Outdated figures.
The current coinbase reward on each completed block is 6.25BTC.
It stopped being 25 after the halving in 2016.

The difficulty level can increase or decrease with each difficulty adjustment, depending on how the hashrate increases or decreases.
The average time was always designed to be 10 minutes for each block.

This is a reach in my opinion. Bitcoin is barely being adopted by the approximately 8 billion people on Earth now. And of those who have adopted it, it's not utilized much for purchases of daily needs. An increase in population, would not significantly impact demand, unless there is a rise in adoption.

In the technical definition of a payment processor (PP), Bitcoin was not meant or designed to act that way.
A payment processor, although described a bit differently by different website, has some similar terms across all definitions, in how it mediates between buyers and sellers, or in a more basic term credit and debit (cards).
PP acts as a middle man or intermediary, enabling user A, to send funds to user B, more easily and efficiently, despite barriers like banks, currency or border. It's effectively a third party.

Bitcoin is not a third party, infact it eliminates the need for one and allows users transact P2P, so it's not meant to be on that list.

Most likely not. One reason for this would be scalability issues; using Bitcoin as an accepted means of exchange would increase the demand for faster transactions, increasing the demand for 3rd party systems like BTC processors, or lightening network (best case scenario), or some centralized exchange system which is adopted by citizens (worse case scenario).

Another reason is how governments always want centralized and controlled systems. They wish to give the impression of being a citizens watchdog, which prevents them from getting into trouble, but in reality, they seek more control, which is not available on Bitcoin, without the use of 3rd parties.

If you can use Bitcoin today, you don't need to wish on any day where governments get into it.

China are the most unlikely entry for me on the list; with Nigeria, I'm aware that the ban only restricts banks from mediating between crypto transactions, but China have a full on crypto ban, which even affects mining activities in the country, but are ranked #10. Any history on where China was ranked a couple of years ago, before the effect of bans started kicking in?

Vietnam is also a country that comes up very little in crypto discussions, little surprise they are topping the list.

Bitcoin by default is pseudo anonymous. Information are public, but there is no real identity linked to them, so they effectively are private. Practices that one does to reveal their identity are not directly linked to Bitcoin, neither is it a product of the protocol, and there are some extra steps one can take, if they are very strict on maintaining 100% privacy.

A hardware wallet is not an alternative for running a full node. For full privacy you can adopt both, but do not rely on any one to maintain privacy, security or pseudo anonymity.

Pioneered the concept of blockchain technology you mean.
There are lots of history leading up to the creation of Bitcoin by Satoshi and that is definitely not disregarded when discussing cryptic financial technology, this however does not mean David Chaum built Bitcoin; Satoshi did.

That's the best case scenario that comes out of this, and it's cool that you are down with it, if that's the way you can get back into the forum.
Your appeal is here, and even though the admin does not comment much, they see all (or almost all) messaged posted here and would take an action if they consider your appeal.
If you do not get a response of any sort, that most likely means it's a No to your request.

The squad lineup for both Barcelona and Bayern have been announced, and I am somewhat surprised by both lineups.

Barcelona start Marcus Alonso and seem to be starting a more attacking lineup, with a midfield of Gavi, Sergio and Pedri. I'm highly surprised Jessie doesn't start. Dembele and Raphinha is also a very attacking strike force, would be interesting to see if Denbele starts from the left side, considering how good he has been on the right side of the pitch.

Bayern... meh. As a cule, I didn't check their lineup too much as I'm not too sure who's in form and who isn't at this time. Let's go Barca!!

With the recent attention mixers have been getting from government, I hope news like this would not turn attention to decentralized, P2P platforms like bisq, increasing censoring.
He did get a slap on the wrist and data carriers found in his him we're seized. There is no guarantee this contains the entire stolen amounts.

Apologies for detailing this thread
I've seen a couple of those around, but somehow never this one linked above and I wasn't too comfortable with the words used to pass the message across.
I also just saw this link (https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo) in another thread about factoids which are advertised in the forum ad banner space and was honestly surprised how many there are and how very little of them I have actually come across.

