Funny thing is he recommended Google Authenticator not the common term two-factor authenticator.  Btw, while looking for additional authenticator, I happen to stumble on YubiKey authenticator, anyone had tried this one?  I read this one is a physical key


There is also this  Duo Mobile for android devices and there is also this 2FAS

I think the challenge here is to get the private key of the receiving wallet address.  Even though what Charles-Tim stated is doable, there is no private key to import.  I also doubt that an exchange will give @OP of the private  of the address generated on their platform.  

Although my wish is that you can get your fund @OP but if we look at the possibility and be realistic about it, this is almost a lost BTC fund case.

Great initiative ther @OP by spending part of your income to give Bitcoin proliferation a boost by teaching these students and have them quizzed so that the understand what you are teaching them.


No you are not wrongly using these students to spread Bitcoin awareness,  Instead you are giving them an option to help themselves by giving them understanding of the benefits they can get if they choose to participate in Bitcoin economy.



I won't encourage you to push your colleagues into learning about Bitcoin but you can always share your experience to them in a more natural means of conversation.  Whether they get interested and ask for more information is up to them.

I would also add to do a thorough research about Bitcoin economy.  Knowledge will save us from any difficulty in the market.  Bitcoin investment always comes with a risk so learning risk management is also helpful in taking care of our investment.  We must also keep ourselves updated and always pay attention to news and updates regardless who is giving the news.  Always verify information first hand and can always ask for advice if confused.  Obviously, we need to seek multiple suggestion or advice from different people and weigh their responses.  This way we can be assure that every step we make in our Bitcoin investment can help us to maximize our profit.

The problem with many cryptocurrency launched is that they are creating projects even without the fund to back up their project.  Most of them are created  to milk money from unsuspecting investors.  Most of the cryptocurrency today can't be compared with stocks because majority of the cryptocurrency projects are created out of thin air and has no actual products but just a token which is intangible and has no purpose  or real life use case at all.


that is what I am saying, most altcoin are just scam, a ponzi scheme where they spread news of huge profit upon investing on the project.


I am also one of those that when it comes to crowdfunding, projects should be regulated and registered to both commission and central bank (they intend to cater financial aid from investors so they need a license from the  financial institution) to minimize scams.

I believe @OP is talking about an account to merit itself and not by other account owned by the same user.  So technically speaking, the answer will be always a no.


If you are that curious and wanted to not be the subject of flame, then you can just create a thread on Meta explaining the topic you wanted to explore yourself before trying to check if self-merit is allowed by the forum system.  You can even publish the step by step procedure or make a video of it.  This way you can establish a proof that you are not maliciously intending to use a possible exploit but instead you are just exploring stuff for self-awareness. 

This is imposed by HYIP, Ponzi scheme and scam company.  They enticed their victims by promising huge return of the investment triggering the greed of victims.


Investment takes time to yield 100%+ profit.  There is no such thing as instant in an investment.  All needs time, knowledge and effort.  If anyone offers an instant profit, it is more likely a scam.  Aside from that, there is also no such thing as intant 100% in trading.  Like we need to  buy trade, set up a trading strategy and wait for time for our trade to yield 100%.  In bitcoin with its current price, it is near to impossible to  see the price of Bitcoin doubling in just a matter of second. 

Sometime we need to use our logical thinking in order to separate legit investment from scam and fraud.  We don't need to learn rocket science for this or make a deep research.  When the offer is too good to be true.  It is not more likely but  100% a scam.

Blame the incident to the growing demand for Bitcoin ordinal inscription.  They don't only bloat the network but also increase the transaction fee for several time.  I am still wondering the importance of this Bitcoin ordinal.  Does the advantage out weight the negative why this Bitcoin ordinal project is not blocked in using the Bitcoin network?


You can always send with the highest priority transaction fee cost if you don't mind spending extra dollars to get your transaction get the priority for confirmation.  Aside from the developers side of creating and upgrading the Bitcoin system, this the the only thing we are able to do to solve the current problem If we intend to stay and use Bitcoin.

@OP it is an obvious question that you yourself can answer.  You just need to look at your post and see if the option to merit yourself is allowed.  You already have merit and you could have try it yourself if meriting oneself is possible  Honestly, sometimes we need to work on our exploration than just posting question that can be answered by ourselves.

It is hard to control human greed.  Greed once triggered will listen to no one.  But even so, we should always make an effort to remind people we know to take cautious action and think for multiple times if the offer is too good to be true or it is for real.


There is no easy way in learning, we have to strive for it to be able to acquire knowledge.  We need to give time and effort to fully grasp things.  As for saving newbies, it depends on the newbie's open mindedness.  Aside from that, respect and reputation also come to account.  If you have a good reputation, they might listen to your suggestion but if you are not known or is not respected in the community, then any advice you give will be ignored.

If you don't connect your wallet, obviously nothing will happen but once you connect your wallet, and agree to sign for the site to access your wallet then one thing is certain if the site is setup by a hacker.  Once the site is authorized to connect to the wallet and granted a permission to access the wallet, malware will possibly injected to your system and might auto install a script that will drain your wallets fund.

