Pastinya kebanyakan yang gabung forum ini dengan alasan investasi atau trading BTC. Forum ini kan spesifik untuk media komunikasi terkait crypto, khususnya Bitcoin.

Investasi crypto itu investasi beresiko tinggi. Mau investsai di Bitcoin ataupun altcoins, dua-duanya high risk investment. Hanya saja altcoins resikonya lebih besar karena volatilitas lebih tinggi dan banyak altcoins yang fundamentalnya tidak jelas. Apalagi altcoins baru, meme coins, atau shitcoins. Golongan koin-koin ini adalah koin dengan resiko paling tinggi.

Yang namanya ingin berinvestasi crypto, harus berani dengan resikonya. Jika tidak mau berurusan dengan resikonya, mending tidak usah investasi crypto. Bukan cuman ilmu yang harus mumpuni, mental juga wajib kuat jika ingin investasi Bitcoin ataupun altcoins. Kalau masih takut dengan resiko, berarti mentalnya belum cocok untuk investasi crypto.

Bukan hanya bagus, tapi memang harus. Kita yang memutuskan berinvestasi Bitcoin atau altcoin, artinya kita siap menerima resiko apapun ke depannya. Mengambil resiko itu tidak masalah asalkan ada perhitungan yang jelas, tidak hanya sekedar berani saja. Gunakan analisa, pake riset, dan terapkan pendekatan tertentu dalam menentukan langkah terkait resiko investasinya. Sederhananya, aplikasikan manjement resiko yang sesuai.

Mengenai modal, yang penting bukan uang pinjaman atau uang untuk kebutuhan pokok. Pakailah uang lebihan, uang yang tidak mempengaruhi finansial kita meskipun harus diinvestasikan dalam jangka waktu yang lama.

Tidak mungkin wawasan seseorang akan sama karena selama proses naik ranknya pasti melewati banyak proses pembelajaran. Tanpa kita sadari, sebenarnya wawasan kita terus bertambah seiring makin seringnya kita ikut berdiskusi di forum. Wawasan baru bisa kita dapat dari post orang lain, bisa juga dari riset kita sendiri. Kadang saya sendiri butuh riset dulu untuk merespon topik atau post dari orang lain.

Ukuran wawasan seseorang itu kadang subjektif. Jadi kita tidak bisa menyimpulkan seseorang wawasannya tidak berkembang walaupun naik peringkat. Kadang dari segi penulisannya tidak banyak perubahan, tapi dari segi konten atau isi postnya banyak kemajuan. Ada juga yang postnya semakin banyak hal faktual yang disertai referensi. Yang lebih keren lagi, kadang ada yang lebih banyak membahas hal yang bersifat teknis. Jadi perkembangan itu bisa dilihat dari banyak sudut pandang, jangan mudah menyimpulkan hanya dari satu sudut pandang.

Ukuran wawasan seseorang tidak semata-mata dilihat dari rank saja. Ada orang yang wawasannya luas padahal masih low rank. Itu mungkin karena jarang aktif berdiskusi di forum. Ada orang yang lebih suka diskusi di luar forum, seperti di sosmed. Ada yang sibuk dengan tradingnya atau kerjaan realnya, jadinya tidak punya banyak waktu mengurus akunnya di forum.

How do you know most day traders got loses?
I've no idea about the stats of loses or wins of day traders. I think there is no valid source that can describe/explain it. It is impossible to know the number of active day traders. However, if day traders are more aware about the importance of knowledge and emotion control, I think they will have bigger chance to succeed.

Ideally, there should be bigger number of success traders because we have varied sources for learning. When day traders are educated and mature enough, they won't easily get losses.

I think if a day trader got more losses than success in trading, he probably stops it. If he continues to have more portfolios, it means he is quite success in trading.

Do you think a smaller number of newbies will be a serious problem?
I don't think so. This forum never targets to have certain number of members. Even we have no newbies, the activities still last as usual, no serious impact on the forum activities. Each member can bring fresh ideas, it doesn't only come from newbies. Even old members can be more effectively to spread Bitcoin information because they have established knowledge. It is different when newbies spread the Bitcoin information, they can mislead it because of lack of knowledge. Regarding the discussion, most the members involved in discussions constantly are old members. New members sometimes rarely join discussion due to varied reasons.

