Hey buddy, you missed out the Chinese coins trend that saw the birth of NEO, Binance, etc. What about the IEO days, STOs, Lending coins? I believe some of these trends are healthy for the growth of this industry and have helped to shape it deeply. I don't want to see the masternodes stuff as a mere trend, but as a tech that has continued to better crypto space till date.

For 2021? I think it would be good if anyone knew what trend we're going to be faced with ahead of time. But ruefully, this isn't possible. No man is clairvoyant enough to know this. Anyone armed with such knowledge will be a god.

What happens here is clearly spelt out as Bounty Campaigns and they run for a few weeks repeatedly with participants doing weekly tasks. Airdrops are quite different and they're one time off tasks carried out by participants on social media. Now, most of the airdrops coerce participants to remain in their telegram groups to ensure they keep discussions on. It doesn't go beyond that. Just joining social media groups and submitting ERC/or other wallet address and then wait out for distribution. Airdrop rewards are often tiny bits that often don't worth much when sent. I think the other scenario where tokens are sent to wallets without receivers' sending any address to the sender is a fork situation.

Shey you too don turn to Ben Bruce the Bambilala? Senator wey dey always shout I want to make commonsense, I want to make commonsense. But when dem show money, im commonsense disappear. 🤡. I know sey your case nor go be like dat.

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Brainboss, the matter wey you ask here na simple matter but those owa thieving legislators both for state and NA nor go easily wan do am oh, except any threat like this #endsars go remind dem sey boys are not smiling. For Imo State, I hear sey members of the state assembly dey collect mouth watery N3.5m monthly. The Abuja boys dey collect up to N13m monthly. You see as the matter take be na? The waste too much. So, na cost of governance be number one issue to tackle on ending bad governance. (2) E go good to put age barrier as qualification. Anybody wey pass 60years must not contest for any political position. (3) Online voting dey important to implement. That na wetin go really make politicians believe sey true true power dey the people hand because any of them wey do anyhow we go show pepper online. If dem got do just this three things ehn, kai, politicians will sit up sharperly!

@CharlesT, I congratulate you on your new age o. Welcome to the senior club. Clink glasses...🥂🥂

I feel like hitting myself in the head with a hammer to think I sold my Bitcoin two days ago at $11,300+ or so, only for it to skyrocket today. Yeah, I know a lot of peeps will say I shouldn't regret selling off that soon but truth remains that it wasn't as if I was pressed for cash for anything at the time I offloaded them. Well, my only consolation is all these now is that this bull run will soon awaken altcoins to join the moon move. So, we are likely to witness an increased market cap again. Ignorant investors will again go crazy for penny priced tokens to chase prize up. This is surely an interesting time in the crypto space. Even Litecoin is beginning to show evidence of price surge too.

This is one area I don't feel bad not being an early adopter because it's obvious they suffered great and daunting challenges acquiring Bitcoin at the time, especially in Africa. You could imagine trying to buy from a local contact with an escrow. The chances of getting scammed were the anxious waiting moments. Even now with escrows, people still get scammed or cheated out of their money. Good a thing we now have trusted exchanges with not much hassles transacting on them.

I think p2p has given much rise to the awareness of Bitcoin in my country, having to do with so many crowd funding or ponzi schemes requiring Bitcoin as an option for registration fee. Participants readily buy/sell from among themselves. Yes, I know there are quite a lot of scammers hoodwinking others on this but that isn't taking anything away from the genuine users and merchants. Again, those trading Bitcoin and cryptos are on a rise in my country and this has enabled many to buy easily from these traders.

When I saw the bolded, I suspected where OP could be speaking from. And then I saw the one below 👇and realized my hunch wasn't wrong, after all.

Naija, I hail thee! Area!

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This, on a serious note, goes with the axiom — Teach me how to fish, and not give me fish. It's very important doing it on one's own even when the learning process is daunting and herculean. Acquire the set skills for trading and you won't have to live in want for life.

