Some people on this forum prefer to remain anonymous, such people will prefer to use Tor which is better in masking someone's identify than any other means. Some people use VPN also (paid VPN). VPN is private and centralized unlike Tor which is not centralized like VPN.

He should try and update his Tor browser. What can make browsers including Tor not able to pass captcha is becuase the app is old and not updated.

There are some quality posts that are not given merit, but if you see the user making such posts, he would have collected merits very well but just that not all his quality posts that can be given merit. If I see a good post, I will know because it would be useful, informative and educative. We learn day by day on this forum, from the post you learn from or that you see it is useful for other people, such posts supposed to be given merits.

The level of someone's posts quality are directly proportional to the merit received by the person, although there can be some partial reasons that can make some other people with low effort posts to have more merits, but merit is simply still the reflection of quality posts as long as it is this forum.

If DT1 member add you to his trust list, you will become a DT2 member.
It is theymos that will add you to DT1.

If you trust a user on this forum, you can add the user to your trust list. Click on your profile > trust > trust settings to do that.

If you put someone on ignore list, you will not be able to see the post that person make. If the person that you ignore mention you in a post, you will not get the notification. But if someone that you did not ignore quote the person that you ignore, you will get the notification.

You are getting it wrongly. GPG or PGP or anything that we call a way to verify that we downloaded the right app and not the fake one is not a way to know that a software is open source or close source. Assuming I downloaded Electrum and verify its signature, I will know that Electrum site has not been compromised and that the wallet I downloaded from the Electrum site is from the Electrum developer. If Electrum site is compromised and the hacker that compromised it changed the original Electrum app to fake apps, I will be able to know that it is fake if the PGP signature fails.

If your post has been given merit and it is deleted, the merit that you were given will not be deleted. If your post has been deleted and it was given merit, go to your profile merit page and you will see the merit but the post as deleted.

I can remember very well that when I was a newbie, some links that I post can be removed like this. Like Jawhead999 said, this will no longer happen to you as you rank up on this forum.

@Asta124, you have gotten the answer to the question that you asked, it would be better if you lock this topic to avoid other people to be posting the same thing that has already been answered.

To lock a topic, go down this thread, you will see lock topic at the left side. Lock it.

Edit:
It happens to new users only. Not all links are affected.

If you are not a developer, you can not know it, only developers can be able to completely know if a code is completely open source or not. For wallets, you can ask on this forum.

You can check this website also: https://walletscrutiny.com/

If you are a developer, the open source wallets leave their code public on GitHub.

The only thing I do not like about AI is the lack of privacy that AI user are having.

If it is about people's job and you are thinking AI will replace human, I do not think that will be possible. People are also needed to operate AI. I can only see how AI will provide more jobs.

In my work, I do not use AI for now.

He used Metamask to hold million of dollar worth of cryptocurrencies. After the $870 thousand was moved from the wallet, he was able to still move $2 million worth of USDC to Coinbase.

I am wondering how someone can have high amount of coins that is worth millions of dollars and holding it on a hot wallet comfortably and sleeping easily every night. I can not have that amount of money on a hot wallet and be sleeping easily until I get myself a hardware wallet.

Android Tor does not have dark mode.

Do not mind anyone that says the government do not like bitcoin, bitcoin is strictly banned in few countries, most countries allow their people to buy, sell and hold bitcoin. Just that their will always be critics. Even as bitcoin has proved these critics wrong so many times, many of them still prefer to criticize bitcoin. Out of hundreds of countries in the world, less than 15 countries strictly ban it while others allow it in one way or the other.

You can use any of these extension for night mode

Dark theme for Bitcointalk(CSS only)
Bitcointalk Dark Theme
Bitcointalk Dark Theme

On mobile:
If you can use mobile browser like Via, Phoenix or UC browser, they all have night mode.

The best thing that you can do right now is to lock this thread because this thread is not necessary at all.

What you supposed to have done is to post the OP of this thread on that old thread and let it just be like that. Why did you create another thread about it? Becuase you supposed not to create a topic about it.

This are just normal people like us, and we can even be better than them. I too will doubt this but just that people like these are well known to many people, that does not suggest they are better than us when it comes to prediction. Bitcoin has never gotten to all-time-high before halving and I do not think this will happen this time. But if to buy bitcoin now is the question, the answer is yes and people can also go for DCA. But for all-time-high before halving, I do not believe that will happen at all.

I do not know him, probably because he was not that active again after August 2017. May his soul rest in peace.

You supposed to post it on reputation board. Move it to reputation board. Just scroll down on this thread, you will see move topic, click on it and move it to reputation board.

Sending message to someone on this forum should also be seen as formal and informal, not just in one way.

If it is formal, title supposed to be added, even if you are writing a letter on a paper officially. But if it is informal, for example I am writing to a friend on this forum, I may decide not to include a title.

If you are writing an official letter, you can write it the way you want. It is left for the person you are writing it to to either read it or not. In official cases, the person a letter is written to may not read it if it is written informally. That option is left also on this forum. Even on emails, you can send a message without the title, just like if you write a letter to someone on a paper.

If you do not see the title, you may like and not read it than to make a suggestion about how PM supposed not to be.

Or if it can be in a way that someone can option for it on their profile settings, that all messages that should be received should have a title, it would be better like that. But the default should be as it is now.

This is just my suggestion. Messages can have a title or not. If the suggestion should be added, it should be optioned for.

What is funny to me is that I did not bother to read the title of any personal messages that anyone send to me, what I look at first is the person that send the personal message, after checking the person, I go straight to the message to read it. They are just few sentences which I can easily read. But people are different from people.

Bitcoin increased to all-time-high of $69000 in November 2021 just as it increased to all-time-high of $19600 in 2017. It decreased significanly to $15400 in the following year which was 2022 as it did in 2018. The following year after 2022 which is 2023 that we are now, bitcoin price increased but not very well, this was what that happened in 2019. Bitcoin halving was in 2020 which we can relate with 2024. All-time-high in 2021 which would be 2025. Expect all-time-high in 2024/2025.

So that answer to your question is you should invest in bitcoin. Yes, you should.