Bitcoin value rises over $1 billion as Japan, Russia move to legitimize cryptocurrency

This will be fixed with the lightning network.

Could you explain the Lightning Network whitepaper?

Idk how they compute that cause you can choose the fee you pay

This isn't the cost a user pays, this is the cost to write data to the database.

and you don't need to mine to send a transaction.

Every bitcoin in existence was minted as a reward to miners for performing the computationally expensive makework necessary to verify and secure the integrity of the network.

I'm unaware of any time the network has been halted (Core can't control every miner and node on the network) and there's only been I think two instances of modification in the early days of Bitcoin.

Read the logs. In March 2013 the network was essentially rendered useless. Core 0.7 used BerkleyDB, 0.8 didn't -- 0.7 was rejecting 0.8's blocks which led to a network split. Merchants stopped accepting payments and the blocks generated on 0.8 were invalidated by 0.7. Non-miners who were running 0.8 lost a few hours worth of transactions as those blocks were invalidated when the network forked at block 22549

All in all, every critique you bring up has already been fixed by another cryptocurrency.

These are critiques of a database, not a cryptocurrency.

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