You do not need to stress yourself, just wait for the person to contact you. Do not spend the money. If you have waited for some many months or a year and the person has not contacted you, I think the money has become yours.

I saw something this on this forum this year or so and this is another one. I wonder how some people can do something like that, or a way to look for someone to scam.

I have seen some people that started scam like this before and requesting very small amount in a way to scam anyone that is trying to help. I hope this is not like that.

That is may not be scam because the person may not know about the project to be scam. But it can also be a scam if the person that tell people to invest in the project is part of the people behind the project. But I have seen friends telling friends something like this in a way all of them will be scammed together. Lack of understanding about crypto caused it. DOR is very important.

No only about the risk, but to seek for everything need to be known to avoid scam and to make a successful investment that will be profitable. You can use google but be careful too because google can give you false information like bitcoin wallet to be coinbase.com, Trustwallet and other wallets that are not good for bitcoin users. But making research by asking questions on this forum can be very helpful.

If someone can be patient and not greedy, investing in bitcoin is better, instead of investing in fake and shit projects.

This is a great news, the adoption continues. With time, other countries will see what they are missing and begin to have interest in bitcoin holding. But according to the news, not that they hold bitcoin directly, it is the exchange traded fund (ETF) of it, which is good too because it is a way bitcoin adoption continues.

Also that in China, you can hold bitcoin as a property, it is legal. But I do not know what the stress of the Chinese government that they continue to ban bitcoin several times and later the ban is no more effective. You can see that after bitcoin mining was banned in China, Chinese miners again increased in hashrates and they are the second to US now.

Are you holding fiat? Do you not know that if you are holding fiat, it is like your government are scamming you, although it is not a scam, but it is a means to lose money as your fiat money lose value and unable to buy what you can use it to buy before.

Likely you have your emergency money in your local fiat too. You said emergency, which means it should be used for inconveniences time and for emergencies. You supposed to use your emergency money, not that you should sell you property that may increase in value, although I am just saying that because some properties like land, metals, jewelries and many others like that  can increase in value.

It is better not to hold money in your local currency, bitcoin is still not that high, you can buy it instead. Ones the price is high very well and you have gained, you can convert some to dollar or other good foreign currency which are better than many fiat from countries like Venezuela, Lebanon, Sudan, Argentina, Zimbabwe, Turkey and many other countries.

Visit meta and beginners and help and read the pinned or sticky threads that are there. From there you will understand more about this forum and also about bitcoin wallet. You will also read some online papers, but be careful because not everything that is online are true or completely true.

If you visit this forum daily, reading and contributing in discussion, you will know more about bitcoin.

Among the pinned threads, make sure you read this about bitcoin: [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why?

You can also read this about bitcoin online like on investopedia: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin.asp

Make sure you read the forum rules. I do not have to provide the forum rules link because someone has already given you the link in one of the above posts.

You need to take note that IP blacklisting will affect all countries or the VPN location used. Let us take this an en example, you use service provider A to open an account on this forum, some other people also use service provider A, and they are permanently banned, this will affect other people that wants to open an account on this forum from that country that are using service provider A as the IP addresses if service provider A is blacklisted by this forum. Also if it is VPN, the VPN per each location that the banned people are using to register account will be blacklisted.

If bitcoin has surpassed $100000, it is better not to buy bitcoin again at that time if you do not want your story to be like those that bought bitcoin at $50000 or above in 2020 and 2021. Such people are losing now but bitcoin will rise again. Before bitcoin will get to those prices, it takes years. If you buy at $100000, probably you might later wait for years before you make profit. Do not join the fomo group, buy now when it is not yet late again.

Likely you internet is slow, but if not slow, try VPN and use USA or UK or other location that do not give you captca problem to see if there is any difference. If that does not work, follow the Cantsay link to bypass captcha, or if you want to login, you will see the link below the login to click on to bypass the captcha which is also the link.

I have tried it several times and it always work.

There are more organisations that will become investors and many institutional investors are waiting for the right time to invest more. But we should not only consider institutional investors because there are retail investors too that their investment can increase bitcoin price.

Then what is bad point? For not mentioning it makes your post to be spam and of no quality.

What I am optimistic about is that bitcoin will get to six digit which is 1$100000 or above. A time is coming when bitcoin will grow bigger. Let us see what will happen after the next halving, I think bitcoin will get there some months, 1 or 2 years after next year halving.

