Every businessman (whether scumbags/scammers or genuine ones) have only one motif of doing what they do — make money. So, businesses will continue to spring up as long as there are ways of making money from them. Nonetheless, I am of the opinion that most projects don't set out to exit softly or scam people outrightly but eventually do so when they run into troubled waters. As a rule of thumb for me, having fallen victim of scams of ICOs, is not to indulge ICOs any more. I took that decision sometime in 2018 and have tenaciously held on to it till date. No regrets. In fact, that decision has tremendously saved me a hell of loss. I can get in ICO bounties or wait for the projects I fancy to get listed on reputable exchanges and then buy there. Most times ( I discovered this through research) projects get listed even less than their ICO prices. So, why the rush then? Even when I want to acknowledge that there are lots of scam and empty projects out there, I still believe there are a few good ones. It's not after all a totally irredeemable situation.

I don't consider 1hr TF as higher timeframe. The few times I did use it, it messed my trades up. I look at 4hr upwards and then trigger a trade from the 1hr or lesser timeframes. If a pair I intend to trade is bearish on the high timeframe, it means I should be looking out for a bearish entry from the lower timeframe. I like swinging my trades. I don't like watching paint dry. This is a convenient way of trading for me. It eases stress and gives the deserved rest and better ROI which hourly traders don't have the luxury of. A few days ago, I was hasty buying DIA from the 1hr TF because I would be offline line that day and didn't want to miss the train but there was still a pull on the 4hr TF. I took that risk and it cost me 3 days for price to revert to my entry price. Sometimes, such hastiness can cost one even a month.

DIA? But the price is shitty this day. Do you ever for see a situation where it's going to lift itself out of the $1 - $2 range? A lot of investors are bemoaning their loss already.

Generally? Isn't that the way of business? Simply put — there isn't any business without inherent risk. What determines levels of risk is subjective to individual investors.

Lol...Exactly my thought too! I sincerely hope people should stop worshipping Warren Buffet and erroneously thinking he's a god of the economy. Dude makes mistakes too and he isn't infallible. The way it's looking now, this (not believing in Bitcoin) is another of his mistakes. But something keeps nagging at me that billionaire Buffet is a secret hodler of Bitcoin. Truth be told, Bitcoin is past that age where it would've mattered if a single individual believed in Bitcoin or not. Bitcoin is now heading towards mass adoption.

Maybe you should try and resolve the sex of your subject matter to situate your post in its proper context between "she or he". However, I think to some extent I do understand the drift of your post and to this I say that working for one's country doesn't stop one from engaging in business. Crypto stuff is mostly an online kind of thing and can be conveniently carried out anywhere provided there's Internet in that area. So, there isn't or shouldn't be an excuse of it holding one down or restricting one. Anyone who has just a stream of income will always be in a rat race, a situation where income is hardly enough to sustain the person.

Let me touch briefly on the itemized points:
1. I don't think it's an issue borrowing money to invest in trading or any project. That's if one knows what one is doing. However, my caveat here is that no one should get a loan from the bank to invest. Borrowing from friends or relatives is better than going to the loan sharks. I have my reasons for this.
2. Human wants are insatiable. So, I don't think any reward expectations are greedy. After all, what is much to one may be less to another. But I like taking profit above X 10 on my investments.
3. This third item is subject to different individual expectations and I solely believe that it's for that reason that we all have mentors in life. Mentors are those whose ways of life and business modules we imitate. "It is better you follow your mind during investment and bear the consequencies thereafter." While I understand what you meant by the bolded, I strongly caution that same wasn't for noob investors or traders. There's always a learning process. No one was born an expert. We grow by learning from others — and from our mistakes too.

I don't joke with those candle patterns (excluding the Engulfing Patterns) on a higher timeframe like the 4hrs and Daily. Those patterns can easily change the direction of a trend. It's good to wait it out to the last second before triggering off a trade. On a lower timeframe like 30mins to 1hr, not much harm can be done. But whatever a trader does, they should avoid the error of impulse trading. I have been a victim of this in the time past and in most cases it cost me my peace of mind, and sometimes it led to accounts getting burnt. It's a symptom of itching fingers and that isn't a good thing in trading; it messes up one's emotions.

You never can say of a certitude that your position is the ultimate thinking because a lot of people will disagree with you on this. In holding you don't lose anything. The tokens remain the same quantity they were even though value may change; either higher or lower. But in trading, one stands in a position to lose one's coins/tokens if one's trading call turns sour. For me, I believe Hodling is playing it safer than Trading.

Anyone who thinks this way is merely assuming. And that isn't right. It's fallacious because assumption is the highest level of not knowing. I see Hodling like keeping one's account in a bank in a fixed deposit. Is that a sign of failure too? I don't think so.

The scenario you described as a bubble growth was actually a real growth that got a lot of people scared that it could burst. I think it was that skepticism that actually pulled price down in the first quarters of 2018, and not that Bitcoin was a facade. We can see, as evidenced, that Bitcoin isn't a bubble. The crypto industry has come to stay. I expect another major bull run in 2021. It's a repeat every post Bitcoin halving year.

Yes, that's true. Every bull year is heralded by a hype. 2017 was ICO hype and now it's a DeFi hype. We still have the ICOs with us now though it doesn't generate enough buzz as it did in 2017/2018. It's likely too that DeFi will still be in place even after the next bull run (which I expect in 2021).

