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I also have been waiting for months now, if you still have one, I'll gladly take it :D

> No, this needs to have the plug pulled on it if we're to keep global warming to 2C.

Bitcoin accounts for <0.1% of global CO2e and has one of the highest shares of renewables in any industry (since it competes globally for the cheapest energy).

It incentivises renewables (by being a location agnostic buyer of first and last resort which buys all excess energy 24/7), reduces CO2e (by making it profitable to combust CH4 instead of venting it), stabilises energy grids (by providing flexible demand response, i.e. can be turned on and off at moment's notice), provides banking services for the global unbanked and financially discriminated, shields from gambling bankers and inflation of the money supply, ...

In comparison to all these use cases and benefits, mere "luxury" energy uses such as air-conditioning, tumble drying, video games, porn, ... all consume more energy and produce more CO2e (e.g. A/C ~100x more). Yet nobody calls to have the plug pulled on them.

Regulate the production of energy, not the consumption.

Don't know about crypto, but for Bitcoin:

~11% of the Bitcoin supply is held by exchanges, and it decreases on average by 2,500 BTC per day or ~5% per year (over the last 3 years).

Just use Bitcoin. Don't trust anyone except yourself. You can store your coins in your phone, hardware wallet, paper wallet. You can encode it in steel and bury it in your backyard. You can "horcrux" them (e.g. via MultiSig or SSS) and store the parts (and copies of them) at different locations (friends, family, attorney, ...). Or put them in a safe deposit box if you like. Put a small amount on your phone and you can send them in seconds via the Lightning Network to anyone in the world at minimal fees, without relying on or needing permission from anybody else.

Few actual need custodial services and nobody needs the greedy shitcoin casino. Decentralize. Be your own bank.

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> Using regular cryptocurrencies is incredibly simple and elegant. It's only when people started to believe propaganda about disk space and cpu time (that never made sense with the most basic examination) that somehow something that worked amazingly well is now a complete mess.

Bitcoin SV did not care about these things and is dead because of it. Its blocks are ~200MB spammed with mostly non-payment related data. Its blockchain has grown to over 6 TB, the global number of nodes verifying the chain is down to 20 and it has been delisted by many exchanges and block explorers.

Bitcoin and Lightning in comparison have ~25,000 nodes.

> lightning isn't on the bitcoin chain until it gets synchronized.

That is literally the purpose of building second layers. We don't need to keep on-chain records of every microtransaction and coffee purchase in an immutable, ever-growing blockchain synchronized across thousands of nodes across the globe.

> If I give you a bitcoin address, you can't send anything to me with the lightning network.

Sure I can. It is called a submarine swap.

Since LN's inception, liquidity and transaction count on the LN have roughly doubled with every year.

In comparison, BCH has lost 80% of its transaction volume in the last year alone. Its blocksize is now 100KB on average and it now processes fewer transactions than LN. It also regularly hard-forks, either because of leadership cults (Ver, Wright, Sechet, ...) or because of scheduled hard-forks every 6 months which kick off all users who haven't updated. It's the opposite of stable and the market apparently does not share its determination in sacrificing decentralization for adoption.

Growth continued on second layers: Bitcoin's tx count on the Lightning Network has doubled over the last year. Forks of Bitcoin who attempted to scale by increasing the blocksize all failed and are practically dead (Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Cash, eCash, Bitcoin ABC, ...).

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Ukraine is a current example

Fiat:

- People unable to withdraw the money in Ukraine.

- Refugees being robbed of their live saving during their escape.

- Refugees unable to deposit/exchange Ukrainian currency.

vs

Bitcoin:

- Refugees being able to flee with their live savings safely stored by memorizing 12 words

- Refugees being able to access their savings in other countries simply by having access to a smart phone

- Ukraine being able to receive global donations while national banks being not operational.