I know this feeling 😏, having passed through it myself after what seemed like forever for me. I was at Senior rank when the merit system was implemented and it looked like I was going to be stuck there forever. Ranking up to Hero was at snail speed or less than that for me. But benevolence found me after that and getting to legendary wasn't such a drag like what I experienced moving into hero. I'm sure you're in a glee right now. May benevolence also locate you henceforth. Enjoy the moment and congratulations.

OP, I don't think the world cares anymore about discovering Satoshi. Bitcoin is on autopilot, so to say. Whether Satoshi appears from the blues or not (that's if he's an individual and is still alive) doesn't matter any more. Bitcoin is able to attain it's height because of its security features which have earned it trust from the community. If anything, the world knows of Martti Malmi (Sirius) who's an important person in the development of Bitcoin but that hasn't in anyway affected Bitcoin. Malmi grants interviews and talks about Bitcoin and an insider but people don't seem to care what actions he gets involved in. They don't see him any differently apart from his ingenuity. Maybe that's how the world will react to Satoshi if he surprisedly appears on the scene now. What if in the likely case that Malmi turns out to be Satoshi, I still believe life will just go on as usual. Except for him who will be needing extra security around himself.

That should be it and not because Satoshi's identity is hidden.

I will continue to hate dictatorship and censorship of any kind. Any country that censors free speech and ease of doing business by its citizens should be condemned. I believe that's why the US hates anything that doesn't promote democracy. I listened to the part where the Pakistani celebrity – Waqar Zaka, said he sued his government to court because of what he called unconstitutional ban of Bitcoin in Pakistan. It was an action worth emulating.

Isn't that already like being over ambitious?

How time flies. Truly, it's like it happened just yesterday. If Bitcoin stays above $30,000 going into 2024, the next halving will see price spike so high in 2025 that will leave many jaws agape. So far, I think Bitcoin hasn't disappointed after hitting its last ATH in 2021 till now. Though it's losing around 40% of that gain in what shows a bearish momentum, we still can't compare it with what happened in 2018 after its ATH in 2017. The market is getting better after every halving. Expectedly, I want to see 2024 case top that of 2020.

I also advanced this argument that if anything, the awareness and demand for Bitcoin has kept it from crashing and dumping as the war goes on. Otherwise, we should be seeing a Bitcoin in the $20k region by now if not that donations to Ukraine in Bitcoin further exposed Bitcoin to the world and demand soared. I want this demand to continue as the market meanders through this tough and rough first quarters of 2022. I believe the second quarter will present a stronger price momentum. We've even started seeing flashes of it already. At the moment, Bitcoin is trading above $41,000 and April which marks the beginning of second quarter is less than 10 days away. This is a good development.

There's a reason the market is unpredictable. Even with all your analysis and backtesting, you still won't be perfect in predicting the next move of the market. This is why that caveat of, "investing only what you can lose" is necessary for every new trader to memorize and make a daily business anthem. I've come to conclude that the best way to trade the market and be profitable is to do it without any encumbrances and pressure. Just trade with ease and not put pressure of what one is likely going to do with the targeted profit even when it's very far from made.

Yes, education expectedly plays a part. However, educate a man who has cardinal greed, and give him all the cash you want he will still be greedy. Isn't that what we find with leaders in Africa (especially my country Nigeria?) These people who fall prey  to scams are mostly not those who aren't educated and enlightened. I've seen graduates who fell for ponzi schemes whose modus operandis were obvious to a simple eye that they were scams. Yet the so called graduates couldn't discern them because they were blinded by greed of what ROI that was dangled before them.

I used to fall into such trap in the past until I started reading about scam accusations on Reputation thread here. The shocking thing is that some of the app companies now pay to get positive reviews. That got me too. I also liked to look at the number of downloads an app got and felt it was a good sign that it was genuine if it got many download. That's not true. It's a hoax. My formula now is to read the worst reviews on an app if I have doubt. That's how I guage it. Nobody pays a reviewer to write them a bad review. So, I sieve through the bad reviews and pick out the genuinely written ones because I know there are certain idiots who mischievously like running others under a bus by writing bad reviews without a genuine assessment. I expect people to evaluate apps through this (my) method. It helps a lot.

I wouldn't know about the second part but I know for certain those who advanced that line of argument were not illiterate. In their argument they advanced that Bitcoin was money and since it appreciated and rose in price that it's like interest paid on cash kept in the bank and they frowned at it. They maintained that interest shouldn't be paid on cash kept in the bank. I think they called it Islamic or Sharia banking or so, where interest aren't paid. It's a long time but it was an interesting read then for me because I saw different shades of arguments. It's nice to see everyone now getting on the move and embracing Bitcoin.

Well, let's hope a few people misinterpreted it and everything is back to factory setting now.

