BTC amount: BTC0.022
Duration: 26th January or earlier.
Total repayment: BTC0.025
Purpose: Personal.
Bitcoin address: 1ENu1c6DK61uYKBnccLVXu5wRJpwxHTszh

BTC has been dead a thousand times at least if we consider what pain its users conveyed through their messages whenever it crashed, and such statements like "moon soon", "we'll be $xxx soon" (where you can put any amount like 20, 200, 1000, 10000 or even a million" were criticized by those users only who used to determine the real value as well as tried to teach us to accept its reality that it cannot reach those levels ever, but didn't BTC break that highest record of 20k? It took almost a decade for that to happen, which shows that those who kept patience were rewarded. This means that there can't really be an ATH for BTC because whenever a newer one gets touched, future already starts writing a different story with a bigger and better ATH for BTC.


I don't know what kind of projects you are trying to refer us to, but BTC had been major and others are minor, that's one big fact which nobody can deny here. Other thing, scalability issues are resolved before the timeline by many developers either through testing their method over an alt or BTC directly, otherwise BTC would not even be worth a buck as what's the meaning of having a crypto when it can't be reached to the other party in an "almost-instant" pattern? The next part are the uses: BTC used to be the first crypto to be allowed for margin trading and futures, this is one big reason it can't be defeated in near future.

2017 gave pleasure, 2018 was a strict, harsh lesson and 2019 will bring in positivity in markets through various ways like better regulations, various trade settlements as well as different ways of scaling being implemented to Bitcoin, and even Bakkt is going to launch this month probably which will give bigger investors the ability to trade Bitcoins without the need to actually have them. There's so much positivity that we're going to get the good projects going once again, we're successful in getting almost every International Government body's attention towards this giant crypto sphere, and make them finally decide on this and give it a "Green" signal with a few *conditions and taxes applied (many countries are also in talks of legitimizing crypto and regulating it). If they are really going to do things in favor of crypto, I don't see any reason why the whole crypto market cap can't explode as hell.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5054291.0
Check this out, this guy is also a day-trader and made great profits even in the bearish year of 2018. Learn from him how he dealt with the markets and kicked all difficulties and conquered his losses by visiting his thread.


Those days were bearish, but now, Bakkt and ETFs are on the table and we're experiencing the heat already as most coins have started moving towards the positive direction (many good projects were missing those green dildos just due to the markets being a bad baby all the time). I think it's good time to get back trading and start making some extra bucks once again (at least till the hype is being "overhyped" like wildfire).

Hey, you're so blind like with black glasses you didn't even check OP, everything there has been mentioned about their profits and losses. Now, I must say I am the "last laughing guy" here after watching your stupid comment.


Claps! Applause! This thread is already doing a giveaway by "giving away" free tips showing what the OP is betting upon, and the way you used the word "faithfully" makes it look like you are "indirectly" begging.

This, The Pharmacist, is the guy I believe I should hand over my merits easily (I don't doubt on my own efficiency, but watching a decent merit-giver asking for sMerits and he who always have been giving only with both hands, should be able to give more without any difficulties) as I believe that he has been very much active in this merit-sharing mania   and I feel he's the perfect crazy-enough guy who knows what he's been doing. Pharmacist, neither it's a help nor is it a favor, you needed them, now you have them. So, no more excuses and get back to work.  

I've watched all of your trades and when you wrote longs, I understood that they were what you bought and made profits. But when it comes to shorts, did you mean that you were doing them on leveraged exchanges like Bitmex? How did you manage to save yourself in such leveraged positions and get your positions closed for least losses?

Do you also look for the fundamentals of a coin you put your money into? Or do you just go technically and find opportunities in day trading alone? Anyways, nice profits and great portfolio, glad to see you were also in greens while everyone here was crying about the death of crypto.

Based on your theory, should only members with higher ranks or at least Full members with high activity be looked in, to see if they've got something informative and helpful to the forum? As almost 99% newbies are completely new to this concept and many of them don't even know the basics of Bitcoin, how can we expect such above-average posts from them? They can learn and say something in their words but most of them fail to make it look a well-said post.

---

Noted. That's the reason why I created this thread, to know whether the community will support this or not.


One more good point noted.


I've never said that I'm in any kind of a hurry to give out my sMerits to anyone at a stretch or in a single shot, but rather look for better people who deserved good amount of merits on their posts but didn't receive. This plagiarism is one such issue I'm scared of, and if I accidentally (not intentionally) give out merits to such user who copy-pasted content from someone else's, will I also be blameworthy with that user?

Guys, I've got something in my mind. Keeping merits in my account is useless for me as well as it always remind me of my responsibility that I am currently able to give them to someone who actually needs them.

