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".

Warren is an incompetent authoritarian thug.  She, like many of the people she is attacking here, want power and control over everyone and everything else.  Her problem with them is that Iran's leadership wants power just like she does and she finds that upsetting.  The democrat party is the party of fascism, socialism, totalitarianism and communism in the US, and right were all those authoritarians find a home.

Given the centralization and difference in security (e.g. that provided by miners) on bitcoin vs most (all?) other cryptos this isn't surprising.  What is surprising is that it isn't higher.

It seems as if this type of transaction makes more sense on layer 2 and one would think he would know this.  Seems as if he is looking to stir up trouble where there shouldn't be one.  With any large amount of usage, blockspace will be at a premium.

Always good to see it happen again!  How time flies.

The people running these government departments like no definitions, unclear definitions or all-encompassing definitions of everything so as to amass more power. 

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before they are promulg[at]ed, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.

James Madison

Exactly.  Nothing is worth killing yourself over.  Life is precious, worth more than any financial asset.  RIP to the family.

What should we expect?  Probably not a lot.  Kind of like all of them.  :-)

To argue that cutting new supply in half doesn't impact the supply and demand curve is ignorant.  Whether it happens instantly is an obvious question since no doubt there are plenty of people holding in anticipation of a jump in fiat price before taking a short term profit.  Over a longer period the decrease in new supply of $30 million (or whatever) clearly will make a difference.  Obviously other factors come into play, a huge number of them, but this isn't some new insight.

He isn't wrong.  For many of the benefits of bitcoin, actual transactions, pseudonymous transactions, censorship resistance, protection from governmental "haircuts" (as in Cyprus 2013), capital controls (e.g. in Venezuela and many others) etc an ETF doesn't help at all.  To realize the gain in fiat price as people realize the uses then it isn't too bad, but you run the risk of them not caring for the keys.

From what I recall when there wasn't a huge jump right away, some (without foresight) people sold and then it took a while to come back to new highs.  I think that it seemed that shortsighted people seemed to expect an immediate jump, then when it didn't immediately materialize they took some profit and then missed the bigger gains over the last X years, depending on when it happened.