I remember back in the ICO days all the projects were based on ETH blockchain and people were trying to figure out what the next ETH will be, this is like 3 years ago at least and people were looking for it, now we have DeFi and most of them are based on ETH again, not all of them but most are based on it, and people are still looking for the next ETH and that is just wrong.

If these are based on ETH, I doubt thye could be bigger than ETH. So I believe if there will ever be something bigger than ETH, it has to be something not tied to ETH itself because nothing that is all relying on eth could be bigger than it. I feel like things that have their own blockchain and even provide option for other projects to be based on them, could become bigger than eth and nothing else can.

Yes, one thing I must say for people who are holding since long time like 5-10 years, they have done a great job by not losing the private keys because imagine someone buying $50 worth bitcoins and then being alert enough to save the private keys for future.

Following your desires and greed is the last thing I would suggest anyone doing when trading. You must operate based on how the market is behaving because if one was to go with desires I would rather ask them to gamble than to trade because trading requires knowledge, control over emotions/desires and a solid head that lets you take correct decisions.

Yeah, when you double your deposit, take out your main amount. Let's say you invested 1000 dollars into anything, if you happen to be lucky and reach 2000 dollars somehow, take out your initial 1000 dollars and keep the other 1000 dollars and move on with the profits that way. I have done that before and it works wonders because you are a lot more relax and that usually leaves you with a great deal of profit as well.

I personally do not find crypto to be safe investment, it is a bit of a risk involved and most of the time when there is a risk involved you do not want to keep your deposit there. There is a good chance you may not do 2x neither, and in that case continue to make money as much as you can, but if you ever get to that level take out your deposit as quickly as possible.

I definitely agree that 400k is not possible... yet. I mean surely in 10-20 years it could be possible, there could be people who would love to see that in the wealthy world as well after all they are not even that much involved yet, few smaller companies got in about a billion, but when the big huge names of wall street gets involved they are going to make sure they make as much profit as they can which will be 400k or even more, but that is not right now.

I would say trust bitcoins future and invest into it right now, because it will always worth something in the future, but it is not going to be skyrocketing that much anytime soon, it will probably reach to 30-50 thousand levels as the next goal and probably 100k after that, which all would probably take at least 5 more years.

By the looks of it the $20k will be harder than anticipated to break. I know that we all wanted to see it, I know that we wanted to see $20k+ prices too like instead of being 20054 or whatever, we want to see over 21k to make sure it is definitely over $20k and feel relaxed.

However there is too many people selling at these prices to make it viable for now, I get that it may not be as easy as we think but I assumed it would have been not this hard neither. We keep trying to go over, we go down and try again and we go down and we try again, we keep trying over and over again and we end up failing. I hope that this time around we do not go down too much, and we go above $19k once again after this fall, hopefully this time we go a lot higher as well to manage it better.

Basically governments will try to stall this as much as they can but as we all know, it is impossible to make it stay like this forever. Eventually there will be a million ETF in the market that people could use and trade and invest into. When the market wants something, they will get it one way or another, same as crypto where if it was illegal to own any crypto, the price would be lower, but people would still own crypto illegally, just because something is illegal doesn't make it stop.

If the market wants ETF and governments do not provide it soon enough, it will definitely be in an illegal market covering that type of request from people. Which is why I think there will be ETF very soon, and they will get more in numbers from now on as well.

When a place like stake gives out a lambo, you know the ticket number will be huge. I mean after all even without the lambo there are people who gamble a ton of money here right? Before all of this started there were tons of people gambling a lot. I remember one day there was a competition on wagering, top wagerer wins something type of thing we see everywhere nowadays, and some dude wagered like 100x more than the next person.

These people do not gamble to win these competitions, they are just whales that love to gamble and that's it. So when stake did lambo contest, it was obvious that some people would wager a lot, and there would be a ton of tickets.

