It's an interesting scientific forum research you did, though. What is the sample? How many topics have you looked at to come to these conclusions? I'm willing to bet not much.

You touched on a very interesting topic and it would be great to conduct a full-fledged study on this topic. For example, by automating the process, because manually, by a person, it will take forever.

But nuances arise. How to evaluate the usefulness of posts? Merit is not a 100% objective measure of usefulness. Especially in the hands of merit sources, who sometimes throw away merit in batches left and right, which casts doubt on the usefulness of certain posts.

The idea of ranking posts based on merit seems interesting (moving posts with merit to the front pages), but wouldn't that disrupt the natural flow of discussion on the forum and create confusion in the sequence of posts? That is, it will turn out that the answers to the questions will be in front (the first pages) of the questions themselves. In my opinion, this will create chaos with posts.

There is only one way out - to combine solutions for different conditions. That is, select the metal that will be most resistant to the conditions you expect. If you are afraid of a fire that could harm your plate, then it is better to choose a stainless steel type that has the best fire resistance. If there is no threat of ignition, then you can limit yourself to aluminum, but you should take into account the fact that aluminum is susceptible to alkalis, which dissolve the oxide (protective) film on the surface of the aluminum. For example, alkali may be present in the soil and therefore, it is a bad place to store an aluminum plate. Or you will have to think about a way to protect this metal with additional means (paint or other protective coating).

And even better - diversification: several plates from different types of metal. Paranoid people (who believe that the more backups there are, the higher the chances that one of them will be found by strangers.) can hide them all in one place.


The density of copper is 2.5-3 units on the Mohs scale, and stainless steel is 4.5, and here you are right in saying that stainless steel is more difficult to process. But you weren’t going to do this manually, right? Now it is not a problem to find a power tool for these purposes that will allow you to easily interact even with titanium.

Doubts gnaw at the minds of newcomers.This is fine. Fear arises when there is no confidence in the bitcoin future. In fact, only the unknown awaits us all, but the forecast for the bitcoin remains positive. The price of a bitcoin will definitely fall and rise, but if you hold it for at least one full cycle, it will undoubtedly bring good dividends. This has happened more than once and at the moment there are no prerequisites that this series will be interrupted.

A figure of $100.000 would look very significant, and I also assume that soon (within a few years) we will see this value. $100.000 will be the beginning of a new milestone in the history of the bitcoin and it will certainly attract new users and investors. Probably, the threshold of $100.000 will be overcome and at its peak the price of bitcoin will trade within $130k-150k. Or maybe even higher.

You voiced an extremely laconic message. There's no better way to say it.

Gambling primarily harms your pockets.

The search for a quick and easy way to get rich most often leads to a dead end of losses. The path to wealth is long and difficult. Most prefer the first, but only a few come to the second.

There are many better ways to spend your money than gambling. It's great that you're back to bitcoin, but even here one should not relax and let everything take its course.

It's normal parental behavior to keep children safe. Especially from what these parents themselves don't understand and which for them is something like a bubble or a fraudulent scheme. Of course, they will try to “protect” their children from bitcoin.

Tell me, when was the media objective? Never. But despite the deceitful way they present information, in the mass consciousness the media still remain a source of “true” information and have a very strong influence on the minds of their viewers. It seems that the media is deliberately demonizing the bitcoin, trying to alienate as many people as possible from it.

Listen to the media and do the opposite, this is how you can reformulate the famous expression.

Here it’s not so much about the bitcoin, but also about the financial literacy of people in general, which is the basis for investing in general. Add the negative perception of the bitcoin in the public consciousness, the fear of learning and learning new things, not to mention the fact that this requires cash injections, which undoubtedly pushes people away from their passion for the bitcoin. Also, there is one more point - fraudulent schemes and ways to deceive people in order to get their money. Let's not lie, there are a lot of such types of activities, after encountering which, people will be afraid to get involved with something like the bitcoin.

There are several options for resolving the dispute over investments in bitcoin:
- don't tell anyone about your BTC-investments until a certain point, even your wife or husband, in order to avoid influencing your investment strategy and the emergence of conflict situations due to the right moment of sale bitcoin.
- exchange your wife or husband for a person who will not interfere in your affairs with bitcoin, at least until you get rich and your beloved half wants to take half from you.

People will always blame anything but themselves for their problems. This time the accusation went to the bitcoin.

