In my opinion, remote work gives a person more freedom and opportunity. Personally, I hate wasting time more than anything else, I do all sorts of unnecessary things. At the same time, working in the office, it is very difficult to avoid this.

During the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, remote work was the standard. However, now the situation has changed dramatically. Commercial companies are trying to return their employees to offices.

What is the reason for this? In fact, in my opinion, this is due to the arbitrariness of middle managers. It is very important for them to prove their importance to management (otherwise they can simply be fired), and this is very difficult when the employee is not at their workplace in the office. As a result, employee productivity is sacrificed to the ambitions of the middle manager.

In general, there is a basic law - power and control always take precedence over the economy. A middle manager is more likely to bring the company he works for to collapse than to take action that threatens him with the loss of power and influence. This is our reality ...

In my opinion, your problem is that you do not understand the value of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is real money.

You do not rush to get rid of fiat money (dollars, euros, yen, etc.) just because the exchange rate has changed? Why then are you rushing to sell Bitcoin just because its exchange rate against the US dollar has changed?

At the same time, keep in mind that modern fiat money is much worse than the money of past eras. And not only because it is devalued by inflation. Modern fiat money (and especially central bank digital currencies that are being introduced today) do not actually belong to their owners. The regulator, as well as its agents (commercial banks) can easily freeze your fiat money. Moreover, all this will be due to the fight against crime, security requirements, but in fact, your money will simply be stolen from you. As a result, the following situation arises.  You (sort of) still have fiat money, but you no longer have complete and unconditional control over it.

In these circumstances, Bitcoin's value increases because Bitcoin belongs only to you (as long as you control your private keys).

In my experience, willpower and purposeful efforts of will, unfortunately, do not help to get rid of gambling addiction.

Gambling addiction is a very insidious disease (psychological or even mental). However, there is a way out! To get rid of gambling addiction, you need to succumb to another gambling addiction and gradually replace one addiction with another. In this case, this second addiction will be much weaker than the first. And the player has every chance to completely overcome it.🃏

And this path, in my opinion, is much more promising than attempts to completely give up gambling. For example, now I gamble, but I am not obsessed with gambling addiction. Moreover, most likely, I have received a certain immunity from it. And this is very good! I can play for my own pleasure and not be afraid that I will become addicted to gambling.

This is my personal experience. All people are different, so I do not exclude that other people may have everything differently. However, this is how it was for me.

Personally, I am not afraid of bullying and ridicule from others because of my love for gambling. I am an adult, and all my actions and deeds in life are the actions and deeds of an adult who is responsible for them. Therefore, I am not afraid of bullying and ridicule from other people.

At the same time, I value the privacy of my private life very much. I am not obliged to tell everyone what exactly I do in life (in particular, I am not obliged to tell that I gamble). This is my personal business. I believe that I can share this information with someone, and categorically not with someone. There are people I trust more, there are people I trust less. There are people who can understand me in some aspects of my life, and there are people who can understand me in other aspects of my life. And this is normal!

Gambling is my hobby. But I am not obliged to tell everyone around me about my hobby. I believe that anonymity and confidentiality are of great value.🙅

Is the creation of Bitcoin reserves (Bitcoin treasuries) by large companies an outright fraud? In my opinion, this is a difficult question.🤷

I would rather call it a financial experiment. The fact is that Bitcoin is such a complex and multifaceted entity that its true purpose in the financial system of the future world can only be determined by conducting various experiments. At the same time, of course, such experiments can end very badly. However, there is no other way to understand the true nature of Bitcoin. This is an entirely new phenomenon in our world, which can only be studied by trial and error.

In general, this is a more global problem. Previously, the value of any commercial company was determined by its production activities, the benefits it brought to people. Then the emphasis shifted to profit. People everywhere began to believe that the main thing for a commercial organization is to maximize profits, that is, increase revenues and reduce expenses, and the usefulness of the product itself is not so important (after all, there are marketers for this who explain the value of the product to people).

