All market movements are unexpected and the only certainty is volatility.
Anyone who purchases bitcoins at a certain time, should have already understood that the market can always go below their entry level, it could take 8 days or months. Such fluctuations shouldn't bother you much, especially as a long term holder.

In 5, 10 or 20 years, it would matter little, if you bought in at $30k or $20k.

Popular platforms have a civic responsibility to vett any website which wants to be advertised through them. They have a reputation and users can easily trust their recommendation.
Google and play store have received lots of backlash for promoting s am platforms without doing their due diligence.

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There is however still the possibility that they didn't discover the scam accusations before promoting the website.

It could mean one of two things,
• A regular person identified the potential in Bitcoin early and invested wisely over a period of year, gradually building their stash up to the value of 1BTC, or
• Late institutional investors are struggling to join the Bitcoin party and grab as many coins as they can from the market.

In the first scenario, you could be said to be a financial genius by many and you would have acquired many financial lessons along the way to building your stash. The second scenario wouldn't mean much.

My objective of being in Bitcoin would be to not be identified to hold any when I walk into whatever room.

A central warning board if created would be very broad and defining what should and shouldn't be posted there might create some confusion.
It's a good idea, but, imo it would be greatly abused just as the press board in now, or it would be very strict in moderation leading to little or no interactions.

This suggestion, sounds very like the serious discussion board, which many members do not visit.

I can create a Bitcoin wallet with no transaction limitation within 2 minutes.
Creating an account would require identification, paperwork, visiting a physical Branch and possible future visits in certain situations.
A Bitcoin wallet seems easier to me. There's also nothing technical about transacting on a Bitcoin wallet.

Anyone with knowledge of investments or a few minutes of research would understand volatility.
Also, you don't need deep financial background to understand how absence of third party interference in your finances is good, or to understand how inflation adversely affects you.

Everyone must not use Bitcoin.
The protocol is not going to change to be more accepted, if fiat, stocks, commodities, etc works for you, then stick to them.

The safest place to have your coins saved in all markets, but mostly in a bear period is in your non custodian wallet.
A non custodian wallet is as easy to navigate as any one out there, and if you have any difficulties, you can always ask here. If you are not an active trader, saved transaction cost to and from an exchange is quite negligible.

Drop to $19k you mean.
Would have been fun to actually drop higher tho  

Guests and visitors are not the entire www. They are users who stumble on the forum or where recommended to go here and are yet to create an account.
I for one usually advice users to browse around as a guest and learn about the forum, read rules, explore the features etc, before registering an account here. That's one reason I would want those users to either have available features to avoid possible scams or their exposure to them be reduced.

The issue with that, is in the highlighted case, trust flag would only be visible on the 1xbit thread, users with the signature will not have any flags or warnings about them promoting a scam project.

I certainly do not understand why, and I'll prefer that guests do not see signatures or avatars as well, except maybe, the forum ad.

Guests are limited from a couple of options, like viewing trust, or using the search option which are useful is safely navigating the forum. They should equally be limited from viewing signatures and avatars which are means of advertisment, as they are not adequately informed on which links are considered safe by the community and which are not.

I'm really curious to understand how someone else could have gotten control of your trust wallet address and be able to sign transactions.

Are you the one who received the first transaction on the address from about a year ago and how long have you been using the address? Also, have you had any issues with any other addresses you may have on the same device?

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Best to move all funds to a newly generated address on a different device or hardwallet and then find ways to debug your compromised device.

Not only does this approach boost trust score, it also motivates users to leave more positive feedbacks for a chance to get on DT2. It's an all round attempt to pad trust overview and make themselves more trustworthy, particularly as they are selling a service.

Wrong use of the trust system for me.

If you read many of the comments on new technologies like the internet when it first came out, they were mostly criticisms about how it can not work and the old system being better,

This forms part of the 'diffusion of innovation model', which explains how new concepts are accepted. It's a slow process with the vast majority being against it at first, but they eventually join in with the late majority and laggards, especially when it was a great innovation to start with.

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Brands like Goldman Sachs which are motivated by profits would no doubt jump on the train when the market turns up. I would not be too surprised if they criticize it at a later time if it keeps dipping.

