If you want the best advice mate, then it is DYOR, that is the first and most important thing to do before any investment whatsoever, after doing your own research, you might not need anybody's advice on what to do or the right steps to take; you should also take into cognizance that most altcoins are short term projects and hodling them for quite a long time might not be the best thing to do.

Having said that, Ethereum has been the best altcoin for quite a long time now, with many Eth killers coming and failing, i have to select Ethereum as one of the best altcoins an investor can invest in; and if you are to choose Ethereum, then you don't have to buy any other coins because you think you want to diversify, you are only trying so hard to lose money, if you choose one coin, and you want to diversify, then you look outside of the crypto market for another investment.

@uchegod-12, i don't know if it is a mistake or something, but you actually wrote "top 30 active users May 2022", shouldn't it be August, since the data is for last month's activities, you should take a closer look at it and change it to the appropriate month bro.
It is very important if discussions must continue to improve here, i mean quality discussions by the way, if the thread is clean and free from mess then quality posters would be allured and will continue to post here, but if the thread isn't clean, many Nigerian users wouldn't want to visit this thread, and you know we need quality posters and their activities in order for us to get our own local board.

Na now wey i don understand you, we bin they talk different things, i bin think say na bitcoin you they talk about, so i come they wonder why you go talk say make person no buy Bitcoin now, because like this sev as Bitcoin drop so, na better time to accumulate more for small money; but as na altcoins you they talk about, then you are correct, now no be good time to buy altcoins, if person wan accumulate altcoins no be even for this bear period, because you fit buy altcoins wey no go even survive the bear market, the coin go come turn person to bagholder; but abeg if you be investor wey they only buy Bitcoin, now na good time to they buy more.

I second that, tbh i don't see any reason why anyone would doubt what Aubameyang is capable of doing in Chelsea, i mean, it is not like he has flopped in any of his previois teams, it is either he wanted to leave, or he had problems with the manager like at Arsenal, or he simply fell out of favor because the club signed a better striker than him, like at Barcelona. Thus Aubameyang will have no problems succeeding at Stamford Bridge, and under the management of his former coach whom he so much did well under, in the past.

Having said that, Chelsea need a striker and now they have one, it is now time for Tuchel to decide which is his best formation, and pick the team he considers the strongest, Sterling can now play far out wide with Aubameyang in the center, it is going to be interesting and i am pretty sure Chelsea fans will be looking forward to what is to come for their club.

I don't know for sure what are Erik ten hag's reasons for continually leaving Ronaldo out of the starting eleven, but i think it is because of the issues he was having with the club before the close of the transfer window, he had some disciplinary issues, and maybe Erik is leaving him out of the starting eleven to set the records straight that he is the manager and is completely in charge of the team; another reason could be that the team is winning, the strategy is working, so why change it he may think.

Having said that, i think Ronaldo should be starting in this Manchester United team, aside the fact that i love seeing him play, i think he is much better than some of the attackers that are starting ahead of him, and if he is given the opportunity to play more games, he will definitely help the team. Ronaldo looks happy on the outside, but i know deep down in his heart he can't be happy staying on the bench, so i wonder for how long he would be able to contain his emotions if Erik continues to bench him.

Whilst it has had its own fair share of problems, i guess people still believe in their network and that is why Solana is still where it is at the moment, remember that a while back quite a lot of investors believed it was the coin to take Ethereum out of first position in the altcoin market, they called it the "Eth killer", i know there have been quite a lot of coins that were called "Ethereum killers" in the past, but i think there was a large share of believe amongst its community of investors that Solana was actually going to be the one to get it right. Well, things haven't gone right for them as they must have envisaged, but maybe people are still believing, thus they are still investing and trading with it, it prolly might not stay as high as it is now in the next couple of months, and sooner rather than later we might see a decline.

Is that really a wise strategy my bro? I mean, if one is a long term hodler and the coins they are accumulating now is for the long term, then definitely buying during the dip is actually the best way to go about things; since you believe Bitcoin is still going to drop further, to eventually rise back up/start another bull run/set another ATH in the long period; that can only mean now presents an opportunity to accumulate more when the price is cheaper, waiting for it to recover or start to rise again before you buy is not the best thing to do. Imo it is much better to accumulate it when you can do it for a 'cheap' price, except of course for people who are short term investors, those are the sort of investors that your advice suits.

