Yes, there were more than 9k wallets involved in that airdrop. This is not possible for a single person so i guess it was a team that farmed that airdrop and made that fortune. That was a risky move because if all of their wallets didn't meet the criteria, they would suffer massive losses by farming those airdrop. I have seen on social media some people in china were farming zksync airdrop and they have a professional setup like an office. I am just thinking about how crazy these people are about aidrop.

You have to understand that not everyone could do the things OP did to save his hard-earned Bitcoin. You could stay hungry for a day or two without having a meal or taking one meal a day when you are single. But, if you have a family and have a wife and child who need food, you cannot see them suffering from hunger. No father or a husband could see such situation.

I am glad I am not one of them. Of course investing in something that is likely to grow much is good. But, you have to think about your family and the health as well. Without a good health, you won't be able to survive for a long time. I do not suggest anyone to do the same thing. Always have meal when you can.

Because of the story https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5401052.0#msg60271061, until now most people, especially my entire extended family and also people around me, call my child Bitcoin.
Actually, most of them don't really know what Bitcoin really is, especially old people and small children because in my area Bitcoin is not very popular and only certain people know about it. And with this story happening, those who know that my child's birth expenses were paid using Bitcoin, want to know more clearly and also want to know what Bitcoin actually is.
And after I told them the basics of what Bitcoin is and its benefits, they finally understood and in my conversation with them I did not suggest investing, only that Bitcoin can be used for long-term investments that are profitable from other investments. And it can be used for trading, and can also be used as a transaction tool like money. And both must have a Bitcoin address or wallet that can be done privately, because in the country where I live, Bitcoin or other crypto cannot be used as a means of transaction.
And until now when explaining Bitcoin I don't know the developments whether they are involved or not.
Actually that's not the purpose of this thread, but more aimed at my son who most people call my son Bitcoin.
And at first I felt uncomfortable because my child had a beautiful name, but over time I got used to it and if my child was called Bitcoin he would definitely respond more because he was used to it. And I'm worried that my child will be called Bitcoin when he grows up, and I also feel uncomfortable if there are questions about Bitcoin because I'm afraid of answering it wrong.

I became worried and found it difficult to answer after my friend asked me scary and ridiculous questions about Bitcoin ownership.
he asked. If friends, new acquaintances, or other people find out that you have a sizable amount of Bitcoin, and you don't tell them. Then you are kidnapped with several people covering their faces, with the aim of getting your wallet address with the risk that if you don't give it you will be killed.
And another reason, you have given your wallet address to members you trust, such as family members or your wife and children.

And I want to know, what are you going to do.
Aren't you going to give the bad guy your wallet address, and you let him get killed. However, your Bitcoins remain safe because you have given your wallet address to someone you trust.
Or you will give it away because you still want to live, and you don't have any more Bitcoins.

And it was just a casual conversation with a friend of mine who both owns Bitcoin, and I was just wondering what other people's answers to this dreaded question made me want to create a thread.

Although the OP asked an interesting question, it is also very interesting to me that during the first 4 years as much as 50% of all Bitcoins were mined, and of that as much as 2.625 million in the first year.

Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.

For me they should be compensated according to the stress they got from the incident and FTX management done wrong so its really good to give something more to those depositor so that they will be happy with refund plan to be executed by them.

But if there's nothing will be change since government and FTX have good settlement plan to pay all of those people compromised on their platform then I guess they should accept it since its still better than nothing since they can't do anything with it but to wait for the total refund that planned to happen.

Hopefully depositors will get what they deserve since its not their fault on why this thing happen and all blame should be pointed to FTX management so they must pay for it.

Got it in 2011, forgot about it until BTC hit 3000 dollars. Spent hours trying to remember the dozen+ character password. Finally overwrote that drive to keep from going mad trying to remember the password as the price of BTC went up.

It is quite impressive when you are able to hold Bitcoin for 3 years and stick to your guns to hold on to it even when you have no income. I understand what it's like to hold Bitcoin when you have no source of income, it must be quite difficult in the beginning, especially when the market is bearish there will definitely be a desire to sell it, but you persist and eventually get a profit from your investment. This is a true investor, you set your goals from the start and stick to them until your profits are achieved.

I personally do not see much potential much less a point in NFTs but seeing these prices will definitely make you think and wonder about who are rich and bored enough to buy these artworks

Art is subjective of course but how can someone be obsessed with these is my question? I do not understand the use of it aside from owning one and artists finally having a medium to make some good money otherwise it is just a picture on the internet that belongs to a specific someone

People just want to make money. They don't care if ETFs or other financial instruments pose a centralization risk to crypto/Blockchain tech. Convenience goes above all else. What we need to do as a community is fight against the rising powers of centralization.

As long as we keep crypto decentralized, big companies and mainstream governments will have a hard time trying to "destroy" the revolution. We can't tell what will happen in the future. Therefore, we can only hope for the best. Who knows how long "De-Fi" will last?

If you did use those applications, I think you have gotten a lot of rewards by now and there are more upcoming. 2024 is going to be the year of airdrop and there are already few hyped project like layer zero, zksync, starknet and few other projects that can do airdrop program for their early users. This airdrops are going to be highly profitable for some users i have seen one guy earned more than millions of dollars by joining an airdrop in solana ecosystem.

Transaction fees matter. Just look at Ethereum. A few years ago, the transaction fee of that coin is just way high for us average investors to afford, and because of that, there are many projects under Ethereum that are made, and their priority at that time is to have lower transaction fees. Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum are just some of them.

Of course there are other factors that are important as well, but if you will use that platform, and will make some transactions on it then consider or maybe prioritize the transaction fees on it. Nobody wants to use a platform that can cause you $5-$6 every transaction right? 

What's good now is that, there are many tokens out there who has a low to very low transaction fees already, and as for Ethereum, well the fees are 10x higher than that of other smart contract platforms out there but surprisingly, there are many who are still using it for various reasons.

The best altcoin in my opinion ETH, ETH marketcap is very large only inferior to bitcoin. continues to have a network that other dev coins can use to create coins. the shortcomings of the ETH network are large and expensive sending fees so that people are reluctant or rarely use it. even those who take part in bounty or airdrop using ETH are less interested in it.

The major factor that contributed to the mini bullish trend of last quarter of 2023 can be attributed primarily to the submission of spot ETF requests by several financial institutions with giant BlackRock leading the way. presently, the market appears to be in sideways movement and this trend might continue until anticipated Bitcoin halving event expected around mid of 2024. The positive momentum in Bitcoin price certainly has positive impact on altcoins market.