From your data, it is clear that lump sum investments outperformed DCA's strategy. 

Both strategies have their upside and downside, and they both need specific scenarios to outperform each other. If an asset has the potential to rise constantly in the long term, then a lump sum investment will give a big return, but the investor needs to have a reasonable amount of funds upfront. But if the market is volatile and it runs like waves, then DCA will help an investor reduce the impact of the volatile market in his portfolio. In general terms, lump sum investment seems to better-performing strategy, but if the price of that asset goes down and stays there for a very long time, then it will be a big loss for the investor. 

There are some downsides that i noticed with these strategies.

1. They are both extremely good, but a more dynamic approach can give investors better ROI. Without buying everything in one shot, you can make a lump sum investment in every notable dip. This might provide a better yield.

2. Buying small amounts every month seems like a better choice in a volatile market condition, but frequent buying activity might charge significant fees over time. I think these fees were ignored in the calculation. 

In my opinion, why sticking to one strategy when we can make a combination of both and create a better one according to market conditions. For example, we can lump sum in a notable price dip and perform DCA when the market moves sideways. This gives our strategy more flexibility. Also, making some tweaks to our strategy in different market conditions is a good practice as an investor. 

Then we can put a user from a suspicious IP address in a testing mode. They will only be able to visit certain sections of the forum and make comments. Their exploration into the forum will be limited though they can read everything. If they prove that they have a mindful knowledge then they will get full access to the forum. Not sure if this method will be practical or not, perhaps this will be much more of an annoyance than its importance.

Your efforts and dedication to this forum motivate me to contribute more to the forum. There is no doubt adding 2FA security measures will add an extra layer of protection for the forum members and eliminate potential threats from scammers and hackers.  

Also, i love the idea of giving theymos a set of 2FA primitives which will give him more room to implement the features according to forum needs. If theymos approve the idea and implement it into the forum then i think adding a guide for users who is unfamiliar with this concept will encourage users to use these features to make their account more secure.

These look good. Actually few days ago I asked the same question in the forum whether we should have a 2FA option or not. Many agree with me and if i can use my Google Auth app to log into my account then i will feel more secure that no one will be able to gain access to my account even if they somehow manage to guess my password. I hope these security features will be implemented soon.

Those bitcoins will never be accessible again. They just simply out of circulation forever. it's a very small percentage compared to the actual Bitcoin market cap. TBH if you have a few million dollars in somewhere then you will probably make a backup plan so that if something happens to you, your family members can get that. Most of the bitcoin that is out of circulation forever because of some unexpected incident happened when the price of bitcoin was very cheap so no one cared at that time.

Your observation is pretty straightforward. The development of Bitcoin and its ecosystem was fast compared to other technological developments. Many think that bitcoin will change the global economic standard but they also think that this journey will not be unchallenging. Now we can see that this is true. If bitcoin can not face challenges like 'mempool congestion', 'spam' attack then how it will face the demand as a global currency?

Fee structures, the cost of running a node and its practicality, utility of lightning networks are some critical sector that needs a proper solution. Also, the rise of Dogecoin shows in the future bitcoin will not be the only player in the game when this sector is continuously evolving. Your insight into this current scenario is the bitter reality.

These are the two main points why some members never rank up in the forum. It's true that it is not easy to make forum-standard posts at the beginning of a member's journey. But consistency and patience to do a lot of reading increase their post standard over time. Many of them came here with a mindset to earn money by doing campaigns when very few try to learn from their mistakes and follow higher-ranking members. 

Someone from inside doing these. What are the points of using SMS verification for security purposes if that telecom company doesn't want to enhance its security measures? They need to identify these people who are bypassing the security and letting those scammers get account-to-user accounts.

I personally use Google auth and Authy for one-time passwords. Here is some hardware and app-based one-time password option that can be used instead of using your phone numbers.

app:
   

• Google Auth.
• Aegis
• Authy
• 2FAS
• Microsoft Auth.

