I say make this information come our community because some people may not get the idea of what I want to say and some persons will also have the idea, for this our community many new faces they come in to the community so this matter they really need am, the matter be say, is like we dey enter period of halving and transaction fees have started going up, if you know say you are not saving your bitcoin you receive from your signature, I will advice some of that is in campaign to change wallet address to that of their exchange so that if their  weekly payment comes it will be easier for them to exchange am, but if you know say u dey save your Bitcoin you better leave am their with your non-custodial wallet but if you dey exchange weekly or bi weekly is good to change your receiving wallet.

[Observation]

Mega threads kept open for long time, in this gambling discussion and the main gambling section I do see a thread that from the first to ten pages all the discussion answers has been given but that thread continues moving whereas all the questions been asked in the thread majority has answered it, why mega thread in gambling section, when you calm down and read some of the trading style or method you can see that some points made us is not longer in line with the aim of the thread.

Some of our discussions and points in mega thread is pointless, does it not good to have a limitations of pages in a thread and immediately the thread get to its limit page it can be lock, so that everyone have it in mind, instead of spamming and be writing in some of the thread that is up to twenty to thirty [20-30] pages, [Observation] Their is some certain things that is not suppose to discuss in thread because people have already said those points,  but base on the thread is still on and they continue to spam, some persons discussed in one thread more than five times both knowingly and unknowingly, so it's good for we to abolish some mega threads depends on the subject.

One day I saw an old man of seventy [70] years old in gambling center were we bet for soccer predictions gambling bet, and I interviewed the old man that his age that why is it gambling up this age, and many people who don't know me was like wondering why I interviewed the man and some said why I mine questioning the man that gambling is a game of personal interest.so what I to ask a gambler is that what age should someone who is a gambler supposed to reach before the person retire in gambling or is it advisable for someone to continue to gamble until death separate us with gambling.

As a gambler what do you think that should be the right time we suppose to leave gambling weather we are making profits or we are not making profits with gambling, because I know quite well that gambling whenever you are making profits you will wish to continue gambling unless that you run out of cash.

When you check you will see that bitcoin price is rising day and night and what price do you think that will be maximum price of bitcoin this year and before we enters 2024, and again what will you advice people to do as the price of bitcoin is increasing, will you advice people to buy now or will you tell people around your neighbourhood who is lovers of bitcoin to wait until the price is down before you buy bitcoin, as a cryptocurrency investors I will like you to make sure you have drop your own suggestion of the price poll of bitcoin this ending of year 2023 December 31st

This skip my mind all this why, naija we dont like to discuss more bitcoin, and their is something I understand very well in cryptocurrency when you bitcoin you have known it forever and when you don't know bitcoin in the discussion you won't contribute your own part of it, we are suppose to be making more of bitcoin topics so that anyone coming to our local board our brothers and sisters will be happy learning from than going outside to commit different crimes here, so what I understand is that here,  is that it's few people who knows bitcoin and who can stand fit to defend and teach our dear brothers and sisters bitcoin, let us be doing as a culture it will help to raise some people for understanding bitcoin. Do you know most of us is not into technical, and that is why it's hard before you see our people discussing in a technical board, its few of them that discuss in technical board,summary let concentrate generally in every discipline and make sure that we discuss more of bitcoin in our board.

When we gamble what we are looking after or expecting is money which is [profit] and when buy bitcoin and invest what we are looking after is [profit] and when you so many people they skip bitcoin investment to gamble and some uses very big amount of money to gamble whereas the same amount of money will achieve some fraction in bitcoin investment. So I come with this question to know the thing between this option or words I presented the one that done you more harm, if bitcoin  has done you more harm during the times you invested in bitcoin you can tell the public and if gambling has done you more harm by losing in gambling frequently you can also tell the public.

But for me I think gambling is the one that done people more harm than bitcoins investment, because almost every day people gamble with different platforms but its few of people that invest in a day or weekly, I will like us to discuss these.

It's over one week or some days making it one week mixin has being hacked, and the ethics of mixin or mixer is that any coin mixed by mixing platform is untraceable but they got hacked, the questions is that which wallet did those hackers hacked? Because if it happens to be custodial wallet or non custodial wallet as we discussed the security level of this wallets that means no wallet that can not be hacked and no wallet is safe for penetration. We do discussed of hardware wallet, hot wallet and cold wallet, so which of high security wallets does this mixin and exchanges use for their transaction.

