It looks like you did not read the OP or what other people are discussing. It will be fine if you can read it now. Because your post is different from OP and what is being discussed.

Thank you for proving me link to sirius. I checked the profile and I discovered that he did not get much merits and trusts like Theymos and Satoshi. It was only Theymos that trusted him as "co-creator of bitcointalk"

Good, I clicked the link to the sourceforge but it is not reachable again. Since the first is no longer existing, it is correct to say that the one existing is the oldest.

After I made this post Test your forum knowledge People did not contribute much because I did not do it well. I did not put the questions in objective form. So I was determined to make research. I decided to start from outside the forum to know what people outside the forum say or know about the forum. I separate different websites and outline the important things they said about this forum. I tried to put some important things they said in quote so that we can note them. I also ask questions in red colour anywhere I was confused.

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Coinmarketcap.com
1. It did not recognise Bitcointalk as the largest Bitcoin Forum.

2. It did not recognise Bitcointalk as the oldest Bitcoin Forum.

3. However it recognised Bitcointalk as the most popular online Bitcoin Forum.

4. It said that Satoshi lost the first forum which he was using a to post about bitcoin development.  A SourceForge forum.  That Sirius (could it be this Cyrus) provided hosting for the present day Bitcointalk we know.

5.  It also said that the diversity of languages in Bitcointalk is one of the reason it became so large.

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Wikipedia(Campus afrika.com)
1. They have a decent definition of bitcointalk.

2. It said that the first Bitcoin transaction happened in this forum, which is the popular 10,000 Bitcoin for pizza.
I searched for this thread.
Pizza for bitcoins?
Is this actually the first bitcoin transaction?

3. It said that the cryptocurrency slang HODL originated from this forum.
Could it be this thread?
I AM HODLING
4. It raised the concern about scam and said that traded accounts are used to scam people.

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Meet bunch.com
1. It says that most ICOs promotes their projects here. That bitcointalk is ethereum first announcement platform. (happy and wonderful to me that I discovered this)

2. It describes the forum very well. It talked about merit, activity, trust, spam reduction, signature and bounty campaign, evil fees, copper membership, ANN threads and more.

3. It said something about the importance and dangers of seed account but I don't understand what seed account means even after the explanation below.help

4. In conclusion it agrees that bitcointalk is the oldest forum and that it is still reputable till date.

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Bitcoinwiki
1. It says Theymos is the admin but the domain name is owned by Sirius.
^QuestionIf Sirius decides to take his domain as the owner, can he or he can no longer temper with it, just as Satoshi can no longer temper with bitcoin?
2. It said the forum had before being hosted as bitcoin.org/SMF. In July 2011 it was moved to Bitcointalk.org to make it unofficial. But there was still a strong marriage of link between Bitcoin.org and Bitcointalk.org until recently.

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References:
https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/bitcointalk
https://zims-en.kiwix.campusafrica.gos.orange.com/wikipedia_en_all_nopic/A/Bitcointalk
https://www.meetbunch.com/the-bitcointalk-guide
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BitcoinTalk

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Acknowledgement:
I acknowledge everybody that encouraged me when I made Test your forum knowledge
Now I have known what outsiders say about bitcointalk.org I will continue another phase of research.

Please what do you mean here. You mean that many 1 megabyte blocks were filled to only 25% before the block is solved?

If what I say above is what you mean, how does it lag transaction.

For the borrow mata, na $equivalent of bitcoin dem dey borrow, no be bitcoin himself. Dem dey always tie bitcoin to dollar or any other fiat in terms of borrow borrow. So, e no matter weda bitcoin rice or fall.

My people, na today I discover here.
I know say I dey welcomed.
I thank all of una wey done dey make here happen before now. Una too much.
Proverb: Na foolish person wey no know say em brother na visitor.
Meaning: Some people dey regard strangers pass their people. As you get visitor, entertain your brother join. Anything you do for stranger or visitor do more for your brother because African proverb talk say "if corpse begin smell, friend wey big pass brother go run"

Small groups of people just as people join and leave LN channels?

Any change in Bitcoin protocol requires a hard fork and it won't happen unless there is a pretty good reason for it. There is not enough reason to add blind signatures to Bitcoin.
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Ok. I understand. Maybe as time goes on there might be need for it.

Maybe the address can be seen to certify the protocol rule but there would be kind of decryption to know whose address. Which will be permitted by by Alice ( as the author)
Is there any kind if centralization in ethereum PoW? which I perceived will be the bad choice you meant.