However, over time, everything got even worse.  It is not even the company's profit that has come to the fore, but its capitalization, which directly affects the value of its shares. At the same time, the final product of production, innovations, and so on - all this has become completely unimportant. That is why commercial companies are now accumulating reserves in bitcoins. This is the easiest way to increase the company's capitalization, and at the same time the price of its shares.

Of course, this is an abnormal situation... However, what is left for us, simple crypto enthusiasts? In my opinion, just watch the process and wait for the market to collapse...

To be honest, I don’t like Roger Ver very much.... He used to be called “Bitcoin Jesus” because he was one of the most active Bitcoin evangelists.

However, in late 2017, he went astray, created Bitcoin Cash and almost destroyed the real Bitcoin. At that time, he was in cahoots with Jihan Wu and I remember them spamming the Bitcoin blockchain with small transactions. In October 2017, Bitcoin Cash was the second largest cryptocurrency on Coinmarketcap and its value was half of Bitcoin…

However, now I sympathize with Roger Ver. After all, he did not kill, rape or commit other particularly serious crimes. Maybe if he just owned Bitcoin, none of this would have happened. However, he thought that if he could manipulate coins like Dash or Bitcoin Cash, it means he is a shark - a business and a great businessman.

However, he was wrong.  Modern Wall Street and government Washington is an ocean where huge sharks swim, compared to which Roger Ver is just a small dolphin. He was eaten by stronger and more predatory individuals, and now he is in prison. And it is not a fact that he will get out.

To be honest, I don’t get much excitement when gambling. I guess I’m just not a very gambling person.

I had a period when I was very gambling and played roulette in a physical offline casino. Because of this, I developed a gambling addiction. And then, after some time, I managed to get rid of it. This whole story most likely led to me acquiring a certain immunity to gambling addiction.

After all, there are many sorrows and joys in life that give very strong emotions. Therefore, in my opinion, you shouldn’t worry too much when gambling. Losing money is not that scary (compared to losing your health or life). For me, gambling is more like a simulator on which you can pump up certain personal qualities. And when we train, we very rarely worry and experience any strong emotions.

Or maybe I’m just a very conservative and cautious person, and accordingly I don’t gamble with amounts of money that are too significant for me.

In my opinion, the only effective remedy for gambling addiction is a bright and interesting lifestyle. Gambling should not take the leading place in your life. It should include sex, travel, adventures, meetings with friends, sports, physical activity, communication with nature, perhaps even extreme sports.

Your brain should constantly develop, your neural connections should be constantly updated. And for this, you need to break patterns, do unusual things for you and start living every day with a “clean slate”.

Then, in my opinion, no gambling addiction will be scary for you. Gambling addiction usually occurs when a person has a boring and dull life. When there are far fewer holidays in his life than weekdays.

And if a person has many different activities and hobbies, if gambling is only one of his daily activities, what is the probability that he will develop a gambling addiction? This probability is almost zero! At the same time, it does not matter how many times a day he plays and what amounts of money he loses or wins.

Of course, if I had a friend who bets on sports and always wins, I would (gladly) get acquainted with his tactics and strategy of the game.

And I would use this knowledge in practice... Of course, provided that he agrees to share such important and exclusive information with me.

This is, in fact, the simplest and most effective life strategy. Find a successful person and use his experience. It is much easier than using the "trial and error" method.

However, in reality, I do not have such a friend. Most of my friends either do not succeed in sports betting, or perhaps achieve success, but do not brag about it.

Yes, I agree with you. Skills and abilities are very important in trading, as well as such a quality as “long-term observation of cryptocurrency price dynamics”. The more bear and bull cycles you have experienced, the more “long-term observation of cryptocurrency price dynamics” you have.

