The thing is, people don't need to know about the protocols in bitcoin just as most people don't need to know how a CPU, storage (HDD, SSD etc) or memory work.  They don't need to know about TCP/IP, SMTP, DNS, HTTPS, NTP or other internals of the internet work.  The protocols are/will be abstracted away with wallets, ETFs, exchanges and the like over time. 

I hopefully have many times that ten years! lol.   The ETF rollout in the US demonstrates that once people begin to see the benefits it snowballs.  Going from way less than $0.01 to $70k in 15 years shows this effect.

The crazy thing is that there are people (and countries) who are against monetary freedom.  And they do it because they want to control the people by controlling the currency and being able to avail themselves of the (hidden to some) inflation tax on everyone in their control.  The people who do this are just sick control freaks who think they know better than every individual as to how to spend their lives.  It is the same mentality of the US Democrat slave owners.

The governments are being foolish.  El Salvador has the right idea. Both Germany and the US will spend the proceeds from selling in hours and then will have lost the chance to own at a reasonable price.

Agreed.  It has been the time to buy for a very long time, but 1.8% is nothing.  And anyone "shifting" to other crypto is just being foolish if you care about security, pseudo anonymity, censorship resistance etc.  There are huge differences between bitcoin and other crypto and not acknowledging that is crazy.

When you have the potential for totalitarians arresting people for developing, it isn't surprising.  Trump must see the need for a pseudonymous, censorship resistant, distributed currency given the far-left extremists in the US shut down his ability to use PayPal or Stripe in 2021.  Plus all the rest of it.  If the president and billionaire isn't safe, no one is.

When you have people trading it, yes it is volatile.  As you have more and more people buying and holding, or buying to use, then volatility will decrease.  In percentage terms it seems to me (without doing any analysis) that seems to be happening.  Sure a $5000/bitcoin swing is a lot in monetary terms, but percentage-wise, perhaps not.

People who think note this and then are pessimistic are thinking short term and need to look at the trend over years.

I remember that thread, and the advice is similar then to now:  why would you discuss it in a public forum?
:-)

It is possible.  Ten years ago plenty of people scoffed at $2000/bitcoin.  We'll have to check back in ten years and see.

There are lots of opportunities out there and we all miss some, maybe even miss 99.9999%!  It only takes being right on one or a few to make a big difference. Internet domain names in 1993-1995 (and later for some even).  Bitcoin 2009-??? (still opportunities for some more fiat gains, plus all the benefits in a debt hungry world).  US bank stocks and warrants in the 2009-2011 range. Apple, Intel, Microsoft stock in 1985 and for 20 years thereafter at various points.  I told people about all those things and few people listened.  NVIDIA in the last 12-24 months (should've bought some). Tons and tons of other opportunities that I didn't invest in, but don't let one missed opportunity make you think there aren't more.  Pay attention, read, learn and have some savings you can use when you see something that could be good and after researching maybe get involved a little.  Start your own business or do it with friends.

I think he just meant that you can add 3 and 2 together instantly in your head whereas it will take you longer to add 334212132454779 + 675456421213132457964 since most people can't add them instantly without resorting to pencil and paper.  Similarly as the space searched expands like the numbers above got larger, searching takes much longer.

Perhaps I missed it, but what is the name of the wallet file that you found?  That might help determine what software it worked with and then you can see what it had in it.

As people said above, make copies of the file(s) before doing anything, just in case.  Likewise, before sending them to anyone make sure they are legit and not scammers.

#3 is critical if you want to remain in bitcoin.  There were plenty of people who did similar things. Coinbase used to offer it for example, and another place is ending it shortly although I am not sure which one.  The key is that if you don't have the private keys, you don't have the coins so I'd advise against it and that is why I never did it.

As opposed to fiat that will steal somewhere between 3% and 300% of the value of your assets every year (depending on your jurisdiction) and deposit them into someone else's account?  Fiat and other systems that are subject to the whims of someone else (not censorship resistant)?  When the former US President with billions of $ is shut out by Stripe and PayPal and certain manufacturers are shut down by credit card companies, censorship resistance is critical.  That's why the CCP and other totalitarian and authoritarian (fascist, communist, socialist etc) rulers around the world don't like it (see e.g. the current US President, Joe Biden, and much of his party) - they want power and control.

I'd be interested in hearing what constitutes "old" on here now.  lol.  

Even one of the youngest on here from 2010-2011 timeframe (who is no longer on here at all) was around 17-18 then and so now would be early/mid 30s since I was never clear his precise age just around there.  For those of us who were older than that then, we are obviously 14-15 years old than back then.  lol.  Our kids would answer yes to the question posed above.

On a somewhat related point I did talk to people about it fairly often back in 2010-2013 (and thereafter) but there were the typical "tulip" comments, "it is too late" etc.  I made the point that if you spend your coffee money on bitcoin for a month or two you could end up with 10-20 of them at little cost, but few people did it.  

If OP really wants to understand the technical details a bit more (vs "End of Bitcoin" number #1000000012340), this thread has some discussion about it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5322009.0

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.  People were saying "$1" and "$10" are crazy. "Dollar parity never will hold, it will be back and stay below $1 soon".  All this same stuff.  Ditto $100, $1000, $10000, $20000 etc.  Every time people have been saying that and they wait to buy on a pullback, but then end up missing a chance to own some bitcoin and protect themselves.  It may go up, it may go down, no one knows in the short term.  Lots of people guess and get it right sometimes because they got lucky, but the long term trend for 15 years has been obvious.

That is amazing if it is 414 of managers and they manage over $100 million.  And that was just the 1st quarter and we are already 1/2 way through the 2nd.  The data that pops up here and there is always quite interesting.

"Per unit".  lol.  Who is writing this stuff?    If South Korea was a free market the premium would disappear quickly, but their statist masters don't trust their citizens.

She, like most of the rest of the elected members of her party, aren't just enemies of bitcoin, they are enemies of liberty worldwide.   Bitcoin takes power back from authoritarians everywhere who will rob everyone of the products of their lives if given the chance.  Think about how much has been stolen from the people of the world over the last century+ merely from inflation.  Of course that is the democrat party's modus operandi: they have the right to take parts (or all) of people's lives and they even fought the Civil War to defend their right to do so. 

Even more than 150 years later the evil of slavery animates their philosophy.  They just claim it is their right to do so because the "need to".