When these players complain about these things, fans, and FAs say they're paid to play so they should play. They'll even point to how much they're paid. Even if a player is paid a billion a week, his body will still break down when it can't go on anymore.

The games are too much, there's not enough time for these players to rest. FIFA and other regulatory bodies just keep adding more competitions and changing the current competitions to include more games.
It doesn't matter how much these players earn, they're still humans.

I this goes on for a long time, we'll begin to see that players can't remain in top form for a long time due to injuries. Gavi might not be the same when he comes back from injury around August next year. That's about 10 months without football. We saw how Fati suffered, Pedri too, and now Gavi.
Vinicius has been struggling with injuries and has not gotten an opportunity to heal properly. It's killing the players and therefore killing the game.

At this point, I don't think there will be any more dip till the halving. A lot of people will be buying Bitcoin while anticipating the halving. This will increase the demand and make the price keep increasing.

As for the ETF, a lot of experts believe it will be approved in Janus and that's like 2 months from now. It's not a very long time so people who bought Bitcoin for that reason won't want to sell it off when they could hold on for 2-3 more months and see what happens.

One of the best things about Bitcoin to me is the fact that I can save money for a very long time without worrying about inflation.
Secondly, I can send or receive money to and from other countries without issues


But he does not trade stock or other stock, does he?
The opportunities of learning how to trade stock are relatively more difficult and it's relatively too traditional.
I get your point, but he didn't in any way say or mean that Bitcoin is supernatural.

Oh!
Thanks a lot. How stupid of me.
I was actually thinking the coins are somehow misplaced on the network and they disappear, that's why I was wondering how that is possible.
Thanks.

This is why it is advisable to get an income before looking for ways to invest. You can't invest if you don't have money. If you do not have money to buy Bitcoin and you're worried about missing out on Bitcoin then you're worrying about the wrong thing to me. It's good that you have a mind and urge to invest, but fear of missing out shouldn't be your motivation.
Focus on getting an income, it is from that income that you can use to buy Bitcoin or Satoshis


I've seen this before and I do not understand it, so I'm going to use this opportunity to ask. How does Bitcoin get lost from the system? I can understand when it's the fiat cash flow and all, but when it's Bitcoin, how does about 6 million Bitcoins disappear from the system?

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Everything can always get better. There's always room for improvement in every innovation and Bitcoin will definitely grow. These are part of the reasons why I say it's not perfect. Besides, this is not a permanent issue, it will normalize with time.

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Some third-world countries also have a very high adoption of crypto.
I've looked at the charts and a lot of developing countries are doing well when it comes to crypto adoption if the reports are to be believed. The reason a lot of them go into crypto is because they have found an alternative. They live in countries where there is a high rate of unemployment and a high rate of inflation, so in their quest to break out the circle of poverty, they go into crypto.

Looking at that chart OP posted, it just got me thinking. A decade ago, many young people didn't have investments. This was because the investments were expensive and you have to have saved a lot of money before you can go into them, plus they were complicated. That is why it was mostly older people who had financial investments.
Today a lot young people have the opportunity to own an investment thanks to crypto.

Future trading is a risky type of trading that requires a lot of experience, so I don't see how that can be a get-rich-quick scheme. They have to do the work and take the risk. Get-rich-quick schemes are advertised as investments with zero risk. There's no experience needed and profit is 100% certain. That is why it is usually a scam because there's no way you can call something an investment if it carries no risk. How do you define investment without including profit and losses?

Before a person can really appreciate Bitcoin, he has to understand how the traditional system works, he has to know that the system is built not to favor him. In other words, he has to understand the money system and know why it's good for him to look for an alternative. The person has to understand the limitations of the traditional money system and how Bitcoin solves most of those limitations and sadly, I don't think kids can understand these. Even a lot of adults in Bitcoin don't understand this and that is why Bitcoin is underutilized to an extent.
Most people only care about the investment side of Bitcoin and that's not the only too good to be true feature of Bitcoin.

As much as I like kids to know about Bitcoin, I feel there are certain knowledge they ought to have before they really grasp the innovation of Bitcoin.

I like how the face of the person playing the creator of Bitcoin in the video was not revealed. I guess that's trying to portray the fact that nobody actually knows who he/they is/are.

This is your opinion and I respect it, but it's only accurate to an extent. The fact that a person is a newbie on this forum doesn't mean he's a newbie in Bitcoin. There are people who are very good traders and have a lot of knowledge about Bitcoin who are not on the forum. So if we limit the sharing of knowledge through topics to only old members on the forum, I feel like we will be missing out on what that fellow has to offer.

We're all here to learn and what's the point of we can't learn from people with lower ranks than us? A thing I've always liked about this forum is the fact that it has a ranking system but that doesn't affect the flow of knowledge.
It only becomes a problem when a newbie is teaching or trying to educate others on stuff about the forum, like how to use the forum.

I believe the ETF news has a role to play. Maybe not a significant role, but it's still a role because that news will increase the demand for Bitcoin. We can't know the extent of the role it plays.

Another factor is the fact that halving is coming up. People have this thought at the back of their mind and they may be led by different reasons to buy Bitcoin now. Also, people will want to buy now because they are speculating a bull run, so this may be the lowest Bitcoin price would be before the halving.
FOMO has a role to play in this.

