AFAIK, this is not correct. You only need the correct password to be able to change the email linked to the account.
A notification email would be sent to the initial email used to open the account, but that is not about a code to "confirm the change", it's a security measures with a link to lock the account, if there was a hack.

This! The privacy risk is high when attending such conferences, and this risk increases when it is around your locality.

Literally every information one would need about Bitcoin is available online, so the only reason, I see, to attend a conference would be to network. This is useful for a social media personality or one selling a service, but regular Joe's who are into Bitcoin, can do without that publicity.

If you must attend one, be wary not to disclose personal information and be sceptical of any offer or service being marketed.
You get to see first-hand the interest of others about Bitcoin and maybe get it off your bucket list.

Investing in cryptocurrencies is different from starting an exchange platform.

A crypto exchange platform, it is not peculiar to bitcoin.
Samsung is a South Korean company, but I've not found any suggestion that the planned exchange would be limited to South Korea.

This is the blanket definition of gambling, there are more niche ones which are particularly on placing bets on the outcomes of games.
Gambling as a concept is represented in many things we do; if you take up a new job in a new, developing city with potential for expansion, you are taking a gamble, if you guess an option in an exam, of which you are not sure of the answer, you're also taking a gamble. In this definition, trading has a bit of gambling in it.

Trading is a bit of a gamble, but, it's not the same as placing bets on real or virtual games. It however, has some similarities with them, imo.

The campaign I'm on requires only a limited amount of posts to be made in threads exceeding a certain number of pages. This is however not the reason I make replies often on higher up pages.

Generally, quality discussions on most threads last for only a while, and a huge percentage of opened threads now should be locked already cause it has been extensively discussed and the current replies are redundant. If I stumble on a post that has already been answered to, (if it's a question) or I don't have a new suggestion from what's been said, I have no reason to reply.

There are of course megathreads, exceeding 5+ pages, with quality and relevant conversations. Excluding those, users who comment on certain megathreads do so, cause they either do not read previous replies or just want to boost their post count (one reason some campaigns do not accept many of such posts)

This was what came to my mind as I read the topic title, before even clicking in to view the thread.
A sort of opposite option to the bump which is used in some announcement boards, to push scam threads (and some obvious trolls maybe) off the first page.

Such scam posts cannot be reported to moderators or no action would be taken, so a community solution seems like a great option.

This is a sad scenario. I remember once asking on the forum why everyone not just ignore CSW and the other people impersonating Satoshi. I got my answer in that thread, on how they can spread narratives and with enough back up from the media control those narratives.
This situation further proves how I was wrong and people like CSW should not be ignored.

Would be following up the case and donating to Hodlonaut defense cause.

There is no point mindlessly spamming around the forum. You are already a member ranked user and would need merits, not only activity to rank up. Try reading before you comment.

That's a big step you took there.
Bitcoin (or crypto in general) availability as a payment option is Nigeria is quite low as not many merchants accept or use it. Having a physical store take it as payment for a regular commodity is a big step in the right direction.

Hopefully, more merchants see what you're doing and join you in accepting cryptocurrencies for payment

It's always ironic to me how governments can effectively try to clamp down on those linked to things that they do not support like Bitcoin, and how media channels can censor Bitcoin related terms, but various scams are run under these platforms constantly.

It's unfortunate the guy had to flee his country, cause the government were not informed enough on how it works.
Estonia seems to be a bit more friendly now to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies than it was all those years ago.

The fact that this is still a running argument shows that no matter how unsure one is of what they are saying, if they confidently repeat it and use the media to spread the propaganda, it would become an issue. This is a part of journalism which has always puzzled me.
The only reason the EU parliament or any other government parastatal is interested in the energy consumption of Bitcoin mining, is that if they keep pushing the narrative that it is unsafe for the environment, more people may move away from it, and they can force a protocol change, which can be more easily controlled.

Most governments do not give 2 cents about climate impact.

It is not a problem which needs to be solved, and mining is already majorly run on sustainable energy as it is now.

Hyper inflation, when rolling, is a difficult Stone to stop, but not impossible.