What I wish to know: If I allocate some or all of my merits to a person I feel that they deserve it and that they should rank up, is it really fine if I do it like that way?

I was doing everything in favor of low rank members until I saw this:


It's a quote from a thread by QuestionAuthority, please visit it as it won my heart and changed the way I used to think. Please don't come up begging for them, and also, please don't post stupid comments like: "They are your merits, it's your wish, you can do whatever you wish to." As I'm looking for some factual comments here and suggestions as well, please be fair in your words and let me know whether it'll be fair enough if I do it like this way?

I'm also scared of one thing that when we give higher amount of merits to users, others start backbiting and say that this user is an alt of that and blah! blah!

Is it not unfair with people like us who are trying to help?

If merits are mine, can't I decide whom they should be allocated to?

Depends on the level of security measures you both are going to adhere, and when the party asks you to go first and says a 'NO' when you ask to go for an escrow, it's likely going to be a scam. It's better if you do it through a medium of exchange rather than going for telegram, as the scammer will also have the option to "delete their account" immediately after they succeed in their intentions.


Not necessarily, but as said, you need to take extra care while dealing with people over telegram. It's better if you trade with the people you know personally (or at least know very well). If not, going for direct trades over telegram would be like striking a hammer on your head. One more thing, as you've discussed about telegram, I'd like to make you aware of a fact that people over there have created fake admin/exchange/celebrity/support accounts and you need to be very careful when you get any messages from them. Example of all these is given below:
- Admin of any exchange will never PM you first, if anyone comes to you claiming he's admin and could help you in your case, straight away "Report spam" as well as report them to the real admin you can find in the specific group you're dealing with, as well, block that person who tries to scare you by saying that your account will be blocked on the exchange and/or site you're referring your question to, and asks you in various ways to send ETH to them if you want your account/funds back. Never trust such people. The same way, any celebs or customer support will never PM you first, and won't ask you to pay anything in lieu of getting served by them.


OP can do secure trades over Telegram as well, as there are escrows here who can be a part of such deals. But the only thing you need to do is, PM escrows instead of asking them publicly here as most users try to create fake profiles with almost same username of escrow here too and try to scam people by watching such public messages and then replying the user who may become their possible victim. Escrows also charge a fee the way you mentioned for exchanges, and are a good way for deals over telegram, but yeah, I'm against direct deals there.

The things you mentioned here due to which PMalek went on to theymos directly, was the only reason I knew that such threads are being moved to off-topic. Thanks to theymos for allowing OP and his intentions of helping out others.

What we can do now (an advice):

- Instead of going to create back our own thread knowing that they're going to be moved maybe if admin feels that we're trying to incentivize users by asking them to post and most of them start posting bullshit in lieu of expecting merits for the same, I believe we should help the ongoing threads only by allocating some merits to them only (as if our intentions are not to become self-Hero).

- We can have all of this (like create our own thread) and keep it in off-topic zone only but create a list of all such threads that allow users to earn merits (there are already threads with such lists) and should draw newbies' and other merit-expecting users' attention towards such "list-based" threads. So, if we want to do it and admin is not allowing us to do so, what's the difference in having our threads in off-topic section only when we know we're doing good with a selfless motive?

In order to upgrade BTC from just an ordinary cryptocurrency to an asset of its kind, it needs to be traded on a fully regulated exchange that is secure enough to store our assets like cryptocurrencies, and Bakkt has the potential to provide such level of security and for that, I think we'll need to welcome regulations with both our hands opened (as even if we are against it, we're bound to accept them).

I've read some more things about the VanEck and SolidX ETF with physically backed Bitcoin Futures, I don't really know whether it'll be good for us or not because it's going to increase liquidity but will surely decrease the volatility, so stability is what these investors are looking for? As well, for these to happen, regulations are needed to come in action. The only fear I have is, even if everything goes right and BTC gets regulated the good way as you said, isn't there a possibility that after having a complete hold on the crypto space, Governments will let things go smooth and will not interfere in the ongoing works and developments as well as any/all parts of crypto and/or even use their power to stop it from the roots? Is it going to be a permanent solution or just a lollipop or a bubble gum that will pop whenever they want it to burst?


All we need is this BTC to become a mainstream global currency that can be used anywhere without involving any third party in order to reduce transaction costs and transact next to 'instant'. I know that I've been against regulations from the start for my own reasons, but even if it gets implemented, I believe it should be done at global level including each and every country that is related in terms of economy; so that if regulations are same and at a specific level, it'll be possible for those countries to trade easily in BTC using it as a store of value.

