You've nailed it, my friend, many will just be running their mouths about Bitcoin investments but will never be reasonable with it, only to repeat what they can commonly read online. To DCA or whatever approach you use to invest is a thing, but to have your investment plan after the approach is another thing and both have to be considered before an informed-investmenet can be made.

Why DCA when you know you will divest pretty soon? It is only a dedicated HOLDer that such an investment approach will fit. Also, the most driving force to HODL will be your trust in that particular asset you want to invest in, not because you see people doing it or you are just making some random investment like most people do. You can see this kind of trust in some people like JayJuanGee here when it comes to Bitcoin. Such people may not even care to hold it for decades. I envy the spirit but it could have been easier for me too if I bought Bitcoin at a deeper low.

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You have a long post here, perhaps I should explore them bit by bit over time and reply where necessary.

Are you saying that fiat is legit and Bitcoin is not? You are seriously missing facts. Why is Bitcoin in the main financial stream today if your view is to be upheld? Bitcoin will even protect people's goods and services more than fiat because it is decentralised but fiat can still be controlled by the banks and others and stop any transaction they wish to stop.

Bitcoin is better as long as you deal with trusted parties. In the worst case, you may have a legal agreement about this and your transaction will push through at all cost.

Not smart? It is smart my friend, there is nothing controversial in having alternatives. The only issues that could make establishments shy away from having multiple deposit and withdrawal options are security and liquidity. But a big casino like Stake has nothing to worry about with the two, if not, they wouldn't have dared it or would have stopped it. However, the benefits are enormous to both the establishment and its customers, as customer A may prefer Litecoin as an extremist and may only despite in a casino having that option. Won't Stake miss such a customer if such is so determined as a fan of Litecoin?

This is happening bro, though it is not so extreme for other customers but for their plans and convenience. The transaction fees and speed matters here too, especially when the network of one is congested as we often see on Bitcoin. That shouldn't stop us from sending money and the casino receiving money while gambling continues.

I share some of your views but not all. Fine, we did some troublesome and crazy things when we were kids, nevertheless, if you are sincere with yourself, you could have done some things better or even avoided them entirely. Even if this is not your case (since we can't take the same path), it doesn't mean it is not what others would have wished they did differently. This could only mean that the guidance of children is limitless, we should do our best to upgrade our old flaws and guide them in the best possible way. This does not mean we can't connect with them, we can still be their best friend and also help them drop what we believe is not good for them at their age.

Anything adult-related is not supposed to be allowed for children no matter the defence, there is time for everything.

As for the financial mistakes remark, this is not necessary for them at that age unless it is just the normal mismanagement of their allowances or pocket money. One can continue to guide them still and show them how to do it better. But for them gambling, I don't call it a financial mistake but abuse of their age.

When someone is trying to avoid the mistake of using a single wallet like before when the wallet was compromised through hacking and the option of distributing his risks by having multiple wallets that are independent of each other is not safe in your view, which option is safe? At least you should have added a better option and not just condemn.

Also, having more seed phrases as a reason to believe the option is not good is baseless. If someone can keep a seed phrase for a single wallet well, I don't see how such can't keep it well for multiple wallets and it is not new for people to have more than one wallet without any compromise. We've been sharing enough ways to keep seed phrases on this forum, if you don't know, you ask.

You sound so perfect now, you who asked such a question, do you also have the guarantee that Bitcoin can't go below $50,000? Maybe you should read what I wrote again, my experience with trading/investment will never make me guarantee any decision, I can only speculate.

Against your wish, one thing I will not do is tell people to invest when the market is strongly bearish regardless of the investment approach you are preaching.

This can only be a huge misconception about Bitcoin, it is never like a football betting and never will it or other trading and investment assets be. This is how you guys relate things that are not supposed to be related together to confuse others, and having such a disposition will never let you grow in the industry.

Fine, earning through Bitcoin is risky, but still, many people are trading and investing it to make money. Some are even living and sustaining their families and dependents through Bitcoin, so you don't downgrade it just like that. You only need to know how things work with it, but note, that it will never be easy as many would preach to you. However, if you want it easier, you need to invest and shun trading, but if you have that risk affinity in you, you may trade and leave investment, or better still, do both. That is what I do and I can assure you that dealing with Bitcoin is so profitable. Nevertheless, you need to do your part.

