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Everyone is mentioning volatility but they seem to have forgotton the real reason this hasn't happened - transaction throughput. Until very recently, every single time BTC or ETH has started to gain adoption, their fees have gone through the roof.
It's only being figured out now (like the last 2 years) how to actually have security, decentralisation AND throughput.

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Bag holders jumping ship cause XRP had arguably the most unfair launch out of any token in the ecosystem. Probably buying BTC with their profits.

We need an article for everything of Course even if BTC farts or ETH hiccups

The US Government at the same time holding close if not over a quarter million BTC 1% of the supply xD

True that I got why bear markets forge BTC maxis. To add, the last year had some nice opportunities to buy if you ask me.
Always try to maximize your skill/knowledge and therefore fiat inflow. More "Fuck-you-money" to stack sats.

Get more BTC in that portfolio. Does your portfolio also contain any MATIC (in the 2%)?

As a young autistic guy, I can realte to what Zhong's lawyers are saying; that his difficult childhood and autism spectrum disorder led him to seek solace in the world of computing. However, I doubt I'll steal 50k BTC.

Bank's processes around 1000x more TPS than Bitcoin on a slow day. A fair comparison would look at what *1000-Bitcoin's* would emit relative, so 20X more than bank's using the headline.
It's also fair to consider mining incentives - BTC's dollar price appreciation (and rare congestion which yields high fees) introduces new capital to miners which gets fed back into an increase of hashrate, in other words burned on energy. Just because BTC burns XX *now* doesn't mean if the incentives quadrupled, the price shot to $200K and fees were $200, that miners would consume as much energy on acquiring those rewards as right now - and all of this additional energy consumption doesn't come with even *0.1* more TPS, to the contrary as whole-block ordinals and other high-value transactions price out most people.
If the bank's consumed double the energy after a few years it would come with an increase of scale, too. You could do this same *calculation* in 3 weeks and the number would be entirely different based on BTC's price and hashrate that minute.
This blatant disingenuity is in large why people distrust or hate mining. Mining is *nothing but externalities* yet anyone vested will try and convince you there are none, or cherry pick *1* ignoring the other 600. The *anti-miners* are equally as biased and vested. It's so hard to find honest and objective information on this, and this article absolutely isn't.

