This is the reality of man. We are always optimistic and basing our success on luck rather than face reality. I have seen this countless times, more often in gambling. You will hear statements like this;

• Today is a bad day, tomorrow will be better
• Mr. Bob won with this strategy, why won't I?
• You don't have to give up, tomorrow will be better

Most times, this optimism blind us to the reality of life and in the end, the story is not always nice.

The best advice should not be that newbies should totally stay off trading. It would have been better if you said that newbies should not trade but rather they should learn how to trade and maybe they should continue to learn until they are able to trade by themselves. Saying that only professional traders should trade because they know how to make profit is not a lie, but where I do not like your position is that professional traders did not become professionals overnight. I mean they were once newbies, assuming they stayed away from trading they wouldn't have been professionals anyways.
So newbies should to learn until they are sure they can trade and control their emotion.

That is the irony of the matter. The victim of a crime knows that they are commiting a crime and they also preach against crime and yet commit crime. But for Op to have created this post means not that they have repented but looking for a way to eradicate the neutral tags.

Op, maybe you have to message the people that left you the neutral tag, they might not remove it immediately but they could watch you for sometime if you have actually changed for good.

I disagree with all you have said here. Why won't you say that City dominated the match. I didn't watch the match but the record is online;

• Ball Possession  71% : 29%
• Goal Attempts 23 : 8
• Total Passes 670 : 234

What other evidences do we need to confirm that Manchester City dominated the game?
As of Haaland, just few days ago, he scored brace in the opening of EPL match and today he is being casted.

I think Maguire's place in England is very much secured. It doesn’t really matter if he plays in his club or not. I said so because Maguire's performance last season with Manchester United was awful, yet he had his place in the England and still performed well.
Maguire's salary with Manchester United is high and even if he leaves, Manchester United will still need to compensate him. I think that is why he appears so unbothered. Besides, there are no much good defenders in United. He will still have a playing time.

This weekend's match between Manchester City and Newcastle United is going to be a very crucial test for Newcastle United. It will be a test to determine if Newcastle United is fit to contest for the English Premier League title. And again, it is also going to be a test to know how far Newcastle United will go in the champions league. This is because Manchester City is both the champions of England and the champions of Europe. So if Newcastle beats Manchester City, it means that they have a very big chance to succeed this season.

Sometimes it is advisable not to follow the rule of life so strictly. We have to be flexible and adaptive in whatever that is happening in our environment. If we decide to read the rule of life verbatim and follow it we could at a point see ourselves suffering unnecessarily, for instance, you have encouraged everyone to work hard as the only way to be successful, but then some people are not working hard, but they are smart enough to be successful.

Another advice you aid is that we should not quit no matter how tough it is, but most times it is advisable to quit and start again because if you are on the wrong lane and don't quit the end may be bad. The life does not necessarily have a hard rule to follow.

I joined the conversation late but I need to be clarified by the OP. You mentioned that the problem with the crypto investment is that the owners fortune is dependent on exchanges and they may not allow you to withdraw.  I want to understand how this will happen if you decide to buy bitcoin with 500k USD and wait for the bull run.
If you want to invest 500k in cryptocurrency, so you will depend on exchanges. What happens if you get a hardware wallet and save it there?

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But for the question in OP, I will rather diversify in the three options provided.

The OP asked a very important question that demands a befitting answer. The question is "why do the 3rd world countries always want loans?". They have government, their citizens pay tax and they generate revenue internally, yet they continue borrowing from IMF and WB.
If I have the money and you want to borrow it to enforce something I do not support, I will obviously not give you the money. If you feel you have a culture you want to sustain and you have a law that soothes your culture, generate the money to enforce your law and culture. Corruption will not allow them, most of the monies they borrow is for looting and personal gain and not for the country.

It is not about being interested to participate in politics or not. What actually happens is that the game of politics is so bad in some countries such that no sensible and upright man would want to involve in such a dirty game as they fondly call it. If the politics and the political system of a country is very sane, you will see good people will join politics and in the end of the day you will have a very good government.

But then if the bad and the corrupt are in charge of the political system and have corrupted the whole system. That is why you see some people saying they don't want to involve in politics.

Your question just funny shaa...wetin carry to restart world enter here? If dem restart Nigeria, your bad leaders go follow restart too, sheba you know.
Another thing be say, you talk say make we no talk inflation, abi make we begin lie to ourselves? Abi you no believe say inflation dey? Baba, no underrate inflation o, e dey chop the whole world join.
But wetin dey happen for Nigeria now na lack of management skill by the leaders. Those old men dey struggle with health, efficiency and at the same time how to lead Nigeria go forward.  E no dey work like that, men wey suppose don retire since if say na government work still wan rule. That Jagaban never tire by now?
Nigeria problem dey him head,
Ecowas problem dey hi head.
We dey watch.

