Who here wants to pay 30$ in transaction fees just to buy an item worth 10$?
This is the reason why Bitcoin will always be an alternative mode of payment, and not a main mode of payment. It's the fees which sometimes is really high like what happened a few weeks ago. Why pay using Bitcoin when you can use fiat to buy it?

Higher transaction fees = more exposure to Lightning Network. As transaction fees goes up, people will find an a better way to make Bitcoin transaction, and Lightning Network is the most recommended by others. You have 2 options though, either use LN, or use altcoins if you really want to pay using crypto.

This is the reason why many are thinking about the Nuggets of winning the title against the Heat. Yes the Heat got the will to win, but will alone isn't enough for you to win a title especially with a talented, and almost unstoppable Nuggets team.

Anyway, I will add some history achievements that happened in Game 1. (just saw it online)
- Jokic joins Jason Kidd as the only players in NBA history to record a triple double in their Finals Debut.
- Jokic, and Murray joins Jordan & Pippen, and Magic & Worthy as the only teammates to both have 10+ assists in a Finals game.
- Jokic broke the past record for most number of assists by a Center in a Finals Game with 14. Bill Russell held it with 13.
- Jokic, and Murray are the 2 of 4 players in history to score 25+ points, 5+ rebounds, and 10+ assists in Finals debut.

TBH, these achievements alone by Jokic, and Murray is enough to say that they're unstoppable. The Heat are just on a disadvantage in terms of match-ups. Gordon is just bulldozing in the paint. MPJ is just dunking on the Heat players. Aside from mismatches, the Nuggets also have good defense as well, and aside from that, it seems like double teaming Jokic will not work because he can easily see players who are free to shoot.

Nuggets in 5 still. The Nuggets have all the advantages against the Heat, and one win on the road alone is enough for them to win the title.

I did a quick Google search on who Ben Gordon is, and surprisingly he played in the NBA (I don't know him TBH that's why I'm surprised), and what's more surprising is that base on Wikipedia:

Anyway, the Nuggets won on their first NBA Finals game on franchise history by 11 points 104-93 behind a triple double by Jokic (his 9th in this playoffs), and 26 points by Murray.

The Nuggets are just amazing in this game. Shot 50.6% in FG, and the Heat doesn't have anything to stop Murray, and MPJ who got a double-double 14 points, 13 rebounds. Gordon also scored 16 points in this one. What's good about the Nuggets is that, they know how to capitalize the disadvantages of their opposing team like in this game, the Heat obviously are undersized especially when Gordon, and MPJ are in the court (which happens most of the time). That's also the reason why both of them got double-digits in this Game 1. Jokic also got 14 assists which is the most in an NBA Finals debut.

As for the Heat, they made a history in Game 1 as they have the fewest number of free throw attempts in NBA Finals history with two attempts. Just imagine that for a second. You played for 48 minutes, and you only got 2 free throws. Butler just for context averaged more than 8 free throw attempts in the ECF, and has been good in drawing fouls. This just shows how good the Nuggets are in defense to the point that they can avoid getting fouls while defending their opponents. This is also the first Game 1 loss for the Heat since they won on the first 3 Game 1's on the first 3 series in this playoffs. Another one is Caleb Martin. He is unstoppable against the Celtics, but in Game 1 he scored only 3 points. It's expected that the Nuggets will defend him most of the time.

Game 2 will be 2 days from now. We will see more adjustments coming from both teams. Will the Nuggets maintain their undefeated record? Or the Heat will bounce back, and steal one on the road like what they're always doing in this playoffs.

I also tried to copy some of my latest posts on the website that anonymous reporter has shared (thanks for sharing anyway), and most of them are less than 1% fake (some are even 0%), but there are 2 of my posts that has more than 30%. I also don't know if this AI detector is reliable or not as well.

Anyway, I don't know if it's only me, but I despise users who are using ChatGPT for their advantage here in the forum just to get a few bucks in their signature campaign. IMO, it's obvious that the OP has used AI apps to maximize the quality of his posts. I just don't know why people are using it here? To gain merits? Self-validation? To show here that you are a good poster? I mean it doesn't make sense (for me).

We've seen previous report from a user who has been caught using AI tools in his posts, but what he only got is a neutral trust, and a ban from campaigns that Royse777 is managing, and will be managing in the future. Deleting his AI posts will be useless as well because he has been exposed already, and I guess it's almost certain that he will be out of Yomix anytime soon (if proven he's using AI).

