This is why anybody in this industry who've had a little understanding of how it works through an experience of a complete Bitcoin circle will tell you it's not a wise thing to invest with cash you will miss. The simple logic there is to just invest the cash and move on like you never invested anything at all. Bury the money and wait patiently for the harvest season. To many, that's a hard thing to do because they want to see their investments grow daily. That isn't how investment works (at least, not so in this industry).

That's simply because people are often in a hurry while at it, during transactions. It's good to suspend everything one is doing during transaction. That's what I do. I'm never in a haste because I know once a mistake happens it's goodbye to my funds. I do take my time to check the first four/five letters of any copied wallet address I'm sending or withdrawing to. I do same for the middle and last four/five letters too. That's if the funds involved aren't much. If I'm doing a heavy transfer, I take my time to run a complete check from the first letter to the last before hitting the send or withdrawal tab. I'm conservative like that and I haven't regretted any bit of being conservative.

You did well by alerting this forum of that. Anyone visiting for the first time who isn't careful will easily get deceived. This is why I always insist on getting direct links from whoever that's asking me to check up any site. I don't just listen to them dictating it without writing the words out. After that I make sure to bookmark or save it on homepage if it's a site I'm likely going to revisit. In this crypto industry, don't leave anything to chances.

It used to be Blockfolio for me before the SBF dude bought it and changed its name to FTX and then messed the whole thing up. What a shame.

But of course, the phishing would be to steal wallet information and then hack it.

OP, your words are apt. You captured the scenario very well but you should also expect that what's happening is a true reflection of the diversity of man's thoughts. We all can't reason the same way on the same issues. If everyone knows and does the same thing it should be boring. Homogeneity kills interest. Those who panic once price begins to dip are meant to be there so that those who have diamond hands can pick the panic sales up. Anyone who has experienced a Bitcoin cycle should know that whatever that's happening now in the market is the normal phase. Nothing to worry about. It should be the accumulation phase. Buy cheap now and hodl. Next halving is going to be a blast.

Yes, Bitcoin recovered to $17k but it's not looking convincing to keep at it. It will slump. Already investors have started point at the $13k region. Honestly, it feels kind of disappointed that Bitcoin didn't do well in November which was the month I speculated it would show some strength. December hasn't been any good as it's the month most investors take profit for spending during the yuletide season. We aren't likely to see a different scenario this year. Talking about ATH? Nah! No one is even expecting Bitcoin to get to its previous ATH of $68k next year. We wait till 2024.

You must be Satoshi himself to try that. We're looking at 12 to 20 years for a 3-5 Bitcoin cycle here with the awareness that a cycle is four years (rightly so when we consider its halving period). For me, a long term hodl is two years. That's hodl stoically for two years without touching my stack. The two years will be from two years post-halving to the present halving year. For instance, at hand is the period I'm referring to. Buying now to sell off in 2024. Then repeat the process in 2026.

Centralization isn't the problem per se. It's the criminals who run those shit that have made it look that way. If anything, centralization even opened cryptocurrencies to the world rapidly. Many people would've been locked out of knowing how and where to buy from. I dabbled into cryptos with a huge puzzle of what it was dangling over my head at the time. Creating a wallet or opening an exchange account wasn't even as easy as they seem today. I wonder what it would've been like five years before I did. Today, many people think it's as easy as ABC. Talking about Cexs, no matter what, we've to acknowledge the good it has done us. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the warning should be "investors shouldn't leave their cryptos on exchanges while traders should find a way of not leaving much there." To face reality, there's no way we tell traders not to leave funds on exchanges and it turns out fine. Except they aren't traders in the real sense of it.

Ok, I think I've an idea what you intended to achieve by blurring addresses and that's to alert users that they don't have to expose their addresses. However, I don't that should be any problem with public addresses since it's the medium for receiving transactions. I don't think anyone loses anything by exposing that or do they? That's not like Pkeys or Passphrases.

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Oh, really? I guess you had the wrong quote inserted.

OP, if I got your drift well you meant anxiety during trading and not that it's real heart problem. Anyway, anytime you begin to get worked up or needlessly anxious during trading it simply means you're exposing your account more than you should. That's against the ethics of crypto trading which suffices that, "don't risk more than you can afford to lose." Other than that, trading is an enjoyable profession. It doesn't cause any heart issues, though I must add that it's not for the faint hearted.

sheenshane, you're right. Profit in the pocket is better than one on the screen. There's even a safer way to play in this market and I'm sure those who've kept it that way haven't had any regrets. One shouldn't allow greed overshadow one once it comes to taking profit. At every point, it's better to half the risk by taking half of one's profit off the table and allow the rest run with a stop loss. Otherwise, the profit may return to loss. It's better half a profit in one's pocket than expected full and bloated elusive profit.

Whichever way you look at it, nothing is ever for "Free" in the real sense of it. Even in the past when a lot of people thought Bitcoin was given for free through airdrops or faucets, there was something those who gave it out benefited by doing that. Most of them needed their sites to be pushed out in form of publicity. In essence, something was exchanged for something. Your data and time for Bitcoin because some of them needed minor tasks done before releasing the Bitcoin.

OP, besides the point that you could be having some boards under ignore and that's a possible reason you've less boards displayed than your uncle's; Let me quickly add that you need to do all you can to differentiate whatever wallet address(es) you want to use here from your uncle's so as to avoid anyone alleging that it's an alt account in future.

I like it when members here take out time to teach Bitcoin outside this forum. It's best to go virtual if there's a barrier of distance. That's the part I like because it's easier for both the teacher and student(s). If they complain of data, send them data. However, let me quickly add here for OP. Don't be discouraged if after teaching them you discover that not all of them will continue with it. There will be those among them who will have the wrong notion of how Bitcoin should take them out of poverty level immediately they come in contact with it. Once you let them into the truth that it's not a get rich quick scheme, some will develop that lukewarm attitude and will eventually lose interest. Just know this and know peace.

Apocalypse is cataclysmic. If we do ever get to that point, nobody will be in the right frame of mind to think what happens to the next person or their investments. It's going to be chaotic. Bitcoin or whatever won't even matter then because all man will think of will be strictly survival. It's like the end of the world. Let's just enjoy the Bitcoin moment now and forget about how it's going to be like in man's troubled times.

Let's be clear on this first. If we're talking of doing the investment at a time like now with the bear season in place, I will advise that the cash be invested in Bitcoin. But if it's during a bull season I will advise that it be put in altcoins with utility. Bitcoin has a very strong and dedicated community, if not the strongest of all cryptos. The strength of its community has helped to demystified every FUD and negative press against Bitcoin. In terms of ROI, alts give better than Bitcoin. However, Bitcoin has a better surviving and long lasting rate than others.

The annoying part is that some of these supposed victims are already members of this educative crypto and awareness sermonizing forum, yet they allow shit happen to them. It baffles me when people throw caution to the wind once they hear or read that there's a giveaway or freebies going on. You dare connect your wallet to a site because you heard there's an airdrop going on or a mining blablabla... Then be ready to bear the cost of hacks and theft.

OP, I know almost everyone is all about privacy but I do think you could've chosen to use fresh wallet addresses or newly installed wallets for your exposition in instances where you needed to blur the addresses like in a few examples you made. By the way, it's there any reason for blurring them while some were left open?

The best decision in a situation like that when you think your wallet has been compromised is to get a new one. It costs next to nothing to install a new one.

Most of these sob stories flying around here about how they lost money is just cooked up cock and bull stories. For whatever reasons those who present them here do, I can't figure it out. Perhaps it's to gain sympathy of the community and their merit.