No, they are not. You are just being stupid. It has nothing to do with fees. Sometimes there is no block at all for 1 or 1.5 hours. No amount of fees can change that.

False assumptions. Like many other wallets, I have a lightning wallet always ready. I don't need to open any channels. Dumbass.

What a stupid comparison. Satoshi can't change shit about Bitcoin, not now and certainly not in the future.

A reserve is not an investment, the consideration should not be regarding profits and losses in fiat terms but on preservation of actual value.

I mean it was obvious that ETF approval was going to happen as soon as BlackRock filed for it, which just shows that the ETF approval requirements are all corrupt lies. It isn't about anything that they say that it is, it is about connections and helping the status quo retain control and profit.

My main point is that the main blame does not lie with the developers, but with the users. There are many grooms who specialize only in farming airdrops. They do not care about crypto, they do not care about the tokens that they are receiving or the project. They only care about selling it. They are the ones that have ruined it for most others.

You are quite right, but alas partially. It is not just the speculators, it is the situation that there are always a lot of weak hands in the market. They are the kind of people that are afraid to lose money, and they are easily manipulated. The big guys combine their connections in the media with large market movements to create artificial downtrends and crashes to shake these people out. Because they can short using big liquidity and leverage, they make a lot of money even when Bitcoin is going down.

But you are definitely right. As the market matures and continues to grow, it will be harder and harder to do this and we should see limited swings even during big events. A real reserve is something that you don't sell because of short term market behavior. If you do, then it is an investment.

Wrong, USD is not a stable currency so neither is USDT. Calling stablecoins stable is just a lie. It is less risky to hold Bitcoin than it is to hold the USD or other currencies.

Gold is a physical asset that can be destroyed, that is your negative argument against gold? Really? Are you 5 years old?

1020 years, really?  You should not be spending your short life discussing what will happen in a thousand years. Humans generally can't even make accurate 10 year predictions.

Yes, the mechanism for resolving the problem that you wrote about is deeply built into the protocol. The longest chain wins, even if it sometimes takes a while to resolve.

Gold is not a stable asset, the dollar is also not a stable currency and other currencies are even much worse than the dollar. What is your point here?

Bitcoin's liquidity is big enough to easily handle small reserves in the single digit billions. There is no problem relating to liquidity.

Incorrect, it is very easy. The problem lies in corrupt and vested interests that don't want to do this.

The problem with on chain is that it is unpredictable. If you need to make a fast transaction, you should avoid on chain and use lightning. If you happen to have an unlucky day, you could spend 1 or even 1 and a half hours waiting for the first confirmation. Whereas with LN either it works and a route to the other side can be found, or it does not work perhaps due to liquidity requirements if you are doing larger transactions. However, you will find within seconds or at most a minute whether it worked or not.

I personally never had any issues with reasonably sized transactions on LN. It is perfect for when you have to make a fast transactions of low or medium value.

Your government is not more expert in stealing money any more than other corrupt governments. If you let very obvious ways of stealing happen, then perhaps the real issue is in the electorate the voters themselves. Maybe next time stop voting for old favorites, and vote for the outlier that will actually change the country.

The risks are theoretical, the practical risks are low. How many times have you read a news article of someone getting in big trouble because they let someone else use their KYC on a gambling website or even on a crypto exchange? I barely have ever heard of a few cases only.

You can't use Bitcoin for corruption in this sense. It is the worst instrument that you could possibly consider for corruption. There are ways that you can cheat like overpaying for it through intermediaries that charge extremely high fees, but any such corruption will be obvious right away. If you buy Bitcoin at $120k a piece, but average price is $110k during this period of time it is clear that you stole money. Also it is very easy to audit a Bitcoin reserve, so it is very difficult to try to hide any fake purchases too.

Yeah but I am not sure if this is just investment exposure, not like a reserve. With that I mean they may sell during a big pump or a big bear market. That is not that great then.

Past airdrops were much different and it happened to be so that people weren't expecting to make a lot of money on it. They participated because it was something cool and they wanted to do more things. Because a lot of money was made in the past this attracted all sorts of bad people who now organize to farm airdrops, and have ruined it for everyone. These days almost all airdrops suck hard.

It is all fun and games until there is an exchange hack, and then they front run your savings and you sell at a 90% loss.

Every single user who responded to this thread seriously is a dirty spammer. No surprise there. 

It is a very bad return. They are not risk free returns. If you have to use their token that is very risky itself, using their platforms has additional risk and so on. You just need 1 hack and all your work and capital is gone.

Don't insult Bitcoin you third world dimwit. Bitcoin has countless utilities and is the best kind of money that exists. That itself is an utility that is better than anything in existence, we don't even need to discuss other aspects of it.

Thanks. The idea is quite simple. Trick retail newbies to lock their money for useless APR, and enable the team to front run these people by selling first on pumps and crashes. This is also about proof of stake blockchains, but it is more about those utility tokens. Almost every single token creates a staking program with tokens that the team freely printed, precisely because these tokens are worthless junk. Staking is not an utility.

It is a scam, your money is gone. Two pieces of advice. Never invest into anything that has Bitcoin in its name. Second, don't invest in any presales or public sales at all.

Most of those individuals, as few as they are, are scammers. They mislead most of their followers by sharing referrals and lying about every project that they are involved with, only because they are so desperate to earn some money. Who cares if many people lose time chasing shit projects as long he gets lucky once.  They are subhuman imbeciles.

The era of good airdrops is over, and most of these articles are just shilling airdrops in which someone else has participated.

It is not, stop opening these stupid threads already. This forum badly needs a demerit system.

Exactly.