The circle of increasing prices of goods, due to increase in value of other goods, can make it difficult for regular people to cope with overtime as the prices of goods and services gets ridiculously high.
But it can definitely be stopped or reversed, if a favourable economic condition sets in or due to effective fiscal policies.

Except one is a producer, or running a business where you can easily push inflation costs on to the customers, we are all hard hit by the rising inflation and cost of living. It's like the elephant in the room that keeps growing.

I'm from Nigeria, and I'll say we have had lots of experience with coping in similar situations, as series of bad governments has resulted in rising inflation and cost of living long before covid or oil crisis hit. The general struggle is keeping your income able your expenses, and finding a way to salvage some of it for savings or investments. This is not always easy, as jobs are not readily available or well paying.
Finding ways to cut down expenses to a minimum also helps leave out more for savings/investments.

I don't expect any improvement in the next couple of months or years globally.

+1.
When any sort of vulnerability is noticed, it is safe to assume that l security protocols have been breached, and any assets or personal information held on the device compromised.

There has been so much publicity on scams, phishing and malware links, that it is surprising, at least to me, how people still fall for random, unsolicited emails, with embedded links. Worse still that people still expose personal information like emails, etc on various, unverified platforms.

This is a curious case. I'm aware of certain restrictions on crypto related words and projects on some platforms, but have not (till now) come across one targeting bitcointalk. It's more curious, considering that bitcointalk is not heavily promoted off the forum to be much of an issue.
The Bitcointalk Show by Cyrus has videos with "Bitcoin" and "Bitcointalk" in the title and they are still up, months after being posted.

Your guess is as good as mine that the software would pick up the underlying link. Google crawlers can read codes of websites and text associated with image tags.
The above suggestion although painstaking, is a good advice that could work.

You got me excited, thinking there was a new video already up. I quickly stumbled to YouTube to check, even though I was half doubting the motive, as I have notifications on, and would have gotten one, if a new video dropped. Coming back to the cheering minions made the burn worse

It's been about 6 months without an episode, after getting 4 in a out 2 months. Does anyone know why or how the process could be more streamlined in the future.
It was definitely a good look, seeing bitcointalk being discussed in videos and not the boring regular forum outlook. More engaging and has the potential to drag in a lot of the younger audience, or maybe a handful of them, of which about one or two stays after a week.

Well, that's quite an odd anniversary gift, not sure about the romance behind it, but if it triggers interest in Bitcoin, it could give more value overtime than other more conventional gifts which are given during such periods.

Great that you're teaching Bitcoin to people around you; I'm beginning to find many of the posts about this subject performative, but if as little as one person gets interested in Bitcoin through them, then it's very worth it.

This is wrong.
Your coins are infact stored on the blockchain and not your wallet. Your wallet (software or hardware) is used to access it.
Your wallet holds your keys (private and public) which allows you access and sign transactions on the blockchain.

Your Bitcoin is always on chain, whether or not you're making a transaction. But you need internet connection to broadcast a transaction to nodes.

When you make a transaction, the coins do not move to a new wallet. They are "spent" and in accessible by your private keys at that time, and are now associated to another set of keys, from which the holder of those keys (through their wallet of course) can spend them.

If you want to be extra private. You do not need to connect your private keys to the internet to make a transaction, as you do not need internet connection to sign a transaction.
You can create a raw unsigned transaction, sign that on your airgapped device and broadcast it on a watch-only wallet.

How often do I use Bitcoin directly, without having to convert it into fiat first? Mighty few times, maybe once a month or less.

Where to spend Bitcoin physically around me are not readily available and I do not perform online transactions as much; when I do, they seldom rarely accept bitcoin for payment.

I believe the answers would be heavily dependent on the region the respondents are from. There are places with a greater online purchase culture than most and they would have more options to use Bitcoin directly for purchases.

The current state of Bitcoin is that since June 2022, the market value has been steadily rising; from lows of $18k to over $24k

I understood little of the remaining part of your post. But, DYOR, and do not blindly follow the advice or speculations of so-called 'experts' or 'big traders'.