It is so unfortunate that you need to pay to learn about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency, there are thousands of free sources on the Internet that can help you learn about Crypto and Bitcoin, and I believe that the course that you paid is just collecting their material from that free sources. All that being said, I am glad that you finally found this forum, I could vouch that this forum is one of the best free source to learn about crypto and Bitcoin, from the very basic up to the advance one.

You can find many helpful educational article in this forum, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4928968.msg44399473#msg44399473

All of us is greedy and hunger of information and knowledge, we will only be satisfied when we die. I think the reason is because just by living our daily life in a very casual and common way, problem will still come and these problems require us to seek for knowledge and information so we can solve those problems, and as I said before every living being has problem, all of our problem will only be solve and stop when we die, thus we don't have to gain knowledge and information anymore.

On those lists, I have only used Paxful for several times, my experience is actually mixed, it is not always smooth, I encounter several problems where my BTC is not deposited into my wallet instantly but at the end of the day their customer support could solve my problem, but their respond is not always quick, so if you are in hurry I wouldn't recommended it. I usually use Binance P2P but since the money laundering issue, I tend to avoid doing any business with Binance, but in my experience using Binance P2P, most of the time it goes seamless, and when I got some trouble their support is usually quick in solving my problem.

I do agree that we shouldn't completely believe this theory, but if the data is true, and the pattern is actually repeated it will be more like technical analysis of an investment market. The this kind of theory just like a technical analysis of a market is not a 100% true prediction but because there are repetition of pattern, people conduct a study, and then form a theory, examine it, review by peers and then agreed by a group of people that there is a repetition of pattern and it can be used to make an educated guess.

But I do have same concern that the theory might need to be re-examine because it has been 150 years and a lot has happened financial world is also evolving.

I think so, I thought of same thing too, but honestly the OP's point in his post is a bit vague. Or maybe I am the one who don't understand

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Even though it is true that every individual is responsible for their own success, but government policy significantly affect how much opportunity we can get. For example if government put an extremely strict rule for business investment there would be less opportunity for the people because rich people would hesitant to put their money into business which make less job available.

Ini setuju sih, menurutku Presiden memang sebagai individu tidak perlu netral, bahkan secara gamblang menunjukkan dukungan pun menurut saya tidak masalah. Akan jadi masalah kalau Presiden menggunakan fasilitas negara dan jabatan yang dimilikinya untuk memberikan keuntungan bagi salah satu pasangan calon. Nah apakah Presiden Jokowi pernah menggunakan fasilitas negara dan jabatan yang dimilikinya untuk memberikan keuntungan bagi salah satu pasangan calon?

Menurut saya pribadi yang paling jelas adalah keputusan MK yang bisa meloloskan Gibran menjadi Cawapres jelas sangat menguntungkan bagi Gibran, namun apakah ada campur tangan presiden didalamnya? Sampai saat ini belum terbukti.

Selain itu sampai saat ini belum ada bukti konkrit yang membuktikan kalau presiden menggunakan fasilitas negara dan jabatan untuk menguntungkan paslon tertentu, memang ada beberapa video yang menunjukkan pejabat dan penyelenggara layanan negara memberi arahan dan berkampanye untuk paslon tertentu tapi lagi-lagi masih belum bisa secara langsung dibuktikan keterkaitannya dengan Presiden Jokowi.

Apakah kita boleh berprasangka kalau Pak Jokowi menggunakan jabatan dan pengaruhnya untuk menguntungkan paslon tertentu? Tentu boleh, sekedar berprasangka tidak ada yang melarang.

Namun kita juga harus adil bahwa sampai saat ini prasangka tersebut belum terbukti secara kongkrit.

There has been many Islamic related cryptocurrency that claiming they are Shariah-Compliant most of them are failed. I wonder why people keep trying to use Islam to sell crypto, I think most muslim won't care about it, in as long as it's not against any rules in Quran and not harming any people everything is Mubah/Permitted, crypto included. No need to add 'Shariah-Compliant' to it, it will just make it sound exclusive to muslim and reach less people.

Man, your site has a lot of annoying ads, so I decided to do google search of my own about this Phemedrone Stealer. This malware is using Windows Defender flaw so anyone who are not using Windows OS is supposed to be safe. And also this is an opensource and even has it's Github page, https://github.com/nullixx/Phemedrone-Stealer. This will make easier for Windows Defender developer to quickly fix the flaw or to update their security.

Sampai saat ini saya belum menentukan pilihan tapi memang dari awal Pasangan Prabowo - Gibran memaparkan kebijakan yang akan diterapkan jika terpilih sebagai presiden kebanyakan saya agak kurang cocok, dari mulai makan siang gratis, keberlanjutan food estate, peningkatan penerimaan pajak hingga 23% dan yang terakhir kemarin peningkatan gaji Pejabat dan Penyelenggara pelayanan negara, satu-satunya yang saya cocok adalah pembatasan ekspor bahan mentah sehingga mendorong export barang yang sudah diolah sehingga memiliki nilai lebih, atau yang biasa disebut hilirisasi.

Khusus untuk peningkatan gaji pejabat menurut saya Prabowo sangat ketinggalan jaman, akan masuk akal jika hal tersebut menjadi kebijakan pada tahun 2010-2015 saat sebelum ada tunjangan kinerja (tukin), tapi kalau sekarang tukin pejabat saja sudah melebihi gaji, jadi menaikkan gaji sepertinya tidak relevan dan hanya menambah beban belanja negara.