It is lucky that you only regret 1 time and you can take a lesson from it. There are gamblers who regret many times but they never take the lessons from the mistakes. I think you can easily take the lesson because you aren't an addict. It will be difficult when you are an addict, you have an intention to gamble in a better way but you can't.

Sure, even people who have good knowledge and experienced enough, still get difficulty to control emotion. It is because the emotion is related to our desires to chase winnings. That's why we need to limit time and funds, it is functioned to stop our unlimited desires in gambling. If we have no limitations in gambling, we probably end up with an excessive gambling.

It is not strange, there was a case when star players didn't make a big influence (especially for the result of the game). For example PSG stats in UCL, they already failed many times winning it although they have Messi, Neymar, Mbappe, Ramos, Hakimi, Verratti, Marquinhos, and Gianluigi Donnarumma. These many star players can't help much PSG to achieve UCL trophy. Ronaldo also failed many times to help Al Nassr getting full points in SPL matches. That's one of the reasons why AL Nassr failed to win SPL title last season. So, not every time that the star players can contribute much for the team.

Yes, the football match basically is unpredictable. The star players (like Ronaldo, Messi, and Mbappe) is just one of the factors to determine the final result of the match. They can't guarantee the final result of the match.

We can't blame the BLT recipients, the use it for consumptive needs probably because of certain reasons. I'm very sure that the government is aware about the potential misused of the BLT. But the government doesn't think too much about it, they keep applying that instant solution because they don't want to be busy thinking more effective solutions. Actually, the best solution is to provide decent jobs for the society. However, it must take more efforts and time, the government doesn't want to be complicated in providing the solution.

At the end of the day, we must find the solution ourselves. If we are aware about the potential crisis of foods, we must prepare the solution since today. Not only by finding more decent jobs for ourselves, we also need to try to fulfill our own foods by making simple agricultural fields (if it is possible).

We have no choice, the government will never consider our rejection. The government probably has certain plans to increase the fuel costs. They won't take the responsibility, they will assume it is the responsibility of the society.

I'm not pessimistic, I just think realistically.
I'm experiencing the situation in 2020. It was the pandemic crisis, but the bullrun still happens as expected in 2021. However, the situation is not the same as in 2020-2021 anymore. The current issues are quite different, we can't compare it with the previous periods.

I'm sure whoever the investors, they must think twice when the issue comes from ETF case or SEC intervention. Personally, I think it is more serious case than economic status.

Well, finally it is about how strong we are holding our BTC asset. You're right, the FUDs shouldn't be a problem if we trust on the future of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin halving is getting closer, the best time for buying/collecting may be over soon. When the FUDs disappear, I guess the price will increase constantly toward the new ATH.

I also live in Indonesia, I know we are in the economic crisis since the pandemic happening. Yes, our government already made some efforts, but I don't think they made effective solutions. BLT is the example of a useless effort, it is just an instant money given by the government. Since the number of money is rather small, it sometimes only last few days. Even in certain cases, some people who got the BLT program spend all the money in a day. I think it is much better if the government provide the jobs for the people. When the people get regular jobs, they can get the money themselves. They can get the foods with their own efforts.

Indeed. When there are star players on the match, people will be more interested to watch and bet on the match. The trend or popularity of the match becomes increasing easily, that's because the star players have many big fans around the world. So, it makes sense if the potential money to earn bigger when betting on the match played by the star players.

Yes, the result of the match can't guarantee by the star players. There are many cases that the team of star players got defeated by smaller teams. Especially in a football match, it is a team game. The team which can play more solidly probably win the match. The star player isn't the main reason for a team to win the match.

Sure. If we always gamble in the right way and never gamble excessively, we can avoid the addiction. We need to be discipline and has he some limitations, so we can handle everything properly. I suggest that we have certain rules for ourselves in gambling, we need to obey the rules for healthy gambling. For example, we limit the time to gamble in each day, may be around 2 hours as the maximum time. Then, we need to allocate the maximum funds to use daily. And we must to remind ourselves to never take a loan for gambling. If we obey these rules, I think we can avoid addiction.

