The fact that you need patience to build a business also requires money. I get that you can't be rich overnight, but realize that most businesses require you to earn something. If you are going to focus on it full-time then you need it to make enough so that you could pay your bills.

For example, I earn a decent amount right now, if I quit this job and start my own business, and it doesn't earn, then not only I do not have a good business, but also I can't pay my bills and eat food, what am I suppose to pay that with. This is why I believe that even though it shouldn't be something huge, it needs to earn at least enough to pay the bills.

Freedom ends where others freedoms start. This is what we were thought at school when I was a little kid. If you mean something like freedom to kill someone, that is not freedom for example, it means that you are getting into someone else's freedom. Abraham Lincoln said it the best "If we submit ourselves to law, even submit to losing freedoms, the freedom to oppress, for instance, we may discover other freedoms previously unknown to us."

This is what freedom is all about, if you want to see how you should design your freedom and want to learn if you oppress anyone or if you are oppressed, ask yourself "is this request of freedom changes anything in anyone else's life or not" and you will have your answer.

Just because there is a possibility of it, doesn't mean that we should be reliant on the price going that high. The difference between "it will be high" versus "it will be a million dollars", is that when you can calculate how much it will be and believe it, then you will invest accordingly and it could hurt you.

If you believe that it will be 1 million dollars by 2025 then what stops you from getting a loan, or selling your house, basically taking as much leverage as possible to invest into it and hope that it will be one million dollars? You would be able to do that, or you could just say that it will be high, unknown amount and still invest wisely instead.

The problem with the "free speech" that people keep talking about is the fact that free speech is something you enter against the government, not against each other. If you tweet to someone "I will find you and kill you" that is still not "free speech" that is threatening someone and not only you will be banned, but you will be prosecuted as well, anything that is illegal, like "hello everyone, I am selling heroin, dm me if you want some" would not be free speech.

It means that there is a clear area where you could say "what a wonderful morning" and an illegal area we talked about, which means there bounds to be some gray area as well. There will never be a company publicly traded and allowed to run which could give you 100% right to write whatever you ever wanted. Elon can't give you that, nobody can.

We do not need nations to become like El Salvador and just take it to top, we just need them to relax the regulations and laws enough that the crypto world would flourish there and that would be enough. What we need to remember is that it is hard for companies to accept bitcoin because it is volatile and their vendors do not accept volatility and waiting, they need to pay.

Like you may expect amazon to accept bitcoin one day, but if they spend 100 million on merchandise and products to sell to you, and then they sell it for 120 million dollars worth of bitcoins, then the price of bitcoin goes down 50% that would mean they just sold it for 60 million, they could wait, but then they need to reorder which means they need to sell that and buy again for a loss.

I am afraid, it also allows him to make a lot of money as well. Between fame, attention and money the situation is on his benefit even if he doesn't turn out to be satoshi. If you could convince nobody but still get mics lined up or articles written about you, then it is a benefit for you in the long run. Dude probably made millions from the satoshi claim, and no lie he was one of the early investors so he might have a lot of bitcoins to begin with as well.

Combine these two things together and you have yourself a situation where everything seems a lot better for you. This doesn't mean that he should be doing it, it is a bad and horrible thing but if he is profiting from it, I can see his point.

There were some "learn" parts where you earn. They promoted it as "learn to earn" type of deal. That basically allowed you to learn about some new coins and tokens and they would give you like 3-5 dollars or something small like that. At the time Lumens was the biggest giver for example.

I am not saying that it is a thing that keeps going forever and adds in more and more coins, I haven't seen too much new things that frequently, but it did existed the last time I checked and gave you some points. This is why I personally believe that it was definitely a great method for the poor. However, best is to earn by working and getting a salary for sure.

Just because you have gas, doesn't mean that you could control other nations. The difference is that they could take your and all of your allies money with other stuff and you will be forced to pay that with gas. That's education, that's power, that's business people all getting together.

If you pay for McDonalds, apple, google and whatever else really, doesn't matter what it is if it's a business owned by the west then you are going to pay that with your gas. This means that the fight is still one sided, west could afford to pay Russia to get gas, because they already got a lot from them and they will be just getting the payment in gas form instead of fiat.

To be fair adding some and removing others couldn't be a bad decision neither. I do agree that there are some bad choices there, and it should be removed and more trusted stuff like btc should be added in there. I am not saying that I would make a decision based on 12 or 15, because to me it is not about the number of coins you invest into, but the quality of it.

I would say 12 beats 15 in a situation where 12 has better coins, but 15 beats 12 when there is better additions. Here, we see that the 3 coins that added are more trustable coins and I would pick that, but if in case it was the other way around, I would have said no to 3 shitcoins if they were added.

We still need to realize that regulations of stock market is real and SEC could file charges against him. If he promotes crypto and he gains from it personally, he would be facing charges, so he could technically still do it, but not via any of his companies, so if Tesla buys bitcoin and then Elon promotes bitcoin that will be conflict of interest.

Not saying that he can't, there could be some legal loopholes found, but using your own company to promote something your other company bought will become a bit of an issue in the long run. This is mainly due to the fact that he would be causing a lot of people to invest their money into something, and probably causing them to lose money.

