Trust is not moderated by the forum; It is a community run system, through trusts lists and feedback.

Only those who place a certain trust on a profile, can remove it. So, you will have to contact the user which gave it, to remove it.

In addition to what Bitcoingirl.Club posted above;

If you're looking for someone to help you build an app or some other service related to your project; make a more detailed thread in the Services section, stating what services you need and how much you're willing to pay for it.

1BTC seems more reachable for many at $20k as opposed to $50k+, where the price hovered for a couple of months during the bull run, so it is not a surprise that some would be excited about the current price range. This price would not only favour those aiming to be wholecoiners, even large investors would also use this opportunity to buy more at a cheaper rate.

The most criticized holders now, would be institutional investors' and nations (like El Salvador) who hold Bitcoin in their reserves.

Sell offs usually create more panic in the market and is likely to cause more drops during bearish runs.
This is of course not much to consider if you're a trader interested in making profits.
Shorting is a trading strategy where one swaps a highly speculative asset at a price which they predict to be the top, in other to by back when it drops.

There are no wishes or believes, just predictions and speculations based on the market situation. There's nothing like 'a fan' of Bitcoin, we see qualities in the asset and choose to hold it. This does not mean you would always be optimistic about the market.

Again you're attaching too much to a financial asset.
Being a trader of Bitcoin doesn't mean you're ditching it, or fleeing.

The forum rules are not authoritarian regulations which are peculiar to this community alone, rather they are general rules of engagement when discussing on an online platform.
Note that only 2 rules would get you outrightly banned;
• Plagiarism, and
• Posting malwares,
It would be 3 if you include repeated spamming, but this comes after different amounts of temporary bans.

You do not need to be conversant with the forum rules to be aware that these (listed above) are not the right way to communicate with others.

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There are other rules one might not be too familiar with online, like no referral links, deleting old bumps etc, but these would not get you a negative trust or a ban.
Newbies should read the forum rules and stickies in the different threads they visit, but do not shy away from posting if your intent is just to read and learn. Remember the rules are not fixed but determined on a case by case basis.

I'm not sure why there numbers are much lower now that it was some years ago; But on why they have different stats from other sites like bitnodes; it's about them recording non-reachable nodes;

Great compilation, I have used many of those website at some point and some I still use regularly and I must say they are quite useful for a Bitcoin enthusiast, if you want to get handy statistics.

Can't get pictures now, but here are some statistics websites I've used at some point;
• Coinatmradar; provides statistics on Bitcoin ATM installations around the world.
• https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/historical.html ; Data on bitcoin nodes

First advice, is to consider hiring a Social Media Manager, especially if you have no prior skills in digital marketing or managing professional social media accounts.

Tips I can share on managing and growing an account;
• Have a worthy product; work majorly on building your project, website, art, etc. It's easier to market a product when it actually exists.
• Grow your knowledge of the industry your product is related to; with this you can share useful content and make your page relevant to visitors,
• Be consistent; being active gets attention to your project as it would keep popping up,
• Engage with profiles related to your niche, this can be through comments, joining spaces or sending a dm. Avoid spamming however,
• Repeat.

I'm also hopeful of Bitcoin becoming the world chief reserve currency, and being used for majority of international trades, but it's improbable that it would be the next one, if at all it's going to reach that status as lots of government politics goes into that.

There is likely to be at least one more currency which would topple USD as the global currency in the next century before Bitcoin would be globally accepted.

I must confess, I initially thought it would be a post about you getting robbed off your phone which you normally don't go out with; Great it turned out to be an inspiring post about helping others out and also utilizing Bitcoin as a currency.

I agree that poverty is a thing in every part of the world, but it's an exaggeration to say 1st world countries are among the most number of people living in poverty.
The so called "third world countries" are actually characterized by extreme poverty and poor standard of living, significantly higher than in other regions. The current inflation and economic collapse is actually affecting every part of the world.

Spamming of referral links around the forum would definitely be breaking No. 4 of the unofficial rules.
That may not apply here as the user is not sharing referral links, but rather backlinks to their website (I assume both the profile and the website are affiliated, judging from the name).

