Have you checked the balance and history of the address that was used for freebitco.in withdrawal? The txid might not exist but another transaction might have reached your address.
Otherwise you can find their announcement topic here and post your issue there too: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320959.0

Why do you think blockchain is more efficient? Because it is actually the least efficient database that has ever existed. For example your full node has to add another big index on top of blockchain just to be able to function (it is called chainstate or UTXO set) if you want to add another utility or search function on top, you will have to add another index on top consuming a lot more space (like Electrum or what the block explorers do).
Blockchain is also immutable by design whereas you don't need patient data to be immutable. For example you may enter someone's name wrong and have to be able to change that. You can't do it with a blockchain without adding bloat.

That is all correct as long as centralized exchanges are used as a wallet but not so much when they are used for trading which is what they are meant for.
The problem is with all the shortcomings of CEX there isn't any alternative that can compete with them so that those who want to trade bitcoin can use. I know we have DEX options but they still can't compete. That means your title is not completely correct, people must never store their coins on CEX but they can continue using them for trading as long as they understand the pros and cons.

The problem is that OP is tackling the wrong place to solve the volatility problem.
We do want volatility (or better say irrational market behavior) to decrease but the solution is not to introduce a centralized power that decides the price.

To solve problems you should first see what is causing the problem and then solve that. In this case the small market (ie. thin order books on CEX), too many uneducated people (aka weak hands) pouring into the market who then panic sell, margin trade options that allow people to borrow bitcoin to dump, and finally the market manipulators that have a lot of money.
You can fight these by introducing a centralized "pump and dump" group that tries to control the price.

Explaining why bitcoin price falling is nothing to worry about during the fall is pointless. If you want to educate a newcomers you should do it when they are beginning and you should tell them that bitcoin is not and investment but it is the only decentralized global currency with limited supply.
I've learned that those who learn about bitcoin don't worry about its short term fluctuations contrary to those who think of bitcoin as an investment specially one that could make them rich quickly who lose sleep when there is the smallest drops and worse when the drop is bigger!

There is no "if", cryptocurrencies (ie. altcoins) are not safe. Bitcoin is safe only because it is providing a useful utility and is not going away otherwise the uselessness of altcoins ensures their failure.

Unfortunately this has always been the fate of those who enter a high risk investment without any knowledge, effort or even listening to other experts. For example those who borrow money to invest in an extremely volatile altcoin, sell their house to buy a shittoken, ... are expected to endure huge losses.

It is very sad to see their fate but what more can we do? We keep warning them about their high risk actions, about buying altcoin, about investing what they cannot afford to lose and yet they don't listen.

When people say "crypto" they almost always mean altcoins not bitcoin. In this case the story as others pointed out seems to be related to a shitcoin called Luna.

That was a completely random shitcoin I used as an example, that died the next day and was replaced by another shitcoin to be pumped. For example today that shitcoin is called SSOL with a 2200% pump which is dying and is being replaced by another shitcoin.

The point is that if someone is looking to make profit in altcoin market they don't need to bag hold the most advertised shitcoin hoping for the possibility of some day making a small profit. They can make massive profit on a daily basis with pretty much the same risks.

There really isn't any fundamental difference between shitcoins like DOGE and ETH and the rest apart from the fact that these two are overhyped and overpumped since they had better luck and a much better advertising/pumping team than the rest.

Every sell has an equal size buy. One of the reasons why the mempool size starts growing is because whenever there is a big move a lot of people go to exchanges with fiat to buy bitcoin and then withdraw it to their own wallets

You are forgetting that "traders" want volatility not stability! That is the way they make profit. Not to mention that what you are describing could easily turn into a pump and dump group when this so called "pool" with access to large amount of funds could manipulate the market to maximize the profit of the participants.

There is always a bull/bear cycle alright but if you analyze the previous cycles you realize that this is a brand new trend that has never happened.
For example it is unprecedented to see this much drop after such a tiny rise to a very low ATH.
The lowest price (currently $25k) is also unprecedented since the last cycle's ATH has never been reached in the bear part of the next cycles. Meaning when the $20k bubble popped price went as low as $3200 and previous ATH was $1100 (3x higher) or when the $1100 bubble popped it went down to $150 and previous ATH was about $20 (7x higher).

The problem I have is not even the drop itself but the reason why people are panic selling. They aren't panic selling because of bear market or bubble pop or anything like that. As I said above, people are panic selling simply because S&P 500 is crashing which makes no sense at all!

What you are is an identity thief pretending to be who you clearly are not. The second statement alone ensures it since Satoshi Nakamoto does not own 1.1 million bitcoin. The only question I have is why you aren't banned.

Unfortunately the only existing and dominating narrative right now is the one that has convinced everyone that bitcoin follows US stock market which means as it is dumping hard, people panic sell bitcoin too. Sadly it has been an impossible task to make them realize that bitcoin was the exit not the repetition of the same corrupted markets.

The only question remaining is how much more are people going to follow this fake narrative and act irrationally since I don't think the US stock market crash is going to stop but I also don't think bitcoin can continue falling like this. At some point it has to stop and reverse while the stock market continues crashing.

In any case it is interesting to see this very new market behavior this year.

