Not to be negative, but I think Custody Services by bank is too risky for both the Bank and the Customers because of Bitcoin volatility. As far as I know, when we hand over our assets to the bank for Custody service, those assets will be lended by the Bank to the other customers. If on the period of those lending, the Bitcoin price change either surge or drop significantly, it might be a disaster for the Bank and the customer.

A simple question to those who are hoping to profit on the next Bitcoin bull-run:
How do you determine when is the good time to sell?
in other words: how would you know we've reached the peak?

Do you have a set "goal" price at which you'd be selling no matter what happens? Do you intend to sell incrementally as the price goes up? Or maybe when the price gradually drops (e.g. it goes down for X days in a row), indicating we're past the peak?

Your opinion is clear to me because take for instance of luna how it kill many people because of peg it lost, am also a victim of such only me understand how I felt during the period. Base on my location the are favourable. USDT is a dependant so anything can happen at anytime, if any happen to USDT, the USD will never be affected because the currency is independent of it own. Let assume if today USD collapse the USDT in gone, while if USDT collapse the USD stay. We shouldn't compare the master and the servant, the two are not the same it is clear. I prefer USD than USDT for the purpose of security, and what we need is safety.

Those seem to be different reasons than what I tried to say...

I was largely trying to say that it is a matter of position size and moderation rather than pushing too much too soon.. so there is no reason for CAR to be a failure except that they were likely gambling rather than engaging in an attempt at a prudent investment strategy... the same with individuals who get into bitcoin without an adequate view of their timeline and attempt to invest in a way that is gradually building up the bitcoin position over several years, and perhaps several cycles if your finances might already be on shaky grounds, then you have to build your various finances while you are investing in bitcoin... so if someone, some institution or some government recks themselves from the way that they invested in bitcoin, then one of the ways to recovery is to start back up more slowly and with a smaller position size and maybe even expand the investment time horizon from 4-10 years and start to plan out 10-20 years or more.. which may well continue to mean building and growing in bitcoin small in order NOT to overdo it and ONLY with cash that you can afford to lose... but still nothing wrong with being somewhat aggressive in your investment as long as you do not over do it..

Every person, institution and/or government has a variety of defects, so both you, Sayeds56, and that article seem to want to blame CAR's defects for their failure to be successful in bitcoin, and of course, they have defects just like we all have defects, so maybe in stead of buying $100s of millions in bitcoin, just start out with 1 bitcoin a day or 5 bitcoin a week more something more modest and manageable, and perhaps later on, then work their way up to higher amounts, after getting their shit together.

In short, if the website follows all the security parameters it must have, the risk of this type of attack is at the same level whether you use Cloudfare or any other service.

Now, I ask: why change something that is working well and fulfills its objective?

The question I pose is: Is there another service, similar to Cloudflare, where the MITM danger does not exist? If so, is it really better than Cloudflare against DDOS attacks?

Another thing I would like to know was: are there reports of cases in which Cloudflare connections suffered MITM attacks? _{I searched and didn't find it, but maybe it wasn't a deep search.}

Are we just talking about a possibility, or something that has already happened?

Without usage as a currency is not something you need to worry about because it is used as a currency every single day. Maybe we do not hear about it because it is not talked about that much but online payments are shifting towards more and more bitcoin, a lot more online websites that started to accept bitcoin and that means that it is going to be possible way more.

I am just waiting for amazon and steam type of companies to get back on the ship, if they do that, even if with just stablecoins, that would be amazing. Something like CBDC could make that work, because seeing the government behind something could make them work a lot better on the long run and should be doing a great return on profit as well for those companies.

এমন ধারনা করাটা আসলেই বোকামি/ভুল। আমরা ধরে নিচ্ছি সাতোশি নাকামোতোর ১০ লক্ষ বিটকয়েন হারিয়ে গেছে। অথচ আমরা জানিই না সাতোশির কাছে ১০ লক্ষ বিটকয়েন আছে কি না। এড্রেস গুলো অনেক আগের হওয়ায় এমন ধারনা। তাছাড়া, শুরুর দিকে শুধু সাতোশি একা মাইনিং করেছিল বলে ধারনা করা হয় কিন্তু আমি আসলে এই ব্যাপারে মানতে নারাজ। যাই হোক, যদি ধরেও নেই যে সাতোশির কাছে ১০ লক্ষ বিটকয়েন আছে, তবুও আমরা বলতে পারি না সেগুলো চিরতরে হারিয়ে গেছে। কারণ হতে পারে-
১। সাতোশি ইচ্ছে করেই সেগুলো মুভ করছে না।
২। সাতোশি ভবিষ্যতের জন্য এইগুলো রেখে গিয়েছে। গুপ্তধন হিসেবে। হয়তবা কোন একদিন কেউ এর রহস্য খুজে পাবে এবং সে সাথে সাতোশির রেখে যাওয়া বিটকয়েনও।