Danny my brother no dey bother yourself again, nothing serious for the matter again as long as say we don get our local board. When the thing been dey fear me na when we no get local board make theymos for say, since na English dem deh use, no need for local board. But since God don help we get local board and our activity never reduce, nobody go fit collect our local board back. So, relax and enjoy the local board.

For me, 90% time wey I enter here, na pigin I dey knack and e go help make any bother wey visit my profile know the difference and more.

I was also wondering how it took someone a week to discover Beginners and help board. Even if you clicked a random link in the internet and it directed you to the technical board or the gambling board. After surfing for the day, you should atleast click the Home of the website. Once you are on the home page, it doesn't waste time to see all the boards and child boards in the forum.
However, I welcome Op to the forum and also advice him to learn the bitcoin he wishes to learn. It will surely help him intellectually and financially.

Ale88, your statement is far from the truth. The advantage of bitcoin is being your own bank, but it doesn't necessarily provide anonymity as you claimed. If you really want to be anonymous in the bitcoin network, you must first learn how to hide your ip. This can be achieved by not running your node on the clean net. Tor can do a good job to hide your ip. For transaction purposes, you try not to re use your addresses.
The coinbase example is off the discussion because coinbase is a CEX. To be able to trade their you must have already completed KYC with them.

With all indications, especially the paragraphs that I highlighted, it seems that you are missing the context of bitcoin being a store of value.
1. I do not know how bitcoin makes every other properties to remain valuable.
3. When an asset has the ability to be converted from one form asset to another without losing value, that does not make the asset a good store of value.
4. You also alleged that bitcoin has the potential of giving profits to the owner without losing it's initial value.

That is a bogus statement. If bitcoin price rises, it gives profit and when it reduces it gives losses. You can only be safe if you don't sell at loss and if bitcoin reverses from down trend to uptrend.
The best store of value is gold and not bitcoin. The volatility of bitcoin made it not to be a good store of value.

How was this data gotten, is it proven or verified or it is the opinion of one trader/written. I can agree that bitcoin volatility averages in the range of 1.68% - 4.54%. It is understandable and believable. But Wednesday and Saturday being the most and least volatile days respectively, I have no idea of that claim.

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The volatility of bitcoin is an advantage and also disadvantage to the industry and as well as bit holders. I can say it is only an advantage without disadvantage to day traders because coins must be making significant moves for day traders to profit.

The market is showing a sign that it will retract to the region below 25k before it will bull. This may happen and it may also not happen, but the likelihood that it will happen is high than the tendency that it will not happen. But then, considering the price of bitcoin being below 29k and the ATH of bitcoin is about 69k. This shows that a buy now will be profitable in the long term investment.
Another way to overcome your fear is to go with the DCA method. By this you may survive even if the market dips unexpectedly.

Maybe Satoshi is not hiding. He didn't commit crime so he is not hiding from anyone. Rather he is anonymous, which means he could be your neighbour but you wouldn't know.

Even if he has the power to fo so, it won't be wise shutting down what he created. He will rather be happy that bitcoin is making waves. But to shut bitcoin means that majority of the bitcoin developers will agree. It is not possible because everyone cannot agree, even if majority agrees, the disagreeing minority will perform a hardfork.

If you are a newbie to bitcoin, it will be fine if you forget all the bitcoin and Satoshi drama and focus on learning bitcoin. The drama is now mysterious.

I am not thretened by the rising military coups in West Africa. I am a Nigerian and I am purely not bothered and if that coup happens in Nigeria, I will be among the happy ones. The people of Nigeria are not practising democracy. If you are continually disfranchised every 4 years, there is no evidence that you are practising democracy.

The major cause is the prolonged suffering of the citizens of these countries which is caused by the prolonged corruption by the politicians who vowed not to leave the seat of rulership.

If the military cannot shot an innocent person to death, I prefere them to the wicked and corrupt leaders we have now.

Well, you been understand my point but you no kuku reason am well before you replied. You mentioned something wey dey interesting. If petrol finish for person bike, e dey push am go filling station. This means that the filling station fit dey like 1 pole away, so there is a destination for fuel.
If person tyre less, dem go push the bike go vulcaniser. There is still a destination where air will be refilled.
But if your battery die, there is no destination apart from your house which might be several kilometres away from home.
I am not saying that the technology is not fine, what I meant is that the early adopters will suffer it before them begin build electric charging points for streets. I hope you get my point now.