It should theoretically be possible for a transaction size to exceed the block size. But the block size should be large enough to accommodate any regular transaction, so this situation hasn't been encountered (AFAIK).

If this were ever to happen, the transaction would be invalid as the blocksize can not adjust to accommodate it; The sender would have to make some changes to reduce the size.

If you are going to enter into financial dealings with a complete stranger on the internet, without much investigations, then you're almost certain to be scammed.
View eerything as a scam until proven otherwise, this would create the need to prove it to not be, before you can get involved.

Also, always use a trusted escrow when you do not trust the other party

Is there any particular reason you think this person is a Nigerian? You sounded unsure here, but went on to call them by that nationality about 3 more times.

That's the reality of the forum and I still believe it's the best approach for 2 reasons
• The forum is incapable of effectively moderating scams, attempting to handle something you can't effectively do would create lots of loop holes that would be easily exploited and the unsuspecting members who expect to be protected would fall victim.
Consider the 1xbit auction bid, theymos would normally not allow a scam campaign to be posted in banners, but was not aware of it and accepted their bid.
Better to put up warnings for members of possible scams, than giving a faux sense of security.

• Secondly, Bitcoin is a decentralized network and each person involved in it act as their own banks. This forum which is for bitcoin discussions should ideally be designed the same way, you are responsible for your security.
This is probably why a lot of the scam warnings are newbie directed as they are still getting acquainted with how the network/forum works.

I'm curious on something about this URL. Would it modify the settings on my own wallet? For example, if I set my default denomination to mBTC and someone create a transaction in BTC, would it readjust on my end, or remain as mBTC?

It's actually better for everyone to manually fill the details and double check (and double check again) before clicking send. Scanning QR codes make the process much easier and the rest isn't much of a hassle.

You are correct. I will just add that theymos after the launch of the merit system made some tweaks, which gave some hero members an additional 500 merits, making it 1000 in total.

Any board we are requesting must be similar or exactly the same as boards represented in the main forum.
Sports, vibes, music etc are all off topic discussions and 1 off topic board would cover them.
I believe crypto discuss should be split into 2, as it is in the main forum, Bitcoin discussion and Altcoin discussion.
Politics is a recurring topic of debate on this thread and would make an interesting child board as well.

No. As mentioned above, exchanges link buyers to sellers, and the exchange price is determined by the price of the last sale of that currency. There are bids (amount traders want to pay to buy) and asks (amount traders want to sell for), none of them is determined by the exchange.

Can you explain more what you mean by this question? Transactions have a momentary impact on the overall price, up until the next one. Reason why market manipulation is a huge risk as the market can simply adjuf to the previous price range after a huge dump from a whale.

Maybe newbies should not be trading.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that no one becomes perfect before their first trial, but you should be adequately prepared and know all or most of the theoretical aspect before venturing into the actual practice of trading.

• YouTube and course websites have lots of content for traders,
• There is also a trading discussion board here in the forum, look for useful tools that will be useful on your trading journey.
• Practice demo trading to get an idea of how trading is,
• Prepare yourself mentally

Great suggestions.
Firstly, AFAIK, anyone can bump a thread as far as they do not abuse the system.

About suggested boards, you also suggested good options, but I think it would depend hugely on wetin the administration think. If they one open the board without moderators then creating different child boards may be a bit much to manage, especially as other staffs no go understand pidgin English which would be accepted. In such case, a general 'everything goes' board would be preferable.

But, of course we need to already have our proposition which the admins can accept or reject, and on that note, I'm in agreement with your suggestions.

This really comes as no surprise. No matter how shady a website is, they will find users shady enough to advertise their scams, especially if the campaign protects them against the repercussions of thier actions. Some accounts are already too low in reputation to be accepted in most other campaigns, one which offers such high rates is a steal.

The review thread on the other hand has users honestly giving their own reviews, good or bad. No one would be red trusted for participating in that, except maybe 1xbit hires suck puppets to flood the thread and try to dry clean their image.