Oil/gas will eventually go away as the main thing to spend. From simple small cars to a huge truck, everything will be based on electricity. However, we need to make sure that we create that energy in a clean way as well. If you burn coal and create energy and then use that for your Tesla, that’s not clean at all, this is not helpful to anyone, it is not better than oil/gas. If you do hydro, solar, wind and such then using that for your electric car could be something awesome for sure.

We are talking about something that is better for the distant future, because we could keep on investing renewable energy but electric cars all in itself by default is not a good thing if you produce bad energy from bad sources.

There isn't really "one way" to make sure that you could see if it's bots or real traders. I mean they have improved the bots so much so that we are talking about real looking stuff that gain a lot of volume and that gives people a ton of returns.

If you really want to succeed then you need to make sure that you are looking at the trustable places that we all know. Like for example if you are trading at binance, do you really worry that they would try to trick you into thinking there is a volume there but actually do it with bots? I mean there are bots that trade, but not for volume. Binance wouldn't let it fly, they want legit stuff so they can make a profit.

Profit shouldn't be the main thing though, that's the problem. I get that you could invest and make a lot of profit, but at the end of the day if you can't then there is no problem because crypto is not just a profit maker but it is also something that you could use as a currency.

For example, dollar loses value every single year, lost a ton in the last 2 years, but at the end we haven't really seen any problems at all with the current situation, if USD doesn't really cause any fear and people get away just because it's losing value then it means that we are talking about Bitcoin not really being a "bad" thing if it goes down neither, use it as a currency in that period.

It is really not that difficult if your friend could explain to you in a way that you could understand. I had a friend who jokingly explained something to me like he was talking to a kid and that actually did allow me to get it. I mean it didn't had to be that simple like he was talking to a 5 year old kid, but at the same time, wouldn't you understand something that a 5 year old can?

It means if there is something you do not understand, turning that into like you are explaining it to a kid would actually benefit you. It started as a joke and now we seriously explain things that way because it makes things so easy to understand and does allow us to move forward quicker.

That is the cycle of the market, you get one thing and then you get another thing and that is how it stays alive. If we always go bull then where will we find all of that money? We cannot just ask the world to keep on pouring money forever without ever selling, we will literally run out of money lol, technically impossible let alone convincing the world to even attempt it.

We cannot go bear all the time neither, believe me there are rich people out there who would buy wholesale when it gets cheap enough, it will have to stop eventually, hell I would buy all bitcoins I could if it drops to a certain level. So, it means it will always go up and down.

Correction could happen at plenty of times, we had corrections all throughout the 2020 and 2021 period as well. I remember very clearly, before we reached all those 60k+ levels, first we needed to break over the previous ATH of 20k. When it reached close to that, it was like 19.6k or so, and it kept on dropping lower to 17k-18k levels.

You should have seen it, it happened like maybe 6 times and kept on going up and down and up and down so much. In the end, what happened? We reached to a level where it was 68k at the peak right? This shows you that even though we may have hard time cracking above a certain level, that is a temporary thing and won't hold for too long.

Faith sort of plays a role in investment if you are doing it long term. There is no indicator that can suggest what bitcoin will do in the next 1 year for example, you could try to predict but it will mostly be baseless, hence you just have to have faith. But, if we are talking about April or may, then we could definitely consider it as short term and can back the predictions up with data.

I believe May will be greater because we are growing in support, and weaker in resistance all the way back to 48k levels, that should be good enough reason to actually go up and do better. There is no guarantee of course, maybe we will do the harder one and go down, instead of easier going up.

I faced this when my grandfather asked me about it. That was the final draw for me and I just jumped right into bitcoin full time when that happened.

This was obviously back in 2016-2017 period, but that was more than enough for me to realize that if my grandfather is trying to learn what it is, even if he doesn't invest, just the fact that he is trying to learn and thinks that it's something worthy of understanding, was enough to see bitcoin is going places. After that it reached to 20k, and this was like 500-700 range when it happened, then the max is 68k nowadays. I think it was a good indicator to see it will go up.

It has both separated long long time ago, but also not separated at all. I am saying it separated long time ago because if Elon Musk could tweet and increase the price of bitcoin, then it means economic data has no meaning, if we could have Biden go out and say he loves bitcoin and the price goes up then there is no economic data to talk about.

This is the part where it has separated long time ago, there is also a part where it is highly connected as well. That part is the fact that while these things are not happening, when there is nothing that separates it, days like today for example where there is no big news, it is all connected to economic data. So, it is both connected, but separated at the same time.

People are indecisive about whats going on and what will happen. I am not saying that it is impossible to predict right now, obviously there are some people who are aware of whats going on, but that doesn't mean that we will not be making any mistakes along the way while trying to predict neither.

This is why people are staying back and watching, this is why volume is lower as well, all because people have no idea whats going on. You are right about patience though, if we could wait and finally let bitcoin do what it wants to do, up or down, then we will be doing a lot better and we could profit a lot more as well. That's what I am guessing will happen soon.