I agree that government is not really "controlling" bitcoin, they are just controlling what you can do with it and how you can use it which is still a problem. If a country bans ownership of crypto all together, they are not controlling crypto like that, but at the end we are talking about them not allowing you to have anything and you would be doing something illegal if you owned any.

Not really seeing any much improvement about it at all. I have to say that there is a good case to be made about that control being even worse than directly controlling it, because there is something out there which people use if they are from another nation, and you would be committing a crime if you did.

Unfortunately banks do not fund governments, it is the other way around, governments fund banks. We have seen plenty of times when banks are not doing that well, and the government ends up helping them out and save them because they are getting bribed heavily by those banks. Hell even in 2008 crisis caused by banks, they gave out 800+ billion dollars worth of "loan" to them, and did they profited from it?

Sure they did, but if I ever bankrupt like that, I can bet you that government wouldn't just save me and give me a huge loan, and neither would any bank? Because if something is bankrupted, it's bankrupted, no need to save it for free, you either buy it out completely, or just let it die.

Diversification is one of them as well. If you know what you are doing then it shouldn't really be a problem but if you have no idea about crypto then you could diversify by buying silly coins and so forth. I highly suggest being very careful with it, you could buy like 10 different coins and if 7 of them fails within first 5 year, then you made absolutely nothing that worths diversification, just buy btc, eth, bnb and be done with it in that case.

However, if you know what you are doing then you should be doing a lot better and you could totally profit from it because you could buy 10 different ones, and even if 1 dropps, the other 9 would save you.

I do not really believe that pump and dump is that much of a big deal in the short term. Sure we have crashes and increases all the time and that makes it a bit harder to focus on the task at hand, but that is still doable thing for all of us.

I personally would love to see the current situation a bit better, and that means we are going to end up with a situation where it is not going to be pump and dump, but more like bear and bull in cycles and those are different things. When it's pump and dump, that is like daily thing, but when it is bear and bull it is like months in between those things before it happens, so that is why I see it as bear and bull and not pump and dump.

Bitcoin is the number one coin and has always been the top coin. If you are going to make any type of investment into crypto, then you are going to end up doing it with bitcoin at first, then you can check the other ones.

I have plenty of coins in my portfolio, majority of them are very low amounts I invested, like 10-20 bucks just to keep track of them basically, never believed they would be 1000x or something, but if they ever do, I have some there just in case. But, if you look at the biggest piece of the pie, I have a big bitcoin investment for myself, because I believe that no matter what the others will do, I am sure that bitcoin will always go up in the end.

The difference is that during the booze deal, there weren't many places in the country that you could sell it, if I am not wrong it was a federal move right? This one is New York related only. Plus, the amount of people who use booze, and have absolutely no alternatives is out there and known, whereas if you do not use crypto at all then you could go with fiat and if you want to invest then there are stocks and precious metal like gold and silver. All in all, they are not the same thing and New York would win that argument.

However, when other states allow such things, New York not allowing people to do it would be a freedom blocking thing, and the USA is obsessed with "freedom" more than anything else.

Honestly those "tree huggers" is not the problem in that case, because Nuclear power plants are usually very clean if you know what you are doing. I know that there is a chance it could blow up and that would be horrible, but nobody builds a nuclear power plant just so it would blow up and be terrible. It is energy efficient, you can carry it for very long distances, and it is not going to be hurting the world if nothing happens.

So, even for a tree hugger, it is actually a good idea, it is a clean energy source that covers so much energy need with just one of them, 10 of them would light the whole nation, why would it be something tree huggers hate, I would never know.

CBDC definitely can't kill crypto, because it is just one nation, doesn't matter which nation, could be the USA, the UK, India, Greece, Germany, it never really matters. The only thing that matters is the fact that one nation could be eliminated from the current situation and there will be a lot of people who will end up with upsetting portfolios that mean nothing anymore, or move towards p2p to make it work.

However, if we end up with something that is a bit more precious, then we could end up with a good return in the long run. So, the best thing to do would be to actually end up with a good alternative ready before any of this happens.

Why would you think that it would never reach under 50k? We know that the high prices do happen, but then we need to learn that the low ones happen at times as well. That may not be at all times, but it does happen here and there. So when the crash happened, of course it dropped under 50k, not only that but dropped under 30k as well.

This is the price you need to buy in order to profit when the next high happens. Maybe not all people will do it, but I guarantee you that all the people who will become rich during the next bull run, will be the people who ended up buying right now. Because it may fall like crazy, but it goes up like crazy as well.

If you are a long-term holder, trend is not your only hope. So let’s look at the 4 year cycle, would you take 2021 as the year we went up? Because in 2019 we started with 3.5k and reached 14k and ended up with 7k, or the year of 2020 started with 7k, reached over 20k just that year, started the next year at nearly 30k levels, that should tell you something, 2021 on the other hand started around there and peaked at 68k but ended not so greatly at all.

So which year is the cycle? Let’s assume 2021 and 68k as the peak, why shouldn't we have it on 2022? Or 2023? That would break the cycle, but still help the people who hold it long term anyway.