The next Ethereum will be Ethereum. How do I know? Just look at the current crazy gas fee of ETH yet no other coins has deemed it fit to overtake ETH or marshal out programmes to topple ETH. I think the smart contract thing of ETH has given it an edge on others. A lot of tokens have put their projects on hold and in wait for an upgrade to ETH 2.0 version. That shows how popular in demand ETH has become, even when the fees are highly discouraging and alarming.

Simply put— the Bitcoin will be lost forever. This is a major point for me that we will never have the whole 21million total supply in circulation. Never! A lot of Bitcoin has been lost already through this kind of occurrence.

Yes! Except someone is able to brute force their way to opening that wallet. Otherwise, it remains lost in the deceased's wallet.

My advice to you on this is to always copy out the vitals of the wallet like the private key or passphrase you're using on a piece of paper. Take that risk of writing it out offline but keep the paper safe and out of wandering eyes.

Charles, the mprep comment was at a time the forum didn't have much traffic and it was necessary to entice people to the forum. Now, account sales and multiple accounts are big offences, especially if one enrols more than one accounts in the same campaign. Sometimes, I think people have got tagged for having alt accounts even when they didn't enroll them in the same campaign or bounty. So, I am thinking having alts is outlawed here. Well, may be not for some selected individuals.

Wow! So the supposedly "evil IPs" stuff doesn't cut across all the countries? Are there saintly countries? I mean, countries which don't do evil and while others do? This is selective and shouldn't be so. I think this kind of profiling of countries into good and bad shortchanges us as humans.

Hia! Grammar ti poju! You forget sey once we enter this house na for outside we dey leave owa grammar ba? Nor let somebody do you atarodo here oh 🙄 Abi na to report ya matter to General Buhari remain sef.

Welcome, wey bread bro. E bi like sey you don even tey small for here sef. E good as you join us here so that we all go dey run the game dey go together. Make una dey do owa country proud dey go for here. Naija youths nor lazy, na bad leadership be we problem. Soon, by fire by force we go flush all of them out.

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Which one be this oh, ntori oloru? Brainboss abeg delete that shit poster. Na so dem dey do oh. If na for dem local board you go see persin wey go merit that shitpost.

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My remedy for this type of situation is to always write down the day of weekly submission in my notepad where I usually place links from the shared contents on social media. This technique  has really helped me as I haven't missed any submission of reports.

OP, you capitalizing the project's name screams out to me that it's a plug. It seems the OP is trying to run publicity stunt for the project. Are you, OP, a member of that project? Well, that was a rhetorical question, anyway.

Once there is a cut in the total supply of Dogecoin believe me how the value in price will rise. The humongous supply is what has kept its price down for ages.

Lol...😂😂😂 but certainly you're a bad dude, ain't you? That really got me laughing here. Sure you're a smart dude and that's why you aren't getting caught in that web of deceit. I have always maintained that a lot of people get scammed because of their greed to reap where they didn't sow. Who would give free Bitcoin out just that easy to random strangers. A lot of impatient folks would've jumped at the 1.2btc on the site and lost their senses of reasoning. Hence, scammed.

A lot of people like to chase clout and that's how the crowd mentality thing works. The invested amount may not be that huge going by the few Bitcoin it could buy at the present price but the interest shown by the company and the buzz it has generated is a good one for me. A journey of a thousand mile begins with a step. From this and other related developments we shall begin to see other companies which were skeptical about investing or hedging their funds with Bitcoin begin to do that. It's a plus for the crypto industry. The industry is the winner here.

It's clearly obvious Max Keiser is routing for Biden to win. But he forgets that the old man is bereft of ideas going by his antecedents in the government preceding even being the VP under Obama. Biden is a spent force, for me. However, I like to remind Keiser that Bitcoin is decentralized and as such whoever wins the US election next month doesn't matter to it.

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"Max Keiser: No. PayPal, like all companies, came to the realization faster than others that Bitcoin is an existential threat to their business and to ignore it would mean going out of business."

The above is a wise observation. That was how Nokia refused to evolve into the Android version with its phones and was run out of business.

Wow! It's a pity such happened. On the flip side, why would anyone take out a loan when they can easily sell off their holdings and start a business they envisage. This beats me hallow. No business is worth imposing such a confidence in the way you promoted your confidence in Bitcoin. Remember that anything volatile can't be trusted with stability. This is what Bitcoin is. However, it doesn't mean it can't hit a fresh ATH and break the record of 2017.

@OP, I think you should take out that loan if the conditions you have described here in the OP of job security and all that are intact. With that you already have means of repaying the loan. It removes pressure of how to raise money to service the loan off your head.

The real question should be — Can you trust any project at all?

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Almost every new project this day is including DeFi to its makeup, even when it clearly doesn't have anything to do with decentralized finance, just to deceive people. Well, the thing for me is that I won't invest in any ICO that is on a medical project to start with. I did that in the past and I know the setback I suffered on that. The DeFi angle to the project OP wrote about doesn't even sit well with me, notwithstanding. However, it doesn't mean the project won't succeed or all that. Though I will advise those putting in their money on it should only invest money they can afford to lose. The risk is there.