Good advice for yourself. If you're giving yourself a target, no heart feelings and just follow what you've set for. Many of the people that have set for target during the last bull run didn't take their profits because of greed and think that the price of bitcoin shall continue to a higher price.
I've learned my experience from 2017 bull run when I didn't take profits. It's normal for someone to feel that there's no need to take profit yet because price might be higher eventually. But then if you've seen in the past that bitcoin is highly volatile, you'll miss that moment within split seconds of not selling it. Always try to convert your profits into stable coins first so that you can comeback and buyback anytime the market goes in a correction. I've got my expectations set for short term and I've got mine as well for the long term. You need to put that boundary and target and do the necessary when you're at the right time.

It's certainly true that most of us have missed the early days of bitcoin when it was still cheap because we ignore that opportunity. But then, as time passes by, we have understood that bitcoin's potential is endless and even if you're saying that you'll never own a single bitcoin but owning around 0.2BTC. You may quite that far from reaching half and its whole, don't doubt yourself. We just need to DCA until we reach that goal of having 1 bitcoin. And through accumulation in any means that you can, you're just enjoying the journey and no pressure at all. Even it might take a year or two or more, just be consistent on it and we're all gonna be there.

Give it an estimate for months to a year. That's when the bull run likely is going to happen but then, this is bitcoin that's all volatile and we're just relying on the cycle. But then, we don't know exactly when it shall because the trend could change unexpectedly and that cycle could or could not be followed.

Possible and if you don't like to do DCA then set a price when you should buy and that's the one that must be followed then. If so, while the price may increase in the near future, that's the reason of setting a low price that you think is totally fine to start buying.

Everyone who gets to know bitcoin should always be aware that bitcoin is volatile in nature and that feature will never be gone but will always be the first to be recognized. While it's true that for some businesses, it's a challenge to accept bitcoin because they should have a good cashflow to make their business keep on going. For individuals, I don't think that this is a big challenge to think of. Before, many have seen the opportunity instead of challenge with bitcoin's volatility and that's why it really depends on how we look at it. The opportunity comes in as an investment but being a payment as an individual, it isn't a challenge either.

That's why there are third party services that they can use and it is their option to opt with those services so that, they won't just hold and lessen its value while holding it but they can convert it quickly to their preferred currency or cash.

They can just be after the exchanges and that's why KYC is mostly implemented to the exchanges but then, bitcoin isn't really made for that purpose. Thus, that's why it's decentralized in nature.

Bitcoin survived on its early days without their intervention and will still survive whether they're in or out. Those aren't really challenges at all IMHO.

Zero bucks, I think. Honestly, even if he's too damn rich and has got a lot of money and stocks of his companies, I doubt it that he's willing to spend some money with these avatar NFTs for which he can just use the avatars and icons of Dogecoin or Shiba dog. And if you're going to sell him his own image, do you think that's reasonable if he can just take a selfie of himself and he's the one to sell it to you, I guess that's more likely to happen than you try to sell him his own images. NFT these days are almost out of league because of the bear market. Even if some still remaining to be relevant and still quite popular, it's leading likely the same where ICOs have went.

They're too strict but are they really be able to do that if a platform is wholly decentralized and being trusted by the people? Like it's been established and has deep foundations in the community wherein the roots and owners of it can't be traced. But that's unlikely, right? They can easily look for the domain owners of them and hunt them out and have them regulated then. IMO, as long as it's not on their jurisdiction an actual dex won't have a problem being regulated by them.

There have been suggestions about FTX within less than a year when OP asked this. And this is what's the nature of exchanges, we'll never know who's going to be the next exchange to bite the dust and that's why for OP even if we suggest you the best exchanges that we have in mind so that we save fees away from transferring in and out of our balances. It's best to be mindful when we're leaving our funds on them. There's no safe exchange anymore even if the most known and popular, you can't be sure with them if they'll be the next FTX. That's why if you happen wanting to save fees, just deposit the amount that you think will be totally fine whether it's gone or not.

It's all because of the BRICS. Yeah, it was like everywhere, every article being made says that dollars is about to collapse and Chinese Yuan is about to emerge because of this agreement and alliances. But it's not going to come overnight and there's probably going to take some few years before we finally get to see the actuality of this agreement and news.

Not yet or will it be? We don't know. All of these that have come into the surface are just opinionated articles and speculations just as what we see usually in tabloids and editorials. Whether they're paid or not, it's always what's the trend that's being made into the topics and headlines.

It seems that those altcoins that has been mentioned are into their powerpiggy or staking feature. I guess most of those funds that have been taken from them are part of that piggy bank of theirs and their users have deposited it for that purpose and that's to earn interest.
I guess this is one of the reasons why people are still keeping their money on exchanges and that's with their interest-offered features that are too enticing for them. Having that little interest and confidence gives them head of a big risk if they won't pull them off from them or in any exchange.

