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81  Economy / Speculation / Re: Recent market manipulation shows the enormous potential to reach the moon! on: October 16, 2023, 08:31:27 PM
If they really thought the news was real it didn't really go that much up. 27-30 thousand on the news of an ETF approval? Not even touching the high from August? I'm not impressed.

I agree that bitcoin has a lot of potential for an uptrend. I also think that the fair price right now should be at least 30000 but it stays below that because of the pressure from politicians.
Doesn't matter in the long run though. It's going to go up a week or a year from now, but it's going up!
82  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Relying on gamble wins is dangerous to mental health on: October 15, 2023, 08:50:24 PM
Relying on any game of chance or investment will run you to the ground.

No sane person will bet their mental state on a game of chance.

Imagine that you saw a man flipping a coin and he'd decide if he's going to be depressed or happy based on the outcome. You'd say he's insane, right?
How can you put your future on the line by betting too much when you know it destroys you?

I bet from time to time but it never gets me down. I know that I can lose and I'm ready to accept it.
83  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Ferrari introduced BTC payment option for their cars on: October 15, 2023, 08:41:10 PM
It's nice to see that after Honda there's another manufacturer willing to do it.

That said, I doubt they will have a lot of sales, but that's a great way to show that lambo is not the choice you should be making. They're actively fighting the "when moon when lambo" meme by showing that you can't buy a Lambo but you can buy a Ferrari. I've always preferred Ferrari design over Lamborghini and the build quality is a bit higher in Ferraris. Have you seen the plastics in new Lambos?

As for Tesla, I don't want them to accept bitcoin. Fuck Musk, I'm never buying his electric shit. These are not real cars.
84  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: If we lose in gambling, what do we need to do? on: October 14, 2023, 10:06:11 PM
OP, you're like those people who ask what they should do with their investments.

Here's some honorable examples:

Should I buy bitcoin now or wait?
I had a car accident, should I stop driving?
My boyfriend hits me but I love him, should I be with him?
My husband doesn't want children but I do, should I divorce?

If you're comfortable with losing, keep on losing. Don't like losing? Learn to play better, change the bookie, or stop betting.
85  Other / Archival / Re: [OPEN] [banned site] Signature Campaign [ Full Member + ] on: October 11, 2023, 06:24:19 PM
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86  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Hodling vs trading on: October 10, 2023, 07:55:16 PM
I always feel like trading is for people who don't really want bitcoin but fiat money. For most of them the goal is to get as much fiat as possible.

Trading is risking your coins to get a little bit more if your trade is good but since trading involves shorting I'd be very careful if I were you since most of the time bitcoin goes up and you can't really tell when that moment will happen again. Waiting in the sidelines because you're too scared to hold bitcoin is s stupid thing to do in my opinion just as using bitcoin like a tool to get more fiat money when it's so much more.
87  Other / Archival / Re: [OPEN] [banned site] Signature Campaign [ Full Member + ] on: October 10, 2023, 07:46:52 PM
Thanks for the last 3 weeks! Smiley
88  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Cryptocurrency thought me Patience on: October 08, 2023, 02:16:27 PM
During my early days in the crypto industry I struggle to hodl crypto asset because I am naturally impatient person, of a truth I struggle to hodl, I mostly sell my asset at a loss.

It means you're not impatient but self-destructive, like a person who keeps building something for a few weeks, then gets frustrated by a minor problem and destroys all his work to start fresh.
Unless you learn to control it, you'll be losing in life.

You'll break up with a partner after a small argument, you'll quit your job because  you didn't get promoted this time or didn't get a raise and so on so forth.

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One thing I observe is that the moment I sold. it at a loss, not quite long, the crypto asset start appreciating in price .
It got to a point I almost quit, the only thing that makes me not to quit is i believe that quiter are for failures.

You did quit because selling at a loss is quitting. What you did is quit and come back to it to start fresh.
89  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Need advice on getting merits on: October 08, 2023, 01:27:41 PM

How many other alt accounts are out there?


It seems that OP really has something to worry about because his other account (akitha) isn't getting any merit either. No wonder OP looks al other full members with envy since they can get 50 merit a month and he can't even get 1 on 2 accounts Cheesy

Things got busy with personal life so I took a years of hiatus in this forum. I just came back lately to see how things are going here.

That's a lie because your alt account was active in 2018, 19 and 20. What else are you going to lie about?

