Yea — we all know a huge percentage of those people will immediately sell once a drop or some FUD occurs lol. Even I myself wouldn't probably be convinced about Bitcoin's future potential without all those content from the likes of Andreas Antonopoulos to convince me.

If you want to buy 'real' stocks, then no — the stock market is highly regulated and there's no chance you're getting a hold of them without AML/KYC.

On the other hand, you can trade synthetic stocks through DeFi platforms like Gains.trade, etc. Proceed with caution though, beware of scams, exploits, etc etc.

Your funds are deposited to a smart contract that will manage your funds, not necessarily a centralized custodian that would hold your funds. Think of it as a wallet that's controlled by code. These "DEXs" can't necessarily go bankrupt, but the risks are with concerning exploits and stuff.

^Also, not all DEXs have this model. Some DEXs need to get a hold of your funds because it needs to if you're trading futures/etc. On the other hand, with spot market trading like Uniswap, you don't necessarily need to deposit.

But yea, the "decentralized" definition in contrast to DEXs is a slippery slope — it's going to depend on how you look at it. A far more better description is "non-custodial".

You don't need to prove yourself to anyone here — we're freakin internet anons. Save yourself all the hassle and just move on to something more productive and that'll more likely yield you results.

No offense mate, but if you can manage to be right 85% of the time on a long-term time frame, then you should be a billionaire by now. It might've worked in a short-term time frame, but don't immediately get too cocky that it will work well in a long-term time frame.

Looks like you have A LOT to learn. Don't even go straight to trading/investing, as you'll likely end up losing money if you don't even know what you're buying/investing in.


* If you like reading articles: https://coindesk.com/learn
* If you like reading books: https://theinternetofmoney.info/
* If you like watching videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPQwGV1aLnTuN6kdNWlElfr2tzigB9Nnj

Security related:
* https://cryptosec.info
* https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/security.html

If you want to get more technical
* https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook#chapters
* https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook#chapters

Congrats. Just make sure you're holding your precious bitcoin using a reputable hardware wallet; preferably, a Ledger or Trezor hardware wallet.


* https://cryptosec.info
* https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/security.html

Announcements concerning inflation affects markets in general, because well — apparently that's how markets work. That doesn't make bitcoin any less good.

Mostly online services like VPN/proxies/etc. It's quite rare for online retailers to accept bitcoin as payment as of today so for now, we're stuck with bandage solutions such as BitPay, Coinbase Commerce, Purse.io, and such.

So are you saying that anything that can affect market prices are "whales"? With that logic, the US government is a bitcoin whale because they can affect bitcoin's prices due to regulations lol. That doesn't make any sense at all.

If brute-forcing private keys in general was already viable, then we're going to have bigger problems than our bitcoin/crypto holdings.

It took me like 5 seconds of using Google to have a rough answer, and a few more minutes just to make sure that the information in the Google results snippet is accurate.

Like, come on.

This is pretty much just a "you should patiently hold bitcoin" that's just stretched out to make it look like a thread that's been actually worked on lmao. We already have like 346346434 variations of this topic.

Heck — even the famous orange BTC logo isn't "official" and isn't even released by Satoshi Nakamoto. It was just created by a forum user called bitboy (not Bitboy Crypto, the YouTube grifter). What people think as Bitcoin's 'official' anything mostly isn't official — it's just what the community chose to use.

The conference was like what? Almost mid 2022? Not sure how we could point to that.

Also funnily enough, the cryptocurrency space has this thing with conferences where prices drop right after the events lol.

Simply because it's not that simple. Food increase means people gets priced out of some food — and at the same time, price of ingredients of these food companies increase as well.

Not 100% sure (just thinking on the top of my head), but you're probably better off buying farm/agriculture stocks than buying food business stocks. The only one I know is Farmland Partners Inc ($FPI) — which I personally don't own, so just dyor.

Just a heads up that it might be better to not use the physical paper that's given by hardware wallet companies. Writing the backup down on a simple piece of paper can make it seem more 'unimportant' to thieves, compared to the paper given by hardware wallet companies that clearly indicates that it's a crypto wallet backup.

It's technically nonfactual due to the reasons you've listed, but it's one damn great slogan though. Giving less money/funding to the governments should greatly reduce their power over people and less funding for wars — which in itself is a huge thing.

^But yea, it doesn't fix everything lol.

I freakin hate this one. It's mostly being said by those who hate bitcoin/crypto, but acknowledges blockchain so they wouldn't sound like a tech/innovation snob.