No offence, but I think this thread was way to short to convey the message you had to spread. Anyways, from the brief details, I get that people of this age spend their health on their money and then spend their money on their health. That's sad, but it's what one should do to survive isn't it. We just have to balance out health and out finances. There are many people out their who are successful without health issues. We can also be like them, cause we really d need to work hard towards our goal. Imagine being mediocre cause you couldn't add an extra hour or at least 30 mins to the little you have to do. That's definitely not what we want for ourselves.

So, let's us work hard and also take care of ourselves

Yes, procrastination really is the enemy of success. Funny how everybody does, and sometimes I wonder how people who are successful defeat it.  The most annoying fact is that there's no way around procrastination, you just have to face and beat it.. not just for one day... But every single day. Procrastination in eating healthy, Reading, working, cleaning up, and many other things that make us feel overwhelmed with choked-up activities at the end of the day.

Procrastination in Bitcoin and the crypto world would be delaying not buying a coin, and not investing. It always leads to dire situations and regret. Let's find ways to encourage and discipline ourselves every day to beat this enemy of our success... This means a lot more to me than it is, from me.

True talk, but if things go haywire we fit move go another crypto exchange platform. OP don already mention some and the thing be say, plenty exchange platforms dey weh legit. Be like say na cause some of us don already too hype Binance as the baba, na im we dey too concerned. And if worse comes to worse there are vendors too... Be like say we don already get solution of this our problem, and also, e be like say this Binance thing no dey affect everybody for here... But make dey see

The probability of Aptos pricing increasing is a 1 in the bull run. Bitcoins price has gone really up, but not all cryptocurrencies are going up At the same speed. Aptos is one of them. Its price is currently over 11 dollars and may increase to about 55-56 dollars by the end of the bull run. Sounds like a good investment, even if it doesn't have much to it.

If I had 40,000 dollars kept aside for investments then I would have invested in BTC and ETH. But, you've already said that you've grown accustomed to these two, so I presume you already have a balanced income in both of these crypto currencies .

Well, regardless, I would still not go for any other cryptocurrency, shit coin or legit, I'd either still pour money into Bitcoin and (little) into Ethereum or I'd get other assets. There are lots of assets I'd like to have ( personal opinion though) and they are; gold bars and chains, shares in top businesses, and the mining industry. But all you want is another crypto investment, so I'd say you go for Dogecoin.

It's sad that the poor let themselves be oppressed, and nice that bitcoin, as an alternative, has given the poor a chance to become rich. But mind you, no one is working towards balance and a world where there are no rich people... kinds of Stuff like that are a mere illusion and go against the way things work. Even as there's an opportunity for the poor to earn through a fixed monetary system, there will always be poor people. We just have to pray and work hard toward the goal of not being among that category.

Yes, definitely you would still own a certain amount of Bitcoin, which is the amount you got when you bought it at the ratio of; 1btc = $61k, but the value of that amount of Bitcoin would have reduced drastically, definitely less than 250 dollars.

I think that's the maths. But mind you .. that's not trading since you eat to own shares, that hodling... And the probability of earning way more than the value you purchased after at least 2 years of hodling is high... So if you can wait for that long, it won't be a loss anymore.

Yes, I must say money really is never enough. But that is how it should be right? I don't think I'd settle for less if I could get something bigger ( way out of your point though) but what I'm starting to say is money makes life better and everyone wants a better life.. money is never enough to cause more money you earn the more your condition moves forward and no reasonable Peron's would want to go back to a previous condition cause now that once comfortable life would make you miserable. Not being able to get what you want, not having as much power ... And then another matrix ( a slightly better one though, is born).

Anyways, money is never enough and the problems of life never end. We should watch our mentality and not limit ourselves with what we say. That's why sometimes... Money runs away from people.

I'm sorry, but I've got to ask these questions even though I may not get answers to them.


What exactly is the topic of your post " Hello everyone"? And secondly, who gets 12 BTC, the person who solves what's causing the problem on the forum or the person who can recover the 689 BTC?

If this isn't some kind of riddle, and it happens to be a real-life situation, then I'll first say that a burnt computer with a hard disk that is still functioning is really remarkable. I can assume that's how you were able to find the wallet.dat, and now that you've found something that valuable, there's a high probability that it's corrupted and inaccessible. That's sad.


