Here's the link the the activity calendar. It tells the date and time of the start of the next activity period, which is 8:53 (forum time) tomorrow.

You can use the sheet in subsequent times to know when to expect an activity push, after making more posts than activities.

The culture of hitting on newbies, for the sake of it is quite unhealthy to me. Members ask questions based on ignorance of the fact, and sometimes can, and should, be given the benefit of the doubt even if it looks obvious to older members.
Op could be asking if there's an unwritten rule about it, and even though the can post there (other boards), is it something the should be doing, or it could be a simple oversight.

Newbies are encourage to ask questions, B&H could very well be the kindergarten of the forum, and it's a complex forum enough for anyone to get confused on one thing or the other.

His thinking might have be somewhat similar to the Bitcoin idea, but the intention was way different.

Having a singular power plant fueling the system already presents a sort of centralization, one which can be controlled, particularly by the state it is located in; considering that control of money (to sponsor wars) was the idea behind the whole thought, that would have made it no different

Any particular reason you only wish to use payoneer?
Bisq is a great, secure and private way to buy cryptocurrencies, and you can check out the list of accepted payment methods here.

There was a time Newbie jail existed, when newbies where restricted to Beginners & Help board, but that has been stopped and would not be coming back.

You are free to post in other boards on the forum (edit; except serious discussion and Ivory tower, as a newbie), and I would encourage you check around the various boards and find topics that interests you, from politics to economics. You can also check if you have a local board to interact with people from your region.

Do well to check the pinned message on the different boards and child boards, before making a thread there.

If your seedphrase gets lost, it cannot be recovered, but if you suspect it has been compromised; for example, you just imputed it into a suspected phishing link, or it was exposed one way or the other, you can try to very quickly sweep the finds linked to the keys into a new address which is not compromised.

There is of course no guarantee that you would be faster, and wouldn't lose funds before you can successfully send out the funds.

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To avoid situations when it is lost (but not compromised) keep multiple backups.

Putting them in two different locations would prevent this. Disaster proof is not so reliable as there are many variables to consider.

A safe way of being relatively secured is having more than one safe locations. A disaster would not likely hit both (or more) of the locations at the exact same time.

Op, you should note that you can only bump the fee if you enabled RBF when making the transaction. The only other option left is to wait till it gets confirmed, or in the off chance that it doesn't, till it's dropped from the mempool (~2 weeks).

CPFP - Child Pays For Parent is an option if you are desperate to have it sent now, and you're in control of the receiving address.

Except the inputs involved where unconfirmed when they were used in a new transaction.

You should have started from the basics when you first began your journey. Knowledge is the first thing you gain when planning an investment, before you consider putting in your money.

With the current situation, you're not starting from the scratch, you're restarting now, with a bit of experience.
Many of the high ranked members here, might have made one or two mistakes during the start of their Bitcoin journey, and have learnt valuable lessons along the way.

How can you learn more about Bitcoin and benefit from the plethora of information available on this forum?
This should be your question and not how to move up ranks.

The primary goal of this forum is to be a hub of sharing information and engaging in constructive discussions. You can benefit from those discussions by reading more and doing your research. There's a search option on the forum, to dig into whatever information you need and you can always ask questions if you get confused on anything.

Protip; the search option would also answer your initial question.

Cryptocurrencies has not led to many scams, scams have been very common long before the first Bitcoin transaction was made, scammers just had one more option to perpetrate their scams through.
People have also been calling victims to phishing apps and links and losing money, even through their bank accounts.

Always download from the official website of the wallet and not from Google play store. You can also verify the signature for extra confirmation.

I do not tend to get a lot of merit or consider myself to be very knowledgeable, especially about the technicalities of Bitcoin, but I would say that users do not get merits for any particular type of knowledge. There's no blue print on what you should know or how you should write; we have members here who focus on the gambling board, or economics, or mining, or trading and get merits there, while sharing useful information on topics they are interested in.

My point is, do not post a certain way inorder to fit in, particular when that topic does not interest you. Find your niche and grow your knowledge in that particular area. Wish you best of luck on your learning journey.

This is terrible advice. Hot wallets are absolutely not ideal to be used as a means of storage, and the ones you recommended are not the most ideal ones to use.

Keeping a backup, when you wallet can be easily hacked from your wallet which is connected to the internet all the time?

The website layout looks very well done and the information contained therein, accurate, for the most part that I read. Great job OP on creating this resource.

I'll definitely be visiting it more often to preen through the other pages in the work.

I can't speak for why his name is being mentioned on this particular thread, cause I do not understand fully what motivated it, but from a general bitcoiner's perspective, you cannot afford to totally ignore CSW. His takes are as wrong as he is arrogant in delivering them, but there are lots of totally ignorant people out there who can fall for his crap, if it's not debunked as aggressively as he is spreading them.

The media is not doing a good job at stating how wrong his claim of being Satoshi is, so bitcoin enthusiasts have to do that job.

It depends entirely on where it is thrown away, the condition of the environment and the duration for which it is lost. Most hardware wallets would be made of some sort of plastic, and while it can resist a fair amount of damege, if it is exposed to harsh conditions (like rain, storm, degradation etc) for a long period of time, it's safer to assume it is lost.

I believe you mean the person who bought the hardware and owns the keys, the founder of the hardware company should ideally not know what your keys or phrases are.
Also, if one does not have backups in safe locations, your bitcoins are not securely stored.

The forum is attractive now due to the traffic it pulls. Campaigns looking to get people talking about their project would consider advertising here, cause they are guaranteed to reach a large audience. If signature campaigns are removed, majority of that traffic would disappear over the coming weeks, greatly reducing how viable the forum is for running a spam campaign.
I've been on forums without the reach or traffic bitcointalk offers, and spam is barely a problem there.

100% might be a reach, but a huge chunk of spam would be cleared up without signature campaigns.

Satoshi cannot block the blockchain with his keys. Moving the coins from the wallet ascribed to Satoshi, that would cause a bit of panic among investors, as well as lots of media attention, but that would not affect the blockchain.
The possibility of a backdoor created into the protocol is unknown a this point.

Theymos has once or twice expressed that he's considered removing signature campaigns from the forum, but decided against it due to certain reasons. Here is one of such situations;

If signatures are ever removed, it would clear up 100% of the spam which goes on here, but would also reduce a number of active users contributing positively, or reduce how much time they spend on the forum.

• I can't foresee any disadvantages that you would encounter. Importing private keys would normally have come with the added risk of not having multiple addresses to send from, thereby, reducing the privacy of future transactions, but you're transferring out to a hardware wlalet either way

• It should work, if done properly.