Menh! I doubted dat Leo until I checked and saw he even get post for local sef. I nor go surprise sey e get persin wey enta before him sef dat year wey forum open and still dey post here codedly.

I give it to Brainboss. D guy try to arrange dat owa hangout thread, I nor go lie una. I know how reluctant I was wen im approached me on dat issue. Maybe im go don forget how dat matta take be dat time now. I wanted to just do my stuff without any ish then. Even owa late brother Becky666 follow ginger for the thread then. May God rest his soul.

We nor go too blame those wey no identify with us because e get as here be dat time wen I enta. Una sabi dat kain prejudice thing once outsiders identify you as Naija persin na. Nor be everybodi go fit risk to face mob action like dat wen you dey minority. All man wan protect wetin dey put food for dem mouth, I understand dat part.

I still dey see members wey I know sey dem be Nigerians but dem neva show face for local board unto sey dem wan keep actin foreigner. Some na their usernames dey give dem out while some na their writing pattern. Una sabi sey e get as a typical Naija persin dey take coin words of write English ba, are you understanding me 😆

Those of una wey enta here afta we get hangout thread, una dey lucky honestly. I know d joy wey e give me d first time I discovered one Naija dude through im username. I think Olubams be d user. Na so I rush d dude inbox. We chatted very well, even off forum for sometime. Na dat merit thing wey forum introduced make d dude slack. He come stop posting as soon as im marry. I tried to encourage him to come back but e nor work.

Shoutout to a man like Brainboss!

Nice try but nor be so dem dey take analyse proverbs oh. Nor be plain meaning from d syntactic structure. You get to dig deep and peruse am. For instance now, if I tell you sey "Pikin wey dem carry for back nor dey know sey road far" E nor mean sey dem actually carry pikin for back dey go somewhere but na true if dem still carry pikin for back. Wetin dat particular proverb mean be sey persin wey dem dey help do something nor dey know sey e dey hard. Proverbs get application, nor be d regular talk and just leave am there kind of thing.

I don't know how "reckless" you think that comment is when you see something reoccurring over and over. Both of us have witnessed two full Bitcoin circles since we registered here. Your profile tells me that we both got in here the same month. It's also likely that we may have passed through one or two similar experiences as members here, isn't it? So, what makes my being certain that halving history will repeat itself as was in the past "reckless"? Yes, I know this is crypto and there shouldn't be strong hold on certainty but I want to differ on that in relation to halving. Bitcoin will experience another ATH after halving. Mark my word.

I believe you'll be in better profit selling it in 2025 as against 2024. Bitcoin ATHs usually come a year after every halving, looking at past data. 2025 will be that year for a new ATH to be achieved. Nonetheless, OP will be making a better call if you set an exit point for yourself instead of looking for a duration to sell off. Who knows, price may get to your projection before the time and you're off the market. Choose price target over duration to cash out.

It will be very difficult to find anyone who got into cryptos between the year 2010 up till 2020 who would say they haven't been scammed one way or the other. I've had my fair share of it, from doubling sites to rugpulled ICOs to unpaid bounties here to lending coin days. Anyway, the good thing is that were still here today despite all that challenges. We learn everyday and hopefully I don't encounter such ugly experiences going forward again.

For me, getting involved in cryptos is more like enjoying freedom, both financial freedom and physical. I saw crypto as the innovation in economics that is shifting financial dealings out of the hands of middlemen seamlessly and I had to embrace it. Sincerely, despite the losses I've incurred from my noob days till now I still don't have any iota of regret embracing cryptos. I like being able to do my business from any part of the globe I find myself. This is what crypto businesses – trading, investments, writing etc have been able to do for me. Crypto is a big win for me. It's like having my own cake and eating, so to say.

OP picked the acceptability of Bitcoin as a means of payment and tagged it its beauty. Nah, I don't think that's it. A bunch of coins out there can do that and even more than what Bitcoin offers. Come to think of it, we can't even stake Bitcoin to earn like we do others. Anyway, for me what makes Bitcoin beautiful isn't it's payment option. It's its decentralized nature. If Bitcoin weren't decentralized, those government officials and economists who hated Satoshi's guts in creating it would've crippled it long ago in it's formative years before anyone said Jack. In Africa, especially in countries where the government is anti-Bitcoin, they would've confiscated it. Like what we've in my country. These officials don't even understand how to go about crypto related issues and so at worse they can only ban bank transactions of it. It's thanks to decentralization.

Your allusion to the plenteous children of the French in the 15th century wasn't a secluded case. It was also evident in Africa (Nigeria). My Dad used to tell me that a part of the reason people of that era had many children and wives was to have enough farm hands who would help out at the farm and not get paid at home. Another was to fight boredom and loneliness. Can we say these reasons still stand today? Of course, not.

In today's world parental responsibility and care are top necessity more than birthing children one can't even take appropriate care of. On the part of the government, using my country as an example, I think it's overwhelming to have a bloated population. The amenities and infrastructure aren't enough to go round the people and that seems to make a mess of government's planning and strategy as the country gets to have more people struggling over scarce resources and amenities.