Many crypto currencies are securities just like their father ethereum is a security and becoming more centralised day by day. Ethereum developers are working now to reduce validators from people that stake 32 ETH to people that stake 2048 ETH. Becoming more centralised day by day by all ways.

Know that not all altcoins are securities. Litecoin and few others which are not like ethereum are not considered as securities.

Bitcoin is no supporting web3 just like I said before, this forum can not follow the ways of the altcoins.

But which can not happen. Let us wait for 2FA implementation on this forum if you need additional layer of protection. A for me, I am use to the old way to login and it is perfect for me if 2FA is added.

You are not wrong, but what makes more people to use mobile phone to gamble today is more about using the web browser directly to gamble. There are many betting sites that may have mobile app too, but in a way that the web browser access to their site is very lite and easy.

Some gamblers do not even know that they can go using app and they see the ease and good user experience while using just their mobile phone web browser to gamble directly. What I am saying is that, unlike before that mobile phones browsers and the phone itself are poor to access the web, people can as of today access the web with mobile phone too and get a better experience than before while using the phone. The reliance on computer these days have reduced unlike before when phone can not be used for this kind of task with good user experience.

But there is a chance that you may not take the bet again if the stronger team is winning already at the beginning. Live matches also happens in a way that those odds that is growing bigger as the match is going to 90 minutes are the odds that their prediction is not likely to happen, although it can happen, but in a way that bettors will not want to go for such odds.

But I do it like yours too, even when I have little money and I have time to bet when the match has started already, I can wait for like 10 to 15 minutes after the match start to bet on the team I think would win, but the disadvantage is what I have said, that if the team score early, the odd drops instead, in a way you will be discouraged to bet on such club because of the odd that has fallen abruptly almost to it lowest.

An hash that contains bitcoin in letter and  many symbol of $. Does that look like a valid hash to you? That is not a valid hash.

Another thing is that you can not use transaction or transaction hash to determine the wallet it goes to. It it is hard or not possible to know the wallet an address belong too.

With transaction hash, you can know about an address, but the transaction hash above is not valid.

The world reserve currencies are not only one, they are many. Example are the US dollar, Pounds Sterling and Euro. What I am trying to say is that the world reserves have alternatives, so if bitcoin become one of the world reserves, it would surely be an alternative. But I think if the world start to use bitcoin like that, a time would come their eyes will open to know that bitcoin can be better than fiats to hold as a reserve because its value in long term increase and the price also proportionately increase.

Why do you need web3 login when there is no need for it if you know the proper ways to avoid scammers. What people are still looking forward to is the two-factor authentication which might be done before this year get to an end.

Web3 login is not what is possible yet for bitcoin wallets, there is no bitcoin wallet using web3 for bitcoin because web3 is not in bitcoin protocol and likely will not be there.

If you want to trade with someone on this forum, you can ask for the person to sign his bitcoin address which have already been used on this forum before.

If the person has PGP public key, you can use that as prove also by sending him an encrypted message, telling him to decrypt the message.

You need to let him know that this life is a scam if someone does not know what he is doing. Example is holding fiat for 10 years in a fixed deposit account because of 10% APR. Is that not scam in countries that are not developed but hit with inflation? The fiat will decrease in value even in countries that are developed.

Let him know that he suppose to understand something before he can call it a scam. A business that the business owner collect Peter money to pay Paul is what that is called ponzi. Is bitcoin like that? No.

You know what is bitcoin, you know how volatile it is, you know that you can either gain or lose, unlike ponzi schemes that the business owners are lying to make investors to invest.

There are 110 merit sources.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=sources

There are many people (at least four or five people) that have applied for merit source but no one has been selected after the last selection.

There is nothing more tht he is doing, he is only inviting scammers and that is just it.

Everything about bitcoin discussion should be done openly on this forum. Take time to learn about bitcoin yourself if you do not want anyone to scam you.

Start to read about bitcoin paper online. Paper like this ones:

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/cryptocurrency/what-is-bitcoin/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin.asp

Anyone that needs more merit should use the LoyceV thread that I posted, there are merit sources there. Quality posts are often merited there. You do not necessarily need to be the one that has the posts, you can also report other user's posts for merit.

The Sceptical Chymist do give up to 50 merits to people that deserves it.