I could have sworn that Hal Finney was still a forum member at the time I registered and account, but that is false cause I did not have an account here 9 years ago.

I probably wrongly recall the incident with the hacked account and the lots of discussions it drew.

He was great asset to Bitcoin and bitcoiners and is one of the main reasons we have a btcoin network today which is functional, a step that changed the course of history.

No they cannot start such an auction at the current price cause no one is going to go over it then when they can simply go to an exchange and make their purchase.

We hope the drought eases off very soon and things can return to some degree of normalcy. There are more important things than allowing a miner to take electricity that have been used to help the general public and the miner only get a reward from it.

I can hardly fault the decision of the government to prioritize necessities over mining. There are thousands of other miners around the world and the void will be filled easily

If you can create this post then you are understanding a bit about the forum already and making some progress. It takes a while to get used to how the forum functions for someone not used to forums at all.

The help section at the top icons helps a lot to get one familiar with forum features and other basic pointers they will need, also use the search option and you will be good to go for a start here.

Follow the other links provided here and take your time to get used to o everything.

100%.
As long as you have your Bitcoin safely in your wallet and you own the keys to that wallet then you will have no issues how the other bitcoins are spread.
No one is going to sink billions of dollars to own majority of Bitcoins available and then destroy it.

Worse case scenario is that privacy becomes difficult to maintain cause decentralized exchanges become more and more obsolete as they lose even more customers to centralized options. This will limit privacy trading options to the barest minimum.

I'm fully in agreement that we are still early and majority of people have not yet gotten on the Bitcoin train yet. But we already have come a long way and should not expect the kind of growth we got when Bitcoin was starting up from zero and looking for some sort of value.
Over the next 5, 10 and 15 years Bitcoin will grow tremendously but I read no where as near as what we had over the last 10-15 years and that's normal.

Majority of users here can look towards the next 50 years but not beyond that and they will want to get return on their investment while they are still alive.
How high can it go within that timeframe?

For obvious reasons you cannot make a topic bold and that is evident since the tags cannot be automatically added to the topic text and you have to do it manually.

No one should take any financial decision without a plan.

Besides the language benefit, local boards being people who live in the same reality together.
Users not from the West may be a bit disengaged from the central theme of discussions here particular in relation to economics, with so much emphasis on SEC regulations or the FED cutting down interest rates, all of which does nh directly reflect their reality.

Having a local group with people from your side of the world helps you directly discuss how Bitcoin affects and impacts you and you can help each other grasp the concept better.
One who understands English language fairly can do without it, but it helps to get one acquainted faster.

The reason for the break in relationship could be due to the current legal battles Binance is facing with the SEC. MasterCard might want none of that and would want to dissociate their brand as quickly as possible from it.
It's something we see everyday, especially from brands that depends hugely on trust and reputation to not want anything that will cause users to question their integrity.

MasterCard are still in partnership with some other crypto exchanges.

On the general crypto market? No, I don't expect any significant effect on it.

And also presents lots of risk cause it makes the price very unpredictable.

Sound grasp of market dynamics does not guarantee any form of profits and does not protect from losses either.

The equivalent of the loan amount in another currency besides the one you're asking for.
In this case you will need to provide $600 worth of any currency the lender accepts.

The channel of transfer is the blockchain and Bitcoin transaction is basically the transfer of information (data) acorss publicly available addresses. This data is verified and stored by nodes who ensure the authenticity of any data shared.

What sort of correlation are you looking for between Bitcoin and telecommunication?

I do not frequent the gambling board but along with the altcoin discussion section it is one of those boards that require merit sources and more motivation for users to make quality posts. There are lots of spam posts there but that's same with every other board and there are also great posts there which mostly goes unmerited, which further discouraged quality posters.

Cryptofrka is a regular in that board and a good choice for a merit source to encourage the quality posters there.

Now we wait for the raffle draw by theymos and hope to make the cut.

This is not a lending platform and not one you should be looking for if you're in need of a loan.

You are not going to get any trust or any money except your offer a collateral.

I do not think people change, I just think they hide wo they really are very well over the Internet. I have seen a couple of cases where a user farms trust for months or even years before making away with a significant loan amount. This indicates that to have been their initial motive for creating an account on the forum.

This from all indication does not look like that. But it matter much what it looks like or how I perceive it, another lender suffers yet another loss frustrating such well meaning users and demotivating others who want to join in.
Going strictly with collateral based loans seems like a good direction to take in the face of all the possible indication of losses.

I'm not exactly certain what the patch does even after reading the thread twice and don't know the problem it is trying to solve, but if it helps make the work of TryNinja and LoyceV easier then I am all down for it.

Good job yet again PowerGlove.

Sorry for your loss.

I've not interacted enough with the user to be able to make any sort of judgement on them but they have had a history of successfully repaid like and before this.
I hope you can recover from the loss and it doesn't affect your service going forward.

They wouldn't hang around for close to four years and make over a thousand posts if they planned to make away with just over a hundred bucks.

They are more than 1% and considering the thousands of services available only a handful of them is needed for us to fulfill all the requirements we need.
If you do enough research you will find out alternative services which does not require you to dox yourself

A company can be as reputable as possible but your documents can still be compromised after you submit it to them and you cannot verify the process involved in the handling of the documents after it is submitted.

Lower prices are like bonuses for anyone looking to buy, so any starter who gets in when the price is low or dropping is quite lucky cause they can get some bitcoins fo less dollar bills. Everytime is a good time to buy if the asset is a good one, but buying the dip is far more beneficial in the long run.

Getting in when prices are low also indicates that you're not solely influenced by the price or fomo around it. Such people are more likely to make a better decision than others.

Edit; this is my post number 5000 
Been an amazing short chat with you all.

Avoid giving out personal information cause it can be used in a thousand and one ways against you and once that information is public you can never regain privacy.
You should consider any email address, password, name age and personal details you've submitted to any website to be compromised cause there is a huge black market for such information.

Do not rely on your Banks to do extra checks or on the exchange to be more careful with who the allow to register an account.