Life is made up of victories and defeats, and this defeat should still be viewed as one transient thing that will quickly become a matter of past. I have no doubt that Croatia will be on the Euro 2024 and that it will show good games there, but if it wants to make a good result again, it will need something more than luck.

The fact is that we are missing something that can push us to the end, and it is up to the coach and the expert staff to analyze the team and try to maybe introduce some new players into the game. Croatia must prepare for the fact that in the future they will play without some very important players, and it is still unknown whether Luka Modric will continue to play for the national team.

Isn't that the best thing for you? You claim to have knowledge and experience, a good business model and you think you can profit from all this. You have to understand that most will not invest in such projects, especially if it comes to Telegram, which is a real paradise for scammers.

I don't say you're scammer, but this whole concept you present is not promising, no matter what you show that some others profit on such services (supposedly), as well as having someone who has fantastic results in trading.

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First you say that you have experience, and now you claim that you are not an expert or trader, while at the same time you blindly believe that someone realizes 2000% of profits. Maybe you should read the following topic :

3068 Trades Won and only 1 Trade Lost

So if I were president in my country, I wouldn't be able to do anything meaningful because the president doesn't have the powers that could affect the economy. For that I would have to be prime minister, and in order to make some changes I would have to have a team of professional and honest people around me.

I think one of the biggest problems that every government needs to solve is corruption and bribery within politics itself, and for that politics should cease to be a business, instead of working for the benefit of its own country.

The first thing I would do is increase wages for those who work the hardest/most dangerous jobs and fight poverty by all means necessary. Then I would introduce mandatory education for all children in terms of all addictions (cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, gambling) which would have an effect on their health in the future and generally reduce health costs.

Of course, there is a whole spectrum of measures that could be done to improve people's lives, and as I have already written I would start from the bottom up, because those who have a lot of money can take care of themselves anyway.

Why every Newbie thinks he has to need to write something on the forum, while on the other hand most completely neglect what is much more important, which is to start reading the rules and the sticky topics. What I'm saying is that there are already adequate answers to every such question, and if they are asked indefinitely, it's just a waste of time for all of us.

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I think you're asking too much, but if nothing else, at least you've tried

In this case, it may be better to keep your money or invest it in something else, because why would I or someone else assure you that Bitcoin is a good or bad choice for you? When you say "something made out of thin air" it is more than obvious you don't understand even the most basic.

Maybe you should study mining and POW and read Bitcoin white paper, and if it doesn't help, I suggest you may buy a picture of the sunset and find the value by looking at the same

Do you live in the illusion that they (authorities) couldn't do it before? Authorities just need to request information about users and be sure that each CEX will work and submit this information. So I wonder where you actually see the problem?

Maybe you think CZ is some great leader that takes care of its users and does not share their data, while he was enriching himself at the same time, allowing hundreds of scammers to promote and trade their shitcoins through his platform.

Besides, do you really think they (the government) are so desperate to profit from cryptocurrencies since they actually have a money printer? What they really want is control, but they can only have it if people let them - in other words, why would anyone even use that new CEX?

I agree, but some still think that Bitcoin is anonymous and transactions are super cheap in the sense that you pay 1 cent and nothing more. On the one hand, they don't mind when CEX charges them $5 or $10 for a withdrawal, and on the other hand, it's a lot for them to pay $1 when they send it from their personal wallet.

It all boils down to the fact that one should always expect an increased number of transactions, and that the fee that has been paid may become insufficient at that moment - that's why I always pay a few sats more if I want a confirmation as quickly as possible, with of course RBF, which is something that everyone should learn to use.

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Forget about accelerators, because there is only one that "works", but only if you meet certain conditions such as minimum fee and transaction size.

What prominent names are you talking about? I see some people there that I have never heard of...


It's really fascinating how naive people can be, because how else to call people who agree to KYC for an interview? This just proves that there are a lot of people who have no idea what they are doing, and they have always been and will be easy targets for any average hacker.

Maybe it's just another in a series of bear traps, and every positive news is always used to push the price to a level where the smart ones who recently filled their bags will dump everything and make a great profit. What was the reason that the price two months ago was over $30k?


Critical for what exactly? I don't see a single logical reason why it would make any sense, no ETF will be approved for months, there is a procedure that must be followed even if the SEC has a positive opinion at this moment (which apparently is not the case).

Assets under the management of the two companies are impressive, but one should not think that a significant part of these funds will start spilling over into BTC if the SEC approves that spot ETF at all. We thought that futures BTC ETF would have some impact on the price, and today no one mentions them anymore.

It's one thing to have a financial instrument that will make it easier for big investors to invest more easily, but something else is to convince them that Bitcoin is something they should invest in.

