This. Just use Reddit. Most of the actually relevant news would be posted there, so you could filter out the more sort of irrelevant ones. One advantage, is you can read discussions about certain news too; and also, you can look for individual groups or "subreddits" if you want to follow certain cryptocurrencies instead. Like r/ethereum, r/litecoin, and so on.

Yep. This makes Bitcointalk pretty much almost "seasonal". I really expect traffic to go back to how it was before, or even higher, as bitcoin's price goes back up. Back in late 2017, every time I visit the Bitcoin Discussion forum, there are always new topics being made.

In this case I think it's a good thing even if traffic got lower. Quality over quantity all day.

Prices where? No sane merchant would list prices in satoshis due to price volatility(besides BTC-specific sites) and due to USD obviously being the most adopted currency.

Just a thought: Imagine how much more money would come in to bitcoin compared to other coins/tokens if bitcoin was listed on Coinmarketcap and other price listing sites as Satoshis instead of bitcoins. I've read a few times in the past that people were investing in XRP instead of bitcoin because XRP had a lower price, without them taking into consideration the supply held by Ripple Labs and the rotating supply. Like LOL.

The problems seems to be on your side. Works fine for me as well. https://pro.coinbase.com

Try opening Coinbase Pro on other browsers for us to find out if it's an issue concerning your browser or not. Though it's working for me on Brave, Firefox, and Chrome.

Do a doublecheck on your bitcoin wallet whereas the bitcoin should come from, as it looks like the bitcoins hasn't left your wallet in the first place. What wallet are you using by the way? Please give us as much information as you can for us to be able to suggest solutions accordingly.

I'm going to assume that OP isn't that knowledgeable in bitcoin in general, probably just a casual user, and is using a custodial wallet(probably Coinbase) hence the lack of information(tx ids and such).

OP has been active since minutes ago and hasn't replied to this topic so I assume the transaction already went through and the problem is resolved.

It's probably your first time sending a transaction in a congested mempool. We had like around 60k unconfirmed transactions like yesterday. Your transaction might be confirmed in a while, depending on what sats/b fee you used. Mempool is fine as we speak though, so your transaction might be confirmed already; again, depending on the fee you've chosen.

The scams and the most shitty ones are definitely dying out slowly but surely, but yea, some are still up and even on the top 15 unfortunately(I'm looking at you, Tron). They're still getting so much money from people in the cryptocurrency space for some reason. I actually thought that these would die out in the bear market. I was definitely underestimating the ignorance of a lot of people.

Regardless, we should really expect that new scams and new shitty ones are going to arise on the next bull market though. I don't see them going away anytime soon.

I really don't think it would work well either. In addition to the point I've made, there aren't clear rules on merits in the first place. I think having a sort of de-merit system is just going to make things worse. People de-meriting posts that they simply disagree on, but not necessarily useless.

Anyway, I think I'm fine with how the forum merit and trust system works for now. Let's just see what more features the new EpochTalk forum will bring.

It makes me quite a bit curious how some of the sort of more reputable names I've been seeing in the past(2017-ish) went away with the bear market. I mean, these reputable and more-knowledgeable people are probably the last people we would expect to leave in a crashing market.

Well, you're right. And people should definitely use merits in that way. But it isn't really farfetched to think that people are using it as a sort of "like" or "upvote" system. I mean, I've seen a decent number of sort of "meme" replies that has been given merits. But yea, this is the reason why I think a de-merit system wouldn't work and could potentially be abused.

Well, occasionally, there would definitely be some posts that aren't necessarily report-worthy, but you simply just disagree on; especially for the more debatable and more controversial topics(like the big/small blocks topic). But yea, I don't think a sort of de-merit system would work. I'd just prefer that people would school/call-out the craptalkers. We all know how easily a sort of downvote system can be abused, as evident on Reddit.

Definitely. Just tell people about bitcoin; and if they figure out themselves how useful it is, they'd decide on their own. The last thing you would want is people blaming you because you told them to invest in something that they know nothing about, and that has crashed in price.

Story time! At around bitcoin's peak, a few friends of mine(ex friends) are telling their friends to invest in bitcoin(and some, xrp) because "we will be rich soon!". Boy we all know how that ended. That friendship group sure got split into a couple of smaller groups.

Based on my 10 minutes of Googling, though I don't know if this is the first light wallet, it definitely looks like one of the oldest: MyBitcoin[1]. Unfortunately based on what I've read, it looks like they did a sort of exit scam sometime in 2011.

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[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MyBitcoin

Some quite new marketcap sites that I've been hearing good things of:

• https://coinmarketbook.cc/
• https://messari.io/onchainfx
• https://openmarketcap.com/

Not necessarily that coinmarketcap is posting fake volume on purpose, it's just that there are a lot of rumors about most of the current exchanges we have right now having fake exchange volume; and well, those exchanges that have allegedly fake volume are included in coinmarketcap's price metrics.

COSS has ben very very bad in the past. So far, it looks like the platform is improving, but it's still quite bad. Should you still hold it? Probably, if you think they're going to improve and if exchange volume actually comes and goes up some time in the future. It's pretty much a gamble, and a very risky one. Pretty much a coin flip in my opinion.

Well that's one. But you know what I like about the bear market? Most bitcoin and cryptocurrency communities are more focused on development and adoption rather than posting a lot of those price prediction posts and useless and redundant topics like "wat hapen to ze market y beetcoin prize up?". Recently we've been going back to the latter type of posts again.

No one knows kung magiging profitable itong mga coins na ito long-term. Short term? Maybe, maybe not. As always, with any other coins/tokens, do your own reserach tsaka ka magdecide kung worth it bang ihold tong mga ito. Basically, iba iba ang opinions ng mga tao dito sa mga coins na to so it's best to rely on your own knowledge.

I'm pretty sure there's no way to know, unless the person who has access did a transaction.

I would heavily suggest against this. For you to ask someone to make one, they'd need to have access to the private keys. aaaand that's something you definitely don't want to give access to anyone.