I do think that in the financial world history repeats itself is not a good thing to say. Because in general, things do repeat the results, but the way it happens is almost always different. Just to give an example that everyone can understand, in 2008 there was a global crisis right? In 2020 there is one too? Now history does repeat itself and there is a crisis, but I have to say it is not the same reason and it is not the same path that lead us here, one was mortgages being high leveraged and the other is a pandemic.

Same reasoning stands with every little single small thing, even the same exact chart that resulted with one thing, may not result with same again, but the results could be same from two very different charts.

I do not think that it is totally marketing, he doesn't have to say it as long as he spends millions of dollars on marketing he could always get people to use his dex, I believe there is a bit of truth in it. This doesn't mean he is right, he could be very well wrong too and that means he is supporting something that will not be big, maybe dex will be forgotten and everything will go back to being cex in the end, but that doesn't mean we can argue what he believes in.

He could believe in whatever he wants that will be great in the future, maybe that is dex, maybe it is cex, maybe something we do not even have right now. CZ is not god in crypto world, he is a super rich dude but he is a CEO in the end and we shouldn't take what he says as the bible and believe him right away, he could be wrong as much as you and I can be.

In reference to this second point, if you’re trading for a long time and mostly what you’re getting is loss, maybe you should quit or work towards improving your trading skills and building better strategies. Trading is a very risky business, and there are other means that one can benefit from the market apart from this trading stuff.

Although I know that some people are being persistent because they have been told that trading is the right business to get them steady income and make them rich. But when you try so much, it’s good to also consider other options that are available to you, so that you don’t be running out of time.

The reason Buffet called bitcoin a bubble is the same reason why he doesn't get involved with pharma companies in stock world that easily, usually never as far as I know. They build one drug and suddenly when they get FDA approval their stock goes up 3000% higher, which he calls a bubble because a company can't continue that much value forever.

Bitcoin was a thing that was created 10 years ago and didn't even worth any money at the first days and now worths 10k+ and even reached 20k at a time, which means for the way Buffett lives it is a total bubble because things that go up that much that quickly in his world are actually bubbles and he is right about them.

However what he can't see (well he is 90 so it is understandable) is that we are talking about something totally different and not anything like stock market.

I am sure there are times when withdrawal fees are big compared to a year ago for example, and in some places it is quite high, for example some exchanges charge as much as 7 dollars for example, which if you ask me is quite high.

For example, I wanted to buy something from a game and it used either coinpay or coinbase I forgot which one and it took 7 dollars for transaction fee alone, which is huge.

However 150 dollars is something I have never seen anywhere including here. Max you could see anywhere would be around 10 bucks at most, if you see something bigger know that something is wrong and do not do any move, you may want to get out and do it quickly so you may rush it, but if you see 150 bucks just stop, wait and see what's wrong. No place charges that much, neither here nor anywhere else.

Right now, it looks like it is going to a place where it would be great to buy. I would say wait for a while and see where it goes, it could go down a lot and when it goes down a lot I am sure that it will do a lot better for you. I would say buying under $9k would be the way to go, it is not going to be over $10-11k levels very quickly, it is going to be doing very bad and very slow for a while but after that buying under $9k means whenever it reaches to $11k level you will profit around 20% levels, even more, closer to 30% levels and that is what it matters, depending on where you buy.

I would say put a big huge buy order at around $8k levels, if it reaches to $8k you buy it and wait, I know it will take months and a long time, maybe who knows 7-10 months but it will one day be $12k again, which means $4k profit if you are patient enough.

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From the list you have here, I only make use of two and that’s Coinbase and Binance. I have not tried the other exchanges that are on this list, though I have been here for long. Binance and Coinbase has been working for me the way I want, and I don’t see the need to switch to another exchange since these two are working for me. Some people complain that Coinbase has high fees, but that’s the one I use frequently.

What I like most about it is that they have a good interface, and that was what got me to start making use of it, and it was easy to understand and make use of. I have been using Coinbase for long before I discovered Binance, and I think that’s around 2017 that I started using Binance and that’s people a lot of people talking about it.

I don’t know for you, but I have worked with two companies recently which I got in contact with on LinkedIn and they both paid me in Bitcoin. One of the two companies allows their employees to work remotely, and it’s a company that is located in Ireland and they pay their staff with Bitcoin and PayPal.

This is a company with over a hundred employees working remotely, and imagine how much they will be sending out every month using bitcoin. That you haven’t gotten a client that pays you with Bitcoin doesn’t mean that there are none of them paying with Bitcoin, no there are many of them. And it’s not all about waiting for when clients will pay you with Bitcoin, you and your friends can also use it. It’s all your choice on whatever decision you want to make.

Russia is still claiming that they are in production but I think the lack of medical research and direct human experiments which proved that it works created a bit of trouble in the world. Did they find a vaccination for covid? They sure did and most places say it actually works as well, however how did they find it?

When you have a vaccination that you are not sure if it will work or not and give it to humans as an experiment that is a very very dangerous thing to do, which is probably the issue they are going through right now. When that is all cleared up and forgiven people will just say no matter how it was discovered, the thing that matters is it is discovered. When it becomes mainstream and hundreds of thousands of people gets it every day, we are going to see economy grow incredibly high.

You sound practical. Yes, we need to focus on where to enter and where to sell and in-between, we  must focus on what we need to do if market goes against us. I agree these are all the basic things we must need to address before entering into crypto trading. I believe there are lots of guidelines in this forum are available for beginners to plan up accordingly but unfortunately not all new traders are not making use of  them.

