Losses are the best teachers, that's a true thing. However, do not get any lessons from Bill Gates, he might be a smart individual, and that's fine but that dude got all the teaching and lessons from his rich parents money. He is not the person to give anyone any life lessons, sure he took something big and made it huge, but he never had a life like us, if he never invented microsoft, he would still be a richer person than all of us here combined, that's why we shouldn't care about him.

Moreover, I would assume that the best thing for regular people like you and me to realize is savings will not make us rich, and we need something bigger, and get into the job that you already know very well about, not because it looks profitable and join something you never worked in before in your life.

This is true, online wallets always carry a risk and people need to realize that, because at the end of the day there is a good chance that we could end up with something that will be a hacking or maybe rug pull or maybe a failure, whatever it is, there is always a chance that if your money is not in your own wallet, and in something else, then it could be stolen and we shouldn't be risking it.

Just get a ledger and put it in there if it is too much, of course not needed if you have only 50-100 bucks, but if you go over a certain amount where it is like over a few months salary worth, then it would be a lot better idea to just buy a ledger or trezor to keep assets safe.

There is really no exact date, nobody could find that exact date because there is none. The reality is that, one thing is a big fact that we can't deny at all, and that fact is "after a certain time passed over halving, the price starts to go up", we do not know how long needs to pass, or how high it will get, none of them is known.

What we know is that it is going to be some time after the halving, and we know that it is going to be something that will be higher than what it entered the halving as. This is why it is a smart decision to buy a bit before halving, and sell a while later, that way you could profit, better would be buying now and selling after 3-4 halvings later.

I believe that miners will not be able to keep this high for a long time because they will eventually have to sell this coin to pay for the bills. I mean consider how much it cost to mine something, you are going to end up losing a lot of money due to the fact that electricity is required to mine, and if it keeps going like this there will be a lot to mine and there will be a lot of people who will sell to pay those bills and the price will crash.

They can hold out as long as they possibly could, but when the debt grows too big, they will be forced to do it one way or another and there is no way to avoid it, so the price will crash eventually, don't know when but it will happen.

It doesn't matter when you start, it's not an idea that would make you rich overnight and this is a whole nation we are talking about. They kept on buying more and more bitcoins after that, even though the initial investment wasn't at the bottom, they did buy some at the bottom levels as well, which means they already did DCA, so if a whole nation could wait, which governments usually do because they could have investments take as long as 20-25 years to mature, then it's going to be an insanely good investment for sure.

I do not think that President really regrets it, he is still doing it and still buying some, so I feel like he must be happy about it if he is still doing it.

I would guess that it's not really ideal to compare the two together in the sense that transaction amounts are different. It could be different but we are not seeing anyone worrying about banks carbon foot print, whereas we are seeing a ton of people worrying about bitcoins one, that's the problem here.

If we one day reach to a volume that is close to worlds banks all total, then we could worry about the increased energy usage, but we are not there now, and yet people are still worried about it. We should be looking into not just dropping the amount of energy we use, but also we should focus on finding a way to fix the bad ways we find energy, we need to use energy but produce it in a clean way.

I would say that there is "some" illegal parts of it. Not because they are doing anything unethical or just scamming you, they could be legit and decent and still be found guilty, not for like a jailed type of crime, but for some SEC crimes which are related to finance and could be punished with just a fine, which could be millions of dollars but fine.

They have billions, tens of billions of dollars from us and gave us something they created themselves out of nothing, that could always be troublesome in a court of law and that would be the case they are going against. Doesn't mean they have to be scammers, just that idea alone is a risky one.

If you look at the money and where it comes from and find out it is an illegally attained money and report to law enforcement, then you are not going to be purely decentralized and fair, it is going to be centralized, and other people may not prefer you neither.

The point of mixers is not to be followed, so that your money would be going through many other stuff to reach its point and no government could follow you, even if tax reasons alone. If you check it and report it, then why even mix it? It’s found out anyway and it is not going to be worth mixing. You either accept everyone, or you do not do a mixing business at all.

It is true that the more these big names end up doing publications regarding bitcoin and giving it credibility, the more there will be people investing into it. Places like citibank making claims about bitcoin, even if it was bad or when it is good, doesn't matter, it gives credibility to it, they speak it into existence, if it's good then because it is good, if it is bad then there are people who hate these big names and will invest because of that.

That’s why it’s going to be easy for us to grow in adoption due to these publications. It is great that they are collected all in here in a single topic, it allows us to read them easier instead of researching for them.

It is, and they do get it cheaper, so much so that they literally take oil out of Saudi Arabia, give them money, but then Saudi Arabia turns back and buys weapons from American companies, making them a profit in the long run. So that oil may not be free, but comes in cheaper than you can imagine, under 40 dollars per barrel, not because that's what they pay, but because they sell something in return to cover the difference, so most of the money stays in their nation.

This is what they should be worried about, it is not something that should be upsetting Americans just yet, the reason why prices are high is the insane profits oil companies are making, not lack of oil.

