There are peer-to-peer exchanges which connect buyers and sellers together such as bisq and hodlhodl. There are also P2P options on centralized exchanges where users can trade directly with each other through a regulatory system acting as escrow.

Bitcoin was designed to be a peer-to-peer network, so it is ironic you would not risk that, but would trust a third party system.

I fail to understand the purpose of this thread, the forum rules on plagiarism is not ambiguous;
• Users do not get banned for sharing content of others as long as it is referenced or indicated that is a quote,
• If there is enough original thought and content put in, it doesn't count as plagiarism,
• Cases are handled case by case and leniency shown in different scenarios,

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Users can report to the mods based on their personal view and mods can decide on what action to take, that does not warrant a thread. Users who report are not the problem, those who break the rules are.

I am personally not hopeful that the federal government would renege on its decision to ban banks from getting involved in crypto transactions, beyond articles like these, the benefits of bitcoin to the citizens are evident, and one of them which sticks out a lot is the freedom it gives to users, and not every country wants the people to have that kind of freedom, especially as controlling the financial system is one way countries control the people.

Cause you cannot ban the bitcoin network, you can only ban yourselves from it. As a decentralized asset, no one has control to prevent transactions.

The headline is being milked by the media for views and clicks, and the idea of bitcoin contributing to climate change and the energy consumption being detrimental is something that has for a long time been blown out of proportion a lot and does not reflect the reality.
There is no extensive damage caused by bitcoins usage and consequently there is no issue that needs to be fixed.

It does not directly help Bitcoin, but it could shape the public opinion around it. Governments turning to Bitcoin announced it as a global asset, meaning more people would want to own it, driving up demand.

They do not have to and countries/states which do accept Bitcoin would be doing themselves a favour and eojmd be ahead of the curve in the coming years considering the potential growth of the network.
Bitcoin would be fine without such adoption though.

A link between cartels and fiat will not really yield much traffic, cause people do not really care about what is done with fiat which is already accepted globally as the staple means of transacting, drug deals happen on the streets everyday with fiat, nothing new to see there. Crypto would make far more headlines and news media has been known to twist news headlines in order to create more controversy, and there's no shortage of controversy with Bitcoin.

The best approach is to debunk those news articles on social media and any other source it is published so more people are aware of the twosted facts.

If you zoomed out of the chart to a couple of months or years, then you would not notice any cause for alarm, rather an asset which has been steadily appreciating over time.
Intending investors should not focus on the last 7 days chart when choosing an investment, or they would likely be making the mistake of buying shit coins which were pumped and are going to dump. Proper research involves studying the fundamentals and also the technical aspects of the market.

This is a decentralized network and there is no system which regulates the price.

I am aware of the risk and would normally not suggest that anyone store their keys or seed phrase online, it is a terrible idea. I was considering a worse case scenario where you have to take a radical approach.

I was discussing a situation where the laws were being bent in one country, which does not affect international platforms not hosted there, it still presents a huge risk however and is not recommended.

Newbies are usually the target audience, but more experienced members can also call victim to scams due to lack of knowledge.
The blockchain tech has been linked to everything, from health, to web search engines, and investors do not normally have knowledge in this niche to properly answer the important questions, like;

• Does Blockchain have any real utility in this field?
• Is there any other platform that functions better?
• Are there existing projects similar to this one?

My take is people should generally only invest in something they have knowledge on. Keep it very simple and avoid the utopian dreams on may project road maps

That would be a ripple effect of the bank. Payment systems which are restricting operations to Russia would affect all transactions, including cryptocurrency transfers.

That would not be a necessary measure and would further heighten the mistrust many people have about using centralized exchanges.
Some top exchanges have declared that they would not be banning Russian accounts on their platforms.

I would not suggest memorizing your seed phrase as an option if you want to recover your wallet address after crossing the border, we can memorize lots of information, but trusting your brain to store your seed phrase and remember it accurately is very risky, especially as your crossing could be delayed for whatever reason and now you have to store it for longer.

In the worst case scenario when it is impossible to pass with any thing related to bitcoin, one could take the risk of sending it through a "secure" platform which they can log in on some other device and quickly sweep the wallet. This also comes with it's fair share of risk.

IIRC, chipmixer does not store sessions for longer than 48 hours, so in case of a hack or breach, your data is not available to be leaked.
For extra privacy, you can use it over the For browser and use a .onion address to access the website.

You can try using a peer-to-peer platform like bisq or hodlhodl which doesn't require KYC.

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P.S. if you're privacy cautious, I'll suggest you do not expose your email on your profile

That would be a very heavy handed approach to a not so clear problem. Putin is not going to waste time to spread propaganda here on the forum, there are so many other platforms with a much wider audience than bitcointalk and even on those platforms, hacking a couple of accounts would not really affect the public information.

You could tag accounts you find to be spreading information and draw attention for other members to do same.

The reason for gender differences can not be easily determined, it would have roots in the society and upbringing, but we generally have men and women aspiring to different things even in the most egalitarian societies.

But, while we cannot understand why more women are not into cryptocurrencies, we can celebrate the ones who are and make this niche area accommodating for the ones who would want to be entering later on.

Cryptocurrencies while being a decentralized asset/currency cannot help Russia or any country evade international sanctions.

Popular payment systems; VISA, MasterCard, American Express have all declared that international payments from Russia would be halted, and this came after U.S. and some E.U. countries blocked certain banks in Russia from SWIFT, all of these sanctions would not be evaded by bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency, it can help the citizens escape economic collapse and have an alternative payment system, but cannot shield the country from the effects.

Stopping the war would be the fastest way to lift those sanctions, but Russia do not look to be considering that now after hinting at a partnership with a Chinese payment system.

Before embarking on such a project, you should understand the utility of crypto cards in those countries where it is available and the need for it in those where it is not. This would help determine if there is a market to sustain the project.

Crypto is not technically illegal in Nigeria; it is not a crime to hold or trade it, but banks are banned from mediating crypto transactions, so I can trade peer-to-peer, but I cannot directly fund an exchange account from my bank or withdraw directly to my bank account, such bank accounts would be sanctioned or possibly frozen.

The self moderation tag is removed permanently if the thread is moved to a board that does not support it, a reasonable explanation for this would be that members that commented on the thread while it was in Meta and not self moderated did not agree to be moderated by a forum member and as such, should not have to be.

So, the same way posts that were started without self moderation being enabled cannot be changed to include it later on, as then the op would be able to moderate members that did not agree to that.

This is a question I have been puzzling over for a long time now. To answer this, we have to take a look at the current fiat system and how it functions; The value of fiat is determined by the countries economic strength and policies which affect supply and inflation, it is also heavily influenced by demand and supply on currency trades. It does not have any inherent value.

Bitcoin as a staple currency for buying goods and services would function in a similar manner, demand and supply would determine its value and at this point it would be much more stable than it is right now. But this is such a far away time that it would be difficult to determine how it would work from now.

Would bitcoin be able to actually circumvent the ban, banking transactions cannot be replaced by bitcoin as its adoption is limited and cannoct connect them to the rest of the world. Bitcoin could be used to an extent to confirm some transactions but cannot sufficiently finance all transactions in the country.

The U.S and European banks are not financed by bitcoin and it does not influence the SWIFT ban, so there would be no need to regulate bitcoin further.

Exchanges are tools used to trade cryptocurrencies, it does not directly make bitcoin popular or reach more users, rather it is the userbase that makes the exchanges popular. If more people moved over to using decentralized exchanges then it would become as popular and would be said to reach more people.
Centralized exchanges act as intermediate, so trading on such platforms is not really peer to peer or decentralized as bitcoin was meant to be.