Long story short, let's look at a chart

• Will Bitcoin fall to zero? Be woke with changes of No. of BTC with $ 1 million
• These charts were plotted months ago but a general picture is the same so I don't think I must plot a new chart just to send you my message.
• In addition, read and watch The purchasing power of US. dollar. US dollar loses its purchasing power, a lot.
• Lastly, read the article The bullish case for Bitcoin
• Then spend few minutes to deeply think of it

There are answers above for you but I'd like to help you another tip

• If you visit a board and have question(s) for things in that board, let's scroll up and see sticky threads at top. You will find most important information, rules for that board.
• A collective thread on sticky threads [Bitcointalk sticky threads] Newbies - read before starting. That thread was last updated 2 years ago so make sure you do first tip always.

If you don't want to be doxed, let's avoid uploading your personal photos on this forum or on any site when you're using Internet.

You can not erase it completely as that site has data backup as well as many scrapper and archives can work and catch your photo. In this forum, it's hard to see people using their real identity, real personal photos. I don't know anyone uses personal photo here but of course, the forum has about 3.5 million users and I can miss some cases.

Anyway, it is not recommendable to upload personal photo for your user avatar. Many drama about doxing attacks.

Now, you ranked up to Jr. member and can post images, without need to buy the Copper Membership.

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Some websites for image uploading

A newest site I know today: https://vgy.me/
Additionally, there are some tricks to add images via BBcode in the forum.

• Guideline on posting images (with size adjustments), hyperlinks
• [GUIDE] How to change desired image as Bitcointalk avatar size using app.

You should say both that 1 BTC = 1 BTC is similar to either

• Unrealized profit is not profit
• Unrealized loss is not loss

If anyone says buying Bitcoin only because of fun, it can be true if it is a trial purchase with very small amount.
If the purchase is big enough, it is not for fun, but for profit. So if it relates to profit motivation, the buyer will have plan to take profit. Just when.

Loss is a loss and even you don't sell your Bitcoin, you still have a loss temporarily. Fortunately, in history, Bitcoin always makes new all time high with each halving and a new bull run.

• Bitcoin profitable days
• HODL camp
• From these charts, 87%+ of holding days are profitable and you won't get loss if you hold Bitcoin more than 4 years, 6 months and 21 days.

Bitcoin is created by Proof of Work mining but it is an encrypted currency so from its mnemonic seed or private key, you have many methods to own your coins

• Paper
• Metal/ steel sheet/ plate
• Digital file
• Backup software
• Safe vault
• and so many more methods

So you can either send information for ownership of a Bitcoin wallet (in Bitcoin inside) into space by many types above, both digitally and physically.

Many conditions to trigger the market moving upward or downward

• Crypto market is only a component of a bigger thing, a whole globalized world with more markets (stock, real estate, energy, etc.) that can be affected by politics, geo-political conflict, crisis, energy crisis, war, etc.
• If a whole world is in trouble from pandemic, war, recession, crypto market will be affected in particular
• Inside crypto market, Bitcoin is a leader of the trend. If Bitcoin has a bull run, a crypto market will follow it and vice versa.
• There are always exceptions that barely move oppositely with a general trend like in past few weeks we are witnessing pumps of low-cap, shit coins.

My memory recalls me for another thing, not about historic scam in the forum.

• Stats on active & merit status of Donators & VIPs after 10 years.
• Three years ago, I made that topic and recently I updated my topic Bitcointalk's Hall of fame that triggers my memory about the first topic. Then occasionally, when I look around, I found that classic trade. Just about trade and its meaning in early days of Bitcoin.

I bring a couple of good news to OpenWorld investors.

• Our team have a new angel investor and advisor
• The $OPEN token has been integrated as a payment method on HYVE - a freelance platform
• A partner from Upgrade design team
• $OPEN bond for Harmony community is continuing

Mr. Angel Velarde joined us as an investor and advisor

• Announcement is there
• Get more information about Mr. Angel with his Linkedin

New token integration: $OPEN integrated on HYVE

• Read details: https://latest.hyve.works/new-token-integration-open-integrated-on-hyve/

$OPEN bonds for Harmony community

• Watch the tutorial video on our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On0ZXv8PY48
• All capital raised from bond sales will be used to add liquidity for $OPEN on Harmony

Welcome Upgrade design team to our Partner Alliance

• Website: https://upgrade-designs.com/
• Their ANN thread
• $OPEN is accepted as one of payment method there

Exchangers do their business and what we do care about is Bitcoin network. Fortunately, Bitcoin is decentralized and many nodes around the world so even if all nodes in the USA are broken by nuclear attack ie. Bitcoin network will still be fine. Blockchain data is safe and stored in other nodes.

If a nuclear war happens, the whole world will be in serious crisis, not only crypto or Bitcoin market. Don't talk about Bitcoin only in that scenario.

I don't discuss about nuclear war because it will be like the end of human civilization. I would like to discuss about any other reason that causes all nodes in one country are disabled. Bitcoin network will be able to adjust its difficulty after each 2016 block (that is around 14 days). After a few difficult retargets, network will be able to run normally again. No worry.

