I plan to purchase a hardware wallet when my BTC holdings reach a significant level, perhaps equivalent to $25,000 in BTC; that's when I'll consider getting a hardware wallet.
Can you reveal, how many bitcoins have you collected? I know it's not convenient to say this, but I wonder, why did you wait until you collected $25k in bitcoin before thinking about buying yourself a hardware wallet? Doesn't a hardware wallet like Trezor cost only 80 USD, which is not too expensive and I'm sure it is very small compared to the value of the bitcoins you are holding, right? Why don't you buy it now to protect your bitcoins? Even if your bitcoins are worth $1k, it's worth a lot more than the money you used to buy a hardware wallet. |
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Maybe we are wrong to think that Satoshi never had the thought that bitcoin was going to become very volatile and people were going to be able to make money from how the price of bitcoins changes easily. Satoshi is someone that has insight and was able to make this system that has been able to survive and is doing well after a long time of creation, do you think that it never occurred to him that people may start investing in bitcoins instead of really using it for buying and selling?
We are not him so we cannot know whether he anticipated these things or not. But as far as I remember, he never mentioned bitcoin as an asset, commodity or investment in the bitcoin's whitepaper, he just focused on explaining it as a peer-to-peer payment method. There was also a topic recently, how does Saotoshi feel about seeing bitcoin deviate from the path he intended for bitcoin. There have been a lot of mixed opinions around that topic but to me it's all just fun discussion because we're not him and no one knows where he is. So how can we know what he is thinking about bitcoin's today? |
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It is surely going to be interesting when Barcelona will play against Real Madrid. I think both teams have the capability of winning against the other. Both of them are yet to lose a match in this season. Again, it is going to be a battle between them for the title.
When Barcelona and Real Madrid meets this season the game will be very interesting because Barcelona and Read Madrid have the same quality of strength. Real Madrid has Bellingham who is always playing a good role when it comes to scoring of goals, and Barcelona also have some good players even Joao Felix who is a new player but performing very well, I think it is very difficult to predict which team will become champion when this two teams meet. From what I have seen in the performance of Barcelona this season I think they are better than last season. Expressing my opinion on the matter, I must assert that Real Madrid possesses a squad endowed with superior strength when juxtaposed with Barcelona. At least that is what I think. Yes Of course I might be wrong, because except for the fact that Real Madrid does not have a very good striker, you know they have a very solid squad. I really don't know if I can say the same about Barcelona to be honest. Ahh I think that Barcelona is able to give a competition for the title or even when the title because you know the other clubs in this are just not good enough at this moment. By the way, Real Madrid do have another headache. Which is about the Champions League competition. Barcelona don't have that at the moment right? so that is something we also have to remember. |
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 Seeing Manchester United's journey so far is certainly very sad with 3 consecutive defeats including the previous match against Bayern Munich in the Champions League. I feel like Erik ten Hag's fate is hanging in the balance as coach of the Red Devils and since the match against Brighton last week we can see the fans booing regarding the decision to withdraw Hojlund who was replaced by Martial. However, that didn't stop, Erik Ten Hag's decision again received protests from fans after bringing Hojlund back to replace Martial in the match against Bayern Munich. I think Red Devils fans are starting to become dissatisfied with the performance of the Dutch coach and it seems that soon we will see the hashtag #Ethout if the results continue to get worse in either the EPL or Champions League. And people in Manchester United think Ten Hag is their savior and he is a better coach than David Moyes, Jose Mourinho, Solskajer. He is more lucky that those coaches because after many years of failures with some coaches, Manchester United changed themselves and became more patiently with Ten Hag. They are giving him bigger power than other coaches, allowing him to punish star players if he wants to do it. They are giving him more money continuously to build up the squad but their squad still have many weakness. Not much different than one from Solskjaer some years ago and this summer, he did not try to buy a good defender for the club. Let De Gea leaving and buy Onana, wasting good budget to buy a good defender. He's Ten Hag, Manchester United savior but when will he be sacked? I think it's true that Erik Ten Hag may be better than some of these coaches, but when everything he needs doesn't work properly it will definitely start to raise doubts about the quality of his coaching. Maybe he is really strict with his players and we know that even so, there are still many Red Devils players who are ambitious or seem selfish and don't care about the team winning. For example, Rashford or their current captain Bruno, both of whom do not have the ability to rely on their colleagues and