Some who apparently still think that such institutions are crucial to Bitcoin in any sense. Unfortunately, the world is full of such people who make their life decisions based on what some JPM analyst said or what people like Buffett and others like him think about Bitcoin. Apart from that, I guess we have convinced ourselves countless times that various so-called journalists are nothing more than ordinary mercenaries who write at the behest of those who pay them to do so.

All those who listened to various Buffetts and Dimons in the past are sure to regret it today when they see that Bitcoin is not a mirage or a rat poison squared.

In that case, you are in a dilemma as to what brings you more profit - investing the Bitcoin you earn or just holding? Let's take an example if you invested in Bitcoin about 1 year ago when the price was just above $15 000 and if you didn't do anything with that BTC from then until today, you would have more than 100% profit in a very short period of time.

The question arises whether you could have earned more in that period if you had invested the same BTC in your business? Of course, the price of Bitcoin is volatile, but it still somewhat follows a four-year cycle, and those who invested following that pattern were already able to profit very nicely, and if they are patient, they could profit much more.

If we were to go back even further into the past, those who invested in BTC before the great bull run of 2017, and sold during the next bull run, certainly earned as much money as they would not have earned in their entire lives, unless they were among those rare people who they have revolutionary ideas and know how to monetize them.

No offense, but if after almost 5 years you don't know more than you did then, do you think there is a chance that something will change in this matter or will you ask a similar question sometime in 2028? It would be logical if you learned at least some basic things, and only then invested - although it is good to have a hardware wallet, regardless of the bad reputation of that company.


I would tell myself "buy more Bitcoin" and "stay away from all altcoins" which would definitely be the two best pieces of advice I could give myself.

I assume that the OP created his Electrum password by choosing 8 or 9 characters from a string of 15 characters, which can greatly help him recover the password, whether he tries to do it himself or with the help of professionals.


The only service of this type that has a very good reputation is this one -> Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services - for forgotten wallet password

I would not say that Peter is a stupid person who does not understand what he is talking about, but that he only uses Bitcoin as something that puts him in the focus of all those who persistently compare Bitcoin and gold. He is a classic gold bug suffering from some kind of modern gold rush and believes in gold like Warren Buffett believes in stocks.

As far as I remember, Peter's son did not follow in his father's footsteps and is supposedly an investor in Bitcoin, and when the two of them meet at a lunch or dinner, they certainly have a very interesting topic to talk about

For some people, Bitcoin is simply more of a currency than a means of long-term investment, and it should not be surprising that some people mostly spend everything they somehow earn in Bitcoin, especially if we take the example of signature campaigns in which a large number of forum members actually have an additional source of income which help them to improve their standard of living.

If you have a job where your only source of income is Bitcoin, then you have to spend it to pay living expenses and there is no possibility of holding. Any other option where Bitcoin is just an additional income in addition to the already existing secure income opens up possibilities for long-term investment.

I personally don't feel sorry for any of the sats I've spent over the years, no matter what the price was then compared to today. It is simply wrong thinking that leads nowhere. Even if someone has an income exclusively in BTC and that is his only income, does that prevent him from saving at least 5-10% of that BTC every month?

Unbelievably large text wall to explain what could literally fit in two sentences. Online wallets were not secure 10 years ago, and they are not even today. Anyone who stores their private keys in such a way is only gambling with high odds of losing.

And what kind of website is it that supposedly checks whether a wallet is vulnerable or will become vulnerable in the future, and for this check it asks for information such as name and surname, e-mail and public key? Do not enter such information anywhere, it is only a threat to your privacy.

Then you must have persuaded Satoshi to make Bitcoin, because your BTT account and all the alts you use wouldn't make sense then, would they?

Maybe people think in a different way that you didn't take into account, which is that some of the companies you listed are actually US companies, and it is well known to everyone that the US is the biggest ally of Israel, whose weapons actually kill innocent civilians.


Actually, what kind of country is it that depends on how many hamburgers or sodas some company will sell? From a health perspective, it would be better if there were no fast food chains or carbonated drinks, so if someone in support of the civilians in Palestine stops buying such food and drinks, it will do good for their health. In addition, the people who work as ordinary workers in all these companies are certainly not happy with their jobs and their salaries.

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My personal position is that I will never support anyone who kills civilians in such a reckless and barbaric way, whether it is Hamas, Israel or Russia - a crime is a crime and there is no need to look for justifications for why someone did it.

