I think much of this is subjective. What's a good or a bad signature design, anyway? Chipmixer was appealing, yeah, but it was pretty much simple and straightforward. So in terms of design, there's actually not much creativity or art in it. What probably makes it great is that it has been a respected campaign, already running for a long time, pays big, worn by the cream of the crop of this forum including staff and moderators, and so on. It's not about the signature design per se.

However, I think it's great that promoters are provided with design options. It's also good that designs are also changing and updated. A signature that remains the same for years won't catch your attention anymore. On the other hand, what's new is attractive.

Well, everybody who is invested in Bitcoin is hoping and praying that the price will rise so that they will make money. That's normal, although they don't have to post about it, especially their magical wishful thinking. But a 100% ROI is actually realistic. It could even happen within the year or next year. But if they really believe it, rather than be noisy about it, they should just silently accumulate as much as they can and hodl tight.

An annoyed reaction to this noise is equally noisy, though.

I guess the profitability problems with wind power which involve supply chain, manufacturing, vendor, and other issues have nothing to do with it being a way to grow less dependent on fossil fuel. Surely, there must be a lot of scams and exaggerations and hypocrisy and propaganda involved in this climate change movement, but if only we call spade a spade, harnessing wind power for energy is a good thing. The room for improvement in terms of efficient technologies to produce this renewable energy cheaply is significantly big, though. And, of course, wind energy could only be viable in select spots where the wind is expected to be strong all year round.

Bitcoin is secure and decentralized. It provides a certain amount of privacy as well. Transactions could also be processed quickly and, yes, without third-party intermediaries. Yes, you could also stay pretty much anonymous gambling with Bitcoin.

All of these, however, are pointless if the gambling platform you are using is centralized. First, you will have to deposit your Bitcoin to another wallet that you don't control. The casino could run away with your money. It could freeze it. Second, almost all of crypto casinos reserve the right to require users to undergo and pass KYC. Third, processes like withdrawals are done by a third party, the casino itself. And, finally, it could be done manually, which means it takes time.

I'm amazed at how the Exodus support is explaining things in a simple and detailed way. Even a crypto layman could grasp what it means. It isn't an automated response coming from a bot. Kudos to them!

Anyway, I'm not a very technical person but, yeah, you're probably correct. The computation is: Transaction Fees = Transaction Size (byte) * Fee Per Byte (sat/byte). Transaction size is affected by outputs (and inputs) such that if your $200 in Bitcoin was received in full, it means it has less UTXO than when it was received in small amounts, say, in $10-$20, which means it has multiple outputs. Needless to say, as the size (byte) increases, the fee (sat/byte) also increases. A transaction size of, say, 1,000 bytes is, of course, more expensive than a transaction which only has 300 bytes.

Well, disclaimers can only do so much. The moment people get emotional, especially about money, reason flees. Their minds suddenly become creatively tragic. That's sad but that's always true to the great majority of people.

Whether we admit it or not, investment is not something many are willing to risk. It isn't everybody's cup of tea. I mean, the real investment, the one with ROI but also with risks. People only love the good side of investment, when they make profit, but as soon as the market is in red, which is normal and healthy, emotions come in, clouds their judgement, and put you all the blame. They panic sell; they blame you. They buy back at a much higher price; they blame you. They forget that they're adults capable of making sane judgments.

Sometimes, we better be on our own. If others do what we do, they're totally free. They ask for assistance, we're always willing to lend a hand. But we don't suggest, convince, encourage, exhort them even with all the disclaimers.

Economy could be referring to the state or the individuals. There are rich countries where poverty is high. There are not so rich countries where poverty incidence is low.

Bitcoin helps individuals when the state fails. Due to a lot of factors, a country's economy could fall-- mismanagement, corruption, sanctions, war, and so on. When inflation goes uncontrollably high, for example, Bitcoin protects the purchasing value of people's money. Bitcoin also serves as a solution to the problem of bank closures during wars and chaos, when people can't withdraw their own money. In times like this, Bitcoin provides people continuous access to their money so that they always have the capacity to buy their needs.

With what's been shared in this section lately, I truly hope that you're doing this for real. I truly do. There's no way for us to verify whether this is true or not, but I hope it is.

Anyway, we're all victims of the natural lotteries in life. For those of us who are lucky enough, it is always best to not forget those who are at the other end. It makes me extremely sad seeing indigenous people not just taken for granted but also become the butt of people's jokes because of how they look like. They're displaced. They're stolen of the very land the ancestors of their ancestors used to roam and hunt. They're deprived of all kinds of opportunities.

You've done a truly great job!

LOL! That's kind of normal to many people and that's indeed annoying. That's why I would rather avoid telling somebody to buy Bitcoin, especially if I know that he's the finger pointing kind of person. I don't want to get the blame. I'm willing to answer some Bitcoin-related questions, of course, but I seldom volunteer to teach somebody about it. Of course, I'm not an authority in the first place, but also because it's possibly that he/she will buy because of me and I know that when it comes to money people are very irritable. The price could fall and newbies could easily be affected.

Of course, this isn't a concern exclusive to NFL. This is a challenge to all sports including ESports.