This still borders on spamming in my opinion; as the user is recklessly creating threads to try and increase the traffic to their website.

Great initiative and kudos to you for taking out the effort to do this. In my experience schools do not require this course in the curriculum, so it's most likely an elective which you added for the pupils; if they are interested, which I feel most teenagers would be.

If you plan to teach  things like this to kids, I believe a kid friendly approach should be used. The idea should not be to make them aware of who invested Bitcoin or what is the first cryptocurrency, rather they should try their knowledge in understanding some concepts like decentralization which I feel, would peak their interest.

Also, images, graphs and charts could be used to further simplify the concept to them.

It doesn't go to any particular mempool. When you create and broadcast a transaction, nodes who act as verifiers, check through this transaction and add it to their mempool if it checks out, they can also broadcast this transaction with other nodes and it gets added to more mempools (after they do their checks of course).

Miners can check and chose which transaction to add to their blocks.

So many errors were made during this transaction that it would have been a miracle if he had pulled it off successfully.

• Firstly, the risk of driving and using your phone exposes the user to lots of potential harm and already creates a huge distraction that could affect how well your friend could complete the transaction.

• Then the idea of storing addresses into your keyboard is high risk as one could suffer keyboard hijacking.
And it doesn't make sense to save multiple addresses when you can easily get them from the wallet you intend sending to,

• Lastly, relying on memory to chose an address to send to is totally wrong and the risk of error is high.

That's a quite costly lesson on not getting to complacent when handling finances, especially one you have full control and responsibility on.

Investment as a concept is not a get rich quick scheme, it's a slow process which takes time to build up. Investment does not replace income, it's rather a means of purchasing assets and not putting your income into liabilities.

Bitcoin technically does not require a huge capital, you can buy fractions of it and hodl. But, most people would rather invest in altcoins with less value as it's believed they have a higher potential for growth, similar to Bitcoin when it was less that a dollar; but many of the time this is not the case and most end up losing money in the long run.

I agree fully with the first part, no amount is too small, but diversifying in crypto is one way to get easily rekt, especially when you don't have much to invest.

Build sources of income and find a percentage to invest (DCA) for the long term. (Could be 10-15 years, or more)

No, I literally said the opposite that the value of Bitcoin has grown so much that the value cannot be hugely influenced by the purchase from a single institution or company.

There are a long list of companies which have held or hold Bitcoin in their balance sheet or have accepted it as a means of payment for the goods or services they offer; So Telsa announcing a Bitcoin purchase would surely create some traffic, but would not massively affect the price as you suggest.

My first question is, if you're limiting your investment options to only cryptocurrencies or by diversifying you mean entering into other industries?

If you're referring to crypto;
True diversification does not really exist as all coins are within the same niche and mirror the price actions of each other; so when the price of Bitcoin goes up, about 90% of coins would go up with it and same thing happens when it goes down. So, you'll have a portfolio which would likely be in red or green at the same time.

If you're considering different markets;
Firstly, you should do your own research. There are lots of investment options, so you would have to read up and understand more about any investment venture and choose how best to diversify your capital.
Bitcoin is a good investment option, there are also other options like real estate, precious metals etc.

Bitcoin does not need government approval to be used as a currency globally, and a currency doesn't have to be a legal tender.

There are already so many examples of Bitcoin being used as a currency to purchase goods and services globally, it's not the most adopted as at now, but it certainly is being used.

This is a yet simple but important advice to safe one from costly errors.
Any action such as transacting, creating a wallet or backing up requires extreme level of attention regardless of how many times you have done this before.

I consider it best to stick with one method of access; For example, if you mostly use your PC to access your crypto stuffs, then stick to that as much as possible and same if you he a mobile device.

Sorry for your loss.

Recognizing how easy it is to make mistakes is the best way to avoid them; it's even possible to inadvertently click on a suspected malicious file without meaning to.

Best way to avoid this is to hold the bulk of your funds in a hardware wallet or an air gapped device, this way we cannot make any silly errors which would cost you big time.