Beyond this #endsars, it's obvious that Nigerians aren't happy with the lopsided appointments of the Buhari led administration which he has turned into a northern enclave, sort of, and appointing only his kinsmen from the north into juicy positions. No federal character is observed any more in appointments. The APC led government has destroyed all that it took several administrations years to build. It's a big shame that Buhari who was entrusted with so much trust and goodwill by the people has betrayed all that now. Anyone who tells you s/he isn't shocked and disappointed by what the FGN is doing to her citizens is either a clown or a hypocrite.

Flights are doing well. All the airports are open. Sell some Bitcoin man and fund that trip jor 🙄 or are you also scared of heights?

That's how revolutions start; protests that gradually degenerate into chaos. Before you know what next, the protesters will go bunkers and begin a manhunt for those perceived to have shortchanged them on their collective patrimony.

I was one of those who criticized GEJ for that brash and thoughtless decision he took, knowing very well that Easterners are in love with Xmas and travelled to celebrate it. He shouldn't have taken that decision at the time he did. Whether he rescinded on that or not was immaterial. It was the height of wickedness for me.

Beyond all the heartwarming goodbyes to the feline with nine lives, I sincerely do hope she didn't quit because of illness or something.

The Lauda moments were a handful; some more hilarious than others. Her knowledge of Bitcoin is topnotch. More is the fact that she was a real scare to scumbags/scammers and shit posters on BTT.

I like that Ojota pix. It's a favourable spot for anything rally and protest in Lagos. It was the spot that broke GEJ down during that January 1st fuel price increase demonstration. I think that was in 2010 or so. That spot should also bring the Buhari led administration down on its knees. Enough of this insensitivity on the part of the Nigeria government. Anyway, from the look of things this #endSARS protest is now assuming another dimension. It's spiralling out of control at both ends - government and protesters. The protest can degenerate to anything from this point if we followed the alleged prison break in Edo State yesterday. I like the fact that the youth came out on the streets to say "enough is enough" at this point in time.

Dear manager, I thought I should bring this to your notice. One of the participants for the Snr Member slot already turned Hero here, perhaps you missed his post as quoted below:

For me, the real excitement comes with altcoins soaring once the unrestricted bull run begins for Bitcoin. This is what some of the investors are going to be looking at too. We saw it with the 2017 FOMO and that helped altcoins gain momentum. Almost anything that was crypto on the market had a great run. I have observed this in the past and usually it went with the post Bitcoin halving year. I expect a huge break next year. The price can play around that 11,000 — $15,000 to main relative stability until 2021. It's going to be an interesting time going forward.

There's no way we should consider the current state of Bitcoin as having lost its value when we view it from the prism of its present price. If anything, it gained value. It's a pandemic at hand at the moment, yet the price keeps soaring and more users get added on its network from patronage. Take a perusal of fiat standing against Bitcoin, dollar and pounds inclusive, and you will observe that from $3,500 in February-March this year to well over $11,000 now shows value addition to Bitcoin. It's value that causes demand; and demand paves way for price increase. And this is what is happening with Bitcoin. Technically, for me, Bitcoin has gained more value than all fiat at this time.

I think it's rather a slap on the faces of investors because investors are the ones who get cheated out of their money. What you talked about of certain projects hooking up a DeFi piece into their White Paper so as to get maximum patronage even when their projects have nothing genuinely related to DeFi is true. These scumbag developers know it's not that easy understanding the confusing world of cryptos and that not too many people actually do due diligence before investing their money on any project (even those who do, truly may not even actually understand deeply) so they latch unto this to deceive us. Till date, not many even know what drives the DeFi projects. Surprisingly, I have heard this type of confession from tech savvy guys here. So, a below average guy investing in cryptos truly needs luck to succeed in picking out viable projects to invest in.

Bitcoin and ETH won't give you the type of ROI those 'untrusted' altcoins will give if they were to later succeed and not disappear. I guess this is the reason traders take the risk investing in them.