Bitcoin investment, this is the opportunity for someone who wants to invest in bitcoin to invest in bitcoin without looking back, because anyone that invest in bitcoin now will make a profit during bullrun, the price of bitcoin is fluctuating and it does want to up since the price has being to twenty six thousand [26] is over one month or less than one month the price is being unrotational for price, I think that any one that plan to become a billionaire in bitcoin this is the opportunity to invest in bitcoin against next bullrun.

The way I'm looking at next bullrun am thinking that the bullrun will be something that will push bitcoin price  to approach hundreds thousands [100] for the price, but people will not invest now. I split my funds currently to different of coins expecting that if I don't make profit in any of the coins when bullrun comes I will surely make profit in bitcoin because bitcoin price now is no longer going downward or going upwards, but any move the price will make to go up the price will increase, I'm expecting the price of bitcoin to rise in 2025 and 2026 so any investment in bitcoin  should be expected till next two years or three years time. Summary, invest in bitcoin and forget about the investment and hope that you will make profit after some years coming.

Una know say this bitcoin the price no dey stay one place, the price dey go up and down when the price go up e go later come down, and some people dey talk say na market dey make the price of bitcoins dey go high and also dey fall, this year the price of Bitcoin be dey good dey go, but quite unfortunate the price come dey fall wella, so wetin make i carry this thread come, i wan come dey as una so that I go know wetin dey una mind for wetin una feel say go be price of Bitcoin until we enter 2024, make we use the experience we get for now in bitcoin to predict were go be bitcoin price for the end of the year.

A. 20k-28k
B. 30k-35k
C. 35k-40
D. 40k-45

Or wetin you feel say go be bitcoin price list, welda the price no go reach that high or e go fall below such price list, because bitcoin price e get as e dey b, e reason say before this year go end bitcoin price go fit fall and cum go below 20k for the price and cum dey 19k-18k to 17k, i wan make we use the price of bitcoin now cum make the analysis because this year just remaining  just three months ahead, which is month of October, November and December, so can bitcoin use this remaining month rise or fall, na this be my question.

When i dey read some people post the thing dey sound me like sey Dem they speak correct English but this our local board na pidgin English wey dey us talk here, make our people dey use pigeon dey talk here so that wey from naija go dey understand weitin we dey cap well well, if we wan use english talk, some oyibo dey read wetin we dey talk and some of Dem dey no watsup when we talk, so is good make we make sure sey the tins we talk e plenty for our pidgin pass the one wey we use corit English talk, this Tori wey I come tell my brother's and sisters wey dey there. Another tin wey dey important we wey b naija people suppose dey do, na to help our country people make dem grow becuz na una people go still help dem to grow, we no go expect make person wey from another country dey carry una brothers and sisters along, make una dey try dey show love the wey brainboss dey show people love for the community, make una know sey injury to one is injury to all, and when we urinate together it will come outside foam.

Theirs so many investment to invest but many people are seeing bitcoin as the highest place to invest their money but I'm not seeing bitcoin as highest investing plan ever, I don't know people have not invested in bitcoin is thinking of bitcoin as investment you can make millions dollars when you started, I'm preaching to change our people mindset of bitcoin investment so that they will not hope that bitcoin investment make somebody to be rich the way they think of it.

Some people have not known that so many people who are investing in bitcoin doesn't fully depend on bitcoin as most generating income, they are using bitcoin as their side hustle, let us reduce the mentality of people and sense of humour by not seen bitcoin as the shortest way to make money, And if they should continue with such believe they may commit suicide when they put all their money and problems in bitcoin and lose by the end of the investment.

We have other investment that we can make money with, importation and exportation and also real estate management and also gas plant business that will be given weekly and monthly income depends how broad is the business and management, sometimes people do teach their children bitcoin and its not bad but let us teach our children other investment that can profit them as we think that bitcoin will profit then in future. Whoever that is having bitcoin as major source of income should spread it source of income and make bitcoin a side hustle.

It's good to invest in bitcoin but let us remember that it's a virtual and any money and profit we make in bitcoin should be directed to establish another business that will be seen physically and be managed physically.

[meaning much loses in a gambling]

People don't have statistics to play gamble and that is why some of the gambling enthusiasm do experience (shege in gambling... meaning much loses in a gambling) so it's good for gamblers to know a specific amount that should go out in their wallet weekly or monthly.

