Yes, of course.


Get a White-collar job or work for money till crypto is in decline mode. Bounties can't really give you a living, man! So, stop depending on them and change your mindset! Was crypto there during the times when "Bill Gates" and "Warren Buffett" were creating their own history? Not saying anything against crypto, but then, if you want to make it everyday, you need to work for it everyday. Even your "buy low, sell high" strategy would work, but it depends on your entry and exit points, so following a few good people could help you out in that case.



I can't answer you first one as I don't prefer to, but about doing it consistently - nobody in this world can profit continuously and losses are good to teach you your mistakes. Another thing to remember: Buy when there's blood on the streets (but DYOR even before getting into a coin that's dropped down even 100 times, because chances are, it could gain at least 2-3x even 5x in few months 99%, and it could also drop further continuing the downside struggle due to non-use of that coin or any specific reasons and let's keep it 1% chance to happen, but still; sometimes 1% could blow your expectations as well).

People don't really know where they're heading towards.
Bitcoin was meant to free everyone up in keeping their financial history to themselves (at least to some extent), but after all this REGULATION and LEGALIZATION thing, everyone will hand over their rights, their freedom to use crypto to their Governments (just like surrendering even without any crime). Mind well, these regulations and legalizations may get us to have these cryptos' real use cases come into action for what they've been released; but whatever will be done, will be done under the effect of total centralization (trust me, these things will literally not be in your good, and you'll experience it once they come into effect). So, instead of just speculating about the so-called upcoming pump times, why not discuss about how more and more adoption can take place in crypto world as well as how super real use cases can be built to show these people that Bitcoin is not just limited to price fluctuations and trading alone, it has its own space to be explored. And with the involvement of these big funding institutions and Governments, I believe we're ourselves letting them snatch away our Independence that was given to us by Satoshi. We need a bullrun, not in terms of its value but the amount of adopters. Remember, what happened last year changed most people's views, and IMHO, Bitcoin changed from being a speculative asset alone to now a Brand itself.


Ah, my bad. I was too emotional while writing it as everything said here have had been what I've felt during best and worst crypto days.

Sorry to interrupt, but I have something to speak:
The problem here is, nobody is interested in keeping their BTC as they are mostly viewing it as another money-making opportunity (here: get rich quick scheme) and so, it's not possible for anyone here to impose the actual mentality on them that what is Bitcoin all about. About this centralization thing, it isn't limited but a cycle that cannot be broken now (considering that everyone is looking for "regulations" to take effect as they believe that putting everything in the hands of "Central Authorities" will get their Bitcoins' value to sky high levels, which is somehow true as well).

How is it a centralization cycle?
Keep it to ASICs or even CPU/GPU mining or even take it back to those times when USBs were used to mine BTC, everything can be controlled by big firms when they've got the money and power both to buy the equipment (or if they already have them) and keep it in their hands - fully controlled. It's not just limited to the machines that are eating hell lots of electricity to generate these coins, but it also takes in the PoS (unless there's a mechanism installed to stop the misuse of the system, which can not happen as if you'll stop them from getting their complete share, they'll not let it rise in terms of value).

Well, how PoS?
Simple, just as they can buy the equipment, they can easily buy the pre-mined coins either in ICO by buying a big share or by buying in small parts through weaker hands (this is also considered centralization). This way, they can eat a very big share they'll get through the stakes and control the whole market, though people will stop looking into that "investment" anymore which also stops the further development of that coin as devs see that there's no more interest remaining and they continue with the current version seeing no need of upgrades. The way US and Russia are playing with public's sentiments and trying to get their hands fully on BTC (just like China did, as you mentioned) shows that each country is looking more into making bucks rather than the technical aspects of the technology underlying. This statement supports the quote from your comment I'm putting below:

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It's next to impossible for Bitcoins to ever be used as proposed (the main purpose of it was to be used as a "DIGITAL CURRENCY - A GLOBAL CURRENCY) and what we're doing currently - trading it as an asset playing in the markets with those ups and downs, speculating every now and then about "when the next pump will begin". There's nothing actually that could prevent Bitcoins (or any alt or tokens) from centralization as everyone here wants it, stopping the Governments is not possible for us, but for them to stop us is like eating a piece of cake so easy for them.

