It surely can be quite frightening but if you're decently technically literate (don't necessarily need to be an expert), it's very doable! Try making one for fun for just a small amount of BTC, then look back at the steps you did and check if there are potential security loopholes.

Didn't know crap about anything about investing and finance in general before Bitcoin — it pretty much became my first stepping stone. Now I pretty much trade stocks and crypto as my main source of income, and I'm pretty much the "finance" and "markets" guy in my local circle despite me not having a finance-related degree.

The only applause he's going to get is from the same group of people who thinks that highranks are being selfish with merits; and they'll all not-receive merits happily altogether because complaining ain't going to do crap.

It's really not that simple. Using closed-source software isn't necessarily bad if you're just going to use it for something that's not privacy-sensitive (e.g. work, gaming, etc). Compared to something where you store investments, of course open-source is important.

People with a lot of sMerits care about merit monopolization A LOT more than you think — heck I don't even spend a single braincell in thinking about it. Don't excuse lack of post quality for "mEriT mOnOpOLiZaTiOn".

Seriously, stop it with this crap.

Security is one of those things that money alone can't solve. Even exchanges like MtGox and Bitfinex had good money back then; it all just boils down to one thing(mostly) — complacency caused by incompetence. Even the biggest of companies get hacked.

Not sure about low fees, but if you want non-custodial derivatives trading: Synthetix/Lyra, GMX, dYdX (personally I only use GMX). You can try no-KYC CEXs but they're pretty much inevitable to implement KYC so I'd stay away from them as much as possible.

It's mostly what ranochigo said, but if you want specifics, then it will differ from website to website. Most of them use different widgets, and each widget has different price feeds and APIs that they scrape their prices from.

This. Unless you really wanted to learn, just go the easy route. A Ledger Nano S Plus is approximately 90 USD and a Trezor Model One is like 70 USD. That should be affordable enough if you plan on investing in the long-term.

Simple — it's going to need more buyers than sellers, just like always.

Bitcoin has hit $60k+ before, why do you think it can't hit $25k? It's just a matter of 'when'.

Additional advice: hindi "research" ang pagnood ng YouTube vids na ung tipong "top 5 coins to invest in 2023!", etc. Ang research ay pagbasa ng project documents, pagtingin ng metrics, pagnood ng interviews, etc. Akala ng karamihan "research" na ung nanood lang ng 20-minute YouTube video.

If you're shorting, you don't need to own the bitcoin to be able to "sell". Depending on what the exchange's UI is(it can vary), just use the "short" button. Maybe you're on the "spot trading" category hence you don't see a "short" button.

The only viable way I can think of is doing it as some sort of wallet recovery service. You get a certain percentage of the total bitcoin if you ever manage to crack a person's wallet. It's going to be pretty hard to gain reputation though.

These services work on the back-end of gambling sites, so I don't think people would necessarily notice the company name.

Twitter discussion for those interested: https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1682941291825627137

Other cryptocurrencies aren't necessarily "competition" but yea some of the money indeed goes to those tokens instead of bitcoin. But yea so.. what's your point? Do you propose that we ban all altcoins or something lol? This is an open market — anyone can compete if they want.

Post don't necessarily need to be 100% grammatically correct — as long as the thread is understandable, it's good enough. But if a certain user can't really make a thread that's at least mildly comprehensible, then there's a reason why we have Local sections.

Calculate how much bitcoin you own in USD(or your local currency) terms, then decide if it's worth paying decent sums of money for a file recovery service. It might cost a good amount of money.

1. Crypto wallets are open-source
2. Cloud mining is mostly a dead business

Based on your post though, you seem incapable of such project. Probably slow down and work on simpler projects?

Can you rephrase your question? What do you mean by 'manipulate' in this case? They sell the BTC on the open markets hence there's downward selling pressure. What more do you want to know?

Twitter. Not only do you get news if you follow accounts of news sites, you also see people discussing them so you also get to know if some news are inaccurate, and you get to read discussions in general.