Honestly, I don't know which is better; FOMO or FUD? But I think while FUD saves you from incurring losses but preventing you from making profits and a good ROI, FOMO gives you that anxiety to buy on impulse and possibly record losses and regrets. You know, when YFI got to over $30,000 traders chased the price up to $40,000+ because of FOMO. Now YFI is trading below $14,000. Those who bought ATH are still licking their wounds from that action. The same thing happens to those who bought Bitcoin at ATH in 2017 and Bitcoin is yet to revisit the $19,000+ ATH till date. I rather fall a victim to FUD than to FOMO.

It's a depressing situation you described there. You're not alone on this and I can tell you for free that every veteran once had their fingers burnt on this too. But the important thing and what cuts them clear of losses is their ability to pick themselves up and forge ahead, mastering the skill sets for trading. The easiest place to start for free is YouTube. There are lots of tutorial materials on YouTube. However, you should also realize that even veterans also have bad trades from time to time. No one holds a holy grail when it cones to trading.

Nevertheless, I must warn you that learning isn't child's play. You have to devout time and practice (this is the area a lot of aspiring traders lag behind) to it to have a grip on it. While you are at it, let me quickly add that, for whatsoever reason, you shouldn't make any trade call from anything less than the 4hr Time Frame. It saves you the emotional trauma of what the lesser TFs do and muddle your brain with.

I am not a tech kind of guy and so don't know much about the technicalities involved in all that. But I have read several articles where it was explained that the github is a better place to check if you want to know whether a project is genuine or not. So, for the fact that YFN is active there tells us that it's a serious project, isn't it?

I think investors get wind of these DeFis from ICO and airdrop channels on telegram and Twitter. For instance, I read about FYN on telegram while it was still at the presale stage but was skeptical buying in.

You may want to crosscheck your information on that one. The total supply is 48,000 YFN and not 70,000. The project is already out and actively trading on Hotbit, Uniswap and Bilaxy at around $4+. See details here https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/yearn-finance-network. BTW, it also had airdrops last week. It's a project am closely monitoring but don't know what truly moves the DeFi coins.

Those who indulge this narrative are only being mischievous. It's analogous to giving a dog a bad name just to hang it. Bitcoin is slightly over a decade old but money laundering and financial crimes have been there for decades. Was Bitcoin their medium? Of course, not.

Decentralization is the way to go. Financial institutions and various governments know this but are scared it will cut them off the lives of those they have a firm grip milking. This is their concern and they feel they will lose money allowing Bitcoin grow. Sadly, Bitcoin/cryptocurrency is out of their league now. There's little or nothing they can do to stop the move now. It's a community move. Once the huge 2018 crash didn't collapse and kill the cryptocurrency industry, it's going to be hard for anything to.

#endSARS #endSWAT

The IG of Police disbanded SARS and set up SWAT within a few hours to unsettle demonstrators but that hasn't appeased protesters. Let me not belabour the definition of SARS as a lot of compatriots have provided definition to that. However, some people are of the opinion that the real meaning of SWAT is SARS With Another Title. It's just pouring in of an old wine in a new bottle. It's a shame that a special police force set up to  combat robbery turned against innocent Nigerians while the robbers and internet fraudsters often escape them once they can dole out money to the SARS' officers. There are instances where SARS officers roamed the streets with POS machines to easily extort people they perceived to be criminals without proofs. I am all in for this #endsars thing, though I wasn't a victim of those criminal outfit. This demonstration took the Federal Government of Nigeria by surprise as it never believed it would last this long. The youth have risen to the occasion this time and it's a good thing. There is even one SARS OC, James Nwafor, who was fingered in various innocent murders and the people called for his prosecution but the Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, shielded him and made him his Chief Security Officer (CSO). Can you beat that? Now, because of the pressure from the ongoing demonstration, Obiano has sacked him and set up a panel to investigate all accusations against Nwafor. Let's see where all these lead to.