They do not really need to fight, authoritarian governments do not really care about the opinion of the public and can make any decision, no mater how extreme it is.

I assume that by "battle" and "war", you mean disagreement or dispute. Countries would not go to actual war because of their opinions on bitcoin, that would not make any sense. A disagreement or dispute could happen depending on how bitcoin evolves over the years. At this present state of how bitcoin is perceived countries would not bat an eyelid, no matter what decision different nations make on it.

You can use Modlog to monitor deleted posts/threads, nuked users etc. It doesn't directly give info on the board posts was deleted, you would have to research on it, using the available information.

Accounts can be woken up for such activities. Could mean they were sold off or the user forgot about then and just put them to use.

The video had a bit of humor, but beyond that the vast majority of it were baseless statements that would easily be debunked with the slightest research.

The truth there would be the part about presidential napkins and how the government wants to maintain strict control over how people use money, and also the volatility part.

I would assume that due to how members of the forum perceive 1xBit participants it could be possible that their spam posts would be more noticeable around the various boards and would lead them to be reported more often and have their posts more frequently deleted.

Those deleted posts were not fine in quality and must have been deleted for good reason. If more posts from a certain campaign were deleted more often, that will be a sign that the participants are shitposting alot.

1) It depends on your preference. If you are not to privacy cautious, you can purchase on a reputable centralized exchange like coinbase or binance. Buying up to one BTC would trigger some KYC requirement and could lead to your details being sent to the authorities.
You have an alternative to buy on peer-to-peer platforms like hodlhodl or bisq. They are more private than centralized exchanges, but have less liquidity.

2) You can stake it, but it is not worth the risk involved.

I do not think so. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) only has authority for operations within the region, and can only act on regulated platforms.

You can, through unregulated exchanges. This however poses significantly more risks. DYOR.

You should still be able to sell. The ban prevents regulated exchanges from selling to retail investors.

I don't have expert experience on SEO marketing, but I believe the would have to do a whole lot of work inorder to get ranked up in search engines this way;
• Make more of such posts around the forum, and,
• Get lots of traffic to those posts and get more engagement.

Simoly starting a thread and replying to it, is not enough to get higher ranks in search engines.

Ideally, any user who constantly posts trash on the forum should eventually be banned permanently after warning bans.
I do not think there should be a special rule for participants of a signature campaign, up to a certain extent. There is a rule to users getting banned for spamming even though it is not being strictly followed.

Has 1xBit reached the extent to attract special attention from the admins? I will say Yes.
• It is an obvious scam site,
• It is running a spam campaign on the forum.

Such local rules cannot be enforced, IMO.

A $10 purchase is definitely possible, although with the fees on exchanges it might not be worth it to buy such amounts.
Also, if you do decide to buy whatever amount of bitcoin, always move them out to a non custodian wallet after purchase to protect your assets and truly own them, since Not your keys; Not your coins.

It is somewhat ironic that they could attempt to launder such amounts, but could not figure out a safer way of storing private keys or recovery seeds, besides storing it online.

This should be determined after the money have been successfully recovered, although I think if the scammed users are to be refunded, it would be done with the exchange rate at the time of the incident and not now.[/list]

Believing in bitcoin 12 years ago would gave taken a lot as most people were vary wary of scams and also accustomed to the general way of transacting and what is accepted as money. Bitcoin is quite technically complicated and with zero or no value then, there was no incentive for anyone to actually take out their time to study.
Wikipedia and all those who wrote off bitcoin would wish they have not, but it is not too late to get in.

It might be important to note that there were no hundreds of thousands of users back then and wiki would have likely sold off long before now.

There are lots of possible ways bitcoin could be utilized in the future for it to run efficiently, but it has to retain the main essence of the network which attracted the core bitcoiners.
Hal Finney's prediction could very well work out, same with the other possibilities.

Thinking more about this, if we expect on chain transactions to replace mining reward, then would that not discourage a lot of people from actually transacting with bitcoin? Considering how much it would cost to mine, I would not want to fund that with my fee on buying a product online.
I am confident that in the coming years the system would adjust for the inevitable situation where there would be no more bitcoins to be mined, maybe through second layer solutions as you suggested, but that could potentially present a problem as well.

Not necessarily. Leaving any situation where you feel you are underpaid is always the best option. I however think the idea of becoming an entrepreneur should not be oversold, it is a huge risk as well as lots of work.
Simply jumping out of your job would not work out for everybody, an alternative would be to start whatever venture you wish to get into and juggle that with your job, this way you have some sort of security, although it gives you less time.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with working remotely. It is gradually becoming the new norm.

Little Mouse said they have read the book and ideally anyone should personally try out any tool they plan to use to introduce someone else to a new technology such as bitcoin. In addition to this you should always be as realistic as possible; I could be very optimistic about the bitcoin market, but I will not want to show that optimism when discussing it with someone else, I will rather discuss the positives and drawbacks of the technology, giving you enough information to make an informed decision.

This in my opinion described what bitcoin is in essence; it is P2P system which does not need a third party, the purpose of this transaction is not defined. There definitely has to a reason behind a transaction.

Bitcoin is a free system and essentially everyone is allowed to use it he way they want, this sometimes means that some users actually allow a third party to mediate transaction.
However, companies using bitcoin to purchase goods and services is still in line with how bitcoin was designed. Peer-to-Peer could involve Individual-to-Individual, Business-to-Business, Business-to-Individual, et al.

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Governments attempting to regulate bitcoin is a secondary effect of its adoption and usage, and not necessarily caused by businesses.

AFAIK, it only locks the account if the secret question option is active and the one put in is correct. This was not suggested as a means to recover the account, but rather to lock it in order to prevent any damage to the account.

Both might be necessary in some situations to prove ownership, but based on the admin's discretion, just an email from the original account can suffice.

Did you visit the link LoyceV posted in their first message on this thread? It contains all the necessary information you would need to recover your account;

Send an email to that address, and as noted, a signed message would likely be required.
If it does not work there is not much you can do, as it likely means the recovery team were not convinced you are the actual owner of the account.

A signed message is one of the most trusted means of proving ownership of an account.
The email could have been compromised without the user changing it, in that case, the original user could simply reset the password through the email and then change it logging off all other related sessions.

Alternatively, if that does not work, try resetting password using secret question as that would automatically lock the account and prevent the hacker from causing any more damage.

While trying to maintain utmost safety, we also have to consider creating a contingency option should something happen to you, that someone you want to can inherit your assets. We definitely would not want our funds to be completely lost in case on an untoward circumstance.

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This story is a sad one, but not really surprising in the present day, greed and addictions can easily push someone to situations that make them desperate such as debt.
It is a god thing the dad is safe and alive.