Well, I don't know, but I couldn't imagine any scenario where 2024 could be worse than 2023 because for me 2023 was extremely difficult. I work in advertising industry and even during and shortly after pandemic (2021-2022) ads industry is still booming, everyone still needs ads, but 2023 it is really bad, even big corporation was reducing (some even put 0) on their advertising and marketing budget. My agency lose many regular client.
But it's starting to get better this early year, not in a big leap, but still an improvement. So, I have quite positive, and good hope for 2024.

If he could spend $80 without doing any research and just hand-over his money to random website, I guess he shouldn't be so angry if he was being scammed. If it was me, doesn't matter what is the site telling me wether Bitcoin, Genie, some Real-estate, or stock, if it ask me to deposit $80 I will do deep research before decided to give my money. Those guy might think that $80 is just a loose change and not some big money, so he he would just give away his money without any research, because with just a quick research he would find that most of cloud mining are scam.

Well, my condolence for your fund, but the first time I clicked on your link I got this warning from Metamask,



So it means that you are not the first or the only person that got scammed, and then when I continue to the site it immediately asked me to connect to my metamask wallet, so if you have done some trading, you should have connected your metamask wallet and received those warning before hand. Either you don't understand/you dont read the warning, or you just ignored that warning, either way, I wish you can learn the some lesson from this misfortune.

In short term AVAX and LINK is good choice, they have been doing so much in recent year there should be time for them to shine. I would also suggest you to look on Aptoslabs, a good project with solid community and development. For long term there is a good chance there will be new crypto trend maybe a Layer 2 Blockchain or something that could help already existing coin to scale up.

Ethereum obviously is a good choice but I assume you already have it, it's like the top of mind for altcoins, I also usually suggest BNB but with recent cases occur, BNB is still on my watch but I wouldn't buy it.

In more traditional investment like stock long term usually means 5 year or more, and I would never let money sit on an altcoins more than 2 years, let alone 5 years, it is too risky. I usually sell before 1 year, or at least will take some profit on those time frame. Even the highest marketcap altcoin like Ethereum is still too risky for me to put my money more than 2 years.

But that's just my opinion, on the other hand I know some people who hold altcoin more than 3 years and they gain a lot of profit, but most of them are big investor, they wouldn't budge even if their asset value down 30% or more.

So there are two questions here,
1. Can Bitcoin create opportunity?

Definitely, anything new will create opportunity, Bitcoin directly/indirectly has create a new Industry a Blockchain & Crypto Industry. I know that Blockchain and Crypto has been exist before Bitcoin but the industry only emerge after Bitcoin gain popularity. With new industry there are more business opportunity and thus it create job opportunity.

2. Can bitcoin reduce poverty.

It might but it won't be significant, there are deep structural and systemic problems that cause poverty, 1% of people are richer than the 99% combined, the cycle of poverty lead to lack of education, lack of education lead to less low income job, low income job lead to poverty and so on and so forth, Bitocin alone will not solve these problems.

I don't think the Bitcoin price would be skyrocketing immediately in the first few weeks after halving, on the contrary we already see some bullish trend right now, and this people who is entering the market at this moment could try to take their profit on the event of halving, people might massively sell their Bitcoin shortly after halving, thus the Bitcoin price might get correction on that time.

If we looking for a coin that is reliable, stable (compared to other cryptocurrency) and proven for safe speculation and investment then I do agree that Bitcoin is the only worthy coin to buy, it has been here for more than 14 Years, and the price keep increasing. But out-there there are so many cryptocurrencies that actually has useful utility and dApp, and not everyone buy crypto just to speculate and invest some actually buy it for the utility. The problem would be the number of those useful altcoins is extremely small compared to the shitty ones, so to invest in altcoins we will need to find needle in haystack.

I live in neighboring country of Philippines but this is actually the first time I have ever heard of Boracay Island, I have been to Thailand and Vietnam, but I think (at least) for me and my peers we never thought that Philippines as a tourist destination. And if this is actually true that there is an island where most (if not all) of the merchant is accepting Bitcoin, it could attract more tourist, at least from the neighboring country in SEA because from what I know, crypto is huge and keep growing in this area. And this could be a marketing material, since there is not much marketing and ads about Philippines tourism.

I would like to learn how to cook, I came from place where there are thousands of cuisine but my cooking skill is very limited, and I really regret that. I don't have the time to learn cooking because I need to work and to make money, not that I didn't love my job, I like it too. The only skills that allow me to get money to fulfill my need is my job as graphic designer, it's getting harder nowadays because we have instant design app and AI, but I still manage fortunately.

I think aside of all the technical skills that we can learn in like a course or education, there are also other skills like social skills or soft-skills, that we learn by socializing and learning from experience, either our own experience or other people's experiences. This social skills or soft-skill will help us reach more people and market ourself.

I think it only applicable if the service was a high-skilled and the asset also came with big responsibility, for example a person could only ask for stock payment if he is willing and have the ability to become at least executive director, board, or higher. If the person only have the ability to become like manager or below I don't think the people have leverage to ask for asset as payment. Mainly because those position will not be affected directly by companies condition, in most company their financial condition will only affect higher position like CEO, or Board, and will have less effect on low-level position