First, let me correct you that the fall you talked about of Bitcoin did not happen in March 2021, the market ended positive in that month. What you wanted to quote started in April 2021 when Bitcoin almost hit $65,000, before it slipped back to selling which lasted until July of the same year. Even though July ended positively, it never started positively.

Regardless, the market is funny, and even in the middle of a bullish market, there could be a bearish correction, and even at times, there could be serious news or events that is negative to the prevailing bias. This could bring about FUD which could even attempt to change the whole bias of the market until it subsides and the true sentiment prevails again. This was what happened in my research.

Lastly, there is a monthly chart of "MagicTrend" support at $29,965 which the market tested in May, June and even July but was unable to successfully breach it lower since there was no monthly close below it. That was what helped the market to rise again until the price action became bullish over time which later helped Bitcoin to move even higher towards the former ATH at $69,000 before it eventually succumbed to the bearish cycle which is normal for Bitcoin after every successive bull run.

Oh, bro, I am glad you naturally have reservations about what you alleged. As for me, I am surprised about what you wrote concerning trading because most of them are particularly not true. Fine, trading is risky but today, there are a few who could tell you categorically that they do nothing for a living other than trading. In that sense, what is that if not their job? This is simple and practical. I know a few of them that are traceable trading alone and they are very living fine. Not only that, they are living large and some are adding other businesses to it to be impactful in life other than trading alone. The internet should be able to tell you a few as well, and if not for my side hurtling now that can't make me say it with all confidence, I should be a testifier to this as well by now in my little way. I have survived with trading for almost a decade, there are challenges though especially if you are from a developing country, but overall, I am very sure that trading is a job for some people, but a risky one for that matter. That's the issue.

However, below are my quick responses to your numbered claims;

1. Trading is not stressful and you have your choices. You may be a short-term trader in which day trader is inclusive, a medium-term or long-term trader. With the latter two, you will not even know you are doing anything. However, retirement is certain at a point if you want and it is not peculiar to trading or a certain age.

2. Trading is ever enjoyable to those who know it very well and earn from it. But if you are such that has it otherwise, then it is not for you and it is never by force. "Trading is not for everybody."

3. This is why you partner with the right company. It is never an issue as well.

For me, I do not support young people investing but their parents or older friends or relatives may do that for them. This is not because the investment is bad for them, but first, they are not of the legal age which the law frowns so much at, and secondly, they may lose focus on their education and other useful things in life if they start investing and controlling it all by themselves at the very young age. And as we know, investment is risky and could be very dangerous at the same time, this is aside from the fact that it's addictive just like gambling, so it is for a very good reason for the government to have barred them from such activities until they reach adult age, we should respect that.

However, if I have my way, it is until they reach the maturity age that they should be allowed. You might ask, what do I mean? But truly, reaching 18 years of age doesn't automatically qualify a child for maturity. The child will have to prove the maturity through thinking and doing. Above all, anything risky should be well-tabled to these young children at the same, and with the right education and explanation, they will be able to know the pros and cons and act rightly at the right age.

That's the spirit! Diversification is key in investments, especially at this time when the price of Bitcoin is heavy enough. We should think of how we make more money (but also in a safe environment) rather than believing that it is Bitcoin alone that can do it. Those who have been diversifying their portfolios since last year who know how much they make in multiples of what Bitcoin long-term holders have made, which is the gist here, it is all about the money unless we are deceiving ourselves.

However, my situation was a bit different from yours when I started investing in cryptocurrency, and as a matter of fact, I joined Bitcointalk before I eventually started with crypto investment. But I've known about cryptocurrency for many years before then, and if I am correct, I have known cryptocurrency since 2013 or even before then but I never invested, I was just using it as a payment system which I still regret today. When I started the crypto investment, I was only buying Bitcoin for months, which was the aim though. But later, I started diversifying when the price of Bitcoin was high and discouraging to me enough, I think this was smartness and I have never regretted my action till now.

Before I go, just some advice, you need to look lower than the top-rated coins to maximize your profits, the world of crypto is evolving gradually. So to make more money, you might want to try the popular Memes, Defis and newly introduced L1/L2 projects. I also like you to focus on TON projects, I think Notcoin has paved the way for that.

I understand you very well and I under the meaning of shitcoins even more, but the reason why you know that a coin is a shitcoin, and judging by your damning definition about it, you still went ahead to invest in it and continues to label it a shitcoin, that's what baffled me to say the truth. Frankly, your condemnation of shitcoin here is enough for me to believe that you will never go near it and if at all you would want to invest in anything apart from Bitcoin, you could have resorted to other altcoins with good projects, prospects and value instead of tshitcoin. I hope you get the gist now and it's not a big deal at all.

