And it's normal. Dips could happen just as much as pumps could always happen, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I'd consider not having dips to be the one indicator that's something is very very wrong with the market and would consider some external factors (other than natural ones) having an effect on the market.

Nothing wrong either with the market going through dark days, after all, more buy opportunities for people who want to enter the market and for people who want to invest more. Just look at the bright side of things and you wouldn't really get affected by FUD.

Well in the first place if you were trying out crypto gambling, you'd know how to set up those no? It's one of the most important requirements, it's like setting up your bank accounts prior to registering to an online casino (non-crypto one) than with just a click, automatically connects or withdraws funds from it. It's simply the fault of the user, and not of the system since honestly, the system has done all it can as a system, nothing more, nothing less.
Even crypto casinos have their own KYC's, so it isn't going anywhere, trust me. I really doubt casinos would be allowed to roam free without the management of the government.

They're curbing the curiosity of people for it with each ban wave they do but that's about it. People who have truly learned of what Bitcoin is will know that banning it wouldn't really do anything, so they'll just stay. As others have said, the only true way to really ban Bitcoin is to kill the entire internet, which would probably cost a LOT afaik, so to answer you, no, there's really no effective way to actually "ban" Bitcoin. The most they're doing is pushing users away from using it, a warning so to say. A completely ineffective one though.

Or perhaps it would lead to their downfall. Honestly, the NFT market as of late has just been a mass bundle of "hype". In other words, it's something that would only last, well, not for a long time I guess, and it isn't exactly something that you'd want to use as a foundation to build and grow your company. I guess them entering the crypto scene is the real thing here, but other than that, I'm not that optimistic about what they're going to do. If they do start up with the NFT thing, please keep it to themselves, I don't want other places to have the same idea.

Pass to the monkey ones, I'd still look for ones that are up to my preference, but never to the monkey ones. I'm still baffled how some NFT's are a fad, the selfie guy being one, but well, it's already happening in my face, can't keep denying that it's a fad. I tried understanding the NFT market, but with the recent developments, It's outside of me how it works right now or how the hell do these buyers/sellers give it value. Don't get me wrong, that in itself is amazing since they're making a profit, but hey, you do you but you won't make me enter it, nope.

Well in the first place wouldn't the ones able to buy crypto in the first place the not poor ones? Most people use fiat simply because they can't afford to invest in anything else, though if one has savings somewhere that is just sitting in fiat, well now that is the time then to actually invest it in something and not let it sit there. I'd recommend crypto really, but spreading your assets to other investments should also do you good, just so that you can avoid getting destroyed by the volatility of the crypto market. That is, if you have the capacity to invest, if not then honestly worry about living another day before anything else.

If it was purely waiting for Bitcoin to go to high prices that you wouldn't need to worry about money in the future then no, that's impossible imo. As for using it to lend or stake, I don't think so. Staking rewards you less the more people stake their coins, and you can honestly expect a LOT of people to stake their coins since a lot of people have, well, money. So no, don't expect anything out of it. Lending, maybe, but that requires you to set it up yourself, like the usual lending in fiat. There's a lot of instances here where lending happens, you can refer to them.

Pretty much yeah. I mean, if you don't get used to it, you're always going to make weird decisions backed by impulsive decision making, which is, in general, very wrong. There might be cases where your decision-making would result in something good, but that is in the end, a one-time or two-time thing, it's not always going to happen. getting used to the market means understanding that what is happening is normal for the market, and that you should be able to act accordingly.

Well if you're DCA'ing into coins that are relatively well known I think you're good to go? Bitcoin is one well-known example to be the best coin in DCA'ing, I mean you'd never go wrong with Bitcoin in general anyway. I've always used DCA'ing after letting go of trading since I never, ever want to go back to the days where my psyche was taking a toll due to the movement of the market, especially a very volatile one like the crypto market. Glad I did anyways.

I'm pretty sure many would do? Both would require you to study up what teams would play, their strengths, past matches/tournaments, current state, members, etc. So it doesn't really matter imo? Just choose one sportsbook that you like and you can start off by trying out sports gambling. Though I'd rather go for International imo? It has more traction and you'd probably get more discussion out of it than local ones in most cases. I'd honestly just go for international tbh, a bigger scene would be a better place imo.

Pretty much Bitcoin taught me how to do my finances, what the hell does DCA even mean at one point (since I really had no idea lmao), and simple trading stuff. Never went too deep with trading cause I myself know it's not for me, but mostly learned stuff about what I should do with money. My mindset about money that is.

