Good thread you put together. I noticed this at the bottom page when I open any board, but it's possible many users have missed it so far. Locked and sticky threads seem easy enough to explain, but some of the others might not be too familiar.

"Locked Topics: Threads can be closed for a variety of reasons, depending on the OP"
This can also depend on the moderators who can lock a thread if it is running into a spam mega thread and the OP might have forgotten to monitor their thread.

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How one sees Bitcoin is useless except it gets traded for something else. At the time, 2 pizzas was approximately worth 10,000 bitcoins, today, 2 pizzas are worth a couple of sats or one-seventh of one Bitcoin. Ten years from now, it might be worth 1 sat or less.
The value is still very much speculative, but it's those that are willing to use it as a currency that create inroads for more adoption.

10,000 units of it, not it's worth in USD.

With the way the Chinese nation operates, it is unlikely that Bitcoin would be allowed to thrive independently and unregulated. They are foremost in the quest for a Government backed digital currency and have attempted to halt all crypto transactions and activities, terming them illegal.

I do not expect that it would become a Bitcoin friendly state at any time in the future, this could be a marketing strategy for their stable coins, a way to instill confidence in people to use it.

Considering that a public topic was not created it's safe to say that theymos might have not wanted to explain the reason behind the decision. It could be due to all the heat created from the chipmixer situation which indirectly linked to the forum and anywhere else the mixer had an online presence.

It is a drastic decision in my opinion, one which may be to create indemnity; the forum and it's staffs are not directly linked to a mixer and they operate independently. Best case scenario, it's just a precautionary measure against any future occurrence.

The status of Bitcoin in China is a grey area with constantly changing complexities. There has also been several layers of bans to Bitcoin from China, including the most recent ban to mining, causing the nation to drop from being the most popular for Bitcoin mining.

'Some' Chinese banks are considering being more friendly to cryptocurrency and related companies, but it would be a while before it counts as a crypto friendly region.

Everyone on the forum were once newbies at a time and once lacked any knowledge they possess now. Do not feel embarrassed to ask questions and I'm sure you will not be ignored.

A honest question would not be considered spam, you only have to take the extra effort to do a quick search to find out if your question has been answered before, then you can freely ask.

If you've been around for more than a year as a guest, you should be familiar with the forum rules and modus operandi by now. It is an encouraged practice to take some time to read about the forum and acquire knowledge before registering an account when you are ready to contribute.
I would be looking forward to your contributions.

An account, no matter how old it is, would be 'brand new' rank until it gets at least 1 activity, at which time it would be a newbie ranked account. Majority of users fall in this rank and never make a post.
Here's an account registered since 2015, but is still brand new.

Avoiding this is pretty simple if you;
• Ignore unsolicited messages. They usually send this to social media accounts which has a link to the crypto industry, either from what is on your feed or your bio,
• Do not apply for random airdrops, avoid them entirely if you can,

If it's too good to be true, it probably is.

We have a trading volume of over $16 billion in a bearish market period. That counts as a pretty high transaction volume in my opinion, when compared to what it was 13 years ago.
Satoshi made a futuristic prediction, that doesn't mean he was referring to that particular year.

Satoshi never expected Bitcoin to be adopted by governments, but the citizens who would use it to escape the fiat financial trap the government put them into.

I believe we should only invest amounts of Bitcoin that we would not need to liquidate in other to finance a real life need, more like spare money, which makes up only a small percentage of your total savings.
If you do this, you would not need to sell for health emergencies or any other financial requirement.

That's the textbook advice, but it's likely that many holders risk a little bit more than they can afford to lose with Bitcoin as their trust in it grows and when faced with a financial need, one might need to sell off.

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All the reasons you outlined are valid and would compel pretty much anyone to sell, but for me that would only be a percentage of my holdings, I plan to always hold some amount of Bitcoin for years to come and never fully "cash out".

All those words are more or less synonyms of each other, with only slight difference in meaning and they all work fine when describing Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency is more fitting cause it distinguises it to be a covert or encrypted means of transacting unlike Fiat which can be virtual or digital

You would shorten it to a "P2P electronic cash."