You need to, above all other things, know how to speculate. Reading your chart and being proficient in handling your psychology and management right will make you unstoppable. But don't forget, "practice makes perfect," Bitcoin trading and investment is not what will start yielding for you immediately, it might take you years of training to perfect this.

It is not only the inexperienced, both the experienced and inexperienced may lose their money or miss out with airdrops, it only depends on luck at times and how the brains behind the project make it easy for you. It could be easy for some people to run their mouths about this as though it is easy or a certain approach to it, but I tell people to avoid deceit, there isn't. Many of them know what they are doing, they only need most people for relevance and social media presence, so when there is a huge marketing presence already, they might start demanding what people may not be able to meet as conditions to proceed.

At the same time, some may even be a scam or too little in reward for the money, time and energy wasted on them.  This is why I do not give in to the airdrops and I even dislike people using some styles to compel me to do their bidding, especially with my social media accounts. I feel so little of myself doing that, which has been helping me to avoid wasting my time. And if I should use a fraction for this, the airdrop that works should be about 1/1000, if not less.

Lol...I can't stop laughing here cause I don't know which angle you are bringing this from and what it tends to justify. You have to know that a country's affair is a serious affair, it's not what social reasoning (moral is not the right word as used) can take care of.

"Tax is never a theft and never will it be regardless of how you may interpret it." I can only advise you to accept the tax of your country in good faith or protest so that the government may reduce it if it is too much. Anything that is in the constitution and the law of the land is binding and must be obliged to as Rights. Therefore, tax is the Right of the government, citizens have theirs too.

This is what is helping the country, otherwise, everyone will do as they like and there will not be a country fitting to live in because there will be broad daylight theft and anarchy since there is no means for the government to empower and operate security architectures in the country. That is one reason among countless reasons. Or do you want the government to work for the people while they pay nothing? People will not even be efficient about this if it is voluntary, so what will be the general state of the country?

I summarily conclude by saying that tax is good but must be justifiably used. There is no way the government will tax anyone if there are no purposes for it. Also, the government can't tax you if there is no law backing it. By virtue, I don't see this as "theft" in all ramifications but a "compulsion." Where there is a law, there must be obedience to it.

$80,000 and $100,000 are the most talked-about Bitcoin target levels, but at present, the coin is disappointing people, though I suspected a thing like this. Well, we should not give up hope just yet, Bitcoin may still surprise us this year and next, notwithstanding, what I see on the daily, weekly and monthly charts is not encouraging, and the overall bias is bearish. So, having a serious bullish plan now may be highly insensitive of a smart investor.

Now, emphatically, if anyone tells you that Bitcoin will hit $100,000 this bullish season, the person is just lying, it's guesswork, do not believe it. No one ever knows the level Bitcoin will get to even as the optimistic condition faints more daily. We may have the hope/optimism for it, but nothing is certain here. The same thing goes for the maximum level it can hit in this bull run as you asked.

My candid advice is for you to move along with the wave of the market, and the best way to do that is for you to know how to read your trading chart accurately.

Good luck!

Sorry about your ugly experience with Bitcoin, but next time, you should be more careful. You may not even need the hard wallet, but keep your Bitcoin in multiple wallets. So that if one gets compromised, others will still be there for you. But if you are storing a huge amount of money, going for the Trezor Safe 3 may be a very good option. Still, make sure that you are careful about keeping your wallet, otherwise, it will be a waste buying the gadget.

As for the coming back, you are welcome, but ensure you are rather speculative than having the urge to invest itself. Know how to read your chart and make informed decisions. If you did, you will realise that now is not the time to invest in Bitcoin, the overall outlook is negative, so waiting is the best approach here. Some people may tell you to DCA, but my brother, don't answer them, you could suffer more loss before it gets better, so why not wait? For Bitcoin to have breached $62,120, it may move seriously lower and $50,000 is no longer safe again.

