Op, you should note that you can only bump the fee if you enabled RBF when making the transaction. The only other option left is to wait till it gets confirmed, or in the off chance that it doesn't, till it's dropped from the mempool (~2 weeks).

CPFP - Child Pays For Parent is an option if you are desperate to have it sent now, and you're in control of the receiving address.

Except the inputs involved where unconfirmed when they were used in a new transaction.

You should have started from the basics when you first began your journey. Knowledge is the first thing you gain when planning an investment, before you consider putting in your money.

With the current situation, you're not starting from the scratch, you're restarting now, with a bit of experience.
Many of the high ranked members here, might have made one or two mistakes during the start of their Bitcoin journey, and have learnt valuable lessons along the way.

How can you learn more about Bitcoin and benefit from the plethora of information available on this forum?
This should be your question and not how to move up ranks.

The primary goal of this forum is to be a hub of sharing information and engaging in constructive discussions. You can benefit from those discussions by reading more and doing your research. There's a search option on the forum, to dig into whatever information you need and you can always ask questions if you get confused on anything.

Protip; the search option would also answer your initial question.

Cryptocurrencies has not led to many scams, scams have been very common long before the first Bitcoin transaction was made, scammers just had one more option to perpetrate their scams through.
People have also been calling victims to phishing apps and links and losing money, even through their bank accounts.

Always download from the official website of the wallet and not from Google play store. You can also verify the signature for extra confirmation.

I do not tend to get a lot of merit or consider myself to be very knowledgeable, especially about the technicalities of Bitcoin, but I would say that users do not get merits for any particular type of knowledge. There's no blue print on what you should know or how you should write; we have members here who focus on the gambling board, or economics, or mining, or trading and get merits there, while sharing useful information on topics they are interested in.

My point is, do not post a certain way inorder to fit in, particular when that topic does not interest you. Find your niche and grow your knowledge in that particular area. Wish you best of luck on your learning journey.

This is terrible advice. Hot wallets are absolutely not ideal to be used as a means of storage, and the ones you recommended are not the most ideal ones to use.

Keeping a backup, when you wallet can be easily hacked from your wallet which is connected to the internet all the time?

The website layout looks very well done and the information contained therein, accurate, for the most part that I read. Great job OP on creating this resource.

I'll definitely be visiting it more often to preen through the other pages in the work.

I can't speak for why his name is being mentioned on this particular thread, cause I do not understand fully what motivated it, but from a general bitcoiner's perspective, you cannot afford to totally ignore CSW. His takes are as wrong as he is arrogant in delivering them, but there are lots of totally ignorant people out there who can fall for his crap, if it's not debunked as aggressively as he is spreading them.

The media is not doing a good job at stating how wrong his claim of being Satoshi is, so bitcoin enthusiasts have to do that job.

It depends entirely on where it is thrown away, the condition of the environment and the duration for which it is lost. Most hardware wallets would be made of some sort of plastic, and while it can resist a fair amount of damege, if it is exposed to harsh conditions (like rain, storm, degradation etc) for a long period of time, it's safer to assume it is lost.

I believe you mean the person who bought the hardware and owns the keys, the founder of the hardware company should ideally not know what your keys or phrases are.
Also, if one does not have backups in safe locations, your bitcoins are not securely stored.

The forum is attractive now due to the traffic it pulls. Campaigns looking to get people talking about their project would consider advertising here, cause they are guaranteed to reach a large audience. If signature campaigns are removed, majority of that traffic would disappear over the coming weeks, greatly reducing how viable the forum is for running a spam campaign.
I've been on forums without the reach or traffic bitcointalk offers, and spam is barely a problem there.

100% might be a reach, but a huge chunk of spam would be cleared up without signature campaigns.

Satoshi cannot block the blockchain with his keys. Moving the coins from the wallet ascribed to Satoshi, that would cause a bit of panic among investors, as well as lots of media attention, but that would not affect the blockchain.
The possibility of a backdoor created into the protocol is unknown a this point.

Theymos has once or twice expressed that he's considered removing signature campaigns from the forum, but decided against it due to certain reasons. Here is one of such situations;

If signatures are ever removed, it would clear up 100% of the spam which goes on here, but would also reduce a number of active users contributing positively, or reduce how much time they spend on the forum.

• I can't foresee any disadvantages that you would encounter. Importing private keys would normally have come with the added risk of not having multiple addresses to send from, thereby, reducing the privacy of future transactions, but you're transferring out to a hardware wlalet either way

• It should work, if done properly.

Some of those exchanges are not very reliable and advisable for one to use, and should not be used to store large funds.

Trust wallet is not recommended for use as it is a closed source wallet.

One of the most important factors when accepting transactions in crypto is speed of transactions, tx fees and the volatility of the market, to accept cheaper and faster transactions is to use Lightening network, and to avoid the volatility, you should use a payment processor which converts BTC payments to your preferred currency.

• Here is a list of payment processors you can self host to accept Bitcoin payments - BTCPay is the most recommended here on the forum... Full List,

• You can also use lightening network to accept Bitcoin payment at a cheaper rate and with faster transaction

Firstly, you should rather ask what happens if Bitcoin becomes "less volatile" and not stable. There is no stability in currencies and stable coins only exist cause they are pegged to other currencies. Those currencies they are pegged to are not stable.

Now to answer your statement above; No. If Bitcoin gets less volatile, this would not necessarily reflect on altcoins.

Adoption and growth would reduce the speculative value of Bitcoin.
If Bitcoin became less volatile, nothing happens besides a change in how traders view it.

What's a big project? If a project has no real value and only uses hype to attract investors, it's still a sham and newbies should avoid it
If a project has tried out a certain utility successfully, why copy their framework, and if they did it unsuccessfully, why copy a failed project?

A whitepaper is meant to give all information regarding a particular project, a team should have the originality to create their own design, and if the can't, they should be avoided.

The sites paying to get slots certainly need the advertising, that's why they pay for the slots.
Does the forum need the revenue from paid advertising, I'll normally have said yes, but considering theymos is considering shutting it down, then maybe not.

While paid ad slots may not be that necessary, the incentives from signature campaigns goes a long way to keep discussions alive on the forum. Many of the discussions are spam, but even genuine, constructive conversations would slow up if there were no signature campaigns.

They definitely are unconvincing, but that might not be the intention at all. CSW knows he's not Satoshi, and knows the public knows that too. He also knows he has no proof to convince us otherwise, so rather than convincing, he's intention might be to bully everyone to at best, not challenge his stand that he indeed is Satoshi, even if you do not believe it.

This sort of trial is straining on those involved. Hodlonaut would have wanted none of this publicity and financial demands that comes with the suit, many others would also not want that. So bullying people to silence, would leave none to challenge his stance or proof the inaccuracies in his position to the world, or court.

Do you hold Bitcoin, if Yes, then you should sell off.
If No, then clickbait, spam posts like this are unnecessary. If you intention is to spread fud, no one is going to make an investment decision based off your post.

In that case, BTC should be the least of your worries.