I guess your first paragraph best explains it. I've also encountered that several times though my first time experience was hysterical. I panicked. It went from me thinking someone had hijacked my account to thinking the forum had suddenly disappeared (as in, dumped by the admins/owner). With time (each time it came up again) I realized either of the two you mentioned could be the most reoccurring cause for that. This day when I encounter such I just close the site and wait a few minutes before trying again. So far, it has worked wonders because there's nothing much to it to bother anyone.

Check the date on theymos' post and what it was addressed to, you would realized that both situations aren't the same.

It's the Number 1 money-man on earth at the moment we're talking about here. Definitely he has some level of clout, whether we want to admit it or not. Money is the name of this earthly game we call hustling. Elon Musk has it and just like ants to sugar, there are expectedly going to be those who will worship the soil he steps on. Yes, I don't like his guts too (just like you) and how he makes comments he doesn't linger long enough to stick to but then I give it to him that he has an ability to influence stuff. His power of influence may not be on veteran investors and traders but we can't truly say that for noob investors.

Nice one. Una wey still get grannies na treasure una get oh. Make una treasure dem now wey dem dey alive by moving close to dem and relate wella. Na una go benefit am pass. From time to time sef make una groove dem join. BTC money too much, e nor dey finish 😆

I already did 😆

I really don't think that what KingsDen did in that question to OP was bad or wrong. It was rhetorical and only OP can figure that out. Again, come to think of it; why would anyone leave their investment decisions in the hands of complete strangers they meet online? Except you're in complete sync with someone offline before meeting them here online, I think you shouldn't rely completely on what they say to form your decision. OP shouldn't just rely on whatever

Bitcoin isn't a store of value if you asked me. This is because it's subject to fluctuations and volatility. Anything can happen to make price go wry with it. Pointedly, we've to quickly remember that there were those who bought Bitcoin at ATH in 2021 and of the fact that price has since then not gone back to that range. To those ones, I'm not sure the value of what they invested has yet been recovered. What store of value can that be then? For me, Bitcoin is best described as a speculative asset. I use stable coins as my store of value.

Variety is the spice of life. I guess it's better to have options than not and being monotonous. Several online sites which aren't even as old as BTT have the dark mode option (though I don't like using it) and it won't be a bad idea to have such implemented in this noble forum too. I've been given to understand from what I've read in this thread that there was a time a few years ago this same issue was debated. Whatever that happened that made it not see the light of the day shouldn't resurface now. Theymos should let us have that option. We should be upgrading.

Synchronice, thank you for revisiting that issue.

Well, yeah you did actually. You're old enough here to have stumbled on this warning that people shouldn't save their seedphrase or any valuable data on PC/desktop. Writing such out on paper has proved to be more reliable than storing it on mobile devices. While not trying to rub it in your face, I sincerely do hope you recover it and also that others too learn from your mistake on this. What's the feedback, OP?

However, make sure storing secret phrases doesn't involve leaving them on a PC or a mobile device, especially one connected to the Internet. Doing that leaves one vulnerable to hackers.

The list will be more endless in the future and much easier buying Bitcoin. The only issue will be that Bitcoin is likely to be more expensive then than now. As things improve and development envelops time, it becomes very easy transacting in cryptos. Imagine how difficult it was buying Bitcoin a decade ago when it debuted even at giveaway prices. Exchanges were very few then and people couldn't even know which of the exchanges to trust transacting with for fear of being scammed. Today, we've lots of exchanges and P2P outlets and groups to buy from. More will open up in future too.

Bitcoin is dead.

Yes, truly dead.

Disappointedly, a lot of people don't even know this. It's dead to FUD but naysayers who still don't want to be pacified are busy looking for its tomb. That isn't going to happen. Bitcoin is a Phoenix, literarily speaking. It has a way of rising from its perceived ashes. Price crashes or energy consumption brouhaha are things it easily dusts off. The Bitcoin obituary isn't even a thing anymore now. It was a constant thing pre-2017 when I knew about Bitcoin. Such FUD would send shivers down the spines of Bitcoin faithfuls. I'm not sure such FUD has that influence now.

I don't know if it's from my side but I like to report that the picture clarity shared by OP is blunt. I guess that's from the device used in taking the pictures or from the angle they were taken. Anyway, that's besides the issue. I observed that abuse as reported and that's very horrible to say the least. The best way to tackle such edit abuse would've been to report the user to the manager of the campaign they're in. That's if they're in a signature campaign at the time of the crime. It's not even as if they won't be in a campaign to do such. Those who aren't won't feel the rush to meet up weekly quota. Managers of BTC paying signature campaigns will care to take the matter up and scrutinize the user. I know it's a different ball game for bounty campaigns where anything goes and most bounty mangers don't even care to check their hunters. In the case of bounties, the user should be reported to mods.

