I don't pay much attention to Elon's sensational tweets which are created for attention, nor is an average individual concerned with the administrative aspects of running Twitter.

A CEO does not necessarily need to draw traffic through discussions, if Twitter needed that, it would be better of going for an influencer. Also, the success of a business, even a social media platform, is far more than building traffic and engagements.

This probably is not a topic for Bitcoin discussion, maybe Beginners & Help.

Firstly, I have clothes and shoes I've been wearing for years now and they are still in good condition, I think I'll still be wearing something I got three months ago,
Secondly, people are allowed to enjoy things. Investing, of course takes time and patience, in addition to understanding of the market; one should know when to buy and when to sell.
If you need to take some profits to enjoy the festive season, by all means do so, have fun and enjoy the holidays with family.

A prediction is like a guess, one can get lucky with it and use lots of analysis to make a technical one, but it's still just a guess. You shouldn't bank on a prediction, cause people say things for different reasons; could be their perspective of the market, or saying what the public wants to hear, to build followership.

You should only trust your judgement, and this involves trusting yourself to trust the judgement of someone who you consider informed. There are a few useful content on the social space, but they are mostly drowned out by the shillers and bull market merchants.

Crypto adoption is not brought about by making it more accessible to the people (except there's a lack of such accessibility), there has to be an understanding of what it is and then an interest in the product.
You can check this interest by surveying the number of users of bitcoin within the state, with what information is publicly available. With this data, you can check where more interest lies and then go a step further by finding out what drawbacks users experience.

I, for example, is a Bitcoin enthusiast, but would not use a Bitcoin ATM to buy or sell, and there are others like that. Understanding what the people need would enable you better serve them.

Wasn't knocking down your effot; it's a good initiative and would surely help many forum members come to the awareness of the rules and why it's important.

I was a bit sleepy while typing, happens sometimes and the message doesn't come through as it was intended.
Would love to see a challenge to know how may members TUI - Type under the influence. Not necessarily literally  

Many of the questions are general, forum trivia questions and not necessarily related to the forum rules or how to avoid breaking them.

I scored 10/10, which doesn't mean much, cause I've been around here for a while.
Newbies should have a go and see how familiar they are with forum rules.

Any sort of reply in a thread is stating your opinion on the matter. I'm doing that now with this reply and others who comment would be doing the same. This is also a form of discussion as in replying to you thread and discussing the matter.
I do reply to some threads after commenting on it, and many members here d the same; when it's necessary.

• Nothing else really to add, or they do not have a notifier bot activated, so they are informed when they are quoted,
• For the above stated reasons, with the addition that they might just be spamming with no intention of joining a conversation.

Bitcoin can be art if you want it to be, it can also be a currency, or an asset, or a ticket to freedom or another explanation you make of it. Your Bitcoin is yours to define and yours to use.

I prefer holding bitcoins and spending the only when necessary, many would argue that that's bad practice and you should use it as a currency wherever it's accepted for a product you need. We both have different definitions of it based on our locations and needs.

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The only way you shouldn't use Bitcoin is installing a third party, which it was created to eliminate.

Argentina would be playing at the Lusail Iconic Stadium on Sunday in the world cup final, for the second time in only eight years.
This would be a storied game, with so much hanging in the balance should the Albicelestes win in five days time against any of Morocco or France.
Messi could very well be playing his last world cup (definitely his last in too form) and would want nothing less than to lift the famous, golden trophy.

Big game tomorrow, and as much as I would want Morocco to become the first African team in the world cup final, I fear that France might be too strong. Hopefully, the Atlas Lions would keep roaring.

This is very important for all forum users.
To be able to constructively contribute to discussions, you need to consume useful content which would improve your knowledge base on certain topics, on which you can educate someone on later

To put it in perspective, you should recognize that at a point, all forum members regardless of rank did not know anything about Bitcoin, so whatever you see more experienced members contributing, it was learnt from several sources, and if they could learn that much, then you can too, you only need to figure out a way that works for you and a topic that interests you.

It was always imperative to keep your funds off centralized exchanges and under self custody. Bitcoin was designed to operate without the need for third parties or trusted networks, all you needed to do was verify;
• Verify the signature of the wallet you intend to use,
• Verify the codes of platforms you use,
• Nodes then, would verify transactions made, before pushing them on for confirmations.

