Do you mean trading in Bitcoin only and its relatively low volatility to net some profit? Not much but at worst, you can become its holder and bet on the long-term profit. Typical most traders' portfolios have the majority in Bitcoin like that and a small percentage in the other high volatility alts. This is a normal thing so don't worry about that or try to split your Bitcoin bag into smaller alts if you don't feel comfortable enough.

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What a shame. Almost thought I was in but uswa56 beat me to it in the queue of Full Member with earned merits. If only you would close it earlier, not just one hour, at 09:50:10 AM after uswa56 posted at 08:33:33 AM. Truly unfortunate.

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No manipulation this time dude, just people fearmonger over the FED hint of interest rate hikes continuing. They must saw many countries in the EU showing a record high inflation rate recently. Implying FED interest rate hikes will soon pick up to fight it too. I guess many who have bought BTC at below $20k now cashing out since it was a decent profit after all. And with the FED hint just like that, why would you keep holding, right? All seem very sensible, not seeing why you think it was "the manipulation" here.
btw, the $23k resistance is not a real resistance in my definition. How long BTC has been over this resistance price? Since 10/08/2022? Just for 10 days. And you think it was a resistance price? Any time it comes close to but turns back with a strong push? See how it shouldn't be considered as a resistance price and why it was broken?

All talks about future trade, oil priced in, oil price are driven by speculation from summer trips,... I'm not buying it! The oil cartel just wants to drive the oil price back to high again and justify it with their trade bullshit. We're fucked as this is the summer price. If back to fall/winter, coal along with natural gas will both be in demand. Oil can follow with mark-up price based on the baseline right now.

Despite the economy is in a shabby situation. China doesn't use as much oil as before, with no domestic tours in a country with a population of 1,4 billion. God, the oil cartel truly got everyone in their string.

Casemiro seems like the best out there compared to De Jong or Antony who both asked for a lot of money. 80 million for Antony, can you believe it? Erik ten Hag doesn't know how to pick up a good player so. For example, he bought Lisandro Martinez for 50-60 million but I haven't seen Lisandro Martinez show any worth. Casemiro at least seem will give the needed change for Manchester United's midfield. Manchester United can't afford for making a profit from transferring players. They need to show a good result right now or Erik ten Hag will be out and Manchester United back to the old uninspired self.

I'd never invest in a meme coin after it has gone to the mass, exposed, and become popular already. No, it seems like a stupid move to me to invest in a meme coin that late. Cause from that point, a meme coin can't go any far since it doesn't have anything to be considered as 'the holy grail' of crypto. Trends like decentralizing, dapp, smart contract,... nothing.

It was the POW miner's fud. They think after the POS rollout, ETH will lose its momentum and crash back to below $1000 again. Lol in their wildest dream. Newbie investors easily fall for fud, especially fud that comes from the miner.

There might be a slight correction for ETH post-Merge but to crash back below $1000 or at $600 is insane. Doesn't carry any merit at all!

Do you have the latest data up to July? Cause this is already in everyone's expectations. The rush of new projects on the ETH smart contract slows down since ETH's price keep increasing in the last years. ETH ATH in Oct-Nov 2021 which we can see a massive cut-off from before there that. BNB, Sol, Matic,... greatly benefit from ETH's expensive transaction gas gwei. This is a reason why I support PoS cause after that, ETH will start to address the fees problem.

The deal with De Jong fell through because of the high price which De Jong asked for 85 million while Man United can only pay at best for 75 million. All thanks to the panic buy from the Man United that some players want to squeeze more to get their signing on the Man United. Erik Ten Hag understood quite well the full of hole midfielder so of course, he wants to patch that first. If not De Jong then Casemiro. Casemiro seems old but he's reliable for the midfielder role.

Agree, the smartphone today can be as cheap as $25-50 for a very basic spec but can still work with any wallet provide there is a lite version typical made for transactions only. I think there are programs where manufacturers and telecom even 'sponsor' free smartphones for poor people to help them stay connected with the government to receive critical information. Especially in the rural region where floods, typhoons, volcano eruptions,... natural disasters happen annually.