What I can tell you from what I've heard from a lot of people over the years is that at least 9 out of 10 people still suspect Bitcoin is some kind of internet scam and every time the price goes down they panic and start selling. Of course, over the years, some have understood the rules of the game and started acting a little more responsibly, but the flow of new people is constant, and they obviously want to learn from their own mistakes, although they are of course the most expensive.


I believe what I've heard and seen, and he and his people obviously feel that most of their users aren't intelligent enough to write down 24 words on paper and keep them safe. I'll just say that for anyone who isn't able to do that, Bitcoin is definitely not something they should invest in.

I haven't researched if that's the exception, but I don't think there might even be any particular rule that would prohibit pension funds from investing in Bitcoin or anything else when it comes to the US. We also have an example from Canada where a large pension fund invested $95 million in FTX, which only tells us that such funds have great freedom when it comes to the assets of their clients.

You are not far from the truth, because the world is more or less in a tight shackle of centralization that tries to limit human freedoms and rights even more. Realistically, the more people in the world, the more the authorities have to tighten the hoop and set frameworks to control the broad masses.

If we are to be honest, we can conclude that they mostly succeed because people mostly do what the government asks of them. Given the current attitude towards cryptocurrencies in the US, we can say that this is likely to have some implications for investors, although it should be emphasized that the SEC does not focus its actions on Bitcoin but on CEXs and the altcoins market.

Didn't Fidelity try the same thing a few years ago? If we look at data from the end of 2022, Fidelity has as many as $10 + trillion assets under management, while BlackRock has only $8.59 trillion. I agree that BlackRock has probably the best chance of being the first to launch the ETF spot, although there has been news that Fidelity will also enter the race, with its spot ETF and with the offer to take over Grayscale.

I just want to say that no matter what the decision will eventually be, all those years when the first BTC ETF was awaited and the fact that almost nothing serious happened when the first futures BTC ETF was approved certainly leave a mark on the average investor who does not understand why this time something should be different.

Happy 81st birthday to our oldest member who is still active in every sense of the word🎂🍾🥂

As far as I know, another member could join you in that club, although it seems to me that he is a little younger than you @philipma1957

I think we have long since become immune to news about ETFs, so even though it is now the biggest company trying to get approved, I don't believe that the market will react to a large extent negatively if the decision is negative. In addition, it is a process that can last a maximum of 8 months, which means that the decision could only be made somewhere at the beginning of next year, maybe only a month or a little more before the halving.

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I don't know, summer in the northern hemisphere has always seemed to me to be the time when most people go on annual vacations and don't care too much about investing or trading cryptocurrencies. Therefore, it seems to me that the summer could pass as a very boring period, unless something super positive happens, although I don't see what that could be. Maybe Joe will say something like "I love Bitcoin" considering that every now and then he has some genius statement

Personally, I was not surprised that people in the US live worse compared to a few years ago, but what else can we expect when we know what measures were implemented to suppress the pandemic around the world. Debts have obviously come due, but not only in the US, but also in Europe, which has a bloody war in its backyard as an additional weight, in the constantly present influx of migrants from Africa.

As for cryptocurrencies, we should also not be surprised that the percentage falls, and this is expected at a time when people are forced to sell to meet basic life needs, but also considering that most small investors generally want a quick profit, which means that they are waiting for a big bull run to invest.

This would not be true, at least as far as the US is concerned, because there are cases where pension funds have even invested directly in Bitcoin. In my opinion, ETF is still something that will be used by those who want to trade with BTC, but do not want to have direct contact with it in the way that they have to directly buy and store it.

It is possible that the spot ETF would be something that will attract even more large investors, although for those who invest large sums of money in the long term, nothing but a non-custodial solution actually makes sense. The risk of hacking or some other accident is too great, at least in my opinion.

Unfortunately, Croatia once again missed a great opportunity, but I think that to win against the biggest ones you still need to play at a much higher level. I honestly expected a much better game by both teams with a lot of goals, but this new Spain is not yet as good as the one from the last European Championship when it beat Croatia in extra time.

Penalty kicks are always a lottery, and this time luck was on Spain's side. Still, being in the finals for a small country of 3.8 million people is also a great success, especially if we take into account all the successes in just over 30 years of existence of the modern Croatian state.

It definitely makes sense from a risk position, although the public's perception (or at least some people) is that BlackRock will suddenly buy some crazy sum of BTC and thus start a big bull run. What remains to be seen is how the market would react to the first spot BTC ETF in the US (if approved), but a few days ago I saw one video showing that futures BTC ETF recorded a significant decline in 2022 and 2023 compared to the years before.

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This is probably the case, although it should always be remembered that past events do not guarantee that the same will happen again in the future. The only certainty that will happen is halving, but there is always the question of whether it can cause the same effects as it did in the past.

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As far as I know BlackRock doesn't own Bitcoin and it's not on any list of public/private companies mentioned in that context, but what makes you think that's the case is the fact that BlackRock owns a 6.76% stake in MicroStrategy which owns 140 000 BTC.