We do not price Bitcoin in dollar because we want to. It's just the most universal fiat money that people around the world recognize and know its rough value. I price everything in EUR, but on this forum I use USD pricing because I know the value of EUR in USD so I can quickly go from one to the other in a conversation. I know that for people from Asia and Africa it's much easier to price things in USD and for Europeans both fiats are pretty similar, thus I talk about BTC using USD pricing.
USD crash is going to happen one day, but it won't make American switch to BTC or anything else. It will surely make BTC price explode, but it won't change people's habits and the way they see things. For them their morning coffee that used to cost $2 will now cost $5, but it's still going to be $.

You're right but the question is, is it getting better or worse because we know the problem exists for centuries. I feel like we see much less of it than we did in the 70s or 80s. It's easy to test competitors for drugs and it's not like you can throw a match easily with all the cameras watching you from different angles. Digital banking also makes it harder to hide some sudden changes in income.

What I do in such situations depends on how I feel and whether I'm there watching the game. If I have a bad feeling about the game and have an option to cash out early, I do it. If I feel like going with the flow and testing my luck until the end, I do it. It's hard to say if I'd prefer to cash out early or not because it's just too situational.
I lost money by not cashing out early. I'm sure there aren't many players who didn't.

We can say that a bitcoin transaction is pretty much like signing a digital document. A blind person can do it with the help of a finger scanner. They'd need to scan a qr code, have the software read the whole transactions to them and confirm it by touching the scanner. It's pretty much the thing blind people have to face every day when they want to get a ticket from a dispenser or get money from an ATM. Most of these machines have touchscreens, so you can't "feel" what they display, you need sound to guide you.

In this last post you've actually spoken for the idea of mining to heat your home, not against it.
You said you made more money selling the equipment than mining, which means you made money mining and then again made money selling the equipment.
Had you used some of the heat, you'd have made even more in the grand scheme of things. Holding mined coins would also make it even more profitable for you. Most miners made the mistake of selling right away to secure ROI.


He sure is stubborn like a mule.

To be honest his opponents weren't the toughest. He has a perfect score but that doesn't mean anything if you're not fighting against the best. Like you're saying this is going the be the time when the opponents get tougher and more experienced. Fedor had 25 fights in 9 years and won all of them and then he started losing. Maybe Adesanya is a prodigy who doesn't lose? I doubt it but time will tell.
If you compare opponents, Blachowicz fought tougher ones.

Anyway, congratulations Stake for getting such a good representative.

Sure, it's possible that one day it's going to be used the way described in the article but for that to happen countries would have to create legal frameworks and treat bitcoin transactions as binding.
I feel like the most common use of bitcoin will be holding followed by a high value transfers made by the private sector (companies and wealthy individuals). Nobody is going to use bitcoin to buy a pizza but it's going to be your first choice when you decide to buy a private jet or an island.

And by selling weapons to every other nation around the globe. Sometimes it's for money, sometimes for favors, and if you don't want to buy from them you're the enemy (like Saddam).
Most countries are barely holding on if you think about it. The ones that are printing less are held together by a leader's strong hand, others, with more freedoms, have to print more because free people want more and you can't shut them up by force, you have to bargain more.

I do it very often. Last minute changes in the roster are probably one of the most important factors when it comes to betting on team sports like football. If a team loses an important player because of health issues it's less likely to play well, everybody knows that.


There were many real life situations that backed this statement, especially in esports. There were teams made of champions that were simply doing bad and were disbanded after 1 tournament.

I usually try to save up as much as possible, so that's the main use of my signature campaign earnings. When they grow in value enough I spend some, usually during the bull runs.
My nature of a hodler makes me think twice before I gamble anything away or use for charity, which doesn't mean that I don't gamble or spend on charity, just that fiat is much better for it.

