That's a pretty lofty goal in such a short time, we're at the end of the third quarter and just over four months away from the end of the year.
Although the market is always going to have crazy things happen, it won't be easy for ETH to hit $4k, unless there are some powerful catalysts that will take the entire bull market in a row from here to the end year. The merge is approaching but bitcoin signal is less optimistic when Mt.Gox releases 137000BTC, which makes investors quite nervous and fear the market will fall rather than rising.

Yes, I think they should change the way of marketing, nowadays people have become smart and not as naive as before. With inflated advertising information as the next hidden gem, the one who beats bitcoin, or the coin that gets you xxx assets. It really doesn't work anymore and sometimes makes people feel uncomfortable and want to stay away from the first time it is introduced. People would easily consider it a scam project if there was such a marketing way that they don't have to look or stop to find out.

The merge will not cause Ethereum gas fees to drop rapidly as the goal of the merger is to move Ethereum from POW to POS to reduce the energy consumption of the Ethereum blockchain. In order to reduce gas fees and speed up the transaction process, it is necessary to wait for the next update. As a result, this upgrade does not affect Layer2 projects in any way, they will continue to support scaling for the ETH network.

There is no doubt that BTC and ETH are the best two options that are available at the moment. Bitcoin price is currently trading at $21.6k so if I were OP I would buy myself one bitcoin and the other 8k I would invest in ETH because in my view the merge will help ETH up and I will have some small profit from it. And with bitcoin, this will be my long term investment, I can hold it till next bull cycle if bitcoin hits the $100k target, I will take profit.

@Cryptmuster, There are some really good players in the PSG squad. It's interesting to note that they also had a very good squad last time, but they weren't able to do very well.
Evidently, they had some issues when it came to the authority. PSG had a very good coach, but the coach was not a good fit for the caliber of the team they were. However, they have started the season well this year. In addition to that, the new coach seems to be able to work well with the team as well. It is therefore expected that PSG will perform better than they did last year.
It is clear to me that they are going to win the title of Ligue 1. Is it likely that they will be able to win the Champions League this year? That is the bigger question, isn’t it?

I believe that New Zealand should try something new as the regulars are not performing very well at the moment. As for New Zealand, I do not know what happened to them. There is no doubt that they are one of the very best teams in the whole world of cricket. They should drop some regular players to give them a reality check that if they are not performing on a regular basis, they are not going to be a part of the team anymore. The same can be said for giving newcomers a chance to prove themselves as well. Newzeland should be able to benefit from this in a positive way.

The situation of PSG is absolutely the same as Bayern Munich. Both of them don’t have any good competition in their own respective league and that is a big reason why they don’t prepare well for the Champions League. If you don’t prepare well by playing against a better opponent, you will not be able to perform well when those better opponents will be put in front of you. The whole season these two teams play against childish teams compared to them and then people expect them to do well in the Champions League. That is really funny to me .
I mean there is a reason why most of the successful teams in the Champions League last time were teams from the English Premier League and La Liga.

The PSG versus Lille Match is over and as expected PSG won the match very easily. The score was 7-1 at the end of the match. Kylian Mbappé scored a Hattrick, Neymar scored a brace and Messi scored one goal. The defender Achraf Hakimi also scored one goal. This was a really good performance from PSG. But if I have to nitpick I am going to say they could have done better on the defensive side. But on the attacking side, there is no problem right now. I am glad to see Kylian Mbappé understand that he is a player and not above the team. That is why I think the team is starting to work well. And obviously, the arrival of a new coach for PSG also did well for their performance. Just look at how they started the last season and how they have started the season.

There is no doubt that Kane Williamson is the most consistent player in the New Zealand squad. In almost every match he has played, he has performed well, no matter what the circumstances may be. However, his team is not being able to provide him with the support that he needs to succeed. Neither in terms of batting nor bowling.

In addition, it is understandable why Trent Boult is trying to focus more on franchisee cricket. In franchise cricket, he has more opportunities to make money and gain fame than he has when he plays for the national team. There was a time when things were different. However, now we can't blame him for taking such a decision since he has no choice but to do so.

New Zealand obviously has world-class bowlers, fast bowlers actually. In the spin department, the bowlers that they have are quite competent for limited overs cricket. The spinners must be able to spin the ball quite well and quite a long way if they are going to be very successful in the test format. They don’t have any bowlers like that. In addition, New Zealand as a team is not in form.