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*We limit the time and funds allocation daily, but doesn't mean we must gamble everyday. There should be time for no gambling time. On weekend, it will be better to gather with family and lovely friends.  

Yep. There is no definite profits. Whatever the investment is, no guarantee for profits. Moreover, when we invest in Bitcoin, it is categorized as a high risk investment. Since Bitcoin is a high risk investment, everyone must understand that there are bigger risks in Bitcoin. That's why some people say that investing in Bitcoin is almost the same as 'speculating'.

When we talk about profits, it is actually not an empty promise. It is actually very possible, the chance is real. But it will be a mistake if we guarantee the profits. People probably will misunderstand Bitcoin investment, they will assume Bitcoin is a safe asset. In reality, the high volatility in Bitcoin makes it risky, and the price move is mostly unpredictable, too.

Self-control isn't something easy to have. If you are not an experienced gambler, it is hard to control the emotion when experiencing losses. This emotion leads to more and more attempts in gambling, then we become more often in gambling. Finally, this habits makes us to be addiction. That's because the chance to recover the losses is small, so we always try to expects big wins someday. This expectation makes us to spend bigger funds, when the funds is over we decide to take loan money.

In addition, good self-control will be easy to have if a gambler know well what the gambling is. Unfortunately, many gamblers don't understand what attitude should be in gambling. Chasing wins, expect rich instantly, or wants get stable income from gambling, these the indicators that a gambler doesn't understand well what gambling is.

Nothing wrong if you like it, calling Bitcoin as digital cash/currency/money is okay. As long as you don't call as real cash/currency, people won't complain. 

Why you don't like other terms? I think both currency and money are related to fiats as well. It is the usual term we used for fiats. But I think it is no problem to use for Bitcoin, too. Bitcoin is a digital currency that people use for online transactions. The function is almost the same as fiats, so it is okay if people assume Bitcoin as a currency, too.

Of course, when we trade with no proper knowledge and lack of skills, probably will end up with loses. Trading requires good knowledge and skills, it is the basic thing needed. Without them, trading will be almost the same as gambling because nothing to rise the chance for the success. Gambling with a random way probably has no clear goal, we seems like only trading by relying on the luck only. If we rely on the luck, there is nothing different with gambling.

Indeed. There will be no success if we don't want to spend time for learning. Success in trading can't be achieved instantly, it needs time and process. Be an experienced trader first if we want to expect for success. 

Normally, each gambler must focus on the game, they won't have time to bother other gamblers. Make something annoying won't only bother the focus on other gamblers, it also will ruin the focus of someone who does the annoying attitude. So, it is actually not the right way to increase the chance to win because it also brings the bad impact to the offender, too.

Agree. It is absolutely an unprofessional attitude, shouldn't be done by any good gambler. I'm sure if someone still does unprofessional attitude, he is still an average gambler. A professional gambler knows well how to gambler properly. Bothering others isn't the right way in gambling, it never makes someone to improve the gambling ability.

It can be true, they need a new striker for another option in the attacking line. When Lewandowski can't perform well, Felix can be the option to strengthen Barcelona attacking. However, considering the last performance of Felix when he joined Chelsea, I'm not sure Felix is strong enough to be the mainstay player for Barcelona. He is still young, but he isn't a typical player who can maintain his good performance a long time. He is very unstable player.

I think Barcelona has no other option, they take a loan option for Felix because Barcelona has limited money. If Barcelona has bigger funds, I'm sure they will choose other striker who has more stable performance like Lautaro Martínez or Victor Osimhen. So, it is very obvious that Felix is just for a short term solution for Barcelona attacking.

Indeed. Both savings and investment are necessary. People who have no savings, probably have bigger risks on their money management. When the investments fail, they will be difficult to survive. Sure, no investment has a guarantee to succeed. There should be another option to secure our future. Savings is absolutely the best way if we want to guarantee for reserve money.

If people aren't dare to take risks, they don't deserve to take any investment. Investment is only for people who believe and brave on it, it is not for people who always doubt to do anything. Instead of joining investment, it is better to stay away from any kind of investment. There will be no success for the type of those people.

