Halving has its effect, I personally don't think we've seen the best of it yet - and everything that started happening last year at this time is actually the result of the price we have today. I am thinking of the rather large investments from companies such as MicroStrategy, Grayscale, Tesla, and PayPal's entry into the crypto market.

Consequently, we can assume that there will be no replay from the end of 2017, and that the price could continue to rise because there is more than obvious demand - how else to explain that the market started to recover at the same time as last year? Less mined coins on market, rising demand and a price that is at the moment more than a good base for a new ATH - I hope we have a very exciting 4 months ahead of us

Sometimes everything essential fits into one sentence, and I believe the author has captured the very essence of the whole anti-Bitcoin agenda. When it comes to Bitcoin, I think there are several categories of people :

• Those who fully understand what Bitcoin is and how it works, and what the benefits of a decentralized cryptocurrency are - and I believe there are very few such people, in a percentage of less than 10% including those who are for and those who are against.
• Those who understand to some extent, but still are very cautious and very susceptible to media mainstream propaganda that continues to successfully promote the agenda "Bitcoin is bad for the environment."
• In the end, those who are very smart and intelligent, perfectly understand what Bitcoin is, are aware that the impact of crypto mining is actually negligible - but they represent a global financial elite that defends the system they have built for centuries in every possible way.

If there's one thing we could learn from all this, it's that those who control the mainstream media shape public opinion - especially things that the average person has a hard time understanding, and Bitcoin is in the category of such things.

No one should be surprised by anything related to Bitcoin, because we don't need to go back to the beginning at all, but maybe only 5 years in the past and read how people thought then - I believe we would find it hard to find anyone mentioning the price we have today. Furthermore, Hal was a great visionary and one of those who is certainly very much lacking in the crypto world - so I would not say that he is exaggerating, but only talking about the complete success of Bitcoin that can happen in 10 or 20 years.

Imagine a time when central banks store Bitcoin as they store gold today, as millions of people try to get hold of every satoshi that appears on the market every day - $10 million per BTC doesn't seem so impossible, especially considering that $ will continue to lose in value.

Maybe it's the same hacker who recently hacked and then returned $600 million in crypto?

I wonder what happened to Japanese discipline and precision when things like this happen to them, and where is their common sense if they keep so much crypto in a hot wallet? Fortunately, who else uses Japanese exchanges (besides the Japanese), after Mt.Gox hacking, which has not yet been legally resolved after so many years...

It's not all about the money, sometimes you just need to be in the right place at the right time and with a little money in your wallet, you can do something big. This was the case with early BTC investors, many of whom actually mined or bought large quantities of BTC for relatively little money.

Of course, such opportunities no longer exist - because if that were the case, you wouldn't even have written this post and wondered how come you can't buy 0.5 BTC or maybe 1 BTC today. But I believe that with a good strategy you can set some achievable goals, and that would be 0.01 BTC for a start, and maybe 0.05 BTC later. If you believe that BTC has a future and that the price will go up, then even relatively small amounts can make you rich one day

Given the current thinking of the average Bitcoin user, I don’t believe anyone reasonable can give an affirmative answer to this question. I believe that most investors consider BTC exclusively as a store of value, and a small percentage of people use it as a currency.

If we exclude LN as a possible solution for fast and cheap payment, on-chain transactions are definitely unacceptable not only because of the occasionally high fees, but also because the time between 2 blocks can be much longer than the average 10 minutes. In the past 2 weeks, I have had at least 3 situations where I paid something with BTC (physical store) and waited between 30 and 50 minutes, not because of the fee, but because there was simply no block mined.

Of course, online payments are a little different, but still people will have a hard time deciding to pay with something that can bring them profit in the future.

Have you perhaps noticed that you are replying to a post with a date 30 July 2021, 22:19:45? How does it even occur to you to look for old threads and write nonsense like this that is not relevant at all? This is called signature spam...

There is no great wisdom or secret here, common sense tells us to check all the parameters of the transaction before pressing the send button. While the coin address to which we send or receive a transaction is perhaps the most important part, things like a change address, transaction size, and fee should not be overlooked either.

I think that hardware wallets play a very big role here because they actually force us to confirm everything that is important before approving the transaction - although this can be a bit problematic on some HW that does not show the entire coin address at once, but in parts - example.

If you think that the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is misrepresenting, or that CNBC is writing nonsense, send them an official inquiry - I've been listening to this news for at least 2 weeks - and your source seems to only list people who have received at least 2 doses - which, by the way, have almost no effect on the new delta strain of the virus. The propaganda you obviously believe in just wants people vaccinated, and then I ask you why Israel started vaccinating people with the third dose if people should be safe after the second dose?

I don't agree with your opinion, because to me this is obvious plagiarism, regardless of the fact that you think he just forgot to put "quotation marks at the right places" or add a source - Hero member should probably learn those things by now.

You assume something (you don't have solid evidence), and even if you have detailed information, and if your hacker is really in Russia, the chances of launching an investigation or arrest would be minimal - because it's Russia after all.


One of the golden rules when it comes to cryptocurrencies is that the backup is not stored online, and you not only did just that, but you let someone hack your email. You paid dearly for your mistake, but unless you have someone in high politics, the secret services, or something like that - I don't think anyone can help you with this. Maybe try to find a lawyer to help you pro bono, even though you literally grab very thin straws in whichever direction you go.

