They are smart to use their stable coin for buying Bitcoin. Storing stable coin does not help them richer but Tether are not Bitcoin Maximalist. They are a stable coin company and Bitcoin is only one of assets in their treasury.

According to Bitcoin Treasuries, Tether are holding about 52,673 BTC which is $1.4B equivalent.

When Tether was in fud attacks months ago because of massive panic around stable coins, they released a very good report and if it was cooked, they would collapse already, not be fine like they are now.

The article about forum history, its hacks.

If you need to double check information, there: Bitcointalk history of hacks and vandalism.

Forum history is not only about hacks, so if you want more, beyond hacks, there: The most iconic bitcointalk threads. History on Bitcointalk.

You are too late. The network and mempool are better than the last week. Fee does not skyrocket recently but in the last week.
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC%20(default%20mempool),1w,weight

Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens are meme tokens and they want to be parasites on Bitcoin blockchain. Bitcoin is not those tokens.
[WARNING] Stay away from BRC-20 tokens - there are far better options

Let's wait for developer proposals and community consensus. It won't happen soon and personally, there is no single solution like increase block size will solve it or reduce block time will solve it.

Ethereum has shorter block time but fails to solve its expensive transaction fee.

In the meantime, education would be helpful to teach people about transaction fee, mempool, how to look at mempool and broadcast their transaction with good fee rate. When they are more educated, they will less join fee race unnecessary.

Starting a match with a revenge intention will not be good. The coach and players will have barriers which are made up of their own pressure that is unnecessary to exist. The past season completed and nobody can revert the time but in this season, Manchester City again come closely to a final match.

They will have a second semi final to beat Real Madrid and have a final match to play. Revenge or not, it is not a big matter with them. If not Real Madrid, they will face with another club and have to beat any opponent to win their first Champions League.

In a first leg, Kyle Walker constrained Vinicius very well and he will have a big task to repeat it. As Vinincius is a main attacking power of Real Madrid and if he can not perform well because of Walker, Real Madrid will lose majority of their attacking power.

They have a last few matches in this season to win three titles and in history, only one club in England did it. They are Manchester United with Sir. Alex Ferguson many years ago. It is interesting if a second club get it is another club from Manchester.

Lost his bitcoin. Sorry for your friend loss and I hope he will be strong to recover.

If you want to give him advice, you must know why he lost his bitcoin.

Did he lose it to scammer by a trade?
Did he lose it by hacker who accessed his wallet and moved his bitcoin?
Did he lose it because he lost access to his wallet (lost private key, did not make wallet backup, etc.)?
Did he lose it because clicking on a phishing link?
Did he lose it by sending his coin to someone because of a Ponzi scam like "Sending your coins to me, there, and you will get a double amount"?

What is your friend case?

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It is like you should never connect your Bitcoin wallet to the Internet more than what you need. The best is airgap wallet, keep it offline.

Similar for Credit card, if you want to be safer, don't use it on strange platform or on many platforms. If you carelessly use your Credit card, if you get caught by scammers, you will lose your money and even don't know why and where you make your mistake.

You can use your Debit card to reduce risk.

Bitcoin is more decentralized then altcoins. There are always whales in either Bitcoin or altcoins but with Bitcoin, less centralized power from whales then with altcoins.

Altcoins always have backers behind because they have to raise funds from community with ICO, IDO, IEO ... Those backers, venture capitals used to be considered as important indicator for quality and success of on altcoin project. In fact it is not true and collapses of Terra, Three Arrows Capital, Voyager, FTX and more in the last two years are very good reminders and examples for altcoin investors that Backers don't bring guarantee to quality of one altcoin project.

Inter Milan are in a better form than AC Milan and they get a big advantage from the first leg. With two goal difference, AC Milan will have very big challenge in a second leg that perhaps will be too big for them to beat Inter Milan big enough to equalize an aggregated result within 90 minutes. If they can do it, everything might happen in two extra halfs and even later in penalty shootouts.

That match at Etihad will be stressful for Manchester City and they will have to beat a very strong club in Champions League. The opponent just won over Manchester City in the past season and are very ready to repeat it in the coming semi final.

Real Madrid are dangerous as their power is not only from their old players but in this season, some of their young players like Vinicius, Rodrygo, Camavinga and Tchouameni are maturing more and are able to carrying bigger tasks.

Carlo Ancelotti has an ace up his sleeve with Valverde and can make surprise for Pep and Manchester City.

If you don't use all salary, income for your expense, you can use the rest to invest in Bitcoin rather than save its in banks. With time, you can DCA Bitcoin and scale up your investment capital.

If you can not hold your bitcoin, wait patiently months and years, you are not good investor. It requires you to do your research about past cycles, past bull runs to have knowledge and belief that Bitcoin will have similar movement and growth in its next cycles and bull runs.

Compare bull markets with past two cycles and the current one.

You don't need a model to think that if Bitcoin makes its new all time high after 2024 halving, it will be at least double from $69,000 that is the current all time high. $170,000 is about x3 from current all time high.

I think a new all time high for 2024 and 2025 will be from $120,000 to $180,000 or somewhere under $200,000. I am more keen on a lowest price, $120,000 or better $150,000.

