"Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse made headlines after a firm address to global financial leaders at the International Monetary Fund and the Swiss National Bank. According to a video shared by XRP Avengers on X, Garlinghouse delivered a direct critique of Bitcoin's limitations while positioning XRP as a faster, cheaper, and more scalable solution for cross-border transactions.

According to Garlinghouse, Bitcoin was not designed to fulfill the rising need for secure worldwide payments. He argued that rushing transfers and excessive charges keep blockchain from being very helpful for worldwide financial transfers.

He said that XRP came about because programmers who understood Bitcoin's issues made a more improved network. Garlinghouse says that XRP deals with payments 1,000 times faster and more cheaply than Bitcoin, so it is well suited for today's financial world."

https://36crypto.com/ripple-ceo-slams-bitcoin-at-imf-says-xrp-is-future-of-global-payments/


Is there anything our pro-decentralization Bitcoin community can do to stop the momentum of this centralized threat?

Why are Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites burning up in the skies?

A mass retirement of first-generation Starlink satellites is resulting in the burning up of up to five space capsules daily, ringing alarm bells over atmospheric pollution...

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....Polluting the atmosphere

The steady rate of crashing spacecraft has raised concerns among environmentalists about atmospheric pollution.

The current V2 Starlink satellite version weighs approximately 800 kilograms at launch, almost three times heavier than the older generation satellites that weighed 260 kilograms each.

Each Gen1 Starlink satellite produces, during its incineration, about 30 kilograms of aluminium oxide, a compound known to deplete the ozone layer, an atmospheric shield that protects life on Earth from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation.

The disintegration of satellites is also known to create “metallic vapours” in the atmosphere. The chance of debris hitting an aircraft is “very low”, even though the possibility of uncontrolled space rocket junk disrupting flights cannot be ruled out.

A 2023 study found that 10 percent of aerosols - small particles suspended in the atmosphere - collected 60,000 feet over Alaska contained aluminium and other metals produced by the satellite burn-up.

The presence of these compounds increased eightfold between 2016 and 2022, with the recent surge further exacerbating the level of pollution.

The study proved for the first time that stratospheric pollution is “unquestionably linked to (the) re-entry of space debris” into the atmosphere.

The aerosols contained niobium and hafnium - which do not exist as free elements in nature - that are used in semiconductors and superalloys.

In addition to these two unusual elements, a significant number of particles also contained copper, lithium and aluminium at concentrations “far exceeding” the abundance found in meteorics or space dust, the study showed.

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-are-elon-musks-starlink-satellites-burning-up-in-the-skies-18262620


Looks like Elon Musk and his company are guilty of large scale, potentially dangerous pollution with no end in sight. I have not used Starlink yet, have you?

Newbies are not such a target for account related hacks and crimes. Why waste time and money building your history, when reading and learning can be worth so much more?

Please Note: The OP hasn't been back for over a month. If anyone is interested, I am working with several projects which want to provide people in this hungry community with better opportunities.

You are (almost anyone is) currently invited to PM me, please understand I might not answer right away. Worthwhile projects take time to prepare!

"Bitcoin mining will become unprofitable."

This one cannot happen. If mining is not profitable, then the network will not be secure, so activity and fees will need to be high enough to cover mining costs. If BTC goes fully mainstream mining will still be very profitable.

Thank you, now we are very close to the exact topic: A small group of core devs actually release the code, who takes over if they are gone?

The official BTC source code is currently updated by a group of Devs who contribute to the open source Bitcoin project.

Exactly how does BTC development continue if the current group all quits or dies?
(For example) Who takes over the ghost ship if COVID and the next 19 variants get a lot worse?

Can we remember to look back at this topic in one year, to be amazed at how much the markets were affected? Yes, I agree crypto markets have big trouble ahead with a Tether collapse. (Also) No, the widely anticipated collapse of a major crypto scam will probably not affect various flavors of "pegged" fiat money globally.