I already asked some questions in this thread. In order not to flood here, I decided to add three questions in one thread. I apologise if the questions don't meet standard.

Question one- Volatility question:
I understand that bitcoin volatility is caused by demand and supply. Then, there is fixed 21million supply, if the 21million bitcoin is mined, will it make bitcoin price to be stable? Because there will be no more demand, there will be no more supply. The bitcoin in circulation will keep circulating.

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Question two- PoW question:
Bitcoin and Ethereum uses the PoW consensus. Why does ethereum now process transactions faster than bitcoin. This is without consideration of sig wit or beacon chain.

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Question three- blind signature question:

Alice is a vendor that made her address publicly alongside her real name. Bob buys something and pays Alice through bitcoin. Bob will be able to link Alice address to her real identity.

Since blind signature says a resulting blind signature can be publicly verified against the original(unblinded message). Why does bitcoin not make Alice address disguised(blinded) to Bob and yet it can be verified by miners or checked on explorer. By this Alice can be completly anonymous. Is it not compatible or it is not making sense?

Poker player, the word I used I withdraw it. But if you really feel what we feel you will use it more. This place we come from, we are being f*ucked everyday by our leaders. Our currency is valueless, our lives do not matter. The law is for the poor, the rich is immune. Our voices no one hear, our story is painted so black outside our country. We do not have option but to bow to the powers that be. The same power will search your phone, if wallet is seen in your phone you will be arrested. If vpn app is seen, you will be arrested. Bitcoin is showing us the right way and we trust bitcoin.

NEW TOPIC: How bitcoin make Africa youths escape sapa.

Bitcoin don give young people job pass their government for Africa. Dem dey call African countries, number 3 contries base on say dem no development or open eyes, wey be sey na their leaders cause am. People wey sapa dey hold sara for Africa. Na this wala make African youth dey like second hand for their mates eyes.
If the youths say make dem do cross country business, dem go pay tire. If dem say make dem save, their money go dey run down anyhow.
Sapa been hold African youths before bitcoin come open their eyes.
See how African youths dey take see money for bitcoin.

WORK FOR MANY
Bitcoin don give people wey get skills to write for people, build website, market bitcoin SEO and plenty, the opportunity to make money.

BITCOIN DIGGING
Upon say Africans no too discover how to dig get bitcoin early wey money dey inside, dem now dey follow crowd dey dig with their computer power to quench hunger.

BITCOIN INVEST
Africans wey buy bitcoin holam, don cash out big, especially this period wey bitcoin run go up like bull.

BITCOIN TRADING
E come be like say na this one sure pass for Africans. E don give plenty people money well well. Some still lose base on say dem dey trade second hand coins and dey enter trade wey dem no see for eyes. Person need sabi trade before beta money go comot from here.

BITCOIN PAYMENT GATE
Now wey be say many companies don dey accept bitcoin for online, another problem na to sabi how to use bitcoin buy or sell. Africans wey sabi do am, dey use am cash out.

BRING AND TAKE
People wey get bitcoin go bring am collect local money, turn am around. The small small fees dem dey charge ontop na wetin some people dey carry sustain.

BORROW BITCOIN
To borrow person bitcoin na another wey to get small percentage of money ontop when the person return am. People wey dey trade fit borrow bitcoin, carry am go trade, get profit come pay back. E go come be like nobody lose.

BITCOINTALK SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN
This place wey Satoshi create dey give small number of Africans opportunity to earn bitcoin when dem carry companies signature dey waka for forum.

Bitcoin don carry liberty come Africa.

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Translation: English

Bitcoin has employed more youths than the government of some African countries. African countries are most times referred to as third world countries because of their under-development and under-civilization caused mainly by bad leadership. Africans have high level of poverty rate and unemployment. These problems made an average African youth to be inferior to his foreign mates. If the youth try to involve in international trade, they will pay high fees.  If they decide to save their money in their country’s weak currency, it will keep depreciating. An average African youth was financially vulnerable until bitcion brought liberty.
I will discuss how African youths earn a living from bitcoin.

FREELANCING
Bitcoin has given Africans with skills the opportunity to earn by creating bitcoin related contents, bitcoin digital marketing, SEO and more.

BITCOIN MINING
Many African youths did not discover or involve in bitcoin mining at the early stage that it was more profitable. The youths are now joining mining pools with whatever hash power they have to make a living out of it.

BITCOIN INVESTMENT
The buy and hodl has enriched many Africans, especially these few years that bitcoin made some successive decent bull run.