P.S. Well, I guess that the site that the reporter has posted isn't as reliable as it is because @pakhitheboss tried it on another AI detector, and it seems that it says there that it wasn't an AI written post.
I tried using the AI detector website that @nutildah has shared here: LINK
LINK LINK LINK LINK
On the first post that is suspected to be AI written, 2 of the sites said that it is created by a human, while the 2 said that it has made thru AI.
On the second post that is suspected to be AI written, 4 of the same websites that I used said that it is created by human.
On the third post that is suspected to be AI written, 2 of the sites again said that it is created by a human while the 2 said that it has made thru AI.

TBH, it's hard to detect which posts are created by human, and which are created by AI knowing that these AI detector tools have different outputs for the same posts. The only time that we will know that the suspected user is using AI is when he, himself says it. If the accused is using or not, I still despise using AI to earn here.

You're judging a group of person based on looks? I don't think that it's a good thing to do that. I mean why judge them just by their looks?

Right now, the price of PI Network in Coinmarketcap is around $22. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/pinetwork/
TBH, I remembered one project a few years ago where I participated in mobile mining, got some tokens from it, sold it, and got some profit. If somebody knows the project Electroneum still I think around 2017-2018 where ICO hype is at it's peak.

Is Pi mining networks real? It's a scam, and right now the price of it is at $22, but once the developers unlock the tokens that these "MINERS" got in their so-called mobile mining, the price of it will plummet, and that's 100% sure. What they did is a different way of airdropping their tokens to newbies. Here in our country, I've seen numerous posts of people trading their "MINED" Pi networks to something that has value like rice, or whatever that they need. I mean it's just absurd how people look at this network without proper researching. Well, they didn't invest anything aside from the fact that they might gave their private information to these scammers so... yeah.

Pi Network is a scam. The price of it will plummet anytime soon, and these miners will get shock when they see the developers dumping their own token first.

I don't know if it's just me only, but when I was a newbie, I don't care about these 2 things.
Bitcoin being decentralized? Anonymous transaction? Why would I even care about that.

Until I learn more about cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and the internet itself. It being decentralized is a big thing because nobody can control it. Just a bit correction Bitcoin transactions aren't completely anonymous because an expert can still track your transactions base on what's in the blockchain. Well, it's good that we don't need to share personal information when we are making transactions unlike banks where we need to go there, write our personal information before making transactions.

This is where you are wrong.

Huge profits by buying, and holding it? Well, it might partly true, but did you share that you can get potential losses while doing that? Buying, and holding isn't a guarantee profit FYI. There is still a chance that you might get losses during the process. This is why many new investors are losing money in cryptocurrency. They mindset that they can get huge returns in crypto is a mistake especially if they don't know what are the risk of investing into it.

Denver will win in Game 1. That's my prediction.

Both Coach Spo, and Coach Malone are long time coaches in their respective teams especially Coach Spo, and we know how good of a tactician, and how good he analyzes everything in the court. Coach Spo might have an advantage over Coach Malone here in terms of experience, but Coach Malone has better players.

I don't expect too much in Game 1 because they will just show their strategies on that game. Game 2 would be better because there will be a big of adjustments in both teams, and with that we will see who is the better team in terms of adjustments for their opposing team. I also wonder who will guard Jokic most of the time. Like I said in my previous posts, Bam will be having a hard time guarding him, and when the Heat try to double him, Jokic can easily see the open player to shoot threes. I guess better rotation might be the answer, but let's see how will it goes.

I don't know if it's just me, but people who served for their own country are highly respectable, so I give respect to your father.

It depends on what type of house your father wants. Is it a bungalow? A 2-story building?
Well, I agree with what you said that housing materials are very expensive because of what happened last year, but there's always a way to build a house with the retirement money that your father has. On the other hand, if you have a house to live in then better wait for the prices to go down I guess - if it will goes down. As for putting money in a bank, I don't see any reason for your father to put it there aside from it being an emergency funds.

Half of your father's retirement money into Bitcoin? I don't know if you're just insane, or like you said you can't think properly when it comes to investing, but that's too much of a risk for your father to handle. I'd say if you really want your father to invest into Bitcoin, don't invest a huge amount.

It's not your money, but your father's. For sure your father wants to enjoy the money that he got from his retirement, so obviously he will spend some of it to buy anything he wants. Anyway, if I'm your father I will not risk half of my money just to invest into something that's very risky. I'd suggest to let him decide what he wants to do with his money, but on the other hand, ask him some question that is related not only with Bitcoin, but investing in general, but I doubt that your father will risk half of his hard-earned money, and invest it into Bitcoin unless you will force him to do it.