FYI the purpose of the heat pump is not to mine coins but to heat your home and your water.
I'll give you a nice example of how this could come in handy from my own recent experience. My friend has a house in one country, but moved to another before the pandemic and had trouble coming back for winter, so he decided to stay at his girlfriend's place for a few months. I got a call from him a few days back to check on the house and it appears he had a flood because it got so cold in there the pipes froze and burst (the temperatures went down to -20 this winter which is pretty rare. Last winter we maybe had -5 outside tops and his house was fine). So if he had a mining rig in there he'd be able to get some coins for free and keep the house warm.

The whole market is in the red. If you bought BTC or almost any other coin, not counting Cardano, BAT and maybe a handful of other coins, you'd suffer a loss to fiat.


He made the wrong decision again when he posted about ETH in bitcoin discussion.
I don't believe ETH is an inflated market at this time since it's the most popular chain upon which other coins are built. In this market the important features are scarcity and utility. Bitcoin is the most popular scarce coin and ethereum the most popular utility coin. I'm sure that if Bitcoin continues to gain value (and it will) ETH will follow.

Exactly. Good picks and counterpicks can decide the game. You can have better players and simply be outpicked at the beginning and you'll lose the round. That's why at top level events they usually play best of 5, but in normal casino scenario nobody is going to play for 5 hours straight to get the reward. Casino games have to be pretty easy and fast. They need a los skill entry point, so that a newbie can understand the rules fast and they need a fast paced matching system. Dota sucks in this because team picking phase alone can take 10 minutes.

I'd rather ask why their wages are so incredibly high. For instance, a good specialist in his field, a scientist, a researcher, can make maybe 10k USD a month. Football players make 100k. They're getting so much that it's easy for them to become spoiled. It's especially hard to stay true to your beliefs when you come from a poor country and suddenly advance to a world league.
It's my belief that as long as there's big money in sports, there will be corruption and the governments won't be able to change anything. They can't monitor the flow of cash.

When you're rich you start looking for ways to allocate some of your wealth and once you did the obvious like some stocks, real estate, foreign currencies, you start thinking of alternatives like Bitcoin. It doesn't mean bitcoin will be "hijacked" by the rich. When some of us, early adopters decide to sell bitcoin and buy houses and cars, won't that that mean that we will become those rich people that you're so afraid of? One day Bitcoin will become a stable personal account for storing large sums of money and we won't change it.

I'll cut it short:
You can see that Bitcoin became quite expensive at 60k USD a piece and we haven't even managed to overtaken some of the biggest private companies in the world. At a total of 2.1 million Bitcoins, how would you be able to afford it? How would you be able to transact? I feel like the lucky 21 is just right.

Not only this. Satoshi as a known person is a vulnerability for multiple reasons:
1. He can be targeted as a person
-as a taxpayer
-for political views
-for certain qualities of character (emotionally unstable, nervous, autistic)
-for the place he resides in (e.g. if it happened to be a country like North Korea, Russia, or one of the countries currently at war)
-for sexual preferences
2. He could be attacked physically
-kidnapped
-extorted
-could become a target of intelligence operatives (spied on, converted)
3. He could involuntarily became a market catalyst. Imagine hearing about Satoshi's sickness, hospitalization, car accident, death in his family...

In his last interview published yesterday Crawford said that he has 2 options for fights one is with Porter and the other with Pacquiao and he would prefer to fight Pacquiao. I guess it's because of the money. Also, he's going to get 10 mill, not Manny. Manny is getting 40, but I guess most people already know that if they read any of the articles. That's going to be a good fight that's for sure. I hope they won't play the covid card and reschedule.

I feel like most of the community has a positive attitude towards Bitcoin. Those who want a big correction are really people who missed the bull run and would like to buy cheap. For this reason this attitude towards bitcoin is not a very good way to measure the market sentiment. People who are waiting for a correction to buy cheap are the same people who will buy anyway if the correction doesn't come. For this reason I'm as bullish as I was when we broke 20k.

There is a strong support between 40k and 42k. It's not like Bitcoin was looking for anything. There were 2 most likely scenarios. A drop to 47k followed by a continuation or a drop to 40k with a continuation. Without bearish news we won't go lower. Now it's either a dead cat bounce or a continuation of the bull market. Either way, we're going to go up this week.