I'm not convinced many have learned any lessons from these incidents. I personally wasn't effected by any of these, unless you count the price of Bitcoin taking a hit due to them. However, even then I'm not that bothered by the current price of Bitcoin. However, most people don't learn from the very first couple of incidents, and most people don't put the effort into learning about how to mitigate these issues.

For example, we'll still see a ton of people in the future losing money because they have their Bitcoin on a centralised exchange. Despite there being several largely talked about events that have stolen or lost several million pounds worth of Bitcoin.

We still have block rewards, and until they've completely gone you're going to have some sort of volatility, and therefore price speculation. Obviously, that doesn't mean we'll always have these wide swings. However, the general idea is that the less block rewards we have, the less volatility. Since, it's literally designed this way to create volatility. I actually think it was done as a way of encouraging people to invest, since it could potentially make them rich, and thus it increases adoption. There's other reasons too which have been well documented, but I do think it was a smart decision in terms of adoption to do it this way.

Anyhow, price speculation is almost definitely going to exist in the new year, and very likely a long time after that. I mean, there's always price speculation anyway whatever investment you take a look at.

Seems Iphone already has this built into their keyboards. However, if you have a android you can take a look at some keyboard applications, and install one with a undo feature. I doubt they'll have redo features. I'd take a look at applications on f-droid. Probably, advisable anyway if you consider your privacy high priority.

Anyway, from the forum's stand point we've got the drafts page which has already been mentioned. Not sure how convenient that is to use on a phone, since I don't use a phone to post here. Otherwise, again use a word processor or a text editor on your phone, and utilize the redo/undo features on there. Markor is one open source text editor you can use. Obviously, take a look at the source yourself.

I doubt this feature would be implemented, since we already have the preview feature.

Reporter badges .

Self explanatory, but I think it would help with encouraging reporters. theymos knows this, but obviously has talked about how he wants to implement it correctly, and mitigate abuse of the system. I'd just like to see it implemented even if it's a very basic version. We'd likely have to have some very large tier systems though, as this forum is several years old, and some users have over 100k reports.

If you ever need an explanation on a report you've made, and it's within my sections I can probably help you out. However, obviously there's cases where I haven't acted upon it, and won't know what's going through the mind of other moderators. Although, for unhandled reports I can usually give you some sort of idea why it wasn't handled. As for, being marked bad; I can sometimes give you an idea.

I don't mind answering these questions in personal messages. I've had a few users come to me, and I can't always give you a definite answer, but might be able to give you some reasons why it may have been handled the way it was. So, feel free to message me about any issues.

Ultimately, who you ignore is your business, and you don't need to make it public. Making it public that you've ignored x will only cause conflict. It's probably just to keep it unknown to them that you've ignored them. If you wish to review your ignore list periodically then that's also your decision. However, I do think it's a good idea. There's many examples of users that start off on the wrong foot, i.e poor posting quality, but actually become a prominent poster a little later on.

There's been many examples of this over the years. I haven't ignored anyone for obvious reasons, but also because I've never really felt the need too.

I guess I haven't fallen for the hype of Makachev as much as others. I think he's very beatable, and once people figure that out, I don't think he'll be a world beater that the UFC, and certain fans are pushing for. I know its natural to want a world beater every generation, and especially after one of them retired recently. However, I just don't think he's going to live up to expectations.

That doesn't mean he isn't, and won't be a great fighter that goes down in the history of the UFC. I just don't think he's invincible as he's being claimed to be. I think he's shown several weaknesses in his fights already, let alone once he starts fighting fighters that aren't a perfect match up for him. Volk will seriously test him, and I'd fancy Volk to take it, quite convincingly.

If they were to collapse, it wouldn't be because of Bitcoin. It would be because they were already in trouble before adopting it. Hence, why they probably did adopt it. I don't follow them too much, so I'm not sure how much trouble they're currently in, but most countries are feeling the pinch from the recession. El Salvador will likely be feeling that a little more with the reduction of Bitcoin interest, and use. Since, no one really wants to spend their Bitcoin in the current economical climate, and due to the volatility.

Still on the hunt for those containers. I like the look of them, and I'm sure there's other ways of going about it, but they satisfy the nerd in me.

I've just accumulated weird tools as life has progressed. So, I did have some of the stuff for this guide. I haven't got any grease that'll withstand that sort of temperature though. Same as the washers, I'm not sure the grade of metal used in my washers as they're plain, and a little beat up. They probably came off of something years ago that I can't remember.

Fighter pay will likely be rectified. Eventually, the UFC will be feeling the competition from the other organisations, but they'll be able to easily compete with that since they've basically been building a cash cow. The UFC is probably as close as you can get to a monopoly. I don't see any other organisation challenging them in the next 10 years. I could be wrong on that, but in terms of viewership, and popularity the UFC will probably remain at the top for quite some time.

This probably encourages poor security practices. However, there are ways you can do it. Just search it up, there's been endless discussions about it here on the forum multiple times. However, I'd probably be against natively adding a feature like this to a wallet. I imagine it will happen, and it'll involve using something like time lock to do it. I don't think software like Bitcoin Core would implement this though, and would likely be some other newer generation type wallet software that does it.

I imagine altcoins have already attempted something similar.

I'm not even sure if it would be possible for whoever owns Twitter to hire someone like Snowden who I do believe is still exiled, and a wanted criminal. Whether you agree with the reasoning or not for his wanted arrest, that basically makes him unemployable by anyone within these countries that want him arrested.