Well, it is actually looking like Ronaldo isn't going anywhere, and i just think it is because nobody wanted to buy him, rather than Manchester United not wanting him to leave, i mean, just take a look at the teams that reports claim have been interested thus far this summer, they are either teams that Ronaldo can never play in, like Athletico Madrid and Chelsea, or teams that are not really good/better than Manchester United, like Napoli, Sporting and the rest; i actually feel sorry for Ronaldo that this is happening to him at this time in his career, but the closer we get to deadline day, the more it becomes obvious that Ronaldo would not be playing Champions League football this season.

Having said that, another problem Ronaldo might likely face in Manchester United this season is playing time, he might not get as much playing time as he will want, and that might create problems between himself and the manager, but overall, whatever the outcome is, Ronaldo must act like a professional that he is, and give his very best to the team whenever he is called upon.

In a game against Southampton, you'd expect Chelsea to dominate the play and possession, which i think they did; but Southampton still had more shots on goal than Chelsea, which is poor imo, i would not categorize Chelsea's defense as being poor, Koulibaly and T. Silva is a strong defensive pairing, and soon they would have Fofana in the team, they also have strong full backs; i think Chelsea's problems are not from a particular position, it is more of a general thing, and i would look at the coach if that be the case, maybe he is prolly not setting up his players in the way he should, and prolly his tactics aren't working, but it is poor and unaccceptable for a team of Chelsea's standards to be losing 2 games out of 5, drawing 1 and winning only 2, if they continue like that, i'm afraid they might even struggle to finish in the top four.

Manchester United are that way for two reasons, one is that the transfer market in football this days has gone abslolutely crazy, clubs now place an outrageous valuation on their players, in a bid to make sure they get the most out of them, and two because Manchester United are a deperate club, they have not won the league in a long while, they have changed managers a lot in the last couple of season, and now they are just 'ticking every box' in the hope that one works out for them, and when it doesn't, they are left with egg on their face and they sometimes have to sell the players for very less.

Having said that, you can't compare what Wenger was doing at Arsenal then, with what the situation of the market is now, if you take that approach, i'm afraid you'd not win any trophy, and would prolly struggle to even finish in the top four, this days you can't even get average players for a cheap amount, you have to spend money to stay at the top, that is the reality mate.

Not perhaps, Scott Parker is the first manager to be sacked in the Premier League this season, initially i was surprised with the decision from Bournemouth to fire parker after just four games in which they lost 3 and won one, mind you, the oppositions they have played against aren't the sort of teams you'd expect Bournemouth to win, they beat Aston Villa, and lost to City, Arsenal and Liverpool, i mean, those are 3 of the best teams in the league, so why then has he been sacked so early.

Thus i did a bit of research into it, and read what legit news sources had to say, and i think the problem stems from a disagreement between Parker and the Bournemouth hierarchy, so Parker wanted them to spend money to strengthen the team, whilsts the board felt they didn't have the finances to do that, this lead to open complaints from Parker on how the team wasn't strong, and thus led to them firing him. It is a bit of a hard one to take for Parker, especially after having secured promotion for them from the Championship, but i guess we could understand it from both parties, and this is prolly what's best for both of them.

Lol, i am pretty sure Barcelona would have hoped for a much easier group, in the past this prolly would have been an easy group for them, and they'd have surely qualified alongside Bayern Munich, but at this very time they are a team in transition, and are just trying to rediscover themselves, thus this is going to be a really tough group. Having said that, i think they can still go through, Inter aren't too strong, though more often than not they can be a stubborn opposition, i for one would want Barcelona to make it out of the group stages, it would be much better for the competition if they make it through.

