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.

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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.

I have a shared experience, especially before I achieved legendary rank. Merits received would thin out at intervals and spike up when I was approaching a new rank.

I hardly notice any such now, maybe cause I do not pay much attention to merits as I used to.

You would not be tagged for joining a campaign handled by a member without a high reputation. This is not a criterion for deciding which campaign is not a scam. Reputable members have perpetrated scams, and members of seemingly no repute have shows great degree of honesty and trustworthiness.
What members should be wary of when joining campaigns managed by unfamiliar members is that the funds should always be escrowed by a higher reputation member to ensure they get paid.

Always do your research on the campaign websites and activities.

You don't have to be apologetic for creating a thread. As long as you did your research and no such thread exists AFAYK, then it's all fine.

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Great work OP. Including a link might have made it easier for users to check out members they are not familiar with, but it would have been a bit more work to include.

Also, I would have expected a constantly decreasing list, from 1,500+ up to 10k+. It's surprising that more members have over 2,500 merits, than those over 2k, but that's likey a result of the gap from 2.5k up to 5k+.

100 previews a day is a bit high, but I dare to say many members use about that much daily.
Depending on the length of a reply I make, I could preview it about 3-4 times, before finally posting. That's about 5 slots already. If I notice any errors later, I would edit and most likely preview again.
Someone who makes 10-20 posts a day, could easily run through the entire drafts and clear out those from previous days.

It is advicable to keep any future accumulations private. How much BTC you own is not something you publicly announce here on the forum, or anywhere else, especially to people who know you personally.

Another advice would be storage methods. Since you're on the forum, you'll probably know the most recommended wallet softwares are electrum and Bitcoin core. For higher amounts of Bitcoin, it would be wise to invest in a hardware wallet.

Do you have a back up seedphrase? Importing using backups is the easiest way to transfer wallet from one device to another. The wallet file stored on the other device can be deleted if you consider it unsafe. As an extra measure after importing, you can still move the funds to a new address.

If you do not have the backups, following the suggestion above is a good way to do it as well.

It's been four years already since that thread was created? Feels like we have "forum years" now which is much faster than regular years.
The welcome message I feel should be too priority on new implementations to the forum, and the way I see it, would not need much tweaking of the current system, just a pop up for brand-new members.

I thought that's how long it would take for epochtalk to be live 

Ideally, you should include a link to news you post. Also, this single update is not going to turn the market around or take Bitcoin to the moon.

I would be waiting to see if any action is actually taken as regards rising carbon emissions. The U.N has become largely reactive in recent years, not taking action to prevent situations, condemning them after it happens and still not taken concrete actions.
I would expect less from U.N considering any action would put them against China. In a separate situation China is ready with countermeasures should U.N make any anti-China motion agants their alleged crimes against humanity

Climate change is a global issue that needs to be addressed and fast. With continued advancement in technology, the waste disposal also increases, reducing quality of life on the planet.

You do not need to attend events or join some telegram group as you asked for in a previous thread. There are already lots of information on the topic of mining, here on the forum and on other sources. Check out this reply to one of your previous threads;

You could get yourself scammed or get wrong information from some malicious users if you keep searching for information which is already available.

You left out a bracket close for the opening img tag. Most likely an oversight, but it would mess up the code and it would not display the image.

Raised interest rates makes the option of borrowing less attractive as well as discouraging spending and investing. Bitcoin as an investment would be affected by this no doubt, how much of an effect it would have now, or in a week or a month, or a year, cannot be predicted however.

Every analysis is probable to an extent. There however are no guarantees and it cannot be relied on as a metric to speculate price actions.

There is a limit to how much tx data can be included in a single block, so mass adoption without a change in block size, would not make much of a difference.

Much of the question about how Bitcoin would respond to end of block rewards would only be answerable in the coming years; any thing else is just speculation.