There are platforms supported it in the past bull run, when Lightning Network was something hot with its suddenly adoption growth, but later Lightning Network feature for deposits and withdrawals were removed. It means something about demand from users and technical resources of platform to handle LN transactions.

That is true, for Lightning Network and for Segwit addresses too.

It takes like four to five years ^{since September 2017} for centralized exchanges to start support Segwit addresses for their customers. It's a long waiting time and their widely support only comes after Segwit adoption grew significantly.

See Lightning Network and Segwit adoptions.
https://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-segwit-adoption/
https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/lightning-network-capacity/

You don't have to do this but thank you for this important announcement.

I only want to know, is it better if this announcement made by the previous owner or new owner?

Stay tuned for more update. 

Life will not be interesting if you know everything at once. Joking a bit 

Seriously, I see positives here because the previous team and the new owner are transparently with the ownership change. It shows that, at least in my opinion, their trustworthy and you can trust them, previous and new owner.

I agree at some points and disagree at some points with you.

I agree that advertisements of a platform don't guarantee safety of your account, it's different aspect. Like FTX exchange, they spent massive money for politicians and for many things which at the end, we knew how stupid and carelessly they did in many months.

I also agree that a legit business has its reputation to protect and it is one of most important factor for their business future. They will detect their reputation at all costs so if they are legit, they will not do shady things against their customers.

However I disagree that a legit company that does not promote their brand in bitcointalk forum, but do it on social media, can not be trusted. Bitcointalk, no matter how much I love it, is not a hub of universe and is not a mandatory place to run promotion for all companies.

I used to be a support staff but as a middle man between the corresponding team like Compliance team and customers, so I understand his hassle.

During and early months after the Covid-19 quarantine, lockdown, there was bottle neck and congestion in customer KYC submissions on that platform. They have to wait like days, weeks to be verified and handle some other issues.

The team already said reasons and I agree with you too, check and verification to come to approval of VIP transfers must be done correctly. It firstly helps to avoid abuse and secondly to help the team use their budget more efficiently.

There will be different contact points at different levels. Sometimes communication among contact points will be delayed by personal issues likely health or anything.

I don't consider a long lasting and trusted platform like Freebitco.in is a scam only because they were inactively recently in response to some scam accusations or problems on their platform.

If a business team is scam, you lose money and no matter how noisy you are making, you will still lose money.

If they are legit, they will response and handle your case. Honestly most cases, people will not feel happy even their issues are resolved with some delays.

Stay tuned for their response is best.

Slowly accumulating satoshis this year, does it mean you do multiple purchases, not only one?

It's good that you can spend money to buy a cold storage wallet but this is strange that you can not spend some money for transaction fee.

Cold storage wallet is good but if you can not have more money for it, you can use free wallet software, open source like Electrum wallet. You can set it up as single signature wallet or multi signature wallet, free.

Transaction fee now is cheaper than weeks or months ago and gives you good time for practice with on-chain transactions, pay fee.

If you have been accumulating bitcoin since start of 2024, you would have known about some worse times with more expensive transaction fee last 5 months.
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,6m,weight

nc50lc helped you already but I see one more thing in your post, it's a big issue in future if you don't change.

You created your wallet, but did not test your backup (what you wrote down) to recover your wallet. It is a mandatory step, testing your backup, to make sure you can use it to recover your wallet and the recover wallet will give you same receiving address (see Receive Address list).

When you finish this step, all is okay, you can start to fund that wallet.

How to backup a seed phrase?
You don't actually need to fund small amount of bitcoin to that wallet, just to test your backup. You can test it with an empty wallet, by simply compare receiving addresses.

Restoring your standard wallet from seed. You can learn something from this guide but note that Electrum no longer give users to create Legacy addresses by default.

Fear and Greed index is displayed with the chart to make it more easily connected with Bitcoin price.

• https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/bitcoin-fear-and-greed-index/

Your given site has a chart too but it is in a pure grey color so the chart from LookintoBitcoin.com is more helpful.

Anyone who often visits the bitcoin.org website please share your experience.

I could be wrong, but I remember that months ago, when we visit that site, it will have a notification like "Bitcoin Core can not be downloaded in the UK", something like this.

Weeks ago, not today, I visited it and no longer saw that notification.

A note is I don't remember when I visited it a long time ago, and saw that notification, I used Tor or not and whether the IP is from UK.

The forum will not die because no more signature campaigns are allowed here. It will return to what it was before signature campaigns appeared here years ago.

In 2017, because of Bitcoin bull run and ICO waves, the forum was flooded with spammers and theymos considered many options before he decided to launch the merit system.

One of options is shut down the signature campaign industry globally.

See

• Ideas for improving post quality

Recall that there are spammers in those mixer campaigns ^{community complained about it as I know}, having them here is not always good for post quality and spam issue in the forum.

I really don't think so. When you launch a program a first time, it's necessary to have a breaker to hold it for assessment before re-open it. I see it is normal, not strange, and less probability for abuse as main cause of their program suspension.

No person, no business team can know everything and there are always unexpected things happen so it makes sense to hold it temporarily for deeper internal analysis on what they have gotten so far.

It's their carefulness that is good for their business and I see no harm with this suspension.