I love the position you take about this and I am not surprised with the whole episode. But note, as it is everywhere, there will always be a mixed reaction in a situation like this, so don't be surprised. Victor Osimhen is human and his reputation could be affected by the insensitive utterance of Finidi George and I must have reacted similarly to what he did if I was in his shoes. The guy was hurt and felt betrayed, he actually suffered another "Nigeria circumstance" where you will never know or hear the truth coming from the people from the corridor of power. All they know is lies and politics so that they can continue to cover up for their faults. You will never see them take responsibility but blame others.

Some people when felt cheated can talk and even overreact, that's their weakness so I understand the position of Victor, and instead of the well-meaning Nigerians to die the issue down, they started heating it up the more, to what gain? Some would say it will affect his career, how? Certainly not the Nigeria's incidents! But fine, Victor should be more careful and mature about some public reactions and utterances as he has been known for too many ugly incidents now, he should just apply wisdom even if he feels cheated and is within his rights of defence.

I can only wish him luck in this transfer window, all these will be put behind him when he is goodly fixed in a top club.

This context of using an expert prediction is subjective if I would be fair. Initially, I liked to entirely condemn it, but over time, I discovered it would be insensitive to be doing a thing like that. If it's the casinos we are talking about, then it is entirely useless to use expert predictions, but if it is about sports betting, fine, one may still derive a very good professionalism from them. After all, they would have done the work for you, so why do the work again? It shouldn't be a must. But still, I like people to go for the free ones if they would consider this option at all, it is those who are paying money for the service that still baffles me. They should also test the service they are opting for for months before fully believing in it.

However, I will not go for either of the two because they are such I can do myself, they are simple and I do create time for them. But for those who want to enjoy sports betting but do not have the time or expertise, why not? Yet, even as I advise them to use the experts' prediction, they should do that as they are learning how to predict it themselves. Relying on an external source for anything has never been the option I like, the prediction only takes a little learning and practice to be able to predict the primary sports betting options.

We've been discussing this context of mistakes in gambling for a while now, I only hope that we will utilize it rather than believing that mistake is a must. Some people will continue to believe this misconception for weakness and persist in making the mistake and also find solace in it to encourage themselves through various motivations which will never help their error correction and gambling advancement.

Fine, we can't do without making mistakes, and as you said, it might not even be the mistake directly linked to our approaches to gambling but psychological ones like the emotion you mentioned or the managerial aspect as well. Being a better version of ourselves with all right plans and calculations, and with discipline and determination are the ways out here and I hope everyone can ensure that through their regular gambling evaluation and continue to make a decisive change instead of being too relaxed about this mistake of a thing by believing it's a must.

Such a gambler will never grow!

Hahaha...I'm confused right now with what you wrote. First, this is not a trading discussion thread but a gambling thread, and second, bankroll can't protect us from any form of losses whatsoever, it all depends on us, on how well we are prepared for gambling and how calculative and managerial we are in handling the bankroll.

The bankroll is just an overall deposited amount where we can be drawing our gambling wagering, but if carelessly managed, it can be a very quick catastrophe for the gambler. However, if well actualized budgetarily, this could further help our gambling experience to have meaning and enhance our overall responsible gambling.

Even though the Netherlands was my favourite to win, I must say that I love what the Turkish team performed on the pitch yesterday. They were able to score in the first half and defended it until the 70th minute when Stefan de Vrij scored which appeared to demoralise them. This is evident with the second goal by Mert Müldür's own goal which seems to have entirely destabilised the Turkish team. No doubt, the Netherlands team was the better side but the defence of Turkey gave them a tougher time than expected even as Turkey made more scoring advances than I thought. Thanks to the Netherlands's defence, they are always prepared.

Well, without calling any doom for any country, I think the Netherlands may still advance to the final judging by their next opponent (England). England has never been so spectacular in this tournament and if the Netherlands could edge higher with all determination to avoid the penalty knockout, it would be very good for them. I believe they can get this done as well. I want the Euro 2024 final to be interesting, certainly, if it is England that will play it, it will not be interesting with what I've seen so far.

