Question though, what make your courses different to other 'free' online tutorials in the net though?

3.5 hours? wow, never thought that you can learn that fast to be honest. Yeah, maybe the basic but to be very good at programming to really need a lot of hours in my opinion. Anyways, good luck bro.

I don't know, but the dream of Satoshi was to used without the middleman.

However, may find it to function likes stocks, to be traded, in a exchange. Specially when bitcoin started to roll from $.1 to $100. And then exchanges popping early added to its ability to become a trade assets.

So why not take advantage of both? Used them are currency and buy things around without any third party involved and then trade them to make money. Makes sense to me.

What do you mean improved the economy? Unless anything related to crypto will create thousands of jobs for the country, I don't think it will have a significant effect financially.

Philippines though has show a lot of improvements lately, specially regarding crypto by fully regulating it through BSP, but it won't be enough in my opinion to push the country or at least help or improved their economy, just saying.

Yes, I guess we really need to ride it out and see how it goes for XRP. For those who loves to join the hype train, then be my guest, lol. Just like the rest of you guys here, we all know who are the people behind this coin and what are the intentions behinds.

@Alucard2425, the issue here is whether Coinbase violated their own terms, but as others may have put it, money talks and everyone is here in the business to make more money, so I guess we can't blame Coinbase for listing them in exchange of a huge some of money.

I agree, for me somethings fishy is going on under the table:

https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1100392114834341889/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1100392114834341889&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chepicap.com%2Fen%2Fnews%2F7765%2Fdid-ripple-pay-coinbase-to-get-xrp-listed-.html

So it looks like they really paid Coinbase Pro lots of money just to get their coins listed. Are we surprised by this? I don't think so, just look at how they battled it out with Ethereum in the last couple of months and I'm sure they are hell bent to go to the #2 position in the altcoin market.

This one is a good advise. ANN thread should be put up in the first place and then add as much details as you can. Make a sales pitch, used strong psychological words,  to get them on-board on your project.

And regarding sending PM's hear, if you don't get positive responds then stop maybe it's not the best method as members here are might be "raising their eyebrows", reading your PM's so it might hurt you in the end, just saying.

You just have to look at what are the primary reasons for having this coins in the first place and why it will fail. They created them just to get around those embargo from the US and other countries. It doesn't need to be "to issue oil-backed crypto for oil country", doesn't make sense, who would you think are going to invest on them? Russians?

They already back out from Maduro's Petro so I don't think that they are willing to invest on this Iranians coins as well.

Lol, his predecessor (Bill Harris) is worst though,

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/fmr-paypal-ceo-says-investors-are-drinking-the-bitcoin-kool-aid.html

https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/08/15/is-bitcoin-a-cult-a-former-paypal-ceo-seems-to-think-so/

https://www.investopedia.com/news/former-paypal-ceo-calls-bitcoin-scam/

So I'm not surprised by Dan's statement because they know that bitcoin is out there taking a big slice on their profit earnings that's why they continue to attack it in the media.

If we are talking about a immediate pump on the price then I would say no, but if we consider that many crypto will slowly used this feature in their smart phone or even wanted to test it out, then will need to buy bitcoin.

And then there are those non-crypto we might turn out to be investors or holders as well, so in the long term if might have swayed a few but I don't think it is the needed catalyst for a bull run though.

I didn't click on the article buy what do you expect?

Remember Maduro's Petro? The supposedly Venezuelan crypto put up by him to circumvent the trade embargo against his country? And it was reported to have raised $300 million to 1 billion or more but turns out to be bogus as well as reported?

So I guess Iranian crypto will be something similar to Petro coin.

Right, we all know that Pinoys are very curious so I'm sure that once they hear this kind of seminars a lot of them will join not individually but in a bunch. It just needs proper venue and exposure before Filipinos will eventually join.

I'm also not familiar with the speakers though, but it looks like they've been in crypto for a long time and we can say that they have the experience to share what it bring to them, in this way Filipinos are going to be encourage hearing their success stories.

It's just speculators again, booking their profits at $4200. They just waited for the perfect time to make money, probably in $4k, but people are still buying and FOMO'ing.

And when everyone thought that we're ready for a bull run, they immediately sell and probably going back to the market when the price is low, maybe @3600 or something and then rinse and repeat.

Yes but sometimes it's better to determined which strategy you can really maximized your gains, so these will be a continues debate for as long as people see this two strategy working, and fits on their goals.

I'm sure majority is really holding and cling to the hope that bitcoin will one day make a good run and the prices goes to $20k-$30k, and then that's the time you book for your profits.

But for those speculators, they wanted to earn money everyday or every two weeks or so, in this market. So it's up to your capacity as a person, if you can take the risk trading then you can do quick profits and then live another day, but if you're somewhat timid and doesn't want to complicate your daily life then holding is for you.

I like the term "INTELLIGENT Cryptocurrency Investor", lol.

But I don't know if you find that kind of investors here,  , most of them are noobs who really wanted to get a quick buck, so shall we say, be a millionaire and buy lambo.

I don't know but I guess people gaining experience from Bullish -> Bear market is enough for them to be "smart" and learn a lot of valuable lessons, isn't it?

Anyways, you are offering something for free, so I guess everyone should take part of it and see how you became a noob to a smart investor. 

Just like any other fork coins, they are just a copy cat and not the original so obviously they suck bigtime. And you have to look at the people behind, Fakesatoshi himself, lol, I think that speaks of what this coin is all about.

I do hope that you remember what they have done in November, they trigger the price going down to $3200 of of the hash wash between BCH and SV, so I wouldn't trust or even invest on them. I would rather stick to bitcoin, just saying.

First, it's a big risk on your end to leave your job and just concentrate on the development of a project. But since we enter bear market, I'm sure you may have encountered difficult times but It looks like who have survived so I salute you for that and do hope that your project takes off no matter what. Best of luck to you and wish you success in the future.

Nah, we really don't need spreading awareness, bitcoin will do its own thing.

Bitcoin has been in the media for the past 2 years or more, specially when its peaked in 2017 so I'm sure a lot of people are already aware of it. It's awareness grows strong that during 2018, lots of government around the world has taken a stance against or for bitcoin.

$4k is nothing when the market goes on another bullrun, it's just a question of when it will happen.

Imagine that losing streak, 18 games, damn, They're glad it's over though.

Even Samuel L. Jackson mentioned it in the Oscars,  . And what do you know? Long Time NY fans Spike Lee won as well in the Oscars, so it's dual celebration.

Damyean Dotson lead the NY team with 27 points, with eight three point shot.

I guess we have the answer by now. It's a bull trap as the price didn't sustained the $4200 run but instead wend down as low $3700. Anyways, let's stay positive with the let us see if the price could again attempted the $4000-$4200 range.

I don't think we can learn from this traps though, we all wanted a bull run to happen. Maybe the next trap will be $4500 or higher. Everyone is trying to make money so be it. At least we have been presented with a good entry point again.

Unfortunately, the price sinks in the last 24 hours, including bitcoin ($3800) Ethereum ($140). So we need to stop our celebrations for now. 

$200 is not that far though, we just need another push to $160 and then $180, if we breach that price in the next 3 days or so then definitely March will be a good month to look for $200 a pop.