This sort of case has not happened often or at all, so it is understandable if there is no laid down blueprint for handling them. I will assume moderators will use their personal judgement in making a decision, this may be right or wrong and can always be appealed.

I am a little bit curious about what sort of tools mods or admins could use that is not available to regular users, and is not privacy sensitive as well. If it is not something that can be shared, I will totally understand that.

Yes, It is possible for bitcoin to become a global unit of account in the future if it can become stable. If bitcoin can become stable, there would not be a need to check coin trackers for the current valuation as the price is not volatile, if you bought a coffee with a certain amount of bitcoin today, you will expect to buy it with the exact same amount the next week.

In my opinion, it cannot function. In a completely utopian society, maybe it will be possible, but such does not exist.

When you say 'we will still', are you asking if that will be the case in this current market cycle or if it will continue to occur for years to come? For the latter, I'll say no, the Bitcoin market is changing rapidly over the years, volatility is gradually reducing, meaning there's less price spikes and dips. A market cycle where the price bubbles up and then bursts leading to a bear period would not always be the case, but we could rather have gradual growth, which will disinterest a lot of speculators, but will open the door to more use cases for Bitcoin.

What makes you think the market is about to dip?

The forum was not created for members with a crypto background, but those who are trying to build one. If you're really interested in learning, you'll find lots of useful content scattered around the forum and their are lots of members willing to help with any I quiet you may have. Of course, you'll have to get aquatinted with the forum and cryptocurrency Bitcoin, before you can earn or try to.

Everyone has different motives for joining the forum and as long as you are not a negative to the forum, by spamming, scamming or engaging in some other unethical practice, then you're free to do what you want, that's what the forum is about; freedom.

There are so many great members on this list and there are many more who are not on it, but of cause, I will not expect you to have come across every member or to have remembered them all at the time. I will honestly (not modestly) say that I will not put myself besides most of the members, but I'm also honored when recognized by other forum members.
As long as you are putting in effort to contribute, then you are a positive for the forum,

I would say they are and only the copyright owner can market the art they created and if you want to do so, you'll need their permission. However, in this case, Satoshi is no longer on the forum and no one can seek permission from him, so I'm not perfectly sure of the laws about it and who one would need to seek permission from.

The scope of NFTs is so broad now and probably abused, but it is perfectly possible to put up a bitcointalk post for sale, whether anyone would or should buy is another topic.

The central bank is a centralized system and as such can have central reserves and act as an authority over other banks;
- Bitcointalk is not a central authority and does not moderate scams,
- Scam projects can still go on without advertising on the forum, and investors and bounty hunters would still flock to those platforms,
- Such a move would open up so many other can of worms that it will not be worth the stress,
- This also brings us to the reason why scams are not moderated, it cannot be effectively handled, so rather not give users a false sense of security.

Do you wish to change the title of your topic to something more fitting as you are not just trying to defend the promoters but also the project itself, and you are using the same half baked excuse many of the project promoters use.

- You are allowed to earn on the forum as long as you do not break the rules,
- Members are allowed to give negative/positive or neutral feedbacks based on their judgement,
- If you feel you have been given a wrong tag, you can message the user(s) an explain things to them or bank on the fact that other members would check the reference and make their own judgement.

o_e_l_e_o actually suggested not using a a public WiFi which would actually reduce your privacy and leave multiple tracks that can be traced or even compromise your security, such as how using a VPN could expose your IP address and other information to their server.

I would add that when privacy features are suggested on the forum, it's usually because there are ethical reasons why an individual would not want all their information to be publicly available, I'm a bit skeptical if you have unethical ones.

Thinking of it that way, I guess it could have its merits, especially if you visit the forum from different accounts regularly and may not want to log into your main account anytime you wish to leave a feedback, in that case, trusting your alt isn't such a bad idea, but I feel this should be done for known alts of that user for it to remain ethical.

This is actually more of an issue than the one the actual topic is pointing out. Trusting yourself or meriting yourself through alts is abuse as you are appraising yourself and giving yourself some sort of reward where there is a strong motive for bias. Why would you even need to announce that you trust your own judgement?

This is one way to assess a user's judgement, but I would not use it alone as many would just follow the mob and support or oppose whichever side the majority is on.

