Probably no one expected this, to reach these higts in such a short period of time. First of all, I expected correction when BTC reached 20,000 but it didn't happen. Then it reached 30,000 again nothing and then finally at 42,000 decent correction before yet another pump to 50,000. And yeash, I do agree that we would probbaly experience much bigger correction if it wasn't for Elon Musk and his pump.


Yep, it's fun to watch this after few years of bear market, but honestly I wouldn't also mind of BTC stayed a bit lower for a while as it is a chance to acquire more. Once you get into hodl mode, you stop worrying about the price and focus on the goal, and that is to acquire as much BTC as possible because as much as BTC goes up, harder it gets to acquire more.

One thing I would advise you is to always download the wallet directly from developer's website. Ignore other platforms like Google Play or App store as you might get a fake wallet by mistake. Regarding the explorers, I (as many others here) personally prefer https://blockchair.com/.


Yeah hardware wallet is a convenient way to store crypto and is worth investing into, but another good option for a very long term hodl is paper wallet too. It costs nothing and if done properly it is very safe so it isa good option for someone that can't afford hardware wallet right from the beginning.



When you check his post history, you realize why he is asking this "newbish" question. Despite him being member of the forum since 2017 he has been mostly active in altcoin section. In the end, it's never late to focus on bitcoin.

True, pretty much everyone expected this to happen some time ago, but all of this was postponed by Elon Musk, his tweets and making his purchase of bitcoin public. I remember people even expected it to drop at mid 20k levels, so what we are experiencing now is nothing, thanks to Musk and the pump.

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As to answer to OP what's best course of action, my advice is to hodl as it's the stress free solution. You might miss the opportunity to acquire more BTC by selling and then buying back, but at least you won't loose anything,and thats also why something.

One thing is sure though, at least it's not boring .

When you see how cheap is to publish an app on Google Play (approximately 25 USD) and how relaxed Google is when it comes to checking the submitted apps I am surprised that there are no even more of those fake app wallets than there are now. Since I started tracking them few months ago, this is the best situation so far with only one active wallet (that I was able to identify, there might be more) while there were period when there were eight or nine of them at the same time.

But nothing we can do about it other than reporting it to Google and hoping that they will be removed in the reasonable time frame.

You must be new to all this if you think that this is beginning of a huge dump. Absolutely nothing special happened now other than a healthy correction which was bound to happen sooner or later.

Unless you really know what you are doing, best is too jeep holding bitcoin because chances are that you will end up with less bitcoin than you have now if you decide to sell now and buy back again. Instead, just keep holding and not to worry about this.

One suggestion: since there are so many of the those scamming sites selling mining equipment and they are not adversiting here, you might wanna consider making some sort of thread where you can compile all of them instead making bunch of separate threads.

By the way, keep on the good work as this might save someone from loosing his hard earned money if he decides too Google before buying blindly.

If you think that's it is impossible for a new member to get merit and rise through the ranks, just check The future of Bitcointalk: Low Ranking Top Merit earners in the past 30 days and you will find bunch of low rank members getting pretty decent amount of merit month after month.

You still being a Member rank even though you created account years ago has to do with you writing mostly in  altcoin section and being inactive for almost tow and a half years  (from August 2018 up until now). Be active and write outside of altcoin section and you will eventually rank up. Currently there are more merits available than there are good new members so if you are at least decent poster, others will reward it.

The last three wallets that were still available on Google play have been removed (Mycelium, Jaxx Liberty and Coinbase) and marked appropriately, but we didn;t have to wait long for another fake wallet to appear, this time Atomic.

Wallet has been created two weeks ago and luckily doesn't have too many downloads and it seems like they didn't hire someone to write fake reviews. Please take a minute of your time to report the app, as it may make Google to remove app faster and save somoene from loosing his hard earned money.

Link to the fake wallet

https://archive.fo/AMMXB

Come on, one small dip and we are suddenly in the bear market? Hell, even if BTC dropped back to 20k I wouldn't think that trend reversed and that we are suddenly now in the bear market, let alone this. Fact that BTC went up fast after this dip tells me that this is nothing to be worried about and we can expect attack on new all time high soon.

Three new scams have been added to this evergrowing list of scams exposed, reaching the number of 136. It might be just my idea and impression, but I think that despite initial boom and still ongoing hype that surrounds them, DeFi scams started avoiding bitcointalk as scammers figured out that their nonsense won't pass unnoticed by forum's scambusters so I guess they are advertising somewhere else where they can do it freely. What we are left are mostly ponzies that are still very popular and probably will be as bitcoin keeps reaching new all time high, bringing greedy newbie investors who won't think twice whether 100% ROI on the monthly basis makes any sense at all.

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	Name			Scam accusation thread			Flag link
	134. Safron			[SCAM] Safron - MLM/Ponzi scheme promising unrealistically high profit			Flag Type 1
	135. Aitsy			[Warning] Aitsy- "artificial intelligence trading system"			Flag Type 1
	136. Fortune Finance			[Scam] Fortune Finance-fake team member photos and plagiarized whitepaper

Since BTC signature campaign managers had to lower the standards in order to fill the signature campaign, imagine what would happen if bounty managers have any standards when they choose the participants. They might as well stop them.