BITCOIN TRADING
This is the most popular way Africans make money from bitcoin. Trading has empowered many African youths. But the risky nature of it like trading altcoins, future trades made trading very scary to newbies and they lose money. You need skills to win here.

BITCOIN PAYMENT GATEWAY
Now that many companies are accepting bitcion as payment for online services, Africans that can create payment gateways for companies or help people purchase things on amazon, are meeting ends from bitcoin.

EXCHANGES
The problem of buying bitcoin with fiat or selling bitcion to get fiat is solved in Africa by Africans and they make money from the exchange fees.

BITCOIN LENDING
Lending bitcion to people with some percentage interest is another opportunity that Africans earn from. Traders borrow from lenders, trade with it and make profit and it becomes a win-win situation for the lenders and traders.

BITCOINTALK SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN
Bitcointalk being a bitcoin forum created by Satoshi has given a few Africans the opportunity to earn bitcoin by promoting some companies in the forum.

Bitcoin has brought liberty to Africa.

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Translation: Nigerian Local Board (pigin)

E get post wey I go make for bitcoin discussion board, I go interpret the post for pidgin put link. So that any person wey read the English version fit follow the link to come read am for the local board.
Na my small own little way to promote Naija local board.
If I drop the post here, make una try support me here.

This is very true. His influence was greater and that was why they needed his permission to effect the changes. His disappearance has done so good for bitcoin.

My brother we gas dey careful for here. This forum dey happy when dem bring person down and dem dey happy when person grow too. E just dey like Amadioha of Ozuzu. E no go know wetin go please am and wetin go vex am.
But as Oga Brainboss don talk, na wetin concern bitcoin only dem like here. As the forum name na bitcointalk.

Oxford dictionary says Liberal is "the willingness to understand and respect other people's opinions, especially when it differs from yours".
That I why I used the word. Because it seems Satoshi was not willing to understand others opinions in the thread above. That is where I drew my title from.

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Thank you for the technical exposition. Thank you mk4 and ETFbitcoin. I was thinking that since sig wit was not a hard fork, it is not regarded as a major update on the block side.

The title of the hearing does not show it is an investigation or fact finding mission. "Cleaning Up Cryptocurrency" shows that cryptocurrency has being judged before the judgement. Anyways, let us keep the hope alive.
Who or which counsels are representing bitcoin? Who will intercede for bitcoin?

Contrary to what I believed.
Knowledge speaks.
Let the guru have the final say!

I did not make this post to undermine satoshi. I cannot do that because I respect him so much. He created what I call financial revolution. He is the reason I am here today.
I asked this question because of my curiosity on why bitcoin block size was made 1mb. On wanting to know why Satoshi kept it at 1mb, I started a research and I saw a post in this forum dated 3rd October, 2010 by Jeff with username Jgarzik. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15121#msg15121 (I recommend you read it, so that you may justify my question)
Jgarzik wrote a code suggesting that the bitcoin block size should be increase to match paypal’s average transaction rate.
Few minutes later Theymos observed that applying the patch will make Jeff incompatible with other bitcoin clients.
At this time Satoshi came in in support of Theymos, see his statement.
From Satoshi’s reply you can see that he saw that there will be need to increasing the block size in the future. But he believed that it was too early for a hard fork or maybe when we get to the bridge we will cross it or some other reasons.
Jeff didn’t give up easily, he gave more reasons for the proposed increase and was actually supported by majority of the user under that thread.
What made me to question how liberal Satoshi was is, after reading this reply by caveden he didn’t change his decision.
My question:

• What did you think made Satoshi keep the block at 1mb and did not consider to change it?
• In his statement “if we get closer to needing it, we will phase it”. Will there be a time for such change again, or it has been done already?

My first attempt to use a VPN I had an ugly experience with NordVPN
It was not Nord's fault but mine. I was very amateur in cybersecurity issues.
I downloaded the NordVPN from a shared link on social media instead of their website or playstore.
They altered the domain name with hyphen(-). I didn't know, I completed the registration. Immediately some popups begin to display in my phone. I knew I was being spyed. I searched for the file source to uninstall but I couldn't find it.
I was swift to reset my phone even when my backup was not upto date. I lost data but I was safe from attack.
After the loss, I re-examined the url and notice it has a security encryption https: but it was still malicious.
But I am using the NordVPN now but not always.
I wish someone would create a topic on how to beat the cyber criminals, they are upgrading everyday.