Yes, I think you're doing something wrong hodling Bitcoin late. The current stack you're hodling now in dollar value would've bought you more than 2btc in the first quarters of 2020 if you took this initiative then. Well, it's better late than never. I like the advice jackg gave above. Adhering to them will make things easier for you and keep you away from losing your coins to lurking hackers and scammers.

Hia! You raised a very outrageous and unrealistic standard here oh. Do you know what that 50btc amounts to in the present day Naira value? Even those top Nigerian polithieftians are likely not to have that type of cash stolen from the government. That's >$1,425,000, then multiply it with the naira. That's very huge. Well, I think any discerning and business oriented person in my country will secure their future with 3-5btc thrown at them at the current level. For me, that's all I need.

Lol...Your caption is hilarious. I had a good laugh viewing it. Well, I knew for sure that the old man and the other Bitcoin haters would be in the news once Bitcoin began to rise again. And here it is! Who can take a gander as to what regrets these men would be having now, not having bought Bitcoin early this year when the price was almost at floor level. However, truth remains that people always fight whatever they think threatens their happiness, (in this case business) and this is what WB et al are doing. They forget that from time to time there's always a paradigm shift. Bitcoin (cryptocurrency) is the present day paradigm shift in matters of finance. It's either they embrace Bitcoin or get crushed under its weight. It's that simple a fact.

This guy ehn...You and all these your type of proverbs sef... Lol. Well, for dat thing wey you talk about owa people wey dey hide from this thread. I sabi sey na fear dem make dem behave like dat. Dem nor want make people begin look dem with one kain eye as Naija pikin dem as many people too dey look us as bad people. Sometimes e good to stand for wetin you believe and bone Uche face.

I am already looking forward to next year with great expectations based on current market trend. Closely, I will monitor activities in January. That should be a pointer to how forceful the market will be in either attaining great push or slowing the current momentum down. Overall, early investors in altcoins who are easily pleased taking profit will be the better for it. Also, I know those who suffered loss in 2017 for not being smart enough taking profit early will want to hastily do that in 2021 and that could be prematurely and selling off too quickly just like those who did this month once Bitcoin broke the last ATH of 19k+. Honestly, 2021 will be an interesting year.

Your last sentence (bolded by me for emphasis) sounds more like a declarative rather than a question which you made the title look like. If you had already concluded that the outcome of buying Ripple will be a total loss, then you shouldn't be making attempts to buy in. For me, I would rather stay out of Ripple until the dust settles. Doing otherwise is taking an unmitigated risk, and knowingly so. It's not the best way to approach investments.

XRP has never been a match for Litecoin despite it occupying a leading spot on the list. For me, I really don't give much consideration for spots. I gauge a coin by what I know it can do (use-case) and then look at the total supply before drawing conclusions. I ain't saying this now that Ripple is overrated because of what has become of its fate of late, I have always maintained that its greatest undoing is its huge supply. And now, this onslaught on it may kill it. I will just be watching if this will be another Bitcoinconnect Coin incident playing out here again. BCC has completely gone off the radar since after that scam accusation incident a few years ago.

Oh! I see. Was that how it landed in my account on Binance? I was a little taken aback a few days ago when I saw 100 TWT which I couldn't remember buying. I don't know if it's a good token or not but for the fact that it's on the Binance exchange may cause it to be noticed more. Who knows it could appreciate and even be another Uniswap.

Your risk to reward ratio is small and may not be really worth it to take the risk. If you're scared out and sold at the $27k level, then you should wait awhile for a correction before buying back and not just rush in. It's bad trading practice to buy back higher than one sold. However, to the best of my perspicacity, I really don't think Bitcoin is in for a crash now. There may be minor corrections on the way and those corrections aren't worth the risk of selling off to buy back later, in my opinion anyway. You can play with the alts by taking your chances but doing that with Bitcoin is taking a huge risk. Bitcoin will continue to soar well into 2021.

Well, I think following that pattern would mean you also will be selling too early too because market volume will surpass what it was in 2017. There's more awareness for Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency industry now than there was four years ago. Again, I do believe that because this is halving year, 2021 will even have a greater volume than we already are having now. If I were you, I would wait some more time before selling.

In my opinion, institutions are investing in it now because of sudden realization that Bitcoin can be a wedge for inflation. I mean, who wouldn't think in that direction for an investment seeing that at a time of a widespread pandemic Bitcoin couldn't be deterred even as various financial instruments crumbled under that weight. Another thing is the fact that it's obvious value in price will definitely rise whether institutions are buying in or not since that's what every post halving brings as scarcity mounts. It's a smart move from the institutions who want to be early birds in order not to miss the train.

