Just feeling that the conspiracy that runs in our minds should just be an ordinary imagination. If not, I think trading volume can be manipulated to look massive.

There is a shady investment called pump and dump. If any exchange involves in this, it will look more genuine.

Nice, but the project owners may allege that they don't have money to list in multiple exchanges simultaneously. It may come one after the other.

If not paying $100,000 will deny me $1M dollars, I have to pay even if it takes borrowing.

Mate, you should not be surprised by the hack. I have always said that no matter how secured we think any platform is, provided that it is on the internet, it is hackable. When mixin did their review campaign, I saw that participants were trying to go forth and back trying to scan codes, sign signatures from one device to another in order to make withdrawals. Also, I learnt that it uses multi sig wallet technology to hold funds which makes it more secured and yet it is hacked. This has made me believe that most of these hacks are from indoors.

They have realised an official statement towards this and I think they hinted how to handle the victims but it wasn't elaborate. They promised to make another and well detailed publication on 25th September. Has anyone read the publication?

This is actually the time that I have much confusion about the bitcoin price and what saves me in this time is to be very attentive to the fundamentals. If the chart seems confusing to be, I'll rely on the news to make decisions.
With my little knowledge of the chart, I have seen that bitcoin price has consolidated much, it has gotten enough momentum to move. Put I am not certain the direction it will take. Whether it will push or retract more to about $24k before it will be able to pull more.
The support is becoming firm but the resistance is becoming weak, so there is a possible upward movement of the price rather than downwards.

It is long overdue for Africans to fight for themselves and having these coups is one of the ways to fight for their freedom.  I may be asked if these countries are still being colonised till date but the answer is no. But if you look inwardly you will still understand that Africans are indirectly still under colonial rule and this time it is caused by their selfish and greedy leaders.

The mineral resources of the Africans are not refined in Africa, rather it is transported to Europe and refined there, the remnants of the refined products would be transported back to the African countries and sold to them in an expensive prices.
The corrupt African leaders rig themselves into power and their European counterparts will justify the act in order to unjustly continue benefiting from the gross impunity.

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Thanks Royse!

You actually asked a dual question in one thread, I'll however try to answer you by quoting each clause I want to reply .

• We raise capital for small scale business by saving up little by little
• We raise capital by borrowing from friends and family
• You can also raise capital by borrowing from the bank
• You may consider partnership with someone who has the capital

Small scale business ideas is not a universal standard. It is highly subjective. What works in your country and neighbourhood might not work in mine.

You have just summarised the OP unintentionally. Everything is affected by war. I haven't witnessed a full blown up war in my country but I have watched in the television. I have also read in the news and also been told by friends in the affected countries.  Tbh, if it is possible, war needs to be avoided by all means. Op hurriedly listed a few things that are affected by war, but I might decide to elaborate but let me just categorise the effects of war in the economy.

• Internal disruption 
• External effects
• Natural disruption

In the internal, only the countries at war will suffer as there will be no good food and freedom of movement by the citizens.
In the External, you will understand that neighbouring countries and other countries that depends on the affected country for trades and other international relations will suffer. While the natural effects talks about the environment disorder which affects even the nature and animals. If possible, leave peaceably with all men and shun war.

Trading is actually not for everyone but that does not mean that it is not encouraging for people to learn the trading skill by knowing what is happening in the cryptocurrency charts and the market overall. I am not a good trader because at a time I stopped trading, but I have ideas of trading. So if I decide to be writing journals on trading I can write as many as you can think about and you will enjoy reading them, but in the real life, if I am given a system and asked to tread with some certain capital. I am certainly going to blow up the capital if care is not taken. So this shows that there is clear difference between theory and practical. You can read about it, but if you have not praticalize it and it works for you, you dare not brag about it that you are a professional trader. Many good traders do not even have time to write many articles about how to succeed in trading.

Obviously there are too many chart reading on the internet. Most of these readings are not close to being accurate and were just generated based on unrealistic values. It is a few of these very reading that are correct and near the estimated prediction. And that is why it is called speculation and no one uses that as a fundamental basics for their investment. The best way to survive, is to listen to all the craps and then do your analysis by yourself. With your own research you come to your own conclusion of making any decision that is relating the cryptocurrency.
If you are not very good with the charts, atleast try to be knowledgeable with the fundamentals, so that you will not be taken totally unaware by the market.

Nice to see. It seems that this 11 merits instead on 1 has happened so many times in the forum. This may not be the exact thread I am referring to. That one happened between lower ranked members which made the forum members more skeptical to believe it was unintentionally. Also, from the picture above it seems the one involving Sujonali happened far back 2019. I wasn't in the forum as of then.
This is not about mistakes. It usually happen to newbies sending merits the first time. Anyone not familiar with the forum can make same mistake. I also made a merit sending mistake in another way. After sending merits to a user, I refreshed the page and the action happened twice but I didn't complain. If need be, his request should be put into consideration but it is not among the pressing issues in the forum.

It may be correct to rename the title of OP to make it capture that the statistics is monthly and then you can try to be updating this thread monthly. It is a nice thread and people who are at the top of the list are well known contributors in the forum. No doubt they are quality posters. I would have appreciated the thread more if it was intended to discover newbie quality posters but good enough LoyceV has a thread that discovers newbie quality posters. He named it "The future of bitcointalk "

In general any post that encourages quality posts is encouraging and as long as I know 1miau is know for making such kinds of post.

