Did you back up your phone with your google account? If yes, you can try by logging in via gmail, go to sign in & security, next look for signing into google and click 2-step verification(Change Phone).
For new phone: you can check your back up account in your settings to verify if you have click the auto back up my data.

Lowering requirements is a big NO and it was already discussed before.
Read most recent related topic: Why is it complicated to get merits

I'm sorry, I know this is a serious discussion, but, this one is below the built. We have our different opinions in life and we should respect what we believe in. Right thing to one person may not be right to another.

Una, ano yung point mo po at nag-english ka pa? local board naman to pwede ka magtagalog pag mga ganitong issues(Or gusto mo talagang maintindihan ng mga ibang lahi ang point mo kabayan?).

Pangalawa, At bakit need pa itanung kung in favor? Hindi ako pabor dun kabayan, malamang hindi tayo papayag nun kasi parang tinanggalan tayo ng karapatan na ipahayag sa sarili nating wika ang nalalaman natin about bitcoin. Mas maganda ipahayag mo ang alam mo sa bitcoin sa sarili mong wika. Mas madali i-explain kung sarili nating wika ang gamit.

Pangatlo, Nasa atin nayang issue na yan kung magpapa-apekto tayo. Kung iisipin niyo na mahina tayo at shitposter lang tayo wala talagang mangyayari sa ating mga pinoy. It's all in your minds kabayan. ipakita natin na hindi tayo ganun.

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Credits din nmn kay Dabs and Rick na inaayus ang ating local board. Panget kasi ng ganitong issue na post mo kabayan parang sinasabi mo na walang ginagawa ang moderators dito. Alam ko hindi mo yun intinsyun pero iba kasi impact ng ganito at english mo pa, parang meron kang pinaparinggan kabayan.

Alam naman ng karamihan sa Forum na Pinoy ako bakit wala naman silang issue saken? at hindi naman ako napagsasabihan ng mga ganyang bagay. My mga naging kaibigan na nga ako dito kahit na naging active lang ako nitong March 2018. At hindi naman naging problema saken ang issue na yan para ipahayag ang gusto ko at nalalaman ko about bitcoin sa ibang lahi. Kaya dapat tayo mismo dito magtulungan bilang isang Bansa. Dito pa lang dapat ipakita natin na meron tayong quality post kahit tagalog lang ang gamit.

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At kung titingnan niyo madaming umiiyak na pinoy about sa merit system. Wag tayo maging ganun, hayaan lang natin. Paulit ulit kong sinasabi sa ibang lahi na wag isipin ang merit system kasi kahit ako nagsimula sa wala as in Zero lamang kababayan. Basta alam mo lang kung san ka papasok at alam mo yung pinaguusapan madali ang merit. Just like what Rick said: isipin niyo na office ito, mas maganda kung papasok ka na alam mo yung issue sa isang usapan kesa sa papasok ka na walang alam at nakita mo na paulit ulit na lang ang issue, wag mo na lang patulan or wag mo ipapasok like " I agree" or kahit anung words para maipasok mo lang.
Plus factor ang meron kang alam at nagreresearch ka talaga sa isang bagay kahit na yung English mo ay hindi ganun kagaling basta alam mo ang sinasabi mo, ang importante naiintindihan ka ng tao.
Kaya natin ito. Isang Bansa! Mabuhay ang Bansang Pilipinas!

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Be Positive

What I mean about grading system=motivation in my reply, don’t take it literally.

Hi,ibininja,

I can see that you're lucky to have 10 merits, some users started with none. I do not think lowering merit requirements can help us, consider it as our grading system in a University, you need to gain more informations to have higher grades or to move to your senior years. In addition, considered yourself lucky cause in Universities you need to pay them for your additional knowledge, while here, you do not need to pay bitcointalk to learn, you just need to help yourself earn knowledge not merit. My tip is just easy: learn to earn. Good luck and see you around.

A woman gets on a bus with her baby.
The bus driver says: ''Ugh, that's the ugliest baby I've ever seen!''

The woman walks to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming.
She says to a man next to her: ''The driver just insulted me!''
The man says: ''You go up there and tell him off. Go on, I'll hold your monkey for you.''

