There are many countries around the world where Bitcoin is still banned by the government. All these countries do not see Bitcoin as a blessing, they see it as a scam. They think Bitcoin will completely destroy people's lives. As I say from my location in Bangladesh, Bitcoin is still banned by the government in Bangladesh. People here are using Bitcoin under the cover of prohibition. Even though Bitcoin is banned by the government but people are not stopped they are constantly working here and earning money and leading their lives beautifully. There are many such countries where Bitcoin is officially banned but they are quietly making a living in Bitcoin.

This doesn't make sense because there is no difference at all in terms of distances when the USA hosts the World Cup 2026 alone. Do you really think it matters whether you have to go from Houston to Washington or whether Canada and Mexico are involved? Visa and stuff could be an issue, but that is probably no different when a Mexican wants to go to Qatar or Canada.

Having several hosts can be beneficial for so many reasons as well and I think it is rather a decision that emphasizes inclusion than exclusion. Having the support of a nation like the USA to host the World Cup is good for Mexico as I am sure there will also be a lot of cooperation on the security concepts as well, which is something that can't be neglected at all these days (sadly).

On paper, the Bayern Munich squad is above Leverkusen. because after all, these two teams have differences based on the quality of their players. of course, Bayern will still be a team that is more favored by the bookies. especially since Kane was with Bayern, it felt like they were playing with passion and high enthusiasm to win game after game.
Meanwhile, I saw Leverkusen from the coach's side. because in terms of players, as I said, Bayern Munich has players who are far more competitive. However, because of that, Xabi Alonso will try to find a way to overthrow the German league giants in the next meeting. however, it is not an easy matter and Xabi is very aware of that. in the last meeting last season Leverkusen were able to topple Bayern at BayArena, their headquarters.

In this season, the situation is different. Even though Xabi plays offensive football, against Bayern they will play more carefully. This match will be played at the Allianz Arena, Bayern Munich's headquarters. Honestly, I don't want to rush into speculating, especially since I don't have much information about the match yet. However, if we refer to betting, the bookie favors the Bayern Munich team and that is very natural.

Napoli loss was something that would boost their morale to come back hard on any team after the international break and teams like Inter Milan would mess up because they don't seem to be trust worthy and it will be hard to see them (Inter Milan ) get another 9 points without them playing a draw.
The whole table seems to be in favor of the two brothers, Inter Milan and Ac Milan but watch out for Juventus this season, they're having that hunger to stay at the top of the table if not being the champions ones again.

This is a new regulation that is implemented by the FA, strict sanctions are also prepared by the FA for individuals or teams who commit violations. The FA has also adopted the additional time or injury time system that was previously used at the 2022 world cup in Qatar. and we, have seen it in a few of these competitions.

In essence, the Gunners succeeded in overthrowing the Red Devil at their own headquarters, Emirates Stadium. As previously predicted, this match will present an exciting match between the two teams. Rice, scored his first goal with Arsenal and proved he was a worthy player. while the final goal was scored by Gabriel Jesus. as a result, Arsenal won full points for this match and placed 5th in the standings. even though in reality, there is only a difference of two points from Manchester City who are at the top of the standings.

On the other hand, United actually had several opportunities but unfortunately they were unable to increase their number of goals. Of the three counter-attacks that United had, only one was utilized very well. In this match, Manchester United were just unlucky, in the final seconds of the match, they were unable to maintain their position after the match had progressed in normal time. in the end, Arsenal managed to win this match.

Bitcoin is also volatile, it will indirectly have the perception of inflation in relative value, especially for speculators whose main activity is trading it with fiat currency.
And the term "long term" is also relative to some people. There's nothing wrong with using bitcoin as a hedge, but investors can be at more risk from the effects of inflation because of the relative time they can hold it.

Well, it's theoretically possible for the governments and central banks to control Bitcoin. They could simply buy more mining equipment and/or buy more BTC and manipulate the price. The only reason they don't do it is because it's expensive and kinda meaningless.
I don't know about Bitcoin (or any digital currency) bringing peace. No currency in the world could "bring peace".
If one Bitcoin would cost more tomorrow than it costs today, then what's the point of spending your precious BTC for goods and services?
If Bitcoin was so awesome, then why every business in the world hasn't adopted it yet?
 

I agree with your opinion.

People keep advising to do diversification when someone want to invest in something, but if they only have small amount of money, what's the point of diversification when we will not even get big amount of money in one asset.

I think making mistake is really normal for someone who's trying for the first time, the best is stick with one investment that's the risk and reward level that you able to accept.

