That's wrong, not everyone who have money are like that, I'm sure of it because we have bitcoin millionaires and not to mention learning is different for each individual, some people don't want to learn because they think already have some level of understanding on how bitcoin works and they see a semblance of it from their other investments so they skip ahead while there are others that wants to learn, I think that this is the better distinction when it comes to two types of bitcoin investor, those who want to learn and those who don't want to.

I don't know if this is a problem in your country but there are some countries that will let you buy gold but never let you hold the one that you've just bought for "security" reasons which is definitely a no-go for me, maybe if I do some research about it though, I can be wrong and might consider hodling a small amount of gold in my possession but for now, I think it's best to hodl bitcoin more than gold because it makes you responsible for your own safety and wealth so no one can steal it from you unless you are dumb enough to be scammed. As long as there are preference, there will always be a debate remember that, and it's a beautiful thing that there are debates about this, it means that people care about their finances and that they want to make a stable financial future.

You being a Hero Member should get used to it though, means that you've seen these things happen already so why point it out? I mean there will always be people that's going to spread FUD no matter what happens in the market even if the positivity is through the roof, those people that you're talking about will find the negatives, I remembered an Internet quote about how the optimist invents the planes while the pessimists invents the parachutes, like that quote I think that it's normal for people with varying degree of perspective to exist, life isn't linear. I guess I'll just prepare a lot of popcorn so I can enjoy all the upcoming dramas when it inevitably happens.

@mocacinno is right, you just put a big target on your back by posting your email in a public forum. Also, I assume that you are technology knowledgeable so you should've considered learning about private message in the forum, that way, you can still talk to people and at the same time safely give your email to a person if you think they are trustworthy enough. Pretty cool that you're 64 and knows how to navigate online forums, if you're a real deal then that's pretty awesome. On the other hand though, it's kind of fishy that you give your email away knowing that scammers will use that to get to you, either you are some scammer too that plans to promote something through email correspondence or you plan to send some trojan to the people who will contact you through your email, I hope my suspicion will be proven as nothing but suspicion.

If you want to learn about the forum, you can probably have a good time browsing the Beginners & Help board.

Here's the link to that board, just click it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0

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Solid translation, nag-check ako ng side by side comparison sa original at sa translation at kitang kita yung accuracy especially sa mga words na mahirap i-translate sa Tagalog, nagawaan mo ng paraan although may mga words talaga na mas maganda na English nalang kesa Tagalog. Good job OP, 10/10 translation.

Most economic or financial disasters are rooted in fiat losing its value so I think that bitcoin will be affected in a way that gold is affected like back in Great Depression, gold became more valuable because they want to strengthen the value of dollar since it was pegged in gold at that time, if bitcoin is really an asset then it will go up in value when a downturn happens because just like gold, people will have perceived value on it and people will see it as a hedge to prevent collapse thus causing the value to go up as more people try to get their hands on bitcoin so they can protect their finances.

I think a lot of people agree with that notion, a forced education would only result in having people resist the teaching or not even focus on the information because they don't want to learn it in the first place. I wouldn't say that it's a loss for them but maybe a missed opportunity but can you blame them, if you forced them in the first place to learn then it will only make them more ignorant about bitcoin because the one who forced them to learn set an impression that people who teach about bitcoin are rabid fanatics that want to force feed their ideas and knowledge to people.

Too bad not every parent knows this so they tend to force feed knowledge that's inappropriate for the age of the child not to mention that they're also raising a clone of themselves because they want to see how they would've turned out if they grow up with the knowledge and that's scary because you don't raise a clone when you raise a kid, you're raising an individual and they should be able to choose what they want to do in life be it bad or good, our job as a parent is to keep them safe, bond with them and guide them not brainwash them with our ideals and financial stuff, you don't need to tell it to them, you talk about it indirectly enough and they will eventually catch on.

That's a good recommendation although I don't think that OP will ever get a job there, he's a newbie and the people posting in the Service board is too picky and fuzzy to hire him unless OP's got an astronomical resume, OP can still try though, maybe someone will give OP a chance. To OP, make sure that when someone hires you, you need to make sure that you get paid especially if the person that hired you isn't a prominent member in the forum, wouldn't want you wasting your work then getting paid nothing.

Patience should be the first virtue that someone should have when it comes to bitcoin, the problem with new investors is that they're overenthusiastic that they end up investing more than what they could afford and end up broke and with the new kind of high that they've got from investing, the reality will not set in until the prices go down and they're investment tanks which at that point ends up with them getting out early to avoid further losses. The bear market should be your sign to accumulate more bitcoin because the price is much cheaper and you get more bitcoin from the fiat you've spent on. But not everyone can afford to hodl for long though, some are just unlucky because they have medical emergency and that they have to make some adjustments and hodling will be one of those adjustments.