Without a doubt. It is enough to register "without a SIM card and log in using blockchain-powered anonymous numbers" -
https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0.
And then you won’t find a single scammer.


Where did you find information about BTC and USDT?

Telegram has a huge customer base and I am sure that many will use this wallet. Do you think people will install a third party wallet when there is one already built into this app? Of course not. And those who are far from the topic of cryptocurrencies will definitely do this. They are simply not informed enough and will think that using "Telegram in-app wallet" is normal. But you and I know that this is not so.

And how are you going to convey this information to telegram users? It seems to me that this battle is already lost.

Here on this forum, we all know about this, but millions of housewives who use telegram don't.


What else is interesting to me: how will SEC react to @wallet? I remember telegram had some problems with them.

Well, it’s great that you have discovered another useful property of the bitcoin. Indeed, bitcoin is a unique instrument that performs completely different functions in the hands of different people. For a trader - one thing, for an investor another, and in your case - cross-border payments. What’s also surprising is that this is not the entire list of possibilities.

Nothing can be done about this. The leaved btc's can't be returned, but you can get new ones. By the way, what volume of bitcoins went through your wallet? I was just curious.

In this case, accepting the fact that these bitcoin can't be returned will help you feel better. Get rid of past thoughts to open up new opportunities for yourself to receive new btc.

I assume that OP wanted to distribute the credits more evenly between different users.


Next time you will be more careful and this incident is a lesson for everyone, not just you.

Personally, I am quite happy with the current merit submission system, and such “stair” in the form of an additional pop-up window with a warning will only irritate me. There is no need to unnecessarily clutter the forum, which I personally like for its simplicity.

It's a shame that you wasted your merits? Now you have a great incentive to accumulate new ones, which will have a positive effect on your rank. Take advantage of the new opportunity and don't be discouraged.

Today you easily earned $10 by trading bitcoin, and tomorrow you will easily lose $100 by the same trading. Trading for me is practically no different from gambling - everything is tied to luck in the same way. Because both the gambler and the trader have practically no influence on the current situation, but are only trying to predict a possible event. A casino bet or buy order is a forecast for the expected turn of events.

Everyone knows about gambling addiction, but have people discussed addiction to trading? In my opinion, this illness also exists.

It would be better if you learned how to hold bitcoin than engage in the above nonsense.

Congratulations on what? Are you sure that bitcoin will allow you to escape from global economy collapses? If this happens, it will definitely affect bitcoin too, but it’s not clear how. I think that the capabilities of btc are overrated and I am not sure that bitcoin will withstand the blow of the global economy collapses.

It's too late to do anything now if global economy collapses happens anytime soon. It was necessary to prepare for this event much earlier.

The question is what exactly to accumulate? If bitcoin collapses greatly during the crisis, then what is the use of saving it? I suppose diversification can't be avoided. You need to stock up on cash so that in the event of a collapse of btc, you can buy it on the cheap. In theory, in any crisis, any form of money and securities collapses, therefore, you need to stock up on material assets, such as canned meat and matches basic necessities. This will be in demand at all times, just like food. Maybe, in order to diversify, invest in food production? For example, in pharmaceutical companies during the pandemic, whose shares have risen in price very much.

Are you sure the problem is with the display? And if not?

If the defect is in the display, can I try to replace it? Are there cases where the display fails on its own, without even using the device?

After reading about @lombok’s problem, I had a question: it turns out that periodically hardware wallet (namely trezor) need to be connected to a PC/laptop (power source), otherwise this could lead to the device failure? Could this be related to the memory of this device, which stops working due to a long lack of power? I've heard that something similar happens with USB flash drives. Otherwise, I don’t understand how the device failed. This case requires detailed analysis, as it may affect many trezor device users. OP, how about contacting trezor's support and describing your problem. It would be nice to know what they have to say about this. And also, if possible, provide the trezor HW for diagnostics from the service center or specialist. Of course, under your close supervision and only with complete trust in them.

I answer the question in the title: no way.

In the title you talk about countries, and in the post you write about the inhabitants of these countries. These are different things and bitcoin will have completely different effects in both cases.