Now, how old exactly is your friend to have his last transaction in 1970? I really got confused with this one and I went on to research it. Turns out, that particular day 1970.1.1 is known as the Unix epoch. When wallet software encounters corrupted and uninitialized timestamps, they automatically lead to the Unix epoch.

You failed to mention who the people giving you information about your friend's computers are. But in case you don't want to trust them, there may actually be no need to trust them. Let me remind you that wallet.dat has private keys and you can easily access the Bitcoin in connection to your friend's BTC address. This seems like a fair solution, doesn't it? Try gaining the private keys and transfer the BTC into another newly opened wallet.

Honestly, I'm not gonna lie, it is very difficult to save money, especially in a bad economy. You aid it yourself OP, you don't even understand how your money finishes on expenses and bills you have to pay... Imagine adding saving to the list. It's going to be extremely difficult.

But, I don't think it was meant to be easy right? Get a side hustle, an extra job where money earned there would be totally ( or partially) saved. Reducing costs in order to save money only works for people who at least have a little bit of comfort in their earnings. You can't earn 10 dollars and save expecting even $9 to do you good for a while. That's of course, unless you still live under your parent's roof. You can even decide to save all.

So, more savings isn't always the solution, but more earning sure is the solution.

There are approximately 187,000 million kilograms of gold available all over the world ( there's a probability of this piece of information being wrong). So, even if you were just assuming, broo .. you're still wrong. It's quite sad, everyone is saying the same thing, that you're wrong of course, really wanted to see if there would be a little fact in what you wrote down.

And honestly, if we're looking for facts in what you've written down, then I'd say that Satoshi created an alternative to money just like hold is an alternative to money. And about the fact that they're both assets, yes, that's true. They also have a few other similarities but the quantity of Bitcoin relating to gold is off the radar.

Well, one can't know everything right ?... And to be fair, not knowing BTC doesn't actually mean you know nothing about money. Money has been in existence long before Satoshi made BTC.

Knowledge is a good thing, especially when you know the right things and use them appropriately. Bitcoin is spreading so fast that even people against can't help but think about the fact that it's real and needed in these times. So, a nice and industrious thing one can do is spread their personal stories for people who don't know and believe in it, to know and believe in it

Sadly enough, we may or may not have marketers on the local board to see this message, so what do you suggest we the buyers do other than to bear the heat?

As citizens ready to fight for ourselves and for our country, we can individually own and work on farms, so as to provide food for ourselves and our family first and eventually sell these farm produce at cheaper rates to others close to us. Why is a bag of pure water 500 naira when the content isn't even pure?

Errm... Have you ever heard of chlorine?  or boiling water to destroy germs. Anyway, maybe it's cause I'm an economist. On a serious note though, there are probably marketers who are exaggerating prices, but the economy touch everybody, no be lie. God would keep us.

This is so true. The thing is, after learning about what Bitcoin was, its history, certain events, and all, I realized that yes, Bitcoin is and was created as an alternative to fiat money, but it is also an asset. In fact, assets are usually alternatives to money, aren't they? So, if Bitcoin is an asset, one should treat it as such. Do you buy gold/ land only to sell it off the next minute? So why would you buy Bitcoin only to sell it off the next minute? That really is a loss, and that's why and never believed in trading instead of hodling Bitcoin. I've always been an advocate of long-term investments and holding of Bitcoin.

So, as OP said, keep your Bitcoin holdings and hold them for a long time.

Yes, its price is peaking seriously way more than it ever did, and for some of us, becoming too difficult and far to reach.

I remember when 1 BTC was just over $27k and I calculated its worth in my currency, I literally sat down and started breaking down how much and for how long I'd have to save to earn it, or even though, a fraction of it. And now, it's over if not more than $50k as of the time of writing. It really does seem advanced to get into it. But then I remembered that the people who are into it and own fractions of it earning daily by its price rise and happy now and they aren't wizards. If they can do it, then I can do it and more, and then I continue looking for ways to earn it.

So, no matter how advanced it gets, I'll get more advanced until I reach it. That's the attitude we should all walk around it.

