I could see the data and I'm happy that my personal details are not in the documents leaked. Maybe because I bought the Ledger a few years back? My email is there but I already knew that. Also, I don't hold a lot of bitcoin but I would feel uneasy if I knew my full name and address had been leaked.

Yes, I was thinking that.

I've seen Hero/Legendary members saying that they got a post deleted at some point, even though they are good forum members, so, no, I don't take it hard or personally.

So, my turn has arrived.

Here is this thread:

Happy "I AM HODLING" day 7 Years ago the HODLING became the new religion.

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The same way, you can report (and delete) 90% of my posts.

I love it when I get up in the morning these days. The first thing I do is see the price of the bitcoin and then... I feel kinda high.

Yes OP, the point is that if people see that you are here only to make money through bounties or signature campaigns they will be reluctant to give you merits. Especially bounties have a bad reputation here. Too many people posting crap to make a few bucks.

It seems you have gooten 3 merits in a row. You now only need to use the forum to exchange knowledge. If you don't know about something, ask. When you know more, help others. Merits will come.

Yes, that's the point. The future doesn't exist, yet.

I know what OP means but it's just a philosophical question. ATH is the term people use and I don't think they are going to change no matter if the other is more correct or not.

For me, it's not important what will happen until the year end, in ten days time. What's important is what will happen during 2021. If it will be a similar year to 2017 or not. I hope it is.

The fact that bitcoin breaks the $25k or not in ten days is not that meningful to me.

I left him negative trust but I think I'm the only one. It could be useful is someone in DT could leave negative trust as well. This son of a bitch is targeting people from poor countries for his scam which is even worse in my opinion.

Well, you don't specifically mention it but I would do that if you already have something else saved/invested. I mean cash for emergencies and maybe some money in mutual or index funds. I wouldn't buy bitcoin if that was the only extra money I had.

I don't agree with dolar cost averaging as others have said. That strategy only helps you to deal with the psychological of investing. However, if you truly believe that bitcoin price will keep going up in the long term, as most of us do, the sooner you put all in your available money to invest, the better.

Thaks for your replies, especially to @ranochigo for the late comments.

As you may have noticed, I have run out of merits to send, otherwise I would have given some more.

The transaction still appears unconfirmed on my ledger live but it has close to 100 confirmations.

Is it just because ledger is fucking shit? I'm quite pissed off with them.

Ok so I checked my history and the accelerator used was:

https://btcnitro.com/

Actually my ledger nano says it's not confirmed yet but it has 16 confirmations (0 before using the accelerator).

It was included in: 00000000000000000000b759570202ce47834fe7fded1854f93e1d32b9be15f9

I was thinking that precisely. I tried the ViaBTC one but it said it could't accelerate or there was some kind of error, so I just googled "transaction accelerator free" or something similar and I tried one of the first ones. So, when I saw the confirmation I wondered if it was just a coincidence.

I see it is 47.3 sat/vB, low priority according to mempool current stats, so maybe the accelerator actually did something?

Well, after creating this thread and receiving the answers I locked it. I think it was a mistake, because before that I locked threads in other sections so that they did not become spam megathreads but thinking about it, that will not happen in this section, which is a serious one.

The thing is that yesterday, after waiting, seeing that the mempool was still full, and fearing that I would be refunded the amount of the transaction, I decided to use a transaction accelerator. I know that they have free and pay versions. I used the free version and next time I looked, after 2 or 3 hours, the transaction had been confirmed.

This raises a question for me. Why do the transaction accelerators work in the free version? I understand that if you pay more to speed up a transaction then it will be prioritized and confirmed, but I don't quite understand why simply putting my transaction ID and clicking without paying anything speeds up the transaction.

Can someone explain this to me?

I think the situation we are in is more similar to 4 years ago, not 3. We still have a whole moon year in front of us.

Yeah, well, cash is vastly used in criminal activities and you never hear on the news that cash is evil or has to be banned or that cash and drugs go together, do you?

News like that doesn't affect those of us who know about bitcoin. At best they can help those who think it's a dark thing to assert their belief, but the masses will look more to extraordinary price increases than to news like this.

Well, I know that because I sent a transaction yesterday and it hasn't even one confirmation yet but what you say wouldn't have affected if payments had been sent in 24 hours as Lightlord said.

Yes, there seems to be a mini resistance there. After hitting 22k it went down and now it's hit that mark again. Once we have past the old ATH I'm not in a hurry to see to price go up because if it goes too fast we will probably have a deeper retreat.

$ 22K @ Bitstamp again.

I think we are getting to $25 or so quite easily. I just hope we don't go up too fast because the fall could be very fast as well when panic kicks in.

The truth is that it is good to live these moments after years of waiting.

Let's just remember that the next time the bitcoin drops (let's say from $100k to $30k) and we spend a few years in a bear market around $30k-$50k, that it's worth just holding and waiting.

I saw Square's CEO talking about that in a video. He was saying that FOMO was going to be created among institutions inasmuch as other companies were buying and making it public. And he seems to be right. Companies that do not have bitcoin today and see that other companies are buying, in addition to the price increase will begin to think if it will not be better to buy today because tomorrow it will be more expensive.