Illuminated.
None of it is FUD except for where the price may go being "Uncertain". BTC has deviated from its intended purpose by design by the very people who seek to profit over people today by ancient Babylonian money magic.
Bitcoin was intentionally crippled by or through agencies controlled by the clowns as early as 2014-15 when Gavin Andresen handed the development keys over and Blockstream took over. It's only gotten more blatant and visible as time has gone on.
Blockstream's small-block chain sabotage has turned BTC into a glorified ponzi where you buy and "hodl" until you sell it to a greater fool for fiat.
To get past the 7 tps tx limit Blockstream and Lightning Labs began working on the Lightning Network (L2) in order to offer a distributed channel for smaller transactions that would be classified as daily or payment transactions. The problem is that Lightning breaks down with small-blocks and people are forced into these centrally controlled hubs where payment channels centralize instead of route in a distributed fashion (the Lightning Network Whitepaper even suggests that Lightning should be interfaced with at least a 133mb block L1 chain).
So while it may be of your opinion, your opinion is wrong (cordially).
I appreciate you acknowledging that the tech behind BCH is better (why is that?)
However, I will grant you that BTC could simply win out such as cassettes vs. Betamax (better tech but not as adopted).
Stack BTC sats (I do too) but don't be surprised if the carpet is pulled from under you and the chain simply breaks down due to intentional design choices by the developers.
Because Bitcoin Cash sets out to do what Bitcoin was originally created to do, be a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. And it does it pretty well.
All Bitcoin (BTC) has going for it right now is price and hash (hash follows price, BTC miners can and do switch to BCH to mine when it becomes more profitable to do so due to the difficulty adjustment algorithm). If/when the economy collapses, BTC will go along with it thanks to a lot of tether and phony fiat price manipulation. Who knows if will ever recover.
7 tps is not enough to service the world, it's an intentionally sabotaged dead-end that ends up forcing people to buy BTC and leave it on exchanges or pay tx fees so high during periods of tx congestion that they say screw it and just use centralized status quo alternatives like CashApp/Zelle.
BTC has held the crypto space back from real-world adoption, and interest groups that are part of the WEF (and by extension proxies of the DS) such as MIT's DCI along with AXA and other such entities have shaped BTC by socially constructing a false narrative and manipulating developers.
Bitcoin Cash takes all that made Bitcoin great prior to 2017 (really 2015 is when things began to noticeably change) and improves upon it.
Vitalik Buterin was originally planning on releasing a smart-contract standard on BTC but it economically didn't make sense to do on a chain that couldn't exceed even seven transactions per second, and so he developed ETH.
Bitcoin Cash has its own scripting language that allows for smart-contracts that was passed through a decentralized process called CHIP to implement features so one node implementation/development team can't control it (unlike BTC's Bitcoin Core and Blockstream entities) and aims to take Bitcoin where it's not able to go today.
He saves those jokes for his own show. When he's on T5, he spits real talk for the most part because the rest don't have time for his pool and poop jokes.
Decentralized Finance uses smart-contracts to enable individuals to put up capitol into these contracts on decentralized exchanges to allow for liquidity and get a % based yield on a currency pair (ex. ETH - USD(insert stable coin ticker here) or ETH - DOGE(insert token)).
So you put up 0.1 ETH and the USD equivalent and can earn a % whenever that pair is traded.
Or:
You can put up 0.1 ETH and USD to earn tokens (often the DEXs own token or other listed tokens) as rewards based on the staked %.
The common smart-contract chains are: ETH (the most popular - can get insanely expensive to execute contracts), BNB (Binance Exchange's network - would recommend to avoid it and any other centralized entity), ADA, SOL (youngblood - the hip trendy network), AVAX, MATIC (falling out of favor) and then there are a whole bunch of other networks that are their own thing or networks specifically built so that they can be bridged back to ETH as a form of second layer (L2).
Basically it's this:
You take crypto (that you control - if you lose the private key/seed, it's like throwing that money into Mt. Mordor, there's no one to call to get it back, it's gone) and you put it into a decentralized exchange's (DEX) smart-contract (that you don't control per-se, but can typically withdraw and harvest the rewards whenever you choose unless you specifically choose a contract that has a time-lock, so you have control in that aspect) platform to earn a % yield on the staked liquidity.
