There is a tool I read up online to mitigate crawlers/scrapers, it's called uncaptcha, FOSS (if I am not wrong) and the way it works is makes browsers do a small proof-of-work to access websites. Usually takes 4 - 6 seconds on a normal computer, but adds magnitudes of delay to crawlers/scrapers

Personally I see no point to using a custodial Lightning wallet when a wallet like Pheonix exists. You have your own seedphrase, and there is no BS attached to it. Just receive and send. Notes feature for convenience, that's it, no?

Fair point. I was going through the CMC top coins in top 100, and nearly all of the coins are either defunct or faded into extreme obscurity. Mostly Litecoin & DigiByte & Doge and maybe Peercoin and Feathercoin to an extent.

Given the nature of Tether, would it not be FUDded out of existence? Back in 2014 I would expect users to never use Tether since cryptocurrency as a whole was very niche and Bitcoiners were usually developers, no?

Why is Tether (USDT) even called cryptocurrency? Doesn't look like it has any of the qualities you would expect a cryptocurrency to have, other than a blockchain, which they frequently reroll or mute. With information here, they are even more "unreputable"

The picture of the Ford reminds me of games like Far Cry. Specifically Far Cry 5, great game.

One hundred percent AGAINST this. Core should not have the authority to randomly freeze coins. No matter whose or what they can be against or used for, it is Bitcoin and thus inherently decentralized, unstoppable, immutable. We are not Ethereum or another altcoin that creates random big policy changes. Until this threat is REAL and is used in practice, there is ZERO NEED for it.

Should they try to make more changes like this, me (and I am sure a lot of users included) will move to Bitcoin Knots or remain on the version. They can fork and create Bitcoin Quantum for all I care.

It depends on your situation and urgency. If you are well-off, you would not see much of an urgency to acquire more BTC, because they can already afford everything with USD. Instead of seeing BTC as sound money, they have it in the back of their mind as a speculative investment, so there is some resistance to change in that way.

If your economy is weak however, you'll want to store more BTC early on. The most knowledgeable person I know about Bitcoin told me, "You get Bitcoin at the price you deserve."

PTP limits slop, yes, but in practice it still seems too hard to integrate by the masses.

You can't use something like PayPal or a VISA card (traditional payment methods) for these micropayments where you pay maybe 3 cents if you sign up and 3$ if you want to remain anonymous. You'll literally pay more in fees, or deal with inconvenience.

Bitcoin Lightning solves this greatly, since you can make these micropayments with no fees (assuming you do not use a custodial platform that charges its own platform fees)

But. Most don't use LN-BTC yet. Some heard of BTC and only know it as an investment that is "only going to zero", or criminal money. Others don't understand it (or a lack of wanting to understand it).

It's very difficult to integrate something like this with traditional payment methods, which inherently makes it niche. Stacker.news uses LN-BTC for PTP, and just because it uses Bitcoin (albeit Layer 2, which again not many use.) it's automatically niche.

That I understand, it's why I am here, i like the paywall so theres no useless AI slop or whatever like it, I do think it's good to move focus from average consumer from "make money go up" to "sound money" , if you understand what i mean 😁