Yes, it's all about money and making oneself comfortable. At the end it boils down to emptiness. That's why the biblical Solomon said everything was vanity upon vanity. Whatever our struggles are on earth will eventually amount to zero for us at our demise and we become history to others on the pages of papers or word of mouth. There are many who toil but find it difficult showing themselves love by taking care of themselves. They feel every sweat they break should be equated with material acquisition of bricks, clothings or vehicles.

Isn't that what we've been doing with all the learning we've been acquiring? The basics are what should matter and that's how man begins by a simple reading before driving himself into more reading because of his insatiable nature. Man drives himself unnecessarily hard just to show class dichotomy. Well, each to their own; but like a peasant, I love that simple life.

I think the idea of if one wants to bestow value on something, one should make it scarce is what makes Satoshi's whereabouts mystical. The unknown presence makes whoever that's behind the mask a god. At this point, I ain't sure if he/they reveal identity anything will happen to Bitcoin as Bitcoin has already stood on its own. The worse that can happen will be a few days dip, and it goes back to its trajectory.

Yeah, it's the same JoyID OP is talking about. I just finished reading posts of some dudes in an online group I belong and away from the project's telegram handle. They talked about SLN (Smartlayer) and its claim that's ongoing. Those who lamented they haven't got theirs were directed to check their eligibility status with their JoyID addresses. That's how I got to know it's the same project.

I saw a screenshot of someone who got over 2,000 SLN from that airdrop. That's really huge when you juxtapose that with its trading price of >$6. It's unbelievable what people make from airdrops. It's very tempting, and that's why more people are chasing airdrops.

OP, so in your mind's eye you can say to yourself that you actually posted something truthful with all that misleading assumptions? Whether you're a Nigerian or not, you should've stated your fact clearly from what angle you wrote.

Really? Well, that makes you a rich dude too. You're surviving, aren't you?

Even the best countries you think of in Europe also have scammers. But of course, no one has the justification of going into crime because they're poor and broke or because their government is bad. It's a choice (bad choice) people make and then turn around to blame someone for it. Hardship is everywhere, globally. Crime is also everywhere globally and that's the reason there are prisons.

This wan na heavy allegation oh. I neva read dis news anywhere, abi you get link make I follow read am. These people wey dey lead dis country nor mean any good for our people. E dey show for their attitude everyday.

Bros, dis ur interpretation get small k-leg oh.

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Dem nor dey take morning know bad market.
Meaning: You don't dismiss a thing by rushing into conclusion based on first incident.

$60k may be possible before April but certainly not at the end of this month, February. If you look at Bitcoin chart you will find that there are lots of gaps to the downside that need to be filled before we can say Bitcoin has stabilized to the upside, especially that $437000 gap. It has to be filled. There's another at $403000 but I don't think price will dip to that point.

Half a million is 500k. I don't think that will be possible this circle. It will be over ambition for anyone to think it's possible. We can begin to think of that range after the next halving event. That's two "halvings" after this one coming up in April.

OP, if you can mispel what ought to have been the most critical part you should've paid attention to – Your topic title, "Re: Bitcointalk rules and gudie for newbies", it says much about your lack of desire to pay attention to things and scrutinize what's on ground. Even if you aren't a native speaker of the language, nothing says it's a crime checking out spellings.

That's often the modus operandi of this set of users. They open threads and disappear without engaging in them.

That also happened in Nigeria. A few traders who felt relaxed writing/inputting crypto terms in their descriptions while transacting were caught in that restriction and their bank accounts frozen in the wake of that ban. It was a hurt most of those affected won't forget in a hurry. The ban was later relaxed and those whose accounts were frozen were also released. That was several months later. Anyone can imagine what it was like having cash in the bank but not being able to assess it. It was that horrible.

Anyway, I think that situation cuts across because some of the Cexs I'm dealing on also warn those transacting on their P2P not to include any crypto related word in their description when marking payments.

For me, it's a bad idea letting bank know one is into Bitcoin. You never can tell what government policies they may want to exhume next.

Definitely, there will be but they may not like the type of publicity men get for themselves and may decide to lie low. Women aren't built to withstand pressure and pressure from crowd is like a mob action. Exposing oneself to the public as a crypto hodler comes with its own kind of pressure and danger. It may be very difficult for women to go through all that.

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If I'm unsure of the person's sex, I refer to them as "they". That cuts across my posts here. Some people don't like it when you misappropriate their gender while others don't give it a second thought. They see it as nothing. On the picture thing on the profile, many would think a dude is making use of his wife's or gf's picture on their profile there.

You may be right about those who easily abandon their accounts upon registration here and after posting for a while, you may also be wrong about them because you never can tell what circumstances they're faced with. Life happens to everyone of us. Some might come here with the mindset of learning but get derailed by the vicissitudes of life that may force them to abandon their accounts here. We never can tell until we know their issues. However, quite a good number of the cases shows that most of them run off when they find out they can't earn merit to rank up and get into campaigns. It's sad they don't the patience to wait and go through the process.