There are simply way too many campaigns on this forum to be filled with quality members, and demand exceeds the supply which brings bar lower and lower. I remember the situation just one year ago, when it was much harder to join the campaign and you had to be a very good poster in order to get into one, and now almost every spammer that managed to get few merits found his place in a signature campaign.

So far I've been way off in my predictions and almost always predicting the lower price than it was, so I'll continue in the same manner and say that topic this year might in the 100,000 USD area. Hopefully I'll be wrong again and BTC goes up way more. But if not, still good as it is means we have time to to acquire more BTC for ourselves money. Win win situation I would say.

To answer your question in the title, I think that people should only sell if they really need the money, otherwise otherwise they hodl is the way to go, no matter what the top will be this year.

But nowhere in that first post @Sparrow96 accused manager for stealing the coins, he accused POOLZ team for denying to pay bounty hunters that changed their wallet address. He even explained that later on, saying that he doesn't blame  @Fatemablabla for this, as seen in his post below.

Release date was not wrong, as always movie leaked few days before that on torrents, but official release was indeed February 19th.

I watched it too, and it's kinda meh. As you said, too many fictional things added, but that was kinda expected since this is not documentary. The only good thing about the movie is that some people may dig deeper and check what really happened. Imho, this whole subject deserves much better film, with bigger budget and more serious director. Someone like David Fincher would do much better job, and would fit this perfectly. What we got is essentially made-for-TV low budget film with zero character development.


They didn't really mention bitcoin much so I don't think that will have any impact on people's perception. Maybe if movie was released 5 years ago, but not now when everyone and their grandma knows about bitcoin.

The thing I don't understand is why bounty manager keeps ignoring this thread? If he came and once again explained the situation and that distribution is not up to him  (I guess) chances are he wouldn't end up being tagged for this.


Even if you get all bounty hunters on the same page (which I think is impossible) and run anti-campaign, I don't think that will force them to send the tokens. Bounty hunters have very limited reach and Amepay is probably aware of that, and that's why they behave the way they do.

Bounty hunters should simply stop joining campaigns where funds are not escrowed, but since that won't happen as there will always be enough of those that are ready to risk, these things will keep happening.

I think that when he said "senior brother" he actually meant any veteran/more experienced member of the forum, and not his own brother.

With that being said, I don't think that he is genuinely interested in ranking up as it's been almost 3 weeks since he started this topic and he hasn't been online pretty much since then. My guess is, this is just another merit fishing attempt (and pretty bad one I must say), pretending to be a newbie and asking most generic question possible. That failed, no one gave him merit so he abandoned the account. Rinse and repeat.

I see. I just asked as I saw that @SmallRabbit got tagged for this as it wasn't clear from your post whether you think that it's his or Amepay fault for not sending toke tokens. If they are adamant about waiting for fees to go down, I think that you will wait for tokens for much longer than this, unfortunately. ETH price keeps incrasing and  so are the transaction fees,


True, that was my first thought too, that they decided to delay the distribution due price increase, but their bounty started even before exchange listing and I guess they based the based signature payrates on ICO price, which was 1 AME = 0.024 USD and price now is not so much higher that price increase should be an issue. But who knows, maybe they are so stingy that they are indeed waiting for a dump so they can distribute the tokens, as we've seen so many times before.

Based on what's written in the bounty thread, Amepay owes tokens from week 6-9. Since week 9 has not been calculated yet, for week 6-8 they are suppose to distribute 867,450 AME worth approximately 35,000 USD. That's not an insignificant amount of money and when you add on that transactions fees, I wouldn't be surprised if they delay token distribution indefinitely.

I know few people IRL that bought houses/apartments via bitcoin profit which I consider is pretty big success,  but no, I don't know any millionaires as of yet. That might change though in the future if they continue hodling bitcoin.

Personally, that house is an overkill (at least for me) but it is not a surprise as people tend to spend way too much when they suddenly get huge amount of money. That's why majority of lotto winners declare bankruptcy within 5 years of winning.



Spot on, exactly how I would spend my money .

Just to be sure what's going on here, @SmallRabbit has bounty funds and  he/she decided to postpone bounty distribution due high fees? Or Amepay is in charge of distribution and it was their decision?

I think that we are about to see a lot of similar threads in the future for bounty campaigns with erc20 tokens as transactions fees won't go down anytime soon and in most of cases they will be higher than the value of tokens. It's not a valid excuse of course, but if I am bounty hunter I would think twice before accepting to work for months without being sure that I will get paid in the end.

Realistically, even if you stumbled across bitcoin 10 years ago, chances are you wouldn't be any different that many others who played a little bitc with bitcoin and simply forgot about it. Who expected 10 years ago that bitcoin will be what it is now, and with this price? Absolutely no one, and probably not even those heavily included into all this.

With that being said, I don't think tat you are late to this party  even if you just joined and bought your first bitcoin, as we are still in the early days of crypto adoption and don;t let this current price discourage you.


Question is, would bitcoin be what it is now if early adopters didn't try to buy things with it and just decided to passively hodl it? I personally think that people like Laszlo Hanyecz who spent 10,000 BTC for 2 pizzas played an important part in bitcoin promotion as it showed people that bitcoin is not "monopoly money".