We need pump? Think back before saying this, you want that "bubble" thing to be back in the game, again? I don't see it as a healthy way to make Bitcoins go mainstream, the growth during the beginning of last year was extreme but it only took less than 1/5th of current total volume that's being traded, in order to pump it up hard to 20k. But, many people lose confidence after watching a free fall and they'll regret hard once again when this thing goes back to those levels and even higher - considering the fact that they didn't hold. And about shorting and making money, I've given a brief explanation of the said facts here:
Wasn't this crypto-crash (course) needed?

You just made two-sided comment here, while saying that you don't get motivation to follow crypto, but on the other hand, you cut it out yourself by saying that you believe in tech. As crypto cannot be limited to price speculations alone due to having multiple purposes being resolved (having blockchain as the backbone), bounties can still be profitable as you only need to spend "some" (or I should say "least") time in order to gain rewards from them.


It totally depends on your choice of selecting the "right" bounty which could later give you what you expected. I remember few of the bounties I've had been a part of, and many of them turned out scam without even giving a penny worth of tokens to all the participants, and in few bounties, we lose due to admins not releasing payments when price went very high and when it started dumping, they released the tokens (like it was all pre-planned of pre-ICO investors' profits). You must be aware about that ECV (Ethereum Classic Vision) issue. Take part only when you are damn sure that the company won't turn out fraud, as if you're advertising them (obviously, to get some bucks or pennies from them), you'll lose your credibility too (somehow) if they turn out scam.


Possible only if the market value that shows up after issuance and listing of token is x times higher than its initial purchase value. For eg.; if you get $10 worth of tokens and when it comes on an exchange, its trading starts with a 10 times higher price, then it is possible. But I don't think that any bounties would give $100 worth of tokens for Twitter alone.

Maybe yeah, maybe no, as nobody can predict the exact times when bull run will start and that can be seen after all these forecasts got blown away during 2018 itself, and it wasn't the first time that this happened. BTC faced such speculation related issues back in past as well.


Your argument about Bakkt and ETFs can only be valid once there are signs of any of them getting launched, but till now, we're getting delays and delays only. Halving is one major factor, I believe, which could actually make investors think again about the price and where to move it to keep BTC profitable when it happens.


Volume is dead? Who said that?
Compare how much Fiat was used to pump up BTC to 20k, it's not that easy now. Games have changed after futures and shorts came into effect.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/7837fc1c2a416f9b9e3ba9c684e5e2eed229d8e915fcc5bcd9158c8b995a3ba9
Repaid BTC0.01649 and as per discussion, will repay BTC0.0085 next week.

Just because this is not a self-moderated thread and you literally turned my mood off, here's a Valentine's gift for you:



Shut the fuck up, stupidobulously fantashitty person!  

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I recently chose the right profile (based on my own views) and tried to get them rank up. Those, whom I think (obviously based on some standards and complete checks) deserve my sMerits and deserve a better rank, will definitely get them from me. Thanks for all your support.

No, it's not just good for a specific category but I'm interested in helping who actually deserves the merits to rank up, but they didn't as none merited them. That's what I think, others have different mentality so things will differ for everyone. I don't say that merits are for ranking up purpose only, but it's one of the major reasons why everyone needs them.

I'm posting a user's profile address here with one more question:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2268017;sa=showPosts (Posteralley is the name of the user).
Now, as most of you guys can check, their posts are really worth giving merits (at least few of them can be considered to be merited). What I don't understand is:
If such users go dormant and stop using their accounts, should they be merited at first place? Most users (like me of course) are lazy enough to check the complete profile and/or their posts history (I know that's not a good practice, which is why I give most of my merits to those who have better standards set for meriting others), and just merit them based on their "current" post that they watch. So, what about such merits given as we don't really know whether a user has come here just for the sake of exchanging information and will no more come back? I mean, should there be such standards set also that we need to check how active the user has been, before giving merits to them?

