I love your "becouse" expression.

People don't care about money printing because they weren't taught to care about it by their families, school or the media. The truth is that most people don't know how the economy of a country works, they simply do their daily tasks, study and execute what they have learned for 4-5 years on the university for a living. Yes, graduated people don't know how economy works. If they have money on their pockets and if they can afford a confortable lifestyle it will be fine. If their wages aren't enough anymore, they will blame the government and politicians of the country, but never the economical measures adopted and practiced there.

Good idea. At the currently scenario the best you can do is to collect most satoshis as possible for the next bull run, so once bitcoin becomes bullish you are ready to collect the sweet fruits of your crops, that is: to sell your holdings and retrieve the investment made. For now, it's not advised to sell bitcoin, unless you need to do this for daily expenses or emergencies. It can be a tough challenge to hold bitcoin and resist the temptation of spending it, but I believe on long term it will worth the sacrifice and you will feel proud of what you have done on the present time.

We have to separate facts and reality from propaganda. The projections made regards Qatar growment on the upcoming years are theories. What I keep in mind is that every nations which host World Cup event use the same arguments to justify the astonishing and massive investments for the event, while basic areas of the country are precarious. I really don't buy the idea a World Cup benefits the host country on long term, and actually, FIFA doesn't give any importance to it. Their only concern is to profit more than on the last edition, what they achieved nicely in Qatar with a profit of 7,5$ billion dollars, superior to the russian edition in 2018, while the host country (or its citizens, to be more accurate) remains beyond with loans and debt to be paid.

For Qatar I think the only positive effect was to increase its awareness in the world. Many people didn't know about the existence of this country and now they know.

I think his vision would be still the original vision he had during bitcoin's development. Probably would be happy for bitcoin achievements, growing adoption, but not so satisfied with the centralized path crypto environment is taking. His vision seems to be more at the favour of p2p transactions, every adopter controlling his own coins and being independent from governments and middlemen, while what we see are centralized services growing in number, size and popularity. About the number of altcoins disponible I think he wouldn't bother, since he knows bitcoin is unique and original. Moreover, he seemed to be an enthusiast of freedom, so it's acceptable each person creates their own altcoin, if wished.

Bad luck this time, but keep trying and adjusting the strategy, at some point you will match the correct result. Next time i just think you should select more carefully which matches you are going to pick. The Porto and PSG ones were unnecessary. That is the kind of risk that doesn't worth to be taken, or maybe you could have placed a lower bet on those matches, so you didn't sacrifice your money too quickly persuing underdogs.

The sum of money scammed by these projects adds almost half of the total sum scammed by SBF/Alameda/FTX. That is a lot of money wasted by investors and that should be remembered side by side with all the big scams of 2022 and their respective stolen amounts. Imagine the difference this huge money could make in the world if used properly for legit causes. How many lives could be improved and how many people could be assisted if those projects had real purposes and impact in the reality. Instead of that, this money is going to pay bails, the wealthiest lawyers available in the market and the luxuous lives of the scammers behind the fraud. It's a shame!

Gambling for fun means to be entertained during your game. It's similar to that adrenaline and excitement feelings of not knowing what will happen next, but that can be really good for you. We feel it in different situations in life and gambling is an activity which allow us to revive it more frequently, without having to wait for specific events that usually happen only once in a lifetime.

Some examples I could mention: to wait for a birthday, Christmas gift when you are child, to wait for polls' results, to win a competition, to receive your report card at school in the end of the year, to discover the gender of your baby... All these situations awake similar sensations in our bodies, which can be also triggered (maybe in minor scale) when gambling. And that is really rewarding for gamblers and I think that is what makes gambling so funny.

Unfortunatelly cloud mining has never been a good deal for investors. The difference is that 5 years ago people were more naive about this kind of investment and some companies had reputation on this field, because their schemes weren't exposed yet. The concept of cloud mining is useless since the beginning, as you will never be able to retrieve the same sum of bitcoin you firstly invested. On the moment you start the investment, you are already losing money. Income generated decreases day by day until reaching to zero, as it happened to many investors from Genesis Mining on their "lifetime" package.

it seems when you see your income has increased, you feel confortable in spending more money, so you have difficults saving funds when you have the option to do so. I believe you can control your desire for purchases in order to revert this reality. When you feel that urge for buying something, wait for a while, think again about what you are doing, ask yourself if you really need that product or service you are going to acquire or if it would be more worthful for you to save that money instead of spending it. Draw long term goals for your money and make it important for you, then the impulse for daily purchases will fade out within time.

Yes, I'm talking about locking FUN tokens exclusively. You have access to the other benefits even if you don't lock FUN, just by holding.

Well, it would be great to see FUN rising, but I think once bitcoin becomes bullish, FUN token will get behind, because it doesn't have the potential to increase at the same rates of bitcoin. So for each FUN you have, you will sell it for less satoshis of btc.

That is just a theory, though. If FUN can follow bitcoin in price increasement percentage this issue won't exist. Let's say bitcoin rises 30%, then FUN also has to rise 30% to maintain the exchange rates the same.

