Permission? I don't remember anyone ever asking for permission to make use of the Bitcoin. I have seen a lot of people that are printing shirts, cup, and a lot more things with the bitcoin logo on it and they never asked permission to make use of it. It's still good that you asked for permission, just saying because I have never seen anyone done that.

You can still make some changes to the logo and then use it on your product or whatever it is that you want to print it on.

Yep, you're right because I have not seen anyone talking about asking for permission to use the Bitcoin logo. Unless it's a logo that belongs to a particular company, for example, an exchange, if it's just bitcoin, then I believe that anyone is free to use the logo.

There are thousands of tokens that has been released in the time past and many of these projects are all listed on coinmarketcap which is very much impossible for you to even know 50 percent of them, so the only way that you can get to know some of these projects is through recommendation from either friends or forum, but be very wise and careful because we have lots of people that do shill coins a lot because of their own investment in the project and not because they are announcing it for its quality.

I have known doge coin for a very long time now and I think that they initially came out well, but just like every other projects, they have gone the other way which I think other cryptos have gone too, so I would not know until the bear market is over to still know their functionality.

Like you said, there is no point in trying to find who does not want to be found, and it was never even in the plan of satoshi that his whereabouts should become a puzzle that we all should be looking for, what he just want from us is to embrace the system he has created to free us from some of the bondage that we have put our self in trying to get our money across to various place we want to get it to with stress, and that is why he used the system to create a peer to peer program.

Unfortunately, aside the headache many people give themselves in looking for satoshi, one more thing that I have found out is that many of them still take bitcoin as digital asset more, and they just want it to keep doubling their money without the willingness to spend it.

Until there is a regulation before we can fully win the trust of the investors again, because many investors are so much scared of joining any cryptocurrency now because of the bad developers that we have which is classified into two categories, the same one and the ones that have no slight idea about project other than just creating what they will use to raise fund and then abandoned the project in the future.

I think that it will take a lot of very positive thing to really trigger the heart of people again to begin to start investing in ICO project ones again. IEO is what is even still surprising to me, because it seems like binance has even abandoned the idea as I don’t see them releasing any project again since the last two they released months ago.

For me, I don’t think any of those 4 listed things are the reasons why we have fake projects everywhere, there is just one common reason that we have for the introduction of fake projects, and it is called MONEY.

Many project developers have already studied how lucrative the ico could be when it comes to fund raising, they have seen how the pats quality project have been able to raise millions of dollars through the ico, but the only difference between those early ico and newer ones is the fact that they lack idea, so what they rather need is just the money, then you see them creating fake project and also fake of those things you listed. It is only regulation that can solve that and nothing more. We need a body that can be in charge of regulating that.

I don't think there is anything you should neglect. All are important, so if it's possible for you to add everything on the list then you should do so. Anyone who is a trader has to be current with the news and not miss out from what's trending in the cryptocurrency market.

You should learn everything you need to learn about cryptocurrency and about trading, so you can as well have the skills. You should also be aware of the risks of trading and how to properly manage them so that you don't lose your money. You can make use of stop loss to stop further loss of money when the price is going down. And the tools you use are good too if you can get one that will work for you.

On my own opinion, I think what is stopping it from becoming global currency is just the volatility of it, people cannot rely in the currency that once they receive it send money to someone, they will get the same value, they are not also considering the fact that they could also have a big win if bitcoin spikes at the time the money was received.

This is the reason why many are just holding it as a digital asset first pending the time that bitcoin will get to a stable point where it will have a very much reduced volatility AMD become more reliable coin. I want to also believe that government supports it but they would not want to give their consent for now because if this Issue of volatility so that people will not have issue with their policy for approving it, but I know it will only be for a matter of little time, bitcoin will soon become a global currency.

Yes, we have many social media platform built on blockchain technology trying to come out on a daily basis, and this is the same reason why Facebook too is trying to join the raise as usual so that they can be ahead of all these social media platform, and talking of migrating from Facebook is not important because they will eventually do the same as these other ones too and don’t also forget that Facebook owns Instagram and will all join in the blockchain too.

One of the reasons why I would buy into the idea of some of these platforms you mentioned is the financial benefit of it to me, because most of those social media platform rewards you for using their platform unlike the ordinary platform like Facebook for now that only benefit us.

You know people misconstrue things a lot, and when people hear blochain at times they interpret it for cryptocurrency alone, so what could have surge the value of bitcoin was those making investment out of the freedom of mind they got with the speech which unfortunately when we talk of blockchain, he might not be referring to cryptocurrency alone, although they have plan for their own cryptocurrency which I think that it is still part of the politics he has played for introduction already so that it would not be a strange thing to them when the time comes for them to release their coin to the public. He could have been encouraging them on a different level when it comes to blockchain which can be used to solve several challenges of the economy without having to even dive into cryptocurrency.

Well, his point is valid as we said, but talking of these marketers, they are even one of the major problem that we have in the market, and you know why I said this, these marketer are so good at what they do and they are usually the ones that works for the hype that these project do get that makes their value to jump up whether they are scam or not, though they are still to be blamed for accepting to market these projects also when they ought to have also researched on the project before they promote it to the public who would always take things based on the hype that they see.

Marketer needs to start checking the projects that they do release before they make so much commitment and effort to I, and that is how they will also stop working for a scam project.