There are people who advocates that every topic should be serious and every discussion towards that topic should be strictly on that topic, else  it could be tagged as an off-topic discussion. But someone like me do not actually digress from the topic, but I add some iota of humor to my conversations, because it is where I derive my pleasure being in the forum. However, I have not got my posts deleted just because I am trying to be somewhat humorous about the post.
Op, can you just copy one of the deleted messages, let's see how it looks like whether you greatly went off topic or you were trying to be humorous.

I think I have seen this kind of situation here in the forum. Although I cannot recall how it actually happened. All I can recall is that the lucky beneficiary of the unintended merit came back and handed the user some merits from the smerits. I may be wrong about this but I can remember Lovesmayfamilis also wrote on that thread. I don't know if she can remember what I am trying to recall.
Meanwhile, I have in other scenarios read where people sent number of merits than they intended, although this always happen with sending 11 merits instead of 1. This is my first time seeing the mistake of 2 and 22.

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Op, I support your idea of getting a second confirmation before meriting. That is always applicable when actions are irreversible as in the case of merit sending.

Many people have different stories how they came to accept bitcoin and all the stories being different but they are greatly related. As like your story, you wanted to send money across the bother but the fee was high and you opted for an alternative which is bitcoin. Nice to know that bitcoin has been and is still solving real time problems for people. When you checked your first wallet and understood the amount amount of bitcoin that passed through it, you were pained that you didn't save enough. But then the bitcoin you owned and spent was for a good purpose or for business.
How about someone like me whose first bitcoin transaction was a pure scam. I was scammed and I made the payment through bitcoin. If I visit that waller, I feel regret and wished I saved the bitcoin instead of sending same to a scammer.

But you need to understand that in 5yrs time, we will still regret of the bitcoin we are spending today. Do we have options, we cannot save all, we must survive from it.

Well, the paragraph I quoted above vindicated you in this article. Atleast, you acknowledge that bitcoin does not level the playing ground for everyone. However it gives an opportunity for everyone to invest and grow at their pace. If we want to be very honest to ourselves, bitcoin at this time may not be able to make anyone a millionaire, except the person invests heavily during the bear and waits for the bull.
Bitcoin only made the early adopters millionaires even from nothing apart from believing the system and mining it or buying with a little money. Those good times are gone for ever. But the good thing is that as you noted, bitcoin still presents opportunity for everyone.


It seems you have discussed two issued in one topic. Will it not be nice you create a separate thread with this topic of bitcoin being an investment assets or currency.

Even without knowing about this infographic people already understand the Bitcoin dominance in relation to altcoins. But what really happens is that people still believe the altcoin for some certain cases which is related to gambling. If you check out the infographic posted above, you can see that a time comes when altcoins dump beyond expectations. This is actually the bad time. On the good time, you will understand that altcoins will pump very well. Instead of gambling with this excessive pump and excessive dump people have realised that going the Bitcoin way, which is normal increase and decreases is the answer to accumulating wealth in the cryptocurrency industry.

The way that holding is being discussed here in the forum will make you think that that is the possible and the most reliable way to invest in Bitcoin. I do not consider holding for a very long time as the best way to invest in Bitcoin. I also do not consider dollar cost averaging as the best method for investing in Bitcoin. However, I do both of the above just because I do not have the capacity to do otherwise

If I so much understand the chart and I have a very clear vision of where there will be deep and when there will be upward trend, I will not continue to hold on for a very long time. I will always choose to sell and rebuy at the low price. I will continue this process until the next bull run and I will make more profits than someone holding tight both in rise and in fall. Just because I cannot predict to some comprehensible percentage what happens in the market, I have no option but to follow the hodl syndrome.

Anyone that is using P2P in the centralised exchange should be very careful dealing with other parties. Besides, such as changes as binance it is always on notice that customers especially the one releasing the coin not release until they had received their money in bank account. If the buyer have shown evidence that they have made payment and you that is the seller have shown evidence that no money has dropped into your account, the exchange customer care can not pressure you to release the coin. They always give such a note and they will support you to hold the coin until everything is resolved. It is fine that your own case went fine, and nobody was scammed. Anyone make deals in the cryptocurrency industry should be smart.

I tried to give a very precise answer to your question, but I understood that there can never be a uniform and a standard answer to your question, which should be used as a yardstick for every newbie. Your question is totally subjective in the sense that the income of every newbie is not the same. A newbie whose monthly income is about $10,000 can invest 10% of it, which is a good investment in Bitcoin. Whereas another newbie whose monthly income is $200, if that particular newbie also invest 10% of it we can say that it is not much enough to give a tangible profit. So it is better approached based on what you earn and also what you are able to lose. In as much as you are a newbie, going small and having experience of the markets and increasing later should be the best method for every newbie.

One of the reasons but not really the main reason. Other reasons why government fight bitcoin are:

• Inability for the government to control bitcoin.  What the government cannot control is  threat to it.
• The volatile nature of bitcoin
• Difficulty in taxing bitcoin transactions
• Tendency of using bitcoin for bad deals

Among others. But if government will understudy bitcoin an crypto and learn how to deal with it, they will make so much money from crypto.