tend to prioritize their selfishness in finishing or decisions that have a bad impact on the team. Talking about wasting the budget on a goalkeeper like Onana is indeed very unfortunate and even though Erik ten Hag should know that this goalkeeper often makes blunders and even though his performance was considered good when defending Inter and took the Italian team to the UCL final last year, I think as a coach he should be wiser in determining a player's overall statistics. Maybe Erik ten Hag will be fired immediately if by the middle of the season there is no continuous progress from Manchester United to get them into the top flight. I absolutely lost it when he said that Harry Maguire was still very important for them. And I was more mad when I saw that they were getting a good deal for him, I can see 25 million was the deal for Harry Maguire. Getting 25 million for a player like him right now is almost like free 25 million. And for some reason, he denied that money and said that Harry Maguire was still important for Manchester United squad. After all the mistakes that he had made, somehow he thought Manchester United was conceding, so many goals because De Gea was not a good goalkeeper? Meanwhile, Harry Maguire is kicking and throwing his own players down while defending. Harry Maguire might actually have a good game sense. From the point of view of a coach, he might actually be a good coach one day and I am not even trolling. But he is definitely not a good player, especially not good enough to play for Manchester United. |
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Barcelona still becomes the hardest competitor for real madrid. Even though bellingham's position was not a striker but he can also fill benzema's position as someone who would be really helpful in winning the club.
I don't wanna be trapped in the old memories once benzema was still there. We shall move on my friend. Madrid needs also determining its future.
Real Madrid has been at their best with their recent performance both at the champions league and their local league, as they have recorded more win than losses in the la Liga, I'm expectant that Madrid would do even better in subsequent games in the La Liga. Like you rightly mentioned Barcelona is their hardest contender and Madrid as well is not a weak side. Whenever they Get to meet in the la Liga it will be a really interesting and fascinating game to watch as the both contenders are big in the league, it will be the battle of the giants. Barcelona has a good record so far enough to be said to be in form enough to take on any team in the la Liga and probably the champions league, I still anticipate their performance in their next game. The position and impact of benzema was still at Madrid is definitely obviously and is one that the team wouldn't forget but Bellingham even tho not a striker will try his possible best to fit in for the position in the mean time as he is the only one who stands the chance to a great extent at the moment until otherwise, but regardless Madrid will and is still doing great Real Madrid will definitely feel the need of a good striker against Barcelona in my opinion. So far Real Madrid has performed really well. But sometimes Real Madrid did not score as many goals as they should have as well. But in any other aspect for Real Madrid has been really good. I think we can easily say that Real Madrid has one of the most balanced squads in the whole La Liga except for the attacking position. It is surely going to be interesting when Barcelona will play against Real Madrid. I think both teams have the capability of winning against the other. Both of them are yet to lose a match in this season. Again, it is going to be a battle between them for the title. |
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Come to think of it ,understanding the reason something was created gives you the best sense of use and therefore an edge over others in the same space which in this case is the crypto space.
Bitcoin was created for use as a currency to terminate the need for third party control by the government. That is reason for bitcoins, yet for many of us despite having this understanding, we have accepted that as the best use for our bitcoins for the now, we should be hodling it, keeping it as an investment instead of a currency. That was not the reason for bitcoins, but I will not see someone who always use their bitcoin to make purchase and never keeping any bitcoins, as having an edge over me that has decided not to use bitcoins yet for what it was created for. Whatever the original purpose of bitcoin is, it no longer matters, what matters is what it is becoming and we need to adapt to that.We cannot fight the mob just because people are using bitcoin for the wrong original purpose. Furthermore, the fact that bitcoin is used as a currency is not approved and accepted by the government, will anyone have the courage to fight against the government to realize the purpose of bitcoin? Some people always go on social networks to call and mobilize others to fight against the government, but do they themselves do it out there? No one is willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the community, personal interests always come first. I see many people saying that bitcoin is straying from its original purpose and they feel sad about it but why are they also considering bitcoin as an investment? |
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Worse is that, government is banning their people from using Bitcoin for some unknown reasons. I mean why ban the people from using something that they can't even control.