তবে, এমনও হতে পারে যে সাতোশি ইচ্ছে করেই কয়েনগুলো নষ্ট করেছে। তার দিক থেকে একদম ফেয়ার থাকার জন্য। শুরুর দিকে সে একা মাইনিং করলে সে অনেক বিটকয়েনের মালিক যেটা অনেকের চোখেই আনফেয়ার, যার কারনে সাতোশি সেগুলো নষ্ট করেই ফেলেছেন।

১। সাতোশি ইচ্ছে করেই সেগুলো মুভ করছে না।

When the fundamental holders of Bitcoin start to get back strong, such as more Institutional adoption perspective which could happen as a result of getting the first-ever spot ETF on a scarce commodity as "Bitcoin" approved,  giving the institutional investors confidence to start converting or allocating some percentage of their wealth sitting there in, Gold, Bonds, real estate and stocks into BTC, hence bringing more money to melt into Bitcoin, it gonna be a blast.

That sounds good because as long as you are comfortable with setting your orders and then becoming somewhat emotionally neutral regarind whether or not they fill, then it seems that you are likely to be on the right track.

I mostly ONLY become upset if I have an order outstanding and the price moves within a few dollars (and sometimes within a few cents of filling it, and then it does not fill.. otherwise, I attempt to set my orders in such ways that I am mostly emotionally neutral about them filling or not..

Otherwise, I stand by my earlier points, that our getting all smart about setting our orders is likely more of a luxury of having had already accumulated a decent amount of BTC - and the overwhelming population are either low coiners and/or no coiner and it takes a while to get to a status of having a decently sufficiently sized BTC stash in which you are more happy for the BTC price to go up rather than down, and sure maybe there are a lot of guys (and gal) in this forum who have been stacking sats for a while, but they still may well even consider themselves to still be low coiners, so they likely have to include some form of DCA and not be fucking around too much about figuring out the price, unless maybe they are doing both.. in terms of supplementing their DCA with buying on dips.

Sure there are also likely quite few people who have some BTC and they think that they have enough, so they end up fucking around with trading it because either they are trying to get more dollars (or BTC) and they do not sufficiently calculate that they are playing with too much of their stash, and sure no problem with playing with small portions of your stash, but there are a decent amount who play with too much because they think that they can outsmart BTC's price direction, and then end up with fewer BTC because of those kinds of games than what they might have been able to get from a more straight forward DCA strategy.

There are many exchanges where the fees are minimal. For instance, Coinbase charge as low as 0.00000473 BTC(about $0.122) as withdrawal fee for BTC. Under this fee, a hundred transaction will cost $1.22 which is not too much a fee to pay. There are many other options including P2P using trusted merchants as it is done in my country where Coinbase is not available.

Because you can't stop someone from sending you BTC's, any user with a BTC address can be attacked with a dust transaction, and it doesn't mean they are exactly targeted by scammers. Nevertheless it is easy to avoid dust attacks if you know what you are doing, addresses should never be selected from your transaction history and you should fully crosscheck all the characters in your address and not only the first and last characters.

If you place an order in the $20k area now, then that means you are really expecting a big drop. Of course this may happen, but; buying with this scenario does not seem to have a high percentage of success. I never meant to discourage you from waiting long for a downturn, but a downturn that big requires a lot of FUD as well. I don't even think you need to place an order at $20k right now, that seems wasteful to me.

Just buy it now with the same scenario. This means you buy in at $25k with half your budget now and the other half in hand. You could certainly place an order at $20k after buying at $25k with half the first budget, that seems better to consider instead of waiting for something uncertain. At least you can benefit if the price never drops below $24k, so you already have bitcoin from half your budget.

Well, if you think that you got it figured out, then fine.. good luck with that... and if you think that you got it in the bag, then we just have to wait to see how it plays out.. and I suppose ONLY you are going to know the extent to which your orders end up getting filled, unless you want to disclose the various price points that you have your buy orders or do you employ your BTC buys manually rather than setting them in advance?