Yeah, I realized that later too. Now I see why it's better that the privilege to delete threads isn't granted to thread openers, except moderators. It saves the forum lots of educational and historical posts and threads that ordinarily would be lost by that action. I acknowledge that sometimes the urge to do away with threads one feels aren't worthy anymore or shitty may come up but like LoyceV said it's best to move them to the archive.

I want to agree with you on that. I think price didn't get to its intended crescendo before plummeting in 2021. This is why I believe strongly that the bears will only linger this first quarters of this year and be done away with once the market goes into the second quarters. Bitcoin still has some unexhausted steam that can get it fired up again easily. Going forward, I don't think Bitcoin will ever encounter such brutal fall as it did in 2018 because of a lot of institutional monies that have sunk into its investment now. In 2017/2018, it was more of retail investors. They panicked easily because they were in it for short term gains. Now that we've institutions on a long term investment, it's going to be hard to witness such market dump.

I thought Muslims were against the idea of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as they called them ponzi and all sorts of derogatory names. It was a heated argument in 2017/2018 when I newly joined this forum. I couldn't understand what the noise was all about then as some people opined that Muslims were against any project that paid interest, the same way they don't encourage interest banking. Has all that changed now?

Let me start here – it's simply because good things don't last. Again, it could be because everyone will be carried away in the euphoria and wouldn't realize how time flew. Generally, and naturally too, man will always expect anything that gives him joy to linger and not end any time soon. Bitcoin started its last bullish move in the last quarters of 2020 but when it ended towards the end of 2021, people still felt it was short-lived.

But of course, we are in a bear season. I expect a rebound to the upward in the second quarters we're about getting into. April should kick start it.

@Poker Player, I know we will see you around the forum as always. You're a great ubiquitous poster. Best of luck, comrade.

@Best_Change, I sent you a pm a few days ago. I guess you haven't seen it. Could you check, please.

With each passing day, whenever I hear or read someone's sob story here of how they got scammed; my position gets fortified. Nothing else entices greedy investors more and weakens their senses of reasoning than outrageous ROI promised. This is the easiest way to get people hooked on whatever scheme one is planning. Without allowing greed get a better part of us, we should be wiser. It's sad that people get scammed because of their unreasonable greed. How on earth will someone promise to return a double of whatever one invested within an 1hr (even in a month, it's still doubtful) and we consider it to be true? That's a horrible way of reasoning to start with for anyone who in their faintest fantasy considers that to be possible.

In addition to that, OP can also use and plot graphs on Poocoin by using DApp on dex. I do that on Trust Wallet. There are several indicators there, including the various MAs which one can set to whatever parameters one wants. BTW, let me state here that anyone using MAs shouldn't use them in isolation. Try and combine them with other indicators like you would use RSI with others. The few times I used MA, especially on that 200 setting; I used it to find trend and that's on a long term. An upward cross indicates an uptrend while bears are expected when price crosses it downward. Whatever you do OP, don't rely only on MAs. They're lagging indicators.

It's the right way to go if it will curb all the excesses of Vladimir Putin, seeing all the conditions he has given Zelensky. Honestly, I don't know (nobody does; not even Putin) what the outcome of this war will be. I'm sure no one believed it would longer to this day. It's almost a month since the Russia assault of Ukraine started. Well, if Zelensky's legislative move will be what Bitcoin and cryptos need to get strengthened and closer to mass adoption so be it.

To be honest with you, it's like the world cured itself of COVID 19 since this war started. All interest is now on Russia and Ukraine.

You're right. What you described in that post isn't JOMO or FOMO. It's FUD – Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. I checked out the SLP you mentioned. It's not a bad token as such since it has something to do with Axie Infinity and it's a P2E. It's on Binance and many others. However, I'm doubtful if I could buy a token like that because it has an infinite supply. I need to know the maximum supply cap of any crypto I'm investing in before putting my hard earned cash on it. Otherwise I don't buy.

I think there's a universal name for it called "Regret"

I think that it's not enough to be asking if anyone had heard of that platform. You should go beyond that and ask if anyone had a first hand experience with that platform. That's the sure way for you to find out if it's a fake site or not; and if real, what's its customer services like too. Going forward, I think newbies should know that the fewer exchanges they stick to the better for them. Nobody gets an award or acknowledgement for the most accounts opened or owned. So, it doesn't make any sense to have so many accounts and your funds littered everywhere. For me, I prefer what I'm sure of to what is shrouded in risk no matter how tempting the offer is.

Who are these analysts, please? It will be good to know them so we can research and find out their pedigree. We should be able to find out if it isn't just another fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam.

Confiding your password to someone is like a man sharing his properties to his children while still alive. It's not a nice practice. Keep your properties in your will and let that be made known to the children at your demise. I've read stories of children misbehaving once they knew they're bequeathed certain properties while their parents are still alive. The attitude changes overnight, in most cases. It's the same way I see this password issue being confided in someone. The best would be to write it down somewhere that can lead someone else to it in case of the inevitability of death.