Luck always has a role in this life. But the knowledge and mentality become the reason for someone to get more luck both in trading and investment. If someone doesn't know to trade or invest properly, how he can get a luck? 

It is difficult to not depend on dollars, it is the most widely used international currency throughout the world. When a country want to do any transaction, they use dollars. As long as it lasts, I'm not sure the dedollarization will have a serious impact on the dollar value. The dedollarization will be real if most countries are no longer depending on dollars to do any transaction.

If more investors prefer to choose Bitcoin to keep their wealth, Bitcoin should increase its price due to the rise of demand. It was happening in 2021, many new investors of Bitcoin because they considered it as a safer asset. However, since there are many bad news currently, not sure whether there are larger new investors or not. Investors will doubt to invest when they heard to much negativity on Bitcoin.

Ijin lagi untuk bantu review. Rasanya lumayan cepat nambah jumlah aplikasi yang mau direview. Sedangkan yang mau mereview kelihatannya mulai sepi.  

1. Beberapa hari ini ratenya sudah stabil di angka 1. Bahkan kadang naik 1,01. (ini di main board ya, bukan di topik lainnya)
2. Post yang on topic, konstruktif, informatif, dan useful. ++
3. Untuk batuk tak biasa, ada gejala/ciri-ciri tertentu. Untuk lama waktu batuk, tiap orang bisa bervariasi. Tergantung jenis batuknya dan faktor pendukungnya.
4. Alasan yang masuk akal. Tapi lebih baik lagi jika disertai referensi jika ada. +
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7. Selama masih lebih efektif transfer antar wallet online, ATM BTC bakal sepi peminat. Kurang yakin ATM BTC perlu diadakan di Indonesia.
8. Apapun alasan utamanya, pastinya atas dasar urusan bisnis. Mungkin supaya brandingnya lebih erat dengan nama besar Elon Musk.
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*Beberapa post sudah cukup bagus, tinggal lebih dikembangkan lagi. Agar lebih variatif postnya, jangan terlalu fokus di sub board. Perbanyak post di main board juga.  

1. Common sense.
2. Perhatikan struktur kalimatnya. Ada bagian yang perlu tanda baca (titik,koma,dsb). Selain itu sebaiknya pake sumber jika mencantumkan perihal seperti pasal atau UU.
3. Cara-cara yang lebih kurang sama dengan proyek scam lainnya. Hati2 kalau ada proyek baru yang terlalu muluk menjanjikan profit. Apalagi nominal yang dijanjikan tidak realistis.
4. Common sense.
5. Itu keuntungan invest long term. Selama koinnya bisa bertahan, ada kemungkinan harganya bisa naik signifikan.
6. Common sense.
7. Argumentnya kurang detail. Agan tidak menunjukkan dengan tuntas terkait apa saja contoh dampak real salah tata kelola pemerintahan terhadap penanggulangan kemiskinan. Kasih contoh, jangan hanya narasi panjang lebar.
8. Perhatikan lebih teliti post yang agan quote. Post agan terasa seperti bukan respon terhadap post yang diquote tapi malah menjelaskan hal lain.
9. Point utamanya apa?  
10. Coba dicek lagi link postnya.

*Masih banyak post yang hanya common sense, argument yang dibuat juga masih banyak yang tidak solid. Perhatikan juga tanda baca dan keselarasan antar kalimat dalam paragraf.

1. Argument yang masuk akal. Hanya saja jika mau disamakan seperti Jepang atau Korea, saya pesimis pejabat kita mau seperti pejabat sana.
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3. Terkait solusi Polusi Jakarta, sebenarnya yang paling besar penyumbangnya yaitu dari sektor industri. Relokasi industri yang dianggap sebagai penyumbang polusi seharusnya menjadi prioritas.
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6. Satoshi dari awal sepertinya memang merencanakan Bitcoin untuk desentralisasi. Jika Satoshi tetap aktif, Satoshi mesti paham akan lebih sulit untuk menghindari ancaman pemerintah dan pihak lain yang merasa tidak diuntungkan dengan Bitcoin.
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8. Cantumkan sumber jika menyampaikan info atau berita. Agar kesannya lebih valid.
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10. Kalau mau buy, saat ini pun waktu yang pas. Karena harga turun cukup jauh setelah sempat naik ke $30k+.