I believe resources usually follow smart, but do you know that smart people don't usually follow resources? There's a difference and it is here;

I'm the book of Proverbs, Solomon talked about how a wise and intelligent man used his wisdom to save the kingdom but he was later forgotten, why? Because he was poor.
Measuring success according to CGPA and position in the educational system isn't the right measure or approach. Don't you know that these 5 pointers end up working for C students?
5 BTC is a result of knowledge, but a 5 CGPA doesn't usually lead to riches.

Hope you get my point though. Meanwhile, while we're at it, I'd pick both. One isn't better than the other, they're both necessary. I want to be smart but not for the rich, and I want to be rich, so I can get that self-validation that I really am smart.

Took me till I got into Economics class to realize this.

In Economics, there are 3 views of inflation and causes which also make up the 3 definitions. These views are ;

The layman's understanding - it is the general rise in the price of goods and services in an economy.

The monetarist view- a phenomenon where there is an increase in the supply of money, making more money to chase fewer goods.

The Economics view- a situation where aggregate demand is 4unning ahead of aggregate supply. I.e more people are looking for what to eat and are demanding meanwhile, little amount of people are manufacturing and supplying goods into the market.

Now you may think, that the cause of the devaluation of the naira currency is just the cause of distortion in the monetary sector of the country. If that was true, things would have gotten better by now. A lot of factors have come together to devalue the Nigerian currency. And there are all bits of these 3 views. Serious monetary and even fiscal policies would be able to save us now... But the government just seems to be sleeping on our matter like we need to go into hell and make a deal with the devil before our country would be saved.

When I read " How does teaching help better our country?", I was like.. what exactly are you saying, you're passing on knowledge and stuff like that. But then I read further and it's true  , we've been taught what we know to teach future teachers and the matrix continues.

You see, when it comes to the Federal Government not utilizing opportunities such as that of Nysc programs, that's honestly the federal government's problem. If a youth wants to really work in an industry and help the economy, then that's their ambition and they should help themselves, cause waiting for the government to do things in this country would take forever. I get that the government, by doing this would boost moral of a lot of youth, but it doesn't change the fact that they are still not doing it. It may even lead to corruption and lots of nepotism. That's why I'd say the youth should help themselves.

There are books and self-study programs that a person can read and self-teach himself/ herself to not only work in industries but to own their own industries. Nigeria does need more workers, it needs more employers. I always thought the future was digital skills and decentralized finance our country's economy, but we haven't even entered the industrial age in this country and that's really sad. Creating a firm/ business that makes match sticks in this country today would go extremely far.

Sometimes I wonder how there are really great ideas on this forum, but I rarely ever see any outside and then these advices goes to waste as most of them are channeled to people who may and may not be on the platform. So, if you strongly believe in what you've written OP, then I'd say you tweet this on a platform that lots of people including government officials can see it,Cause it's a really good idea.

The number of answers you can get from asking such a question here would be extremely diverse, so, I advise you to do a web search and get a list of options first.

There are lots of platforms, according to my research though, where one can get data on ETFs. They include these few;  ETF's insider,
Nerd wallet, Twelve data, and ETF's database. If you can get what you're looking for in any of these, then that's cool. But, if you can't then I suggest you research and find some more on the internet.

Blockchain technology would help economies with its features that allow secure and transparent data sharing among multiple parties without a central authority.

Its positive impact would include, the increase in trust and collaboration between government, citizens, and business owners by providing immutable and verifiable records of processes and transactions. It'll, of course, register and lead to Economic growth by supporting new business ventures like decentralized finance, smart contracts, and so on. It'll also reduce bureaucracy, corruption, fraud, etc by enabling digital identity management in land registries, voting, taxation, and healthcare records.

Although there are lots of positive impacts, there would also be negative impacts. They are; conflicts with existing laws, rules, and regulations which would require new ones in order to address the 8ssues of data privacy, taxation, and so on. The second would be technical and operational complexity which may lead to slow operations and delayed results. Also, it'll lead to the redundancy of government in their responsibilities.

Honestly, everything that has an advantage also comes with its disadvantages, and these disadvantages have their respective controllable measure and solutions. So, it'll be worth it, to have Blockchain technology in government and Economic activities.