I didn't have Bitcoin on any exchanges or in my wallet. I remember something about a casino. They have listed BSC or maybe it was BSV (I don't remember correctly), but they have airdropped the same amount to the user account that was holding Bitcoin back then. I didn't understand why people were getting those money for free. I only understood that last year when I learned more about forks. I also checked if my blockchain.info wallet qualifies for any forks like BSC or BSV, but I noticed that I hadn't held any Bitcoin back then. I was doing only transactions with my Bitcoins. Do you know which exchanges didn't airdropped forked coins to their users who have Bitcoin Balance?

Many users have been here even after doing repeated violations like plagiarism multiple times. The community sees them negatively while many members were banned right after one report. You will find a lot of cases where some people had the benefit of the doubt while others didn't get a single chance. I don't want to mention any names but if you search for such things, you will find them for sure. Yeah, I have seen that Admin Cyrus opened a 2nd chance thread for the users who was banned from this forum. But, I believe most of the banned users already build their 2nd account in the mean time.

The Bitcoin miners have been making some profit lately and then this happened. LOL. I am not from the US and I don't have any Idea about electricity usage in the US. But, the government wants to know the information means something is going to happen in the future. I don't know if the US has to buy electricity from other countries, I always thought they have enough power sources. I don't think they have to limit electricity usage unless they are buying electricity from outside the US. I have seen some YouTube videos where the miners were setting up solar panels for their mining farm. I don't know if that helps enough. Let's hope no more censorship.

Keep dreaming about it. I consider myself a Bitcoiner even though my Bitcoin holding is not anything significant. But I do not think we are even close to this time. Bitcoin fluctuates a lot and it's not possible to set a fixed price with Bitcoin for everything you buy from the market. Another problem is the high fees. I don't think people are that much idiot to pay $10 transaction fees for another $20 product. The lightning network could be a solution, but it does not eliminate all the issues. Bitcoin is Bitcoin. It is great as an Investment asset just like gold. But, do you use gold to do regular shopping? I know you don't because it's not possible. If Bitcoin fees remain like that, I don't think dollars with replaced by Bitcoin anytime soon. Feel free to criticize me!

I wasn't there when the major hard fork happened like BCH and BSV. But, I guess I used to use Bitcoin back then. I have checked my Blockchain.info account (which is blockchain.com now) and checked my address if I was holding any BTC back then. Unfortunately, I did some transactions but never held my Bitcoin for longer than a month or so.

Blockchain.info is used to provide your private keys which you could import to another wallet which they still do. But, I don't know about exchanges if they kept the forked coins of their users or not. But, if they did, that is something unethical.

In that case, we also report their posts. But, you still didn't get the other fact I have mentioned which is the unwritten rules of the forum. Take merit abuse for example. The forum allows multiple accounts. What if you see someone created a topic and replied with another account and sent some merits from one account to another? Isn't it unethical?

Sometimes we know this is abuse. But, do you think we could report it without any evidence? We can only report once it gets bigger and obvious to everyone that the account is someone managed by the same person. Talking yourself, sending merits, trust inclusions and many other unethical things that are not listed on the forum rules still frowned upon.

Let me be clear first. Do you want to know the reason behind encouraging people to use PGP? Well, BitcoinGirl.Club has been doing it because he wants the community members to learn more about PGP because it is a great privacy tool that allows you to send encrypted messages. I have read somewhere that even forum PM security is not guaranteed. So, if you use encryption, no one would be able to read the message except the person who is the receiver.

A lot of messengers including telegram and WhatsApp claim their services are end-to-end encrypted. But we don't know the reality. Let's say you want to send your Bitcoin wallet private key to one of your family member and you don't it to get compromised, I don't think any digital channels are secured enough. Those could be hacked. In this case, PGP Encryption enables a great feature for you.

To learn more about PGP, you could follow the posts mentioned by AirtelBuzz.

That's what we have been doing, and some of our locals helping us do it. But as you know, there are always some people who promise to stay with us but they leave our local thread once they rank up to their desired rank. I am the person to blame for that. I have been vocal against some of their abuse and since then, most of them stopped coming to our local threads and do not write there anymore.