But of course, it's always different strokes for different folks. What makes meaning to one may not make to another. There are investors who get scared off by the experiences of the bear season while others firm up and learn from it. For me, I think the bear season is more didactic than the bull which is fraught with a hell of noise, excitement and merriment. If one doesn't learn a thing or two during a bear season, then one isn't observant and isn't likely to profit on the long run from this industry. The current bear run is affording many investors an opportunity to get onboard while there's still time for it.

As expected, I saw most of those I believe to be influential on top. The only one I didn't find where I expected in the top 10 was TryNinja. That user's BTT SuperNotifier is a marvel for me.

I never knew there's a user (e_o_l_e_o) who could top LoyceV and also had more merits than them. A user who has this must be a robot then 🤗, judging by how active and contributive LoyceV has been.

Users like:
CryptoprenuerBrainboss is one hell of a dude whose forthrightness I admire. He has consistently shown leadership acumen at our local board (Oga theymos, abeg do make you give us this board). The Pharmacist, who's act of tough discipline comes paradoxically with tender love. Ahah! lovesmayfamilis and suchmoon are also distant but close users whose posts and actions I also find reassuring.

There are several of these users but for the want of space, I will rap it up here.

*Yeah, I know these ratings change with time and no one is irreplaceable.

You think so? You may want to do a comparative analysis of the state of minds of investors/collectors during bull and bear seasons and find out. Whether we hodl or trade, there's always that excitement that greets us when that which is in our possession begins to gain momentum, and vice versa. This is from the little that I've observed with humans.

You may not get the type of commitment you seek now that the market is bearish. Remember there's a type of silence that grips the market whenever this happens. Investors go into their shells as a way of curbing their losses and licking their wounds. You will witness more activities and exuberance during a bull rally.

Well, yes maybe OP meant something else apart from genocide according to the titled topic. However, even Tecshare mentioned "genocide" in the feedback on OP's profile. The coincidence is very striking indeed.



I agree with The Pharmacist on that. The trust system should be overhauled and the new one made in a way that the one who tags or sends a feedback on anyone's profile doesn't have the absolute power to make it remain. There should be other users who can be enabled to overwrite certain needless and senseless feedback. We've seen cases where some members had gone psychiatric, leaving careless feedbacks on others for no just reason. For instance, the feedback I had from "isoneguy" didn't even come with any evidence or reference to what he alleged. Just an insane dude with his challenges as at then according to what I read about them. Perhaps, he was depressed at the time and decided to vet it on any account he saw close by.

Seeing you mention Africa, instantly my instincts told me you were from Nigeria before I went ahead to read the parts where you mentioned in quotes some users from our local board. My instincts was from the recent happenings in the country and the security challenges where several atrocities have been attributed to unknowngunmen – UGM – for short. I reasoned anyone who could come up with such username won't be far from being a Nigerian. I'm right, then.

About the-not-so-good experience you said you had upon you entry in the local board and how your moniker allegedly sounded a wrong bell, don't take such experience to heart. I believe those brethren there were just catching cruise and didn't mean anything sinister. Usernames aren't to be taken seriously, anyway.

That reminds me of what I learnt in school years ago – What's in a name? There's another that posited that nothing has a meaning except that which man posits it to mean. By the way, what makes you think those names are even good names? Come to think of it, those names were mere common Jewish names. I've read several discussions on that online and on how they weren't christian names and I believe that to be true.

OP, your experience is almost the experience of everyone here; one way or the other. Most of us aren't still out of it. Cryptos (cry-ptos) as some have come to describe and point out the "cry" part as a near experience of peeling onions. You know what happens to the eyes when one does that, right? But of course, onion still remains an important ingredient for cooking. Cryptos, despite the ups and downs, and the loss one may suffer shouldn't be seen as a source of pain. Don't rush out like your friends have done. Take your time and calmly study it. At the end, trust me, you will be the better for it.

Well, there's not much you can do now except wait and watch paint dry. The time space you complained of isn't even anything to make you get upset and stressed out, waiting. If you were around in this industry a few years ago (even a few months ago) you would've understood what I'm saying about even 2hrs delay not being able to cause anyone panic. I've had my Bitcoin transaction delayed for over 48hrs before it was finally confirmed. During that period, I came to realize that all I needed to do was exercise patience and wait.

Sorry, I forgot to address this part when I posted here earlier. For whatever you do, you shouldn't edit or delete the OP. It may come in handy when any of those you've introduced to this place could get their wallet addresses linked and tagged as alts whereas it could be as a result of other engagements. You've to sound that warning enough to your mentees to be careful around such happening.

"This forum isn't for earning purposes alone, here we can learn." I didn't want to distort your comment with that which I felt you omitted and that was why I didn't insert it in yours. It's a given that the original plan of this forum may not be to make people earn but learn. However, fortunately the forum is fulfilling both purposes now.