1. The mentality your friend gave you had been the exact way I used to think before I came to know from many users that it's not Meta alone where you can get merits, but the whole forum is your workspace. So, think differently, outsmart your emotions and wrap up your words the way we want to see them, be it through helping someone find an answer or through your skills. Thinking too much about merits will not get you anywhere, take an example of DdmrDdmr, he's been a legendary in terms of earning merits.

2. I'm quoting my post from a thread by Juggy777 (please visit it once and give it a shot as well):


3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5085605.0 - One more thread helping users get merits, but remember, you need to have better posts before the date when that thread was created. Have them? Go ahead and try.
One extra bonus: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095913.0

You guys can't really deny the fact that there are helping hands out here already who are willing to hand out their merits to someone who dares to show them the work done, efforts taken in order to get them, it's just that this has now become a trend to cry and shout out loud (and even beg) for merits without giving least efforts of searching what they are being given for.

I guess it's not your headache to think whether it would be legal or not; as if it wouldn't have been, admin/s or a mod would have already sent it to Off-topic section where most such threads are being moved nowadays. If we don't discuss/debate on this, how will the average Joe be able to understand the concept that's been made understood a 100 times in many different threads? /s

If you think that based on a shit exchange, you can review almost every other alt out there, think back. Bitcoin relies on its own blockchain, tokens rely on Ethereum's blockchain and only a few of them have got their own blockchain created by their devs. Blockchain technology doesn't rely on crypto, nor is it limited to the use of cryptocurrencies only but it possesses a wide use case when it comes to utilizing it. Blockchain is the only thing based on which the network is secure, so how can you say that blockchain is not needed here?


Well, such decisions are on based on a case-by-case basis whether they just want to keep it as an asset and when its value spikes, sell it off. It's true that at least 90% of the projects do not have any real life use case, but just as in the case of Gods, we've got castes and religions, I believe these alts work the same way by being shown to disrupt xx industry of a specific genre.



None of them have started till date to allow cryptocurrencies to be used as a mode of payment in order to advertise/pay advertisers there, so there's nothing wrong in having one I guess (unless the developers' and admins' intentions are to run away with people's money).


Same point applies here, that they wanted to "disrupt" social media industry. I don't remember a name exactly but there used to be a social website I was a part of, which paid us in USD to use their services. What's wrong in having steem then?


Have you ever given the mass pressure to your head and thought how difficult it would be for politicians to cheat if everything goes digital during voting? Blockchain has the power to do this, do you still think that manual reviews of votes with almost 99% cheating done are, by any means, trustworthy?

Exactly, mods have allowed this because admin allowed few such type of threads doing sharing activity until it doesn't look like the OP is trying to incentivize for their posting (as asking for xx number of posts to check before giving merits increases the possibility of huge spam being spread by newbies). If OP really wants to help and if their motive is selfless, they can give those merits to the person who is already doing the same thing before them already (just an advice). Else, if OP is satisfied with their thread going to off-topic section but are still willing to help, I guess they should keep up the good work and keep it going.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092247.msg49011065#msg49011065
This is one more similar thread.

I somehow think the same way but in least cases where I believe that the author whose post I quoted and snipped is not going to run away in future (though, nobody here can be trusted fully, but some technical, financial and legal posts should never be snipped).

@OP,
I know that you tried to show the real way of how snip should be applied, but I use it in a different way as I think differently, sometimes I use <snip> and sometimes --snip-- based on my mood. The thing here isn't how you keep it, but the cut is already made so it doesn't bother too much as all we want is others to understand that a post is snipped.


Nothing changes as whatever is in the quote is cut in the end. You said it right, and even if there are many quotes put in one comment (like most people do to carry away a debate), snip is the best option to cut down unnecessary content and focus only on the part we're replying them.

Well, then I believe that they don't really have the right to even ask/beg/cry for the same thing. They should know that they are given an authority with received merits and they're equally responsible to help newbies and others (not saying that they should specifically be low rank members only, but what's the meaning of keeping them) by choosing which of their fellow members' posts are worth giving a merit, as hoarding will get no one nowhere. They complain why merit sources and high rank members are not co-operating and helping them, but remember, even God helps those who help themselves. Even high rank members and merit sources are getting limited number of sMerits each month and they can't run this merit thing alone, so these low rank members who gain good amount of merits need to understand that with an authority comes responsibility.