Hmmm, None .

I don't need to sell other things that I have just to have money to trade. I don't want to risk it, sell those important things that I obviously need for something that is very risky, has a high chance of losing money especially if you don't know what you are doing, and has a potential to change your life negatively. I prefer a lesser stressful route, and that is to focus on building a base for the long term thru long term investing. I'm purely investing on long term coins.

I know that there are some people out there who can sacrifice what they have for trading. Some of them went on to become successful traders like the one OP has shared to us, while there are some who sacrificed whatever they need to sacrifice, sold all of their belongings only to end up losing money which is quite unfortunate for them.

Well, I guess I'm lucky that I didn't quit my job for trading because I would be doomed if I did that.

Well, it's a good thing that we teach our children anything that we know not only on Bitcoin, but in investing in general. On the other hand, it's good to think as well that if the child doesn't want it, don't force him/her to get involved into it.

I disagree with the bolded text. So you mean that our children in the future might not make any gain from Bitcoin because it's might be high at that time? You mean that if I have a children when the price of Bitcoin is $100,000, it will stay at that price, and will not go up anymore? They can still make gains from Bitcoin as long as the price of it goes up.

Teaching our children about Bitcoin is a good gift, but it isn't only the good gift that we parents can share to them.
You can never go wrong with knowledge indeed, but it would be better to teach our children with regards to investing in general, and not only Bitcoins. Teach them the do's and don'ts in investing. Teach them the must follow tips and tricks that will help them not get scammed. Teach them everything that you know in order for them to be a successful investor in the future. Don't teach them only Bitcoin. Teach them the fundamentals.

Markets is heavily driven by sentiments of the investors.
Investors rely heavily on news in terms of when they will invest or not.
Therefore, Bitcoin's price is heavily affected by the news because some or most of the investors are basing on the news on whether they will invest or not.

This kind of thing has been happening for years already, and since my start here in the crypto industry, I've seen Bitcoin's price go up, and down just because of the news that's being spread on different platforms. In 2017, I remember that Bitcoin's price moves by at least double digit percentage most of the time, if the news is positive, and vice-versa. Nowadays, news doesn't have that much effect on the price of Bitcoin anymore, but still there's a bit of it, but not as much as what it was in 2017.

Overall, an an investor, it would be better if we will base on charts rather on the news.

Who would've thought that this fat person from Serbia will become the face of the biggest basketball in the world right now. I mean at first glance, you will look at him as an unathletic person who is just sitting there watching movies etc. Now he is on the road to give the Nuggets their first title in franchise history. I just shared it because until now, I'm amazed on how many teams passed on him. He's the 41st pick in the NBA draft if some here don't know, and he was drafted behind the scenes, and there was a taco bell commercial when it happened.

One thing's for sure (at least for me). Top draft picks doesn't mean better player. Sometimes, you will see better players at the bottom spot of the draft like Jokic.


Bam Vs. Jokic? Possible, but take note that the Heat have a very small line-up. If Jokic decided to stay beyond the three point area, and pass more, Bam's defense will adjust therefore, other Nuggets players are free to drive in the paint because other players are really small. I mean besides Bam which is 6'9", the tallest of them already is 3 6'7" players, and they aren't using Love, and Zeller that much as well. I'm not saying that it's impossible, but Bam will be having a hard time. Just imagine this. Davis who has been the best in terms of defense during the playoffs is just wasn't enough for Jokic, then how can Bam cope up with him.

Nuggets in 5, and I will stick with it. If it's the Celtics, I might predict 6-7 games, but it's the Heat. I'm not underestimating the Heat though, but the Nuggets is just an amazing team all throughout the season, and they manage to stay at the top even though the standings in the West are very close.

I saw an analogy that is a perfect fit for this question a few days ago.

Some might saw this already, but in a Facebook post, there's 2 pictures where the picture on the left is a photographer that's in a helicopter, and the picture on the right is a drone. In that, there's a caption that says "In just 10 years, the photographer losses his job."

I can't find the post, and I don't know the exact caption either, but the point is if you will not adopt to your environment, chances of you losing your job really is high. ChatGPT might destroy, and totally replace some of the jobs out there, but on the other hand, those who are expert in using ChatGPT will see this is a new opportunity for them to find a job. Many people might lose their job, but if they will adopt, and learn how to use ChatGPT on their advantage, and maximize it, they will not lose their job for sure.