The 25% APY will be only worthful if the price of FUN continues stable in comparison to btc's price.

Today 1 FUN equals to 36 satoshis. Let's say the investment is locked for 1 year, but after that time 1 FUN equals to 27 satoshis. Although you earned 25% FUN interest, you will sell this FUN profit for btc with 25% fall in price (36 - 25% = 27). What means you didn't lose, but also didn't earn anything after one year.

So it may worth to take advantage of shorter locking periods.

The picture representing "bitcoin as king" on this thread is the perfect example of why we, as investors, should always prioritize bitcoin as the main investment in crypto universe against any other altcoins' alternatives. When you look the history of cryptocurrency, there is no doubt only bitcoin is capable of delivering solid and lasting results to adopters.

Some feel tempted to invest in altcoins instead of bitcoin, because they believe financial returns are going to be much superior, but it ends that their choices fall in position and relevance in the market year after year, while those who weren't too greed and sticked to bitcoin, even knowing returns might not be so exorbitant like x10, x50, x100, are still making profit, slowly, but surely, cycle after cycle.

That is an expected behavior from a sociopath. The guy has no respect and consideration for other people. Since it wasn't his own money he risked that large chunk of 100$ million in gambling. News like this make me more angry yet to see this guy isn't arrested and paying customers back, rather he is tranquil at home, going out, travelling, as nothing had happened, as is his girlfriend, because he had money from customers to pay for his bail. Now the mental disorder card must be the perfect excuse his lawyers will play in worst case, but I think that is a too mild conclusion for this case.

A bull market will come sooner or later, the problem is that the altcoins invested by OP look shitcoins from pump and dump schemes which have their prices boosted artificially, so whales and developers can drop all their holdings on the market for fast profit, but consequently leading the tokens to instant devaluation with no recovery chances, because nobody in sane conscience is going to invest in such altcoins anymore.

As he said, the only way to make profit from these altcoins is to sell them fast, on the moment they present positive oscillation in price superior to the price you have bought. If you wait too long, you may never be able to sell them again, completely losing the investment.

To prevent this dangerous situation, investors should invest mainly in bitcoin, so they will be safe to hold on long run expecting price recoveries and new ATHs.

Despite the charts, there could be indeed more dumps at the beginning of 2023. To make analyzes simpler, I prefer to take only most recent resistance and support levels values in consideration. At this moment the scenario should be considered relatively positive for bitcoin, because we left a support level of 15,700$ behind in November to reach a new support level of 16,400$ right now. It's an inoffensive advancement that must be followed on the next days and weeks, so we can conclude if it's a solid tendency or if it's just a temporary stability proportionated by the Holiday Season to be reverted as soon as the New Year comes in.

For me every spare money after all monthly expenses are paid with bills, food and basic needs in general, is "money I can afford to lose". If I'm not going to use it for btc investment, I'm going to "lose" it in another ways: I will buy clothes or acessories, eat out, gift someone...

And if I simply save that spare fiat on my banking account monthly, I will be literally losing money to inflation. So the truth is that for middle class and poor class, if you don't invest in bitcoin, you don't have any other worthful methods to invest or save your money.

I think Brendan Fraser is a good pick on this award, because besides the movie, his real life story is being shared intensily on the internet. I didn't go deeper, but I heard he had many difficults in his career and personal life during the last decades, after The Mummy movies. I believe he had or still has depression and fights against it with all his effort. I suppose they will give him the Best Actor Oscar because somehow he portrays the pain he felt in real life on this movie.

Maybe. It's an unpredictable situation. You can win or lose money, you never know. All you can do is to hope to be among the slight percentage of lucky gamblers who profit from a nice win streak or a big jackpot winning. But I can assure you it's not through dice that gamblers are going to make profit. It has to be on the lottery, slots' jackpot or sports betting. After all, to be good at gambling actually means you have to be lucky, that is all.

Bitcoin reaching 100,000$ will happen only when we enter a new bull run, what should happen in 2-3 years yet. By there, we can expect bitcoin price is going to remain stable or fall a little more to a new support level below 15,000$ or so. 2023 is a year of uncertainties for bitcoin. I believe the new year can be good for bitcoin only if it's a decisive year of punishment for scammers who created a lot of issues and losses for investors during 2022, and also if exchanges and online wallets become more transparent regard how much they are holding and what cryptocurrencies they are holding in real time.

If we have such good news, then there is some chance we see a glimpse of what could be a bull run still in 2023. However, to dream about 100,000$ seems too much in every cases. Once bitcoin hits at least 69,000$ again I will start thinking about it.

I was firstly motivated into gambling for profit reasons. I believed it was possible to make decent profit wagering at dice game to grow my bitcoin holdings progressively. Tried several times with different configurations through the usage of bot, but ended losing my satoshis earned from faucets. After several attempts I realized I was seeing gambling in the wrong way and if profit was my goal I would have to find a different activity to fulfill my objectives, remaining gambling solely as entertainment to play from times to times at the company of friends and family, if possible.