Give examples of countries for which bitcoin contributed to economic development. It seems to me that you are mistaken in voicing this, because btc is not capable of changing the backward economies of third world countries and such examples do not exist at the moment. The problem with the economy of such countries must be eliminated in a different way, through a set of measures and actions, and not just by buying and selling bitcoin. BTC is not able to solve all the economic problems of both individuals and entire countries and is not a panacea for this.

But bitcoin can help solve the problem of inflation of individual people. There's certainly no arguing here.

I would say that gambling is not that it is not considered a method of making money, but rather, gambling is a method of losing money. For gamblers.

The only difference between old and new gamblers is who lost more money in the casino. I think you understand that whoever gambles longer loses more money.

And also, for an old gambler, gambling addiction is like a chronic disease - just as old and lasting for many years. For a newbie, it’s as if he’s caught this disease for the first time and is just starting to get sick. That is, their gaming addiction differs in the degree of neglect.

The experience of an old and a new gambler is the difference between the money they lost, first of all.

The casino always wins. Guess at whose expense.

If you want to save your money, then avoid gambling and then you won't need the "Best Practices for Staying Safe When Gambling". This problem will disappear on its own. So does “Best Responsible Gambling measures”.

Curious, will my idea be added to the main list?

- Never trust any online casino. Each of them can fail at any moment.

Trick with removing the CMOS battery doesn't always work.
You are not proposing the simplest solution to replacing the BIOS chip. This process will probably take more than 5 minutes, because you will need to gain access to the board with the chip. For example, on laptops. Sometimes may need to go through nine circles of hell to get to the motherboard without damaging anything. Here you can add a solution with flashing the BIOS using a programmer, instead of replacing a BIOS chip of an identical model from the exact same motherboard (which still needs to be found).

In general, your message is correct - you should not rely entirely on a password-protected BIOS to block the USB. You can always find a solution to get around this (any) obstacle. It's just a matter of resources spent.

Discussions on this topic have been going on for a long time and I would rather, as a precaution, try to avoid such blockchain explorer sites as much as possible.


I like this version of why shouldn't use blockchain explorers.

Nowadays, when almost every site collects data about us, especially those related to cryptocurrencies, I am inclined to assume that blockchain explorers do something similar and they will not necessarily use this information to harm users. Those who gain access to this data can be dangerous, for example, by hacking or stealing data from sites like blockchain.com. Therefore, I think that you should always take precautions when dealing with cryptocurrencies, leaving less traces of yourself that may remain on the blockchain explorers.

This ANN threads are littered with third-party topics discussing gambling and it will be difficult for beginners to find proven and reliable casinos that accept payments in crypto. Although in that section there are ANN topics that have been posted on the forum for quite a long time and are famous, including holding various competitions and events, as well as signature campaigns. It is unlikely that there are scam casinos among them.

For example, here are some of them:
Duelbits.com 
Blackjack.fun 
Stake.com
Roobet.com 
BITCASINO 
WINZ.IO

But even here you need to be careful, avoiding casinos like 1XBIT.COM. 

I think there is no better topic with reviews of online casinos than topic 🤜 GamblingBro.com 🤛 Honest crypto casino reviews ✅ Tested with real deposits ✅ on the forum. But the nuance is that there are not reviews on all casinos (not even all from the forum).

I adore serious questions to which I immediately give equally serious answers.

I think only he himself can tell about his vision. Over time, this vision of his could seriously change. Maybe it would be better to ask him himself?

What is the connection between "cex or dex can manipulate the price" and "Satoshi's P2P vision"? How does "cex or dex" prevent you from taking p2p? What prevents you from buying and selling anything for bitcoin, and not at the rate of dollar? And then, you immediately start not caring about price pumps and dumps. 1 BTC = ~26.500$ 1 BTC and then everything falls into place.

Before criticize others, look at yourself. How do you use bitcoin? Start changing the world with yourself first, not with others.

But did satoshi just forget to tell us about this? But I think that he himself didn’t really know what bitcoin would eventually become, how it would change and how exactly people would use it.

There was already one, with his true Satoshi Vision Bitcoin. Remember this one? Maybe this is enough already?

Wait, either I can’t count, or our BestChange campaign manager pulled out of vacation before the end of two weeks? We are glad to see you with us again. Even ahead of schedule.

Since @Little Mouse left the signature campaign, which means 1 slot remains open, will someone else be taken to the green team?

I wouldn't want to seem like a bore , it seems you forgot to fill out the google spreadsheet from the first page of this topic for the past week.