If one is going to be their own bank, then you have to take responsibility for the actions you take.

This is how digital innovation works, cash transfers are highly inadequate to cater for all transaction needs that we have, hence we need digital form of payments, which can allow us pay from anywhere, to anyone in the world.
The centralization that comes with it is a downside and means our financial dealings are mostly controlled by corporations, which are inevitably controlled by the government.

Bitcoin allows us transact, without a cooperation or central authority, but digital transactions are still giant leaps in innovation.

For the creator of the content you're viewing to actually get paid, you need to watch the ad for a stipulated number of seconds for it to be registered. This is one reason I labor through some of the unrelated ads to me, when they pop up on videos of content creators I learn from or who put a lot into their craft.

Fiat works fine for them, why change?
Bitcoin related content are restricted on many social platforms, I would not be holding my breath waiting for them to implement it into their payment system.

Hypnotized? I think not. I don't believe fully in the concept and for it to work, it needs the right environment and mood, which you cannot have with a total stranger or an unwilling person.

Risks which are related to this include;
• Getting an overdose of drugs which can make one delirious and prone to divulge personal information when persuaded,
• Getting kidnapped and threatened to reveal the details of your wallet or to send them to a different wallet. Here, plausible deniability would help a lot.

If a squabble between a centralized exchange and government authorities is what it takes to push users to decentralized platforms, then that would be a welcome development, but I'm not that optimistic. Users would switch to other CEXes for the main time and even move their funds back to finance one the dust has settled down.

Using Bitcoin to donate to causes where fiat is restricted for some reason is the exact purpose of Bitcoin; a decentralized P2P service. What happens with the Bitcoin after is not up to you and does not undermine it in anyway.
If you fear what that the receiver of your bitcoins would use them for, then you can never use bitcoins can you?

• Bitcoin is used as a means of funding signature campaigns here on the forum, but participants could simply convert them to fiat as soon as they are received, should projects stop using them too?
• Bitcoin can be used to make purchases in an online store, but the merchant could be plugged into a payment processor, which would immediately convert the coins, should we not use them for payments as well?

How about in cases where fiat transactions are restricted?

The forum might use community consensus in some areas, but it is inevitably run solely by the admin theymos, and it's he who can determine that; he's the one who sees the data on mod action and which boards are not getting enough moderation.

Editing the names of the inactive mods out from those boards would solve half of the problem, which is this topic being raised and discussed often. Anyone drawing attention to the news to recruit new mods then would be doing so based on them noticing delays in confirmation of reports on certain boards.

I run out of smerits quite a lot these days, or get close to being totally out, as like to keep <10 smerits in my satchel for emergency situations, where I see a really exceptional post. With a pending merit source application, the best I can do is wait and try to earn more merits.

Reporting here is an option, but doesn't cross the mind often.

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I briefly thought about a thread where reputable members (who ardently give out merits),, can report their accounts to be merited by sources, with the sole purpose of getting more smerits.
Some could see it as a way for users to abuse the system and blur the lines that define "reputable", but for me, it doesn't matter if a few users get more merits (they should be above 1000 to qualify), as long as it's circulating around more.

I agree with your submission.
Merits were implemented to reduce spam by making users conscious of their contribution to the forum and eliminate mindless postings, which many were using to boost up their activities and their rank; now you need merits as well as activity to rank up on the forum.

With this in mind, it's safe to say majority of forum members (except the minority outliers who do not care for ranks or titles), are posting with a desire to get merits. It now depends if;
• The merit system steers a desire to learn and contribute to the forum constructively with the hopes of getting noticed and merited, or
• It's a desperate desire to rank up, without any interest whatsoever to contribute positively to discussions or to learn from them.

The former is healthy and the reason for the merit system; the latter is detrimental to discussions and leads to spam posts.

Could be internal operating issues or some sort of experiment and could also be peculiar to your account.
You'll have to contact their customer support system.

No one should have ''big amounts" on an exchange, it's a huge security risk.
There are also other options to convert fiat to crypto, if you would look into them.

It would definitely not be the last and obvious hacks is not the only risk in using centralized exchanges: there is privacy concern and the risk of the platform selling your personal information.