If some of the basic lessons are proving difficult, you should put off investing actual money unin you have gotten a hang of it. This doesn't mean you must learn everything before starting off as even the most experienced traders still learn regularly, but you should have a grip of the fundamentals.

Also, trading is not for everyone. There are many skills that one can learn and if you do not really have the interest in something but only want to do it cause you heard it's profitable, chances are you would not be successful at it.

Move this thread to reputation board. You can do so by clicking "move topic" at the bottom left of the page.

There is no forum rule against multiple accounts, but most campaigns make it against their rules. If they have both joined any if sub canoaignsz then leave a negative tag on the account with this thread as the reference.

If one is trying to choose if a website is legitimate or not, trustpilot is not the solution. If the website is open source, you can verify the codes and if you don't know how to, check on the GitHub channel. If it's closed source, check the date the website was created and check for scam discussions around it on different platforms. Also check for variations to the web link.

As you pointed out, people buying fake reviews for their platform would not be bothered if the user selling it has a negative tag on the forum.

Samsung outdoes iOS here, cause I just tried with my default (iPhone) camera and was asked to choose if I wanted to open the app in duckduckgo browser without any other information given.
Clicking on that redirects me directly to the browser.

It poses little risk if one can easily read the url before clicking on the link in the qr code.

This is the present scenario in cryptocurrency exchanges and not the future. Centralized exchanges already can request any additional information and freeze your funds at their discretion and also keep certain amount of reserve funds in case of losses.

I would rather be my own bank, cause that's the purpose of an alternate currency. It gives me control over my assets and I can transact without authorization from a 3rd party.
Centralized exchanges also has lots of cons attached to it and you don't have protection from mistaken transactions or transparency. They also own your coins as you do not have the private keys.

• My data is valuable and is highly prone to being abused,
• I do not want my data circulating on the dark web or being resold to other platforms,
• I would want my Bitcoin transactions to be pseudo anonymous to prevent being tracked.

No.
There is no single criterion with which you can judge what project is worth investing in. Partnerships with reputable establishments is a plus, but not a determinant of a good project.

No. The only determinant of the success of a project is it's utility in day to day life. You can surmise that if a reputable company is willing to associate with a particular project, then they have seen prospects in it, but that doesn't mean it's going to be successful.

• Burning tokens,
• Locking tokens for a certain period of time after purchase,
• Offering extra tokens for staking your purchased tokens

These are all ways projects use to try and look profitable and attractive to investors and attract new ones. It doesn't offer practical benefits and would not make a shit project any better in the long run.
In a time where there are so many projects, anything to stand out from the rest is a welcome idea.

You do not have to delete your secret question if you're sure no one can guess the answer.
The lock feature when you try to recover your account using the secret question option comes in handy if someone hacks your account and you want it locked while you try to recover it through the admins.

No onenca use the feature to access your account and worse case scenario is you locking yourself out, which you can easily undo if you have a staked address or still have access to the email used to open the account.

Rather than posting 6 urls which link back to the same topic, just different sections, you could simply just post the link to the forum rules.

This thread is redundant cause the link to the forum rules and the other 2 are stickies on different boards and all users can easily read them.

Depends largely on the member wearing the avatar. If it's a reputable one, then I could be curious enough to want to know where it leads to.
It is recommended that they also include the URL in their personal text or a short description of the website.

If it's a reply made in someone else's thread, it's against forum rules and if you suspect it to be promoting suspicious links, it should be reported.

Good work putting in honest effort to grow adoption of Bitcoin, which becomes more important as several governments are becoming more restrictive in how they let people use fiat currencies, makeng regulations stricter to try and boost economies.

The effectiveness of your approach is yet to be seen and depends on the location it is placed, the mindset of the people there as well as how clear the sticker information is.
The "Scan to learn more" text is a bit small and would be missed by some, also people are not used to scanning websites to access them and could feel they are being scammed in some way.

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Don't be in a hurry to make any changes however, and if the endeavor is too expensive, you can feel free to pause or discontinue it. Anyone with access to a movie device would come across Bitcoin one way or another.

Trustwallet is "non custodian", but is closed source and being so, users cannot verify the code being used or check if trustwallet pregenerates keys, which means they have full access to funds stored.

The issue with the campaign manager is an isolated incident and does not reflect any flaw on how electrum works. It was most likely an error made by the holder which led to the loss.

You have the question and the answer.
YouTubers and "influencers" are paid to shill projects to their audience and hope they buy into it. And you don't assume someone to be a financial advisor cause they made a couple of videos talking about the potential outcome of an investment. On this forum price speculation is talked about a lot, and we discuss what the future of Bitcoin is going to be, that doesn't make the users here advisors, does it?

You can't expect people to stop doing what they profit from, you can only advice investors to do their own research.

Bitcoin is already a fully decentralized ecosystem which is out of the control of central authority. It doesn't need to be tweaked to improve how it works.

I also see no purpose of competing with CBDCs or how this your proposition could actually rival them. CBDCs are government backed and designed to serve as an alternative to the native fiat, creating a protocol does not compete with that.

"I forgot my wallet password and did not keep any backups, what should I do?"
That's similar to what you're asking here.

The forum tries as much as possible to mimick how bitcoun operates in privacy and autonomy. You are mean to back up your passwords, so you can always access your account. You can also use a throwaway email provider when creating your account.

You can safely create a new account since you were not banned (presumably) and learn how to properly secure your account.

You can create a wallet address for them on a hardware wallet or airgapped device and send Bitcoins regularly to it. You can also intimate your spouse of your plan and teach them how to work around cryptocurrencies if they are not savvy, so they can always access the funds should anything happen to you and still fulfill the purpose.

This would require some sort of staking on a centralized platform. This comes with the risks that you are not in control of the funds and the platform can fold, seize or freeze the funds or get hacked.
If you're going to invest in a decentralized asset, you should not shirk the responsibility that comes with safeguarding the assets.

Great to see more Nigerians getting into Bitcoin and even more impressive that you actually did your own research before deciding to invest.
Hope you've moved your funds out of the exchange (cause I assume it's a centralized one you exchanged with)? You should use a non custodian wallet for storage of your bitcoins to give you full control of your funds.

Do not rush your journey into Bitcoin. It's alright to sell things that are not of value, but always be careful when investing to avoid risking more than you can afford to lose.

Bitcoin is not some random shitcoin that a few whales can manipulate and determine the price.
It's distribution is not as unequal to allow a few individuals to control the price.

Why not start by using the exchanges that allow direct P2P transactions? There are a couple of such decentralized exchanges like bisq and Hodlhodl.
Centralized exchanges would not change their privacy policy.

Creating a treasure map or subscribing to some centralized service would not be that much easier than following a couple of guidelines to set up a locked transaction for a determined period of time and giving the seedphrase to the receiving wallet to the person you want to get the bitcoins when the transaction is confirmed.

One just actually needs to set out to do it

Did you advice your colleague on backups at any time in the past? If she did not keep any backups to her seedphrase, then it's impossible to recover the address.

She already made a couple of mistakes;
• Storing your crypto assets on a device you carry around. It's better kept on an airgapped device, which is never connected to the internet and not carried around.
• Not backing up your wallet securely.
• Not using an open source wallet.