I don't think he will be sad about this, I believe that when he created bitcoin he also predicted this because bitcoin is creating a decentralized system that is completely opposite to a centralized system government. There are some theories that bitcoin was created out of political views, and I think that's true, bitcoin clearly goes against the concepts that governments are placing on our world. He predicted it and that's why he decided to stay anonymous forever to avoid unfortunate incidents happening to himself and bitcoin. |
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To be honest, I almost thought that, they would increase the repayment date. But did not think that they would put an increment of 1 year. That's so long for the waiters. But if they have waited this long then I think they can wait for another year too. Plus I have a question, is this a good factor for the market or not? I do know that, if they would pay the amount then we will see some selling of BTC, BCH and Yuan, etc. Which would cause a dump in the market. But what else I am missing other than this?
It's been 9 years and what Mt.gox can do is promise, so I think those who are waiting to be paid are familiar with that and they don't rule out that possibility either. In my opinion, there will be no compensation other than false promises from Mt.gox, all of which are lies and fraud from Mt.gox. What I want is for the victims to be compensated, I'm not afraid they will dump the market if they receive compensation. If you are a long-term investor, you will find that good because you have the opportunity to buy cheap. I don't see anything worrying about Mt.gox compensating or FTX liquidating their crypto assets. |
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it's not the amount of Bitcoin you HODL that really matters, but how secure is your bitcoin. You can have a large amount of Bitcoin and lose everything it due to negligence, poor wallet storage or hack. While it's been reiterated every now and then to buy and hodl Bitcoin, we should also take it upon ourselves to look for good wallets to keep our most priced asset safe.
The bull season will soon kickoff, there are many newcomers coming into the space and there are many fake wallets flying around on the internet, Playstore and Appstore. Getting a good wallet should be a top priority.
I think if we really consider bitcoin a valuable asset and seriously invest in bitcoin, we should not hesitate to own a hardware wallet. Although the level of safety will largely depend on us, hardware wallets are considered a superior and safer solution than software wallets. So let's not regret a little money without owning it. Furthermore, hardware wallets are not too expensive for us, I believe that anyone who can invest in bitcoin has the financial ability to own a hardware wallet. |
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I've seen several threads talking about bitcoin not been banned in their country but yet they're not allowed to make any bitcoin related transactions through their local banks and this has really kept me puzzled lately about how people think because they still use bitcoin despite it's restrictions in their country makes it seem is not banned. If the country you're staying in hasn't ban the use of Bitcoin then it isn't banned, when the government wants to ban anything they don't stay on the fence, they'll make it a public knowledge that the use of that thing that they want to ban is banned and any individual caught using it will be punished. From your explanation, the government hasn't banned Bitcoin in your country but restricted banks from allowing individuals using their banks to participate in cryptocurency transaction. I don't support law breakers therefore when Bitcoin is officially banned by you your government, don't go behind their back and make use of Bitcoin. If you have made some profits or have enough money to relocate to a neighboring countries that the government isn't strict do it. So how do you explain the government ordering an account to be frozen if it is discovered that the account is used to trade bitcoin? In this case, saying that the government does not ban bitcoin is not entirely correct because they know clearly that to be able to participate in bitcoin investment, banks and fiat are the only and necessary way for anyone who wants to own bitcoin own bitcoins. If you don't have access to a bank account and fiat, how will you invest in bitcoin? This situation is also happening in my country and it is quite difficult to understand what the government is thinking about bitcoin. Furthermore, with the bank account freezing order, no one dares to publicly say that they are using bitcoin. |
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2. Use secure browsers like; BRAVE which you can get from their official page https://brave.com/ TOR browser which you can get from. https://www.torproject.org You can even make use of the local browser that comes with your OS as long as your privacy is safe and your device is protected from malware. I think all browsers are the same, they just differ in how they use user data, and Brave or Tor promote privacy more than the rest. Other than that, I don't think it makes any sense or has anything to do with protecting our crypto assets. As long as you don't visit strange links or sites labeled as harmful, you're safe using any browser. As for storage wallets, as many others have also mentioned, Ledger is no longer trusted and people have stopped using it. You need to learn more about hardware wallets, not all wallets are safe, especially Ledger. Software wallet, Electrum has always been my choice, I have never used any other wallet. |
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Barcelona is also experiencing a financial crisis so it is impossible to return Messi or Neymar to his old club, Barcelona will not be able to afford on the one hand their salaries are small there and they are old, what to expect in these two former Barcelona players who will soon retire.