Besides, I can see your high confidence in Bitcoin, I wish I have the same confidence as many in this forumm but my vast experience in the financial markets will not let me. All I can say is that you should be very careful and not be too trusting, and don't ever be a blind follower of any asset or what anyone preaches to you. I have high hopes for Bitcoin too but it has limits, and above all, I will let the prevailing reality and my market chart lead the way.

I thought differently when I first saw your headline but never knew it was for this purpose. Well, if you are talking about what helped Bitcoin to grow this much to the point that it is now in the mainstream of the financial market, you can't be talking about its privacy, anonimity and decentralization characteristics, you will be wrong if you did. Bitcoin is helped due to the trading, investment and the businesses built around it and not only about buying and HODLing your coin.

If yours was the only goal, then it will never grow to this level, you will not be able to even compare it with the staggering growth that would happen. That is why the earlier adopters and miners tried as much as possible to make it tradeable, which was the beginning of the success of Bitcoin. And don't forget that Bitcoin was created to rival fiat and cover up for the excesses of it and also reduce the control of the government and other authorities dealing with fiats. If its core purpose is limited to what you iterated above, how would it be able to do to all that?

Conclusively, in my opinion, everything useful Bitcoin is being used for today are the main reasons why it was created.

That is the gist, and technically, we need each other to grow, but my main point is that the casinos and sportsbooks keep the cordiality better than any other sectors, which is commendable. Also, the traffic here is no joke and I believe the companies that value their marketing will always give this forum a try.

As for those campaigns that had left, I believe that it could be for three main reasons; First, it could be due to some financial constraints, second, it could be that their target plan on campaigning on the forum is reached, and third, it could be for their impatience at times.

Some companies need the best results immediately, but it is not automatic. Consistency is the key and I believe it is what the casinos that have been dealing with the forum for long are enjoying over time. It is not all the week they will have some kind of satisfaction, and in some weeks they will be satisfied with the results beyond their expectations. How would those who rushed out know that?

Whoa, nice to read that! I've always said that it is the smartest traders/investors who will earn more in Bitcoin. It is not always about how you know to HODL it or trade it for some sort of long-term system, but the best way you can be smart about it is to maximise your profit, and you may be making multiples of the income that those who are HODLing it are making. You can imagine what those investors who always buy Bitcoin when it moves lower and liquidate it when it shows a serious sign of a retracement or reversal would gain? For them, they would have made a huge amount of money because they would have completed many trades by now even as those who HODLs would have gained a little depending on where they struck the market. That is the spirit and I know this early enough due to my vast trading and investment experience. However, it is good for anyone trying to practice this to sharpen their analytical skills and make sure that their speculations have a very high degree of accuracy.

I read this news a while ago, maybe about 2 weeks ago if I am correct, but I never gave it much thought until it happened "because seeing is believing." I sounded that way because Mt. Gox will always be my reference point, it is one promise over the other for so long, so I will only believe what I see with FTX.

However, if they are able to pay, it will be very lovely, and it would mean that if not for the exposure of SBF by CZ, he would have been able to manage his way out though and everything would have been fine with FTX. Though I am not in support of his actions, but still, companies always have their sh*ts, only that they know how to cover it up more than each other and the magnitude of their ugliness varies.

Above all, a special thanks to SOL and the wisdom of FTX to invest massively in it. If not, I wonder how they would be able to achieve what they are planning this soon.

I fully understand what you are saying and where you are driving the whole gist towards, you are correct in a way, but it is clear that you do not understand my own point. Fine, greed could infest anyone, but when it has taught you one or two bitter lessons, you will be more experienced and be smart next time. I've experienced this many times and it has helped me to be cautious of huge betting that causes deviation from my plan no matter how confident I am about the game as nothing is perfect and no one knows when the luck will run against him.

So avoiding greed and sticking to the plan is the way out, that was why I said it is temporary, at least for so many, unlike addiction. Addiction is such that will take hold of you then and later after unless you are healed. This could only aggravate the greed in the gambler which is what I believe you are mistaken of. If someone is addicted and is also greedy when he is betting, what do you expect? More losses and more irresponsible gambling of course. But greed as a context just infests you and leaves you since you are not addicted. Take for instance, a certain person who has $2000 in his gambling account and plans to gamble with just $500, but on a closer look at the game, he now got greedy through overconfident and used the whole $2000, but sadly lost the money.

Don't you think he will think twice to avoid the same next time? That's what I am talking about. First, he was never greedy until greed suddenly infested him at that point of betting, he never planned for it, and immediately he lost bitterly, his psychology was reset back to normal with regrets and might never repeat it again. While some will repeat it for some more time but will still stop later because it is not positive for them. This is why I said it is temporary, it gets hold of you at that point of betting but leaves you after having left a scare later.