*Perbanyak post di mainboard, topik-topik di main board banyak yang lebih berbobot.  

1. Sebaiknya bikin usaha karena memang diniatkan untuk serius, bukan hanya sekedar untuk mengalihkan perhatian masyarakat.
2. Saran yang bagus. Pake opsi lain jika pair BIDR-IDR butuh waktu lama. Saya sendiri juga pake opsi jual BTC-USDT --> USDT-IDR.
3. Kalau mau yang paling aman, tentu pilihannya BTC. Walaupun bukan berarti tanpa resiko sama sekali ya.
4. Masalah fee memang sensitif, apalagi jika mekanismenya makin ribet. Para member pasti mencari exchange fee termurah dan paling simple mekanismenya.
5. Yang bikin fee makin mahal, salah satunya kerena pajak tiap transaksi. Untuk pair IDR, pasti akan terus ditambah, wajar masih sedikit karena masih awalan.
6. Masalah pembagian waktu post itu harusnya tidak sulit. Yang sulit jika sistem kebut postingan di akhir waktu. 5 post sehari itu mudah jika dibagi waktunya.
7. Masalah modal tidak harus banyak, yang penting pake dana aman (apalagi masih newbie). Tapi untuk wawasan atau pengetahuan, itu wajib mumpuni karena itu kunci suksesnya.
8. Kalau Bitcoinnya untuk diwariskan, seharusnya tidak disimpan pada wallet exchange. Kita tidak tau apa yang akan terjadi pada exchangenya beberapa tahun ke depan. Kalau exchangenya bangkrut, aset yang disimpan bakal hilang.
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10. Kadang ada situasi yang kita tidak bisa mengabaikan stigma masyarakat. Jadi tidak benar juga jika kita tutup mata terhadap hal tersebut. Tapi tidak perlu juga sampe menjadi ofensive. Jika ada yang bertanya, tetap jelaskan dengan cara sebaik mungkin. Masalah mereka terima atau tidak, tidak perlu dipikirkan. Nanti ketika mereka sudah cukup paham, pada akhirnya masyarakat juga akan menerima dengan sendirinya.

*Post-postnya sudah cukup konstruktif, detail, dan informatif. Semoga semakin dikembangkan lagi.  

1. Jika ada post yang bagus, tidak ada salahnya memberikan merit. Namun untuk jumlahnya silahkan tergantung masing-masing. Setiap orang punya pertimbangan masing-masing, tidak dapat dipaksakan harus +1, +2 atau seterusnya.
2. Kalau crypto itu sendiri sifatnya netral. Tergantung yang menggunakannya mau dijadikan seperti apa. Yang kejam itu pelakunya, bukan cryptonya.
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4. Common sense
5. Crypto punya 2 sisi, bisa memberikan profit tapi juga bisa mendatangkan kerugian. Sama halnya dengan aset pada umumnya, tidak ada istilahnya tanpa resiko.
6. Bappebti berusaha memfilter koin yang resikonya terlalu tinggi dan membuat regulasi ketat terhadap exchange lokal. Tujuannya jelas untuk keamanan investor dan trader. Namun itu bukan berarti exchange yang ada dan koin yang dirilis Bappebti tersebut aman 100%.
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8. Ya, langkah yang dilakukan Bappebti untuk memperkecil resiko, bukan berarti menghilangkan resiko. Jangan salah persepsi, karena dari segi hukum tetap tidak ada jaminan keamanan.
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10. Terlepas dari faktor pengaruh budaya barat, selera masyarkat kiat saat ini memang suka yang aneh-aneh. Selain itu, apa-apa gampang hype atau tenar karena faktor media.

*Post-postnya sudah cukup bagus. Namun untuk post yang ingin diajukan, sebaiknya lebih selektif lagi memilihnya.

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Update:

Karena aplikasi @Solokan dan @AprilioMP sudah ada yang mereview, saya hanya menambahkan review aplikasi @reagansimms.