Technology really is evolving, and on a rapid pace, and people must adopt into it, and maximize it thus, they might really lose their jobs.

No surprise at all.

Whatever the hype currently is where the scammers are. ICO's are hype, scammers are there to scam newbies. DeFi projects are hyped, they are there as well. NFT's are hyped 2 years ago, they are also there, and now meme coins are now the hyped project, and they are there. It's like an Owner-Dog relation where the hyped project is the owner, and the dog are the scammers. Wherever the hype/owner is, the scammers/dog is also there. My apologies for that analysis.

Meme coins have been hyped a few years ago as well when SHIB was out of nowhere at the top already in terms of market cap, and has passed DOGE at that time.

Investors really don't learn from mistakes don't they? Whatever the hype is, investors will try their luck, and invest into some new memecoins out there hoping that they will earn money from it. 24 meme coins in just 10 days? It's just unfortunate to see investors losing money in these type of projects, but at the same time, I feel like they deserve to be scammed because they aren't learning. I just hope that those who lost their money investing into these meme coins learned their lesson already.

Just focus on the coins in terms of market cap.
Lesser stress, lesser risk. Yes lesser rewards, but that would be better than investing into some shitcoins out there that has the highest risk. I mean it's my own perspective to focus on the top market cap coins because I don't want to get stressed in terms of my investments.

Thanks for what you said, but in my perspective, I don't see it as a secret anymore because I've known this a long time ago already. This is also the reason why I don't watch any videos on Youtube that talks about new projects, meme coins, shitcoins, and some buy recommendations. What I only watch are the videos that are related to technical analysis of a particular high market cap coin like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, etc.

Nevertheless, this is a wake-up call for those newbies out there who are watching, and supporting the influencer that they've always watch on Youtube. I hope that this thread will wake up the minds of those newbies who are solely following the recommendations of these Crypto Influencers hoping that they will make profit on it. I guess this is the time for those who are following some crypto influencers to stop watching them, and instead watch educational videos that will help you learn more about crypto. Avoid videos that are talking to new projects, coin recommendation, meme coin, shitcoins and the like.

Gaining knowledge is the key always. Don't be a blind investor, and rely on what these Youtube crypto influencers are saying. Do your own research like what we always say. Learn the basics of crypto because it will help you know which coins are good to invest, and which are not.

Around $2000-$4000 at around August of 2017.
I'm pretty sure that there are some here who saw Bitcoin at a lower price.

Golden era of Bitcoin? Last 2016? Can somebody elaborate this one for me because I only started to involve into cryptocurrency August-September of 2017. I'll be grateful to somebody who will explain it to me.

Well, base on the price movement of Bitcoin in the last decade, Hodling really is the way to earn money aside from trading of course. If you aren't a good trader, simply holding will give you more profit. Unfortunately, most of the investors don't have the patience to hold Bitcoin for a long time, and when they see somebody holding a huge amount of Bitcoins, and he bought it way when Bitcoin is just a few years old, they will feel envious, but might change their way of investing into Bitcoin after that.

I also made huge transactions when Bitcoin's price was at 4 digits. My largest transaction with the use of Bitcoin is when I built my very own PC. I think the price of Bitcoin at that time is at $9,000, and if I'm not mistaken, I spent around 0.09 BTC just to build a PC. Not feeling disappointed or regret because I didn't know that Bitcoin's price will reach $60,000 a few years after that, but I learned from it that I must continue holding Bitcoins for at least 5 years or even longer to achieve maximum profit possible.

There really are times where investors really regret their decision whenever they are selling way too early, but the reality is you don't know what will be the next movement of Bitcoin after you sold it. After you sold, there's a chance that it might go down thus, you will not regret your decision because you sold at the right time. On the other hand, there are times where after you sold your Bitcoins, it goes up even higher. You will feel regret, but take note that by the time you sold it, you don't know what would be the next move of Bitcoin. I guess currently you already moved on with that regret. Just be contented with your profits.

Feel sorry for your losses because of the FTX drama I guess.
I also feel sorry that you're living in one of the few countries in the world where crypto is banned.

I also felt that way when I was starting. Like you, I also have huge losses in my total crypto portfolio back a few years ago. I also lost confidence at that time, but you know what I did. I believed in crypto. I believe that I can recover those losses in the future, so I choose to hold it, and that's one of the best decisions that I've made. Convince your parents that losses are just impermanent, and tell to them that it will recover soon.

