Nuclear power. Makes electricity free from nuclear fission. Why dont we have it everywhere.

Partly true. I'm pretty sure cash has benefitted criminals more. So the best would be if we got rid of cash completely.

Some might argue that Bitcoin miners use energy to secure a monetary network to benefit people. While AI consumes energy to make people unemployed. AI will cause far more suffering in the near future than Bitcoin miners ever could. In summary. Arguing about the energy usage of certain things is dumb.

That small amount would not even move the price 1%

Gold is used for investment and is still considered a currency in some countries. It would be in more countries if it wasn't difficult to transact it. And it's up 25% against the USD (and more against other currencies) in a year.

The CFB process removes up to 95% on contaminants. Their claim is that it's better to burn it in a CFB than just letting it be in the ground releasing chemicals into the air. If it's not BS it looks pretty good.

The s&p500 for example has been going up "forever". Why can't Bitcoin?

President said it's completely voluntary

Whats the problem? :/

Well he didn't since Cobra has to pay his legal fees :) Perhaps he was certain Cobra would not reveal himself.

heh. Yeah this is 99% of the "crypto community". Someone modifies BTC a bit and says look it can now handle X tps and is now better. Totally ignoring what everyone with networking and sysadmin knowledge says about that shit will hit a fan if you onboard too many users. Then they say it's not a problem because it will be fixed in the future with moores law. L1 scaling does not work. You don't build something now() that would catastrophically break if there was too many users onboarded to fast and assume it will work in the future because better technology. You build something now() that can onboard the whole planet (L2/LN) now() if needed.

To add. My LN transaction 4 days ago for $10 cost $0.00035 in fees

LN is as easy as any other bitcoin wallet if you go custodial which is what El Salvador, together with Strike, will offer to it's citizens.

You just buy it? :) Transaction cost about $0.0001. Not as good as cash but better than any card.

Just don't forget to enable journaling in Linux MD or just use ZFS to avoid write hole problems. HW raid is only faster if your cpu is 10 years old.