I'm more surprised that even after my post, members like @Majestic-milf and @lombok still have no problem discussing with AI chat bot - does that mean they are bots too? Of course they're not, they're just one of those who don't read anything more than the title and fulfill their daily signature quota

Does anyone think the OP wrote that post? It seems to me that it is the work of AI, and after one check I got a result that says that the post "This text is likely to be a mix of human and AI text".

The source the OP used to paraphrase and then spice things up a bit with AI -> https://www.tradingview.com/news/zycrypto:250a9c015094b:0-bitcoin-is-ready-to-move-on-from-ftx-s-collapse-proving-its-resilience-in-the-face-of-adversity/

I don't need to read between the lines to understand what you are talking about, but if you use some words like "preach" then you are implying that we are doing exactly that here, and Bitcoin is a technological invention, not some religious community where someone preaches anything. In addition, I have already written that such stories are completely pointless considering that Bitcoin does not exist since yesterday and what you wrote has been written countless times, only with the difference that you are building a story around a character who does not seem too convincing with his story.

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It wouldn't be the first time that such things come to people's minds, and then someone sympathizes with them and sends them a nice donation. If something like that happened to me, I certainly wouldn't record a video and post it on social networks, because I wouldn't want people to recognize me on the street as an incompetent fool who lost millions of dollars.

In addition, he may not even be aware that he is harming himself in the long term, because today's employers check their future employees online, and such things do not bring anything positive in the eyes of most employers.

@m2017, My version is a bit newer (above 2.50), so maybe that's why it still works, but yours is obviously too old and can't be synchronized, considering that Ledger made some significant changes on its end and that old version no longer works. However, as far as I know, it is possible to manually install older versions of LL, and that could be a way to get a functional LL even without installing the latest version.

https://www.ledger.com/ledger-live/lld-signatures

@m2017, what exact version of LL do you have? I also have a very old version and I don't have a problem with synchronization (so far), so maybe you should check that maybe your antivirus or firewall doesn't block internet access to LL. It also occurs to me that Ledger may be blocking users gradually so as not to cause panic, and considering their dirty tactics, that would not be a surprise at all.

Something definitely stinks in all this, and I would say that some suspicious games are involved, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were some money laundering schemes. Fortunately for all of us, news like this no longer has the same impact on the market as it did in the past.

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If we take into account that those CEXs you mention supposedly keep 98% of all funds in cold wallets (at least that's what they claimed from Coinbase), then theoretically their hacking shouldn't shake the market too much. Of course, the catch is that most of those who keep their coins on those CEXs have no idea what is a hot and what is a cold wallet - and if they heard about a hack, they would panic as if the world had come to an end.

Do you think that the people behind all those CEXs have a moral compass at all? Their only mission is to make as much profit as possible and they don't choose the way to achieve it, even if it means that at some point they will support any BTC fork, be it BCH or BSV, or one that may appear in future (say BRB - BlackRock Bitcoin).

We have to accept once and for all that CEXs do not exist to help Bitcoin (although they have an influence), but they are companies that only provide cryptocurrency trading services regardless of what the coins/tokens are called or their purpose of existence. What I want to say is that regardless of whether they know (or assume) that some token/coin is a scam, they still agree to list it because they are probably paid very well for it, and in addition they will make a profit as long as clients trade with it.

It is not only some third world countries that are the reason why so much money is poured into the "altcoins drain", because people from the richest countries in the world also invest in it. The fact is that everyone does it because they want to earn a lot with as little investment as possible, without taking into account how much money they actually spend in total.

I already wrote it before, but to me it seems like ordinary gambling where you put $1 into a slot machine and hope that you will win the jackpot. In their place, I would rather pay the lottery ticket and in case I hit a winning combination, I would have money for the rest of my life(considering how much winnings are on the lotto in the EU).

You are not a beginner, but very likely an alt account and this is a very poor attempt to fish merit - but you reminded me well to leave you feedback

Before you move to some promised "crypto country", I would advise you to learn to read with understanding, because then you might understand what someone wrote. OP is not from Türkiye at all, and I think that is more than clear.

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It's fascinating to see how people react to the word "adaptation" and consider a country desirable because it has a physical crypto exchange, without even asking what the fee is for buying/selling cryptocurrencies in such exchanges. If they paid 5% or more fees, they would quickly stop liking that adaptation.

This looks like a leak of the Ledger database, only with the difference that the images of ATMs users are also included here. If we take into account that ATMs are usually the most expensive way of selling/buying cryptocurrencies, I wonder why all these users agreed to such KYC and did not use some CEX where they should still do KYC, but the fees would be many times less?

Also, considering that the company behind everything went bankrupt, is it possible that they (or one of their employees) actually sold that database?