Buying stocks is still a good thing since you're investing still, but on a less volatile, and a safer type of investment than crypto. Saving in banks is a no-no unless it is for emergency funds.
If you can't convince them to buy Bitcoin, at least just convince them to just focus on the stock market. In that way, they're still investing. It would be a lot safer compare to crypto, and better than just saving it on banks.

Planning is useless without action, and capital. Save money as much as possible so you can stack Bitcoin as many as possible. Where can you buy Bitcoin? Centralized exchanges are the ones that I can recommend.

I will just add some history with this one.
- The Heat are the 2nd 8th seeded team in NBA history to clinch the NBA Finals. First is the 98-99 Knicks.
- The Celtics are the 4th team to force a Game 7 after being down 0-3. The first 3 teams who forced it has been played away, thus they lost. Celtics are the first ones to play on their home, and yet they lost.
- The Heat are now 68-0 in franchise history when they are leading by 10+ point entering 4th quarter.
- The whole Heat team got 12 turnovers. Brown himself got 8 turnovers.

They lost because they shot very awful on the three-point area. In the first half alone, they only got 1 three point shot out of many attempts. If somebody here watched, and observed the whole series, you already knew that the Celtics will lost just because of how bad they shot threes. When they needed it the most, they failed from it. "Live by three, Die by three". That's their motto, and tonight they lost because of it.

Tatum suffered from a left ankle injury at the very first minute of the game, and you can see how hurtful it is base on his reaction after that. I believe that hinders him to play with full potential. On the other hand, their second best player in Brown just choked all throughout the game. How can he get 8 turnovers in a single game, and shot only 8/23. As an all-NBA team, that's unacceptable.

I think that the Nuggets has to do something with this undrafted players of the Heat. Caleb Martin is the X-factor on this game. Their 4 undrafted players scored almost half of their total points. It's just amazing how Coach Spo develop these undrafted players to the point where they can carry the whole team offensively when needed the most. Congratulations to the whole Heat team. Now they will be facing the Nuggets a few days from now. I'm just thinking what the match-ups will be.
- Murray Vs. Butler. Murray is also a good defender, aside from him being a terrific shooter. There are times where he stopped Lebron in their series against the Lakers, so I think he can do something to stop Butler.
- Jokic Vs. , and I don't think that Adebayo can keep up with him TBH, so I don't know who will defend him in most of the game.

Aside from that, the Nuggets also have MPJ, Brown, and KCP to defend those undrafted players. It's a good run for the Heat TBH, but I predict that this will end in 5 games. That's how good the Nuggets is this season for me.

When I was a newbie, I also thought that the stock market will be the same as crypto where you can get profits on a daily basis, but I was wrong. I tried to do day trading in the stock market for a few days, but it doesn't work because the price movement of stocks aren't that high compare to crypto which is more volatile.

Slowly building a portfolio of good companies. This is my main goal when it comes to investing into the stock market, and I'm currently doing it. I'm currently investing into some big companies already in our country, and has been there for a very long time. I also got inspired by Warren Buffet where he just studied lots of stocks, bought it, and just held it for decades. Now he is earning billions of dollars without doing anything thru dividends which is the closest to passive income.

Maybe I'm a bit fortunate that I'm still debt free right now, and at the same time, slowly building a portfolio in the stock market.

You're an IT teacher like you said. I'm pretty sure that you know a skill that you can offer online right? I mean you know how to use computers since you're an IT graduate, and you're teaching it as well.

How to manage your time? It's only you that can answer that question. There was a time where I can't manage my time as well, and the only thing that I did is I sat alone in my bedroom, listed all the things that I'm doing on a daily basis, and putting a time on what time will I do a particular thing. Don't procrastinate as well because sometimes procrastinating is the reason why we are lacking time to do other things. List the things that you're doing daily, and from that put a specific time where you will do that thing if it's time.

Now how to earn money from trading. If you're a newbie, forget about earning because most of the newbies in trading don't earn profit in the mid to long run. I'm not saying all, but when I was a newbie, I lost half or more than half of my capital in trading. Fortunately that isn't the case now since I know what I'm doing already, but in your case if you're a newbie then forget earning. Experience will teach you along the away, so just spend a few bucks on your first try in trading. I don't usually recommend watching on Youtube, but TBH that's where I learned trading, so I guess I'll say to watch some Youtube videos that will give you information that will help you in your trading journey.

I think in your case, it would be better if you will focus on teaching students while being a freelancer first, and then be a full-time freelancer.