There has been released requests for a LN childboard which have not been granted as yet. The chances of such a board is slimmer now cause discussions around it have thinned out of recent.

Where to discuss it will depend on what exactly your post content is about;
• For basic discussions: Bitcoin discussion board/Beginners & help
• For more complex subjects: Bitcoin technical support/Development & technical discussion

I have seen a case were a user who was applying to be a merit source indicated at the top of the post that others should not merit the application cause they already had enough merits. This was not heeded and that post still received a handful of merits. Such a feature could have been useful to that user and maybe a few others who have been in that situation.

There may be some cases where this proves useful, like an announcement thread where you don't want merit to be used to buy replies or bias opinions, but even in those there are comments which will be merit worthy.

My take on this is merit is an external action which lies on the user sending the merits and not the one receiving them, just as trust feedbacks. It's up to me to choose who to merit and it's up to you to choose who to send the smerits you get too. I'd you don't want merits then don't make any posts at all.

I'm not certain the crypto you're referring to, but with Bitcoin doing nothing is not the best idea. Wallets randomly pick UTXOs from your wallet to send when you initiate your transaction, if the dust transaction is added to it, the hacker can draw links between your different address and track them, which is the worst case scenario in dust attacks.

You should use coin control to freeze the dust UTXO so it's never spent from your wallet.

Where did you get the update link from and when did you perform the update? There is a possibility you got a phishing link and inputed your seedphrase there.

Import the seedphrase into another wallet and check ifgthe funds are there or check the address on an explorer.

From 2010 through to now, you did not hear of Bitcoin or reconsider your stance?

The ability to do your independent research on an investment and decide if it is legitimate or not is a prerequisite for any good investor. But I guess other factors can influence that decision. Someone who recently fell victim to Ponzi scams will be more defensive, ruling out any investment without giving it a second thought.

You have the next 14 years to maybe not be a millionaire but grow your investments.

If a developer actually succeeds in improving on Bitcoin and develops a superior technology which fills all the gaps Bitcoin currently has, their creation will be accepted and with time thrive in the market.

There is no limitation to altcoins in terms of market reach or resources. Only there are very little original ideas and devs not in it solely for some quick profit.

The founders of the top mining companies are actually known and which miner confirms a particular block is public information.

It is potentially decentralized. Centralization should come with control and the ability to manipulate the system to suit your wishes. When you run the risk of losing your position if you try to act with malicious intent, you do not control or regulate the system but benefit from it.

There is no legal implication of accepting an initiated transaction from that address, they only have to give authorities information in it should it be demanded.

This has been said many times over, but it doesn't hurt to mention again cause people still fal victims.

The risk to reward ratio in chasing airdrops is very lopsided. You risk your privacy and assets for the possibility of earning a good amount, but the reality is 99% of them go bust and never get to even have a value and lots of those were created specifically to scam you.

If you must, protect your wallet first.

The fees for those transactions are not zero as can be seen on a block explorer, but they are low.

The OP_RETURN feature means those transactions are unspendable. It was added to the network to reduce the incidence of people including messages into a transaction and increasing the size of it, that can be done now using the OP_RETURN command.

FDIC insurance covers losses due to bank failure. If you lose your banking password or your app gets hacked and your funds stolen the bank does not restore them. All losses of bitcoins so far have been due to external factors, it means none of them would have been covered by insurance.
FDIC only insures up to $250,000 leaving a huge chunk for some uninsured.

Put in some effort
This is the honest advice I give to newbies who want to create a space for themselves on the forum. You have to put some effort in so you have something to give out to other members and in return you'll get recognized for your efforts. Do not direct your efforts into how you can rank up or spam or create merit fishing posts, but how you can benefit other members.

Know your niche
Creating a niche for yourself can help you perfect the knowledge you have on that topic. Your niche could be the Bitcoin technical discussion, economics, altcoin discussion, gambling etc. Ensure you know your stuff in that niche.

Be active
If you want to be a regular user and benefit from only reading from the forum, you do not have a need to be constantly active, but if you want to ride up the ranks you'll have to be active and lend a helping hand t members when you can. Having your replies in the first page of threads help to get more attention, the higher up the page the better.

The most important factor still remains the quality you're giving out.

If you used a random address, instead of changing it on your profile you should hurry to check if that address has been opened by anyone to try and claim it for yourself.

In account recovery, the original address used when opening the account has more weight than any address it is changed to later on, for the reason that a hacker can change the email address.

The bank is not usually responsible for issues customers encounter and they sometimes are swindling you for their own benefits. There will always be use for banks in the financial system, Bitcoin does not want to replace that. Bitcoin gives you an option to be your own bank and store your funds the way you want to.

Bitcoin is still a speculative asset and no one should be moving their entire funds out of fiat systems and into Bitcoin.

I will assume each manager will have their criteria for selecting participants into their campaign. Could be the board they post in, merits they have, consistency of their posting across several boards, reputation, longevity on the forum. It will be a can of worms to debate the rationale behind the selection of users by a manager.
The amount the campaign pays also affects the quality of participants they can attract.

If I were managing a campaign today, I'll most likely not take that user, but no manager has to share my sentiments

By this system, I'll assume you're referring to this forum. This thread was made for newbies to get the hang of the forum quickly. It's a long read and there are so many links to check out, so take your time with it.

This is just a forum and not a system, treat it regularly and interact naturally with other members. The search options will allow you access all the posts that have been made on the forum which will cover any subject of interest you may have.

Reading the thread shows that OP was asking for personalized suggestions, basically the pov of other users. I personally will easily keep tabs on a reply if it is highlighted to me once I land on the page, even if hat fades of later. And it's a middle ground between having less obvious markers which can easily be missed and loud ones which will stand out too much in the page.

Try having some individualized opinions yourself, not so hard, eh?

If your account is recovered with that email, you're already putting your account at risk. You should instead sign another message, with another email address and send that only to the recovery email address, not here on this thread.

Both mails will be viewed same time and the latter will take priority.

It's best if it remains restricted to Bitcoin or Bitcoin side chain and off chain scalability solutions.

Theymos cannot guarantee if an altcoin project will remain the way it is 10-20 years down the road just as Bitcoin has been. If the forum adopts another payment option, it's an endorsement of it, a huge one at that. If it fails it gives the forum a very bad look and leave a gap open needing to be filled. Could easily just be one failed experiment after the other.

The evil units fee should have already been discontinued and a LN Chanel opened for copper membership payment.

Sometimes the post you're looking for will not even be on the landing page after clicking on the link. This I believe happens when some posts in the thread were deleted. Will this pose a problem or it happens too few times for it to actually matter.

I will also want a more obvious marker, maybe a darker highlight that fades away after a few seconds on the page. Is this even a possibility?