When you check the statistics of who is on constant gambling of different kind of gambling either casino, poker game and other gambling games, should check the funds that goes out of them monthly because of gambling and they funds they received in a month and annually in gambling if they are of the same amount.

If we planned our gambling bet we should not be going crazy after when we have not meet up our target in gambling, what i expected every gambler is to make table of how much should be spend in gambling and how much should go investment, because money we loses in gambling continuously if we gather it together it will sum up to start a little business. I'm say play gamble with experience, don't use all you have for casino gambling

I tried observe fillippone in this thread Re: [Merit] Share your best topics with Fillippone to be merit assessed and i understand that the total number of users both senior colleagues and newbies submitting application of replies and new created thread to be merited is much, despite that the thread was created by fillippone to help people from different countries to rank up to new ranks, i think it needs helping hands of other merit sources and other users who always earn a merit help and merit some of qualify application of users who applied there.

I will say that it's good to have more numbers of this kind of thread of merited posts or ranking up merit thread In the forum because it will help growing many others, like @ Ratimov thread of Re: [Merit] Help newbies and those who have a little left to the next rank so if we have more ten person's that act like @ fillippone , @ Ratimov, @ The Sceptical Chymist and DdmrDdmr in distribution of merit's it will help more , this people I mentioned is people I notice for large merit distribution, maybe we still have others but I have not notice them. Summary: let us support fillippone to Merit qualified application in his threads. Thanks and remain courageous everyone.

[List of things newbie should know as a beginner]

I read different articles of newbie particular in beginners and help board and I notice that so many of the newbie have in mind that bitcointalk is an office to fetch and earn money. And it's noted that the primary agenda of making bitcointalk is to have a different reasons and suggestions of making the problem of bitcoin to be lesser, I will say some people are not informed of why bitcointalk is been created and its the reason why everytime some newbie make first and second post you know that their plan of registering is to earn a bitcoin.

                        List of things newbie should know as a beginner

~ The purpose of bitcointalk is to share knowledge of cryptocurrency across each others
~ Having earning in mind to register in bitcointalk will make you as a Newbie not to know the advantages and disadvantages of bitcoin
~ learning is the primary thing that will make newbie to understand the features of cryptocurrency
~ knowledge of cryptocurrency and bitcoin precisely remains constant and it can pave way for you to earn in future if been understood
~ Don't be conscious of merit but understand the system of making quality posts
~ Engage in a conversation mostly related in bitcoin.

I think other writers has outlet the benefits of bitcoin and none benefits of bitcoin before, I don't need to praise bitcoin much because its just a technology and anything can interrupts the chances of it prolonging values.
1) From what I have observed  in bitcoin its a financial relief when you know the secrets behind the uses of bitcoin and some of the investment.
2) bitcoin have some of disadvantages which we are not supposed have all our hope in bitcoin, sometimes the mistakes of people lossiing in bitcoin investment is as a result of improper explanation and orientation when coming to invest in bitcoin.
3) bitcoin is like a life bencher for lawyers, why in financial aspects bitcoin is a freedom it doesn't have who control it.
4) having much benefit in bitcoin is when you know the good time to invest in bitcoin, like sometimes profit in Bitcoin investment is determination by the amount used for invest.
5) I want new people to know that the advantages of bitcoin investment is higher than the disadvantages if you take your investment plans serious.

I have being trying to ask this but it do give me a tough time. Is DdmrDdmr using which programs to merits numbers of people at same time, I received a merit from DdmrDdmr early today and I checked it's profile and I see almost hundreds posts merited by DdmrDdmr same time but with different minutes that's not above one minutes, does DdmrDdmr use bolt?? This is surprising, I have not seen someone who merit numbers of posts same time before, does it copy all the posts link that he wants to merit and past before meriting them? or it highlights all the user's he wants to merit, to be sincere this is confusing to understand how he does it, if you have knowledge of sharing a bunch merit at a time please explain.

I was researching on bitcoins transaction process and how Bitcoin transaction work's with miners, because I heard a lot of people complained of Blockchain technology and it's transaction confirmation issues and I began to compare lightning Network with Bitcoin with their different process of transactions. So my findings bitcoin and lightning nextwork process differently.

On Lightning, the funding transaction spends some Bitcoin UTXO, creating a multisignature UTXO to open the channel. Once the bitcoin is locked within that channel, portions of it can be sent back and forth within the channel, without the need to create any change. This is because the channel partners simply update the channel balance and only create a new UTXO when the channel is eventually closed using the channel closing transaction.

