There had been a time when users made multiple accounts just to defraud giveaways and campaigns. Those farms of accounts were shut down by the actions of many members, you can assume every 1 person controlling 50 accounts, so that factors in a large number of account that could get shot down at once. They eventually come back as new users and new bitcoin addresses though.

Eventually this came to be known as "DT Oppression" which would be normal because this forum is similar to a democracy. Although at this point of the DT system, I think users agree that it is much more decentralized.

Sockpuppet accounts have been created for many reasons as well. To bump own threads, sale trash others, fake reviews etc.

Ban button? No, bans done here are in majority of the cases justified.

Amen to that!

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I think if the KYC April Fool that theymos had used at one time became a reality, then the real number of users here would be much smaller.

Gold is easily accessible, easy to liquidate and traditionally a long term investment for any family as an heirloom. Bitcoin is becoming a similar asset too but bitcoin faces the problems from the government about its usage restrictions and "grey-area" labels. This hinders the use of bitcoin as similar as gold has been used.

I am always of the opinion that we should keep each one of every asset balanced in our folio. Be it bitcoin (only one among crypto), precious metals, real estate, stocks, bonds and commodities as far as our knowledge and experience goes. Bitcoin and gold are thus two different assets just like silver and real estate are, hence not comparable but shown to be similar in some aspects.

Does the OP have a loan to pay back?
If yes, I suggest they stop this habit of taking a loan and trading on that money.
If no, I suggest them to hold for as long as needed until they break even.

Bitcoin investment is about patience. Here price movements can take months and even years of stagnancy. Recovering and a new all time high will be hit for sure but that will take time.

Maybe at this point 25k USD seems like a stable price, but we can go down or up from here, my guess would be down considering the news happening. Your motto should to accumulate at every drop and not think of profits right away.

Dont use forex apps for bitcoin trading. Use an exchange app like KuCoin or others as supported by you local community and in your country. Again dont look at signals, they are mostly fake picks done by malevolent people trying to make money off your panic situation. Listen to those and you will lose your money.

You should first visit your local country section of this forum and see what app they use and then create an account there/pass KYC so you can start trading right away. Learn trading from articles on the internet and youtube and start with dummy trading first. Never trust the words of any person on the net, learn the methods on your own and decide on your own to buy and sell.

It is the case with many of us older users of this forum, where we took part in bounties and the tokens are worth zero value today. The reasons vary but mostly the projects failed to deliver any product that changes the current market and thus they died out a slow death. Today their owners have mostly left and advisors left as early as the lock in period ended and investors are waiting for better prices to dump their coins.

In crypto, this is why bounty hunters cannot become patient investors, the more they try to accumulate bounty tokens the lesser returns they will get. One in a million projects might be worth a huge amount but that is like the jackpot - never reachable practically.

I don't agree with all the points done by the OP. Specially listening to friends for profitable coins and jumping into new coins that are launched.

One should do their own research and trust their own judgement before inverting. Then once the project crashes you know whom to blame and then only you will learn your lesson. Similarly don't go with the newly launched projects unless you are looking for the quick gains and flash trades, if you are up for it. If you are looking for long term altcoins, give them at least 2y observation period before buying in.

In short, altcoins are less likely to give you stable income in long term than bitcoin.

The profits will come with time, I think no-hurry should be a motto among traders. While there are many who manage to trade and profit in short periods the majority of traders can't handle that. Traders should take their time to adapt to the market and how it works, how to place trades and when to cancel them if necessary. There are times when no profits will come in but we need to get over these times and continue to play it.

The bigger profits will come when bigger movement starts. This should be the goal of every trader.

A day job is no substitute for trading. Earning online is not equal to trading, please don't make this confusion. There are many day jobs which are done online and they provide a stable income. Trading is not a stable but risky method of making money considering the market movements and the trades are placed. I would not recommend members to leave their job and go for trading, that is a foolish move to make.

Simply speaking, the chances of losing money are more common with trading for an inexperienced person.

The reason why crypto based casino became popular is the anonymity or pseudo-anonymity that crypto provides over credit card and other monetary systems. The lack of identification of these gamblers make it safer for them to gamble at an ease and continue their habits without the watchful eyes of their family members and governments. The casinos understand this and hence they avoid credit systems as much as possible.

Such casinos with credit card payment exist but here we are interested in the crypto ones.