We can't stop hammering on this, and the reason is so that newbies will get the consciousness of buying and hodling now instead of waiting to chase price on FOMO when the real momentum picks for Bitcoin. In reality, many who are reading this thread will still fall victim of not buying on time.

Anyone who invested in early 2024 or late 2023 will stand to profit from this incoming Bitcoin rally. That's what I'm also aiming for, of course.

It doesn't cease to amaze me whenever I hear people ask that same question, "is there still time to buy?" I don't know why they still ask that when they know the current Bitcoin ATH stands at >$69k and every bull run is known to surpass the one before it. So, knowing that, you've to brace yourself up to get in now (even at above $52k) as we expect this incoming ATH to go way beyond $69k. For me, I expect anything above $120k for the next ATH. Get in now or miss the bus!

That's what's going to happen during the bull run as many people will assume that every low priced coin will skyrocket in price like Bitcoin and they will hastily buy them. That's the good thing about bull run. Almost every worthless token will gain value when that comes. This is when a mere $5 investment in these low priced tokens can turn $150/$250 or even $2k over night. I've seen this happen in the past and I expect it to reoccur this rally.

Your plan is good. Though Bitcoin won't give us the type of ROI alts will give, it's the safest of all. You've guaranteed investment leading to this season.

Risk isn't of cryptocurrency alone. It's with everything man does, though the intensity differs. Remember, whether with decentralization or centraliszation, scam will still happen if one isn't careful or watchful when dealing with others. For me, the greater part of our security lies with us and not with an app. If only people who've their vital crypto wallets loaded with funds and information on their phones will become weary of links they click. It will help them. Those who are less experienced can be deceived into clicking on malware and the end result will be that they get hacked and may not know where what hit them came from.

Who made it that way and what society is that, if I may ask? Culture is made for the benefit of mankind and as such any culture that becomes antagonistic should be stopped. Yes, stopped. I believe there are enough exposed and learned folks in your society, they should see the need to weigh in and reveal that obnoxious part of your culture. Women are supposed to be helpmate and partners in progress, especially when in a relationship or married.

On the other side of the $50 story, I think your friend wasn't emotionally commited to his relationship. How else wouldn't he have had an idea what's top priority on his girl's worries rather than giving her that cash because he wasn't sure. Anyway, I don't even know what those who celebrate Valentine's Day benefit from that. I don't see any need for it because love is supposed to be an everyday thing, not a once in a year thing.

Your comment hit close home. I feel you on that one. My suggestion to people in countries like that is for them to save their local currency in dollar or any other they know is relatively stronger than theirs (that's if they can) or save in stablecoin if they've knowledge of cryptos. That's the way to go about it. Then only convert to local currency and use when the need arises or exchange the dollar/coin directly for goods and services. Without this, the person trying to save in their local fiat will continue to be at a great loss.

You called it stooping low but businessmen and women don't see it that way. They see it as business and look at what profit they can cash out from such. We can't say reputable projects and chains creating memetokens like Solana chain and rest of them are stooping low.

What a year that was with all the expectations of Libra doing extremely well since Zuckerberg was a popular face and would use his Meta to promote it to any level. It's disappointing how that never came to be.

The logic is simple. There's that expectation that investors who want to keep the profit made in cryptos from Bitcoin rally will look for viable altcoins to ploy them into. Once that begins to happen, the ignorant public catches on with the various buy orders and FOMO in. That's how the build up starts. Many more people throw in their money and price begins to hit the roof.

The bull run just about in its early stage and you're saying it's taking long already? I don't think so. Wait till after halving and you will see price spike off. Also, know that altcoins don't begin rally until Bitcoin has exhausted it's rally like I explained above.

Yes, I believe we're going to have a massive altcoin season this circle. On the altcoins to focus on? Follow the categories with the current narrative and I think it won't be a bad idea to research BRC20 tokens.

First off, I think you posted in a hurry without cross-checking your syntax and spellings. However, your position and disposition to this whole investment thing is well understood.

Yes, it's different reasons (strokes) for different folks while they invested or are investing in whatever asset they like. We expect quite alright that whenever Bitcoin has a rally, altcoins follow suit thereafter. Sadly, we didn't experience that in the last Bitcoin move in 2021. Altcoins didn't go on a bull run to the best of my perspicacity. I know we aren't going to miss that rally this circle and that's why the whole industry is excited and gearing up.

Another reason investors put their money into altcoins is the simple logic of quantity. With a little cash they can easily get enough quantities of some alts and they expect that any zero in price that's cancelled already puts them in massive profit. So, the ROI factor is always there. Bitcoin won't give the type of ROI altcoins give within a short period of time.