No one can answer those questions but yourself because this forum does not function as investment advice. Only you know what your goals, options, and possibilities are, and predicting accurately price fluctuations is completely impossible. SUre, we can throw around some educated guesses, but that's all they are, guesses that may or may not be correct.

Many believe that the vaccines have been pumped out too quickly without enough time to get properly tested, but I wonder if that is calculated with old data, actually old conceptions on what the time frame for that is because so far in history there hasn't been so much incentive (monetary and social) backed by big tech developments until this point, so all of our predictions on what timeframe something can be developed can be thrown out the window. It's a whole new ballpark we are playing in and with that in mind, this just might be possible to achive.

I think this is great, and not for the reasons people might think. I don't care about investment education that much, or rather, I don't think that should be the main focus of education on BTC and crypto. I do think monetary education, in general, is important, and investing comes along in that basket, but what is more important is what crypto can teach us on a technological and sociological level. We need to educate the new generations on it in order to have a better understanding and a better future for crypto be it BTC or something else and to avoid the pitfalls of monetary knowledge of the old.

There is no educated guess on this, to many factors come into play to even get close with a prediction. Sure, we can estimate how cycles will behave and where to put them aproximately, but that's how far the crystal ball will take you. Is it worth investing is really up to you and your goals.

Well, Russia definitely has a lot of resources, especially manpower, or in Russia's case cannon fodder. And in that lies the whole mystery. Times have changed and the situation is not the same as it was in the USSR, and mass mobilization is not an option anymore because it would signify a war, not a special operation, and mass mobilization without a direct threat is hard to push on the people without retaliation (and we know what happened to Russia when people were unsatisfied with their governments waging a war). So using the biggest asset the Russians always had was the manpower, not the technology or the sheer firepower, and when that main resource gets taken away...well, we get this.

I honestly don't think he can be helped anymore. At 38 years old in a division where the average age is around 30, 32 fights under his belt with a number of them at a high level, and a mentality that is completely chaotic, I am hard-pressed to believe he is able to acquire new skills (technical, strategical and mental) that would push him above his current status. He might be good for a money fight or two, but I doubt he can keep up with the likes of Oliveira, Makhachev, Dariush or Fiziev.

Crypto is inherently tied to FIAT and what's going on with the economy, it's not in its own bubble. In times of economic distress (inflation, food shortages, war, overblown housing prices et.) people tend to buckle down, and that means not investing in anything. And BTC is not even close to being a safe haven since it's volatility and its low utilisation in the real world is definitely something that will turn away people who want to escape the harsh economic situations. Nor is gold or anything for that matter. What most people are worried about is how they will pay their bills and food, and BTC can't really help with that (that much). So to sum it up, crypto rises when regular people start investing, but when the economic situation worsens, those people tend to stay on the sidelines and what crypto is left with are investors who have money for investing and are not worried about it having to be a solution for a specific economic problem they have. And as we see, those people are not enough.

And you did the right thing. You got some news (info) and decided to look into it further to determine what's going on. I don't blame the influencers, they are misguided half brains that shoot lasers from their eyes, it's a vicious circle. How you approached it is the way any new adopter should, but they usually don't. And then we get hearsay half true info that completely muddies out the really important conversations.

It's that time of the year, the world's strongest athletes are days away from testing their skills.

Where: Sacramento, USA.
When: May 24-29, 2022.
Where to watch: Nowhere really, WSM has a business model stuck in the 1980s, so the best way to check results is a spreadsheet on the r/strongman Reddit thread (until videos get released).