Ronaldo had a conflict with Manchester United so he was dropped from the squad. But he seems happy now to be in the Arab League with a lot of money. LOL
Joao Felix is a loan player, if Atletico Madrid put a high price tag it seems Barcelona will not dare to take it, just rely on young players from the academy, but now they are not in a player crisis so stay relaxed for Xavi.
Barcelona have issues with La Liga FFP rules unfortunately so they aren't able to spend a lot of money for transfers for now. This was why they couldn't sign Joao Felix permanently. However this is still not a problem for Barcelona currently. Because their current performance level is quite satisfying. They have just destroyed Antwerp in the Champions League by a big gap. I felt like we were in good old days of Barcelona.  Felix is really impressive since he joined them. He is playing for his dream team of course. I have never seen him this ambitious.  Even though the opponent in this match was not the strongest, but the result is really very good, especially it can help to raise their competitive spirit. Despite the problems with finances, the transfer window was conducted decently, and most importantly - productively, because you can see that it went in their favour, they spent minimum money and got maximum return @ajiz138 The career of Cristiano Ronaldo should have ended in a better way. Only if he decided to go to Manchester City instead of Manchester United. His career definitely would have ended in a better way. I don't know how you can decide to not play the very player that carried you on his back in the last season. But they did make that decision and I know a lot of people are going to say that this was the right decision made by them. And they will also say that Manchester United has definitely improved after that. But honestly, I do not see the improvement. They still have the same old problems that they had before. Cristiano Ronaldo is still saying that he wants to play in the next World Cup for Portugal. I do not think he will actually get a chance in the squad. Anyone who thought Messi and Neymar were going to return to Barcelona is definitely stupid. Barcelona currently cannot even register players because they don't have enough money. How are they going to pay Messi and Neymar the salary? |
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There hasn't been the slightest mistake found in Real Madrid's performance, Ancelotti has succeeded in covering up the lack of players in his team with the tactics used so far. The presence of Jude Bellingham has had a big impact on the results achieved by Real Madrid, Ancelotti can place Bellingham as a shadow striker to achieve the team's goals. Joselu has also performed well so far, he has managed to be an ideal replacement while Vinicius is still undergoing treatment.
The Real Madrid vs Union Berlin match will be a new challenge for Joselu, he is still a mainstay on the front line as long as Vinicius is still injured. Real Madrid will continue its winning record on the Champions League stage because the opponents they face this time are not strong teams like Bayern Munich or Dortmund. I couldn't find fault with Real Madrid's performance, but they just lacked in a few areas. Real Madrid needs strikers as we know so far, I mean in some matches Real Madrid really relies on certain players who are not strikers. Bellingham is the player I mean, but so far Real Madrid can win every match even though it is difficult. The overall performance of the team was okay, but I completely agree that Real Madrid needs to bring in a new striker and also needs to strengthen its defense. The match against Atletico Madrid this week is very important, so of course I am very curious about what will happen there. Both teams have equal probabilities, but Atletico Madrid will probably be favored at home. The question about Real Madrid and their performance is mostly about the goals they scored in the last games. We know they have Jude Bellingham in this team to score goals for them but is this right for this team to have Bellingham scoring goals instead of the forwards? I mean Bellingham is not a forward and the other players in the front line should do that and finish the goal, not Bellingham. Maybe this means the forwards in Real Madrid are not good enough. This was a very interesting match. Throughout the whole match, Real Madrid was very dominating. But they were unable to score. but again at the very end of the match, on 94th minute, Jude Bellingham showed why he is definitely the best signing that Real Madrid has made in recent times. He was able to score for Real Madrid to win the match. It was definitely going to be a little weird to see Real Madrid lose a match in which they had more than 75% possession. But thanks to Jude Bellingham, Real Madrid was able to win that match without much problems. But I think as Real Madrid approaches harder competition, they will feel more of a need for a good striker. |
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UAE players gave an interesting performance in this Gulf T20 Championship Qatar vs UAE match. Batting first they managed to score 166 runs and lost 7 wickets, UAE are currently in good form in this T20 match. UAE youngster Aryansh Sharma had a good batting performance for the UAE, his batting was excellent and interesting. However, they are not in a very good form when Qatar comes to bat, with 6 wickets lost, the Qatari team is helpless now. Qatar tried to win today with those two UAE, but their wickets may not be increasing their runs due to falling wickets. That's why they might not be able to win the match today, also UAE are leading the table points, they must have formed a good team for which they perform well in every match.
