Offering my late congratulations as well. I've to admit I'm not big on NFTs right now. I'm big on what they might be able to do in the future, especially with this rather confusing period where the adopters are supposed to be content creators but you can see now from most big projects launching, they're just more business people and companies that probably don't have their ideas in the correct place:) Happy hunting for more!

Maybe in forex where I saw some efficiency (until there wasn't) and maaaybe in crypto during sideways trading or low volatility but just taking a look at yesterday's Bitcoin candles at 4h, impossible to give any meaningful results, depending on which side you're looking at. Had a lot of fun scalping alts in 2017 until the peak just fizzled out, and then I basically lost almost everything I took a lot of pains to gain. And this was in confirmation with signal groups I tried out in that period too (I know, I know, but I learnt my lesson).

Yep, like I wrote above, I have been thinking about this a lot. And the problem is less of finding a method (I know even time lock can be used for example) but of finding a method that makes sure even if the person you trust doesn't know enough about Bitcoin, they won't have trouble accessing it after death. Sometimes I think maybe the only way, ironically, is to use a centralized service. Because in my case I know the person I trust is zero literacy about computers. Yes the person know how to surf and send email and use apps but cannot even remember how many times password is reset:)

I have to agree with jackg, just keep the ban. I don't like censorship, but if you think about it, the only people paying for Google ads to use Bitcoin are crypto companies with zero interest in helping Bitcoin and 100% interest in making money. Sadly, most of this making money concept comes at the expense of users.

If people want to learn about Bitcoin, it should be from wiki, or solid educational channels. Not from clicking a Google ad.

Yeah, tell us something we don't know, guy:) It's always a good entry for Bitcoin, at whatever the price is, because you always get a good average if you keep regular buying. The only difference is the wait. If you are "unlucky" to buy at the peak, then you simply added on a few years to your wait. That's all.

I guess people actually either don't have the brains to do simple math or don't have the common sense to see through thick illogic.

Even let's not use daily 10%, which very few "smart" signal groups will tell. The trick these days is to show people what looks realistic, like 2% daily profit (which in our minds seems wow okay, he isn't claiming 10%, just tiny 2% which is so realistic).

Normal trading with no leverage on $1000, daily 1% and compounding: almost 6000 after 3 months. $1.3 million after 1 year.

I think there problem is maybe even more important to think about for Bitcoin, is people still don't know enough to care about these things (decentralized, censorship-resistance etc.). For better or worse, people can't learn about the importance of these things the way they are mainly presented. And they can't because states won't teach them this either.

Custodial apps always win and we seen that even though years of scams and "hacks" have stolen people's money, because they do not know better (and education prevents them from knowing better).

Wrong. New Projects run campaigns to get more buyers and speculators, but this does ZERO for adoption. If you don't believe me, go to any altcoin group doing "campaigns" and find me one actual user. This means someone who uses the actual real wallet, and uses the token for its supposed utility, excluding trading/selling/buying/exchanging.

The whole reason why altcoins are called shitcoins is because they have no users. Just token buyers/holders.

We are counting down the weeks and days to the start of big leagues, and all the charity cup games for domestic are starting, Champions League and Europa League are also starting qualification (not just preliminary) so everything is really looking "normal" again. One more hit before real Leagues start, right?

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I agree with the discussions above that $80 is an amount that if you can't afford for a whole season, you shouldn't be playing:) But at the same time, I also know the situation of a lot of friends and family ($80 is translated to half month's pay here for most of my colleagues) so I won't forget I am lucky to be in a position to spend this amount. It's actually really because of Bitcoin.

Actually I didn't even realize we had so many last season, 50 is a lot! It didn't seem so in the threads or I guess not everyone chatted:)

And yes, free withdrawals at 2mbtc also I didn't know but this is a good "wallet" to have for saving on fees;)

Dude, the rumors were actually credited for bringing Bitcoin up a little, so if they didn't respond to it, it might even have had a bigger effect if it was true (but it wasn't, as in, it wasn't true, and it wasn't even the reason Bitcoin got back up in price).

Market manipulation is there anyway, like it or not. We can't do much about it, so why complain?

There is a need for big adoption, but just simply accepting BTC thru thirdparty:)

I guess we both understand risk differently then. Risk does not change if you put $1 or $100 on an outcome (unless you're talking about billions in which case slippage risk is a factor). You still have the same risk no matter the size of your capital, from a retailer point of view.

I guess this is why I'm not a trader and loads of people on this forum are since we really understand these fundamentals differently!

I'm not so old and unhealthy to be thinking in panic, but I'm definitely worried everytime I see or hear about a friend who died or who is signing up for a will. I don't really want to go that route yet but for sure have to think about something like this that lasts, and also that can have a high chance of being understandable by someone else.

Imagine, 100 years from now on some AtticTreasure show someone finds your steel plates and buys it for $5 to be used as scrap metal

I do love the concept of storage of energy and value, and you know it's strange but a lot of gamers and collectors tell you the same thing and I don't think they're wrong.

For example you know they sort of in the past with the MMORPG games where some coins are only collectible by spending time hacking and slashing (you can't buy the coins except from other players). Then it's literally time and electricity spent by players to just game and grind and collect. Which they then sell for real money.

Not as valuable as Bitcoin because it can't be used anywhere else but it's the same concept:)

I think if we ignore the high of 63k, actually every pullback has not been so dangerous either. Support holds well, and even when it did break (30k support) it didn't even go more than 5% below and recovered very well everyt ime since.

Now this week is really important because we failed 40k BUT sellers finding it so hard to break 38k. Another weekend to look forward to if we maintain this sideways now.

Yes, that's how I heard about Coinbase and Paypal, people invited me for free $10 (but both cases I couldn't use them). What I meant to say is that the MOST our local exchanges do is that (referral). No fancy competitions like this, no Olympics special. Trading contests a lot but I hate those because you can't win if you're not a whale since they payout on volume.

Personally I think hosting a big contest like that to get people to KYC onboard is a great idea.

Yup, no wallet address, not even blockchain interacting. You can send them to someone else with the same app account, like sending anyone any other "digital money" and even you can send to their phone number, it will credit their account and debit yours. Which is basically how it works for everything there, even "gold" or "silver" which of course aren't real but people think it is, and call themselves gold investors and Bitcoin investors:)

I know it's pointless to explain to them why this isn't going to work long term but I have hopes. I mean now you can use Bitcoin with QR codes and not addresses and set your wallet to auto determine fees. I have seen Ethereum apps that are on chain and off chain mixed... you send ETH but in dollars, and it's instant because it's off chain, and even fees are from a separate balance so you don't confuse yourself with ETH. I think BTC apps if they start to also use Lighting like this, and devs take a page or two from ETH could make it more user friendly. I understand there are security concerns of course but I have hopes things will look better in future.

It's hard not to argue, the more popular it is, the more people assign value to it, and therefore, the more valuable it becomes. Even if crap things like NFTs become popular, they have a value to it.

But relying only on popularity doesn't seem to get you very far in the long run!

I took this advice and sent 2 mbtc to the tournament direct from Sportsbet account. Processed in minutes and free to send, highly recommended;) I haven't won anything except regrets and this is the highest fee I've ever paid but this is only because it's Bitcoin 40000! Good luck to everyone, this time I will pick less draws. Or maybe not:)

The context is that the majority of salary paying people don't pay in Bitcoin and the majority of the world's shops and sellers don't accept Bitcoin.

So I'd still rather get paid in fiat for those needs, but of course, great if you could make a choice to get part of salary in BTC but as I said, that's also not possible. That's not just the context, that's the reality:)