I have been translating useful threads for a year now and some of our locals also help guide newbies including DS, LM, Crypto Library, and a couple of more users. I have also written many original contents but since we are just in a local thread, most of the posts were buried. Sometimes I feel awkward to talk high-ranked members because they were supposed to know better than us.

আমাদের বিগত মাস গুলোর তুলনায় একটিভিটি কমেছে, কিন্তু আমি মনে করি না আপনারা কেউ এই ব্যাপারে হতাশ হবেন। দুষ্ট গরুর চাইতে শুন্য গোয়াল ভালো। আমাদের থ্রেড এর কয়েকজন নিয়মিত মুখ এখন আর বাংলাদেশ থ্রেড এ দেখা যায় না। এখন আমি যদি তাদেরকে সুবিধাবাদি বলি, আপনারা কেউ কি রাগ করবেন নাকি? আমার তো খালি চুলকায়, উচিৎ কথা না বলে থাকতে পারি না। ওনারা এক প্রকার আমার অত্যাচারে এই থ্রেড থেকে বের হয়ে গেছে। অনেকে দেখলাম আবার গ্লোবাল বোর্ড এর পোস্ট এ গিয়ে মেরিট লেনদেন করছে। বেশ কয়েকটা ম্যাগা থ্রেড ইউজ করে মেরিট এদিক সেদিক করছে। কয়েকদিন আগে একজন আমাকে মেসেজ দিলো মেরিট দিয়ে হেল্প করার জন্য। ৮ টা মেরিট দিয়ে পরের রেংক এ যেতে হেল্প করলাম, ওনাকে মেসেজে বললাম যে ভাই আমাদের লোকাল থ্রেড এ একটিভ হোন। কিন্তু এর পর থেকে আর একটা পোস্ট ও দেখলাম না ওনার। সবাই ব্যাস্ত থাকতেই পারে। কিন্তু এভাবে পারলেন আপনারা?

Usually, I take a little longer than average time to complete the translations because I don't want to feel pressured. Moreover, I am too busy with my new start-up and I am doing the translations only when I have some free time.

Let's get back to your post. I understand your whole point. I also agree that writing 10 posts a day isn't spamming. But, when you see a particular campaign participants doing it for ages and you do not see those participants out of some specific boards, you might have a negative thought about them and I don't think everyone will disagree with me about it.

Yeah, I have noticed that you have removed some participants for spamming. One of my local was removed from one of your campaign due to a neutral feedback and that is something I should appreciate. If campaign managers act accordingly like this one, the forum would have less spammy threads and posts.

I understand your point too. Some newbies create accounts and go ahead and create a thread without checking anything. Either they are just spammers who want to get some attention, or they do not know how the forum works. If a newbie creates a topic and wants to know more about it, there shouldn't be any problem. But I have also seen some random users who create tutorial threads with wrong information. But that is very rare. Not too many newbies create tutorial threads when they need to learn. So, when we refer to newbies, it should not be the forum account rank but it should be the person's knowledge and experience. It could be a crypto newbie, tech newbie, you name it.

I am not only talking about the violations that are in the forum rules. Some other things are not listed on the forum rules but these are frowned upon. There is a thing called ethics and we all should be ethical. Let's talk about how our locals react when they see someone violating forum rules. Let's say a newbie just registered and wrote something that violates the forum rules. Usually, we don't report that post. We try to correct them instead because I believe not everyone reads the forum rules before they register here. But if they continue doing it by ignoring our messages, we report them.

Some other things are not listed on the forum rules such as merit abuse. Cheating with multiple alts and many more. Sometimes it's obvious that a account is alt account and who control that. But we cannot report without any kind of evidence. But, when something is going on for a long time and a big number of users joins that, we should do something even if we do not have any proof. I did what I wanted and luckily it worked.

I am sorry but could you please use some punctuation in your texts? I am not a native English speaker and do not know where to stop. Please use commas and full stops when necessary. Now I am giving you an answer based on what I understood. Yes, you could say that I am lacking of planning. But it's not true that I have invested ALL my savings INCLUDING unexpected needs. I feel like you never know how much money to start a business. Otherwise, you won't say that.