Well if you want a board where bitcoin traders can 'network' with one another, i'd take 'network' here to mean sharing trading signals and strategies to assist in your trade, then you can just do that in the trading discussion section, prolly create a thread with your own signal and strategies, and request other traders that are willing to share theirs to join in the party. But if by 'networking' you mean meeting new people that are involved in trading like yourself, then i'm afraid Bitcointalk isn't the right place for that cause of privacy reasons.

This is exactly the position OP must take, just as i told them in my earlier response in this thread, if you invest in a project, of course after doing your own research, then you should believe in it, i for one for example believe in the Bitcoin network, and notwithstanding whatever FUD or panic the media and some personalities try to spread, i basically do not care, i hodl my Bitcoin, and spend it when i get a chance to, that is because i have done my research about Bitcoin and i know it is a long term project.

Having said that, Ethereum looks like a good project in the Altcoin market, it has been around for a long while and has a pretty strong community, thus the coin might not really dump as rumors have it, but like i said before, it is only OP that can make that conclusion.

Well if the ranking was based on new wallet downloads, then it is erroneous to correlate it in such a way that it seems Litecoin is the top coin in regards to crypto adoption, because we both know that's not true, i don't really know too much about Litecoin, but i've prolly heard a thing or two good things from its users, and i'm glad quite a lot of people find it useful, but Bitcoin is basically the crypto that has an actual utility globally, that is why its adoption globally is something that is in continuous growth everyday, and sometime down the line, mass global adoption will be complete. Having said that, we can't even verify if this source is authentic and if the information provided is accurate, but it doesn't really matter if they are shilling, those who are knowledgeable still know the truth.

Well, there are many cryptocurrencies, and tbh quite a lot of them are short term and pump and dump coins, and they definitely have no future, Bitcoin is prolly the one cryptocurrency i can categorically state that it has quite a lot to offer globally in the future. Having said that, i don't think the forum is too hard to join, and you can always ask questions whenever you feel lost or don't understand anything, and i'm pretty sure you'd get answered, so newcomers should basically use the search button, as well as create topics to ask questions when they feel the need to, and they'd be just fine here.

Well, do you believe those rumors, when carrying out your research you would do much better to avoid rumors, and instead go for verified and authentic information, in this case you'd have to read what ethereum intend to do actually with this merge, and decide for yourself if it will positively affect their network or not. Having said that, if you are asking this sort of question, do not expect too much from it, users would only tell you what they think, whether verified or not, and more often than not, people will tell you exactly what they have done, for example, those that have sold will advise you to sell, whilst those that haven't sold, will tell you not to; so it is up to you mate, DYOR.

One rule of thumb that you should know about is that you should never invest in something that you do not know too much about, i mean, there are a whole lot of resources available for your to research about this coin you wish you to buy and hodl, but you have not done that, instead you want to invest because you watched some guy's video, and he made predictions about XRP, predictions that are quite impossible to happen. Having said that, whilst i don't think XRP will appreciate as high as that, neither do i think they are a good coin for you to invest long term into, i mean, Bitcoin has to be the best option for long term investment, but notwithstanding all of that, take your time and do your own research, and see for yourself if it actually has any future potential.

I congratulate you wella my bro, e no easy at all, anybody wey don rank up reach Hero rank go understand wetin i they talk, it requires steady consistency, with quality and constructive posts most of the time, and as you don do am so, e show say you sev na better contributor to the Bitcointalk forum, and to the Nigerian local thread. Enjoy your new rank mate, but no relax oh, make sure say you continue in this way, this local thread need posters wey they eager to contribute, and you are one of them, so make the matter continue like that. Well done to you, and all other Nigerians wey they rank up too.

Yeah exactly, we are just two days away from the end of this summer's transfer market, and i am pretty sure one player everybody has their eyes on is Frankie De Jong, the uncertainty surrounding him and his future has made the headlines for a couple of months now, and in two days we'd know officially if he is moving on, or is still a Barcelona player, and what the future holds for him with any of the decision made.

Having said that, i am quite surprised about the talks of a holiday being given to him, though i have not read about it too much, is it family related issues or just time off, i am curious why he would get a time off at this time in the season when the players just returned from their respective summer holidays, and btw Barcelona even have a big match against Sevilla this weekend, it all looks so strange.