I have a different view to yours as though people could initially want to trade more but over time that it has taught them enough lessons, they always reverse back to invest their cryptos, or better still, try to engage in both trading and investment, but now, with less trading and more investment. This is my experience based on the testimonies of people and they often testify that trading is way more difficult for them with a high risk while investment is a lesser evil if done properly, and more reason why they abandon trading pretty fast.

It is those newbies who are not well-informed who are so kin to trading even as they believe it is their area of answered prayer, but neglecting the fact that even though trading is opened for all, it is not for everybody by virtue of its risk. It is only meant for seasoned traders who have won the test of time by consistently earning for a long period. The expertise and success of these kinds of traders are not questionable, and it is not all traders who can get to that level regardless of how many years you've been trying to make money out of trading.

But I do not know where the scam is coming from relating to crypto trading to the point that it looks scary the way you constructed it. Fine, those traders who are trading with huge amounts of money could still be affected by the greedy exchanges, but for traders to be trading with about $50,000 or less. Still, I do not believe there is much issue with good exchanges regarding this. Unless you are trading with bad, new or illiquid exchanges, and by that, you are inviting issues to yourself. It is good to trade with the top-rated ones, this will however not completely exonerate them from all faults, but the money would have been so huge before such complaints could be happening, which I also believe will still be recovered like the ones I have read in the past.

I am confused about the reason why you buy your coin with self-custody and still have to send it to CEX just because of fees. Won't they charge you for buying through Jupiter or Metamask? Certainly, they will. The gateway companies used and even the credit/debit card companies will charge you more.

This is unless I am missing some points in your statement. I think that it will be fair for you to even use the CEX to send the crypto in and send it to your self-custody wallets for keeping and sending it back if there is a need for it. By then, you might have reduced the amount of money you would have been charged to some extent.

Through P2P, you can get your coin/token without any charges, and if you cannot get it directly through P2P due to the lack of popularity of the coin, you can easily exchange the popular ones you can buy through P2P for the coin/token of choice with a reduced rate. This is what I do though, and it is cool unless you have another reason for doing what you explained other than for the charges considerations.

On the contrary, it is very easy to learn everything about crypto trading and investment but it is not easy to earn all the time from them, especially in the trading aspect because the theoretical aspect is not the same as the practical aspect. But still, crypto trading and investment are generally simple, they only require that we treat them seriously and creatively, not that we will be slacking in handling them the way many people do. Anything crypto to me is a serious business, that is why I do not take them with any laxity and my prior experience in the field before the crypto era is helping me quite well as the same scopes and methods are applicable to all of them.

However, I implore traders to focus so well when they are learning the theoretical part but pay more attention to the application part which is the most important since it is what will make sure that the trader/investor earns, not the theory. But if done badly, such earnings will never come but will amount to losses instead. If traders are trying to earn this way, they should focus on the "management and psychology" part above anything else, and they should try to have at least a very good trading system and have a viable plan to back this up as well.

If all these can be put in place and the trader/investor is disciplined as well, I am certain that success is lurking pretty fast.

Lol...bro, you are stretching this more than necessary, and be it Staking, DCA and Investing, all still mean the same thing since when you are staking, you are investing and DCA itself is a certain means/style of investment which is not an investment per se. But still, I understand what you are trying to say only that you never expressed yourself well. Investment is always good in all ramifications, once there is money, you should not let it waste away in the bank or inside a wallet that will not fetch you any interest or dividend. But crypto wallets are not included in this because they are not worthless, and so far you know the right coins and tokens to buy and keep in there, you can be making way more money than you might have made if you staked your money.

Staking is a way to earn a reduced amount of interest and a similar way to imprison your money just like the way you keep it in the bank or in such a wallet (not crypto wallet) that will not give you much interest/dividend. This is why it is good to let it lose entirely by buying and keeping it in a secure wallet with a good crypro asset. This and only this is the way I know that your money can be yielding highly for you if you select well even while you sleep or practically do nothing after buying the coin/token.

But if the focus is not on cryptocurrencies, good stocks and equity are available, one may also invest in gold, the energy market, properties etc. Or find a company with a good package of deal. They are all good means to make huge returns doing almost nothing.

What!!! This is insane and it better mean a different thing. Are you sure you checked this value very well and what they are meant for? Maybe you have mistaken them for the minimum amount that can be sent through certain means. However, if this is true, then you should know that it is extortion, and perhaps they do not want you to withdraw your money ever again.

I have never used the exchange and this thing we see simply like this may even play through with some customers who didn't know the fees chargeable but just made the transaction as fast as possible and were charged $240 for BTC transactions when the mempool is not congested.