What happened between Brazil and Uruguay further confirms the stances of many veteran players of Brazil that this present team is the weakest they've ever witnessed. Dorival Júnior has a lot to improve in the team. Although they are better than many teams in the tourney but if the truth is to be told, they are not like the Brazil I knew when I was growing up or even the Brazil of a decade ago, the weakness is there. I know that the Uruguayan team is not to be taken lightly as well, but still, the exit of Nahitan Nández is a better opportunity for them to reach the semi-final stage if they have the firepower.

They didn't have the chance against Uruguay in my view and I will not rate the Uruguayan defence as low as you make it look, the defence is reasonably okay and this is obvious in that despite having about 20 minutes before the end of the full match (with initial extra time), Brazil was still unable to deliver. From what I saw, even if two players were removed from Uruguayan's team, the same outcome may still happen, so what do we call that? Going forward, I congratulate the Uruguayan team to have reached the semi-final, we should leave the past behind us and look forward to their match against Colombia.

Colombia is a better contender than Brazil and beat Panama 5-0 to reach the semi-final. And their 27 games unbeaten can't be taken lightly as well, let's see how their feat/luck will play out on Thursday.

That is why they are still kids, they are immature but just have that headstrong which will put them into trouble if we allow them to do as they please. That is why we are there, we are to guide them aright and no matter what they feel about the things that are wrong at their age or adult-related, they should never be allowed to do it no matter how they feel. When children are getting to the age of 14-18, they are worse to tame, and if it is not a direct negative impact through the parent, it may be cryptic, which could be tougher to detect as it could be through the environment, friends and many more, children are also very secretive to make the matters worst.

This is why parents/guardians should even be more sensitive and prove smarter than their children/wards to be able to know what they are up to at all times. There is no way they can outsmart the sensitive parents, after all, we tasted the water of this life before them and there is nothing they are doing or trying to do now that we've not done before. Above all, most of these children are not working to earn money for now, so any children who don't work for their money should not be allowed to waste money. Even if you work for the money, you still have to wait until you are mature enough to make a better-informed judgment of your own before engaging in adult-related activities.

As much as I love to try to show some uncared attitude about this, I still feel for this guy as a human being, but sincerely, I frown at his ways towards the whole episode entirely. I can't decipher how weak people could be in their minds to that extent. Talking about the court help he sorted, the many months in a year when he has been engaging in it with the same style and practices, can't he think of his fault and change his ways ASAP?

He has enough case to answer as a complainant himself and I don't think the court will justify his actions for any reason as an adult doing an adult thing which was bound by terms and conditions, which he also agreed to before gambling and expected the court to vindicate him against the casino. I wish to know where this case ends.

If I remember correctly, I started gambling on sports around 2006-2008, I can't remember the actual year if I am sincere with you. As for the experience, it has been positive so far. From the beginning, I didn't believe that I could gamble all aspects of it and make money, I only believed that majorly, it was going to be a win-or-lose matter and it has been helping me so much. The money may not be as huge as it would be if I were taking more risk but at the same time, it is the strength of my encouraging sports betting. I make sure that I avoid permutation like many people do to make more money and live betting, it could be so misleading. Don't forget, my approach has never been the type that will make me rich so quickly, but it is better manageable and such that will limit my possibility of losing my money in a single bet. So it's worth it.

I've always maintained a point on this thread that being rich or poor is of the mindset and it is generally relative. I said that because the last part of your statement baffled me, and in contrast, the rich can only be calm if he has not gambled with a huge amount of money that can cross his limit. Do you think they don't have a limit? They do of course. Just like the poor, you can see them gambling as well and not feel it, that's if they gamble with a ridiculously low amount of money they can overlook. They can only get hurt if they gamble with the money which can't be affordable for them to let go. By doing that, they would have crossed that limit. Although these limits for the rich and poor may be a very wide gap but that doesn't mean that either class do not have a limit. So I will never use it as a total quality of the rich to say they are always calm when they are gambling, no, many of them may even be gambling and sweating. This is happening if they have committed the money they feel is too expensive to lose at that time.