You do not "vouch" for the reliability of a 3rd party platform. One common quote here is 'not to trust, but to verify", and this applies to not trusting an exchange (be it centralized or decentralized) with the safeguarding of your assets.
There are so many risks that exists besides that of a hack or a breach.

These are not questions you can find answers to here. You can do your research on the different exchanges, but would only get information on what's publicly available.

The solution is to keep your money out of centralized platforms.

You would likely not get an answer directly from those who do store their funds on an exchange, or you'll get the generic one of how it's being used to trade and it's expensive to transfer between exchange and wakey several times.

And this is only an imagined benefit which does not really exist in reality.
I find it way more easier to create an electrum wallet and back it up securely, all of which can be done under a few minutes, than to create an account on exchange, toggle back and forth from my email to the exchange to verify that, and then have to pass a KYC process which could take anything from a few minutes to a couple of days. When making a transaction, one would also need to toggle back and forth from their email to the homepage.

The perceived convince really does not exist in practice. I would be much safer handling my assets myself, than leaving it with a third-party, but that's just me

Correctly said.
There is no universal scale which determines who is smarter than another and the degree of said difference. People have their strengths and weakness and as an employee, or business owner, your job is to utilize the strengths of people you employ and find ways to minimize the effect of their weakness.

There are key factors to a business and as an owner, you cannot be equally skilled in the various areas. A great project design would need good marketing, and this involves hiring people smarter than you in that field, same with finances, Human Resource, customer service etcetera.

There are so many facets to running a business and as an owner, you choose what slide someone gets to see, which is relevant to the execution of their roles.

It depends on how you look at the market.
A good year is mostly referring to one in which the price is spiking up and if you enter at that time, it's very likely you would be buying at or close to the top, but when you enter earlier, you have the opportunity to accumulate at lower prices, building says all the way up.

• The next bull run could be more than 2 years away.
• Drop in prices should be an opportunity to buy more at cheaper prices rather than slowing down.

• Invest as much as you can spare.
That's the most important advice to navigate the market and avoid selling at a loss. If you invest smartly, you can easily hodl through different market conditions than someone who takes out money they need or takes a loan to invest
• Also, keep your assets out of exchanges or custodian platforms.

You do not need approval to create a bitcointalk niche on some other chat based platform, AFAIK, there's at least one of such communities which is on discord, created by Cyrus.

Telegram has millions of users and if forum users are interested they can also join in as well.

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Attempting to replicate the merit and signature system would depend on how much interest it generates. It could be some other way for users interested in Bitcoin, but not so much in the forum layout, to get to experience it on some other platform.

Attention seeking behaviour at its finest from CSW. Using a sensational amount in the suit might just be a way to show that there still might be profit at the end of his sham campaign and attract investments.

When does it all end?

We've heard the death of Bitcoin more times than we can count on both hands and yet here; Bitcoin is still at a higher price than over 60% of any of its previous prices.
FTX fallout is a crash and burn being repeated in different forms for individuals who keep trusting platforms over self custody, it's not the first and would not be the last.

The future of crypto as a whole would largely be a switch of the current shitcoins to different ones which would again attract newer investors and the cycle continues. Majority of the current altcoins on the market would not exist in a few years and would be replaced by newer ones.

1BTC would always be equal to 1BTC.

While there is no analysis to suggest this is going to happen, it's not an alarming situation. Drops are part of the market, as much as price rises are. If we drop below $15k, it's an opportunity to buy at cheaper prices.

Doesn't matter, neither does the highest price of 2022.
Just, do your research, buy and then hodl, if you consider it purely as an investment. And if not, buy and use it for regular transactions when you can.

Almost certainly an illegitimate business. Passing funds which you do not know its source is a huge risk to you and could possibly make you an accomplice to a crime.

Not worth the risk in my opinion.

If they do not understand Bitcoin very well, then it's safer they do not invest in it at all. Creating a list to show the strength of Bitcoin is good, but anyone who cannot do a basic research to find out how the network operates and maybe zoom out of the chart to see previous oricae actions and reasons for them does not deserve to buy in at discounted prices.
They would be back in a few months or years when the market is bulling and fomo in.

Price actions are most likely not the result of market manipulation. It's a volatile commodity, so its value would remain speculative, at least for a few years.

