It was the Obsidian Order, from the Cardassian Union, but I appreciate the reference.

It was fun while it lasted. I laughed when Putin said that it was a coup and a treachery. I thought it was a special Wagner operation.
In the end Putin said mercenaries can do what they want, they can join the army or go to Belarus, or go home if they want, but he hopes they'll choose to serve the country.
He wants people who wanted his head, traitors, to go home, or join the army... Scared old Vlad...

But you seem to be living off bitcointalk. I'm talking about your account deals.
The way I see it, we'd next see someone come and claim they were the ones who broke a deal with you and got all the money back. These stories usually have a continuation if left to unfold in peace, but unfortunately for you too many people came to this thread and spoiled it. Back to the drawing board

I can't put myself in your shoes OP, because I have a very small family to take care of. My father always had some money and he's a man of small needs. I know he'll never spend his savings because of the way he lives, and even if he tried he's got enough to live a good life for another 10+ years without having to lift a finger.

I never had to support my family financially, it was rather the other way round. Nowadays I don't get anything from them, but they also don't need me, apart from the occasional help with bills and papers, which is typical for old folks.

If you're earning good money, try to give your family the rod instead of the fish. Give them a business idea, maybe help them find jobs, or buy them a place they can turn into a small store, or a food stand. A child should never be the main provider for the family. You can help them from time to time, but you should not be their slave.
Come up with an amount of money you can give them each month, and make sure this is less than 50% of what you make.

It's actually a tax on those who hold money, especially the middle class. Rich guys have investment portfolios, hold gold. The poor spend everything they get every month, so they aren't affected that much, but the middle class, the people who have some savings, but not enough to have a stock portfolio or a number of real estate properties, have to pay the tax.


Inflation is just another form of taxation. Diluting the money supply makes everyone who holds it lose and makes all other assets gain value against the currency.

I'd use my emergency funds if I were you, but don't go to 0. When you're down to whatever you earn in a month, it should be a sign that you're getting into dangerous territory and better start looking for another job, or a property to sell. Maybe you have a spare room at home? Maybe you have 2 cars and could manage with 1?

I prefer to bet before the match. I feel like betting during the match is more chaotic and can lead to wrong decisions.

I'll give you an example. One time we were watching a game with friends and we all bet on our national team. They were losing early on, so we were all saying that we regret betting on them and it was actually 1-0 in the first half for the opponents. If I had the chance to remove the bet, after that first half I'd do it because of the atmosphere in the room where we were all hating on the team. It made their game look worse than it actually was. They ended up getting 2 goals in the second half and winning the game. You never really know who's going to win, but the game itself and the stress of it can cloud your judgement.

Resistances tend to move. They are just levels that we failed to break the last time, but it could have been due to the fact that there was a large seller setting up a wall of coins at that level and we kept bouncing off, but that seller doesn't have to be there now, a few weeks later. Don't forget that the SEC attacked Binance and many people took money out of exchanges, so there was much less liquidity on the market compared to a April when prices were pumping for the first time.

Wait for us to break 32k because above that there's no known resistance level up to 40k, so if we can stay above 32k, we'll poke the low 40s for sure.
I think it's inevitable this year that we do it.

I hope it keeps going up but I treat it only as a confidence booster. I don't care if it goes up or down tomorrow because I'm not going to sell.
They'd have to offer me a lot of money, like maybe 100k+ right now for me to touch my stash and then I still wouldn't dump it, maybe sell 10% just to have fun, like I always do in the bull runs.
Having fun and spending some profits gives me energy to endure next bear markets without falling into despair.

Lotteries are popular because people can't count.

It's easy for us to calculate probability when something can happen 30% of a time or 10% of a time, our brain gets that, but when you go below 0.1% it really doesn't matter. Human brain sees it as very very low possibility, but existent. Then you can decrease it to 0.0001% and the person will still say that the possibility is very low, but it's there. So the lottery creators make sure you have a very very low chance, like 1 to a few million, and tell you that the entry fee is extremely low, like $1 and you go for it because your brain tells you "what if?"

Because he's a master troll. He won't fight for real. If people organize this and put this in every single media outlet he's going to capitalize on that even if he lets Zuck finish with ease and just walks away after a fast loss. He'll make the money and the press anyway. Even if the fight doesn't happen Musk will benefit.

I don't like both of them and at this point I try to make up my mind who it is that I like less. Zuck is such a weirdo with his alien looking stare. To be honest I'd rather have a beer with Elon, so go Walrus!

It's going to take another 50 years or more before you start seeing this change and even then, bitcoin will still be profitable for miners.
If LN keeps on developing, running a node will be very profitable.
You'll probably get various custodial services popping up, where companies will offer safeguarding your bitcoin, or holding a part of a multi-sig for you.

