Oh, really? How I missed that exciting news while it was still fresh. Welcome back to the fam, huge black.


Yes, true; green suits him better. Anyway, to check the progress of his alt, check his Trust settings and you will find it there. He gave it a neutral tag. You can trace it from there.

Grandpa General and Pathfinder Bitcoin don do more than $3k increase in less than 24hrs today and nearly touched $60k. E stopped around $59,500 but I believe e go touch $60k b4 night come. Na im be sey d genge movie don start be dat. These big boys putting in money now for dis space when halving neva reach tells me somethin great is coming. If una see dump at $60k, nor panic. Na psychological level be dat.

Edited: D thing touched $63,636 today oh according to intel wey I get from Coingecko few hours afta I throw dat above comment. On Binance chart d thing actually touched $64k. We dey here dey wait anyhow wey e be.

I'm confident Bitcoin will surpass $70k before the last quarters of this year. Already, it's almost doing $60k and we're still so many days away from halving. Don't get me wrong, I'm aware that price won't continue unabated on upward move. There's bound to be little dumps along the line and that's price correction. Nothing to worry about. In fact, I expect a major dump the period immediately after halving as hodlers will want to take profit to reload on lower entry levels.

OP, I read to know how much you invested that gave you such ROI within a short period of time. Anyway, I applaud your decision. Those who would criticize you don't really know the situation in the country you're from. There's no time for frivolous spending now the way things are going. Those in countries where they can afford to replenish whatever they spend within days can go celebrating anniversaries year in year out but for those in auster countries with hyper inflation hitting them badly, it's a sinful pleasure so to say. I can have a decade wedding celebration, a silver or golden/diamond/wooden/rust celebration or whatever they call them but to have it yearly, I see that as a waste of resources and energy. I hope you haven't converted your crypto to fiat because we're about to embark on a rollercoaster in this space going forward.

It's obvious the merit is from what theymos airdropped to all users to kickstart the Merit system in 2018. Judging from the accuser's post history, they last posted in August 2018 before this ongoing debacle this 2024. The account suddenly woke this year to splash 50 merit on a post that doesn't even deserve a single merit. It's a jaw dropping behaviour. Whatever made them do that is left to be understood.

To even think that the accused had been in the forum way back since 2013 makes it all surprising by that attitude. Perhaps it's a bought account. I suspect something isn't right there.

I want to believe you bought too before now. $23k–$30k was a good place to get in. It's evident now that the bus is already on motion.

Nope, I don't think ATH will be this year but I do know that Bitcoin will beat its own record this year. I won't be scandalized if that even happens before halving in April. Previous ATHs were recorded the year after halving and that's what I'm counting on this bull season. It's more likely to be in 2025 than this 2024 which is the halving year. Check past records.

The reason you lose often is either because you allowed your emotions to becloud your readings of your trading strategy or your strategy isn't top notch. I admit that TA isn't 100% accurate, there could be lapses here and there but a good TA won't make you lose all the time. There's that 80–90% winning rate with a good technical analysis.

They may have a lot of funds like you said but also remember that they also factor in their risk level to it. Without taking care of risk level or appetite, even huge capital will easily go to zero.

Psychological knowledge is just guts feelings. That's what gamblers use. Except you see trading as gambling, you won't want to resort to psychological mindset.

We're already in it. I know most people are waiting for it after halving. The days after halving, I expect the market to dump as those who bought early this year or before it are likely going to be taking profit to rebuy for much quantities later. That dump will cause many to FUD. Don't panic when that begins to happen.

They're yet to get to their current ATH. So, they still have enough room for price movement to the upside.

The months after halving is the era most people look at for the bull run. Sadly, that's when things begin to heat up and the market begins to go gaga. So much noise in the market during such time. For me, I've come to note that the bull run starts a year before halving and goes into a year after halving (this is where we expect a fresh ATH, 2025). If you check the calendar, halving is more than a month to its time now (April) but we're already experiencing a bull moment. Bitcoin is trading above $56k ATM. That's less than $14k of its current ATH. Who knows, we might get a new record before April the way price is shooting up.

But of course, no single individual knows it all. I believe in the power of sharing ideas. Anyone who holds down what they know and refuses to share with others remains behind. It's a simple logic which those doing it may not know. When we share ideas we also learn from those we think we're teaching. It's cross fertilization of ideas. I belong to several communities and I know what insights we've been sharing and how they've impacted my trading. Like my people would say, when several persons pee at a spot at the same time it generates foam which when done individually won't be possible. Have a trading plan or strategies but review that of others to know where you stand.

OP, what you're advocating had been suggested before in certain quarters and comments but I'm afraid that isn't looking like what theymos will want to grant, bearing in mind that he brought the merit system to curtail things of similar nature.

That's an apt response to what OP is advocating. It's the same thing when we expect that every elderly people is endowed with wisdom. No, it doesn't work that way. People get wiser by native intelligence bestowed on them or by drawing their knowledge from the experiences of others.

Bitcoin, the Pathfinder and crypto grandfather, zoomed passed $53k today. Those who took a short on it at $50k are in severe pain now, no doubt.