90  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: One seed, One casino game. Superstitious or Not? on: October 08, 2023, 12:43:52 PM
I'd call that superstitious for sure because it implies that the seed somehow determines if you're going to be a lucky or unlucky players or that the seed can be jinxed.

At least that's how I see it. It also feels like the gambler suspects the system is rigged not to allow too many people to win, so there's some kind of seed monitoring system that doesn't allow players to get too lucky?

I don't believe there's a correlation between your seed ad luck. If there is luck, it is in you not in the seed.
91  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I recently convinced my employer to start paying me in BTC, it has been great on: October 08, 2023, 12:12:06 PM
This sounds a bit strange to me.

I live in an underdeveloped country, but I work remotely for a fairly good web development agency. We don't have a lot of financial services/wallets here, so we had to go circumvent a lot of obstacles for me the money to get to my local bank account.

Does he pay you with black money? I find it hard to believe that a bank would have problems with you receiving income from a job, as long as it is legal and declared.

On the other hand, if at the end of the day you have to convert part of the P2P bitcoin to be able to pay in fiat, I don't see much difference to cashing in fiat, spending what you have to spend and buying P2P bitcoin with the rest, apart from the problem with your bank.

Are you aware of the fact that in some parts of the world less than 20% of people have access to the Internet? Somalia and Eritrea are one of the countries with the worst Internet access in the world.
No Internet means no ATMs and no card terminals in stores. To get money you have to physically go to the bank and request a withdrawal, or fill in a paper with the bank number of the person you want to send money to.

Can you imagine running a business where you work online and to find out if you've been paid by the client you have to go to the bank and stand in line to ask if there's money on your account.

We've been living so long in the world where everybody has a phone with a bank app and can move money around while commuting from work that we forgot how our parents had to do it when they were kids.
92  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why Governments Ban Cryptocurrency {Bitcoin} on: October 08, 2023, 11:37:25 AM
The governments usually operate in 1 and 0. They have to take a stance for or against something and to them bitcoin doesn't carry enough weight to be worth their time.

-To an average politician bitcoin is difficult, takes time to master
-Bitcoin doesn't have enough supporters to fight for their votes at least in many poor countries. In the US or the EU the situation is different, but in some Arab countries the number of people interested in crypto is negligible.
-Bitcoin can be easily labeled as a money laundering tool and currency used by hackers, scammers and drug dealers, so it's easy to find arguments to support your stance against it. To support it you have to know something about it and that gets us back to the first point.
93  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: El Salvador launches first volcano-powered mining project on: October 08, 2023, 11:29:07 AM
They tried once two years ago and we haven't heard anything about the magical 200MW well, this will be the same.

I also think this is a promotional piece for the country to attract more tourist and more bitcoiners as well because those bitcoiners can bring more money and businesses to the country than it would ever be able to create on its own.

When I read articles like that it reminds me of the plan for a bitcoin city in El Salvador that we saw a few years ago. They even made a beautiful model that will remain a model for another decade. That's unless bitcoin goes to a million dollars in that time, then maybe they'll be able to afford it, but at that point they'll have more pressing matters to invest into, like these power plants we're talking about and a bitcoin city will continue to be a dream.
94  Economy / Economics / Re: Do we truly need cbdc when bitcoin already exist? on: October 08, 2023, 11:15:24 AM
For now, based on what I have learned regarding CBDC, the conclusion in my opinion is that we don't really need CBDC. Because even the current banking system can now carry out digital transactions with fiat currency. Even now in big cities people are starting to rarely carry cash. Now payments are even more often made with E-Wallets, debit/credit cards, M-Banking and others such as digital wallets and the like. So I think CBDC will only make us have less and less privacy in our own money ownership. So financial privacy will really be reduced. Meanwhile, every human being has the right to have their own privacy in every matter, such as finances and other personal lives. And if ordinary fiat is replaced with CBDC in the next generation, perhaps financial privacy will really be lost.
But I also know that there is a positive impact from the presence of CBDC. Like being able to prevent corruption and the like. But remember, humans always have their own ways of hiding from surveillance systems.
But I prefer fiat now. And for digital, of course there are bitcoin and stablecoins.

But if CBDC can still protect our privacy then perhaps CBDC will have more positive support.

