Diversification doesn't truly exist in a highly correlated market. The crypto space in one of such markets where currencies mirror the price actions of others, so when there is a crash, majority of coins get effected, similar to when there's a spike up.
A diversified portfolio would contain assets from different niches, real estate, crypto, stocks, gold etc.

You should not be investig your hard earned money, if you can not take out the time to actually research on what you are investing in. If one blindly jumps into an investment, there is a high possibility you would get rekt in the long run.
Researching is not rocket science either.

Predictions do not lead to anything, the market does not react to them, so do not expect anything to come out from it.
Everyone has their expectations of what the future would be for Bitcoin and how the price would move. No prediction is more correct than another, even if the news writer throw in words like expert or analyst.

Rather than trust predictions, create your own price expectation over the long term based on price history and current fundamentals, ideally this should be a range (both in amount and time frame). For example; Bitcoin could be worth between $60k - $120k within the next 3-5 years.

There are different opinions on the best way to invest, but I mostly do not agree with the idea of judging by the apparent market cap of a currency in relation to others to pick your asset:

• For one, market capitalization is not a proper indicator of a good asset and can be easily manipilated to give a false sense of security,
• And my second reason, is what you've highlighted in your thread. The top coins are not fixated, the top 10 today would almost definitely not be the same in 5 years time or even in 5 months.

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Do an actual research if you want to invest, don't just bank on what majority is doing or possibly inflated figures.

I've not noticed anything strange on the Tether charts over the last couple of weeks to cause any sort of panic. It has always experiences mild volatility with the $0.01 to $0.005 range and that is not also surprising, considering trades are always occuring over the different exchanges.

The general idea is to award merits to quality posts. But, the concept of quality is subjective and varies with different individuals, so to an extent the criteria varies.
I could merit something I find witty, or informative, or merit for the effort put into the post. I could also merit a post I disagree with depending on the content.

I can't ascertain the reason for the merit dump, and don't need to cause users award merits differently.
I typically give smaller chunks of merit, maybe cause I'm not a source and I quickly run out of smerits, but if a user feels like giving larger numbers to a post they are impressed by, then that's fine, and has been done many times before.

Looking at it again, it does sound a bit that way.
I'll add an edit to try clearing that up.

OR, they could be subtly promoting the scam link for naive newbies, who might click in, to see what the site is about.
The posts subtly talks about rewards, how to go about it and slips in credibility value based on partners (which I highly think are false).
It's an assumption and I could be wrong, but I mostly see posts like this as clickbait.

As a newbie on the forum, Franky1 was one of those guys who I really admired and loved to read his posts on Bitcoin discussion board, even though I barely understood 60% of that he talked about.
I found him to be very knowledgeable and technical. I dare say in the early days (before the feedbacks and ban) they used to post on different boards around the forum, as opposed to now when Franky1 frequents few boards.

Tagging the account does not necessarily shut them up, it's just a heads up to other members that they should not simply swallow whatever content put out, especially as newer members judge who to listen to based on rank and merits.
Banning is a different subject.

What does that mean?
Last time I checked microstrategy did not reveal how they store their assets (and I've not really looked into Grayscale) the.
But, there is no evidence to support that either of them actually use coinbase for storage.

For people to use Bitcoin, they would have to own it first. With a world population of about 8 billion, I would say it's unlikely that about 12.5% of that number would hold Bitcoin in the next 8 years, that's a quantum leap and is not feasible imo.

I think I also saw a post around the forum recently, discussing that topic; it would likely have involved all cryptocurrencies and with that would still be an optimistic claim.

It would be a bit difficult for one to determine if a slogan has been used before, as there are so many betting platforms and one could coincidentally pick the slogan of one of them.

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Congratulations, you just discovered DCA - Dollar Cost Averaging.
That's one of the most ideal ways to stack up bitcoins without pressure of checking the price to determine the best buy in time.

You described how it works properly in your post and it's a workable formula that many people have used to acquire bitcoins and other assets as well.

I've encountered a number of such cases. They either didn't know they could buy fractions of Bitcoin or they were not used to buying fractions of an asset, so thought it's unprofitable, sort of like it would be unprofitable in the long run as they did not get a full stack.
Such people would rather opt for assets which are dirt cheap, cause they see more potential for growth if the held millions of a token, compared to fractions of Bitcoin.

It's a difficult situation, but not to the extent of collapsing the world economy.
The lingering war would have lasting effects, as it was unexpected and many countries who were heavily dependent on either Russia or Ukraine got hit hard, and it would take a while, but they would recover and adjust.

The lockdown crisis is also a factor in the falling economies and would also take a while to recover from.

+1
This is a very practical advice which would save users lots of headaches, as well as, money spent on acquiring fancy ways to store their bitcoins.

• For one, paper storage makes it relatively easy to back up your seedphrase within minutes as compared to other means, so, one can easily create multiple addresses and back them up safely.
• Anyone can do it themselves, as opposed to some other means of storage that would require one to visit a handyman to execute properly, risking exposure.
• It's easy to store something written on paper safely in multiple locations than to store a block or plate of steel.

I'm not a U.S. citizen and the information I have about recession, inflation and rising cost of living is from what's available online and in the news.
I would say to an extent the global market stage has been affected by the happenings over the past 2 or so years, and each country has taken a hit, albeit to different degrees.

Well, news releases and written articles are a bit different. Writers these days do no write original content as much as they used to, and many of the released articles are quotes from government officials which would most likely be optimistic. News casters more often speak on pertinent issues and share their own original thoughts (could be biased of course).

Bitcoin can fall below $14k, and that's not because some analyst predicted it, that would be because any price action is possible in the crypto market.
While $14k is possible, I would say it's not probable at this point. There would need to be a sufficient sell pressure to pull the price to such levels, and with holders not selling off, that is not likely to happen yet.

Sentiments of holders and traders can of course change at any point in time, so predictions and speculations can always be proved wrong.

When many members here were children, Bitcoin had very likely not been invented yet, so no one really expects children to take over the forum.
There is no point at which the current forum members would collectively abandon the forum, there are users of all ages here and there would be a slow transition as time goes by.

Again, no one is handing over their private keys to children, and imo, no one should ideally be handing down their account password. Social platforms are not heirlooms which gets transfered or inherited.

I think, investors should typically not be influenced by optimistic tweets, but rather figures. Saylor did share some figures recently about how Bitcoin coped when compared to other assets since microstrategy bought in; doesn't reflect their personal numbers, as they have bought at different times over the past months, but it shows the market is not as bad when compared with other markets.

IIRC, the plan was to hold for 100 years, so if the market goes well, he should not need to defend the investment after the next 5-10 years

You do have a point. In extreme cases like China, Bitcoin cannot offer a solution, cause it would not be allowed to thrive and citizens would not want to risk their safety using an illegal currency, which many of them cannot purchase due to regulatory bans.

But, in a general scope, Bitcoin is an avenue to bypass strich regulations. We saw that in Nigeria, where during protests (2020, in relation to police brutality) donations where sent in through bitcoins after the government clamped down on bank accounts of those involved in the peaceful protest. This has also been replicated in other countries as well.

We would never have a utopian society, but having an alternative like Bitcoin is a lifeline.

Could be attempts to cover the situation up to the public eye. I've seen a lot of oppressive governments to know that this is not beyond them.