The price bias is driving your decision to lean towards XRP. Bitcoin has been around longer than any cryptocurrency which is in use now and has had better price appreciation, to several thousands of times it's initial price, it is only normal that the price would not multiply as it used to in the very early years and this would push investors to try to catch the next coin early on and benefit from it.

I would always pick Bitcoin for more reasons than just the price, it's the one of the only few decentralized coins, with the highest level of security, making it the best choice for long term investment, around 10 - 15 years or more, I cannot bank on any other coin which is in circulation now to remain in circulation at that time.

The natural progression of most bitcoiners at that time was from skepticism to curiosity, to shock and then awe or enthusiasm. Some would toggle back and forth between curiosity and skepticism as the price rose and fell until it gained some sort of balance in terms of price and adoption.
Bitcoin was a bold move by Satoshi, a brilliant one, but also brave cause it challenged the laid down order of the financial system, not everyone could immediately share that daring idea until they saw some sort of physical proof in the form of historical price data.

It doesn't matter what price you bought at, what matters is when you actually understood Bitcoin, there were many who found out about Bitcoin as far back as 2010 and bought some but couldn't hold for any significant price profit, cause they did not understand it at the time.

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"You cannot send merit to yourself"

This is the prompt you get if you try to merit yourself. Whilst the option is there, it's impossible to send merit to your own profile.

A dollar thief is just as ridiculous a phrase as Bitcoin thief is. Articles and blogs make these loose associations to make their topic title catchy and maybe attract a bit of the cryptocurrency audience.

If could also be a ploy by the government to associate Bitcoin as much as possible to scams which should dissuade people from using it if they were considering it. Whichever it is, we should not promote their low impact financial policies targeted against bitcoin and their role in finance freedom.

4 years is enough time to get over it. There has been very few cases of bans getting overturned that it makes it very improbable that yours would be, especially considering the circumstances leading to it

I'll vote for more leniency in the handling of banned users and the finality of their absence from the forum, a four or five year ban seems like deterrent enough and also leaves a small window to allow such users back into the forum after a while, if they are still interested at the time.
But my vote does not change the system.

They claim to be non custodian, but there is no way we can actually verify whether they are or not since they are closed source. You only have to take them by their word which goes against the principle of verifying and not trusting.

You can only comfortably comment on a wallet or  software, if it is fully open source and you have verified its codes.

No one should consider scrambling their seeds as a way of keeping it away from Intruders, you can forget the actual order and can lose your bitcoins, especially if it's a 24 word seed phrase.

The essence of back ups is the safety of the location which should be as covert as possible to evade detection. If one location does not prove enough then one should consider using more than one location with a multi sig wallet and storing them differently. One getting compromised does not result in loss of funds.

An additional seedphrase which you can store separately is also a good alternative to scrambling the seed phrase.

They definitely know what it is and that is the exact reason they are kicking against it. The government wants financial custody, Bitcoin challenges that so the government attacks Bitcoin.

You are mistaken the terms. Self custody or non custodial wallets are those that do not own your private keys while custodial wallets are those that do.

Your topic title suggests you are receiving bitcoins and not an altcoin.
• Are you receiving to a exchange? If not...
• Which Bitcoin wallet do you use and is it properly synched.

In most cases unconfirmed transactions would show up in your wallet and 0 confirmation is enough to be able to spend it using CFNP. With 1 it's already an unspent output in the wallet.

The txid would be enough for forum users to give you a helping hand.

This is true for imgur which I have used on both mobile and PC. It's a pain to use on mobile and you have to register an account to be able to upload the images on their platform. It works very fine on PC as opposed to mobile.

Your suggestion of a telegram bot could turn away those who consider telegram to be a bit too intrusive to use and would rather stick to the known sites which allow one access bbcode images without registering.

This delay should be a result of the device you are accessing electrum on. A lower version mobile device with a low ram space can cause a lag while trying to access electrum. Try clearing up space on your device to ensure its working at optimum capacity and verify if you have some other apps which are experiencing the same situation.

Don't also rule out the possibility of your device being compromised by a virus or malware which is slowing it down.

You are pretty much right about everything you posted and you don't have to guess which day is the next for the activity period, you can check the spreadsheet already posted in this thread; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12saLhlUoqIdairxzuSPu6EYGrt7FN2lOstO1yDjCEbA

It shows the cutoff date and time for the next activity period.

The activity does not correspond to the days, only that you can get 14 activities max in a 2 week period. To know if you get an activity in a day it would reflect on your profile except you have gotten the maximum activity for that period.
If you make more than 14 posts in a 2 week period only 14 would count towards that activity week.

Also note that you only one post is enough to potentially claim the activities for that period. For example; if I make one post in the first two weeks and 2 in the next two weeks, I potentially have 28 activities to claim if I make 25 more posts in a short period of time.

You can trade below the tide for centralized exchanges, for binance I believe it used to be 2BTC; being the amount you can trade with before you are required to submit personal details. This could vary from exchange to exchange and some could at any time require you to submit them even though you have been trading below the stipulated amount, so always bear that risk in mind.

Decentralized exchanges typically have low liquidity die to traders preferring to use centralized exchanges, if that sentiment gets broken it would be able to serve the non KYC compliant traders.

You seem to have not gotten the advice in the reply you quoted. Tha user was asking that you can also bump that particular thread you're linking to, but doing that it comes to the top page of the board again and those yet to see it would be able to find it easily. Jus follow the bump rules of 1 per every 24 hours and to delete old bumps.

The user also listed other useful threads still to make it easier for new members to find it easily and read through.

You prepare for a beer market when purchasing and not when he beat market starts. When buying Bitcoin I use only spare money and plan how long to hold for, or at best and estimate of the time range before I get my desired profit. This means I'm not moved by the volatility in the market cause I'm not in any need of the money invested.

Dollar Cost Averaging does not consider dollar rate. It's just a frequent and regular purchase of Bitcoin or any asset.

You cannot receive bitcoins to your wallet if you have not created an account, it's definitely a scam. For you to receive Bitcoin to a wallet you need to have created it and gotten a seedphrase which you can store, this generates public keys and then addresses you can send to someone and they send bitcoins to you there.

Do not submit your personal details.

Dollar cost averaging is not used by people who are not rich or don't have enough money, it's used by those who do not want to time their entry into the market and choose to just buy at regular intervals. Microstrategy buys Bitcoin regularly, thousands of dollars worth of it at different times; which is a form of DCA but not done with small amounts.

• Matt could DCA with $100,000 worth of bitcoin every month, while
• Bob buys $50 worth of Bitcoin monthly.

These are different levels of investors but every one of them could DCA.

It doesn't apply to newbies only, they are usually nuked where all their posts are removed and not banned. Higher ranked members gets banned too although not as frequent, those who get banned are usually those that got airdropped merits after spamming the forum.

Unintentional plagiarism is not very common. The bans are not automated but considered on a case by case basis, so you wouldn't easily get banned for a slip up without actually trying to pass it off as your own.