You sort of described what majority of newbies go through when they own their first bitcoins or sats. I had a strong resolve to hold my bitcoins from the start after exploring a little bit with altcoins and the market cycles I've gone through has only strengthened that.

Others might not have had smikar experiences and needed to anxiously hold through some up and downs in the market to not be affected much by price changes.

Plagiarism is frowned upon in general and not just on the forum. In academic work, scholarly articles and any writing platform.
Copying and pasting someone else's work with no reference whatsoever to the author is unethical and ignorance of any isolated rule does not excuse it.
I am one who advocates for the newbie welcome message to be implemented to help new users familiarize with the rules and how the forum works, but you don't need to be informed not to plagiarize others content, only that it carries a heavy punishment.

How did you reach that conclusion? If one plagiarized post is discovered most would not bother to keep going through the post history.

That's opening a whole new can of worms.

I said that I can't think of a logical reason for a well meaning forum member to plagiarize. In cases of a single slip up, it is considerable for them to be considered and not banned, but that also does not make up the bulk of the cases, imo.

You mean many users were banned for plagiarism and did not choose to appeal the process?
I can't remember how frequent bans we're at that time and I can understand if some leniency and restraint is being applied now before kicking someone off if they have contributed to the forum, or did not do it with a malicious intent.
But for cases were they (constantly) stole others work and passed it off as theirs to earn from signatures, they deserve the ban.

Signature bans were handed out for peculiar cases and was never really that common. AFAIR, only a handful of members were given such punishments and the threads for the appeal would draw out for a long period, giving the impression that it was a common practice.

These days a permanent bans seems to suffice for most cases.

Firstly, I wouldn't say that bans caused a drop in activity, there are so many factors like Bitcoin price changes, introduction of ICOs, NFTs etc.
I can't think of a logical reason for a well meaning forum member to plagiarize, so they would not be missed if they are banned, and some of them still evade the ban nonetheless.

A drop in activity does not mean a failure of an idea. I would rather a less spam filled forum without lots of the activity we are getting now.

Can you share the exact challenges you are having? That would help others to put you through.
Bitcoin is a broad concept and it would be difficult to explain with a reply. It is generally a P2P system of transacting without the need for a middle man.
When describing it, terms like decentralized, immutable, transparent, comes up often and define how it operates.

Research.
All the help you need is already available online, you just need to find it.
Search the forum for questions like yours and go through the replies to find useful answers.

The Bitcoin whitepaper is not exactly newbie friendly and contains some complex information.
It's better for a new user to start off with more basic knowledge and read the whitepaper gradually.

I agree.
He has been at the club for 12 years now and it seems that his best days with Atletico Madrid are behind him when the won the Laliga from the two Spanish Giants and almost won the Uefa Champions League title on two occasions. It is time for a change of style and management and a breath of fresh air at the other side of Madrid.

I would equally like to see Simeone at a different side and how his tactics would work in a different league.

Centralized exchanges can also be relatively expensive to use, considering that most of them use a fixed fee to avoid having tanssctions stuck in the mempool due to feerate changes after the transaction was made, or to make some profits from the fees in addition to charges.

OP might be on the lookout for a privacy option, in which case P2P on centralized exchanges would not cut it.

Your fist step would have been to remove the compromised email address from any platform it was linked to. If a hacker could access a seedphrase stored in it, they can get into any platform linked to it.

I'd you still have access to the email and log it details why not log the intruder out? That's seems to be the logical approach to prevent any further loss coming to you.

This should be the fourth thread I'm seeing about government regulation in Bitcoin and it just shows how blindly people trust the conventional financial system. Bitcoin was created to be a decentralized system running on consensus rule, any form of government interference or regulations means it is no longer functioning as it was designed to.

A second point to look at is how the conventional financial system is functioning with regulations.

Bitcoin does not need to solve global economy issues. Bitcoin has been pretty okay this past decade or so without government regulation and would keep growing without it.