Hence at the end of the day, I think it is cool that we at least have a chance to win something even with 1 ticket, instead of having competitions to see who can gamble most.

You can talk to anyone you want about it, there are literally courts that gives their own results that puts the question down and gives an answer and if there are "possibilities" those are usually available for every single election, unless one party concedes the results they can always try to win, you could literally be winning 538-0 and other party could say its rigged and can go to courts about it.

What we have right now is the fact that almost all states have already certified their results, and the ones that are requested to recount have done that and recertified their results as well.

Trump will never say "I have lost, good luck to Biden", we all know (including republicans who voted for trump) that he won't do that, he is not that type of person. This doesn't mean that Biden didn't win, it just means trump is a sore loser.

China will never really be a world power. They will continue to be richer and richer, they will continue to make so much money that they will be richer than anyone else, hell they could get rich just like bitcoin versus other cryptos, china could be richer than all other nations in the world combined. Yet no matter how rich they get, because of their political situation nobody will care about their power, what are they going to do? Do sanctions? Stop trading with a nation? That will destroy all of their money and income, hence they need other nations. And try to threaten a big nation?

China will face trade wars with bunch of huge and a ton of smaller nations because of it. China has zero power unless they fix their political situation, no matter how rich they get.

The only way to beat inflation is to make more from it, however do not be fooled to think that you are beating the inflation just because you made more money than the advertised inflation. It is not very well known that the inflation number told to public is almost always wrong and a lie, the reality is much bigger.

I would say grow at least 20% per year if you want to be rich enough to beat it and change your life, if you do under 10% you are not beating anything at all and only keeping your current economy. Also this is not something you can do just for few years, you need to do it for decades in order to be actually wealthy enough to leave work and provide great life to your family as well. Long story short, aiming to beat inflation is not something that would work in the quick term, it is a long term deal.

It works when people wants it to work and it fails when people wants it to fail. If you see a resistance at a high price, go that far and not go beyond it, it is not the resistance that made you stop, it is the people who stopped at that resistance, they have very well easily the option to go above it, if the sellers withdraw their orders and buyers increased theirs and continued without withdrawing, the price would have been increased over resistance price without a worry, which happens time to time as well and breaks well over resistance points, multiple of them in a single run.

Same goes for support, as long as people with bitcoin keeps selling bitcoin and there are no buyers, the support line can't hold forever. This is why there are some guide points for bitcoin to move but the reality is that, it is the people that decides if we move beyond those points or not, sometimes we do care about them, sometimes we do not care about it at all.

I do not really get how having multiple accounts may have caused him to win 2-3 million doge so far?
I mean isn't he gambling on the same game every gambler plays? Isn't he chasing the same inevitable end that everyone chases? I would have to say his end will be same as all other whales in existence, he will lose it all eventually one way or another. Think about it this way, there was a recent whale in bustabit named wang tang, dude wagered thousands of bitcoin and won hundreds of it easily, he did this for weeks before he crashed and lost it all and then some on top of it.

So, I would say there are moments when whales do win for a long time but all it takes is one single bad luck streak and they will end up losing everything they ever had and more.

Stocks are easier, crypto is very difficult however stocks are not nearly profitable whereas crypto is. I have invested into stocks for over 10 years now and I can tell you that picking a stock that will make you money is not that difficult, all you have to do is find a company that looks profitable and helps you make a profit in the long run, obviously there could be times like pandemic period where it may not make a profit but at the end of the day you will still be capable of making a profit from the ones that are profitable not right now but looks to be in the future as well.

Crypto however can make 10x more profit to you or make you lose 50% and you never know which one will happen, which is why it is really just more entertaining and profitable if you are right but you have to take the risk for it.

Portfolio diversification is a good idea but the 10% thing is not really that good, at least I do not see it as a good thing, I would suggest that having some sort of goal to get out is a good idea but this %10 thing would make your portfolio change all the time and wouldn't really help you at all because %10 is not really a big increase.