There are lots of cases like this and some member of this forum fell victim to this kind of scam.

I have long abandoned ETH network due to its high fees.  Since I am only a minnow the $3 gas fee hurt that much.  

I also noticed that Bitcoin transaction fee also surge this past days.  The normal $0.5 gas fee became $5+ which is kinda heavy for small transaction.  I look on the reason why the transaction fee of Bitcoin surges and I found that it is caused by the spike of Ordinal adoption.  Now imagine if we are in bull run and Ordinal amass more transaction that will bloat the network.  It looks like the crises before (high transaction fee and unconfirmed transaction) will re-emerge due to the Ordinal inscription.  
Check how Ordinals inscription affect the BTC transaction fee.


This ordinal will be one of the major problem of Bitcoin in the future, specifically on the transaction fee if Bitcoin scalability don't upgrade.



I don't know what is the connection of buying ETH right now for having a cheaper fee in the future.  It just don't make sense.

Isn't the statement conflicting? Since the quoted stated that game of chance is illegal, how come lottery and land based casinos is legal?  We all know lottery is one of the most famous game of chance.  If game of chance is illegal then this should be illegal.   So I think any gambling not regulated by the government is illegal, may it be skill based or chance based when it is unlicensed then it is illegal.


The fact that they commit illegal actions through illegal gambling activity, they will sure get penalized.  In my country, if someone is caught engaging in illegal gambling, they are jailed and fined according to the law.  I think these mother and son excuses themselves from such illegal activity by giving a reason that someone moved their fund, the innocent approach but they are caught empty handed that make them admit the lies.  Thus they are sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment or pay the penalty.

I think player choose to manually spin to trigger bonus round because there are also retruns and winnings in every normal spins.  It enables a small bankroll player to maximize their gameplay.  Like during the 100 auto spins, player can possibly get profit from it while triggering the bonus round or at least regain 50% of their total wagered amount.  That makes getting bonus round cheaper than buying the Bonus round.  Aside from that, when a player is unlucky, he might get zero tumble during the bonus round making the amount used to buy the Bonus round a total lost unlike the situation I stated.


Lol, well, there's no harm to approach slots game in random manner, like mix action of spinning your way to trigger bonus round buying it.  Luck is the identifier if you win or lose in this game anyway.

In a business standpoint, verbal agreement is not accepted, creating a promissory note notarized by a lawyer is the way to go but it makes things more complicated just because of an unpaid single meal.  It is either you need to leave some valuable items not less than the amount of value of the meal to ensure that you will come back to pay for the bill.  You also need to create a written agreement that you voluntarily left your items and will come back to settle the amount to retrieve your item.  The written agreement is for the security of both party.  That is one solution if the owner of the establishment agree or propose the idea.  Else you will end up talking to police authority and talk your way out to settle your bill.

Here is one scenario if a person failed to pay his bill: https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/what-happens-if-cant-pay-restaurant-bill

So the best thing @OP can do is always bring an alternative means to pay his expenditure, in case his phone accidentally broke.

This article[1] is one good read on how useful Bitcoin to the youth is.  It was stated that Bitcoin is one of the youth's mean of achieving universal freedom.  Just like how youth indulge in online social media business interaction, integrating Bitcoin into their planned business will enable them to process transaction without the need of intermediaries.  Aside from that Bitcoin, in absence of job opportunity, can be an alternative earning and can support them to attain financial independence.

In addition, since Bitcoin is decentralized and no financial institution is involved, youth can have full control of their funds themselves.

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[1] https://melanion.com/article/how-bitcoin-facilitates-financial-independence-for-the-youth-2/

What would we expect, it is a prediction and prediction is always a biconditional since it may or may not happen.  It isn't that they are not convinced (since them stating it is a sign that they believe that the possibility of the statrment to happen is high) but it is ( the use of "could" in the statement) a safe statement to say especially when declaring it on public.  It gives them an escape route if ever the prediction do not happen.


True, they (investors) need to be optimistic or their hope will start to deteriorate.

I agree signature campaign can help us accumulate Bitcoin and be among those top percentage if we are persistent and consistent enough to accumulate for the long term.  With job in RL and extra earning that pays in BTC, the said accumulation is not impossible to happen.

I am currently way below the listed group but I am hopeful that one day I can tell myself (obviously not public for security reason) that I have done a nice job accumulating and hodling Bitcoin and be a part at least the 50m Satoshi club.

I would say the best advice is given by the first reply.  Pay with cash. If your phone is broke, you won't be able to use it, thus you can't pay with your phone.  Honestly this kind of situation only needs a little logical thinking.  If you don't have the means to pay in cryptocurrency then pay with cash.

Or if you have laptop in you and you have installed wallet on that laptop or centralized account that holds a crypto balance then you can use your laptop to pay with your meal. 

You cannot separate the two.  Knowledge comes from experience and theoretical learnings.  So knowledge is much broader scope of learning which come from both reading and experience.  And I can say bot plays crucial parts in everything so we cannot compare the two and choose one between them.  Whether you choose experience or knowledge, once you practice both, they both yeild each other.



I'd rather go with the person who has both the knowledge and experience for maximum output.