It is a different coin from bitcoin, which is built on a different algorithm from bitcoin. You can check their thread on the forum for more details; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5274972.0
There are so many forks and coins with a similar name, but there is only one bitcoin.

Not really, I will say the thread you have already posted is the appropriate board for this topic and you have already gotten as much advice as you will get on this forum. This board is for more general legal issues relating to bitcoin as you will see in the description; Legal issues related to Bitcoin. Regulations, tax codes, etc. and not for personal legal counsel.

There should be some sort of reputable legal firm around that you can approach for legal support to pursue your case, that will be a pretty good place to start, and would give you actual advice that would be most relevant to you.

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Be wary of PMs from users looking to help you in one way or the other, scammers can try to use desperation as means to scam you.

From the topic title, I would not call price discussions; Important things about bitcoin, that would instead be topics on the actual network development and use in every day life.
Also, there is really no need to talk extensively on previous price movements, as it is publicly available information for everyone to see if they are interested in it.

That is what volatility actually is; rise and falls of the market depending on the market factors.

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Resizing your image helps to make your text readable.

You do not need backlinks from bitcoin.org inorder to get ranked or to come up as some of the top results when searches related to Bitcoin are made.
You primarily need good, accurate and marketable articles on your page which is capable of attracting users after reading a few lines, then you need to maximize the available ad options to decide how to get those viewers to read the article.

With more recognition and relevance you could eventually get the backlink you want, but you shouldn't depend on that this early on.

What exchange are you using? So you get two wallets automatically when registering?

If I understand you, One of the addresses is for sending out, i.e, you own the private keys, while you can use both for receiving?
Firstly, exchange wallets are usually custodian, so you probably do not own the private keys of any of the wallets. But lets take it that in this scenario, you do.
- Yes, you need the private keys to send,
- No, you do not need the public key to to receive, you only need the public address, both are not the same.

I do not clearly understand this part, however;
- Your private keys are not exposed when you sign a transaction.
- Every private key associated to a bitcoin wallet has a public key and also a public address,
- Your public key is what is exposed when you sign a transaction, reason wallets change addresses after each transactions on some wallet software.

You could just easily drop the youtube link.

Considering you are trying to understand the concept, I will say you should remove the part about the exchange wallet and understand the basics first, before trying to apply it to different concepts.

If you create a bitcoin wallet, what you own are set of keys (public and private) which you can use to access sets of inputs and outputs on the blockchain; all the keys are derived from the seed phrase.
Your private keys are derived from the seed phrase and is used to sign transactions, reason why it is commonly said, 'Not your keys, Not your coins'.
Your public keys are derived from your private keys, it sort of serves as a layer of security to verify the signature.
Your public address is a hash of the public key and is used to receive inputs to a specific wallet, it determines destination, sort of how a home address works.

This derivation pathway is not backward compatible, i.e, you cannot generate the public keys from the public address, or the private key from the public key.

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To send a transaction, You need the private keys (and by extension the public keys, to check the signature),
To watch a wallet (only), you need the public keys,
To select the destination of an input, you need the public address.

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With a non custodian wallet, which most exchange wallets are, you only have a public address which you use to receive inputs, when you send out you do not actually sign transactions, but only send a request to the exchange server to complete (sign) a transaction.

I do not think there is any fundamental goal of bitcoin. It is simply a peer to peer network that functions without the need for a third party, You can choose to use it as an alternative to fiat or as a replacement if you have enough outlets that accepts it as a currency to survive on.

If I'm forced to choose, I will say it offers freedom as you decide how you want to store it and also use it.

Satoshi is of course a very brilliant mind and as such, if they return to the bitcoin space (anonymously of course), they can offer a whole lot to the network as bitcoin improvement proposals and other contributions. I however think such an occurrence would take a whole lot away from the actual product and all attention would once again be about who is satoshi.

There would also be a level of centralization to how the network operates if Satoshi returns, I would say it is perfect the way it is right now.

I would say you are right that majority of people would not have held through all the price crests and troughs over those years, particularly when you consider how many ponzi scams were present during that period, and how little information was known about the bitcoin network, In my opinion, very little of the population still know about bitcoin, but there is a growing sense of legitimacy about it, in addition to the potential for profit which is enough for most.

Although there is still a small part of the population who fully understood and trusted the network to utilize it properly from the start; this does not just involve hodling but also using it as a peer to peer currency.