Registered accounts don't make much sense if we take into account the number of quality members on both forums. Regardless of members who "teleported" to another forum and members who have been there before, I think that BTT is still far ahead when it comes to the number of quality members, and therefore the content they create.

The pay rates on the other forum are still almost half as much as here, and at the moment I don't see that there will be any big increase - because top mixers used to pay $200 + per week for 30-35 posts on BTT, and now they pay about $50 for the same number of posts on another forum. If they could raise it to at least $100+ per week, I'm sure they would attract more quality members from this forum.

I hope I'm wrong, but apart from some developers who used to be active on the forum or are still active, I think that those who decide on the winners won't really take forum members into account. @o_e_l_e_o was one of the best members of this forum, and the members have recognized him several times by choosing him as member of the year in the annual competition.

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This is something that everyone should know because it shows how bad someone as a person is in evaluating other people, not to say naive enough to believe in fairy tales.

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These are good candidates who definitely have a chance of being selected. The selection will still depend on the criteria of the commission that will decide on it, and their names are in the article. What is certain is that it will not be easy for them to choose, because there are a lot of good people who have made a great contribution to Bitcoin over the years.

Laszlo certainly has its place in BTC history, but that event took place in 2010, and Hal was awarded for that period. Gavin is also one of the candidates, but it's no secret that I personally wouldn't give him the award for several reasons - one is precisely that he went where he shouldn't have, and he himself admitted that he might have scared Satoshi that way. The second thing that disqualifies him in my opinion is that at one point he gave support to CW Faketoshi claiming that he is the real Satoshi.

Also, the @theymos explorer is from 2010, and the next three awards will be given to people for their contributions in the period 2012-2024. I think that the winners in that period should be looked for in those who had a key role in the development of SegWit and Lightning Network, and maybe those who stood up to CW Faketoshi, like @Hodlonaut.

Most of us know who Hal Finney was, and I think we can all agree that for his work when it comes to Bitcoin, he deserves a special place next to Satoshi Nakamoto. Although Hal has not been with us for 10 years, it is nice to see that people still remember him and that the Human Rights Foundation decided to establish an award that will bear his name, and that the first winner will be Hal posthumously.

HRF allocated a total of 33 BTC, of which 1 BTC will go to Hal, and given that the prize will be awarded every four years, there will also be prizes for the periods 2012-2016, 2016-2020 and 2020-2024.

It will be interesting who will receive the awards for the remaining three periods, and of course it will also be interesting what the members of the forum think about it.

More info at the link -> Bitcoin Pioneer Hal Finney Posthumously Wins New Award Named for Him

First of all, you must know what you can/need to report, and for that it is best to be familiar with the unofficial rules of the forum. As for the reports themselves, I think they should contain the reason for reporting the post, and in some cases a link that can help the moderators make the right decision.

For example, if we report plagiarism or AI content, we should not expect the moderators to check such content themselves, but we should make their job easier and direct them to a link that shows concrete evidence. There are two topics where such evidence can be posted, and then a report can be made with a link to a post containing relevant information.

See links 1 & 2

I think that the rich have no problem with any fees, and if someone has a transaction value of $100 000, then it is certainly not a problem for him to pay $10 or even more for such a transaction. For everyone else who, especially nowadays, is trying to save on everything, every saving is valuable - and to me it's honestly a bit tragic that instead of Bitcoin, which should primarily be a cryptocurrency, we have to look for alternatives in some altcoins if we want to pay something that way. All this, of course, because someone is literally abusing Bitcoin for their monkey business.

I hope that we will not get into a situation where one day Bitcoin will really become a toy only for the rich...

I'm trying to understand what you actually meant by what you wrote, and maybe you think that there is not enough BTC to be used as a global currency or that its price is "too low" to be accepted globally. In any case, none of them make sense - because even though there are currently around 19.6 million BTC in circulation and the max supply is only slightly less than 21 million, you forget that Bitcoin has the smallest unit, which we call a satoshi, and it looks like this -> 0.00000001


It is obvious that as a means of payment, Bitcoin has a big problem when we talk about on-chain transactions that are not instant, and as we can see, they can be very expensive. I honestly don't see that this can be "fixed" in any way in the near future, but even if it could, the fact remains that most people who own Bitcoin do not want to use it as money. Besides, the decentralization that Bitcoin is completely based on is not something that any significant government would accept, because we all know that most of them think that what they can't control is not good.

Bitcoin has always been an alternative, and it will most likely remain so.

It's true that some members (including me) became active on another forum, but that doesn't mean we stopped being active here. My number of posts on BTT mostly remained the same, and as far as I can see, most of those who are active on other forum are also active here. In addition, the number of active sig campaigns on other forum is far less than BTT.