These scammers are very smart, they appear very genuine (at least to a newbie or greedy person). So even if you had educated that person on what Bitcoin is, he might have still fallen victim if he did not carry out his research. Scammers confuse them till they don't even know what they believe, you'll end up being the bad guy to him because to him, he has found a path to become a millionaire and you were hiding it from him.
Also, if you had educated him and he decided to invest, he might have blamed you for any losses because it was through you he got involved.

It's wrong for anybody to get involved in any investment they don't have an idea about. Always at least the basic knowledge and it should be the right knowledge. Also since you have only the basic knowledge, don't go into the advanced part of that investment.
For example, a newbie who just got involved in Bitcoin learned how and where to buy BTC and hold it in his noncustodial wallet wants to become a day trader overnight because he knows how to buy and sell Bitcoin. It shouldn't be so.

For a player like Alvarez, they must consider the money. You might not consider the fee that much when you're buying superstars like Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, Kane, and Mbappe (all at their peak). But when you're signing a very good player, yet still a relatively young player that has not developed into his peak you have to look at the price. I believe this because a player like that has a lot of potential and despite how high his ceiling might be, there's always a probability that he won't live up to that potential.

Secondly, Barcelona has already secured the signature of Vitor Roque, a similar profile to Alvarez for almost half the price Man City would have placed on Alvarez if at all they would be willing to sell him. Alvarez would be joining Barcelona in January or at the end of the season. Barcelona are trying not to spend huge money on players anymore and so far, they're doing a good job.

Getting too comfortable is a very big hindrance to success. Most times, we look at how far we've come and that makes us get complacent with where we are, forgetting that this is not just where we wanted to be and we can get much better. This happens a lot in our careers or business. It's okay to be contended, but that doesn't stop you from being ambitious in any way.


If you're waiting to know everything before buying Bitcoin or before trading then you might have to wait forever because I don't think you can learn everything. Bitcoin is constantly a learning process because it's not a static technology. This also doesn't mean you should just start trading without prior knowledge of trading. Trading is a skill and before you can have a skill, you have to learn. Trading is practical so you have to put whatever you're learning into practice.

Why do people have to take sides? Taking sides is what has fueled this war this long. Why do you think both sides always play the victim card? Because they want the public to think they're the one being attacked. Israel has successfully gotten the support of the public and that is why it can do whatever it's doing. Palestine has the support of the people which is why they can attack Israel. These are two people killing innocents, one is only doing it more than the other. So for that reason, we should support the one that has killed less? They're both terrorist groups to me and we can't pick the lesser evil to support.
If the whole world was against what both Israel and Palestine were doing to each other, I believe there would have been other ways to settle their differences.



The thing about boycotting is that it never really works.
These companies are deeply rooted to the extent that all these would be forgotten in no time.
There was a time when a very detailed article filled with evidence showing how a cereal company is tied to the funding and money laundering of terrorist groups in Africa. The freelance investigative journalist who made that report is on the run today. He can't openly step foot into his country.
No media house or news channel, big or small reported that news.

A lot of people have begun to trust Bitcoin. Gone are the days when every little shake-up will affect Bitcoin price drastically. Now people no longer rush off to sell at every setback related to Bitcoin. That's why I believe Bitcoin would never go as low as $16k again.
Even if another pandemic is to happen now, Bitcoin won't go that low. FUD will make people panic but it won't be as bad as it used to be in recent years, because they've kind of been through similar things with Bitcoin.
I believe this is how Bitcoin will gradually become more stable. In the future Bitcoin might not be going down very low at all. That is another way Bitcoin is different from other coins.
People were asking how Bitcoin would be affected if Binance was to crash. It would affect it negatively to an extent but I'm very sure the price won't dip as it did during the FTX crash because people now understand that a centralized exchange is not Bitcoin, however big that exchange might be.
A currency won't become worthless because the biggest bank in the country crashes.




I genuinely do not give a shit about him but for the sake of others, I want him to suffer. I want an example to be made out of him.
I want people to know that you can't just do whatever you like and get away with it. I'm not saying that's going to eradicate people like him, but if the thought that they're not invincible in their mind they'll be more careful when handling customer's funds.

I don't believe Bitcoin or crypto will take over fiat as the world's major means of exchange but let's assume that happens, it won't happen overnight. It will take years for that to happen and in those years many people if not everybody will begin to adapt to the new system till it finally takes over.
I wasn't around then, but I'm certain that when paper money became a thing, it didn't just happen overnight. It happened over time. The same will be the case for Bitcoin. In the case of Bitcoin, it's digital, and not everybody in the world is digital, neither is every transaction digital, so first the whole world has to go digital before Bitcoin can stand a chance of taking over.


I think you're getting it all wrong.
Developing countries have a higher rate of unbanked people and this kind of pushes them to crypto. People in countries with less respect for human rights, poor political structure, poor economy, and low employment rates, People in the countries like US or the UK might go into crypto because it is an investment opportunity but people in third world countries might go into crypto because it's an opportunity to get away from their oppressors.
If you look at the list of top 20 countries with crypto activities, 13 of those countries are developing countries.
There's a reason China has so much crypto activity even though it was banned in the country.


It is for this same reason that people would go into Bitcoin. If they can't trust a centralized system, then they'll most likely prefer a decentralized system.

It was a good run, so sad it had to come to an end. It was nice working with you, hoping I'll have the opportunity again in the future.
Thanks.