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My suggestion is straight from the C++ guidelines by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter (ES.102: Use signed types for arithmetic), for reasons that you don't seem to grasp.

I would suggest to never use unsigned int for values that will involve any sort of calculations on them (health, damage, speed). This is considered bad practice due to overflow and should be avoided, with the exception of values that are used for UIDs, indexes, bitfields, mask and flags.

Bloomberg:

"China is able to secure cheaper supply and resell shipments from more expensive exporters to utilities in Europe and Asia, while Russia can continue selling fuel at a profit."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/china-sna...

Financial Times:

"The world’s largest buyer of liquefied natural gas [China] is reselling some of its surplus LNG cargoes due to weak energy demand at home. This has provided the spot market with an ample supply that Europe has tapped, despite the higher prices."

https://www.ft.com/content/1e20467a-5b53-42b7-ad89-49808f7e1...

There is nothing whatsoever that says that the given employee is Charlie Lee. Since you are the one here making that claim, isn't that exposing you to slander if it turns out to be a false? On top of it you seem confused by the two different things addressed by the linked CFTC statement, the litecoin related thing (Litecoin/Bitcoin trading pair) happened in August & September 2016 (6 weeks total) and you are confusing it with the inaccurate reports during January 2015 and September 2018 which is a separate point.

That was a painful read. An "investigation" made by an anonymous twitter user based on cherry-picked tweets, hearsays and full of speculations. Many factual errors as well he didn't sell at all time high and the timeline doesn't match either. The claim regarding Litecoin increase and a supposed Bitfinex escape is made up as well.

Charlie Lee made all his fortune from selling his Bitcoin and Ethereum the rest is marginal. His track record regarding the launch, support and development of Litecoin is impeccable and rather unique in the space. Even half a decade after having no stake in the game he's still dedicating his life to promote and develop Litecoin.

I agree on the massive risk associated with the usage of Tether and stable coins in general. It's working until one day the music stops.

Regarding how it would affect the market, it seems all experts automatically assume that it would impact the price of cryptos negatively however:

• Could a panic exit from Tether push people to immediately buyback cryptos at any price?

• Could a flash pump of BTC while USDT/USD is unpegging be the signature of the downfall itself?

• Since stable coins are used for day trading, would their downfall make the crypto-market behave like it was before stable coins were introduced?

I don't think it is technically possible to ban bitcoin, only centralized exchanges.

If a country decides to ban exchanges, it could end up creating an untraceable black market since people might start exchanging crypto <-> cash in the streets.

Intelligence agencies would probably not be happy to lose such traceability capability.

Drug dealers would be taking over this black market as it creates new incomes while simultaneously helping some of their money laundering needs.

Blockchain startup ecosystem and crypto friendly entrepreneurs would leave your country. You would lose all related tax revenues and high-paying jobs.