I do not think there would ever be a plan to recover people's lost Bitcoins for some simple reasons:

1 - It is impossible to confirm someone's ownership over any Bitcoin wallet without them having access to private key.
2 - This would put at stake the trust of Bitcoin as a decentralized payment method and free from the control of individuals. If someone can take control of certain Bitcoins without actually owning them, what keeps them from doing the same with mine?
3 - A smaller number of Bitcoins in circulation may be good for the ecosystem, by reducing the amount of coins, we reduce the inflation.

This same type of discussion is being made in the post "Coins of Satoshi" if you wanna check out. Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1924762.0

No. Without the private key all the coins from that wallet are inaccessible. That means they are gone, and there is no automatic method of recycling.
The only way possible to recover those Bitcoins without the private key would be doing a hard fork in the blockchain.

I found some reddit posts that can help you understand UASF risks and what can happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6drwrv/if_exchanges_dont_support_uasf_can_it_still/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6bxpsj/bip148_and_the_risks_it_entails_for_you_whether/

"Addressing the OP, the important thing to realize is that UASF is not subject to a majority or consensus of nodes. It is happening 100% for sure on 1 August: a new chain tip will split off a chain that can only be built with SegWit signalling blocks (onus on miners).

Users/businesses/miners will have to decide on what chain they're on before they can transact. Transacting on the wrong chain will see those transactions lost.

Trace Mayer gives the example of Alice buying Bob's condo. If Alice and Bob transact on the chain that gets discarded then Alice has the condo and gets her bitcoin back. Bob has neither.

That's an extreme and easily reversible example, but think about the current daily transaction volume and fees worth $1mil+ going to miners on a daily basis. Businesses and miners will have to commit decisively or lose big.

The UASF is a watershed event and it is coming."

(all credit goes to original posters)

I would not do anything that could damage the bitcoin ecosystem and selling would be dangerous if this technology fell into the wrong hands. So I might just use it to mine Bitcoin and other altcoins and get rich with it. And more important: get Segwit activated.

But now the biggest problem would be the confidence that Bitcoin could lose if someone no one knows held most of the mining power from nowhere, having the chance to control the future of the currency. Thus making Bitcoin "less decentralized".

That's correct. Rarely a public pump group works in the long-term. Mainly because the manager of the group which usually is the guy who starts the pumps, probably has already bought amounts of the selected currency and will always try to profit from the new users and beginners mistakes.

I can speak of this from my own experience because I was already part of a group like this, and it never worked well.

The best way to organize an artificial pump is with a private group of whales that own a large amount of BTC, and are willing to allow the whole group to profit, controlling their greed to avoid disasters.

You can boost your confirmation time with this free service: https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/
Or if you are willing to pay, you can get a tx confirmated in 1~4 hours with this one: https://pushtx.btc.com/

Otherwise, you will need to wait even if you fees are enought. That's what bitcoin is turning into nowadays.

Who would have imagined that Bitcoin would become so expensive? We need this fixed asap.

Rofl. Not just 61 randoms. This poll was targeted at experts and personalities from the Blockchain community. On the 21.co page itself, you can see some of the people who are part of the group where the poll was made. Do some work first before trying to spam for some posts count. https://21.co/blockchain/

Adam Back (CEO of Blockstream), Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase), Nejc Kodric (CEO of Bitstamp), and others. Just some random folks right?

Btw, BillyBobZorton is right. Segwit is indeed the only right choice.

Did you backup your seed while creating your wallet? If so, you can easily recover your wallet with them.

Can you explain what is this "wallet key numbers/letters" you are talking about? Do you mean the private key?

It's quite simple.

This is how your trust is shown
Trust: 1: -0 / +12(3)

Purple: user's trust score calculated based on how consistently they've received positive feedback.
Orange: number of reported scams
Blue: increases with the number of positive reports

Everyone registered in the forum has a list that can be filled by you, where you define who is trustworthy for you. However, everyone registered in the forum already starts with a predefined list of trusted users, called Default Trust (DT). Only theymos can add people in the Default Trust, so they can be considered the most trustworthy people in the community.

The system works like the OTC WoT. Because you automatically trust the people in Default Trust, all members trusted by them will also be trusted by you. This is why you see many users with the green trust, simply because they have received positive feedback from a reliable user present in the DT list.

The same way works for the people you manually puts on your list. If you add me on your trust list, everyone I set as trustworthy will also be considered trustworthy for you.

This is actually a smart way to mix your btc. I think this is the first mixer using any method like this, and with 0% fees. I have only one question that I would like you to confirm: As I have seen in the FAQ, is 0.001 BTC the minimum deposit amount?

I wish you good luck in the future. I'm sure I'll be giving preference to ChipMixer as my favorite mixer.

Just like you said, I think a paper wallet could be safer since there is no chance of hardware failure. Not that this is a major issue since most hardware wallets are made having long-term durability in mind. Just store your paper wallet in multiple banks and you will probably be okay. Also, if there is a hard fork and you are storing your btc in a paper wallet, the way your coins are affected depends on the wallet you use to claim your btc.

"If you don't own your private keys, you don't own your bitcoins"
Tradução: Se você não controla suas chaves privadas, você não controla seu Bitcoin.

Quanto mais rápido você aprender que o lugar para guardar seus BTC é na sua própria carteira, menos dor de cabeça você vai ter. Até mesmo carteiras web em que você tem acesso a private key como Blockchain.info não são 100% recomendadas.
Nunca guarde seus Bitcoins em uma exchange ou carteira web.

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And why do you want him kicked? It looks like he pulled you out of a signature campaign and now you're angry. Let me tell you one thing: If he kicked you, this is because you deserve it.

I can tell you that I've been kicked out of a campaign recently and instead of getting angry and blaming the manager of the campaign, I read all my previous posts again and figured out the reason I got kicked out. Your posts may seem relevant to you just because it's related to the subject, but sometimes that's not how it works.

I do not think yahoo has anything to gain by kicking you out of a campaign. So read your posts again and learn from your mistakes to improve your posts quality the same way I'm trying.

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Only the greed of the people caused the pump and dumb of the Monero during this announcement. I think fluffyponyza did this just to troll those people who are in the world of altcoins just to profit regardless of whether or not they believe in the design of a certain currency.

Here is a screenshot I found on someones twitter that speaks for itself.

No one knows. But my personal opinion: Buy anyway while you can. The truth is that this is just the beginning, and even though we are experiencing the all-time high, the price of Bitcoin is still extremely low for the future it will have. But be aware that the risks remain the same and that you should only buy if you know there is a chance of the price to fall and you lose a lot of money.

When we fix the scaling issue (maybe in August), the price will go up a lot. That's why this is the time to buy more even if we are in the all-time high. Just remember that this is just the beginning and that Bitcoin is still a child.

I would start investing in ICOs with interesting projects that I think can have a future. I regret losing the chance of investing in coins like ETH and Waves when I had the chance.

O cara vê um post desses, checa o preço da moeda e pensa "vou esperar cair um pouco pra comprar". Uma semana depois o preço ja subiu mais 500 dolares. Eu sinceramente não sei mais até onde isso vai.