Since we are the future of financial system, there are some issues with bitcoin scalability, why? Because, blockchains are slow & expensive. If you have notice, when you send some bitcoins to exchange, they would receive it like 10mins. or more & you have paid a high transaction fee just to speed it up. If you apply it in a real world, it will not work. I will just use my visa to buy then.  That is the problem of our bitcoin, and lighting network is the idea that can solve scalability of the blockchains. Its idea is not all of your transactions are recorded on the blockchain.
If you would visualized, we can bypass the recording process on the blockchain and help it by carrying them off the chain. In layman’s term, we will open a payment channel between us and record its opening on the blockchain. Imagine a SDB (safety deposit box) wherein two people deposited amounts of money “and” each put a lock (sounds like a “bank”, right? SDB plus joint account). After the account opening, we can transact anytime thru our payment channel, it will stay for decades, unless we will end our contract or close our channel (that’s the time we will touch again the blockchain).
By then we can write our final rights of transactions that happened thru our channel on the blockchain, we are bound with promise of ownership. So, we only go to the blockchain upon account opening & closing of our payment channel.

Simple example:
theyoungmillionaire bought a phone worth 1.7 BTC from Daboy_Lyle and payment will be done via BTC, since:
theyoungmillionaire & TMAN have a payment channel, and TMAN & Daboy_Lyle also with a payment channel. theyoungmillionaire can pay Daboy_Lyle thru TMAN.
TMAN will send 1.7 BTC to Daboy_Lyle and theyoungmillionaire will refund TMAN with 1.7 BTC.

By these, we can offload transactions on the blockchain, thus, we can release up the chain’s bandwidth. Transactions is going to happen at lightning speed (That is why it is called lightning network), By means of a network of payment channels, millions of transactions occurred, and that too without a heavy transaction fee (NO FEE FTW).  

Sources:
LN, LN explained, BTC lightning, LN video, illustration, highly anticipated LN, Lightning papers

In my opinion, rootstock will soon help shape the future of bitcoin blockchain. The connection to Bitcoin is the most significant feature of this technology. We all know that bitcoin is the most widely used cryptocurrency in the world, with its popularity & security these will be the edge of RSK compared to other smart contracts. Another thing is that, it does not need extra power in terms of mining; I know it will not affect me (I am not a miner), but it is good for our nature (which is we live in). What about you?

Read more:RSK vs ETH

Is it going to change Bitcoin forever? Or there will be something that will emerge from inside the Bitcoin ecosystem? Your thoughts.

Sources:
RSK White Paper, Review, RSK, Smart Contracts, RSK Mines, Guide, Smart Contracts effect, What differs between BTC upcoming RSK, What on Earth is a Smart Contract

The Silk Road seized and the downfall of Mt.Gox

Silk Road is the first modern darknet market. Derived from a historical network of trade routes, which started during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) between Europe, India, China, and countries on the Afro-Eurasian landmass. Started in February 2011, a booming online marketplace, and founded by Ross Ulbricht, a darknet market operator, known alias “Dread Pirate Roberts”. Ross as some article say American former drug trafficker, some people say he is a visionary who wants anonymity, maximize political freedom and independence, emphasizing freedom of choice, voluntary association, and individual judgment; they believe in every individual rights. He also has some business failures before Silk Road.

It produced millions of dollars in revenue, secret was simple: ensuring the anonymity of its buyers and sellers. You can access it through Tor, software that renders anonymous on the internet and as a tool for uncensored communication to Internet users. Primarily, buyers could register free, but there were a limited number of new seller accounts available; new sellers had to purchase an account thru an auction. Later, a fixed fee for each new seller account to mitigate the possibility of malicious individuals distributing tainted goods, the site had 10,000 products for sale by vendors[read].

Bitcoin is the primary mode of payment, fiat to bitcoin then btc to Silk Road account, if there is a transaction the buyer’s btc will be escrow; when the buyer confirmed the legitimacy of the purchased, seller’s account will be credited. Despite its highly anonymous features, in October 2013 the U.S. Government shut it down. Intersection between the Bitcoin housed on the site, valued at tens of millions of U.S. dollars, and a key crime-fighting tool: the federal asset forfeiture program. As soon as the United States seized Silk Road, it also, by virtue of technological fiat (and, apparently, some clumsiness on the part of Ulbricht), seized the bitcoins housed therein. This included Ulbricht’s staggering personal bitcoin supply (about 150,000 BTC), accumulated through the healthy commission Silk Road took from all sales, as well as all of the bitcoins held by its many users or housed in the aforementioned escrow accounts (about 30,000 BTC). This meant that if a drug-seeking Silk Road user tried accessing the site after the shutdown, he would, to his likely dismay, be redirected to an FBI-generated shutdown notice. In addition, all of the bitcoins he may have stored on Silk Road would also be gone, seized by the government as part of efforts to forfeit all of the bitcoins held in Silk Road accounts. Short discussion by the federal asset forfeiture program[read].