IIRC, this is owned by Ver and that guy has been against to bitcoin then after being said as the bitcoin jesus because he has made a fork of bitcoin which is now Bitcoin Cash. Instead of going with that website, there are other ways of doing it and you can see the variety of exchanges (dex and cex) from this section. It's terrible to see your brother that lost into a scam website after hiding his activities of buying bitcoin from you, I guess that he's planning to surprise you then but he was advised in a wrong way and did fell for a website that's not even popular and turned out to a scam. Tell your brother that there will be no more secrets and approach you every time he's interested to buy bitcoin. If you guys are okay with centralized exchanges;
https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/

And if with decentralized exchanges;
https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/dex/ but add hodlhodl.com into it.

Congratulations, that was actually a quick gain for you. I still remember my journey that it took me nearly 2 years I guess or a year and several months until I see the effect of my accumulation but then, it's all good. We're all hoping that everyone is going to have the same story as yours that even in less number of time, they'll find success and financial freedom with bitcoin.

I like this attitude, despite of what you've come up with. You'll not stop and that's the nice approach for what you're doing and hopefully, many newbies will learn with this experience of yours and understand that investing in bitcoin isn't an overnight success.

When you have a voice when you're a bigger person like Brian. Well, that does makes sense if he's planning or up with something like expanding their operations within that region. I'm not familiar with UK's approach with crypto but if that concerns him a lot then there's probably an obstacle that stops or delays something from his business perspective and that's why he has alerted the UK government about his opinion to slow down and lift the ban on specific crypto related matter. We saw how these governments are too strict with crypto services and companies and the first one to see it was with Binance.

I wouldn't say that hardware wallets are expensive, we're even spending on fancy dinners and vacations to have fun while this is going to secure your assets for a life time. Don't think that hardware wallets are like that because by paying for a fee, this is making a huge difference on the security of your asset. Think of it as well as an investment by how you're investing in bitcoin and how you look at it. By means of this, we've got a stickied thread about wallets: [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why?

I've watched a documentary that it was an old popular exchange and I barely remember if that was Mt.Gox or it was something else. But they do use a hardware wallet and that's really kept on safevault wherein passwords/PIN of it has been distributed to the company's executives.
So, that's like no one can get that wallet unless all of them agrees. I guess that's a different setup from the other company's that also keeps their balances and assets into a hardware wallet or cold wallets.

They do think that 1 year is too long when we've just been 3 years away from halving and thought that it's a quick time that has just passed through us. While for those that have stayed even on the other halving which has happened on 2016, mostly, many weren't expecting that it was going to set an ATH until the pattern has been shaped into this 4-years cycle. It's on everyone's mouth that the 4-year cycle will happen and been done, those that still ignores the tips about buying some bitcoin while they can before it happens will regret it all once we see bitcoin skyrockets again before and after the halving.

I'm thinking right now those people that have seen posting in many forums that they've got funds remaining on the closed exchanges. And with this, if someone who's an active user of paxful before and haven't used it for quite a while and isn't a regular checker of his emails, socials and updates then they might just miss this update and closure and the funds won't be retrieved anymore. I'm sure that this is quite rare but it do happened for some before. Just as looking at the update on their status page, well, there's still the maintenance towards its wallets. By the way, is the CEO has strong connections with the other companies he has mentioned?

@OP that's inevitable and very likely. There are a lot of factors that are being seen that are affecting bitcoin's price and if you're saying that the bull run is going to come within the next few years, yes, definitely. Getting the idea from the past years where it all started, the pandemic.
Followed by a war and then now the result of those events into higher inflation rates. But look at bitcoin, despite that it had came from a dramatic decrease after it has reached the peak and ATH, it's still standing strong. While everyone is aware of its cycle and we're done from the likely bear market that has to happen for the next ATH to get in, it's very possible that these cycles and patterns will come again.

I'm not worried at all even if it falls below $20k again. This is essential for it to have that retest that we're all anticipating because that's how it act before it gets to another support level. Long term people have nothing to worry about. This has been seen by the books already and experiencing the market even without going through technical analysis will tell that this is a common move for bitcoin as we know what will come by next year. These roller coaster rides are fairly normal and bitcoin has to go through several process of going down before it becomes stable again with the support that we might see soon. Each level that it goes up provides another support and these retests surely are part of it. By then, traders should still be careful, the active or daily traders because in these short terms the moves are unknown and unpredictable just as the usual.

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Thanks OP.

Actually it's a common practice to save passwords on browsers because it's convenient. And with such intelligent bots, malware and info stealers/hackers. We all need to change this practice and avoid keeping our passwords in browsers. There's should be a logbook or notebook where we can keep all of these information for our own offline safekeeping.