In a bear market 3 things are always guaranteed:
1. A large amount of FUD about bitcoin
2. A massive dump (bigger than the bitcoin drop) in all the altcoins without exceptions
3. A market cleanup where a decent number of shitcoins die and are removed from the market

As a bonus something else is also guaranteed which is the "smart money" buying bitcoin in the dip silently.

As long as you have access to a PC and can run a clean OS (like a live Linux from a DVD or USB disk) without any access to the outside world (no internet, no other connection such as blutooth, lan,... or in one word: airgap) there is no justification for using your phone to create a cold storage.
Same goes with close source and shady wallets such as Trust wallet and Atomic wallet. We already have open source wallets that can be used and are trusted, there is no reason to use anything else.

Wrong. Validity of blocks is not decided based on how many nodes are running. Lets look at things in reverse. From bcash perspective bitcoin blocks are invalid, meanwhile there are far more bitcoin nodes than there are bcash nodes and yet they continue considering bitcoin blocks invalid.

A valid block is a block that YOUR node decides based on the consensus rules it is enforcing.
 
The minimum requirement for creating a fork is a single node run on a single PC (a single CPU) and changing the algorithm to what you like. You can do it right now too on your PC. Copy bitcoin core's code, change the PoW to allow you to mine blocks at a lowest difficulty on your CPU, change anything else you like and start your fork.
As you can see, you don't need voting at all when creating a fork that will be considered an altcoin.

The reason why bcashers ran a lot of nodes on cloud servers was to create the illusion that their shitcoin has good support. Of course that wasn't all they did, they also manipulated the difficulty to create the incentive for miners to mine on that chain and get more reward in total (1000+ bcash blocks per day compared to ~144 bitcoin blocks per day).

First of all it depends on what "broken" means. For example we call SHA1 broken and you can't reverse it or find a collision if you can't control the message, also it is still used in git for integrity of commits without any problem.

Secondly, I'd say if something is "broken" it has to be replaced instead of creating a band-aid where it still is used alongside something else. Adding the secondary hash requires a hard fork so why not just replace it?

Cool numbers, I just don't know why the news, the individual experiences, the all time high inflation rate and certain basic goods that are nowhere to be found are portraying something very different.
For example I see some industries around EU like most recent news about automotive parts manufacturers are reporting huge drops in their revenue this year and some industries are starting to shut down. UK alone is facing a "cost of living crisis" and the official reports guess a 1.5 million to start living at absolute poverty soon.

Well the plans were in motion for at least 8 years, need I remind you of Crimea annexation?

I'm not sure what you mean here, Russian banking system is just as bad as anybody else's. But the reasons why sanctions had a reverse effect was firstly because they were mostly jokes and also because Russia simply joined the multi trillion dollar economical infrastructure built and perfected over the past 43 years by the most sanctioned country in history Iran that is currently sitting among the 10 largest economies in the world (or 20 largest according to World's Bank).
They didn't really do much, they just hopped from one train to another while Europe keeps pumping Ruble's value and any imports that were stopped got replaced by competitors at cheaper prices with higher qualities!

It can be closed but it can't be opened more than it already is.

Last I heard it was a total of $5 billion Russian assets that were seized in which case Russia responded by seizing $500 billion Western investment in their country so by your logic EU is paying 100x for the gas.

1. Apart from one or two countries every one else has an import-dependent economy. The ongoing conflict and its effects on all economies (excluding a handful) proves that.
2&3. Depends on the trading parties. The world has also been moving away from US dollar and SWIFT. For example Russian trades with India and China have been mostly conducted using other currencies including Ruble, and they went fully Ruble after the war started. Or for example Arabs started selling their oil to China using CNY and dumped USD.

Besides, anybody who refused to export to Russia or export using Ruble was immediately replaced by a competitor. For example I heard that imports of detergents and cleaners from Germany, Italy and Sweden were stopped and we immediately too over that market. We don't use SWIFT either.

Now let me ask you another question. Is Europe economy export-dependent and how are they going to cover the billions of dollars deficits? For example the couple of markets that we took over in the past 2 weeks alone was estimated to increase our exports by $4 billion. That is $4 billion in 2 weeks that Europe will never see again. I don't know how much that is annually.
Don't you think Europe shot itself in the foot or maybe better said US shot Europe in the foot?

Gas production does not have a switch that you can flip and magically increase the production. There are a lot of limits and it would take them years to start new facilities and start extracting more gas. Not to mention that their supplies are still not enough to cover a small portion of what Germany needs.

I don't know if you follow the news but the Arabs have been panic selling any asset they had and could be seized ever since Russian invasion started and their assets were seized (China is doing the same too while eyeing Taiwan).
So far they've also refused to comply with US demands and their production has actually decreased ever since their facilities were bombed before the cease fire by Yemenis.

If I choose a number between 2 and 4 and not choose 2 and 4 themselves and you guess my number that doesn't mean you can read my mind.

That is the simple way of saying what you have found is not a "normal" private key. You have found the solution to some sort of puzzle where you searched in an extremely reduced search space.

Why do you think those keys were "random"?

Not just NK but if all the 194 countries joined forces and tried brute forcing bitcoin private keys and continued doing it for decades, they still wouldn't be able to find any.