Did you expect any of them to speak critically about something that brings hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue to pharmaceutical companies? In addition, all those who had any doubts and publicly expressed their opinion on the safety and quality of the vaccine were exposed to the media lynching and it is not uncommon for them to be fired. Not thinking critically in any sense turns us into robots who only carry out the orders of their masters.


That has nothing to do with the truth, because you obviously haven’t read my previous post - if 70% of adults in the US are vaccinated, how is it possible that they have about 140 000 new infections a day - and that’s not some tourists or migrants. In addition, the virus cannot just disappear, it continues to mutate and infect vaccinated and non-vaccinated, almost to the same extent (when it comes to new strains of the virus).


I can agree with this, but still need to tell people what are the long-term consequences of vaccination that will not stop at the 2nd or third dose - and given that the vaccine has not been clinically tested long enough (3-5 years by medical standards). Does no one ask what can happen in 5 years if people start getting some kind of cancer en masse which could be a direct consequence of vaccination?

According to some unofficial information, as many as 50 000 deaths in the EU are under investigation as a result of vaccination - but it has now become quite normal to say that some must be sacrificed to save others - I do not consider this a humane approach, but how much is a life worth today?

Plagiarism reported 8 days ago, still standing unhandled - isn't everything more than clear in this case?

To me, this is honestly a bit ridiculous if you go back as far as 2000+ years and go so far as to imply that the period before and after 2009 should be called "before Bitcoin" BB - or "after Bitcoin" AB - like comparing Christianity to Bitcoin, by which you only add fuel to the fire of those who say that Bitcoin is a religion.


I think (and I hate to repeat myself) that you have gone too far in a direction that makes very little or no sense at all. It’s hard for me to imagine someone fantasizing about some kind of Bit civilization and wondering why the first block was called Genesis (as if that wasn’t self-explanatory).

Maybe it would be good to start writing some fantasy novels, you have a sense of the subject, and it sells really well.

But the public figure is that Tesla bought a BTC worth about $1.5 billion, which at the time of the purchase was about 40 000 BTC - and also that such companies do not keep that same BTC in some of their wallets - but use custodial service. EM admitted to having a small number of coins, mostly altcoins.

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I know that one (inactive) forum user has about 40 000 BTC and it's no secret for those who are a little longer on the forum - and I also know some users who have significant amounts of BTC, although they certainly can't be considered whales.

The mistake you made first - telling your friends that you invested in something, it should still be a private matter, especially if you look at it from a security perspective. Owning digital assets in the form of cryptocurrencies is definitely a risk, and even greater if your friends and acquaintances know it.

Another thing, when someone equates Bitcoin with a casino, then that story should stop - such people can't stand that someone disputes their opinion, even if they know they are wrong - because in most cases it all comes down to people out of ignorance talking negatively about something, because they won’t admit that someone is smarter than them.

Religion in the context of cryptocurrencies is another big nonsense - because no one has built a crypto church or prayed to Saint Satoshi every day.

You shouldn't waste your time on people like your friend in the sense of convincing him of something - I would from now on avoided cryptocurrency as a topic of conversation since it is obviously a one-way street for him.

As far as I know, such price differences are in most cases caused by high demand and low liquidity in a particular market. If there is not enough of something on the market, and there is a great demand, it is logical that the price will rise. This is not just the case with South Korea, and some markets in Africa and the Middle East have also recorded large price differences at times when the price is rising.

It should not be associated exclusively with Bitcoin, it happens in everyday life - people buy something cheap in country X and then sell it at a much more expensive price in country Y.

I know this vulnerability existed, but it has also been fixed at least as far as Ledger is concerned - so while no one can claim that something similar will not reappear, hardware wallets are still the simplest and safest solution for the average user who is unable to make an airgapped wallet.

Of course, it would be ideal for everyone to have perfect cold storage, but when we look at how many people use exchanges for their storage, with the addition of all those who use desktop and mobile wallets, how many successful attacks on hardware wallet users do you personally know? Of course, this does not include those who became victims because they gave someone their seed or were deceived by clipboard malware.

Governments are sticking to the only solution that works for them, and that is vaccination. Yet if we look at data from say the US where it is stated that at least 70% of adults have received a single dose of vaccine and at the same time have over 100 000+ infected daily, then we need to wonder how effective these vaccines are at all, especially against new strains of the virus.

What is happening now in some countries of the world is a direct blow to human rights and fundamental freedoms, because if someone conditions people that they must be vaccinated if they want to go to a store or hospital, then where are we headed if not in the opposite direction of democracy.

The example of France and its insane measures has brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets to protest - and that is the only way people can really say what they think about being forced into something. The misfortune of this world is that 90% of people behave like sheep and don’t think for themselves, which is why we all live much worse than we should.

If that were true, don’t you think the price of BTC today would be much higher than it really is? If elites (billionaires) really bought BTC, then it would be very visible on crypto exchanges that would be far less liquid than it is today - because I have not heard of a case where someone failed to buy BTC because there is a shortage on some exchange.

Regardless of the fact that the BTC supply is limited to 21 million coins, and that it seems very small to some people - there are still large (millions of coins) in the open market, but also in the OTC market.

Being rich and being elite is not always a sign that someone is intelligent, because there are those who have inherited wealth and do nothing with it except spend it. Consequently, I don’t think these elites took BTC seriously until the bull run in 2017 - nor did many ordinary people.