I was also going to suggest this but then I figured out that OP could be paying bills from the profit they make from trades, assuming they don't have any other source of income. Nonetheless, OP can also ploy back a part of the profit (not all) into the trading capital and continue to maintain the same trading plan and mechanism that have made them profitable all the while. They shouldn't get excited and carried away to the point of looking for a shortcut by neglecting risk in terms of Money Management (MM). Don't over trade or leverage. Slow and steady wins the race, they say. Since OP already has a handle on trading, they should continue with it and gradually increase trading capital. It's a bad idea to source funds outside since they're already profitable.

Nope! That's a wrong conception. Off topic, for me, is for discussions that are far off from Bitcoin or crypto discussions but can be of benefit to those who are also interested in cryptos. I like to call it the, "Relaxation" board. It's for cruise. Sometimes, marital issues, sex, parenting, religion, siblings rivalry, schooling, cooking, kitchen and bedroom incidents, just name them, come up here. Can we truly say issues on those items listed are useless? Of course, not. Off-topic is even a place to start for genuine newbies who are lost here because it helps them pick interest posting here as they can easily identify with one or two topics to write on while perusing other sections of the forum.

Really? How so? We can love and admire Bitcoin but we shouldn't be blinded to its faults too. I'm sure, if Bitcoin weren't the first it wouldn't even be having half the goodwill it's having as an edge on others. After all, it's not the only payment crypto. Come to think of it, Bitcoin doesn't even have a smart contract; does it?

Isn't it the same way Bitcoin is? Those who hodl thousands of Bitcoin are in the minority compared to those who hodl a few sats here and there.

Anyone who isn't hodling any potential altcoin or a fraction of Bitcoin (at least) is lacklustre with aim to chasing price. There's enough discount on all cryptos now. All of them have suffered severe beating in price to warrant anyone taking them as gifts now at whatever price one buys them. Just imagine there are those who invested when Bitcoin was $64k+ but are now dillydallying buying it now at less $23k. It doesn't make any sense at all.

Well, why I won't try to sound or assume the position of a marriage counselor I think your "lovely wife" was in the wrong not to have informed you of her investment move first before making the move. There ought to be cross fertilization of ideas between a couple on major issues such as finance and upkeep. Now, back to the site; it's an obvious investment gone wrong example. The cash fell into wrong hand and I don't think it can be retrieved. That's gone. It's a shoddy site.

Don't also let your guard down here too when you come across those titles you mentioned. Maintain the smartness of the serpent whenever you're dealing with anyone online, whether in BTT or elsewhere. In fact, whenever you ask questions regarding finance, pending bitcoin transaction issues or lost of wallet with cash in it and someone sends you a pm to proffer a solution; know it's a scammer at work. The real users who will solve that problem for you won't private chat you first. So, be careful. Know the antecedence of any supposed veteran member you're following or admiring first before anything else.

If such posts are from participants of the famed scam site - 1xbit, I think it's pointless wasting efforts in reporting them. Those who are enrolled there and the project they promote deserve each other.

Oh, really? Then that could be a major reason I shockingly find shitposters in some reputable campaigns. Reading isolated posts without following the stream of thought in the thread is likely not going to expose even off topic posts, the same way it won't expose edited posts too. It should behoove managers to do thorough jobs and monitor what their participants post. After all, they say that what is worth doing at all should be worth doing well.

Yes, I think it was so too for me with him. I guess at a point he had a discussion going on about experimenting the use of Bitcoin in Africa or so. I guess he was the user. I can't be too sure now.

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In honesty, I think the dude is knowledgeable and that tagging and banning him subforum is overboard. The best official thing to do would've been for those who don't agree with his POV to ignore him. Yes, he's seemingly arrogant in his stance and conviction and wouldn't want to take a second opinion but that shows how different we all are in optics. I won't even be shocked if in future those who think they're right now are proved to be the ones who've been wrong all this while 🤔. Yes, such a reversal of conception once happened in the past with the earth theory stuff.

I ain't sure there's any user who has stayed here a complete "Bitcoin circle" of four years who hasn't ignored another user(s). I've a few on my list, mostly scammers and irritable trolls. It's also possible some have me on their ignore list too, for whatever reason they may have. That's the irony of the whole thing. No matter how good a user thinks they're, there will be other users ignoring them too for one reason or the other. It doesn't boil down to only perceived shitposters.

Of course, ranking up is hardly for shitposters as they don't easily get merited. It's the second option in bold.

In 2017, that used to be weekly payment for Full Members in signature campaigns. I know senior rank got paid around 0.012btc to 0.018btc weekly in regular campaigns. It was worth around $100 or slightly above it then.

At some point, I thought I was the one who missed the point in the OP. Glad to know that someone else noticed what I thought too.

That's the way I look at it too. I don't pile up pressure on myself for wanting to own Bitcoin. Just buy when you feel you've free cash to spare.

