In addition to what others have posted here, I think you will do better in understanding and unravelling your little confusion of the forum if you located your local board. As someone who isn't a native speaker of the English language, that will surely help.

To be frank, I think this forum isn't that difficult to navigate compared to other crypto fora I've visited. The major issue here is that there's so much information and topics springing up and screaming in our faces on a daily and we think we're compelled to process all. That's in addition to not knowing the right board to start  topics. The last one was my greatest confusion as a noob. Even till date I still find high ranked users get confused around that too and that's where they ask moderators to move to appropriate boards.

Maybe the confusion stems from how do projects get money to pay those wearing and advertising their logos, right? I think someone indirectly addressed that by their mention of the level of traffic that hits this forum. Investors check this forum from time to time to find projects to invest in. To get visibility and allow such exposure happen, projects come here to get members to wear their logos and make posts. These posts they compensate posters for. They hire managers who then make selections based on what ranks and users they believe can get them the milage and exposure they want. It's the usual advertising type of thing in real live with traditional offline companies paying for PR and all that.

That's my simple way of explaining that.

That's not only a newbie issue. We also see such anger with advanced ranked accounts, though in a subtle manner. Truth is that anyone who gets angry when constructively criticized has pride in them. Otherwise, we should know that no one knows it all. The thing with newbies is that most of them don't like reading before commenting and that gets them a lot of bashing because they end up making avoidable errors. The questions they ask, most times are just a few posts above them. Reading and DYOR is the way to go here. It helps to shield one from needless corrections, and then anger that comes with ego getting bruised.

Glad to read that you're old on some other fora. That supposes you know different fora have rules and regulations. Reading about such rules should be the first thing you head straight into. It doesn't take much of a time to find that here too. Well, like a few other users have dropped you links I hope you find time to read those threads and assimilate them. Sorry to say this but most newbies don't like reading. They want to head to posting once they get the liberty of posting, always in a hurry for nothing. I hope you will be different.

For me, those two items are the chiefest (principal reason) why people fail at trading. Lack of trading skills and greed are bad combinations. Those who go to college and study for a few years to obtain a certificate but won't give a few years too to horning their skill sets once it comes to trading, believing it's an all comers affairs will always fail at it. It's the same thing greed does. Some people erroneously believe with trading one can pluck cash in midair, aiming for unrealistic profit margin with little capital. That's a recipe for disaster.

I thought I was the only one who faced the nonchalance thing from those we tried making their lives better. I've read quite a number of posts that were similar to the same experience I had with friends. Truth remains that most people are only swayed by the good life Bitcoin brings and not that they're necessarily interested in learning how it works. Many who even joined here did so (are doing so) because of the possibility of joining subscription campaigns when they rank up and not that they genuinely care what goes on here. I ain't saying it's a bad thing to get motivated by the earning opportunity this forums affords us, nope. That's not what I'm driving at here.

I've introduced a few friends here. Sadly, most of them stopped posting a few weeks after all that. Perhaps lack of interest necessitated their exit. Those who aren't interested in Bitcoin will never pick it up. I've learned to stop wasting my time trying to convince anyone about Bitcoin. Most people still think it's a scam because it's an internet thing. Leave them to their ignorance. They will learn soon.

But of course, technically those ones can safely be regarded as LBs too as they're in the "Other Languages/Locations" section of the forum. As long as their citizens do meet and post in their chosen language and reflex on things happening locally in their countries, I take them as LB.

That's not absolutely correct. That link is for posts made in the local boards. So, that excludes users who don't have local boards and those who don't post in their local boards. Anyway, ranking up this day isn't as difficult as it was in 2018/2019 when adherence to the merit thing was stringent. It's not that way anymore. Many veteran users who wouldn't give a damn meriting below average posts are doing so now and that's because they've relaxed their criteria too.

Just keep it simple and be transparent. Observing those two is already a problem half solved. Don't over promise in order to get up your subscriber base. Whatever you promise you would do, whether here or on your website, be sure to keep it. Not keeping promises is a surest way of speeding up loss of confidence in projects/people.

Of course, it can. Though I've yet to check your project out, I do believe that your desire for feedback from this community is a good one. However, know that you're going to get criticism of the type you may not have thought of. Just keep going, provided you're on the right track, all will fall into places for you.

Yes, man is often in pursuit of fulfillment. That's the way man is crafted. His nature is insatiable and that's why man has constant worries. He solves one worrying problem, he gets into another. It's an endless circle. Even while sleeping, man is also pursuing certain aspirations in the dream world; literally speaking.

That depends from what angle you look at it. I meant your opening comment there. This isn't to counter your point but don't forget that what makes for much for you may be little for someone else. Like we jocularly say in Naija that someone else's stipend could be another's networth. Those people you think are satisfied at that level they're because they "aren't searching for more actively", the little they've is someone's dream acquisition, you know. On my part, I don't crave that much but that doesn't stop me from dreaming big. That's what keeps a lot of people in constant pursuit, until our demise. Man must hit the streets until he's confined to work no more by illness or death. Everyone man has a need.

If I were to advise a genuine newbie in trading on this, I would say just put all the $500 in Bitcoin and hodl. I don't think there's much that can go wrong in anyone investing in Bitcoin as we're approaching the bull season. Halving, "the fever", that excites the market is just around the corner. On the other hand, if I were to advise more experienced members of this forum who know the basics of trading I would say they should diversify their portfolios. Do half of the capital in Bitcoin and they get low capped but nice projects/tokens to invest the rest on.