I never said anyone is, what I'm trying to convey here is the fact that I believe, it's my opinion I've painted in the OP and it's for the better of low rank members as well as the forum, because if such deserving members are not getting/going to get rewarded in terms of merit only, they'll still be seen as shit posters due to possessing low ranks with high activity number. And yeah, it's not gonna work out the way you said (as the whole responsibility isn't for merit sources alone, everyone here is given the privilege to use their power to help others - I think that's one more reason why merits we're introduced - to see if forum members have the courage to give their shoulder to work as a stair for low rank members to level up).


Once again, it was my opinion about what I feel may be one of the best fit reasons as to why one is hoarding their merits. I urge to those who get merits (whether newbies or higher) that they should also merit posts better than theirs (if they believe they've found something worth giving a merit but low level members should help mostly low level members* in order to keep the merit contribution going and let the circulation be carried out in a continuous manner).

* - I personally think that low level members who get merited mostly should consider their category to be promoted with them hand-in-hand but that's my opinion and once again, no one is bound to think and do the same way.

First repayment done on 23/12/18, sent BTC0.01065
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/3058d68ec5027cbab91c3d536dc22eddfa00bf5e2c726ca62e58a96aea6058d1

---

For both of below-mentioned loans:


&


I've repaid BTC0.01149 today and as now remains BTC0.0235, we've agreed that I'll be repaying BTC0.0246 next week.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/68d8ef06cb7c4c74357040a7d9bd8914818196dd6f74cd050cae852e5dc0462b

Playing with heart at the place of mind and not using your brains, trying to recover the old losses and not changing your mindset will definitely make you a loser in the end. Gambling is another name of loss when addiction strikes in, doing it for fun with the money you can afford to lose (i.e.; money you won't regret for if you lose it, like when it gets slip from your pocket while you're in a hurry or when there's too much crowd) can only save you from the worst results as I've seen many going bankrupt due to this addiction thing. There's a saying in my country - "Gambling is for nobody".

Unless BTC shows any real signs of recovery instead of these small pumps and dumps for the investors to grow their BTC and fist side-by-side through Bitmex, I don't really see why BTC would get away over a new ATH.


You're going towards the wrong path, baby! BTC doesn't really need SEC, SEC needs BTC and it'll be proven once they start sending BTC to sky-high levels immediately after approval of the things will be in action. Bear market is what they created themselves, they created opportunities for themselves as well as their so-called institutional investors to be lucky enough to snatch away our BTC from us at dirt-cheap rates.


Let's really "hope" it happens and that, we achieve it the way you told us.

It's their voluntary decision, we can't really do anything if they don't possess the courage to hodl, this is a long term investment as well as every time anyone entered, they may have seen an '*' with a 'High-risk investment' mark attached to it, so nothing was kept hidden.



I believe none that you mentioned, but the hype that's going on over Bakkt and the ETFs. If any of them come into existence for real, people will surely fall for the pump that will be seen in the hope of earning a lot through it (and others by doing longs over leverage-based exchanges). Remember, hope is the only thing that fills up speculation to a level where everyone thinks from their heart, and not mind. But I see that BTC will come back and play steady between either 3k-4k or 5.5k-6k range.



It's stupid enough to think that there's anybody and expert in this uncertain field of crypto, as most of the predictions by even experts went wrong and 2018 was a lesson that was taught to them showing their present capabilities. Even if someone predicted almost every single BTC run, at least 3 of them have had proven to go against them, this is where they lost their hold on crypto as we're giving everything in the hands of regulations, ourselves.

The way dotthebeats said, merits should be taken as a token of appreciation and few members also said that there's a thin line between need and deserving, but then, you can't really deny the fact I mentioned here that merits are really being hoarded (yes, I mean it and I can see it as well) under the FUD of losing their position in the campaign they're enrolled in. There's a requirement now as well as higher ranks are being paid much well compared to lower ranks, and it's not necessary that all low rank members are posting garbage only (or spamming) and/or you can't call any/all of the projects here to be scam. I've only created this just for those newbies who come up and ask about merits (in the list of which few already deserved some merits on their posts but didn't get any and are waiting to be promoted to even Jr. Member rank) and for those who're not really interested in this merit "game" can buy the copper membership to use almost all the features of the forum.

Futuristic? Really?
They had more than 8 years (if I'm not wrong, BTC recently turned 10 which means crypto world can now be said to have crossed a decade) to learn and understand, research as well as measure the risks and positive as well as negative sides of crypto, why are they interfering now only when everything has already been set up and they're only trying to show that they did this for us and that we're nothing and/or go nowhere without regulations?



Do you really think they're going to do everything for your and my good? No, they are going to do everything for their own good as it's their business, yeah I said that right that it's their business to present it that they are helping us in order to have the supremacy maintained because that's when people like us will say that "Our government is too good they're understanding what we're trying to convince them for".