That's the irony and it's the major reason it irks those who are reasonably conscientious. Throughout the globe, laws are often partial in execution; a part for the poor and a part for the rich. In Africa, it's worse as people avoid speaking truth to power in order to save their miserable lives and that has led politicians to believing they can do anything and get away with it. What happened in the case of #endsars in Nigeria wasn't even a riot. It was a peaceful demonstration that lasted days and that shocked the Nigerian government who never believed the youth would last a couple of hours on the streets. It was a show of force from the government that made the peaceful demonstration degenerate into something else.

Honestly, you're spot on with that catch phrase the promoters adopted. During my early days in cryptos that expression used to perplex me because I knew the sing song here at that time was the banking sector being against cryptos. So, if banks were against cryptos how then would it be that Ripple (as it was called then) would be their darling? It was a conflict. XRP remains about the only top 10 crypto that I haven't come around to buying for the sake of hodling, at least for once. I don't like the dynamics behind it. Its supply is huge for me.

I don't know why all governments of the world do that. It doesn't really matter whether they're from civilized clans or not. You can imagine Canada that's rated high as a sane society. One would think something of that barbaric nature is shamelessly the exclusive right of the African continent because of the bad and corrupt leadership in Africa. In Nigeria, we also had the Canadian experience during the infamous #endsars protest in October 2020. The aftermath remains what crypto lovers in Nigeria are still battling with till date as regards the ban on cryptos in the country. Many accounts were frozen during that protest and after it as the government felt protesters got funded through cryptos. It's a shame.

First off, there are certain things one is taught in theory that aren't that way in practical reality. Example is the buy low and sell high matra. This, in the true sense of the expression, doesn't exist. It's the same thing when anyone says something about overbought and oversold. I say this because no one can figure out a bottom or top while price is at that region. Anyone who tells you otherwise or says they knew Bitcoin top or bottom before it happened isn't telling the truth. This is a highly unpredictable industry. There's not certainty and that's why we say it's speculative.

I guess OP has suddenly realized they were about to be caught in something untoward and "unholy", therefore has chickened out by deleting all their posts.

I had to single that comment out to let you know anything can "get fucked" in this crypto space. That done, now to the question. The two stablecoins you mentioned are the only ones I've been using. I started with Tether when the stablecoin option became a thing and then moved to BUSD. It's my favourite now because I do trade often on Dex using the Trust Wallet Dapp. For me, BUSD is ok. I tend to tie it to BNB. Seeing how BNB has come to stay, I believe BUSD too won't go rogue since both are from the same platform.

I saw $12,500 too. Those two figures are plausible anyway if we considered how erratic Bitcoin is. Even with price looking up now, we may still not be out of the woods. The good thing about this present dip is that it's creating an entry point for enthusiasts who missed out in the past to get in and then make money to change hands as paper hands offload theirs on the market. The gainers in all this will be those who sell and convert to stablecoins so they can buy back cheaper.

However, the $1,000 price projection is out of it. If we didn't get that in the last huge bear of 2018/19, I don't think we can now or going forward.

I just talked about a similar thing today in another thread. Scammers work on victims' greed, nothing else. For anyone to be scammed, check very well they too are greedy. I'm not talking of a complete hack where the victims may not even be aware. I'm talking about active participation of the victim in their bid to claim what wasn't even theirs. This day, it's dangerous clicking on links; even when they're from trusted friends. Some times our friends may mean well but will be ill informed on this crypto stuff and in their bid to help out they may endanger us. I've seen this happen on several occasions. This innocent friend who is naive finds a seemingly great site paying people who visit their site and then decides to share link to the site, not knowing it's a scam site. It gets dirty. I advise everyone to be their own detective.

But of course, how do you even begin to type the address out in the first place? Isn't that like unnecessary? Anyway, I think anyone attempting that has ample time on their hand and wants to waste it needlessly. Besides, mistakes are even likely to happen while typing. Again, even copying it without scrutiny can lead to errors too. So, in copying an address I've make a point of checking the first few letters, the middle letters and the last four letters. Taking one's time in doing that isn't a waste of time. It's good to crosscheck details and not be in a haste while on financial transactions. I tend to treat my financial dealings with the precision of a defence lawyer in a murder case. Errors of omission shouldn't be allowed.

For me, number one rule of thumb for not getting scammed, whether online or offline is never expect to reap where you didn't sow. That's my financial guide besides never getting greedy. That which you shared here has been on for a long time now, especially on telegram. The first time I saw someone plastered their passphrase on a telegram group I knew that person wasn't that dumb doing that. It was a bait. I didn't even contemplate checking out the wallet transactions. I just continued reading other stuff. Those who fall for this type of setup have the tendency of scamming others. If not, why would anyone be quick to take advantage of a seemingly ignorant user.