The truth is something must happen to cause the greatest correction after every new Bitcoin ATH, where that will come from doesn't matter unless you are new to crypto, I was expecting something like this to happen the moment BTC hit 67,000$ and this will keep happening after every new all time high, I won't expect much from this year until BTC halving takes place but it's definitely a great time to start accumulating BTC.

I know someone on this forum that's 70 years old and he is a crypto miner with many asic mining machines, if someone like this can live his life with crypto mining and investing so can anyone even if they are old, but OP you are just 47 years old, why did you feel this is an old age? You still have many years ahead even if you start investing today, it only takes few years for Bitcoin to make new ATH again.

OP where are you from? I am from Nigeria and I don't use services like DHL to get my ordered packages because they go through your goods, there are other shipping companies out there that delivers to your doorstep, and nobody will know what you order for.

If you are too scared then use offline wallets, I believe they can still be generated, Electrum wallet is also a very good choice.

Remitano? They are like the Paxful platform but very worse, why use them when you can just use Binance exchange? You can use Naira to buy bitcoin on Binance exchange and move to your hardware wallet, stay away from Remitano, they also cheat when it comes to fees and Naira to Dollar value, worst P2P service ever.

Please learn the difference between a centralized exchange and a decentralised exchange, it seems that you don't know the difference and it is very important for a newbie to understand this.

Also there is a difference between a closed a source crypto wallet and open source crypto wallet, you need to do your own research on these.

Well said, this was the same strategy I used in 2017 and I end up selling 70% of my assets just to sustain myself, many people think that investing in crypto is a short term especially now that we are in a bear market, if you aren't preparing for a long term investors do not even try to invest.

This market can last another one and a half years before we start seeing good returns on investments, we haven't even gotten to the point where everyone will feel frustrated like in march 2020, I believe that we will see such again.

Be prepared.

I don't feel sorry for you because it seems you don't understand why open source is very important when keeping your funds or assets in your crypto wallet, the only one I trust is Electrum and Trust wallet, you don't want to trust closed source wallets, do you even understand what that means? They are completely not transparent.

Don't come back here and start screaming that crypto is scam, you've been warned.

No it's not, as you grow older day by day you will start forgetting some things, seed phrase is not like your Gmail account password, all words have to be in order or you lose access to your Bitcoin.

God forbids, what do you think will happen if an accident occurs that affects the way you think and it's going to take a long time to fully recover? I don't like this idea because I have think about it many times before, it won't work.

You have a point but you have only witnessed bear market twice like you said so how is that a regular occurrence? Have you not think that things won't always be the same? As time goes on and regulation becomes the only thing that keeps standing between Bitcoin and world acceptance what do you think will happen? Big adjustment will be born.

Strange, most newbies I have come across have high interest in altcoins and you sound like you don't even know what to invest money on, it shows that you don't know much about crypto, it's better to spend your time doing some reading about crypto before anything.

We have coinmarketcap and coingecko, they are crypto platforms that have all the records of both new and old crypto projects, website links, token supply and so on.

How do you think that regulation will work for Bitcoin? The reason why Bitcoin was created is to give users the freedom from centralized power aka the government and everything about regulations smells government so I don't see how regulation will work here.

The only projects that can be regulated in crypto space are the likes of XRP and other centralized projects including crypto exchanges.

No online password security will be as strong as storing offline, either it's 2FA or 3FA Authentication do not use them to store your wallet's private seed.

There is no malware, spyware or hackers without online/ internet access, think about it, the only way to stay safe is offline 100%.

Writing seeds down on a paper book or steel carving is the best practice ever.

The size of your images are too big, kindly use height=400 to lower the size.

I have used BTC to invest in a Ponzi scheme called MMM years ago and I bought BTC worth of 200$ at the time, I am very sure the that value today will be in thousands of dollars, some times we learn the hardest way to gain more knowledge.

At least you still get your life going, you are still alive so you still have the chance to make a big difference someday, do not give up to, buy BTC and HOLd, we can see a new All Time High in 2025 or so.

Many projects are starting to show up, some are testnet phase as we speak but I am not interested in any because they are all same old projects with different names, I could say that developers think we are all fools but what about those investors that are too stupid to think and do good research?

Almost 99% of new projects are same copies of the old projects with different name, do not be a fool investors, spend time to do your own research.

Developers mostly don't have your interest at heart, we all know it's all about the money but they aren't doing something new that worth our money, make sure you do your diligent research.

I think 2023 is a perfect year for crypto accumulation, crypto market will start gearing up for the next huge moves this year, Btc halving will also be another big boost for the market in April 2024. I refuse to be a sitting duck this year.

If you are a long-term investor like me make sure you put your mind on 2025 because I believe that's when we will see another ATH for bitcoin, always take advantage of the dips and they won't last forever.

Happy Birthday  KING 👑 BTC



May all the inhabitants in every corners on mother earth have your love in mind and adopts yours precious Satoshis, more adoptions in coming years and more centralized wars to be defeated, Long Life and Prosperity KING.

Bitcointalk friends and famz,  what are your best bitcoin wishes in the coming years?

Do you think that with the lower inflation rate and upcoming halving Bitcoin can finally be put side by side with Gold?

Are there any possible ways that Bitcoin can be regulated without Nakamoto? I think only centralized exchanges will remain regulated and projects like Bitcoin can't be touched. What do you think?

Will banks and BTC forever remain enemies or something new will come up? I asked this because a BTC group bought an old bank 🏦 and I don't see any reason why.

Who could have thought that Bitcoin will work out as intended? No one, that's why people sold their Bitcoin very early, I played with a few faucets years ago and I sold everything for less money, no regrets.

Today it's harder to sell Bitcoin because we have come to understand how valuable this asset is, Bitcoin is the hardest asset to get for free, it's the most scarce with very low inflation, mostly on par with Gold.

We are all newbies once upon a time, my advice is you should take your time to read the forum rules to avoid getting banned, if you are new to crypto I suggest you do your own research using google and if you have some parts that are unclear to you then create topics about them on the forum for users to drop their opinions, I bet you will be fine and you will get used to the forum as time goes by.

You are welcome to the forum.

How is having your money in stablecoin pointless? Do you even understand why Stablecoins existed? Judging from your comment it looks like you don't even know why every crypto investor needs Stablecoin, it is impossible to make gains holding Stablecoins but they keep your value in check, 1$ remains 1$ and while the market is dropping your money stays the same.

If you want go get the best deals on crypto in a bear market you need stablecoins to avoid volatility and buy when the opportunity arises.

The next target now is 13k and yes it is possible and also may never come to reality, instead of trying to see how this will go it is better to start accumulating right now, things happen very fast in this market that's why it's dangerous to believe that you can find the bottom.

I am not expecting anything big this year and this may be the final bearish year for crypto since halving is in 2024 so I will just keep buying what I can and prepare for the future.

If you see a new project and you are tempted to invest in it you are stupid because new projects require tough research first, there is a chance that the project is a scam so before clicking the buy button you have to be sure what you are getting into.

Developers are here to make money, let that sink into your head, if we turn the table around and you become a dev yourself will you work for free? So it's always about the money.