To be honest without bank account you can't even buy your bitcoin now for example if you have $100 worth of fiat in your hand and imagine the options of buying bitcoin without owning a bank account, it's kind of close to impossible job unless you can find someone in personal and exchange the cash when they sent BTC to your address.

Then how about spending the Bitcoin without converting it into fiat, gift cards just spent as BTC for exchange of goods the chances are too low as well so as of now people in the rural areas who doesn't have a bank account are not going to be the users of Bitcoin.

I don't doubt the existence of Bitcoin in the next 16 years but if that 20% is the amount that he planned to use as retirement fund then I would suggest the diversification of that 20% among different assets and if he is not that much then atleast into gold so he may have something to not worry if Bitcoin is not expected grown. Or as you said taking out the profits after every cycle and invest them on other assets also good idea so it all comes down to our financial management skills.

People who bet on lottery don't really have anything other than their pure superstition or instinct or we simply call it as luck and as we all know if someone win that it's going to be a life changing amount for them even half of the amount nearly cut for taxes in most parts of the world.

Lottery bettors sre so addictive and since the bet amount is tiny it won't cause them financial danger unless they get psyched and do something to outsmart the system.

I am not sure that he meant only for experienced because it's seems the title of topic says your which denotes everyone IMO.

I am a trader and long term holder so in that case why should I have to run the full node, I simply prefer the light weight wallet for activities related to trading and hardware or paper wallet is more safe when we are talking about hacks.

Here teacher has no knowledge about Bitcoin and blockchain which is probably the reason for such discussions so if you have any opportunity to meet the teacher then it's better explain to him what is Bitcoin.

About your nephew he is 15 and old enough to understand things on his own so better teach him about what is blockchain as first before explaining about Bitcoin then he will understand who is wrong.

Paid signals are nothing but manipulation and scam so never rely on that even if someone offers the service for free cause it's impossible for anyone to predict the future and anyone will common sense can get that. Instead of buying signals paying attention to enhance our trading skills like analysis, finding the right strategy, looking for price difference on exchanges, etc can make some actual money for yourself.

First of all, I don't think any merit source will encourage a thread or post created by someone with the intention that they will get merits and rank up cause this is a forum and it will be alive as long as we keep it simple and practical not something like office you will get more oay when you work hard.

I don't blame you if you're intention is to encourage members who supposed to received more merits than they are but the solution is already there [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source, so if you find anything that deserves merits then just post it there and if you still feel they aren't then why don't you apply to become a merit source.

As per the results of this search OP made 27 posts which contains the word Wasabi in it so it's not going to take that long to edit the 26 of them.

But here is the catch if someone who quoted those posts already then it's going to be there unless the person edit that so I suggest do take things too deep just let the users to gain the information on their own.

Visitors are here for exploration only so it's not going to be a loss for them but for locals it will be beneficial if government makes the tourism more conveniently so it will encourage more people to visit there.

We can take Dubai as an best example and how much efforts they are taking to keep the tourism at it's best since they understand oil resource will not last long and their main source of income will be from tourism so government as well as people are happy there cause of different approach.

Not just for newbies, it's really a good thing to earn for anyone but being obsessed with getting merits is different and I hope you won't chase behind the merits just focus on gaining knowledge from the forum members. Newbies or legendary everyone has same rules so don't put yourself under pressure which may deviate you from what you are supposed to be.

If they have such leaders then the governments will never grow up to their potential, Bali is an wonderful place and there are many foreigners come there to explore the place especially from Europe so accepting crypto currency is actually going to be beneficial for them right but instead they are doing opposite and advising not to use it so who is going to lose, which economy is going down if they are not giving space for what the people are there for.

It's not really necessary, imagine telling a newbie to download the Bitcoin core and sync the entire blockchain data which needs super fast internet connection, decent spec device and lots of storage which seems why I need to do this to buy or sell $100 worth of BTC? It will be too complicated for them and may be a con for the Bitcoin itself if we expect everyone to run their own full node.

Let's decide what is their choice depends on their needs and for most users light weight wallets which is non custodial and open source is enough.

First of all if Google is giving bitcointalk threads as results in their first page for such a vague keywords about Gambling is actually good for the bitcointalk traffic.

But in someway these kind of threads are against the forum rules under spamming and no duplication of threads cause more or less all the topics portrays the same thing but the moderation can't be that much strict either or else there will be no topics to discuss at all so it's in the hands of mods and what we can do is report to mods if we feel the thread should be locked or not supposed to be here with appropriate reason.

I don't remember there is any bots which notifies mentions or someone quoting your post when I registered here and not the merit system either for a while. So I remember going through all the pages to see how the discussion is going and it was good old days though. Then multiple bots came which made the life easier still it's easier to find out someone who simply post for meeting their weekly quota or engaging in actual discussions.

I am one who didn't try to chase merit and lick someone to get the thing, I am just trying to be me and you know I haven't met that high ranks like other members, no offence about anyone with due respect just talking about myself.

What was the error you saw when you entered the password, incorrect or any other?

As everyone says no trace of password change and I doubt any hack attempt made because if they do they usually don't let you to have the old email which can be used to reset the password anytime when you want.

I think you have been using the forum in always logged in, but remember when you logout the account from one device it logout from every device where the account is currently logged in, so don't forget to manage your passwords wisely.

Maybe it's their attitude which will eventually change only if they learn the lesson in bitter way.

Bitcointalk is a place where people from all around the world connects and there is absolute freedom of speech gave to every members so it may take some time for new member to adapt to the environment. Who listens more gathers more information than who become dump when someone correct their mistake the benefits can be felt later when they face situation in reality.

I think you are mentioning about something in games and rounds section which maybe good but there is nothing wrong with the arts contest and because the site can afford such amount for the marketing cause this year the arts contests are more often than previous if I am not wrong so the contest is beneficial to the site in some way.

But you got a point though, it will be even more effective if some contests really based on gambling so more users can connect to it but so far the marketing team is doing good and they will keep coming with new ideas.

First of all, the possibility of internet go down completely is zero and if that happens not only crypto the whole world will turn into chaos since most of the running system is based on the internet.

Crypto currency value is based on its demand and supply, if BTC is around 25K then people are ready to buy at that price and that's the simple reason.

There is no one who knows everything in this world but I agree with you on some non sense discussions which has no value and most of them don't know why they are getting into it because it has been already discussed many times in the same thread itself.

Receiving merits is a sign that someone is getting notified by other members of bitcointalk but it doesn't mean all others are just stupid and exists here for no reason. Everyone is trying to learn something and trying to contribute in a way they can and FYI not every great post received merit and all the posts received merits are great.

The same things can happen again and again because people will never learn anything until they took their greed out when it comes to investments. 10% isn't that much return, to be honest, and not really worth the risk which is 100%.

Simply holding the BTC in their wallet will give away huge returns if they go through the bull season so all they need to do is to buy and wait for the bull trend and then sell to make profits.