Bitcointalk is not an organization, and it tries to be as private and anonymous as possible. This means that the admins do not "have" a page for aventus or any other project and cannot update it or give anyone else besides the thread starter access to edit that thread.

Open a new thread as suggested. If you want to try avoiding confusion, you can also drop a neutral feedback on the previous account, linking to the active profile and thread for the said project.
And this time let it be done professionally, to allow easy transfer of ownership.

I'm failing to see how this approach can actually help with inflation. Gold is used globally by individuals as a hedge for inflation, making gold a legal tender would not necessarily affect spending or inflation rates; It is just sort of a reminder to the citizens that they can explore other hedges against inflation, while the currency collapses.

It also comes as no surprise that the citizens are actually not bought into the idea of trading off their local currency for gold coins. The country has shown inability to maintain the economy over the years and has been unable to instill any sort of confidence in the populace, and even switching to USD and abandoning their local currency again would do little to change that.

These sort of reports or rumours only accentuates a problem which has been existing for quite a long time.

Data is on high demand globally, not just in the darkweb. Businesses, government, brokers, intelligence agencies, politicians etc. Everyone is trying to get their hands on as much data as possible.
Governments, especially dictatorial ones like China holding personal data of citizens does not instill confidence at all, and those data getting leaked to the dark web creates more problems.

No ransom was requested. The hacker is allegedly putting it up for sale in the darkweb.

Zooming in on Bitcoin, there has been no particular unfortunate incident which has affected it. Instead, we have had series of events causing global crisis and negatively affecting all markets.

The surest way to avoid losses is to not sell at a loss. Having your portfolio fall below your break even point does not mean one has incurred a loss. The market is volatile, but one constant is Bitcoin has been appreciating in value over the years, you just have to o hodl long enough.

Bitcoin is down about 70% from its last ATH of less than a year ago. That is a downward market.
Waiting for further dips is like trying to call the bottom which isn't exactly possible.

I consider it preferable to visit the actual site you want to link to, before copying the URL. This way, you have a link without the extra characters which Google use as tracking codes, and your result would look like this; https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/paper-money-usa.asp.
You can also hyperlink, using the URL tags;

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Bitcoin offers freedom only when used properly. Many users store their Bitcoins on centralized exchanges which can always freeze or limit you from making withdrawals; hence you are depending on a third party to gain access to your assets.

By combining a non custodian wallet (like electrum) and a P2P decentralized exchange (like bisq), you can fully use Bitcoin freely.
There are other steps you can take like running your own node, using coin mixers etc to achieve higher levels of privacy.

The idea of donation is not as popular now as it used to be during the early days of the forum and Bitcoin. Members were more likely to donate to constructive replies/posts and to the forum as bitcoin's value was a lot lower and less popular.

I have personally never actually donated to a user on the forum, but I've went to someone's profile and read through their post history in search of other good posts to merit because I stumbled on a post of theirs which was very educative (especially if it's not a user I'm used to)

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For more established users, I do not often visit their profile as I'm used to quality content from such users.

I have seen many a scam with this same operandi, and victims falling for them everytime without doing their due diligence. If anyone actually does their research before putting their bitcoins into wallets or exchanges, they would avoid platforms which does not actually give you control of your assets.

This is a good advice, and would help when downloading reputable and secure wallets, so as not to get the wrong application. But in this case, where the entire platform is a potential scam, it wouldn't really protect users.

Did a quick search on the wallet on playstore and it does have a decent amount of downloads, but lots of bad reviews. More notably, many of the reviews from late last year to now are mostly complaints about their funds getting stolen, but much older reviews are mostly positive.

Sadly, many users do not do their due diligence when getting into bitcoin, and maybe do not understand the responsibility that comes with being your own bank, leading to mistakes and errors.

The Abra platform has a much higher amount of downloads and similar influx of bad reviews, so there is likely more victims from there.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but everyone is not right in their own way. There are charts and history which one can take a quick glance at and educate themselves about whatever subject they wish to discuss on.

This is not even a logical criticism of Bitcoin in any way.
Undervaluing the effect of the market price and how it doesn't matter if it rises, while criticizing the current bear period is counterintuitive