so if bitcoin just stays under $100,000 forever that's ok too? what if the us dollar devalues alot and bitcoin still stays the same? that's ok too?

apparently bitcoin is supposed to go up in price at each halving.

never heard of that satoshi. that sounds unreasonable of a demand though. but recirculating old coins that haven't been used in 250 years does seem kind of reasonable. at least to me.  

Let's not forget that John Oliver are a comedian and a actor.... so their main goal is to find content that are controversial. Bitcoin and Crypto currencies are one of those topics that can be exploited to push a lot of buttons and get the most reaction from viewers.

These people thrive when they can pick people and technologies apart for their own gain. So yes, Bitcoin and Crypto currencies are a easy target for them and there are a lot of scams and shitcoins that are giving them a lot of content. 

I realized about the pattern you are talking about especially after I analyzed the charts and compared it between the previous halves and the next halves. I am under the impression that a similar pattern is possible, but it will most likely be broken if a red candle finally forms in April. I analyzed monthly TF, but I have doubts about deeper dip between May to July. If indeed a correction is still very likely, I don't think $20k will break.

Oliver has given three worst failures of the crypto time which include: 1) Terra Fall, 2) Celsius, and 3) FTX collapse.

Yep. In the context of a high key rate, rather high interest income on short-term US Treasury bonds and amid high inflation, there is absolutely no reasonable reason to keep your money on deposits at a symbolic interest rate (usually 0.1%), at least an amount exceeding deposit insurance limit. Therefore, the outflow of funds from bank deposits will continue and I do not see how this trend can be changed.

A month has passed and the passions around the banks have subsided a little, but the problems have not gone away. The high key rate and hints of its further growth make the outflow of deposits from banks increasing and it is not clear how this can be fixed. An interesting article in Bloomberg about this.

Yes, it is an opportunity though not so attractive as it was in November-22, with the price having dropped more than $3000 during the last week and currently trading at around $27,700. It appears as market may continue to experience sideways movement, and Bitcoin price may remain within a relatively low range for sometime until a break-up or break-downs occurs which usually happens after a period of sideways movement. Every significant dip should be considered an opportunity to accumulate Bitcoins for long term holding.

it's one thing for btc marketcap to go from half a trillion dollars to 4 times that. but another thing entirely go to 40 times that. do we really think that's going to happen?

ordinals is not going to drive that. so what's going to drive it? you would need 1000 projects like ordinals to get you up to $1,000,000 maybe more.

ok. don't tell satoshi either.  

Never think of putting that on an online storage or spreadsheets or emails, just don't. You already have the ideas on how to keep it in the best way like having it on a safe vault and have it written on a piece of paper. Mine was written on a piece of paper and that paper came from the original Ledger's provided form. I have my storage like a small pouch or bag that's not too hot in the eyes of many people but it's kept inside where I can bring anytime and anywhere I can. Dog tags are good but don't make it obvious that it's a seed or recovery phrases, there are many people now that's starting to learn about private keys, seeds and recovery phrases.

He does have an account here:

Loaded

What's funny is he used to pretend that he made all his Bitcoin from trading and running a trading fund for wealthy investors... Of course that was all a lie. Not that there wasn't some level of ingenuity involved in how he actually achieved his BTC wealth.

This thread is what made him famous, at least on the forum anyway. It wasn't too long after he posted this that people started figuring out where his BTC really came from.

Correct!

That the countries of Europe without Russian gas and oil could freeze in the coming winter was propaganda by Russia, which sought to force the EU to lift or at least ease international sanctions in exchange for resuming supplies of its oil and gas. This blackmail and threats this time had no effect on the countries of Europe. Yes, long-running supply chains have broken down. But Europe is confidently overcoming this crisis and has already filled its storage facilities by more than 90 percent without Russian energy carriers. By the end of the year, Europe will completely abandon offshore supplies of Russian oil, and this will be a serious blow to the Russian economy. Russia is now losing on all fronts. The bet on force, blackmail and threats did not work this time. Hard times will come not in Europe, but in Russia.

bitcoin going from $1 to $10,000 is not the same thing as going from $10,000 to $1,000,000. it's going to need alot of help to reach $1 million things like hyperinflation come to mind...gonna take more than just being useful for some purpose in my opinion.

you got fednow coming out soon and countries are jumping on the bandwagon to want to make their own digital currencies. bitcoin can't compete with that. (I mean in terms of the convenience and ease of use factor...why subsidize pictures of monkeys when you just want to transfer money electronically with little to no fee? ) plus you throw in government regulations and it makes it even harder for people to get involved in it in the first place. even if they wanted to. coinbase might not even be in the usa for alot longer.  

but yet somehow bitcoin is going to go to $1,000,000. americans might not be able to buy it but somehow it will be worth that much. go figure.

maybe that's one of the things about the code that need to be reconsidered.

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yeah, i dont think anyone really has a good answer for this problem but it does seem to limit bitcoin's upside potential in usd value. bitcoin can't just shoot up higher and higher just because miners want to offset their dwindling block reward. 

imagine 1btc is worth $1M usd. maybe miners would be happy then if they could scrape out a .0001 block reward but it's not going to $1M...not unless the usd experiences hyperinflation but that wouldn't help anyone either.

and zero coins lost. how's that?

Not totally suprising when it comes to the masses would go along on whats the current trending or where do most people do go, doesnt mind if they wouldnt really be that anonymous or something that do talks about decentralization or other stuff. Its not shocking that people would go along into those traditional things, as long they arent doing something bad then they wouldnt mind if their information would really be known and exposed.

One thing here is about on social media on which most of their life happenings and events are even posted which we know that this is really a security risks on where letting the public see on whats happening into your life but since we are on a digital era then it turns out to be that so casual.

Of course, but it actually doesn't matter who it is. Doxxing anyone simply because they disagree with you is utterly scumbag behavior.

In most cases that's true.  However, Doom's predecessor, Wolfenstein 3D, was banned in Germany for a fairly significant length of time (for obvious reasons).  So there may be some fringe cases where censorship resistance could be a legitimate need.  But a blockchain remains an incredibly inefficient way to do it.  Particularly when filesharing technology has come such a long way and is purpose-built for that task.

For some, this is a matter of habit, for some it is convenience, but if you remove one thing now, then many will lose their usual comfort. It seems to me that people are not very worried about decentralization, because it is important for them to shift their responsibility to someone else, let banks be responsible for their money, the state is responsible for their pension, this is convenient because you can always find the culprit if something goes wrong. And this is not their fault, they were just taught like that from childhood, and it seems convenient to them.