The problem is most governments do not listen to health experts like in my country, they don't seem to care about this pandemic because it doesn't really further their agenda and they are more on taking down their political opponents. Also, the people need to be disciplined because if they weren't then there is no point that there are health safety measures when no one follows it.

You don't necessarily have to lose your money when you are investing, since you are knowledgeable when it comes to investing then you should know that there are investment venues that are safe and not to actively manage. The difference between a common man and an investor is the knowledge and opportunity in my opinion because anyone can be an investor, and I think that this two is essential for a common man to become an investor.

Now we can only hope for the best because this is a first and we have yet to see a 20 years for bitcoin and to see if it is a viable source for pension funds. I am both pessimist and optimist about this though, pessimist because there might be some parts or benefits of a conventional pension fund that is not included in this one, optimist because this will be another milestone for bitcoin and cryptocurrency adoption.

Not really weird for me because United Nations has this kind of agency in case there really is alien lifeform out there. The problem with the Philippine government right now is that we want to please the people that watches us and they let the people that do not have the backing and power in their domain suffer, only way to solve is when everyone agrees that their incompetence and corrupt ways is enough and people choose the right people to be serving them.

Not entirely his fault because it isn't within his control that the prices of oil dramatically reduced, yes it is his fault that the way he distributed the money towards the country is real bad but there are some that are not within his control, not to mention that his successor Maduro is incompetent. I don't think that bitcoin alone is enough to do a dent in the problem in Venezuela because if the government is so bad then the problem persists.

The reason that OP is not ready to put money into crypto is because OP is a greedy person in my opinion, we all know that there is no dividends with bitcoin but we know that our investments will grow overtime, I think what OP wants is when he/she invests in crypto is that it has to behave like a blue chip stocks.

That is how sheep function, they will follow who is going to feed them. The reason that they get rich is because they keep those that will try to revolt at bay by giving them enough money to feed them and not to become discontent of their situation, not to mention that the enforcers of law are on their side it adds an ease that they can keep their wealth. The tax exemption thing could be destroyed if the people in the seat favor the public more than the rich people.

That statement is a brainwashing thing in my opinion, what I mean by that is that shouldn't the master always expect that his student grow stronger than him and that also means that the master was successful in raising a protégé that is better than him, the reason I think that they follow this unwritten rule is because the old dogs don't want to get left behind.

What do you mean lucky, is the Nigerian government unstable to the point that the Vice President has to worry about his position just because he is saying something that opposes the ruling opinion?
That is in a way the same so I think that if your friend doesn't have their interest align with yours then you better expect an enemy. I don't think that this kind of wiring in a politician's brain is an isolated case in Nigeria.

The problem with this is that the Vice Presidents speech might be interpreted as a political maneuver to help make the public favor him more since he appears to be more progressive, it might not look like he is being bullied into favoring CBN but trust me that in politics, everyone pressures others to do their bidding and not everyone can see that. To answer the question from the quote above, I would say that this is up to them because in politics, your friend today might be your enemy tomorrow.

It is a bad idea, I mean who knows what is in that pre-installed application and considering it is Russia, I think that there is a high chance that it is a data tracking kind and nobody really wants that kind of thing and you mentioned that there is a lot of data leaks. The other problem that I see is that with this Russian's pre installed app, it might not be just a tracking software but it can also connect with your network so it can monitor your whole network which is dangerous and scary.

I beg to differ because most pumps in the prices were caused by people putting their stimulus checks into bitcoin and those checks were not possible if there wasn't a pandemic. Yes there are institutional adoptions coupled with that but that doesn't discount the fact that the pandemic contributed less on the growth. Maybe after pandemic, people are going to introduce bitcoin to other people when they can finally get out and institutional investors are still going in.

But that flexibility comes with more responsibility added to the employee, they are burned out at their own home and if they not lucky they have to make do with trying to comply with the right time to work. And not to mention that the employees has to shoulder the expenses for the things that the work should be responsible of like the Internet and the food allowances.

If you know what to do more than just whine about how it is going crazy, then you might be able to profit from the frenzy that is happening, yes people are saying that NFT is a bubble but we don't know when it is going to pop and with that knowledge we can be able to make money while it is still growing and not yet popping up.

It is difficult to fight for something that will have no short term benefits like profits so they don't really care much about the decentralization agenda of bitcoin, but you are right, there has been a growth in that aspect despite people not really focusing on it because I believe that the push for decentralization moves forward together with the increase of people that is adopting bitcoin.

Now bitcoin is similar to fiat currency, funny how a lot of users in the forum always separate the two but when the interests align, they will say it is the same, kind of hypocritical in my opinion. But the quote above is right bitcoin is just a medium and if you get it without malice or anything that is against the Islamic law then it should be considered halal, the problem is we don't know a lot about Islamic laws so the best thing that we can do about it is to wait for the final verdict.

That's what I thought too, I mean 2013 is a good year because the prices weren't as big as 2016, no sense wallowing about the things that you didn't do in the past. The important thing is that you are still here and you are reaping the benefits of bitcoin, just be grateful because there aren't a lot of people that knows about bitcoin and yet here you are getting financially stable. I really am grateful to my friends for introducing this to me because if it weren't the case, I wouldn't be able to buy the things that I really want to buy.

Not to mention that it will be convenient for you and you won't be stressed out because of their investment moves. And they will also have no one to blame when they failed to gain profit from their investment because you didn't give them the advice, imagine if you gave the advice and their investment has fallen, you are going to be blamed for it no matter what.

I think that this move by Tesla not converting bitcoin to fiat is going to benefit them and considering that they are going to stash this bitcoin, I am positive that the prices are going to soar higher in the next coming months and years and to anyone who still doesn't want to get into bitcoin, I think that this is one of the many signs that you should get in because with the current situation, the only way for bitcoin is to go up.

Crowdfunding has its limit and given your cast, director, writer and music score, I don't think that 12 million is going to be enough, not to mention that how can you make a movie about satoshi when no one knows a thing about satoshi, what do you want them to do? Make a fake back story which is likely to happen since Hollywood can do this kind of thing for dramatization purposes but that would mean that they wouldn't be faithful to the original but what can they do when they are in a paradox. I would say that we can crowdfund but the problem is will people are going to jump in the crowdfund mania?