A month or two ago, I shared that a neighbor was involved in game fixing. He's a professional DOTA II player who's already climbed through the ranks and was playing on the international stage. The talk is that a huge bet is involved and that they're all paid. They were found guilty and was banned by Valve.

Just very recently also, an investigation was started on game fixing allegations involving certain players of the largest basketball league here and a Singaporean businessman. The same businessman is also accused of the same in a basketball league in Thailand. Again, sports betting is also involved.

These are examples why public confidence of these leagues or contests is lost. The integrity of these games is lost. While many are still watching these games, it is undeniable that many also believe that there could be arrangements or negotiations behind.

Actually, when it comes to fundamental financial literacy, it is more or less common sense. Here in my country, however, there is a growing demand that teachers, especially public school teachers, undergo financial literacy. That's basically because they seem to be the primary prey of loan sharks, investment scams, and all kinds of offers. Many of them fall to these schemes and are buried in loans.

I wonder why this is. They are educated people. I bet they must aware of basic money management, credit or loan management, responsible spending, saving, and so on. I guess this isn't about the lack of financial education anymore. It is more of financial self-discipline. It's more of overall awareness, of knowing how to distinguish risk and red flags, and not just in finance.

That Bitcoin is digital has indeed some advantages. Coupled with its being decentralized, you can indeed stay pretty much private with what you have. You can have a million in Bitcoin without your family ever knowing about it. As a matter of fact, it can die with you. I mean, if you kept it in such a way that nobody else could gain any access to it, it will forever be yours even beyond your death.

Anyway, I don't think it is possible for Bitcoin to be a physical product. So, I can't answer whether I'd be involved in Bitcoin had it been a physical product. In the first place, digital and physical are like opposites.

I don't want to conclude right away that Twitter influencers are plain scammers. You hire them for a fair price, you will get what you ask for: promotion. After all, they've got even a million followers. Just make sure the followers are properly audited for bots and fake accounts and that they're mostly made up of the very kind of users you wish to make an audience of. They're selling visibility of whatever it is you want to be promoted. They're probably not promising you beyond that. In your case, they're probably not giving you a guarantee that you will have many customers because of them.

Whether they're effective or not, I don't know. What I know is that people shouldn't easily fall to whatever it is that's promoted there.

I think it's wrong to say that cryptocurrency is not supported or accepted by governments of all countries. There are at least a couple of countries already that recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. And although the rest don't go that far, cryptocurrency is actually accepted by probably the majority, at least by implication. Meaning, crypto isn't illegal or banned. Even in countries where crypto is not yet strictly regulated or even classified, people can buy, sell, and spend crypto.

Even in my country where Bitcoin isn't recognized as a currency by the government, it is legal and you can actually pay for goods and services with Bitcoin. 

It is not bad to raise additional capital in various ways if you don't have enough money for your project. You make an interesting sales pitch in front of potential investors, convince them that what you have has a huge potential, and get the money that you need. Or just start small and work your way toward growth and success. It would be a different story, though, if you sell tokens which will normally just end up mainly for speculation. I guess it's better to just do away with this. The most successful crypto casinos don't create their own tokens.

It isn't food crisis if there is enough food. If there is no food shortage, I guess there can't be a food crisis. If there is enough food but people are still going hungry because they don't have the money to buy or the access to it, it's a different problem. But it isn't food crisis. And that's what's happening in our country.

The food crisis that I can remember was the sugar crisis. It caused the closure of huge businesses because even though they can afford to buy sugar there is nothing available in the market.

I can hardly imagine a gambling platform that is truly decentralized. In the first place, it is a third party owned and ran by certain individuals or a company that has to be operating from a certain place in order to secure a license. All those mean they have single points of failure. As far as games are concerned, most of them have providers, although there are those that are provably fair, which means that players can verify for themselves whether the results are truly fair.

Random-based gambling is always based on luck. Your strategy will be on money management. It can't be on winning games.

The risk with using Bitcoin in doing business though is that sometimes you might be forced to wait for a while before making use of your income. There will be times you cannot immediately roll your funds. There will be times your capital will have to stay put. You must be aware that volatility is generally not good for business. The price of Bitcoin could significantly fall within hours. And if you will have to convert your Bitcoin to fiat in your business operation, it's either you will do it with a loss or you will wait indefinitely for the recovery.

My opinion would have been entirely different had the majority of these transactions not Ordinals. But since 54% of this all-time record is made up of Ordinals, there's not much to say except perhaps that Ordinals have probably clicked and that miners are probably happy that there's a considerable increase in fees because of them. However, this is probably not something to be really excited about, and does not really represent growth in adoption, if one is of the belief that Bitcoin transactions should remain monetary.

If this is me, I would leave my job and focus on trading and use a portion of my profit to start a business so that whatever happens to my trades, there is still something that provides me money. It's because, with the way you share your story, you seem to be a successful trader.

But that's for me. And that's because I hate to work in an office where I have supervisors and managers and all kinds of bosses. I just want to travel and work whenever I want to. Things could be different to other people, though.

With you, you seem to be happy and proud of your regular job. Why do you have to quit? As a matter of fact, even with that job of yours, you still managed to make successful trades. You don't seem to be drained and stressed out. If you can have both, that's certainly better.