Athletes:

Mitchell Hooper (Canada)
Pavlo Kordiyaka (Ukraine)
Rob Kearney (USA)
Gabriel Peña (Mexico)
Kelvin de Ruiter (Netherlands)
Kim Ujarak (Greenland)
Maxime Boudreault (Canada)
Mark Felix (UK)
Pa O’Dwyer (Ireland)
Shane Flowers (UK)
Jean-Stephen Coraboeuf (Australia)
Bobby Thompson (USA)
Aivars Smaukstelis (Latvia)
Adam Bishop (UK)
Evan Singleton (USA)
Eythor Ingolfsson Melsted (Iceland)
Konstantine Janashia (Georgia)
Trey Mitchell (USA)
Mika Törrö (Finland)
Peiman Maheripourehir (Iran)
Luke Stoltman (UK)
Brian Shaw (USA)
Tom Stoltman (UK) — Reigning WSM Champion
Gabriel Rheaume (Canada)
Martins Licis (USA)
Gavin Bilton (UK)
Oleksii Novikov (Ukraine)
Kevin Faires (USA)
Nedžmin Ambešković (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Grzegorz Szymański (Poland)

You can also take a look at the athlete rundown on Big Loz's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BigLozOfficial

I don't think he ever saved Bitcoin. He's contribution to BTC is minor at best and people who think that his one tweet is making an overall diference. So we need to stop praising or vilifying him in case of crypto, there are so many factors at play here that we really don't need a scapegoat.

I would rather they discuss the underlying economic issues that the country has than bitcoin. BTC adoption means very little if the country does not address its economic and social issues, and it seems like El Salvador is ignoring all of that and jumping to a ''quick fix''. I am glad people whose local currency is worth less than a carrot, but that doesn't solve the issues, it only masks them.

I would disagree with a part of that. Economic warefare is nothing new, the Hundred Years' War (1337 - 1453) was more of an economic war than an all out battle. Naturally, economic wars were a bit diferent back then, but it's still the same concept. What I do agree is that it's nothing like the wars of the oast century as it implements more cyber warefare.

Good moral dilemma. I guess that most people would be inclined to rethink their support for the project if the person who's behind it is not inline with their moral views, no mater if the project is good or not. But sometimes we tend to omit to ourselvs things we do not agree on if it makes us justfy our choice. I'll stand here and say it would make me rethink it, but who knows...

Erdogan's requests are are laughable. He says 'This is not populism', and it really is basically throwing this out just to be as neutral as much between Russia and NATO. Banning terorist organisations? A Turkish authoritarian pointing fingers? Also, havent PKK been off Europe's terorist organisation list since 2014?

I am sure people have done quite a number of reserch papers on the topic, from a socio perspective, a psychology perspective, math...there are so many angles to approach this, this is a great topic and would be great for anyone that wants to do a deeper dive. Actually, it would be even interesting to read all those papers.

Lying has always been an integral part of social interactions, not just for humans, but for animals as well (from butterfly larva pretending to be of ant origin just so they could take care of it, to wolves learning how to move their eybrows and become dogs to play on humans emotions for food). So no, we can't stop telling lies because it is an integral part if social interactions as well as a defence mechanism (facial expressions that are diferent from ones true feelings). I have to dissagre with Kant when he says that there are no conceivable circumstances in which lying is morally acceptable.

Well, it being tied to something that is stable (and so far the dollar, euro, pound etc have been stable curencies) is what makes it stable. But maybe we should redifine what the name implies. Assisted might not be enough for us to think of it as stable, rather it maybe having some security more than others, but that's it. But then again, being backed to the fullest maybe not ehat crypto was intended to be in the first place so there is a lot to unpack here...

Maybe some are at the moment (actually I am sure many are), but as always it's best to look at where they will be in the long term.  It depends one ones goals, bzt it seems to me that so far the best strategy is to buckle down and forget about crypto in times like this (as in hodl what you got).

10 years ago I saw in person a guy who tore his  MCL on a grqppling turnament and he was screaming in pain until the medics came and took him away. There is no denying injurys like that hurt and cause a lot if issues for the fighters as they now have to take the time to heal and overcome the mental side of returning to the ring after something like that.

The full results are as follows:



Gonna say it, I hate when fighters get such injuries in a fight. Why do I have the feeling that leg injuries have been happening more and more in the last couple of years? I know that calf kicks have been more common in the last 4 years and that causes significant damage, but it's interesting that the majority of leg injuries do not come from direct pressure applied to the leg like you would in a heel hook, kneebar, toe hold or any other version of a leg attack, but rather happen due to kicks or result from kicks and are attributed to an accident.

Nice guillotine by Spann.

Angela Hill is gonna get cut after this.

Michael Johnson just avoided getting cut.