My business needs a couple of thousand dollars, and I have already managed a big portion of it. As of writing, 90% of my funds were managed without selling a single satoshi. Now, If you hate altcoins or shitcoins, that's your personal opinion and I do not care about it. If you do not respect others just because they said they have invested some money in shitcoin, you have very low moral. 90% of my portfolio is BTC only and the rest is alts. If you do not like having alts for other purposes, we can't be friends.

Good Challenge satscraper!

I have seen another challenge that was run by NotATether and I want to consider his challenge thread as a successful challenge because a couple of users have tried and Run a node for at least 14 days. Challenges that help improve the Bitcoin network, and this one which will increase the level of wallet security always should be welcomed and encouraged. I support your idea but I am afraid because people may abuse your challenge thread. Here is a friendly suggestion, before you merit them, look at their merit patterns so you can understand if it's an alt account or not.

Cheers mate!

I do not have any problem and do not see any problem if a newbie teaches me something that I didn't know. For example, let's say I don't know how to use the CPFP feature with my electrum wallet, and suddenly a newbie suggested to me the way I could do it, do you see anything wrong here? I joined this forum in 2022, but that does not mean I didn't know about Bitcoin before 2022.

So, What if I came to this forum and guided a legendary about how he should use a feature of Electrum wallet? Would you ignore my valid suggestions just because my forum rank is newbie? I have created a thread to discuss this thing a few weeks ago and a lot of people agreed with my point.

I have read this thread before, But I don't remember If I have ever commented on this topic. I agree with everything you have shared but look at this point. I always considered stake participants as spammers because they could write more than ten posts a day without adding any value to this forum and all they write on gambling boards. There was a time when I also wrote ten posts a day but not on the gambling boards. I used to write in the several boards of the forum.

Now the reason I have quoted this part, I believe two of your campaigns contradict this point. I don't want to mention the campaign name but those campaigns allow users to write up to 60 posts and they are going to get paid for all those posts. More importantly, Tier E encourages spam in the forum. You may have a different point of view. But, I believe this is also a fact.

Anyway, I have started working on translating this thread for my locals. I hope I will finish the translation soon.

Hi Dear GazetaBitcoin.

I will start working on it. Please consider this one as reserved. I will let you know once I am done.

Yes. That's why I took the risk. Even I am still accumulating my Bitcoin from my signature campaign payments. I do not plan to sell in the 60K range yet. I might cash out some profits in that range. But I won't sell all of them since my target is way bigger. I wish I could hold them till 2030 and see what happens. We may not see 100K this year.

I believe we may see another ATH this year which could be 80K or so. The 100K range is a dream target for many of us. 2025 could be a year for Bitcoin. After that, many of us will buyback again and start preparing for another bullrun.

I guess I have posted this several times in several threads. My only wrong move was to sell it for a cheap price. I bought Bitcoin before the last bull run and I was holding tight without realizing that the bull run was over now. I didn't understand when I should have existed in the market. I could have some little profit from there.

Later, when Bitcoin was moving sideways, I was still holding with the hope that the bear market wouldn't be there for a long time. Then the lowest price was 15K, but I had to sell my Bitcoin in the 20K range because I needed some urgent cash. That is my only wrong movement with my Bitcoin.

You should be afraid of it. Bitcoin is not legal here and if more people know that you have used Bitcoin before and still do, they won't think twice about complaining to the police and getting you arrested. Not everyone uses Bitcoin for investment purposes only, some people care about privacy, and Bitcoin is supposed to be for privacy enhancement.

I don't know why it's too important to tell others that you have Bitcoin and you have made a profit out of it. Isn't it like you are showing off to them that you have Bitcoin? I have Bitcoin too and I don't know many people in my local area who use crypto. Probably there are hundreds of people are related to crypto but I do not know any of them and they don't know about me either. So, I don't know why everyone in your area has to know that you have used Bitcoin.