In 2011-2013, it was very difficult to realize that Bitcoin is a digital asset that will grow over time. It was not even clear then whether this asset would be able to survive in the future (after all, many great projects have failed). In addition, if a person has the beliefs and mentality of a trader, it is difficult for him not to trade. He is convinced: “You need to trade any asset that has a price. I do not care whether the price rises or falls, I will still make a profit, because I am a professional trader!”

In relation to Bitcoin, the best trading strategy was HODL, but in 2011-2013, it was difficult to realize this. 

As for using leverage in trading, it is simply insane when it comes to cryptocurrency trading. The volatility of cryptocurrencies is so high that using leverage is death for the deposit.

In my opinion, turning $100 (0.001 BTC) into a really significant amount of money through trading requires a lot of effort. It may also require a lot of luck. Do you consider yourself a lucky person?

When it comes to storing bitcoins, this strategy usually works on large sums. After all, even if the price of bitcoin reaches $1,000,000, your deposit will only grow to $1,000. And this is not the amount that can significantly change your life.

Of course, you can try using the following trading tactic - selling the first cryptocurrency at price peaks and buying it back during corrections. But how are you going to distinguish periods of bitcoin price growth from periods of its decline? Looking back, commenting on past events, this is easy to do. You can always give an explanation for events that have already happened. However, traders' forecasts regarding future events, as a rule, very often turn out to be wrong. If everything were different, all traders would be rich and wealthy people.  But it is not so....

Nevertheless, I welcome your experiment in every way. And I wish you good luck and success!

I believe that if a person is 18 years old, then he is already an adult. In my opinion, the worst (of all possible) attitude towards an adult is to try to treat him like a small child. Strictly speaking, this is a serious insult to such a person!

When government officials, justifying this by security requirements, introduce new bans and restrictions (including on gambling), they thereby demonstrate a sense of pride and inner superiority. They seem to say: "We are wise and adult people, and you are childish and stupid, so we introduce bans and restrictions on gambling, because you yourself are not able to cope with the problems that arise during the game!"

However, an adult differs from a child in that he is able to solve problems that arise in the course of his adult life. Gambling is a very serious and complex entity, combining such basic powerful entities as Chaos, Luck and Destiny.  It is very important for any person to interact with these basic entities (and draw the appropriate conclusions).

This is necessary for personal development. And gambling allows you to do this easily and quite painlessly.

The modern financial system was originally designed in such a way that all financial problems (including high inflation) would be exported from the US and other developed countries to developing countries (i.e. the so-called Third World countries). If you look at previous financial crises (for example, the 1998 crisis, the 2008 crisis, or the COVID-19 financial crisis), developing countries have always suffered much more than the US. Because this is how the modern financial system, based on a strong US dollar, is designed.

The global financial system is currently entering a period of radical transformation. However, the global elites are faced with the task of ensuring that the very essence of economic relations between the US and the rest of the world does not change.

The US administration, in particular, Donald Trump's associates, have abandoned the implementation of central bank digital currencies, but this does not mean that they have abandoned the very idea of ​​a digital dollar. A digital dollar will still be created - and these will be centralized, regulated stablecoins.  These stablecoins (according to the law) will be backed by US dollars in cash, US dollar-denominated commercial bank deposits, and US Treasury bonds. Thus, every person on planet Earth who buys US stablecoins (a very convenient financial payment instrument, by the way) will be buying US government debt.

Thus, the US has solved the problem of its huge government debt! Moreover, they are still ready to export financial problems to other countries, thereby protecting their own economic interests.

Modern financiers are simply omnipotent magicians and wizards! The omnipotent Voldemort is just a pathetic worm in comparison!🤹

No, personally, when I bet on sports, I don’t look at other players’ bets. First of all, because I don’t know how to use this information to increase my chances of winning.

What can information about other players’ bets give me? Can I be sure that these players are more informed and smarter than me? In my opinion, in order to be successful, it makes sense to copy the gaming strategies of only the best players. And in this situation, it is almost impossible to distinguish the best players from the mediocre ones. At least, I don’t know how to do it.