Folks on the cusp of sounding like some CONEspiracy nut - I am here to tell you why the RESTRICT Act is just so bad! You're probably seeing the title trending as a [hot post on the sub](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/125rboo/us_bill_s_686_the_restrict_act_20_years_in_prison/), and rightly so.
I left a comment on there saying I am from Canada (we have some very very strict and infringing laws), but yall are about to get something so dictatorial it's crazy. Now there might be some broad use cases like maybe stopping terrorists or hitmen from receiving payments - but time and time again governments have been shown to pass broad-ranging legislation only to use them on civilians for any reason at their discretion.
As a Canadian - here is a prime example of why you should be scared:
1. We all believe BTC or crypto in general to be the future of decentralized finance. And honestly, that scares governments all around the world. Yes, can crypto be used for illicit things? So can regular cold hard dollar bills (I am looking at all of you spending your DODGE on hookers and blow).
On [January 28th, 2022](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/timeline-of-convoy-protest-in-ottawa-1.6351432) Canada had a protest never before seen in its history. Almost 5000-18000 people descended on the capital city of Canada - Ottawa. In a show of force never before seen thousands of people (many of whom were truckers) brought their vehicles to the city blocking off traffic and camping out in front of Parliament (where the Prime Minister/ other government members run the country). Now, these people came to protest COVID-19 mandates - I will not expand on that because that's already controversial as a topic in itself. Whether or not these people were protesting for the right reasons, one thing became clear very fast. The government was not happy with what they were doing.
[Protestors camp out in front of Parliament!](https://preview.redd.it/a20svq6teqqa1.png?width=713&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=012693ec045e92521ecce351a14772cb6de52a09)
People across Canada rejoiced in this movement - and proceeded to donate thousands upon thousands of Canadian dollars to help support them! After all, they were protesting in the middle of a cold winter. People needed money to keep the movement going. In total $24 Million was raised!
On February 14th. the Canadian Government under the Prime Minister invoked the Emergencies Act FOR THE FIRST TIME IN CANADIAN HISTORY. Here's what it [let them do](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-premiers-cabinet-1.6350734):
1. The unprecedented deployment of the Emergencies Act gives police more tools to restore order in places where public assemblies constitute illegal and dangerous activities, such as blockades and occupations, he said. Trudeau said the act also will enable the RCMP to enforce municipal bylaws and provincial offenses where required.
2. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said that under the Emergencies Act, crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use must register with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), the national financial intelligence agency. They must also report large and suspicious transactions to FINTRAC.
Canadian financial institutions can now temporarily cease providing financial services if the institution suspects an account is being used to further the illegal blockades and occupations, said Freeland.
"This order covers both personal and corporate accounts," she said. 
|Yes, YOU'RE READING THAT RIGHT! Financial institutions could STOP letting people access their bank accounts because they were protesting an issue they felt the need to protest. Again this is all happening in Canada, a country that is supposed to be a leader in democracy.
Many people had their lives torn apart during this period, so naturally, they turned to BTC!
The main account associated with protesters raised 20.7 bitcoins (around $1,062,674 Cdn) but as of March 18, police seem to have frozen only 5.96405398 bitcoins (around $306,176).
[BTC wallet of the convoy](https://preview.redd.it/t0gi7jf3hqqa1.png?width=681&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=e29ed4a0d349ff2321e49098a80e072886f12de0)
The RCMP blacklisted crypto wallets associated with the convoy and demanded that Canadian digital currency exchanges stop facilitating transactions.
RCMP declined to confirm or deny any ongoing operation related to this story, but CBC News has confirmed the force targeted 34 crypto wallets.
[In its successful filing of a rarely-used civil injunction granted Feb. 17](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/mareva-injunction-order-extended-freedom-convoy-crypto-financial-donations-frozen-1.6366975), lawyers representing Ottawa residents in a class-action lawsuit against convoy organizers listed more than 100 crypto wallets allegedly associated with the protesters.
The civil suit is seeking to recover assets, including digital currency, raised by protesters and move them into an escrow account to be used as a means of paying damages resulting from the class action. 
At least 20 of the wallets listed in the civil claim were included on the RCMP's list, including the primary account used by the protesters to raise digital currency. 
If you've managed to read through all of this, I hope you can clearly see why the RESTRICT act is so scary and what it can lead to. Canada might be a lot smaller than our brothers and sisters in the US, but at least try and learn from the tyranny we face. Otherwise, Canada is great lol

I know I've made a good BTC addresses which will never have anything in them

I don't think Bitcoin is clearly less censorship resistant than gold.
True you have to transport gold but you can easily move $2000 of gold without being detected. And once you exchange gold there isn't necessarily a record of the transaction making small amounts harder to track.
In large amounts BTC wins for ease of exchange but for small amounts exchanged locally there may be an advantage with gold.

No offence dude, but if you are saying XRP reaches $10 before BTC next ATH and you are even suggesting it doesn’t reach more then $69k, that’s the lowest IQ thing I have ever heard in crypto 🤣🤣

It is bat shit crazy there are so few addresses with non zero BTC balances. Its the hardest asset on planet earth. Got a ledger so I added one to the list.

The energy that I store in my dollar (which depreciates because of how little energy is needed to produce it) is traded for Bitcoin when I buy BTC.
The reason why I believe the price of Bitcoin will continue to go up and the value of the dollar will continue to go down is because there's no energy needed to create a dollar and there is energy needed to create Bitcoin. Bitcoins price reflects the energy required to create it AND the stored energy that is traded for it.
The only difference between a dollar and a Bitcoin is that the energy stored in each either holds its energy or leaks its energy (inflation)

OP, since you're interested enough to ask this question, I recommend you read the book Inventing Bitcoin by Yan Pritzker. Swan BTC makes it available for free on their website.
Swanbitcoin.com/freebook

It is meant to imitate gold, if they split it won’t be BTC it would be something else on a whole different chain. The ideology is at least that as society gets more efficient you would need less and less of BTC to require resources, instead of more and more with inflationary currency like the fiats

Maybe he has an important message to tell…
I dunno, but if they closed down the banks tomorrow and I attended this guy’s dinner last week, making me withdraw my money or putting it into BTC, I would be grateful that I can still eat.

In that sense, yes. But I meant a second Pizza story with BTC.

And BTC aims 100k EOY 2021. Just not there yet. Macro situation suggests a bumpy road ahead