On another note I don't think centering your life around Bitcoin is good? I mean yes, learning about it itself is good, but it's not something that should be traded for say, your relationships with other people or your passion for other stuff. it's a medium, one that imo, is not going to replace fiat. It would, at most, be an alternative for fiat.

I mean it isn't anything odd to invest in a lower-priced coin since it has more idk how you call it, value? to go up? but there's a LOT of coins out there. And not all of them have the capability to become the 2nd Bitcoin if there even is one in the first place. Bitcoin isn't a go-to rich quick scheme in the first place as well, it took YEARS before people who invested in the first place were able to reap profits big enough to let them live well enough on their lives. I reckon other coins would probably take longer.

Ehhh doesn't that mean it's a buying opportunity? I mean, I guess in the first place you shouldn't exactly turn to a fear and greed chart to base your investments on, but in general just looking in the market it's a pretty good buy opportunity if people are looking to invest. I mean, it's a lot better than buying at the peak no? At the end of the day, the crypto market is a volatile one, seeing people pretty fearful of what's going to happen is pretty normal, but again, these are buying opportunities. Instead of avoiding the risks, take them, they're the ones that could give you the profit that you really want.

Well, tbf... I think most stuff could be looked up online? There's a lot of guides out there and if you're stuck on not understanding something, well, look it up again. It's like creating a network of resources that you can use to slowly translate what seems like gibberish to you into something meaningful. First steps are usually the hardest to take since you don't actually know where to take it, but even with that, just keep persevering and give yourself time to learn and it should all gradually fall into place.

Aren't they the same? Hodlers are a type of investor, no matter what you say. I'd actually think that the more active day traders would be the ones creating the most impact on the market since they're the ones doing the movement on an everyday basis. Investors/Hodlers are people who simply hodl the coin and wait, they invest big so the returns would be rather big as well. Still though, I'd consider day traders as a type of investor as well so that might be wording it just wrong, might be better to take them as hodlers instead of adding investors to the mix.

Well some do indeed have that issue, but it might have been part of their TOS originally, or if the withdrawal amount exceeds the set limit for free players, then they begin asking for KYC. It's compliance, afaik, for their licenses to actually be allowed to keep working. It's pretty strict on some casinos afaik, so they really tend to dish it out with players whenever it happens.

Well, casinos are sometimes at fault with their KYC rules being hidden so much, but also it can be the player's fault for not reading their withdrawal rules and whatnot. Most of the time complaints here come from not understanding or miscommunication really, most of them are resolved whenever casino representatives here start talking to the user/s involved.

Why are you even considering gambling as an investment lmao. That's just dumb. It should be considered whatever money you have in gambling as lost money already, nothing more, nothing less. Sure, if you won, it's pretty nice and you'd have more funds, but that's being optimistic. Always assume the worst-case scenario, especially in gambling where the odds are stacked mostly against you.

And on the topic of being a threat or fun, ofc it's fun. It's only a threat if you consider it as one really, it's a leisure activity and always will be. It only turns into a threat if you yourself actually make it into a threat, it's whatever we mold it to be as imo.

Well, that didn't age well. Not that I blame though, 10 years ago who would've thought Bitcoin would be where it is right now no? Even if there were people who believed, I don't think they set the level this high even way back then. Still if they actually just forgot about it and still have it now, then well that's a life-changer right there. Highly unlikely though, I mean, who would keep their keys of a wallet they don't really care that much well taken care of no? At that point it's just up to luck on whether the person themselves did something to their house in years.

Hopefully, in 10 years, people who have Bitcoin right now could have the same experience as people from 10 years ago if they were to get their Bitcoin from back then today.

Well as long as the adoption of crypto, in general, is seen in a positive light, pretty sure a bullish scenario isn't that far out of the story. Though tbf, no one can really know. Most of us here would be bullish since well, most of us have invested in Bitcoin and some believe completely in Bitcoin, but in the end that's just OUR belief, not what the future would be. Currently though it isn't looking that good, there's a bearish feel right now in the market and it doesn't seem to be letting up so far.

Well, the rich have their own way of splurging their money, and honestly going for an investment of something "new" to the ears of other people would always seem like an opportunity for them. After all, if it booms, the returns are rather big on their side. Doesn't mean that it would succeed though, it's honestly like at this point they are just trying out whatever idea they could while connecting it to crypto without any real concept or content that would actually make people want it. It's like we're getting farther and farther away from what crypto was initially.