What you should probably focus on would be to buy 5 coins, distribute them equally or however you see fit, and wait for them to go up enough that you think you can cash out and remove yourself from all of this. At the end of the day if you are getting only a small amount of money and nothing substantial, I do not really see the point of making these type of decisions and investments for only a small gain that would mean nothing.

Sorry for your loss, I hope that covid will pass soon and nobody in the world would have to face the losses you have faced. About libra nobody thinks that we are in a situation where you either invest into libra or into bitcoin. Everyone knows it is a stablecoin and we do not "invest" to it at all.

Look at USDT for example, there are people who have spent over 10 billion dollars buying it, do you really think they invested into it? They didn't invested on it, they just used it as a way to trade and they will do so with Libra if they can as well. It will also bring a lot of people from out of crypto world into crypto world as well so I doubt it would hurt us, it will actually help us more than it hurts bitcoin with the amount of money it could provide.

I understand that people do not like it when others tell them that they are wrong. After all we would like to believe that we are all right, however at the end of the day we are all humans and humans do make mistakes.

I believe this topic is all wrong, we are not going to suddenly stop the bull run. If we are going to ever see a stop of the situation, it should be taken a lot more significantly and we would see it, however there is nothing significant about our falls of recent, and we have recovered from them pretty easily as well. Which goes to show you that we are not going to stop with the bull run, we are going to have a lot bigger increases very soon.

All I can think of right now, is maybe we are going to give a little break that is all to take a breather and that is only natural after increasing this much.

^I would say that making a profit by selling early is still making a profit and people ignore that part. I understand that people would like to see a lot more money and a lot more profit, we are greedy in our nature and that could be very well the reason why the world has as many economical injustice as it is because humans have a desire for being richer than the other person.

However in reality, if you made profit by buying at $10k and selling at $14k you are still in a 40% profit and that is just as good as you should be happy for. I understand if you made 90% profit instead of 40% profit that would have been better for you, but you made that profit so why all the fuss about people selling too early or not buying back at the right time? I do not see the point of it.

^That is the interesting part for sure. When people look at 17k one day as something huge and a big wall, and another day they look at it like it is something bad if it goes down. I mean think about it, 17k was this huge incredible wall ahead of us that we were afraid we may never go up, it was something we haven't passed in over 3 years nearly and it had a wall size of great wall of china, but once we went over that (easily I might add) we reached to nearly 20k and now everyone talks about 17k like it would be start of a huge crash and a bear run.

Isn't that the most marvelous thing about bitcoin? Like how things can change so fast and so quickly? That is why I care about bitcoins movements a lot but try to not make this type of big decisions and reactions on its moves.

Lol memes about how freebitco.in community will all have lambo is getting rampant! All jokes aside, we are talking about 200k+ bitcoin instead of lambo most probably. I don't know what winners have done so far, it is a private thing and only the winners can tell it, I think one of them took money and told it here as well, but the other two is people I do not know about so I don't know if they picked lambo or money or who they are and since it is a personal thing freebitco.in can't provide any proof neither without their consent. Hell last I heard the first winner wasn't even heard from neither, at least for a long while.

But I just assume, there is a very big chance that freebitco.in never gave lambo to anyone so far, and only given the money option because that looks more profitable, think of the first winner taking 200k dollars worth of bitcoin and how much it must worth right now.

Grayscale has been buying a lot of coins but I am not sure if this was the full month. I believe that is the total number they have and not the amount they bought in November alone. I might be wrong, we do not know how much they bought, well you might but I do not, but I know that they have bought $38k during last spring and summer, which means either they bought $38k bitcoins in 4-5 months total and then $55k in a single month, or maybe this is wrong to assume it was in all one month.

In any case, they are definitely bringing a good light into bitcoin and showing the world that bitcoin could be profitable if you are a huge company that can wait for a while (they didn't even had to wait) and that will only result with many more big companies coming in and buying tens of thousands of bitcoins.