There is no system that is 100% perfect and Bitcoin does not aim to be. However on the issue of self sovereignty, who should be given the moral and legal justification to control the finances of others? And what earned then that liberty?

Banks were created cause keeping money under your bed was not feasible, but with the bank and state being virtually inseparable, how does one limit the influence of the government in their finances and do they need to? I'll answer, Yes. The level of government interference should be kept at a certain level as they have long used it as a tool to control the populace.

Fiat currencies is still the most common means of funding terrorism and scams, so there's already an existing problem there, Bitcoin beinbmore like fiat would not solve that.

We do this probably because fiat currencies are already the staple means of exchange and every other thing is valued against it. Cars, gold, houses, stocks are all priced against fiat. This does not mean any of these assets cannot be valued against each other, stocks can be sold for gold and houses for Bitcoin, they are not just popular enough or scalable enough to be used daily for all transactions as yet. In the future Bitcoin could be valued against something else, or other assets valued against it.

Not yet.

Verify that this is the user you wish to contact and I'll drop him a PM for you - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=935622
The user has not been active for a month now and it's unlikely a PM would do much to get their attention, you may have to find some other alternatives to reach them should a message here not work.

Quoting their actual username could help, if they have a notification script on.

This is a better link - https://qz.com/990229/one-of-the-worlds-largest-financial-services-firms-is-mining-bitcoins/
And here's a quote from the article about their mining activities.

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Also, the quote was taken from a Chief Executive in the company who should have inside information.

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Bitcoin is still about 12 years old, which is relatively small compared to many other financial assets. We can speculate all we want on the future price of Bitcoin, how much market cap it can absorb, or how it would become the one world currency, but that doesn't really matter.

For me, all that matters at this point in the growth of the network, is the next full node that goes live, or the next holder to trust verify the network, or the next merchant to accept bitcoin, or the next country to legalize it, or the next BIP which is implemented.

Bitcoin is a lot more than the dollar equivalent.

Public sentiment about Bitcoin or any investment shouldn't be that important to you except for trading purposes. Opinions are borne from personal interest and that changes at a heart beat. A company would change their position about Bitcoin if that position favours them and their interest would possibly not favour you:
• Always have your own opinion,
• Study the fundamentals,
• Do Your Own Research,
• Take all other opinions with a pinch of salt.

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I came across the news sometime this year or last, it was one of their executives who was quoted to have said that, they started mining Bitcoin experimentally very early on. Here's one link I could find;

There are lots of threads and replies which are very memorable for me, probably too numerous too count, I'll try to recount the few I can, and probably add more later on;

This is one of my favorite quotes from Satoshi. It may not be the exact message he was trying to pass, but it fits with people that try to criticize Bitcoin with points that are non existent.

This thread; (SSS) - A Sane and Simple Bitcoin Saving Plan. It contains lots of useful investment advice that I found very useful

The issue be say this higher rate of Ponzi and pyramidal schemes them, don make plenty Nigerians become very cautious, to the extent say them no sabi differentiate legit ones from scam. I don stand up talk about Bitcoin for different gatherings, with some people wey dey talk say cryptocurrency na scam, even for school environment.
This ignorance they hold back some people from getting into it fully, as government come dey against am, that one make am worse.

Lack of person wey go teach them nah another problem as lots of people dey out to scam you. Some wan invest sef but no sabi how to buy and sell, and they fit lose their money to scammers in the end.

Activity is to show how active a user is.
It increases per each activity period ~ 14 days, and you have to make at least one post per period to be eligible for the activity, any period you fail to post, you will miss the activity count for that period.

If one makes 100 posts in a day, the activity would not just keep increasing to meet up with that 100 in the subsequent periods; Take a look at Satoshi's account, who hasn't posted in a while, his activity would not increase to meet post count, except he resumes posting regularly.