At the same time, I know the main rule of cryptocurrency trading - the market very often goes against the crowd. Therefore, when I bet on sports, I rely solely on my own analysis and my intuition.

In this situation, information about other players’ bets can only prevent me from making the right decision (or, more precisely, the decision that I personally consider right).

Yes, Satoshi Nakamoto has compared Bitcoin and gold several times in his posts on our Bitcointalk forum. From this I conclude that this analogy was important to him. Miners mine Bitcoin in the same way that people mine precious metals in underground mines. Bitcoin, like gold, is very difficult to mine. When demand for Bitcoin increases, supply cannot increase as well (this was originally intended). As a result, Bitcoin is a very scarce resource, which is not without reason called "digital gold".

At the same time, Bitcoin is a protocol for transferring value in virtual space. The disadvantage of gold is that it is a tangible asset that is very difficult to transport over long distances. In addition, auditing gold reserves is a very difficult task (in history, there have been many cases where gold bars were replaced with specially colored bars made of much cheaper metals). Bitcoin does not have these drawbacks!

That is why, in my opinion, Bitcoin is much more promising as a reserve asset than gold. However, it is very important that the first cryptocurrency retains its decentralization in the future, so that it does not become a purely American asset...

Therefore, I hope that other countries will also actively buy and mine Bitcoin, and create Bitcoin reserves.

The argument itself – that bookmakers do not fix matches because they already make a lot of profit – is not convincing enough in my opinion...

The profit is never so big that you don’t want to make more. It is quite possible that some bookmakers need the patronage of corrupt law enforcement agencies to continue their business. And that is why they need fixed matches – it will allow them to pay large bribes to representatives of corrupt law enforcement agencies (the so-called werewolves in uniform).

In my opinion, if sporting events are controlled by organized crime (and in some situations this is most likely the case), then fixed matches most likely do exist.

Another thing is that, in my opinion, they are much less common in practice than many people think. Most sporting events are honest competitive competitions.

In 2017, the cryptocurrency market was like the Wild West. We are all, to some extent, the heirs of gold miners from the Klondike and El Dorado fields. We were as reckless and gambling as they were.

2017 was a fun time when people made huge amounts of money in the cryptocurrency market (and lost it just as easily).

I myself did not play in online casinos back then. However, if I had gambled then, I would probably have lost a huge amount of valuable cryptocurrency (the same Bitcoin). And the fact that I did not gamble then did not save me from quite large monetary losses due to my own stupidity. However, there is nothing shameful in this. Who can boast that he was a wise and cold-blooded person in 2017?  I think few people can boast of this...

Perhaps the owners of the FreeBitco online gambling platform were wise people and managed to keep the Bitcoins they received until now. Then, we can assume that they are now enjoying their wealth.

And I remember the bear market of 2018 - 2019. Then the price of Bitcoin was very low and people really perceived the first cryptocurrency as bad money (unlike fiat money), which is not a pity to lose in gambling. I believe that such cognitive distortions of the human psyche should be treated with indulgence. We all do stupid things that we later regret a lot.

In my opinion, Bitcoin is a very worthy alternative to commercial banks. For example, let's ask ourselves, why do we need commercial banks at all? One of the popular functions of a commercial bank is to store funds. At the same time, such storage of funds should not be accompanied by their depreciation due to inflation. Commercial banks offer clients deposit accounts with interest payments on the deposit. However, in most cases, the interest paid by the client does not cover the inflation rate in the country (at present, in my own country, this is not quite true - but that's not the point).

I will note one more circumstance ... Most countries are now planning to introduce central bank digital currencies, and they do not provide for deposits with interest accrual. Therefore, in my opinion, now is the time to remember Bitcoin. When you store Bitcoin yourself, your capital is constantly growing over time, though not due to interest payments, but due to the growth in the price of the first cryptocurrency.

The second, also very important function of commercial banks is cross-border transfers.  And, at present, this is a big problem for most banks. Just remember the compliance procedure. Or the blocking of funds. Or international economic sanctions, and so on...