Moreover there should be lots of other basic things, a trader must need to address before entering into trading: which coin you are going to trade must be one of them and then where (which exchange) you are going to trade should be another important thing as well. Because, we cannot trade all the coins in similar manner which means we should find a coin which is obeying our technical analysis.

People can make good profit in a day, it’s all about the condition the market is in, if the market is in a good condition like the times it’s going up quick and steady, some people can pack some good profit. And it’s good to make it clear that day trading is not for everyone, I do see some people who wants to get into day trading because they think since it’s a day trading they will be making profit everyday, they just neglect the risks that they can be losing their money instead of profit.

Sometimes it’s best to just be a HODL’er and stay clear from the risks that comes with day trading.

I think there could be even an upside in the economical sense. Obviously we are talking about getting worse in climate reasons and that is a bad thing not just for USA but for all over the world, we have seen California burn down just a few years ago and just start of this year Australia was on fire, and people are still saying "where is climate change there is snow here" and stupid stuff like that which is really not something I can accept.

However if you look at it purely in cash form, we are talking about oil companies and other energy companies doing whatever they want and making even more profit without caring about the climate, which should return a lot more profits technically speaking. I don't know if they can manage to do it but they should be able to without regulations.

It’s not that people doesn’t want to stay indoors, they do, but when a man gets hungry he also gets angry lol. When this lockdown of a thing started, I saw a lot of poor people complaining that they were going to die of hunger, even an average person like me was also complaining the same thing, and this is worse because I live in a country that’s corrupt, the government is corrupt and people were so worried because they know for sure that they are not getting any support from the government. Although they started giving out loans to Businesses, but it’s not every business that qualifies for the loan. It’s really not easy.

I think bitcoin and gold are fundamentally different in the world of finance. One of them is a thing that people have known for millennia, literally over 3 thousand years of using it like a money and exchange it for goods, so it is impossible for people to actually end up with gold to save some money and save their purchasing power, it is such a common thing.

However bitcoin is a brand new thing, it has been around for 11-12 years at best, sure there were tests and other tries for something like bitcoin for years but I honestly feel like this is the only time it could ever be sensible for Warren Buffet to buy gold, because gold is something he already knew, gold is something people invested into even before he was born, but bitcoin is a brand new thing that came out after he was 70 years old! So, I understand it.

I'm always not having any good opinion on new projects and this is the reason I do miss like the projects like ETH and chainlink. Because in my opinion, there will be no need of any altcoins in this crypto space but time is proving how wrong my assumption is. I got that a opinion because I'm seeing lots of repeated and lack of innovation based new projects.

When there will be a project which will be solving/addressing what people need in real-world then we must need such project. Unfortunately we are getting once in awhile like it will be taking 2 to 4 years of time to have such projects. So, instead of risking in all the new projects with the expectation of innovative things; I believe just ignoring all the new things will be a good idea because we are having bitcoins.

Well, when someone opens a topic like this on bitcointalk the topic is not just about OP most of the time, they say something and they leave, someone else writes something and another person replies to them and they response to their reply and suddenly two people who are not OP discussing something totally related to the subject but irrelevant to what OP wants.

So, suddenly the topic changes discussion and we have tens of people talking about something and not even caring about OP, that is what I think happened here as well. I believe bitcoin is doing basically what it has always done between volatile moments, it is staying still, check bitcoins history and you will see that we all know those 10%+ increases and deceases but in between them it stays still, we are at that stage right now, which means topic could be outdated but it is also irrelevant to current situation as well.

I think there was a project that actually tried to find a way to get all the dead or almost dead projects to join them as a team and as a whole, that way they could create one big huge project.

The idea would have been like let's say there is a project with 100 million dollars worth of tokens, I know that is a crazy number for starters but I forgot what the price was, then they acquire a dead project which people do have money for, they contact the team of that project, they make a deal, they burn everyone's all tokens in that project and in return give tokens from the new big one, that way there is no more of that dead project but this new project maybe got some of the staff in the other and also the community behind it or whatever is left of it. Not a great idea, that project itself died.

I mean surely you could find some "bad" coins, they are the ones at the very bottom and left out to die, there is no project owner, there is no team, they are just there dying a slow death, or could be even considered dead at that point, would you say onetoken or whatever that scam was alive? It is definitely a bad coin/token or whatever it was, purely a scam. So that is how you find bad ones.

Best ones are questionable because it depends on what you mean by best and to who, if you are a rich person who wants less risk bitcoin is better or at least ethereum, if you are poorer and want higher earner you have to check top 50 instead of top 5 or so. However nobody can deny that bitcoin and ethereum are good coins, they are the best by ranking and by how much people trade it and even how many people love it.

The situation changes the answer of this as well. If you are holding right now with bitcoin high, I would say keep holding it is a better option, however remember that time when bitcoin was moving between $9k and $9.5k for a long time? That was a better time to trade because it wasn't doing much.

For example, right now is a great time to hold, however lets assume for another 2-3 weeks the price doesn't move much, it just changes from $11.3k levels to $11.9k levels and does go above or below that, that means it became good for trading and not holding. So, as you can see there is no single answer to that question, it could change from position to position and from situation to situation, that is why no one can give you a full 100% correct answer to what to do right now since right now constantly changes.