Hardware:

• YubiKey
• Nitrokey

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Great! But how someone will hold Bitcoin if they do not make their investment into Bitcoin first? If you are referring to investing in altcoin then i think you should revise your investment strategy again. I know we have a lot of bitcoin maximalists in here but there are people who like to take risks in altcoin. We have seen in every bull cycle project like polygon, solana, Shiba inu emerge and the investor makes a huge profit. Everyone wants that kind of gain. So if a very small portion of my portfolio is in altcoin I wouldn't mind.

Governments are concerned about illegal activities through cryptocurrencies. And they think that most of this activity is done through cex like Binance. They have a large user base and their P2P system is widely used all over the world. SEC is targeting these exchanges by saying they are involved with these types of activity. So they do not have any other option but to force their user to do KYC. If someone is not doing anything illegal they shouldn't be afraid of it or if someone thinks they should not share their identity then dex or P2P is the best option.

Some people practice such rush behavior that they easily get offended and attack others with bad words. I do not think there is anything we can do about it. Sometimes a word serves different meanings depending on which region of the globe that word is being used. One community slung can be one community's general expression. If the moderator starts censoring every foul word they they won't get the time to do other important work.

I think this is a default account for the forum that has been used to send automated replies. I have noticed that when the moderator deleted my post it's written there that "A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by a Bitcoin Forum moderator". But i am not sure why this account is on the merit list. That account should not be able to send merits if someone has done it. It's also possible that was a real account but it was deleted by the moderator. That user data doesn't exist in the database anymore that's why it's showing Bitcoin Forum.

This trust system makes this forum environment feel decentralized. The trust system is not moderated so anyone can give you a negative or positive trust but a trust rating from DT members matters. It's not like a centralized authority where the leader selects whom to trust and others follow his commands. I saw DT members arguing with each other on different topics. So if a DT member puts a negative trust rating with inequity then sometimes other DT members talk against it. So they always try to be careful when putting a trust rating on someone.

A hardware wallet is the safest one.


If you want to wait for the dip then you will never buy Bitcoin. There is no bottom so no matter how dip the price of bitcoin goes some people will never be satisfied and will tell you the price will drop more. If you think the price will go down then buy in parts. If the price further crashes you will DCA to lower your average. This is the safest and most proven method I know of investing in Bitcoin.

Now all these scam attempts make me skeptical about every link shared with me by a stranger. I always tried to be cautious so that scammer wouldn't be able to get anything from me. I got a lot of messages in telegram and discord from strangers with some imaginary and lucrative rewards but they ended up being on my block list. That is why I stopped doing airdrops when some of my friends earned a good amount of money from them.

luckily I have never been hacked before. But I was scammed once and prevented several attempts but none of them was with my bitcoin. I can share with you those stories.

Scammed: I was trying to participate in a token sale on a platform called Balancer. The scammer put an identical link to the main one.

1st scam attempted: One scammer offered me a job and wanted to take an interview. After the interview he wanted me to fill up a contract form that contained malware that would help him to take control of my computer.

2nd scam attempted: Another scammer pretended to be a game developer and wanted me to test his game. I was smart enough to use a sandbox to run his application which was malware as well.

There were a few more but I can not remember them well.

Yeah, we have seen how one company can impact another. Alameda research and FTX is a good example of it. If somehow tether go down in the future bitfinex will try to save it in any mean or their financial connection can cash destruction for both company. What I am concerned about is tether's market cap. When every other stablecoin's market cap is going down tether is going up. There is something that is not right about tether. Also, it's based in Singapore, and the SEC already mentioned that a foreign entity can not issue USD-pegged stablecoin. So they will have a hard time operating in the USA.

You are right. That is why I was asking about the organizer's name. Maybe we can verify on their social media. Some well-known organizers can organize events like this so it should not be hard to check their authenticity. I saw some of the speakers wearing t-shirts with their logo on them on their social media. But the place is in a remote location and hard for someone like me to attend.