First of all, are you a certified financial advisor? If not then it's best that you tell your friend about the risk and rewards involved in bitcoin investing, it's for your own safety in case your friend tries to blame you when they experience any losses. Remember that your friend has losses in businesses prior to asking you to invest in bitcoin so keep that in mind that your friend probably wants a fast route to recoup the losses that he's got. Satisfy their curiosity OP but tell them all the negatives, helps them formulate their own decisions, I'm sure your friend will understand that you're warning them about the risk if you talk about the negatives, he/she is a childhood friend after all.

I have to disagree, you can earn your bitcoin in this forum just by being knowledgeable, remember that there are signature campaigns in this forum and you can join in any of them if you're lucky enough and that they find you knowledgeable enough. Sure, what you're saying OP can be true maybe outside this forum and I do agree with what you're saying, it's the same as theory without practice is nothing. I myself, would probably find a way to make my own money to invest in bitcoin especially if I am knowledgeable, doing work is a good start to start your investment journey. I wouldn't necessarily agree with the title though if we are talking in general sense, knowledge of something is pretty useful.

They're being taken over by the One China policy so it's not really surprising that they're afraid, China's expediting the expiration date of their independence and we all know how notorious China is when it comes to bitcoin and cryptocurrency, push and pull relationship. I don't think a decade is early stage, there's not a lot of things to learn about bitcoin anymore that hasn't been covered already, and the only thing that needs to happen now is the deployment to test it in state level, to learn something new.

Telling them about it because your prospering from the profits, wouldn't that give a wrong impression to your relatives that investing is easy and that they're not going to experience any losses. I think that the long and boring way is the right way to introduce bitcoin, if people didn't care to read the whitepaper early on, we wouldn't have bitcoin like it is right now.

Only problem that I can think of is that you might be prone to emotional outburst and can cause you to panic sell or something, not to mention that your store was hit in economic terms and you didn't mention any other streams of income, it might sound crazy to you but remember that you might experience financial hardships because you are investing weekly portions of the profit and with the current market, it's not really a good time to get it out in case you need a lot of money, you will be losing a lot. Maybe take a break from that routine or make it twice a week or once a month until you secure another stream of income so you don't have to worry in case there's a bad day for your shop.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I think that you need to download something from that website before they can access your device from inside out, visiting a website is just cookies right but downloading something is different right? Still scary though these copycat website, they benefit from confusion and they've been doing this for a long time even before bitcoin, and they still get victims. Website names don't havw mistakes, the scammer can't use the real website name so they bank on the fact that someone misspells the legitimate website, the mistake in the name of the fake website isn't a mistake, they try to buy the name that's most likely to be result of misspelling.

Totally, only time that someone would probably say that their favorite crypto besides bitcoin is when they created their own crypto, there's a possibility too that they might even say that they still have bitcoin as their top 1 even if they created their own coin but highly unlikely. Isn't it contradictory that you've said that no one can manipulate the market and at the same time mention whales, these people can literally make waves to the market and in my book, that's market manipulation. Don't discount the fact that no one will have any other answer besides bitcoin, there are outliers out there that might surprise you.

Really? All the police have an evidence first before arresting someone? Wow, so the cases of planted evidence isn't real? That analogy isn't really helpful if you're defending or on the side of the DT members because it implies that they can give someone red trust with impunity.
You literally have the word "removed" in the reply that I've quoted, what do you mean you're not talking about removing feedbacks from inactive members. Loan defaulting is another case though, I think that there's should never be a removal even if they've paid their defaulted loan, maybe just changing it to neutral to indicate that this person has defaulted a loan but have paid it eventually. Even if it's not removed, pretty sure other DT members can step in to leave a neutral trust so as to help them clarify the information about why there's still a red trust.

The statement may sound too obvious and on the nose but @Flexystar is right, semantics and definitions matter.

Gambling focuses more on probability and chances while trading is more on speculation rooted on analysis and research on market trends. Another difference is that gambling is reliant on luck although I would consider poker and blackjack as sort of an exception to this rule given that there's skills involved like card counting and bluffing, while in trading, you need to be equipped with the necessary knowledge and experience to make some profit, it won't guarantee a win but you have more chances of making money in trading than gambling anyways. I think the reason why people confuse gambling and trading so much is the fact that both carry inherent risk (the only similarity imo) and a lot of people use the word gamble/gambling more than just its meaning in other aspects of life to make their statements profound in nature and now here we are debating whether they are similar or not when the answers been given to all of us a long time ago.