I would personally never stake any coin. You can never trust anybody with your coins and when you need those coins you might get into problems. Why take those risks when you could keep the coins in your wallet ready to spend or save.

Don't go into the greed of making money just by staking, when a certain website scams or shut down you will never know. There have been so many exchanges getting shut down like this and people still don't learn their lesson.

Not sure how that works because I think logically speaking the more you spend the more you deduct from the income. Goes by the simple math as well, hence I have questions how you got a different conclusion. You could say that you are attempting to earn more and then spend more. But I understand that earning more means having to set up a bigger position or a bigger business before starting to earn.

Still spending should be limited as per your earning and never increased without thinking twice.

Not sure where you are getting these metrics and predictions but I hope you are not blindly following some influencer or social media scum who is trying to dump their bag and make money off you. This forum might be biased towards bitcoin but for XRP, I would be be skptical everytime. While you might make some quick gains and some cheap thrills, the long term value of XRP is way lower compared to Bitcoin.

In crypto currency we always go with the long term value and not short term gains.

I think you are overthinking. The government really does not have much control over crypto but they rather use the power on the people to coax them into not using crypto or put crypto in a negative light. However you can continue to use crypto as you wish. Just that the conversion of Fiat and crypto and spending of crypto might become difficult. Still what I have seen governments are diplomatic and they rarely do something that makes the common people go completely against, rather they will try to get taxes from the people.

Assuming we are talking about real newbies who have never had any experience in trading, Spot trading obviously, that is a no-brainer. Without understanding how this market works and how it manipulates people who don't know about the market, they are likely to lose money in very short periods of time with other modes.

Any type of trading other than spot trading is a gambling with EV negative. Only spot trading is an EV positive game.

With prior experience in stocks or any other speculative market, they can go into these risky trades but I don't recommend it.

Whales take advantage of the market movements but banks are not playing with our money in all cases. Both are totally different from each other and although you can compare like that, it does not make sense.

If you want to win against the whale you just have to play against it. Buy when they sell and sell when they buy.

Banks are essential establishments that you will need to survive in a fiat world and keep fixed deposits or recurring deposits in. Use  them as per your need in order to complement the shortcomings of crypto.

A bounty hunter and an investor are two different terms - one can be both but one does not imply the other. Good investors don't hunt after dust shitcoins but most bounty hunters are doing that only. If the bounty hunter is diligent which is rare, they may be able to focus on well performing projects again that is a rare thing for the projects as well.

I have seen some users who came to the forum as Bounty hunters but eventually stopped doing it to move on to investing and signature campaigns. I think this change is possible for most users if they are willing.

You will not find all these things in a single person but most of them can manage, these are of course ideal situations and nothing is ideal in this world. What we can aspire to have all these characters but it becomes difficult and I dont feel it is necessary either.

Be the person who remains cool in a tight trading situation and only then you can make money. Buy low and sell high without keeping day trades running, that is a simple method to keep it cool and running without panic.

Don't try to be the ideal investor but be a realistic one.

Been watching the forum for a long time now and most of these threads usually mask the OP's intention. True, casinos might block withdrawals or delay it if within their own TOS and that is to protect their own interests and business. The OP should make a scam accusation if they think it is appropriate in the proper manner and then allow Stunna to review that. The reputed casinos have till date never scammed its users like this.

Just making a thread like this without backing evidence does not make sense. Both sides evidence needs to be there.

Lets cut them some slack and assume that its what happened which is maybe not a poor attempt to draw some merits.

Still advising a family member who earns a specific amount per month to invest a part of their savings into bitcoin is a good advice as long as the person investing knows the risks involved and the nature of bitcoin, its problems with the government and so on.

Assuming "Bd officer" to be Bangladesh origin, I doubt how much they are actually investing in bitcoin because of their government's restrictions on crypto.

Mate, you expect gamblers to read before acting or the other way round? They would not be gamblers if they did that.

Budget is supposed to be crossed, that is the rule in gambling, if you are not crossing it you are not a gambler. And drinks? Obviously yes for most gamblers. This combination is often fatal but most of them have been drowning in despair already.

Calling a friend? Never! Why share your own bad things to relieve the tension and hopelessness? Just keep drinking and get sick.

Truely gamblers end up in a vicious cycle, they can snap out of it but things have already taken a bad turn for most.