I really think that it's non sense if we continue to speculate what happened. They will announce us to know if the program will be re-opened and if not, they will also let us know.

They will need to assess initial rules of the program, what need to be stricter and so on. They have to change rules up and down in difficulty of requirements, to make sure they can acquire maximum effects with same budget. It's a business operation, not charity, with acceptable rules that are not too easy but not too strict.

They need to find some insights from data they got so far.

Altcoin developers would prefer to say their coins are killers like Bitcoin killers, Ethereum killers but their coins don't kill Bitcoin or Ethereum but die with time.

How many cryptocurrencies have died? ^{The number of dead coins are bigger than 14,039.}

Flippening?

I recall that Ethereum never flipped Bitcoin in marketcap but there are some weeks media expected for that flippening and that's all. Months later, it's turn of Ripple to flip Ethereum but none of them can flip Bitcoin in marketcap and in price of a single coin.

It is around late of June 2017 when Bitcoin dominance is about 40% and Ethereum dominance is about 30%. 10% is not too small to make a flippening for Ethereum.
https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

Bitcoin Spot ETFs will be like centralized exchanges and they also rely on their custodians. We know most of Bitcoin Spot ETFs choose Coinbase as their custodians so we will go back to a centralized exchange.

Centralized exchanges, as they shown with past Bitcoin forks and altcoin forks, will have their own criteria and support (or don't support) a fork. If they support it, they will do technical steps to claim forked coins and credit it to their user accounts.

In a bad scenario, if they don't support a fork, their users will not receive forked coins.

If you worry about loss on forked coins, store your Bitcoin and altcoins in your non custodial wallets and claim forked coins by yourself in future. Claiming forked coins is risky practice because it leaks your private keys.

LoyceV's Bitcoin Fork claiming guide (and service).

First comes, first serves and I believe later applicants might have stricter assessment before the team approve their VIP transfers to the platform.

If the team re-open the program, I expect them to add some new rules and turn the program to a stricter one, not easy like how it originally was when you applied.

Budget and effects from the program will affect their decisions to re-open the program or not. To run the program for a long time, it must bring new VIP members and good income for the business, to make it a sustainable program. It's not easy to become a VIP member so I see the overwhelming application wave probably does not last long and after VIP members from other platforms mostly transferred here, it will reduce pressure on the team budget.

Super luckiness does not come to a single person again and again, it is like only one chance in a lifespan.

If a superb lucky gambler won a lambo, and is smart enough, he will enjoy it, or sell it to buy Bitcoin or Ethereum and consider it as his investment to gain a fortune next several years.

It is very unrealistic to think that if he sell the lambo, use that money to bet again and again in next many rounds, he will win more lambos. It's the best way to lose money, lose the lambo, then get mad.

It's not necessary to ban any user just because he won in a previous round.

This forum is for Bitcoin discussion initially then its purposes and discussions expand to altcoins, other services include casinos. The forum will lose traffics but will not die if casinos will be banned and no longer appear here in Announcement threads or signature campaigns.

The forum is not only about casinos and signature campaigns.

History of signature campaigns

• Signature campaign: The lowest and highest payment BTC and USD in 2013-2022
• History - signature campaigns and bounties on Bitcointalk
• EVOLUTION OF SIGNATURE AD CAMPAIGNS (BEGINNING DAYS TO THE PRESENT)

Please move this thread to Mycelium wallet board.

Mycelium Showing incorrect Bitcoin Price From this discussion in January, it seems price will not be updated correctly if you have slow Internet connection that affects your connection with Mycelium server and electrumx node, and even Tor (On or Off) can affect update of price too.

BitMaxz's answer for OP of that thread months ago.

I guessed the suspension of VIP transfer program relates to budget for it or perhaps the team need time to observer what they get from approved transfered VIP members and if their assessment is positive, they will re-open it.

I dunno if the VIP transfer programs become too popular then will it will be beneficial for casinos to run it?

If it becomes too popular on many platforms, it can be exploited by users and they simply apply for transfers and enjoy some initial benefit after the VIP transfer, then they might switch back to their previous platforms. Maybe platforms like BK8 and MetaWin will need some time to have data and assess results of their programs.

I don't see any warning about risk of using leverages for Margin trading or Futures trading. It's basic but vital warning because with whatever trading strategy, if people use leverages, and worse high leverages, their trading positions will be under higher risk of liquidations.

You can be right with 90% of your positions but the rest 10%, if bad, will cause you painful loss such as taking out 70% or bigger of your trading capital.

Supports and resistances exist and market manipulators don't care what you are thinking and what methods you are using as well. If you open a bad, risky position, their market manipulation will trigger either Long squeeze or Short squeeze and you will lose money.

The biggest disadvantage and also barrier of Lightning Network is, people have to make an on-chain transaction to open their Lightning Network channel and start using Lightning Network for "small" transactions. The prerequisite step is not too attractive for people who simply want to save transaction fee at beginning and for people who don't usually make transactions. That first transaction is actually expensive if Bitcoin mempools are congested.

If people have to surpass this "barrier" by using centralized platforms that support Lightning Network, it sucks because they will have to give up control on their coins. These platforms might only broadcast transactions through Lightning Network sparsely within a day, it sucks again, it's not smooth experience.