A new dress would be a good way to spend he prize money lol.
There is normally so much privacy around the forum, that knowing the gender of members is quite tricky.

Here's a quick code for anyone who wants to copy the format, without having to clear out the votes which are included in it.

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To my nominations, this has not been my most active year on the forum and I might not be familiar with current happenings in and around the forum. I should however still be able to vote on some of the categories;

• Hero of Good: Hhampuz, CryptopreneurBrainboss
• Golden Feather: DdmrDdmr, Pharmacist
• Bitcointalk Ninja: TryNinja (I think his display name already gives a huge advantage in this poll)
• Bitcoin Geek: LoyceV, o_e_l_e_o
• Event of the Year: Bitcoin, being Bitcoin
• Fail of the Year: Shitcoins, and CSW with his bullshit suits
• Discovery of the Year: PowerGlove, for obvious reasons
• Best SpamBuster: mprep
• Best ScamBuster: TBA
• Craft Master: Jayce
• AntiHero TBA
• Miss Bitcointalk: TBA

They either do not check the date or do not care about it, but are only motivated to make more ooss and fulfill their post quota for the week. This is correct for most of the cases, although there would be outliers where the conversation was rightly bumped up and users are contributing new and relevant pieces of information to any who is still interested in the topic.

• No, not after it has been extensively discussed.
• Report such thread to the mods, suggesting it should be locked.
• This should be considered on a case by case basis. Some threads are still relevant 2 years after they were first posted and some discussions remain open even after much time has passed and much has been said. But for majority of the cases, it doesn't add anything new to the forum or to the discussion.

On the contrary, governments legalizing shitcoins like BitcoinCash could impede adoption as citizens would associate failure if the currency to pick up to Bitcoin, which is the leading cryptocurrency. Altcoins and CBDCs alike are just distractions, which I don't believe has any significant, long lasting effect on the trajectory of Bitcoin, in terms of adoption and popularity.

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If you consider the country which has adopted Bitcoin directly, it really has not had much of an effect on the market, and that's a good thing in my opinion; government's policies does not influence the market, it's actions of traders that do.

Decentralization does not involve holding multiple assets (mostly shitcoins) in a correlated market. A smart way to diversify is to pick the best of different industries and niches and buy in, this way you have assets which can have varying degrees of success across different times.
I advice Bitcoin holders to experiment in other sectors, but I never advice them on altcoins or tokens to buy.

99% is quite a high number, some would argue too high to have in a highly speculative asset as it could swing in many directions quickly, due to market forces of demand supply.
I would however not knock down the strategy at all, people learn to take more risks the more they get their feet wet in an investment and of course, when they profit from it. It is also an easier decision to make when your country's Fiat is depreciating quickly in value.

If they had a good buy in time, they could easily liquidate if an emergency calls for the funds, but you are ultimately right; ideally, only amounts you can afford to lose should be held in high risk assets.

In majority of the boards, users can delete their own post themselves, with only a few exceptions on how long you have to wait to delete them.

That's the normal progress of users. You learn the more you read and contribute, and learning is an unending curve; same way you don't like some of your previous posts now, you might not like some of your current posts soon, but it all shows you're making progress.

• Posts gaps in threads and on your profile,
• Potential activity drop.

The legal cost of defending his many accusations is also high and would likely cower many into silence rather than challenging his lies.

Couldn't find muh recent information on the case, besides a failed attempt by CSW to have it "struck out".

Different users have different reasons for forfeiting their privacy and autonomy to a third-party. Could be low fees, faster transactions, convenient exchanges etcetera, but as I mentioned earlier and which many users have found out, the risk is greater when compared to these perceived positives.

You would not give coneone your wallet to hold, regardless how reputable they look or the promises they make, so why would you allow third parties control your funds and allow you use it at their discretion?

Unfortunately, most people would forget about the incident in a few days to weeks and all the warnings to avoid CEX would not be a trending topic anymore.

While trying to properly sign a message, you should know that having access to the original email address used to open your account helps to also streamline the recovery process.

Ensure that is the account used to send the recovery email, and let it enough time for a response. The process is much faster than it was before, but it would still require a little time for it to be checked and you'll get a response with further instructions.