This is the same mindset I have learnt to adopt when it comes to Bitcoin or anything cryptocurrency — Nothing is so certain that it can't be doubted — that axiom is apt here. Yes, quite a lot has changed in the pattern of investment with institutions coming in but these institutions are also handled by humans too who can be erratic in decisions taking. Until there's a law banning institutions from offloading their hodlings as and when due, I don't think we can bet on that; that there won't be a dump if institutions decide to take profit.

From my little experience, failed projects are those who run some features but failed to pull through with their WP or roadmap. The devs just have the ideas in their brains but aren't able to keep it a reality to finally actualize it. I had several tokens like that in the past. But if tokens dump after they're listed, it's a normal thing to me as early investors always take profit quickly to reenter trades. That isn't a sign of a failed project. Sometimes, these dumped projects recover once they've used cases embedded in them.

Any project that doesn't have a problem it's addressing or solving simply doesn't have utility. Such a project should be avoided because it doesn't have potential. Always look out for a use-case token/coin while investing. They're the potential projects.

I think the whole thing boils down to the fact that most projects and their teams don't truly value hunters. They see the rewards they pay to hunters as doing hunters a huge favour rather than paying for the services these hunters did. Until hunters begin to command respect I don't see that mentality of BMs and project teams changing anytime soon. Hunters should be more selective of bounties they promote too. Make sure they're escrowed or are run by credible bounty managers.

Nope, I don't believe bounty hunters should feel helpless whenever such a sad situation of reneging to reward hunters arises. They should open a thread on reputation and drag out the project and the bounty manager. I know this isn't an easy thing to do as some BMs may become retaliatory once they're called out instead of appeasing the hunters or ameliorating the situation. I have had such an experience with one of the BMs here too.

A wish is just what it is until it's put into action before it's regarded as a threat. For now, I think OP (or any other person) shouldn't take whatever people mouth against ETH to heart. Perhaps they make such utterances in frustration against the high gas fees of ETH.

ETH is focal to the crypto circle because of its smart contract and I can only but imagine how sordid the market will look if ETH fades out. That won't be a good sign to hope for. ETH is a treasure in this regard and I don't think anyone will justifiably say it hasn't contributed meaningfully to the crypto industry.

Even thought I do believe the Altcoin Section is mostly populated with spam posts and of the fact that most bounties run there end as scam, I still am of the opinion that bounty campaigns should be allowed to thrive there. All what the mods or theymos need do is step up the game to sanitize the section. Remove bounties there, bitcointalk forum will lose a great deal of revenue and publicity to rivalry fora.

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So true. I remember a few years ago the creator of ICO Forum, a crypto site just like BTT rushed to this forum to offer high yield bounty campaign to those who wanted. I noticed how the traffic on the site went up astronomically because of that as many users here quickly registered on that forum and there was transfer of knowledge and expertise. Sadly, the bounty didn't last long as the bounty manager was alleged to have embezzled campaign funds in ETH. The lesson is "money moves places." Or you can say in the parlance of my people — Money stops nonsense.

That isn't radical enough an approach for me.

This is an open secret, even though certain users will want to claim ending signature or bounty campaigns here won't affect the forum. It will! Simple and short!

I think the 70% dominance of Bitcoin is very high to plunge into alts buying. I would rather look at anything below 60%, except you're just trying o take high risk. What if the dominance continues above 70%? It definitely means the alts will be in bloody mess after you've bought in. However, that will be more profitable buying at that level than buying below 60%. But I rather take my time to buy below that.

We never can tell when what happens will happen, especially in this crypto space but surely there will be a bull run for alts in 2021. That's crystal clear.

Please, is there no permanent solution to this to keep accurate count instead of resetting it at intervals? Lately, I have also been experiencing that too. Not as if it's any problem since I can always see the true value on merit score on my profile. But it will be great to see that taken care of. My current merit count is 404 but the bot recorded it in notification as 400.

I would rather take a look at that in 2021 or 2025 but not 2023 or 2024. The reason being that I expect the market to do well after each post Bitcoin halving year. 2021 and 2025 are it. But before then there could be a repeat of the 2018 - 2019 dump that scared every Tom, Dick and Harry in the industry. We saw and admired what happened in 2017. That was a post halving year too.

How do you find that out? It's easier said than done. If anyone knew coins that will hit it big in the near future they would invest all they have, and still borrow to invest more in it.

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