 Mining Fees Versus Routing Fees
On the Bitcoin network, users pay fees to miners to have their transactions included in a block. These fees are paid to the miner who mines that particular block. The amount of the fee is based on the size of the transaction in bytes that the transaction is using in a block, as well as how quickly the user wants that transaction mined. Because miners will typically mine the most profitable transactions first, a user who wants their transaction mined immediately will pay a higher fee per byte, while a user who is not in a hurry will pay a lower fee per byte.

On the Lightning Network, users pay fees to other (intermediary node) users to route payments through their channels. To route a payment, an intermediary node will have to move funds in two or more channels they own, as well as transmit the data for the sender’s payment.Mining Fees Versus Routing Fees
On the Bitcoin network, users pay fees to miners to have their transactions included in a block. These fees are paid to the miner who mines that particular block. The amount of the fee is based on the size of the transaction in bytes that the transaction is using in a block, as well as how quickly the user wants that transaction mined. Because miners will typically mine the most profitable transactions first, a user who wants their transaction mined immediately will pay a higher fee per byte, while a user who is not in a hurry will pay a lower fee per byte.

On the Lightning Network, users pay fees to other (intermediary node) users to route payments through their channels. To route a payment, an intermediary node will have to move funds in two or more channels they own, as well as transmit the data for the sender’s payment.

https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook/blob/develop/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc#comparison-with-bitcoin

I have taught of this seriously and I began to have a biased concern to bitcointalk if any signatures campaigns in bitcointalk can affects the existence of bitcointalk if they commit a crime that leads to government investigations. Secondly do we believe that bitcointalk can  be obstructed by government if their is a noticeable crime by the management? From my understanding it seems to me that bitcoin existence is different from the bitcointalk forum and without the existence of bitcointalk forum bitcoin will continue existing, what's your take on this.
This idea came to me through what happened to the site of bitcointalk few days ago which I couldn't logins my account for sometimes, I wasn't happy when the incident occur. Please I asked this few questions because I want to know what I don't know, and if my question is not ideal please don't crucify me.

[WILL]

Investment with bitcoin is good but it have a disadvantages when death occur, bitcoin is not a property which your children can inherits like other properties that is mark able, I notice that with all the I have being investing in bitcoin if mistakenly I return to my maker without by children knowing my bitcoin wallet security password, that means that my bitcoin will remain in my wallet till eternity, this gives me a nightmare, my kids are three and I want to have different wallet of bitcoin and WILL my bitcoin to them with the password of each of the wallet. Because my investment in bitcoin I will make sure that they have know bitcoin because of the wallets I will issue to them, because if they are not willing to learn bitcoin I can't force them to learn and understand bitcoin, but when I'm no more the will know the important of knowing the basic of bitcoin,  but I'm not planning to die now, but we don't what tomorrow will result out in the future.

[Should Incase I'm wrong for posting how excited I'm for reach member position, you can direct me where to celebrate my rank.]

I'm glad to congratulate myself for ranking up with two Bitcoin gold as symbols having possessing the rank of member, When I started this journey I thought that I will not get to this certain rank because I was discouraged with some comments of criticism in my thread but I was determined to continue the race because I have desire to learn and understand bitcoin through bitcointalk, my determination motivated me to read other people comment's and I told myself that i will reach to the position of member rank one day, and today I became a member.
What I noticed in this forum is that, it's all about determination and desires but not all about desperation, and secondly I think that consistent research is one of the keys that keeps users moving forward and not to be backslide in anything concerning Bitcoin.

When I registered in bitcointalk I don't know too well concerning forum and bitcoin, but with the help of forum I'm able to know some of the wallets that's good for bitcoin storage and some valuable altcoin that's good for investment, so without forum I won't have known altcoin as sub bitcoin and electrum wallet as a good wallet, assuming I have not found myself in bitcointalk forum i won't have known all these today. I want to openly say that I'm grateful for been a member of bitcointalk and also founding myself in the mixed of people who embrace bitcoin and also discuss the positivity of bitcoin. I have noticed that many other people obtain the knowledge of Bitcoin through bitcointalk forum, I use this opportunity to thank everyone for a link shared for me to update me with the goodies of forum.

Should Incase I'm wrong for posting how excited I'm for reach member position, you can direct me where to celebrate my rank.