So we got the hardware problem sort of. Next would be the internet fee which I think is even more challenging than minimum fees and withdrawals. Because for minimum fees and withdrawals fees, we can add some protocol where miners doing 'charity works' or community rigs only add specific txid from users/accounts come from that rural region. Same for exchange, try to get them to make a whitelist for those users/accounts too.

Free internet to maintain 24/7 connection for that rural region, now this is a problem. How about this: We get Elon Musk with his Starlink satellite internet to provide free coverage in that rural region zone, promise a good free press for him and his Starlink program as a return, more boost for him in the crypto world. What do you guys think?

The US isn't that vulnerable to the high debt-to-GDP ratio since the petrol dollar and dollar as the main currency for world trade, main in foreign reserves of many countries. Same with Japan cause they are the world's biggest creditor, and fund their money to oversea under ADB's loans to developing countries. US and Japan will be fine.
China? Not so much since they have had the real-estate bubble problem for years but never address it. The covid pandemic last year affect the whole world and this somehow take a toll on China's real-estate bubble. Forced their central government to tighten the bank's interest rate for the construction sector, housing, mortgage,... you name it. Oddly similar to the US's montage crisis in 2007-2008.

Worse, you wasted their bandwidth data so they were with the net loss, not you! Take that shitty unethical journalism site. I know the server's bandwidth nowadays is dirt cheap but if only 100% of users clicked on that article come with ad block like you, the site would be at the net loss.
Not sure but a change in Microstrategy recently where Phong Le succeeded Saylor as CEO implies they might start to abandon their 'old core' around Micheal Saylor's beliefs. Perhaps a more pragmatic approach even though Phong Le reiterated the same thing as Micheal Saylor, about HODL Bitcoin under his watch as well.

This one is interesting: When a fan asked Real Madrid to re-sign superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, President Florentino Perez immediately refused. "Signing with Ronaldo again?", Perez turned around and said to the fans. "He (Ronaldo) is 38 years old."
It seems like President Florentino Perez forgot about Modric that was around 37-38 years old but still kicking in La Liga well. Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in the top 3 of the Premier League. I think Cristiano Ronaldo deserves a chance at La Liga and President Florentino Perez shouldn't dismiss him like that, citing him as too old in a response to fans.

Again with the comparison of BTC and Gold. It's like comparing apple to orange. Both have their own use and I don't see why they can't be on the same page. Gold for physical storage, peg fiat, in jewelry, in electrical components,... Did you know your computer can be extracted for a little of gold worth? Can BTC replace that? What next? Oil?

I think that you need to make sure there were high-tier alts and low-tier alts. Never looks all of them the same as alts. From that point of view, divide your investment fund properly into the majority at high tier atls and the minority at low tier alts. Even in the bear market time, I'd only dare put my fund in good and high-tier alts.

Nah, you haven't seen the trading discussion threads during the bear market. Plenty of people advise don't DCA or buy into the altcoins dip because if BTC went down, altcoins drop even further. Most agree you should stay at top altcoins like ETH, BNB,... and BTC. They're far better to have for you against the bear market downturn.

Definitely not over yet. CPI at 8.5% is a good number for the short term but for the long term, there are still many risks in play. China's covid lockdown is very unpredictable. I think if you got any of the cryptos for cheap from the crash, cashing out a part of it if it was green seems like a sensible choice.

What surprised me the most was the attitude of Barcelona fans towards this incident which was from Barcelona leadership. They should have spoken out against the way the De Jong case was handled to protect the Barcelona image. But they silently supported the Barcelona leadership and even hassled De Jong, telling him to lower his salary. Is this how Barcelona going to apply pressure on their players from now on? Lower your salary or goes? Will this hurt their reputation for any new contract signed under Barcelona?