You're repeating the lies that CBDC promoters are spreading like the one that you will have some privacy. Wasn't it the head of the European Central Bank that said it? She literally said that you will have "some" privacy, so she knows most of it will be gone when CBDCs get introduced. The same woman also claimed inflation is caused by global warming Cheesy Do you really trust these people with your freedom, privacy and money? I don't.

The only thing CBDCs will protect is the government's ability to suppress any opposition.
95  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: October 08, 2023, 11:06:22 AM
I am surprised, though, that nobody "knew", apparently.
This is strange.

It would take Hamas months and months, if not a year, to plan such a coordinated attack operation. Months and months of soldiers, supplies and artillery moving around. Millions in funding on the move. Months of planning and coordinated communications.

And Mossad didn't have a clue?

And U.S. and Foreign Intel didn't have a clue?

Really? Who's buying this?

Pretty much like they "didn't know" about the incoming attack on Pearl Harbor and the same way they didn't know about incoming jets on 9.11 and had no air defense because NORAD conveniently started exercise that morning.

The things allow to go public are usually the things they want to go public.
96  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bunny Loader: Another Clipboard malware on: October 07, 2023, 08:38:53 PM
It's very easy to spot it.
Make sure you make double checking everything into a habit.

Good builder always repeats this like mantra: measure twice, cut once. You do the same with your transactions, double check then press the button. So, after pasting the address I read it and compare to the original. If I see a change that's a red flag. I haven't had that keylogger yet but if I ever spot it I'll stop right there, disconnect my network cable, run anti virus software, then change all the recently used wallet passwords in offline mode.
97  Economy / Economics / Re: The Kids buying Mcdonald order via BTC on: October 07, 2023, 08:27:17 PM
However, I feel bad for the kid because he spent something like 170,000 Sats or something. Its parent must have a sizable amount of Bitcoin.

Maybe it was a family meal. This isn't that much money if you think in terms of a normal restaurant. For McD it's a lot, but then we don't know how many people he was buying it for. For one person this is almost  an impossible to eat amount of burgers and fries, but for 4 people it's pretty normal.

Also, he doesn't need a lot of money to be spending this much at a restaurant. Any normal earning person in a first world country can afford to spend that kind of money and many people these days earn some money in bitcoin, me included.


98  Economy / Economics / Re: Do we truly need cbdc when bitcoin already exist? on: October 07, 2023, 08:05:07 PM
I've watched a video today where a guy was complaining that people fight against 15 minute cities and CBDC since it's all good and made for their convenience.
He also referred to people who do it as "libertarian crypto bros." What does this name even mean? Do all libertarian like cryptos, or maybe crypto fans are libertarians according to that man, but the strangest thing is that libertarians are attacked as people who don't like progress because it limits their freedom.
Sounds like something a slave owner would say to his slaves -you people don't know what progress is, but I want all the best for you! I want you to be happy and I don't want you to travel very far. You've got all the things you need here on my farm!
99  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I want to fulfill my mother's dream of building a house with Bitcoin. on: October 07, 2023, 06:51:24 PM
How much money do you have in bitcoin?

How much does the house cost?

I suspect you have less than 1 bitcoin and want us to pray so that it reaches $1 million and you can buy a house. Don't be naive, please.

What is this thread even about? OP doesn't want bitcoin, only a house, and a bitcoin is to be some miracle that gives him free money for nothing so that he can realize his dream?
Garbage!
100  Economy / Economics / Re: No petrol/diesel car sales by 2035/ Reality or dream? on: October 06, 2023, 08:53:11 PM
If the government continues to push hard to reduce sales of diesel and petrol cars, then buyers will be more inclined to buy Elon Musk Tesla company cars.  Because the cars of Elon Musk Tesla company have received a huge response.  Electric cars will be more affordable than diesel and petrol, the country is now moving towards electric cars so most people really want electric cars.At present we have noticed that electric vehicles are slowly becoming a reality in the country.  2035 is still very late,hopefully technology will be more advanced.

The people have voted on this with their money and the result is that we don't want to buy electric cars because of their price.
There are two markets, the new car market and the used car market. Electric vehicles barely exist on the used market, so most of it consists of traditional combustion engine cars.

The governments want to destroy the used car market by enforcing emission limits. There are also engine size limits. For example you pay a lot more tax in the EU when you import a car with an engine exceeding 2 L. It's all being done to discourage you from using normal cars and boost electric car sales.
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