This is inane and I hope it is not true. Why not trash it with the support to know if it is true or some sort of error, as I do not know how an exchange will compete with the prevailing market by discouraging customers and intending ones this way.

Oh, I see! You are the type of people who have the sole belief in Bitcoin, well, this is not a bad idea, especially if you had started the investment when Bitcoin was low in price. Otherwise, it may not be so convenient for you because you will not earn so much through it. I am an investor, which means that I am not a Bitcoin investor only, so I cannot be investing solely in Bitcoin. There are enough opportunities in other crypto projects and as you may not have earned any reasonable amount in Bitcoin in the past few months now but had it been you invested in some coins, you might have made 5 times your money easily.

For me, this is not about the love of a certain crypto project but to "invest" and make as much as possible money as I can. Opportunities come but once, so we should try as much as possible to maximize the opportunity we have now before it is too late.

Also, I see your second option which is Ethereum as moving around a circle, as Bitcoin and Ethereum will always be moving in almost the same way. They will earn almost the same multiples of income for you or make you lose in that same magnitude as well. This is why I have Bitcoin in my arsenal and avoided Ethereum, but only invest in altcoins that do not have many similarities to Bitcoin when it comes to the way they behave during their selling and buying times. Although, I trade Bitcoin and Ethereum all the time on the futures market, but on investing them, I am so careful not to waste my time while my money is being wasted with them when other altcoins are seriously performing well. What a waste would that be.

I just voted that Bitcoin would hit $75,000 this month. I was one of those who voted against it hitting higher targets last month not minding the fact that it was the next month after halving. My reason was reasonable enough, and truly, Bitcoin never hit its ATH last month not to mention moving higher than that. My trading chart talks well to me, so thanks to it despite the view of others against it. The chart always guides me aright and with what I currently see on the market chart, I think that hitting the ATH again at about $73,850 is nearing day by day as the level is getting more exposed and the barrier is getting weaker day after day.

As of today, the market is again fully bullish in trend in all the short-term, medium-term and long-term dispositions, so what do you expect? And if Bitcoin could hit and break the current ATH, it would only take it less than $1,200 to hit the $75,000 set for this June on this thread/poll, so, it is feasible to say that it will hit the level this month. And for the fact that the daily chart has so much good news of holding above the strong MagicTrend support at $65,505 and 1D Fibo support level of 23.6% at $66,800, the significant bullish impact is lurking this month, so we should all expect Bitcoin to hit higher levels before the end the month.

I have always known that it will only be a matter of time before AI behaves just like humans, and it will even be near perfection if the AI is specifically drawn from a certain personality like we see the attempts today. They will do exactly as the person does, so this should not be so surprising anymore. It should not be concerning as well since it is all about delivery. If what humans are expected to do is done exactly by the AI or even better, what is now the headache in that? This is what AI development is even driving at.

The world is evolving whether we like it or not and it will get to a time that you will never be able to decipher the difference between Al works and humans. And guess what, some of these tools would be free when the time comes.

In my understanding drawn from what I have read from many merits sources in many threads, they do not have the same smerit allocation, and some users' monthly smerits could be so much while others could be annoyingly low. The reason is best known to theymos, but upon request with evidence of usage of the ones you were given, I think he can adjust the allocation based on his discretion.

As for being a lifetime merit source, I think it is possible if you maintain a good membership/reputation and do not renege from the reason why you were given. But of course, if you are no longer active on the forum, what is your worth? For this, such a user's merit source status may be withdrawn.

There are other offences which may not be plain that could cost users their merit source status as well. So it could be slightly similar to that of the DTs but not as rampant as them.

All I can say in this regard is that the guy who wanted to sell all his holdings in Bitcoin is naive about Bitcoin. Although the price of Bitcoin is a discouragement now, the reason for him to want to liquidate his Bitcoin asset is not right as well, he should have educated himself better. Maybe he will later realise his mistakes, or he will be the one who will be proven right, either way, time will tell.

Nevertheless, in my understanding, the halving is a Bitcoin tradition that happens every 4 years and it has helped Bitcoin to grow in price even as it attracts more adopters to the coin. But the halving is not an automatic means for Bitcoin to appreciate in price, it takes time. The guy should have at least learned about Bitcoin and halving very well before running his mouth in discouragement. Looking at the chart of the past Bitcoin histories in relation to halving would have helped him calm his nerves instead of deciding based on what he did not know.

In some past Bitcoin chart histories, Bitcoin only moved significantly higher in post-having effect after 7 months in some cases. So buying is not automatic, but at the same time, if one is cautious judging by the high price of Bitcoin, it may be a very good reason to devest. There is no need to stop anyone from doing what they want to do.