Honestly, it is already quite good and going up, we do not even need new people neither, just the people we have right now and their money would be enough. Like for example if you focus on just the fact that crypto is something that would be less and less available because people will buy and hold, and the remainder of bitcoin will be traded between traders, the price will eventually go up with that idea.

And this is literally zero new money going into bitcoin and still rising if you wait long enough, this is getting faster whenever new money goes into bitcoin as well and that is why I believe that it is quite a good important deal for everyone to realize bitcoin will always go up in the long run.

Basically if you had one chance to be whoever you want, would you like to say "I want to be an NBA player" or would you say "I want to be the best NBA player ever"? You would say best, but some people would forget to add that part in. Sure FA and TA will not guarantee you any profit at all, but at least it would be better to trade when you know both of them, compared to not knowing either and still ending up trading, but this time being blind while doing it.

So, it is clear to me that everyone should be investing some time into learning more about charts, indicators, TA in general, FA, spend hours on researches, checking the markets, reading the charts, maybe won't give you profit, but gives you a higher chance to profit.

I believe that the question is which one has the better chance. Like I believe ETH has a huge chance to blow up, because I believe that during the next bull run, we are going to not just have some smart bull run helping everything to go up a lot, but we are going to have ETH 2.0 by that time as well which would increase the chances of making a ton of money as well.

This is not really a bad thing, it just means that we are going to end up with a great result for ETH because it will have 2 reasons to go up, versus most of the market which will have one, the bull run. So, I believe that personally ETH is the best thing we could invest right now.

I agree, there are too many people who are constantly afraid that they would not have the thing they are looking for and they keep fearing that one day they are going to end up losing it all. That anxiety over something that did not happen yet, is a psychological problem. I personally feel like talking to a professional would help.

If bitcoin came all this way without any problems, then why would it start to have any problems in the future suddenly? Of course it won't, but there will be some people who will always be afraid of this, they will always think that out of nowhere, suddenly the bitcoin price could crash because of some problems.

Ehh, it is basically "you are your own" thing at this point. It has been obvious for a while and if anyone is still doing the same thing and still investing into SOL then it is a bit on them as well.

So, I really do not think that it should matter that much. Don't get me wrong I am not saying that they shouldn't do anything, all I am saying is that SOL and how it is operated is obvious and if you are still investing into it then why should we feel pity when it is crashed and burned? When the day comes, what will happen to SOL is the same thing that happened to Luna, maybe not an outside attack, but a big crash for sure and that day we will just say "told you so" and move on.

Decentralized needs to be reminded again these days because there are so many people who are investing their money into centralized projects. Projects where the team actually has a chance to keep on controlling the network.

One of the most famous ones has been XRP, because there is a company called Ripple that basically controls it for good, and that should scare people enough that they should have never invested into it. And that is an old one, we are talking about brand new things where people ended up doing some investments based on the centralized projects that ruins people. So just stay away from centralized ones, and go with satoshi's decentralization.

I believe that Elon is doing something that would be good in this situation though. He is definitely a clown there is no denying that but we should not just ignore all the good he might do just because he is not a good person. If he could do some solar panel type of stuff which he is known for, he could definitely end up doing something much better with it because it would be green and he would be able to not spend any money at all.

This would be profiting you a lot and it would end up with a great business for him. Obviously he would need to work towards getting too many machines, because he has the solar power but he doesn't have the asic miners.

It was an option, it was a clear option. When a corporation starts making x10 profit, whereas people are dying, then you know what you should be doing, not print more money. During the pandemic places like tesla, amazon, microsoft etc etc all made so much money, just give them a pdenmix tax, anyone who makes over a billion dollars profit would have to pay 90% of that as a tax, just for 2 years, and that would be the end of it.

You could have gotten nearly a trillion dollars for that, probably less but still a good amount. Then, do not do anything extra, just distribute that to anyone who was making under 50k dollars a year, and you would be actually helping everyone. But no, that would be "socialism", so why not let the poor die was the option they went with.

I agree, when things get too overhyped for their own good, the bubble pops and then it destroys all the fake ones that got attention because of the bubble, and leaves us with the ones that will do good in the future when it reappears. That way we know that we would be making a good return, and make a good profit, but at the same time we will not be destroying too much time wasted on those bad projects as well.

Bubble is basically the "purge", where we destroy the whole bad things and leave all the bad stuff behind, and look to the future with only bright eyes. If we can survive this, which we all know we will, then we will recover to be much better.

I believe that there are some that fail, not just go down or anything but literally fail. Sure, many coins usually do not fail and only go down and that is understandable but at the same time and that means we are not going to see zero fails, we are going to see some that will go down so much and will not recover when the bull period comes.

This is usually a situation where those horrible coins end up doing absolutely nothing at all, and that means we are going to end up seeing plenty of projects that will fail because they provided nothing and they did nothing. Crypto is a hyped place where a project doing nothing means terrible things for its future.