Speculatively, the height of this incoming rally should be in the second quarters of 2025. This isn't a financial advice, anyway. For me, that's where my radial is. I'm looking at two similar things this time around. The first is the expected price of Bitcoin to form fresh ATH. My eyes are on $120k–$150k. That range may look unrealistic now but wait till the rally begins. The second is that ATHs normally come the following year after halving. Halving is in April 2024. So, we should expect ATH in 2025. My guide is this, if the price range I'm speculating happens in 2024 I shouldn't be greedy to still keep all in the market. I will cut profit and leave a moonbag running to see what happens in 2025.

As it stands now, everyone should've a game plan before the frenzy that will muddle up everything begins.

This may not be easy for skeptics and newcomers as most of these NFTs come with a price for minting them. Those who haven't made money from airdrops aren't likely to commit because of the charge. They will see it as a scam. We won't blame them as such. There's enough scam and fraud going on in this industry at this time to last everyone three meals a day, so to say.

Yes, staking is ok. It provides passive earning. However, it depends on what's staked and on what platform it's staked. Those who are interested in staking should do that on veritable platforms they know are close to being perfectly secured. For instance, staking BNB on Binance launchpool for me seems a better option against impermanent loss than staking a relatively unknown token on the same Binance. Again, since the new guy got on the saddle at Binance after CZ stepped down; launchpads have become almost a weekly thing there. Investors are cashing out from it. That's a good one.

I can see that you're indirectly shilling for the y24 project. It's ok if you support a project and intuitively leave links to its site everywhere you go. Anyway, my observation is this – once a new project asks people to pay for tokens that they expect to airdrop, I don't feel comfortable. It's the same way I feel about this one. 0.1 BNB in today's market value is $31+. You expect some random guys to pay that amount for something they aren't sure will get to the market? I sincerely doubt that.

Actually, you do a more honourable thing to the network when you sell than when you hodl. Hodling is good but buying or selling is better. Remember how Bitcoin didn't have any value until the first transaction with the two pizza thing happened? That's right. We only get to know the real value of any asset when buying or selling takes place. It's the same way with Bitcoin. However, it's important to know the right time to buy or sell. Anyone who's selling Bitcoin now should only do it to take profit and then rebuy. Don't just sell and exit the market. Bitcoin is bullish ATM.

That's true. It doesn't become profit until it's taken off the table. Don't look at the screen and count it as profit if you haven't withdrawn it to a safe wallet or converted it to use. Your teacher is right on that one.

That's a strong reason enough for me not to have anything to do with that Wasabi project.

What? @o_e_l_e_o is facing the inevitability of mortality and someone is somewhere rejoicing like they're immune to death? That's a serious dickhead, if you asked me. Really disgusting.

From afar, and having read many of your posts o_e_l_e_o, I'm compelled to confess that you made a tremendous impact on this forum. I feel saddened by this health issue of yours. I hope a miracle happens that turns things around for you.

Oh, you're the same person as OP or you're deputizing for them? Anyway, so what's the way forward you would suggest now as I haven't got the coins back?

The thought of Bitcoin increasing more than its initial 21 million cap is a fright to start with. Everyone knows that will kill Bitcoin and inversely, the crypto industry. I've yet to see any project whose initial cap got increased and it retained its performance before tokens were added. It has always been the near death of such a project. A few projects I invested in that did that actually couldn't recover from such action. They rebranded and moved to other chains, yet it ended in futility. Those where even projects said to be centralized. If such happens to a decentralized project like Bitcoin the community's confident level will nosedive immediately. I wouldn't put a cent on it, myself.

Seek knowledge and then transfer it to skills. Nothing beats that. It may not pay you immediately but over time with consistency you will reap from it. That was my mindset a few years ago. That's still my mindset now. The sad thing is that many people want immediate gratification and wouldn't want to continue with what gives them joy and fulfilment even when it hasn't started bringing in ROI/cash. One should've a long term projection and evaluation of the type of skills one wants to acquire, take stock of those who are into it and evaluate their lifestyles if their engagements are sustaining them or not.

I'm an online trader. I'm very happy I took that decision a few years ago. Nothing beats the feeling of making money from the comfort of one's home. I encourage everyone here to go into skill acquisition. Paper certificate won't guarantee putting food on anyone's table but skills will do just that almost effortlessly. I speak from the experience of the situation in my country. Paper certificate is almost a cliché now.

For those who find trading difficult or think it's gambling, they can try acquiring trending and future sustaining skills in Blockchain, Artificial intelligence, Cloud Computing, Software Development, Digital Marketing or Programming. Any of these will still be in vogue a few decades to come. Don't dull on it.

You're right there but I don't even want to see it as a claim, looking at the operative word there – "May". What I see there is an OP who evidently doesn't believe in what they're saying to start with. There's lack of certainty that would've placed OP's comment at the point of claim. "Will" should've been a compelling word. Anyway, that's just about it. I expect more flimsy and worthless tokens to debut as we head into the bull season. This is that period we've be sounding warnings. Newbies should be careful with what they're investing in. I ain't saying this is a scam but when a noob account posts something like that, promoting an unknown project; everyone should be on a red alert.