The onus is on the individual to safeguard their crypto so you really have to know what your doing in order to prevent lost funds.
I would recommend learning with a crypto that has cheap transaction fees (tx fees) (Subjective, but stay away from BTC and ETH because their fees can get expensive real quick if you don't look up the tx fees ahead of time.) and figure out how to send and receive coins to and from your crypto wallet before even dipping your toes into DeFi and other smart-contract based crypto applications.
It pretty much is. It's a centralized, private fin-tech (read: bankster) token that shouldn't (but to all those that "like" (read:bagholding) XRP you get your bag) be promoted on a board like this but it is what it is.
There is a Trey Smith ("from God in a Nutshell" TM ;) ) video (when he was at Mar-a-Lago) with an informal interview with Kim Clement's daughter, they discuss KC's involvement with the FBI a little. That might be the video you're referring to.
Neither the person who tweeted the documentary nor the one that made the actual documentary are "fiat cuck"s... so there goes that baseless accusatory ad hominem.
My man Lash!
This is for anyone new to crypto or that thinks BTC is THE way forward (I invite you to have an open mind and follow where the evidence leads).
I haven't read it yet (I pretty much lived crypto prior to finding about the Q drops) but the book Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC shares insights and information that have been by and large forgotten, ignored, or blatantly rewritten as time has passed and is a good springboard for those newer to crypto (specifically anyone who just got into crypto around 2017 or later) to begin learning about the history of bitcoin and the battles it has faced.
The ethos around Bitcoin was manipulated and changed from a usable peer-to-peer electronic cash system into the creature from Shekyll Island, the store-of-value narrative that we know it as today.
I highly recommend people that want to learn about crypto to watch this documentary, go read the Bitcoin Whitepaper, then read Bitcoin: The Gold Standard (a pro store-of-value viewpoint) and then read Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC (a pro p2p cash viewpoint) and then decide for yourself which one is closer to the whitepaper and which one makes the most sense.
Bitcoin Cash, Monero, and just a handful of other currencies out of the 1,000s of crypto (not counting tokens) are actually adhering to the spirit of bitcoin and are seeking to keep the peer-to-peer electronic cash experiment alive so that we can become our own banks and have sovereignty over our own money.
+1 for Ventoy. It allows you to easily drop multiple distro ISOs so you can have one USB with a whole bunch of LiveUSB images to try out.
Before going "bare-metal" I suggest many of you that are new to Linux install a distro in a Virtual Machine like VirtualBox and play with it a little first before you go formatting your drives with a fresh install of your selected distro or before you burn a LiveUSB.
And remember, if you use Arch (I recommend you stay away from Arch and highly recommend you stay away from Gentoo until you become more familiar with the Linux system) you have to let everyone know with "I use Arch btw".
Try or at least look into Nobara. It's setup with the packages for gaming and has OBS pre-installed. One of the best distros as far as gaming goes (with Linux any distro can be tweaked to work how you want it but certain distros have "out-of-the-box" functionality with the packaged applications.). You shouldn't have to mess with driver packages and all that too much.
Maybe. This could be a Fauci scenario, where the healthcare (specifically vaccines but not exclusionary) was exposed. Waking up normies to the FED shenanigans and drawing the curtain open on who actually controls the monetary system.
One reason I support crypto (specifically and almost exclusively, Bitcoin Cash and Monero) is that it will allow a separation of money and state, giving the power back to the people on how they want to spend their money.
Make Politicians Public Servants Again
I use Arch btw
Indeed. Red October.
Same.
It's why we don't follow the stars. Cults of personality will only ever let you down.
Wait until you need to develop heart arrhythmia to throw off their heart beat monitoring systems.
A dick and a womb, but close enough.
He's got the CAIDs, man! Climate Activist Induced Diseases.
Today that's known as, cosmic relief. :sunglasses:
Con(in pro)gress
Bunch of Barium and Aluminum (Ba Al) worshipers.
Airdropping nutrients. Pretty soon we won't even need to eat or drink. Just breathe in the air and you'll get your daily nutrient requirements.