Definitely privacy centric tech is becoming an industry. I am very interesting in distopic world avoidance.
How do you plan to monetize or fund the project?
For now I don't really tend to focus on that. But I have a bad habit of thinking 5, 10 years in advance. I have planned to add a biding feature in which advertisers will bid, and the highest biders, which would be top 20 biders or maybe more, will need to focus on that part, there ads would be displayed on the site, and of course for good measures, it would be 80% content and 20% ads, like this it's a win-win situation, where advertisers and users both are winning, except me and my company because advertisers will probably find an exploit to this idea. But that's for another month, not this month.
Litecoin is now back because of Segwit. It's Bitcoin's hope to push a final acceptance of Segwit on Bitcoin. But, it doesn't have a real value in my opinion.
About cryptocurrencies in general I can say that I use them to get payments and to pay employees and I find them very useful and the user experience is much better than normal banking (fast international transfers and complete tracking) and no need for KYC.
I would modify that slightly and say Litecoin is back because of the Lightning Network, which benefits greatly from features provided by Segwit, and which itself leverages payment channels backed by multi-sig addresses. While Lightning can be enabled without Segwit, it's far more trustworthy with it, than without it.
Yeah there's no way to the transaction rate of PayPal or Visa without the use of side chains -- modifying the blockchain protocol only results in linear changes to scalability.
Actually, that's not technically true. FWIU, Lighting could be run on both Bitcoin and Litecoin today, but issues with transaction malleability could cause it to be less than trustworthy, for some use cases. So, Segwit, which fixes transaction mailability by moving the header in the transaction to it's own section, enables a higher trust Lightning network to be deployed, on top of a more trustworthy blockchain.
Your understanding is correct AFAIK. However, the entire point of Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general) is that it's a system that does not have to rely on trust. A "less than trustworthy" implementation is not a tenable implementation. In order for L2 solutions to be truly, universally usable we need a fix for transaction malleability.
Norton is one of the first things I uninstall on people's Windows machines when I encounter it in the wild. The zombie corpses of both Norton and McAfee consumer products seem locked in a head to head battle to produce the worst, most ransomiest security theater software they can imagine.
Since Windows 8, Windows Defender has an antivirus out of the box in every ordinary Windows install. If you are uninstalling Norton or McAfee you may have to do some extra work to untangle the hacks those programs tend to use to disable Windows Defender.
For Windows 7 (and XP if you are crazy/desperate) the antivirus component of Windows Defender was called Windows Security Essentials and had to be downloaded separately due to the statute of limitations in the EU anti-trust decision. You need to be careful that you find a legitimate Microsoft link for Security Essentials because there were a number of trojan horse authors that took advantage of this being a required separate download.
It just increase the effort the thieves need to invest. If all houses have alarms, it may be not worthy to rob houses which reward isn't good enough, so they would look for houses with more rewards. Of course, some thieves won't be able to learn this new technology. If all airports had good security it would be more difficult to have attacks but it isn't the case now.