Also, I don't believe the price will ever stabilize. It will either keep going up in the long run, or reaches its peak and begins a decline. Even after reaching 21m it's going to keep moving, just not in 4 year cycles like it is but due to increasing market penetration and adoption, like the Internet.

It's not about Binance or Coinbase, but about all exchanges and institutions.
Nowadays banks are applying for licenses to custody bitcoins for you, the latest additions being Deutsche Bank and Santander.
Investment funds want your bitcoins to create spot ETFs.


To protect your coins you have to do one simple thing: self-custody. Get a hardware wallet, keep coins away from exchanges, don't sell it to the institutions.
You'll see that in a year or two they'll come piling up, offering you ridiculous money for your coins because they can always print more fiat but they can't print bitcoin.

SBF was working with the SEC, which is why they're dropping charges against him and he's in house arrest.
You should ask yourselves why a person who let the world know about US covert operations had to leave the country or he'd be facing life in prison and a person who stole billions under the nose of US government is released on bail.

It's a very hard question if you try to answer with honesty.
If I knew I could 100% get away with it and it was 100% a working exploit, I'd probably try it out. What could go wrong? I know this would technically be stealing, but I'd try it for the thrill of it with a little bit of money. I wouldn't probably keep doing it, the way that I'd keep funneling money from the game to fund a lavish lifestyle, but I wouldn't mind trying it out to see if I could get a free hundred or two.

If there was a way to report a bug or exploit and get a reward I'd rather do that though.

That's right. They will fight you if that happens and it doesn't happen a lot because casinos have max bets and calculate max bonus you can get in a single game. If a casino is small and new, they aren't going to allow you to bet something like 50% of their bankroll in a single bet, or they will do it, but get ready to shut down and scam you if you win, because if they are new and their whole bank is a million dollars and you were somehow allowed to win 500k, it's easier for them to shut down and rebuild the site than pay you.

A big casino will take that risk, but they will have much more than a million dollars in the bank. If a reputable casino allows you to win big, they can afford it.

Yes, it is, if you're investing in shitcoins.

Some people will disagree and say that all of this is trading and trading isn't gambling, but how do you trade pump and dump tokens? How do you trade scams like bitconnect? Is risking money buying crypto MLMs trading, or is it gambling? Is buying coins with large premine investing, or gambling? The insiders can dump 20% of the supply on you at any moment and you won't be able to do anything. That's not trading.

It's the same when people trade with very high leverage like on okex that allowed 100x. That's gambling, nothing else.

There's a lot of gold deep within our planet, the only problem is that we don't have efficient ways of getting it out. When the digging operation exceeds the value of gold mined it's pointless to try.
What would have to happen for us to increase the supply? One of two things.
Either the demand would have to be very high, but for that we'd have to start using much more gold to produce electronics (or go back to using gold coins for payment), that's one, or the cost of deep mining would have to go down so that we could start accessing new deposits.

Meanwhile, while Russians are claiming unconfirmed kills, it admits to its own losses. This time confirmed.

Russia has confirmed the death of the Chief of Staff of the 35th Army of the Armed Forces, Major General Sergei Goryachev in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1671437317070880770?cxt=HHwWhIC8xcvYkbIuAAAA

There was a futures impact on the price - it went down.
The futures ETF was launched in the middle of the bitcoin's bull run and many people say that the run was cut short exactly because of that launch.
When you give big investors, who never wanted to buy bitcoin in the first place, a chance to short it you can expect they'll take this chance.
Bitcoin went from 20 to 60k in a few months of 2021, so it was obvious an asset that made 3x is going to be shorted by traditional investors who don't care about tech and want to make a quick buck.

The main difference between futures and spot is that to launch spot they need to own some bitcoin, so if blackrock gets the SEC to approve the price will pump. How much we can only guess, but I'm sure we'll go above this years high, to the high 30s, or higher.

You must be reading too much crypto mainstream articles. CZ iz by no means a prominent, or credible figure. Take his involvement in FTX drama as an example.
I don't like the SEC but CZ is not a clean guy. He's making a lot of money from listings and he lists all the shitcoins that pump when the news of them being lister comes out and then bleed to eventually be reduced into nothing and delisted.


It depends what people holding bitcoin on Binance would do. If they'd dump it all the price would crash, but they could also move it out of the exchange without selling.
The honeybadger will still be there doing its thing. In 2020 the price crashed and in 2021 made a new high like it was nothing.

No, I don't really care, although it depends on the person accusing me of being an addict, whether I care about this person's opinions. If someone random says I'm an addict, I won't even try to explain it to them that I'm not and they're wrong. If it's someone I'm friends with, the situation changes.

It's hard to answer this in a short post, as it all depends on the circumstances.