Some Stock to Flow charts: https://charts.bitbo.io/stock-to-flow/

Compare bull markets (3 eras from 2 to 4): https://charts.bitbo.io/compare-bull-markets/

What is your view on the market and what do you think about its psychology phase now?

It's difficult to define what phase it is when we are in a market but it is not too important if you have a wider vision. Next year, Bitcoin will have its halving and do you mind to find its psychology phase now?

Depression, Disbelief, Nope, Optimism, they are not matter when you are in a bull run after a next halving.

Newcastle United are not far from Champions League and they only lose that ticket if they have very bad results in the last three matches and if Liverpool have perfect results. It has very small chance to happen and Newcastle United are good enough to control their ending in this season. They don't have to rely on Liverpool performance to protect their position in top four.

I don't think they care about Liverpool at all as they only lose their position to Liverpool if something really shit to happen in three remaining matches. Manchester United won their match and have same 66 points like Newcastle United but with very weak goal difference. Liverpool have 62 points and their chance to catch these two clubs is not big. Their only hope is Manchester United, not Newcastle United.

Some names I even don't know and I am surprised that Lampard did not let Chelsea starts with a real striker. Joao Felix is not a striker and with this squad, Chelsea will not create enough pressure in attacking on Nottingham defense system.

I feel weird with his choices for Chelsea defense too. Perhaps Lampard is losing his mind after some very bad matches and he made bad decisions for Chelsea formation as well as chosen players for the match. This season is a garbage one for Chelsea after they sacked Tuchel months ago and continued their mistakes with Potter than Lampard.

You have to download the blockchain even if you only set up your Bitcoin prune node. Your problem is your device can not run well to sync it with the blockchain. With prune node, you will have problems if your device lost electricity when it is on and running.

[Guide] How to run a Bitcoin Core full node for under 50 bucks!

You can do it with not too big finance budget and the guide can help you with limited budget.

Do we all want censorship from Bitcoin full node operators and miners on our transactions?

I believe that if they filter and censor transactions from Ordinals, they will be able to do the same for coins related to CoinJoin transactions or any reason they think is bad, serious and should be censored.

It is not what Satoshi Nakamoto designed for Bitcoin and it is not what the Bitcoin community have tried to maintain since 2009.

Should we break it because of Ordinals?

My answer is very strong, No, I don't want it and I don't think we should have it.

With a new version of Electrum wallet for Android, you only can get your public key or your mnenonic seed. You can not have option to get a private key for one public address.

I did not see it on my Android too and it was removed from newest version of Electrum. It is available for desktop version and I think they remove it from Android like one of their security-wise concerns.

It won't result in a hard fork soon.

More transactions in mempools than days ago but no more very high fee rates like days ago.
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC%20(default%20mempool),30d,weight

So the problem comes from how people understand the issue and use fee rate. If they keep escalating fee rates, they will escalate it to infinity. Do they want infinity fee rate?

I believe at some expensive fee rate, they will stop like how people rejected to make transactions on Ethereum blockchain with too expensive Gwei or they just don't have enough money for too expensive fee. They can not make transaction with $100 in fee and only have $20 to buy some BRC20 token.

I believe many of us or all of us touch Binance.

OP possibly did not think about privacy at debut in cryptocurrency and it is not bad at all and we can help OP to gain privacy.

You don't understand difference between transactions and trades. You can make transactions when you don't trade with anyone else.

Decentralized exchanges are for anonymous tradings when you need to trade.
Non custodial wallets are needed when you need to self responsible for your coins and its transactions.

They are interacted with each other. You can store your coins in non custodial wallets but if you move it to a centralized exchange for trading, your privacy will be broken.

You must overcome your greediness by don't use leverage.

With newbies, if they fail to not use leverage, they will fail to control what leverage they use. It is very easy to say I will not use leverage is higher than 2x but later you will use 5x, 10x or 50x.

On some exchanges, you have to click on Confirm to start using their leverage trading tab and if you don't complete that confirmation, it is a good prevention to not use Leverage.

It can be more risky if you use altcoins as your collateral for leverage trading. Altcoins can be dumped a lot and reduce your collateral value to a level that can cause forced liquidation.

Psychology is important for human.

If you are not confident about yourself, you can not be strong enough to succeed as along your way to success, you will be challenged by many troubles, barriers and even enemies. You must be strong mentally to succeed.

In trading, in the market, you will have to understand Psychology cycles of market to know why most of people response the same in a same market. The crowd is mostly manipulated by whales and market makers because they can not control their fear, greed, emotion and generally it's about psychological challenge.

Psychology of a market cycle

You can use Binance or centralized exchanges when you are newbies or for your very first trades. You still can get privacy and anonymity later if you know how to do your trades and transactions with better methods and platforms.

Not all no-KYC exchanges are good for privacy. If they are centralized exchanges, they can collect user data and can give those data to governments when time comes.

If you use a mixer to mix your bitcoins, it does not lead to privacy and anonymity. It depends on how you pick anonymity set, how you use your coins after Coinjoin or Mixing. It depends on how that mixer service is valid and good, how they keep their promise for user privacy and anonymity, do they keep user log-ins long enough to cause data leak.