Just look at that funny picture in the OP. A carpenter who doesn't have a single chair at home. It's the same way we also see people who teach trading but can't earn profit from it to make them quit their day job and begin to elk a living from trading. It's a funny situation. I read a lot of posts like that and laugh at the hidden hypocrisy in them. This is why members here shouldn't take everything said here hook, line and sinker without verifying them.

That which I put in italics is often the problem with new members. After a while of excitement, the zeal dies off and many of them just abandon their accounts. I think they do this when they've that mindset of hitting it big once they register on this forum. They post for a few weeks and if they don't receive encouragement in form of merits, they bolt away. These ones don't really understand why Rome wasn't built in a single day. I'm encouraging OP to persevere and be constructive in their posts. They will enjoy being here at the end of the day.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don't think you've said anything that should be considered wrong by airing your view. I'm a lover of history and I think you've a point in your suggestion. However, the type of old threads I would love to see revived are threads that discussed the early days of Bitcoin and those funny less than $500 ATH predictions made. I meant threads from the inception of this forum to 2015. I read some of those threads and I realize how greatly things have changed here, including posting habits and ranking up.

If you're a greenhorn in trading, the proven low risk method to grow your Bitcoin would be simply to hodl in a safe wallet you have its Pkey or complete control. For anyone who doesn't understand jack about trading at a time like we've now, they got in here at the right time. Just buy Bitcoin and wait for its mandatory rise in price as halving draws near. Wait and then take profit after 2024. Thereafter, buy back after the rally.

Yes, token burning is a positive thing in tokenomics as it helps reduce maximum supply and expectedly creates scarcity. Scarcity creates demand. Demand causes price to flip. However, it's not the only thing that should cause price to rally up. I think use-case or utility of a token is more important than its burning. If a token has utility that investors already know of, and then the project decides to burn; that becomes an instant spike in price to the upside. I must confess that most noob investors would rather think of token burning than they think of its utility.

I don't know about Dogecoin's rise being a sign of the future of cryptocurrencies but I do know that Doge isn't just an ordinary memecoin. No, it's not even though it was created as joke. I've used it a few times and I can say that it's speed and ease of transaction confirmation is commendable. For those saying it's just a meme coin, they should pause and ask themselves why Doge is still thriving till date. What happened to most of the top listed coins that are dead now while Doge isn't?

Staking bears more risk than ordinarily buying and hodling. "More" is the operative word in my last comment and that doesn't absolve hodling from any type of risk. Late last year or so, I had a bitter taste of what the consequences of staking were as the KCLP and Gzilla tokens I staked using DApp on Trust Wallet disappeared when the projects collapsed. However, I didn't have any issue while I staked some tokens on Binance like Shiba. Before that incident happened to me I used to think staking was just free reward and profit, no serious implications. That's not so. Anyone who isn't strong hearted to stomach losses shouldn't stake. It's as simple as that.

Your choice of words in that expression sounds like what I know. I want to believe you're a Nigerian. You can find other Nigerians in our local board here. Whether there or here, feel free to express yourself and don't be bothered by whatever rank difference your find around. Keep off plagiarism and make sure you obey other forum rules. You will be fine if you do all that.

But of course, that's what it's as every trader can attest to that reality. It should even end as a simple observation for non-traders too. There's a reason people rush to invest into projects listed on; let me use Binance as a case study, faster than those listed on other exchanges. Binance is the most rated of them all and everyone wants to do business with it. It's a trust thing. Again, investors assume that Binance doesn't list shit or scam tokens. So, they believe any token they're buying on Binance is genuine. Investors want where best their investments can be guaranteed to succeed because of liquidity provided on that exchange. When all these considerations are taken into view, the maddening for such token is already in place before the token is listed. Demand, we know, dictates price.

You're right. I see it as pure laziness on the part of traders who seek signals instead of knowledge. If one depends on being spoon fed (that's what relying on signals does) it's very likely not to progress far in trading. Last year there was a user who advertised their Bitcoin winning trades here. That got some of our members to connect with him on telegram. Yours sincerely was among those who checked his telegram group out. It was a free group. The user seemed like he knew what he was doing and made some predictions that came out well. It was that way until he got carried away and threw caution to the wind and started trading dangerously. He burnt a few accounts and crowd funded funds given to him as a result of his carelessness. Members came down heavily on him with negative comments and thereafter his group became redundant and most people left. We see this type of behaviour all the time.

Besides credible altcoins like ETH, Cartesi, Matic, I like the idea of hodling launchpad tokens and exchange coins. These ones derive their utility from their platforms. I know it's a chance one takes keeping them because anything can happen to those platforms and the investment disappears into thin air like what happened with FTK and LUNA. But then, that's the nature of the cryptocurrency industry. It's filled with risk. To even come back home, risk generally cuts across all facets of human endeavour; it's not a crypto thing alone. I like BSCpad. It's very cheap now at $0.1 after doing an ATH of $7+ in 2021. It's looking like it won't rise again but don't be deceived it will rally back up.

I don't think it's something beginners should embrace like that. It amounts to giving one fish instead of teaching one how to fish by themselves. Doing copy trading is like aiding someone to cheat in an exam. The point of concern for any beginner who's going into trading is to learn the rudiments of trading and acquire the set skills for it. No shortcut should be encouraged. Newbie traders should go for the knowledge first before thinking of how to fast track earnings.