The market players used to dump on us when it was just their thing alone, but don't you think that they already offloaded their coins to turn back to Fiat and wait for a new and better opportunity? So, what did whales basically do? They probably backed off dumping their coins on us from the level of 20k till 15k-10k.



Without support, crypto wouldn't even have continued to stand above 100 bn market cap, the way it was slipping, I thought we're losing complete hold on it and that it would end up real bad just the way critics were speaking for it.


Everyone. Yes, everyone due to the fact that Futures allow you to earn more through leverage trading than you could earn on a "buy low, sell high" pattern.


We* are at the center of either holding or dumping our coins to quickly end this innovative era that began a decade ago, and I believe that by putting complete focus and extra weight on the word "whales", you're underestimating those small fishes or groups of small-mid level investors who are almost equally capable of shaking off the markets if they decide to.

* - Here, "WE" are those who thought differently and took it as an opportunity rather than expressing sorrow. You can find more about this in my thread: Wasn't this crypto-crash (course) needed?

IMHO, I believe that low-level members like Jr. Members, Members and even Full members should also join hands in motivating their fellow (same or lower ranks) members by giving sMerits that they get assigned while they receive merits for their posts. For every 2 merits you receive, you get 1 sMerits, so what's the purpose of keeping those sMerits with yourself when you can give hands to the deserving people and help them gain merits through you as well, though not putting the whole pressure of responsibility on high rank members and merit sources alone. This will be a big step in stopping trading of merits.

Yes, a permaban is applied whenever plagiarism is caught in a user's contents. It's good to refer to the original source from where it was taken (or if it was from a user here, you should ask them and take their permission before posting their content).

@OP,
If article belongs to BTC or any news related to the same, you can post them in the "Press" board of the forum:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=77.0

If the content is country-specific or based on a different language or country, you can check the languages on the main page and refer to the PR section of that board. Please remember that you should also write something in your own words before you put the content of that article, as well, please add the source.

Glad that our master is happy!
I love to see people making good profits in red days when negative minds just share their bullshit comments about "Bitcoin's death", "crypto's death", "Rekt" and everything that puts you off the desk and makes you feel like the world has ended.



Post more trades like these whenever you make as I like leverage trading and do trade with less amounts there to see if I could make anything with these ugly market moves.



a) Same here, they can actually freeze your account for no reason as they are the "Boss" there, we can't really do anything but to (either) wait or let everything go.
b) Mistakes are worst when we're in a hurry, so I can definitely understand. I remember same sort of instance that happened with me: I tried to buy 500 contracts but it didn't, then when I was putting the price again (as I wanted to buy them immediately) I accidentally put an extra 0 and it bought 10 times more contracts than what I was willing to buy. Immediately sold 4500 to cut down the position to my desired level.
c) Binance is good, but can we really compare both of them?



a) Impatience is what kills our %s that we may earn extra if we could have held more, but then, just leave it - thinking that you went out safe and what would have happened if it went against your strategy.
b) You can create new account every 6 months with a referral code at Bitmex as it saves you fee for at least that time frame.
c) Bitmex is shit, and going for price action over there isn't a healthy idea for your portfolio tbh.



Great, the most important part which I wanted to know was this - technical or fundamental. As you're scalping, it was obvious for me to have that answer as fundamentals work least when markets are in bearish channel, but as soon as everything starts going green, I believe news becomes a major part like partnerships, achievements, roadmap publishing, etc. in the growth of such projects. I wish you the best of luck in your trading and hope that success always keep coming your way.

I never said that (bold part in your comment), but all I asked here was should above-average members (like Full member and above) should be watched more? I never said newbies don't deserve, but it'll take some time for them to come in the category of knowledgeable people who already know some bits about the technology, and even if not that, at least they are able to "speak" something in their own words instead of using Google translate to mess it up in jumbled words or just committing the copy-paste stupidity. If I feel I'm not seeing any such good/better/best posts by lower ranks, I spend my sMerits on high rank members who are active in spreading those merits to newbies and show their utter generosity. Hope even that's not wrong.