The closest thing to martial law has been what the governors of many states have done this year. And, like the tweet suggests, in many cases private citizens just go about their daily lives as though their crazed governor is not warning them that having dinner with their relatives will lead to going to funerals with their family.

The left says they are pro choice. You are free to do what you would like with your body. If that is true, then how come you would like government guns to force me to wear a mask, stay inside, and undergo vaccination? Oh but wait they say, not wearing a mask could kill someone! Uh huh. Abortion is killing something, if you deem a fetus less valuable than a grown human that is simply your opinion. Is the fetus infinitely more valuable as soon as it is born? Most people would even consider a newborn baby more valuable than a grown human (a debatable determination if you ask me), so for the left the value of the human goes from 0 as a fetus to 1,000,000 as a newborn baby and then 500,000 as a grown adult. Then, judging by the way we have reacted to COVID, as an adult reaches old age they become far more valuable than any other human. Senior citizens? 10,000,000, it doesn't matter how many lives are destroyed or people die of starvation and suicide as long as we can extend the lives of 90 year olds by two weeks.

ICOs aren't dead, they just had a period of irrational exuberance and now we're back in reality. Judging by the responses here though this forum is absolutely dead, you can tell half the people here can barely speak English and are only posting for their signature campaigns.

Based on what I've read and her history (she attempted another scam called BigCoin), it sounds like she was only looking to make a "modest" amount of money. She intended to make tens of millions, but Onecoin brought in billions. After a certain point Eastern European organized crime took notice and kept it going.

There was a whole lot of BS going on in 2017. Schemes like OneCoin prey on extremely stupid people, like it's hard to believe how stupid some of these people are, but they exist. Her success really shows how irrelevant the actual product is as long as you market it well. It's that way with a lot of things in life.

I bet it reaches $20K by the end of the month and runs up to $27-$30K by the end of the year. The only thing that can stop it is a large tech selloff. There so much momentum, FOMO hasn't even really begun, and the price is rising steadily but not in an absurd fashion like '17.

It does remind me more of the slow and solid rise of 2012 and 2016 compared to the more chaotic years. Happy to hold this time around, whereas in 2017 I would have been long gone at this price point.

Perhaps that is because the government is using COVID to control the population.

I have a better approach: COVID exists, it's not that deadly for the majority of the population, and we should protect the elderly and infirm until we have a meaningful way to prevent them from catching it. But there is no justification for forcibly interfering with the lives of people that are not at risk of developing a serious case.

I wish they didn't try to fix what wasn't broken. I suppose there was money earmarked for the project, so they felt like they had to, but doing nothing would have been better than this expensive and time consuming endeavor to create a slightly better looking forum as this forum continues to become less and less relevant.

More coins have likely been lost in users' own wallets than at exchanges. For people that aren't highly knowledgeable, I think storing coins on a reputable, regulated exchange is preferable. Of course, most of the coins over the years have been lost by highly knowledgeable people - early users. Storing your coins yourself also involves physical security. Protecting your storage device, as cryptocurrency-specific storage devices have notoriously poor physical security. And of course protecting your seed.

Reserved

Probably a lot of shorts will get liquidated if it gets approved and the price will bump up a bit and then settle once people realize a Bitcoin ETF isn't going to change the world.

Why would the previous bets affect future bets? If you do 200 bets and in the first 100 bets you have 55 winners and 45 losers, the most likely end result is 105 winners and 95 losers.

That's 100% a fallacy.

A lot of the answers here are biased and vacuous. Bitcoin didn't have nowhere to go but up - it had already doubled since last year and the fundamentals that pushed it to $150 were still essentially in place.

It's hard to pick the perfect spot to get out. As long as you made a calculated decision using your head instead of your heart, you shouldn't regret it.

Which is why most professional poker players only play with 1-2% of their bankroll at a given time. It's not risky if you don't invest too much.

Mutual funds are for suckers..That's where Johnny the cash
Mutual funds are for suckers saving a portion of their salary for retirement. Hedge funds are a more reasonable place to invest money.

Super high-risk investments are safe if each individual investment is only a small portion of your bankroll.

I think this is like the fifth time I've seen a new coin called Scamcoin. This joke is getting really old.

Did you read my comment?

The halving is priced in. The halving after that is priced in. Everything about Bitcoin is priced in. Any predetermined event (e.g. halvings) or number (e.g. 21,000,000 maximum coins) based upon the original Bitcoin source code was priced in as soon as people started trading bitcoin.

Bitcoin may go up this year, but it won't have anything to do with the halving.