Silk Road Seize lessons: Ross was just clumsy: agreed to be interviewed by Forbes, under the show of the Dread Pirate Roberts, in the summer of 2013, revealing enough of himself to law enforcement to pierce Silk Road’s veil. As Michael Neilsen suggests, the claim that Bitcoin can be used anonymously—the claim that drove the very formation of Silk Road and other marketplaces that specialize in illegal goods—is a myth. “The block chain is public,” Neilsen argues, and “although Bitcoin addresses aren’t immediately associated with real-world identities, computer scientists have made a great deal of progress figuring out how to de-anonymize ‘anonymous’ social networks.

If FBI agents can trace the flow of the Silk Road bitcoins—or, simpler still, exploit civil forfeiture to make such tracing unnecessary—proponents of Bitcoin (particularly those who seek to use Bitcoin to facilitate criminal activity) will be forced to adjust accordingly. By virtue of the blockchain, the backbone of the Bitcoin ecosystem, Bitcoin may never be as anonymous or untraceable as it purports to be. Ironically, as Neilsen aptly suggests, Bitcoin is “perhaps the most open and transparent financial instrument the world has ever seen.” The Silk Road episode stands as evidence that existing legal structures such as asset forfeiture currently have the power to contain Bitcoin. U.S. Marshalls auction off the bitcoins from the Silk Road forfeiture, we are left to question whether this newfangled crypto-currency is any different, from a legal perspective, from an old fashioned pile of cash.

MtGox downfall.  MtGox was a bitcoin exchange based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, as the largest bitcoin intermediary and the world's leading bitcoin exchange. MTGox stands for "Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange” founded by Jed McCaleb, now the most controversial figure in cryptocurrency and hated due to its issue with XRP. The exchange handled millions of dollars’ worth of transactions a day, just like a traditional “forex” trading platform. When BTC is sent from one public key address to another (sender used private key), funds cannot be retrieved unless the receiver physically sends the funds back (using own private key). This feature of Bitcoin is the core of its almost-totally protected transaction system, while MtGox’s exchange system avoided this security feature for the sake of accessibility and speed. This arrangement, called a web wallet, is the similar as Silk Road, meaning the private keys is with MTGox, and the only thing keeping MtGox from stealing the funds was, ironically, the prevention of legal action on the basis of contract law or criminal law. It is considered “the worst of both worlds” since it joint the irreversibility of BTC transactions (once you sent your BTC to MtGox, only MtGox could ever send it back to you) with none of the highly developed regulatory protections of the traditional financial services system. Even though users “owned” the BTC they had sent to their MtGox wallets, their claim to ownership was secured only by a simple contract—the user agreement.

In early 2014 it dramatic collapse. In February 2014, Mt. Gox suspended trading, closed its website and exchange service, and filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors. In April 2014, the company began liquidation proceedings. The disappearance of more than $400 million worth of bitcoin from MtGox, and its subsequent collapse, many Bitcoin users left with no option other than to trust the traditional legal system for relief. Whether the collapse triggered by hacking or mismanagement, its effect on customers is the same: they are unable to retrieve their funds.  Mizuho had been trying to shut down MtGox’s account for months before the collapse, and now that it is theoretically liable for the exchange’s errors, other banks who deal with Bitcoin businesses are proceeding cautiously. Bitcoin’s largest exchange and its customers have become involved in legal actions is clear evidence that the traditional legal system will continue to dominate dispute resolution for Bitcoin users.

Like Silk Road case, it proves that current legal tools like asset forfeiture can be adapted to Bitcoin’s supposedly cutting-edge usage, and MtGox case displays that bankruptcy and class actions can be applied to Bitcoin denominated business disputes.  Some developers are moving forward with systems based on Ricardian contracts (“smart contracts”) and multi-signature cryptography, application of these technologies would be a peer-to-peer exchange.

Bitcoin, in order to continue its challenge to our old financial system, it must cope up with and react to our traditional legal structures; either that or it must progress beyond them. As Bitcoin grows in popularity, so does the law’s interest in being able to reach it just like Silk Road and MT.Gox.  

Your thoughts? If you have more knowledge about these historical events, kindly reply. Let us learn together.  