My first encounter with Bitcoin and this forum was kinda embarrassing, some of members in this forum might now a ponzi scam project called Bitconnect, one of my relative joined this cult --before it turns into scam definitely-- and they try to promote it to me. I know it was too good to be true, and then I do some research on it, then I found about Crypto, Bitcoin and then this forum. I actually mistaken Bitconnect and Bitcoin the first time, I thought both are the same.

any opinion on the price of bitcoin reaching 1 million dollars is pure speculation. it may or may not happen, we will just find out in the future years.

For now don't invest into bitcoin thinking the price will go up.

I also like high returns, despite of not having much in other assets, I've discovered it years ago that if you hold for a long time in crypto. The risk is higher so the gain is. But we're not on the losing side if the crypto asset you own is BTC.

The centralized market can also be manipulate but one can be noticed with the right tools. Manipulation is everywhere whether in politics or monetary aspect. Crypto is not the only market that manipulation takes place, even in the forex and local market. This can not stop even though the government comes in. There are lots of people that have lots there assets because of manipulation that is why we need to understand what we are doing before we ever think of putting our money in such a thing.

Poor planning from the beginning is the reason behind all this conditional selling of bitcoin. You know what you earn weekly or monthly and you know what you spend as well as your savings. After you have a reasonable savings, you can take part of it to invest in bitcoin which is not part of your calculation again. I mean you should consider it as not part of your asset until when your target is hit. In the case of emergency, you can spend from your savings and no need for you to sell your bitcoin.

Planning is the key to success. You can not invest bitcoin with whole of your savings and expect miracle to happen when you are in need.. It's better to invest a little amount in bitcoin for a long time than to be in haste to invest heavenly and run in bankruptcy that will lead you to sell it within short period of time with possible lose.

I definitely do believe that gold will be surpassed by bitcoin one day. Marketcap of gold is slow and it is heavy and it is not acting that quickly, so we are going to end up seeing gold be a lot slower and that should be the important difference. One day we are going to see it do very differently without a doubt. I know that a lot of people feel like gold is the best investment but bitcoin is much better than gold.

Just the fact that you can spend bitcoin to buy something and you can't spend gold to do the same thing is a great proof. I can send you $10 in bitcoin right now, or any other alt, but I can't send you $10 in gold right now, that should be good enough reason alone to say that bitcoin will be more than gold.

Am not saying you're wrong to be thankful for everyday because our current position might be the dream of other people we don't know.

But I imagine I were a poor or having no money, I don't think I can be thankful because I will not able to buy food, I can't study due to limitation, I don't have capital to start a business, and anything that I can't except I need to work very hard to get minimum amount of money.

Most of the time, poor people can't escape from poor since it's a structural poverty.

If between those two then my case, I am from Indonesia and the currency wasn't too bad, but still up and down. I would prefer to save a USD in my Bank Account rather to just hold a centralized stable-coin, the main reason is because my saving was guaranteed by the Deposit Insurance Agency, so in case something happened to the bank I suppose it would be easier for me to get my money, and fortunately my bank gives me option to save USD instead local currency.

Out of the four Australians making their debut (Aaron Hardie, Matthew Short, Spencer Johnson and Tanveer Sangha), everyone performed well making significant contributions. Johnson and Sangha shared 5 wickets between them. And while batting, Hardie and Short made significant contributions. On the other hand, the two South African debutants (Gerald Coetzee and Dewald Brevis) disappointed their fans. A lot was expected from Brevis, but he got out for just 5 runs. And Coetzee was expensive when he opened the bowling. 

South African selectors have their hands tied. As per the transformation quotas, they need to select a fixed number of colored players and it doesn't matter whether they are performing well or not. One example is the selection of Temba Bavuma to the team. He faced just two balls and got out for a duck, off the bowling of Marcus Stoinis. He didn't played any competitive cricket for the last 5 months and was directly dropped in for this match against Australia. Anyway, they have two more matches remaining, and both of them will be played at the same venue (Kingsmead in Durban).

Yep as far as my experience with the new Twitter or X, they still has the best algorithm, and it keeps getting better. Everything that appear in my For You page is always relevant and it always keep me for scrolling for more. And to be honest, I don't really care about the Logo, Repost/Retweet term, and something like that, as long as it still gives me good content I would still using it.

And aside from that - it was pretty hard to convince someone to invest in Bitcoin or in crypto when they never see how it changes your status. Some people just believe in a certain investment based on what they saw us, they believe in those people who can show results, not just words which is somewhat hard for Bitcoin.

This is why I don't tell anyone of my friends to invest in Bitcoin. Even though they that I was in crypto already but never I encouraged them to try because I didn't want to take responsibility for whatever happened to them when they were involved in this.