Username: Lucius
BTC SegWit Address: bc1q03dchw396a82kn3w5q9kcyxhv24a3as7748r99

If it is possible to have eXch.cx avatar in combination with an Blackjack.fun sig campaign, I am applying

Perhaps the problem is that in some countries there are certain laws and regulations that do not suit some casinos, which is why they do not want or cannot legally perform their activities in them. If a country is extremely focused on online gambling, as the OP says, it would not make sense for an online casino to refuse to provide its services in such a country and give up a significant profit.

Obviously, there is some kind of obstacle that they can't/don't want to cross, and the only way is to try to contact these online casinos and ask them an official question.

I don't doubt that there is an immediate or even short-term value of all this ordinal nonsense, but in the long term we can say that there is a high probability that this value will not exist because some new projects will push the old ones into oblivion. Someone has obviously found a gold mine and will dig in that mine as long as they can make a profit, and you can always sell the same junk to naive people just by changing the packaging.

Personally, I have nothing against everyone investing their money in the way they think is best at some point, but I am absolutely against shitcoin makers using Bitcoin for their dirty games. What has been happening for months now only shows that apparently no one cares that more and more people are moving away from Bitcoin when it comes to any transactions for payment of goods or services, which only goes in the direction of completely destroying Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency, and becoming investment asset only.

I always tried to balance between using BTC for both purposes, but I had to give up several times because the fees were so high that paying with BTC really didn't make sense.

We have to face the fact that young people are less and less interested in this way of communication, and that the forum has lost a lot of members who were active in recent years and who wrote between 30-50 posts a week. Signature campaigns are of course an important factor that was motivating for many, and considering that we lost mixers and remained practically only on gambling, which have even 50% lower pay rates than mixers and smaller requirements regarding max posts, the result will be likely in a reduced number of total posts.

Personally, I would not worry too much about the number of posts, but about their quality.

If someone goes with the DCA method of investing, then it is always a good time to start, although it is logical that you will buy more BTC during the time when we are in a bear market. I wouldn't worry too much about it, because anyone who can set aside some money every month can invest that money in BTC, or they can save and wait for a time when the price will be more favorable and then invest.

Of course, risks always exist, but smart financial management is key to reducing that risk to the smallest possible extent.

I am very disappointed, but not because the miracle didn't happen overnight, but because people like you who have witnessed at least 3 halvings until now think that halving is some kind of magic.


Considering the timing of your topic and all the topics you publish from time to time, I would conclude that you are quite disappointed that the price of BTC has not already reached $100k - because that is your exit point, right?

I would not agree that the EU does not react to Israel's crimes, which are definitely terrible and reprehensible, but the EU is definitely too weak to oppose it in a much harsher way, given that the US is behind Israel. However, according to official data, the army of the country where you live attacked another independently recognized country and killed more than 10 000 civilians (so far), of which almost 600 were children. There is no justification for that, no matter how much you look for it.


Your president and other Russian politicians clearly say that there are "Russian lands" and that's why they are conquering them - so it's not even something that is a secret in Russia.


Not all politicians are the same, but some are much worse than others. The only thing Russia is getting is the (currently) conquered territories, which according to international law will never legally belong to them. I repeat to you once again that the EU as a whole is not in any danger because it no longer has access to Russian oil and gas or anything else.

You're welcome - I hope the OP will understand how difficult (impossible) it is to crack a seed even of 12 words - and I must admit that this is one of the biggest misconceptions of a very large number of people who do not understand that the words in the seed are not only words that someone can guess just like that, but much more than that.

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Maybe editing the post in is not the biggest problem, because I already have experience with one of those members regarding some other "incorrect information" that I warned him about, but I didn't really get a polite answer. Unfortunately, we have reached the point where almost anyone can be in the signature campaign, regardless of the "quality" of the posts.

@LoyceV, You seem to be teaching Hero and Legendary members things they should know, so I wonder what happens to those who get all their information from other (less credible) sources outside of this forum...?

People persistently repeat the same things that are completely incorrect when it comes to hardware wallets, and apparently a lot of people still have no idea what Ledger Recovery service is - which only means that maybe one day we will wake up and have a new Mt.Gox.

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@bitmover has a good image that is always appropriate for a question like the OP's

I wonder what the OP thinks today (if by any chance he looked at transaction prices), because this is one of those times when everyone is looking for an alternative, whether it's a bank, a money transfer service or altcoins. Almost $150 for high priority is the highest I've ever seen, and that's obviously something we'll remember this halving for.



Credits to @nutildah to capture this.

GPTZero gives 100% AI generated score for the first post, ZeroGPT 89.84%, so there is not much dilemma about what is happening in this particular case. It is obvious that there is some tactic that goes in the direction of trying to catch some merits from someone who is careless and hasty when he reads such a post and thinks that it is a newbie with potential.