Elon would basically have to give him the company, as far as my understanding goes. Although, as for the original post I don't really find this surprising that someone like Snowden would want to be paid in Bitcoin. I think it's quite obvious he's been using cryptocurrency for a long time, and was probably one of the early adopters. Snowden is all about privacy, and security. He uses Qubes OS, and various other software level security practices, probably only uses a certain brand of computer, and treats his privacy like its gold Bitcoin.

Also, the news sources it's coming from isn't exactly reputable. I haven't clicked to go read it, so if there's further links in there to a source, it'd be great if someone could link it. I don't use Twitter, so maybe Snowden tweeted something like this directly?

Kind of; it's not a guarantee that it'll ever be indistinguishable. There's a real debate about AI, and how lifelike it can become. There's also certain legislation that might come into play. For example, right now I believe there's some KYC involved, like a phone number. That might be increased in the future, if they deem it appropriate. There's also laws revolving around AI specifically, and how far they can go with it.

There's also something called Moore's law. Meaning, we have exponential growth because we don't know a lot about a subject at first, but then that starts to plateau the more we know about it. Translations, and AI are very likely subject to this just as much as computers, and performances. So, while we might expect it to get better, determining how much it might get better is the difficult part. I imagine ironing out some creases, and sorting out the problematic areas, but I'm not sure if it'll ever get considerably better.

Remember, it uses the information out there. Basically, we're feeding it a massive data set already, and without improving that data set, it's unlikely to improve massively, as the dataset is the most important factor for generating this sort of content.

Most that spend a lot of time here are making some money on the side. Whether that's enough to support them or not depends. However, I used to spend a lot of time here without getting paid, and in fact it's only in somewhat recent years I've actually been making a decent amount being here. That was never my goal, but rather something I've become appreciative that has happened.

I've probably spent the majority of my time here not actually earning anything, and instead discussing all kinds of things, and not always directly related to Bitcoin. I don't know about you or anyone else, but when I first discovered Bitcoin, and finally grasped why everyone was so excited about it; I couldn't stop reading about it.

I also like the history, and the potential of being part of that history intrigues me even more. We're basically watching something that's revolutionary in its idea. We've always had currencies as humans, but nothing so decentralised as Bitcoin. Even if you go back hundreds of years our concept of money has always been somewhat centralised.

Any closed sourced coin has the potential to be a scam despite functioning perfectly for a long time. Any project could turn out to be a scam or at the very least a failure. Remember, that a project failure isn't the same as a scam. The problem we have today is the people behind the projects, seem to promise the world.

If you've got someone promising you all these features, and targets then you're likely to be disappointed. Even with Bitcoin, no one can promise you a thing.

However, as for the question I'm not worried about Bitcoin in the slightest in terms of scam. It's already been read line by line, and isn't controlled by a central figure. Whether or not Bitcoin is leveraged to scam people entirely depends on who uses Bitcoin.

What roadmap are you referring too exactly?

Well, hopefully it's protected somewhat from outside threats. Potentially, a system where even if someone did retrieve it, it would only be a part of the seed, and not all the seed. Giving someone the seed, like your partner could be as simple as that. The two locations or how many locations you have that stores part of the seed. Ideally, you wouldn't be storing the seed all in one place, simply because of the outside threat of malicious people gaining access to it.

I imagine most households have their seed either stored digitally which comes with its own problems or it's in the safe.

Are we working on facts here? If the gambler didn't gamble his winnings away, then he's entitled to the money owed. If he did gamble the money away, I would've thought it'd be up to the store to prove he's done that, and not ask him for the receipts. However, obviously the customer shouldn't hired the thugs as you put it.

So, ultimately everyone involved broke the law at one point on that night, and they all probably deserve the penalties for that. I don't think it's too much of a problem that the shop allowed deducting of the winnings, ultimately a lot of casinos allow you to do that. It's the upholding of rightful winnings, and then escalating the situation to violence that's not right here.

They don't even need access to the Bitcoin itself. If you outright refuse to give them any access to the Bitcoin, the court will likely just divide your assets to make up for that. I don't think a lot of people understand what marriage means, and what rights both partners have, despite the partner not bringing that into the marriage. In most countries, it's divided equally, apart from certain circumstances, i.e when children are involved etc.

Like I said before, if you don't trust your partner ultimately you probably shouldn't be married too them in the first place . I do think that a lot of users think that sharing security information is a breach in security, but not sharing it can also be a breach in security. Since, if you care about that money being distributed properly when you pass, you'll want to do that in a secure way.

The problem is; do you have the skill set to investigate these sometimes complex cases? Escrow is a difficult job, since a lot of the time you can't really decipher who's lying, and who's telling the truth. So, you need to come up with definite rules that you stick too, and remain unbiased through the process.

However, there's also a bigger problem here. It sounds like you'll be doing this manually, without any sort of previous experience. What makes you a good escrow? Why would someone use you, instead of using software that has been designed to eliminate risk for all parties.

If you could come up with a way of doing a trustless escrow, therefore you never gaining access of the funds, then you'd be onto a winner. However, that's definitely not something that's easy to achieve. Also, do remember a lot of places require a escrow license if you wish to act as a escrow.

Maybe, this will end the predictions based on past years. I don't know why people look at past years performances, and think it'll follow that pattern. It's unsustainable to follow that pattern, and a ton of us would be getting rich. It just doesn't work like that, and I think it's rather naive to think it does.

Unfortunately, humans are programmed to recognise patterns, even when there's no real pattern there. So, what we think is a pattern, could simply be natural variance. Of course, given enough time, and data you can form patterns, but what we struggle to pinpoint a lot of the time is this pattern was formed because of what happened during that time.

If you compare the last four years with the next four years, if we don't have an event similar to FTX we probably won't see the same pattern. Therefore, patterns are largely useless, as they're a direct response on what happened at the time.