The first knowledge that they acquired is what actually got majority of these things wrong because the knowledge is based on investment and that is why there is always panic in the market because they don't really understand what they are here to do other than just to multiply their investment, and what they should have understood first is to pick a project with technology and then think of how the product will sell so that their investment will always increase in value, because it is only when a project have a real working product that you will find demand for the coin always and when there is demand for the coin, there will always be a growth. If we always pick interest in crypto for just investment, it will be full of speculation alone and nothing more.

We like putting negativity in something, the fact that satoshi said he was moving on does not specifically mean that he was passing on, he never said he was passing on, the English is clear, maybe after releasing this, it could even be a prototype of the main thing which he has seen that it is getting response, he could be moving on to other bigger projects which may also shock us in the future.

 I so much believe that this satoshi hiding is face is purely a deliberate action, and he must surely come out one day the moment he sees what exactly he wants bitcoin to achieve. If he is not a super human being that was sent from the future, I know surely within me that satoshi is even watching many things we are doing, and maybe still even investing too to test things around.

You really sure about this brother, because all I still see as new projects are still many of these projects that have no idea of what they are doing, and they only want to create a coin that they can use for speculation alone.

I have not seen any idea that a project wants to come up with that is not already existing amongst the other top coins, and I think any project that we will be seeing now should just be some of the duplicates of these already existing project, so sorry, I am still not very much impressed with some projects that I am seeing except some very few ones that I have participated in which I had to do a very thorough investigation and research on them before I could get them out which I am still not completely sure of them too until further notice.

The initial perspective that they had over it was initially wrong, and I think that is already getting corrected as they have seen that bitcoin has not threat to their rule of power at all and there is chance for them to actually regulate bitcoin if they want to and at the same time, also benefit from the use of cryptocurrency by their citizens when used for trading and for some other business that could make more money to come into their pocket.

It will even be foolish of the US government to keep pressing to shut down bitcoin at this level that cryptocurrency has grown to because there are so many world's leaders that are beginning to even legalize bitcoin, like France, japan, Switzerland and the rest even though some of them are just on the verge of legalizing them.

You should have just researched for which exchange is the best exchange and not just click on random ads that pops up on the internet. You should check out Binance, they let you trade a lot of cryptocurrencies and not just Bitcoin and Ethereum. There is also the Kraken exchange, and it's one of my favorites.

When I started I used Coinbase but as a wallet and not for trading, because I didn't really know anything about trading then. But according to some people, like I see on this forum, Coinbase is the best for newbies and you're a newbie. So, you should also put that into consideration and check it out to see if you like their exchange.

And you shouldn't go into trading without learning everything about it, there is a risk of losing your money. If you study about day trading you will be able to reduce the possibility of losing your money. Make use of stop orders and limit so that you would not lose much in case it happens.

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Lol, is there any expert that can really claim that they have the perfect solution to really knowing how to identify a fake project? It is quite very difficult top actually know a shit projects now, at the early stage of these shit coins when they still have very well system too, we could use their whitepaper and team to discern some, but whitepaper is so difficult to be able to discern these projects now, they even do hire Blockchain developers now to help them write the whitepaper, and the team even look genuine when you see them.

It is because it has become difficult that made me to result into allowing them to have stayed long in an exchange first before thinking of looking at their project for any investment in them, so indirectly, I dint do new projects again.

From which source did you find out that the majority of the people in Nigeria does not have any bank account? So if they don't have bank accounts, do you think they are into cryptocurrencies? If someone doesn't have any bank account then there is zero percent chance that they are making use of cryptocurrencies. That's not true, I don't know which source you got that information from, but you're wrong.

It's still your choice to make but I believe that there are lots of things you can do that will make you money. You can still invest your money in bitcoin but know that there is a chance for the price of bitcoin to decrease at anytime. You don't know what it will be worth in the next coming years. So you're still taking a risk.

I have worked for lots of clients on various projects and collected bitcoin as payment. Though most of the times I would sell the bitcoin and convert to cash if it's a time that the price is falling. Sometimes, I am not the one to recommend cryptocurrency, my clients are the ones that sometimes say that they will pay with crypto.

But, before I accept crypto as payment for any work it has to be someone I trust or a big business that I'm sure they wouldn't like to mess with their name. I don't just see a random person and tell them to pay with cryptocurrencies because I know what people can do, there are lots of scammers out there that are looking for nothing but free work.

Apart from accepting bitcoin for work payment, I have not used it to buy anything online, because I don't really see it as a safe option and by the way I am not ready for the stress. I prefer other payment methods when I'm buying online.

I would leave part of it still in the wallet for future purpose because of the time that it will get to fir us to start using bitcoin as the main cryptocurrency, so that I don’t have to start buying cryptocurrency then at an expensive price, so if I am even still considering changing some of my bitcoin to fiat for other investment reason, I would still make sure that I have enough bitcoin, but the remaining part of It is strictly going to business.

One of my first choice of business is actually landed properties, that is more like going into real estate business, because this is one of the business that is really booming in my country, and after this, I will have one of the biggest fashions company in my country where I can even earn more bitcoin by accepting it as means of payment.

I think this is why those countries actually need to leave the idea of them creating their own currency because it will just be unnecessary competition everywhere, they all have one common goal, and that is their responsibility to the human being that has been placed in their hand to control, and having one single currency will only unite majority of these brings in different part of the world together.

This is what many of these big countries like china, Switzerland, south Korea, France and the rest have seen that is making them to now give a thought to cryptocurrency, even though they are still, kind of shaky about it, but I am sure that soon than later, they will all give in to bitcoin usage as one coon currency amongst them all which I don’t think that it will have any negative effect on any of them, except for their selfish nature.