Oh, I somehow missed the last sentence in the quote, which would have explained it all.
Could have been someone's personal signature text with the forums' ad warning below.

Do you mind sharing what post you got this excerpt from here on the forum?
The block reward is more accurately called a coinbase, which is giving to the miner who validated the most recent block, and it is not technically created out of thin air, but is a reward for the Work the miner has done to complete the block (using computing power).

I can hardly see Bitcoin becoming similar to ETH in anyway, neither do I expect any major changes in the protocol due to the supply being completed. Minor ones are more probable.

There's no guarantee that ETH would even be the number 2 cryptocurrency at that time.

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You added an extra quote tag, which skewed how it appears, might want to fix that.

Can you provide a bit of clarity to your question, so someone can give an answer to it?
You seem to be inquiring about mining, with the talk on computing power and creating a fake blockchain?

If you asking why there's a need to use high computing power to validate blocks and why don't the network trust a digital signature, then you need to do a bit of research on how blocks are validated, and it doesn't have to do with "someone's" digital signature.

I wouldn't want to pick each point and respond to them individually, but they all have a lot of generalization. You can't lump up the rich or poor into any character description or mindset. They all have individuals in both brackets which are on opposite ends of different spectrums;
• There are bums, who were born into wealth and built on privilege,
• There are people who were not and created wealth for themselves,
• There are yet those who were born into wealth and worked had to expand on that, with the privileges available to them,
• There are also those who were not privileged and did not develop a winning mentality and remained in an unfavorable situation.

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Saying "many" poor people are better than the rich is also a hasty generalization. What constitutes "better" and how does one's financial situation make them better than the other?

Getting rich is not luck, or is barely 5% luck. There are lots of mindset and character factors that go into play. We shouldn't downplay that, to try to make some demographic or ourselves feel better.

First change in years, that wasn't an April fool's prank of course. And a good one too, not the most pressing change I would expect, but still shows some bit of improvements in layout. Great job PowerGlove creating the scripts.

Most likely.
I've checked on different browsers and also on mobile and PC, still has the same layout as you indicated.

Trust feedbacks are primarily used for trade related reasons, so making a distinction doesn't seem necessary.
Before trust flags, there were some ambiguity about what requires a feedback and what doesn't, but theymos cleared this up when creating flags;
Use case #1 above, was 'getting a general idea of someone's trade history and trustworthiness".
Imo, trade doesn't have to be a exchange of goods or currency, purchasing a service and getting it delivered on time and as expected, great communication during the process is also added in.

A non trade option doesn't quite fit into the feedback system.

Could be the title 'yield', which is linked to DeFi and altcoin investment, but even that is not a reason enough to classify the thread as an altcoin discussion.
It seems a perfect fit for Beginners & Help board

No. But, you would more easily forget the phrase as human memory is not reliable as a back up, much less as the only means of access.
The fact that it's sometimes called a mnemonic phrase does not mean you should attempt memorizing it. Always use a form of offline backup(s).

Crypto are stored on the blockchain, wallets only allow you access it through your private keys.
Preferably bitcoins worth above $1k should be stored in a hardware wallet or airgapped device.

On a custodian wallet, the risk for this is very present and high. Trust wallet is non custodian, so not likely. But, it's not recommended cause it's closed source.

There is a risk and I would advice you do not use a USD or drive on the laptop, to keep it completely airgapped.

You wouldn't need to transfer anything. All you need is to copy the unsigned raw transaction and send that to the air gapped pc. You can also scan the tx qrcode to get the transaction.

AFAIK, it should work alright without you needing to get any other software. Other members could drop that input on that.

You saved up $10,000 on a salary or $3,600 per year and invested all that, while quiting your job and working on nothing for the next 3 years?
Also, why wait for 3 years to sell at a profit, when you could have sold few months after October, 2017 at more than 3 times you bought at? You waited 3 years to sell at roughly the same amount you would have gotten in 2 months (and possibly reinvested), and then sold at the very beginning of the next bull run.

For someone who could save up $10k, $23k is hardly life changing.