That’s right, taking a step forward in crypto is a hard thing, and start accepting bitcoin which is a volatile thing is even scarier and doing that for your business will be something many people would be afraid of.

I understand that there are some, specially people here on bitcointalk do accept it easily and that’s understandable, but that doesn't change the fact that we are talking about something that would be beneficial to everyone who would be able to make it work in the long run. That doesn't mean that just because we accept it, it’s easy, it’s not because we are here and can't see it, at the outside world it’s still a very difficult thing.

This is what the government is afraid of though. I mean as a senator they can think whatever they want, but if they cannot reach the bitcoins of anyone, and everyone goes into bitcoin, then it is not going to be that easy for them at all.

This is what I believe would be a big deal for them, taxation is the key for any government to continue, and they do charge you tax when you profit from it, but if you hide it, and they cannot find it, that means they cannot tax something they do not know exists, and that’s their problem. Hence, senator or not, each of the government members, elected officials, need our taxes and bitcoin profits for sure.

Bitcoin, being able to both be store of value and also a payment transaction may make it unique on its own. I mean surely there must be "some" out there, but can you tell me something that both gains value and makes you rich and you invest into, but could also use for paying a cup of coffee?

Look at all the other investments we know, bank savings account, gold, real estate, stocks, whatever you can think of, they are not stuff we use to pay for a coffee, or look at things that you can use to spend, dollars, change, credit card, whatever, they are usable to pay for stuff but those are not investments. Bitcoin could be the only thing you can use together.

There are no scheduled events that will happen on this month so you might be right with that. Nothing extraordinary will happen within this month. There's also no battle between the bear and bulls because what I can only see here is that the bear is only raging continuously. There is is no signs of a bull yet. We can only say that the bull is here and it's fighting the bear when the price breaks over 30k usd or more.

It could be a sign that the price will act the same as what we have seen on September but don't worry because just like the saying says "best things comes from boys who wait". There may not be surprises this month but it'll come next month or so, that is for sure.

Predicting the future doesn't make you a profit because you may end up predicting it wrong. But, if you calculate when you should sell based on the price and not the date, you will end up with a profit for sure. I am not saying that I will sell it next year, or the year after that, or next month, it doesn't matter "when" it will reach where I need it to reach.

I always say that I will sell when it is high enough amount that I would be able to retire with it, and right now it is impossible to do that with bitcoin, but if I could earn more from altcoins that go to moon, then I will be able to retire when the amount is enough for me to retire, not "when" but "how much".

Leverage trading requires an understanding of the risks, that's the hardest part. Many people do not understand how difficult it is for people to make a profit based on such a low amount of chance to profit, there is a good chance that you could start trading and after just one minute you could lose all of your money.

So, you should at all times be careful about what you are doing, if you end up not caring about it then you are going to lose a lot more and that's something you should be careful about and newbies do not realize. Newbies do not usually know the risk that you would lose money in a single minute if you are not careful about.

There are way too many people who do that, and that's the reason why there are more people losing money on trading than earning. There is a minority that is making all the money, and a majority who keeps on losing, and if someone leaves, another newbie takes their place and veterans take their money one by one.

If you know what trading is like, and if you have a working understanding of the trading indicators and charts, then you will know what to do and you will be able to make a profit. However, if you are a newbie and just trade stuff because you feel like it, or you read it somewhere on twitter, %99 chance you are going to lose all your money.

This all is happening with few players those are involved in these all formats for long time now as time is running out we can watch few changes with mostly teams are having quality players for T20 and test format which are giving their best in separately which is good because in near future we can expect more changes with mostly big countries will have two teams and these could be done better justification as both could be able to give their best into their formats and boards needs to do one thing just give them salary packages which could be affordable for all as well.

Because IPL factor is surely having big impact and with this mostly youths are not interested in test and domestic cricket which is related to 3 or 4 days, and they love to have big contracts with IPL franchise which is more beneficial so if they are able to do these changes than surely we can bring good players in both formats which could be more helpful.

That was my fear, I mean merging is not the problem, the problem was what would happen after that? And considering what we have seen before, I was afraid that it would be a lot worse and we would have something that would bother us, like some glitch or bug or any type of problem where hackers would get hold of big funds and so forth.

It hasn't happened yet, which doesn't mean that it would never happen, it just means that it hasn't happened yet, but that’s still a risk that we have managed to postpone and that’s a good thing. If it happens 1-2 year down the line, versus it happening right now, that would be a big deal and it would cause a lot of trouble for sure.

Obviously it’s going to take at least a decade before it could be what it is advertised to be. Let’s face the reality that we are in a world where it is not easy to have progress in tech but also easy at the same time. How is it easy?

Well, the tech that has been worked on for many years keep having better improvements all the time, there are stuff that people started working on 8-10 years ago (like gpu world for example) and finishing now so you see a bigger and better improvement, while we are using 3000's series, 4000's series already started to worked on before 3000's were released. But things that are new, things that wasn't worked on, takes years, because that’s from scratch.