With Bitcoin, everything is much simpler! Transactions in the Bitcoin network are not censored. You can make transnational transactions by paying small commission amounts. It is easy and convenient!

На мой взгляд, компания Strategy скорее всего переживёт медвежку. А вот её многочисленные последователи - не факт. И конечно это будет создавать дополнительную панику на рынке, когда такие гиганты будут скидывать свои запасы Биткоинов. А у Strategy, если у них действительно средняя цена закупки 73.000 долларов США, то это очень хорошая задел на то, чтобы пережить слкдующую медвежку. Они скорее всего, не окажутся под водой, а если и окажутся, то на пару-тройку дней максимум. А так, они скорее всего постоянно будут в прибыле теперь.

Другое дело, что их финансовая устойчивость скорее всего определяются другим способом, с учётом выпущенных акций и облигаций. Чтобы быть финансово устойчивыми им нужно, чтобы их доходы превышали их расходы, а расходы в их случае - это всякие налоги, выплаты по облигациям, дивиденды по акциям (если они их платят). Мне кажется, что Майкл Сейлор всё грамотно посчитал в этом отношении (а вот относительно его последователей я бы не был так уверен, они, получается, используют более рискованные стратегии).

Но главное, непонятно, что будет дальше с рынком и к какой глобальной цели стремится Майкл Сейлор? Что он собственно хочет?

Стать самым крупным Биткоин-банком на планете Земля? А ФРС ему это позволит? Или они конфискуют его Биткоины со временем, как в своё время сделали с золотом? Тут есть над чем пофантазировать....

Люди просто живут, не думая о жизни и смерти, но когда, они напрямую сталкиваются с этими явлениями, то всё остальное отходит на дальний план. И ничего уже тратить не жалко. Какой смысл копить сатоши, если завтра тебя возможно уже не будет в этом мире?

Когда речь идёт о таких вещах, как жизнь и смерть, даже такая мощная сущность, как bitcoin кажется смешной и не очень серьезной. Не говоря уже о каких-то шитках. И тебе в голову не придёт беречь какие-то сатоши несчастные, определять несгораемую часть и так далее. Просто тратишь по факту и всё. Кроме жизни и смерти ничего нет, на самом деле, всё остальное имеет смысл, только когда эти экзистенциальные сущности немножко отступают и ослабляют свою хватку на твоём горле. На каком то этапе все люди это понимают, хотя, пока человек живёт размеренной спокойной жизнью это кажется ему чушью, потому что человек находится в огромной оболочке привычных действий, мыслей, взаимодействий. Хорошая спокойная защитная оболочка, очень хорошо сохраняет психологическое спокойствие.... Только не слишком прочная.

(Извини за лирическое отступление, просто я хочу объяснить, что это все не вопрос веры или виденья, это вопрос реальности и взаимодействия с ней)

Bitcoin максималисты это просто термин, за которым можно скрыть суть вещей. Везде по тексту можно заменить слово Биткоин - максималист на разумный человек и тогда смысла будет больше.

Относительно применения концепции DCA относительно альтов, касательно Солана или XRP - это типичная ошибка выжившего. Чтобы это понять, достаточно взять любой отчёт Messari за прошлые года, там можно и про Аваланч, прочитать и про Луну, и про TON, и вообще там полно названий различных криптовалют. И авторы гадают какие именно из инновационных блокчейнов окажут достойную конкуренцию Эфиру, и что будет самим Эфиром, и каким образом, каким путём пойдёт эволюция криптовалют, кто выживет, кто не выживет, кто покажет себя наиболее эффективным...

И если бы ты отправился в прошлое недалекое, и вооружившись этим отчётом попытался закупить монет для DCA, вполне возможно  что купил бы не те монеты, которые растут именно сейчас, именно сегодня. Потому что рост сегодняшних монет - это ошибка выжившего. А вот рост Биткоина - это закономерность.