I believe a bulk of the mining hashrate is as a result of mining pools; miners from all over the world concentrate their computing power to a single server to increase the chances of them getting the next block collectively. This does not mean the hashrate is controlled by China, miners can easily switch to pools from other nations.

As I said, the pools are not controlled so miners can as easily switch and reduce the hashrate to those pools. China has been restrictive to bitcoin adoption for a couple of years now, it's unlikely they will get to manipulate the network as consensus rule can be used to render certain chains invalid.

I advocate for a free internet, where users can communicate through encrypted services without the fear of a third party listening in on their conversation, even though it means "egregious criminals" can take advantage of the freedom to perpetrate their activities. You do not cherry pick who takes advantage of public services, they are available to everyone.

The business model is privacy, allowing individuals transact discreetly without being monitored and traced

The forum would give warnings like:
user recently changed their email
user recently woke up
The purpose of these warnings are to serve as a heads up, and not a prove that the account has changed hands. Any suspicion would need to be fueled by more actions

This post is ideally enough to quell any suspicion that would arise from a change. You can also sign an address and include a change in email as the message.

I sometimes click on signatures, although not as much as I used to (as I'm already familiar with some of the popular websites advertised). I only go further if their product or service proves attractive enough. I've experimented with some casinos but only a few have been able to keep me hooked for a long time.

I would say it usually happens the other way, where good users are given the opportunity to earn from their habits. Any user who is attracted purely by the desire to earn will find it difficult to rank up

Adoption has been growing at different levels over time, each new step different from the last. Bitcoin now is gaining more traction as a store of value and medium of exchange;
Institutional investors and public companies are competing to get in, with Bitcoin ETFs being approved in various regions, the last halving is also still very recent. These factors indicate that the price is not bubbling up, but is rather correcting upwards.
In my opinion, buying Bitcoin under $25k - $30k would look like a steal in the next couple of months, and we will probably not witness sharp price corrections as we are used to when the market rallies.
In the next couple of years, Bitcoin would get to a different level of adoption, probably from nations (that embrace it) as a possible reserve currency

Do not take this as investment advice

It hasn't gotten any confirmation at all. 1 confirmation is typically safe enough for average transactions, but for much larger amounts it is advisable to wait for 3 or 6 confirmations.

The concept of transaction fees depends on a number of factors such as tx weight and the state of the network. A large transaction would need a high fee and during times when the network is clogged, you'll also need a high fee to get your tx confirmed quickly.

It has just been a couple of hours since you bumped the feerate, allow the transaction some time and it will get confirmed.

If the government would go through the hassle of drawing up strict regulations for Bitcoin, then it already has their attention. They understand what it is and choose to restrict its usage as the freedom it offers does not support their style of government. This is similar to the situation in Nigeria, the government recently put a ban on cryptocurrency trading even though it was becoming one of the largest markets for it.

Bitcoin enthusiasts should rather channel their efforts inot building peer to peer systems which can circumvent regulations.

If Bitcoin does achieve global adoption and merchants start accepting it as a regular means of payment, then you will not have to sell inorder to 'take profit', you simply use it to purchase what you wish.
   
If you're talking in purely speculative terms and the relative value of Bitcoin to Fiat, then I'll say NO, same way you cannot lose until you sell. Bitcoin is highly volatile, if I'm up 3× from when I purchased $100 worth of BTC, I cannot say I own $300 as the price can dip at anytime. However, I can always say I own xx amount of Bitcoin.

Not really, as you'll be violating the forum rule of no begging whatsoever;

If someone posts something 'useless' report the posts and admins would delete them.
If someone copy and pastes, report the posts and the user would be banned for plagiarism.

If someone consistently merits posts that are not quality then it would also raise eyebrows, if anything, this suggestion would aid merit trades as users have unlimited votes to give, unlike finite smerits.

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Using this suggestion; inaccurate and spam posts would be presumably marked as such similar to other discussion forums like bitcoinstackexchange. I say presumably as there's no guarantee that the members voting on the replies are knowledgeable on that particular topic. This system would be very complicated to understand and implement.
The merit system is fine the way it is.

This could indicate that the transaction has become invalid and is not available in the mempool. It could also be as a result of a sync issue.

You could try rebroadcasting the transaction to notify nodes of it.
Recommended transaction fees change all the time, but that fee is not low and should eventually get a txs confirmed at the current network state.

Haven't taken the full course yet, but at a quick glance, I would rather they started off with the technology of Bitcoin and the history behind it, rather than a unit on the economics and investing. It's a form of publicity regardless, and as more public companies get into the Bitcoin space they would begin to seek more ways of affiliating their business with it and maximize their returns.

You could flip that to say; microstrategy is heavily invested in Bitcoin because of his interest.

The warning shows that an input from the transaction has been used in a separate transaction. Did you attempt using inputs of the unconfirmed transaction in another different transaction?
If inputs from the transaction has been used, RBF would not help, except you change the inputs and exclude the ones which have been spent.

Try checking your address on the explorer to confirm if the funds are still on your wallet

Why would anyone want to store their funds on a company's server which would hold the private keys of their address

Afaik, this is not possible. The network can not reject an address if it is valid and meets all the necessary requirements. However, it is possible such an API could be built on a software system.

Shorting Bitcoin is a huge risk, especially when we're in the middle of a bull run, there are not enough technical or fundamental analysis which can correctly predict the next price action, so every sale or purchase is basically a gamble at that amount.

It helps to have an investment plan so as to avoid regrets of hodling for too long or selling too quickly:
• Invest only what you can afford to lose,
• Buy at intervals so as to spread your entry level
• Have an idea of your projected profit margin,
• Sell at intervals, when you've achieved projected profit amounts. This way you can pull out your investment capital while you still hold some bitcoins.
• Do not worry too much about price changes.

51% attack is not dependent on how much Bitcoin an individual or group owns, but rather how much hashrate they own.
One can only try to move the market if they hold a large amount of BTC by putting sell orders at a certain amounts on multiple exchanges, but to influence the network, a pretty high amount of mining gear would have to be utilized, and it would be largely unprofitable as such a suspicious activity would be discovered quickly enough.

A similar topic does not always mean similar content.
This could be a good idea, especially about updates in the Bitcoin space which would have likely been posted in other boards. I however don't think forum plug-in is an area the admins want to explore.

Reduction in spam is not a disadvantage. The disadvantage here would be that spammers can still go ahead to post a thread even if they are informed one on the exact topic exists.

Update:
Withdrawals from binance were suspended for a few minutes, but has now resumed according to their latest tweet.

This could mean they have fixed all the issues, as the site is now going fine for most, including me.
It is also yet another reason not to store your funds on a centralized wallet as you can be locked out of them at anytime.

Have you changed the set of emails you use within the past 5 or so years? If not, you could search your email addresses for key words like "coinify" to find out the one which you used to create your account. From there, follow the information in this article - https://help.coinify.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013631880-How-to-reset-change-your-password-for-your-Coinify-account

It's more complicated if you've lost access to the email. Follow the instructions in the post above, ensuring that your inquiry is as detailed as possible. You should also be ready with information about the account as such could be requested to prove ownership.