Sources:
Silk Road, Ross, Libertarianism, Cyber-takings, Lessons, MTGox, Jed, FCK/YOU Money, Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, Academic Exercise, multi-billion dollar system

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This topic is a challenged by TMAN:
It is a summary of what I have learned about Silk Road and Mt.Gox.
I do not own most of it.  

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Silk Road. The first modern dark net market, achieved notoriety. Subsequently shut down by the FBI who then auctioned confiscated bitcoins while MTGox was a bitcoin exchange based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, as the largest bitcoin intermediary and the world's leading bitcoin exchange.In February 2014, Mt. Gox suspended trading, closed its website and exchange service, and filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors. In April 2014, the company began liquidation proceedings. MTGox stands for "Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange" and Ross (Ross Ulbricht) is the creator of Silk Road. Ross is an American former drug trafficker and darknet market operator, known under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts".

Sources:
terminology
Mt._Gox
Ross

I was about to correct OP, then I have seen your reply. I appreciate your way of correcting people here, TMAN. Very motivational.
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Exactly, there is no easy money. I respect your opinion about MLM. My Parents joined MLM, and they work very hard to achieve their status now. After a devastating typhoon that ruined our family business, Pama decided to try MLM because we do not have anything left but to try. I am against it at first cause we are already too late, there are so many people joined in, but Pama are very eager to try.  After my work, instead of going home, I sell products to help my parents. We grind day and night for 7 years to have a comfortable life now and it is not easy, my friend.
I am sorry, my friend (aleksej996 & suchmoon), if I have offended you in some way, nothing to blame but greediness of some people.

Happiness is a matter of perspective in life; we define our own happiness, and it is not just a feeling, but also a choice. I enjoy having more money and to become immortal; and other people do not enjoy having more money & being immortal. Happiness of one person may not be a happiness to another. These quality features of pleasure is what motivates some people to never give up and some people to give up in the diverse circumstances of life.

We already got a system that says:
Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days.
Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.

Since we have this system + Merit system, I may suggest that only members with 100+ merits can reply in such topic. At least we can use our existing system rather than to copy on other forums system.

Additional workload for moderators is not necessary.

EDIT: I have also read about Newbie Jail, we can implement it again.

Multi-level-Marketing is a business for people who wants to attain a better quality life; you can start with a lowest investment, example is Avon. People can earn through direct selling. Building your own team, and by teaching your sales team members to duplicate your efforts can make them leaders.

This article sums up my thoughts about MLM: Is Network Marketing Just a Scam?

Network marketing is a legitimate business. First, it's based on providing people with real, legitimate products they need and want at a fair price. While some people do make a lot of money through network marketing, their financial benefit is always the result of their own dedicated efforts in building an organization that sells real products and services.

Pyramids are illegal and are based on taking advantage of people. For a person to actually make money in a pyramid scheme, someone else has to lose money. But in network marketing, each person can multiply his or her efforts, skills and talents by helping others be successful. Network marketing has proved itself as part of the new economy and a preferred way to do business here and around the world.

Network marketing isn't a get-rich-quick scheme. Of course some people do make large amounts of money very quickly. Many would say those people are lucky. But success in networking isn't based on luck. (Unfortunately, money won't sprout wings and fly into your bank account no matter what someone has promised you.) Success in network marketing is based on following some very basic yet dynamic principles.

Now let's discuss what network marketing is. Network marketing is a serious business for serious people. It's a proven system where the design, creation and expense the corporate team has gone through becomes a road map for your own success. Just follow the simple, proven and duplicable system that the good companies provide.

I know we cannot save everyone, and it is his or her choice, I have so much hope for humanity

Pyramid is just a structure, i.e., the banking pyramid structure from top to bottom: Bank Owner, Shareholders, Middle Management, Lower Management, Head/Supervisor and the hardworking Regular Employee (Rank and file), and business courses are more educated about MLM, most of the universities has a subject or topic about Multi-Level-Marketing. There are still many legit MLM Company; you just need to choose very carefully in joining them. If you would look working pyramid, and MLM are just the same, people at the top earn most of the money. But, the difference is, when you work in the working pyramid you don’t have a chance to earn CEO’s income while in MLM you can have a chance to earn CEO’s income, if you work hard.

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Yes. Nevertheless, at least we can start talking to some educational institutions to include bitcoin or cryptocurrency as a subject in business courses. I already talked to five of my associates (university faculties), and they are aware of the said issues circulating about bitcoin; and learned that universities are looking to incorporate cryptocurrency as a subject now, which is a good sign for us bitcoin enthusiast.