Anyway, concerning following anyone's calld blindly; the first thing anyone should realize is that those making the calls aren't supernatural beings. They're humans like us and are prone to mistakes and errors. At best, we all are speculators in this industry. There's no holy grail. No one knows it all. I don't like following anyone's calls but I can use their calls as a gauge for my trade by confirming if their calls align with what I see on my charts. If they say to short it but my charts say long it, I may not take the trade at all or take it based on my chart but with minimal risk. If they say short it and my chart says short it too, I will take the trade with ease and a slightly increased risk.

Yes, that's true. It's called revenge trading. Those who do it are likened to gamblers. However, that's not how trading works. Trading is premeditated on exchange of one goods/currency for another unlike gambling. Those who liken it to gambling do so because it carries losses too as if there's any business venture that's free from losses. Traders shouldn't shy away from embracing it whenever it comes.

You guys are extremely lucky now that there are various stablecoins. In 2017, it wasn't so. It was either one bought and hedl Bitcoin even if it was obvious it was going to dump or one swapped it to altcoins if one didn't want to exchange it to fiat. Then it was between keeping it more in ETH or leaving it in Bitcoin. There wasn't a way to peg it or tether it so to say then. If anyone was able to achieve that then, you can correct me. If that was the situation now, many investors would be converting to fiat once there's a sign of bear.

I feel you on that one but then it's their choice. If anyone isn't spending or lavishing on themselves from their profit, it means they want to invest more for their tomorrow. It's still a wise investment choice.

Number one question – Yes, I've made certain profits from investing and trading cryptos; not once and not twice. I can't count.
Number two – I reinvested some and then spent some on material stuff too. There's the need for work and chop 😏
Number three – Yes, it's important but you've to take cognizance of the time you're taking out profit and spending it without reinvesting. For instance, I won't embark on any spending now that's not necessary. I'm postponing every unnecessary spending till after the bull rally. This is because I know $10 spent now can become $100/$200 or more during the rally.

Exactly! We struggle in life (real life issues) because we don't know what the future holds. If anyone knows that they will turn out well in future irrespective of what they do now, how do you think they will behave now? Of course, they will relax and not exert much energy doing anything. It's the same thing with trading. If everyone wins trades and no one loses, whose capital are the winners going to be liquidating? Again, it will make trading boring. The excitement of winning and the anxiety of losing that make trading what it's will be gone. Anything that easy becomes childish, so to say.

A few days ago, someone I mentored sent me a link to a Bitcoin airdrop site 😂. I couldn't control my laughter. Such a simplistic mindset of people and that's greed pushing them to believe that even when they've been told to avoid such sites promising Bitcoin giveaways when they're not faucets. Sites don't even airdrop established tokens let alone Bitcoin.

How do people not get to trust official accounts again of projects they're following? Again, how do you verify and verify your information once it's a project's official page? One can only become skeptical and scrutinize that much if one has heard of something fishy with such projects. Otherwise, authentic information of projects usually are announced  through their official accounts.

Not just a burner wallet but several of them. It's a safe and cautious way to minimize risk.

That's a word of wisdom. Most times I roam the forum and find great posts I should be meriting but lack merit for them, the posters won't know someone noticed them. Sometimes I don't comment after reading and other times I read and comment just like I'm doing now. Your post is worthy of merit but sadly, I don't have any merit to splash on it too.

Perseverance is a virtue in this industry of ours. Those reading this who may need someone to keep urging and encouraging them but haven't got any, my advice to them is never to allow themselves become downcast. Keep striving.

Wait until you begin to see your local radio and TV stations that weren't reporting financial news start talking about Bitcoin, that's when you see the real rush. I've seen this before and I expect it to repeat itself this season. People like noise, it gets their attention. Once something becomes noise, know it has gone far. That's what happens during a bull rally. To profit in cryptos, buy before others become interested in it.

The next bear season will expectedly be from 2026. It's hypothetical, anyway. It can even start before then, maybe around the last lap of 2025 but not in 2024. So, those who want to get in very early should prepare to start taking their shots in 2026/27.

I like that barber expression but I beg to differ with it. I've seen several barbers who cut themselves. It's really not a big deal to them. However, I understand the second part with professional traders. I for one, I like the concept of a tree doesn't make a forest. Based on that, people of same trade should stick together to enhance themselves.

My advice on this is that no trader should see themselves as being in competition with anyone. Don't over leverage or lot size on your position in a bid to level up with anyone you know of their trading capital.

Your friend did you good by introducing this forum to you but you've to know and be conscious that your journey here and how far you go solely depends on you. To learn here, the first step is to become active and read other users posts. Veterans and experts may be posting here but if you don't read them, you hardly can learn from them. Many members have supplied you links to read to familiarize yourself with stuff on Bitcoin, I'm encouraging you to spend time on them. Besides, you can also search whatever questions bothering you if you can't find their threads as I believe almost every ground concerning Bitcoin has been covered here. More importantly, stay away from plagiarism. The forum frowns at it.

At least, that should give us a perspective why most governments are playing the attack game on Bitcoin. Most of those who supported its creation never hid their displeasure with the state. Perhaps, even those who created it too.

He understood the nature of what he was getting into from the word go. Anyone who's into a venture that will liberate the people should know that the state won't be happy with them. Satoshi understood that and that's why he masked his/their identity from the very beginning and did all that could be done to remain untraceable.