Honestly, I did not see them performing very well after they had won the test cricket championship. So keeping these things in consideration I have to say South Africa seems to be the better team at this moment.

Mourinho has made several changes within the Roma squad. He changed Roma's entire game strategy. Now the Roma team is much more stable. However, Roma has a weakness in their attack. Roma's attack is not strong enough. Players like Abraham and Dybala are in Roma's attack. However, I think Roma needs another experienced striker. In the last match too we saw many easy chances missed by Roma players. If Roma management's target is to win the title, they will definitely have to spend some more money.

Ligue 1 teams are relatively less powerful than La Liga and Premier League. However, Lille is not a weak team. Lille was the Ligue 1 champion in the 2020-21 season. Scoring 7 goals against such a renowned team were not easy. PSG played very well. They scored in the first minute of the match. Maybe PSG won't be able to score 7 goals against any Premier League or La Liga team. But if PSG are able to maintain such consistent performance, they are capable of defeating any strong team.

If we are talking about how fast bowlers perform in test cricket two teams come to mind instantly for me, those are South Africa and England. But right now the performance of England is not good. So I believe now it is going to be South Africa and New Zealand. Well at least in test cricket. The way South Africa is performing currently it is undeniably true that they will have a really good chance against New Zealand.

And New Zealand have not performed very well as they should because they are the world test championship winner. They haven’t performed like a champion and I think South Africa has a really good chance if we think about the current form.

During the first two matches of the English Premier League season, Liverpool has drawn both of its matches. There is no doubt that this is not a good start for the team. But there is still plenty of time for Liverpool to turn things around and get back on track. Almost every team at the start of the season is quite unstable in terms of their performance, and the players are also quite rusty at the beginning of the season as well.

As a result, I believe we should not jump to any conclusions here and rather wait for Liverpool and see how things turn out after at least six or seven matches, in order to get a better perspective. In only a few matches' time, I expect Liverpool to have a good performance in the next match and to climb up the table as well.

The opponent does not find Eden Hazard to be a very dangerous player any longer. There is no doubt in my mind that his time is coming to an end, and it certainly feels like it is. He has not been performing well at all lately, and when he had the chance to increase his confidence, he missed that opportunity as well, and now he has no confidence at all because his performance has not been that good recently.
 
Everything is good right now for Barcelona because they have won their match against Real Sociedad and everything is going well for the team. Even so, I would still like to say that Barcelona still does not have a good defense which I feel is a matter of concern. In my opinion, that is going to remain the case for a long time to come. I do not expect that they will spend money on bringing in defenders this season, at least not this season.

Not all, I have also seen some stock investors switch to crypto-currencies, but after a while they go back to the stock market. When I questioned why, they explained that they are not used to the high volatility of cryptocurrencies, which puts them under such much strain that they are unable to manage their emotions when trading. Investing in cryptocurrencies is not for everyone, it's only for the risk-takers.

You did the right thing, mate.
Accepting bitcoin as a payment method will make your work more convenient and reach a more diverse source of customers and the best part is that you don't have to go to the bank to deal with late transfers or limit increases like you did. This has been thoroughly solved by bitcoin.

But I want to tell you, bitcoin payments are irreversible, so you and your customers should make sure the address is correct before making a bitcoin transfer, otherwise you won't have a chance to get them back.

As of now, it is highly unlikely that bitcoin will reach the $100k any time soon, but in the long run, it is almost certain that it will reach that. I bet you that, if the market continues to fall, there will be a lot of people selling their bitcoins and leaving the market again.
But for me, I'm also not going anywhere, the more bitcoin goes down I will buy more and I will wait till bitcoin hit $100k.
I think people who leave the market now they will come back to buy bitcoin when bitcoin hits 100k

And we will hear it hundreds of times in the future, all new projects want to be ethereum killers. The downside of ETH is high gas fees and slow processing speed but once ETH completes the upgrade to POS, I would love to know if they still want to kill ETH and replace ETH. I haven't even heard of the coin OP is referring to, The Reef is really strange to me, how a coin with no reputation becomes the next ETH killer.

The safest is still the hardware wallet, if you previously owned it to store bitcoin and ethereum, now you can use it without having to use another wallet. If you want to use a software wallet then you can refer to metamask, it is considered the most user-friendly wallet even though it cannot store all altcoins of all current blockchains. Metamask now has a mobile version, so it is very convenient to use.