Qatar was absolutely helpless against the UAE as you said. Qatar was somehow able to reach 106, they were not even able to play the whole 20 overs. They had already lost all the wickets before that. UAE played really well in this match. first of all they put on a very big score, at least I can definitely say that this is a very big score, considering the fact that the average target of these type of tournaments are not very big in general. So when the opponent is Qatar the target is definitely very big for Qatar to actually successfully chase down. Of course UAE also performed really well in the bowling department. Next match is against Bahrain and I think UAE is also going to win that one as well. |
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I think there are only one reason why btc price rise, it is supply and demand. normally there are two reason that influence the demand, the first one is the growing number of adoption which make steady increasing price of btc, there is no volatility in it. the second one is the speculative investors, this factor is what makes btc price volatile because they make big number of fund come in and out from btc market, they make temporary demand. the main reason which influence the supply is the halving event, as there is no central authority who control btc price (by create fiscal policy or etc) then halving event will have big influence in btc price. but that's just my opinion.
In theory, the value of all assets is determined by supply and demand, but for some financial markets, there is unavoidable manipulation behind it. Therefore, the increase or decrease in bitcoin price is not completely determined by supply and demand. Regarding the volatility of bitcoin, I agree with you that part of it is caused by speculators but another cause is the manipulation behind it. Market makers create volatility, on the one hand they profit from it, on the other hand they create attraction for people. Those who enjoy the thrill of a roller coaster ride will never miss bitcoin's volatility, and it's how the market attracts new participants. |
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BTC and trading cryptocurrencies in general is completely legal in my country, but my trash government ended up imposing high taxes on them since they realised that they couldn't ban them.
Almost every country's citizens are facing different challenges about bitcoin. In my country, bitcoin is neither legal nor illegal, but the central bank of my country imposed a ban on all bank accounts that have been connected to bitcoin transactions previously. The central bank directed all the commercial banks to ban any accounts that have a history of bitcoin transactions, which really affected some people and caused panic. This is one of the reasons why lots of stores and business owners are not accepting bitcoin as payment methods because they don’t want anything that is going to affect their accounts and businesses. Since the new administration came into power, everything has stopped, and I hope he will ask all banks to lift the ban on all affected accounts. I'm sure if he can do that, it’s going to increase bitcoin adoption in my country because all the business owners who were scared before will have confidence and will start accepting bitcoin as a payment method. Your government has not issued any ban or regulation on bitcoin but has directed banks in the country to ban bitcoin trading, that is no different from them publicly banning their people from using bitcoin indirectly. There is a topic being discussed about this and as far as I can see this is happening in many countries. The government did not directly issue a ban, but banks have banned bitcoin transactions, it can be understood that they want to ban bitcoin but have not found an effective solution. |
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Today in the Italian League Roma vs Empoli match between two teams, Roma won the match by scoring 7 goals. Roma team players had possession of the ball from the beginning to the end of the game. Empoli team's goalkeeper was very weak due to which Empoli team lost the match by 7 goals in today's match. Empoli team players They were very worried in this match but their performance was very bad. Empoli team player M. Destro could have scored 1 goal if Empoli team had performed well. Roma team is now in 12th position in the points table. On the other hand Empoli team is in 20th position.