It depends on how you see it but in my opinion, it fits in both boards. Fits in Meta because it relates to donation and fits in Bitcoin discussion because it relates to very first exchange of Bitcoin for physical thing (raw Thai honey).

I know the first is the hardest thing but these trades of El Cabron are still one of earliest classic trades of Bitcoin. Especially it was initiated on Bitcointalk forum that is made by satoshi, the founder of Bitcoin.

By this growth and bigger circle, its value is higher.

Maybe I am stupid to learn new things but honestly I get f*cked on Reddit as I don't understand how it works. Initially, I think karma is something like merit but how it is rewarded or decayed/ deducted is what I can't understand. I spent a little time to check how people got Karma and shocked that many Karma earned from funny posts, shit posts then I stopped using Reddit.

I joined two other cryptocurrency forums: bitcoingarden and cryptotalk (when they run a signature campaign here that made me curious) but honestly, those forums have very low quality. I can not find knowledgeable members like on Bitcointalk.

Twitter is funny and I have my Twitter account, but only for work. Indeed, my account is mostly inactive.

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In short, most of my online time is on this forum and Telegram (for my moderation job).

Today by an coincidence, I remembered of something, noticed something and after checking, I found a surprising event from the past.

I know many members in this forum and around the world should know of Bitcoin Pizza Day. That started in this forum

• Pizza for bitcoins ?. It was in 2010.

Two years later, another member (VIP), El Cabron made another classic trade offer.

• Raw Thai Honey (First 40 BTC of profits go to the forum!) 8 KG for sale!
• Many members had their trades with the VIP member but there is no confirmed post from El Cabron that all sales are enough to get 40 BTC. Eventually the user had enough BTC for donation and get the VIP badge by one way or another trading

Message:

• Use case and utility of Bitcoin increase with time. That means its value increases a lot.
• Such deals are classic and shocking in the past but now, if you make such one, it is very normal.

A random dig in to the past of forum and Bitcoin.  

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I don't know Meta or Bitcoin discussion is a best board for this topic. I see both fits with the content. For now, I leave it in Meta.

Yeah minor changes as I expected. In a whole picture, things don't change much (minor ones) but in local pictures, there are. However, if a whole picture is good enough, the forum is fine.

If you recommend bitcoin.org, you should recommend

• Bitcoincore.org
• Bitcoin Wiki
• Very official and legit resources to learn about Bitcoin.

The silence of merit shuffle is one of reasons I did not regularly visit merit source page as I often did before the latest reshuffle wave.

I guess not. If something happens, it would be very minor or small changes in current merit sources and / or adding very little new merit sources. As I recall, there are very little merit source applications recent months.

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theymos has many criteria and total distributed merit per month by all merit sources to consider and make any changes for merit sources and monthly smerit allocations for them. Such as

• Distribution changes in local boards or local threads.
• Ratio of total merited posts/ total posts monthly
• Rate of merit per merited posts in general and over boards
• And more

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After 5 years here, should I apply to be a merit source and join the gang 

1 year and I come back.

• Honestly, I did not check merit sources page in many months
• So I don't know when the latest change was made
• But the update is, currently "there are 110 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 33989 sMerit per 30 days"
• It is minor change compares to 1 year ago, in July 2021. I guess 1 merit source was removed.

You did not understand about history of merit system and what I meant.

In the past, very different context

• There are less merit sources than now and less total monthly smerit allocation for merit sources. Let's check.
  
  • Merit source observations
  • Currently, 33989 smerits allocate to 110 merit sources. That is much bigger than 11975 in March 2018 (3 months after the kick-off of merit system), according to merit sources page
• Rule of supply, as you have more, you distribute more and lowering your standard.
• As @Welsh mentioned, there are context and conditions, if you don't include them in your analysis, results will be distorted and readers will misunderstand your message (or even you write it not correctly) not correct enough.
  
  • Example: assume total merit distribution from Legendary members to Newbies members increases 50% in August. Do you conclude that Legendary members suddenly have more love for newbies.
  • It might be or might be not. If total smerit for merit sources increase 50%, that can be a real reason, not increase of love at all.

Direct link to check with Stable coins category on Coingecko

• https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/stablecoins

If anyone wants to see a comparison of trading volume growth amongst some stablecoins, let's check

• Stable coins - Price, volume history and changes with bitcoin fluctuations

From Coingecko's stats, BUSD from Binance is at third position and is a little bit less than USDC. It is a significant achievement for Binance and BUSD if you know other exchanges mostly don't support BUSD. They want to fight seriously against Binance.

It's very hard to get trading pairs for altcoin/ BUSD on non-Binance exchanges.

Recently, the topic of Lauda's termination (Goodbye world!) has been warmed up again that combines with some scam accusation I read, I suddenly remember about ICOEthics

The user was one of the most actively and best scam fighters in the past and has a website. Suddenly, since July 2019, turned to inactively and never come back.

Anyone knows what happened with ICOEthics, please share!

In addition, I think the 3 years unresponsive is enough to put the user into the Bitcointalk's Hall of fame. Obviously I wish that the user is still fine in real life.