the fact that we should be pushing for decentralisation, and therefore shouldn't be recommending a singular service.

I don't think you're being too paranoid. Safepal, and therefore Binance aren't exactly covering themselves in glory here. Although, unfortunately this is how they make money, and I suspect far more exchanges, and wallet software is indeed doing exactly the same.

The great thing about this is despite the ongoing political drama that you mention, especially with the energy claims as of recent, Bitcoin once again proves in the long run it's resistant to this sort of ongoings, which bodes well for the future, and especially the price.

Honestly, if anything if would be the perception of the public with energy consumption I'd say is one of the biggest threats to Bitcoin, especially with how the world is going towards the greener the better sort of mentality. So, while I don't think we've escaped the problems, at least from a Bitcoin users perspective we haven't lost faith, evidenced by the increase in hash rate.

Arlovski is a great example of someone who just loves what they're doing. Talk about the UFC pay rate all you want, Arlovski has made his money through sheer volume, especially considering he's a legend of the sport, and is quite successful. So, at this point yeah he isn't as good as he once was, and he's probably starting to feel the toll of the sport from all the years, but watch his fights he still has a lot of fun in there, and also I find him quite entertaining still which is quite rare when the fighters are knocking on a bit.

Can't bet against the man either with his records, especially with his knack for upsets.

I was almost certain that Klopp wasn't going to resign,  I thought he was quite adamant about it, however if you hear him whenever he talks about the city, the players, and the club he has just clicked with us, which I do believe is exactly why it went from not resigning, and returning home to lets sign for another two years, and make the most of things. However, to be honest not that he has signed on for two additional years (four years in total) I'm a little more hopeful of tying him down a little longer, which I wasn't before I basically just accepted that we'll have a massive hangover period after Klopp leaves.

Seriously, if we sign Salah now on a long term deal, I might even accept not winning the quadruple...might .

I think Fury wins both, and to be honest I'd like to see it just so we could settle the debate, as there are definitely those that believe Usyk is the better boxer, which he might be, but he has to prove it, beating Joshua who arguably isn't at his best, isn't saying a lot. I'm not saying that Joshua is a easy fight these days or he's past it, I just believe Ruiz really did dent his sort of invincible attitude.

I don't see Joshua beating Usyk on points, for me the only route to victory for him is either knock out or technical knock out, since I don't see him outboxing Usyk, just as I don't see him out boxing Fury. Whatever the result of the fight, I'd still like to see Fury fight both. Both come with their different problems, but Joshua can knockout anyone, and that is at least more exciting to me than the Usyk fight.

I'm not even being hyper critical because they're a rival. Toss that aside they are genuinely one of the worst teams to watch in the Premier League. At least Burnley do have a bit of bite to them. It doesn't help that I really dislike Richardlison as a football player, pretty much everything he does on that football pitch annoys me, but I guess that's part of his quality, he can wind people up on the pitch. Although, even if Everton stay up, I don't see him staying past this summer. A lot of those players have already mentally given up, and they'll just be looking to jump to the next ship.

Whether or not they'll be jumping from a sinking ship remains to be seen, but I do think so. Everton are going to put in another horrible display of football against Chelsea, despite needing as many points as possible, and ultimately they'll likely concede a goal in the second half as they get tired, and Chelsea step up the pace. Just like we did.

Despite what Fury might say about legacy, I believe he cares about it more than he would lead you to believe. If he gets offered that Joshua fight with or without the belts, I think he'll take it.

Usyk beats Joshua, unless Joshua wakes up, and goes back to what made him, i.e adopt the more risker brawling type style, ever since he got clipped by Ruiz in their first fight he has been reluctant to get into those exchanges, which ultimately has negatively effected him as a boxer. Joshua isn't highly technical, and I'm not sure why he would pretend to be.

There's a path to beating Usyk, but I'm afraid it has to be via knockout. There isn't any other way for Joshua. Fury on the other hand could knock him out or very well just out point him. Joshua doesn't have that in his locker.

Wilder probably more dangerous in a boxing match. Fury probably finds it even easier against Ngannou. It's not about the competitiveness though, its all about big names, and how many seats they can sell. I'll probably watch it since I'm a fan of both, but I won't be taking it seriously, pretty much how I was watching Fury vs Whyte.

I don't mind being at the arse end of your career, and therefore not challenging yourself which I think is true for both of these men. However, Ngannou doesn't really have a whole lot to prove, whereas Fury despite in my mind being the best boxing out there, still has question marks regarding Usyk, and Joshua.

Dana has been accused of locking in fighters to the UFC, and not allowing them to compete in other competitions even if it's a different sport. I think it probably gets done, but Dana will request a huge share of the prize money. I'm not sure what sort of money we would be talking for that fight, but I expect it to be less than the Conor vs Mayweather fight, so Dana isn't as inclined to accept this one.

Still, I think it gets done. Ngannou isn't going to have a big enough boxing career to be able to make the money he could be making with the UFC, so I imagine Ngannou will be the one to cave in, and give Dana a substantial share in the prize money of the Tyson Fury fight.

Do boxers always have some sort of excuse after a fight? I don't recall this a few years ago, but it seems recently boxers will say anything when they've lost. Wilder, and now Whyte claiming their opponent cheated. Quite frankly, while you might argue the push was illegal, I didn't think it was much in it. Whyte already looked buzzed, and sort of leaned into Fury, very likely a natural reaction to get space, which you see quite a few times in every fight. The reason he went down is because he was so hurt.

Also, I've looked at the replays, and it doesn't appear to show Whyte hitting the back of his head on the canvas after the punch like he claims. While, it might be a little more believable than Wilder's excuses, I don't think there's any real substance behind it.

I'm also convinced that we will see Fury in the ring again, even if it's against Ngannou. Although, the Joshua fight will likely come knocking, for very big money.