Roma players were in great form in the match which led to a 7-0 win over Empoli. The match was really amazing for which Roma performed very well and got the win. From the beginning to the end of the game, Roma attacked enough and succeeded in attacking, however, because of their good team play, they managed to win. And the match was at Roma's home ground for which they always had the ball at their feet, and every team is strong at their home ground. Empoli were under a lot of pressure after conceding 3 goals early in the first half and could not control the game afterwards and eventually lost the match by 7 goals. However, Empoli finished the match at number 10 in the points table and Empoli at number 20, Empoli performed really poorly in the match and lost badly. Don't make the mistake of judging Roma on one game, every Roma fan knows that next week they will either lose without scoring or draw or barely win. Roma is exactly that, sometimes sunny and sometimes rainy. The Italian league is incredibly exciting this year. which last year and the seasons before signalled that it would be. Roma scoring 7. Inter scoring 5 against Milan. Things you're not used to in Italian football. They are clearly ahead of La Liga. They are following the Premier League. Well, they were playing against a team, which is absolutely at the bottom of the table. But I definitely did not expect this much of a goal difference between them. Actually Roma could have scored another one. Paulo Dybala should have got another goal, but the free kick came back off the post. And the finishing from Roma was incredible in this match. Everything they touched turned into goals. I thought after the first half, probably they will play a little defensive football. But they came back hungry for more goals. And they were able to score freely without any big problems to be honest. And this is the first win for Roma in the season, and what a win this one was! |
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Not necessarily have to stay away and stop using them because for several months I was using P2P services and have not encountered any problem (maybe now) so I don't have a reason to decline their services. For at least that we are sure that was the right person that we are transacting with, it was safe. But we are doubtful, of course, why we should continue the transactions. It is in our hands to decide if this is safe or not.
Yeah, paying some fees for the middleman is not a big deal especially if we assure that the transaction is safe, much more if involves huge amounts.
To be honest, I also prefer using intermediary services rather than p2p exchanges without intermediaries, I don't feel safe with p2p trading, especially with internet exchanges. Even when dealing with large amounts of money outside, I even ask for an intermediary when trading because any risk can happen to us. Because when it comes to money, everyone's greed arises and they are willing to do anything to get it. So the middleman is really indispensable, IMO. |
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I don't understand why people are always coming up with the crypto is anti-fiat comparison. At best cryptocurrencies is anti-capitalism, but never did anyone specify that crypto is against the use of fiat.
Come to think of it, outside of El Salvador and any other country on the planet that uses bitcoin/crypto for payments and transactions you could never find any place that doesn't require you to pay with fiat for goods and services, try giving them bitcoin and see how sour their faces turn into once you say that to them lol. Crypto is your leverage, it's what you use to make sure your fiat's never losing its value against inflation, with the added bonus of turning a profit at the end of it. Fiat is what you use to transact and remain alive in this planet. If you single out crypto cause it's great and you can use it for transactions what you'd only end up with is yet another fiat in the making. It's time to stop comparing crypto and fiat cause these two work hand-in-hand, not against each other.
What's even more interesting is that they constantly compare bitcoin with fiat, they are ready to talk bad about fiat everywhere and praise the beauty of bitcoin. But then their real lives still use fiat money every day, including banks, they wouldn't even be able to survive if their lives didn't have fiat. It's confusing that we want to badmouth it everywhere but eventually we will convert our bitcoins to fiat and use fiat. I agree with you, we should stop comparing those 2 with each other because we have different tasks and use cases. |
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Some people will certainly think that it's useless to attain bitcoin knowledge if you don't have the plan to invest in it after. However, if you don't limit your thinking, you can influence other people through your high knowledge with bitcoin. As long as what you tell them are the facts about bitcoin, and they eventually believe on it, you could be the key to their life's success in the near future.
But if you don't invest in bitcoin, are you sure the knowledge you learn is correct to impart to others? Not only in investing but also in our lives, there is a huge difference between theory and practice. That's why recruitment companies prefer to hire experienced people rather than fresh graduates with a lot of knowledge but no experience. Furthermore, is anyone good enough to learn about bitcoin without investing in it and willing to teach others to invest? In theory it is like that but in reality it is not so, human nature is selfish and jealous. |
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