If you are seeing the current market conditions then you can face loss but having long term approach and faith in btc could recover you from these loss so you can invest in it.But if you get panicked with next dump also even after swapping then you would be at loss again.You are seeing that prices are down now but treat this as an opportunity to get at discounted rates.

CMC stats explains that as of today the price of bitcoin against USD has decreased by 60% from ATH, and etherum is 62%, and this is the realization of your loss if you exchange to fiat or a stable coin.
I don't know the 50% loss you'll get by exchanging the two assets, did you mean the swap fee? Since ETH volatility tends to always follow BTC, I think your loss is only in the range of 2 to 7% if you look at the price history between june-july '21. Or you're willing to write down the details of your calculations.

I would suggest you head over to Tradingview and first have a look at the ETH/BTC chart so that you can make an informed decision on when you would want to sell the ETH for BTC
Look at the higher time frames. Bitcoin usually does better at the beginning of the bull run before ETH takes over later.

I would like to know, in which platform is your ETH staked?

For your privacy and safety reasons, it is better to buy gold bars on physical stores. We may not be from the same country, so my answers may also not be accurate if I give some locations of where you can buy it.

There are tokenized gold. The one that I know of is PAXG. It has a marketcap of $534,238,220 and a good trading volume. Maybe you can buy some of this also. If you have high amount of money, I will recommend you to buy real gold and little of this tokenized gold.

Dear op, i never bought gold online, and never hope to get it via any courier or shipment but my advice for you is to go physically in the shop and buy gold physically.

Because, if you would try to buy online you could easily be scammed but if you buy it physically then you can check the purity of it, if you are buying gold for the very first time then, you should go with someone expert or atleast with those who bought few times.

If you found not experienced companion then you should check for various tips like "things to keep in mind while buying gold" or "tips to buy gold" etc. etc. Once you started to search out you will find more interesting facts about it, and again i suggest you to buy gold from physical store, not from online store.

I've been enjoying the ColdCard, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend one.  The price being roughly twice that of a Trezor One requires an assessment of the ColdCards additional features, and determining if they're worth the value.  That's really a personal decision.  As for an air-gapped hardware wallet, it's been working great for me and I've gotten some use out of the additional seed and private key features.  It's really quite a sophisticated device, despite having some real world flaws.

And you should take the debate about the licensing with a grain of salt as well.  The source code is transparent and available for review, but the licensing prohibits others from profiting from it or using it in a competing device, hence "not open-source."

I've used a few brands of hardware wallets, including both models offered by Trezor, and so far I have to say the ColdCard is my favorite.  I did receive a Foundation Passport a few days ago, but I haven't fired it up yet.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Passport becomes my new favorite, but again one needs to evaluate the value of any wallet he chooses.  My problem is that I have the "collecting" bug, so the more the merrier. 

You shouldn't decide based on 'amount of crap told online'; read what people are actually criticizing and make a judgement, whether they are honest, truthful, justified.
No one device is perfect; ColdCard isn't, either. For example, they pulled out of the open-source community, so nobody is legally allowed to use their code anymore, and some features are unnecessary attack surfaces (NFC, and the ability to enable USB data transfer), as well as lacking a camera that would allow you to securely use it with a phone.
I do find Trezor Model One good value and quality for its price, and on the upper part of the price bracket I like my Passports.

But please read actual reviews and don't base your opinion on 'crap talked'.

The coldcard has a very basic but therefore well done code. This makes it very hard to exploit, but also there is no support for many features that other wallets may have. Especially it is missing the altcoin support and it is just a simple OLED display. Still it gets the job done very well which is the most important feature to me.

Yes, but my point is that you can just use a phone charger or a power bank to power the coldcard. There is no need to ever plug in the coldcard into your computer. Still it is nice that they offer this kind of cable for sale, as some users may have a use case for it.

Forum Member DireWolfM14 has done a very good review on the Mk4 ColdCard.
If you have a look through the OP and some of the discussion, you should get most of your answers.
Personally I’ve never used one , but good luck .
Hope this helps 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405919.20

No, it is not a question is silly. In my country, the government already rolled out its own digital currency/CBDC called e-naira. I do not own any of it. And it is not mandatory to use it for purchase of items. On the other hand, people still buy Bitcoin via P2P as despite the ban on cryptocurrency transactions last year by the government.  I have yet to come across a CBDC owner. So yeah the CBDC and buying bitcoin are two parallels.

CBDC is not going to replace the existing fiat payment systems and you can continue using them to buy bitcoin. Even with CBDC you are still making a payment where the purpose is not defined, it could be for buying groceries or for buying bitcoin.
And as always you can always earn bitcoin since it is a currency after all.

i dont understand why bitcoin has to be just base on people perceive value of it. and for someone to just artrarily fix the supply of them at 21 million doesn't make any sense. it should be able to contract and expand the # of bitcoins in existence. but because bitcoin is design very simplistically it is kind of like monopoly money. not backed up by anything.


i'm not saying bitcoin doesn't do that. but bitcoin has weaknesses. you can't deny that. the main weakness being that it is not backed up by something like gold. gold could then be used to measure the value of bitcoin. and gold has real world use. people wear it. it gets used in all kinds of electronics. bitcoin doesn't get used anywhere for any purpose. it's just imaginary.


ok well, the topic belongs somewhere.

I think this story lacks some context. Firstly, financial context. Are you significantly more well-off than your sister, especially considering that she has to provide for 2 children? If you are (and from other posts it looks like you are), then I think you should buy up and gift the .01 BTC to her on a special occasion (birthday?) or when you can see she's in a hard place and needs a win. If you aren't and she can't set money aside on Bitcoin because she doesn't believe in Bitcoin anymore, then I don't think it matters much, and you can just give her the current hardware wallet. Also, I don't like the whole "I would be keeping custody" thing and giving it years later. It's very patronizing, and also anti-Bitcoin because one should always store one's own keys and rely on nobody else. I'd be mad if someone told me that someone has money for me but would keep control of it and not let me get it for years to come. If she doesn't know and it's a secret, then it's a different story and hodling it for now, so that you can give her much more later when the value grows makes sense.
In any case, you shouldn't push anyone to investing money. Like others pointed out, if she has two kids and can't afford to save up to invest in BTC, she's doing the right and responsible thing by not investing what she can't afford to lose.

I think this story lacks some context. Firstly, financial context. Are you significantly more well-off than your sister, especially considering that she has to provide for 2 children? If you are (and from other posts it looks like you are), then I think you should buy up and gift the .01 BTC to her on a special occasion (birthday?) or when you can see she's in a hard place and needs a win. If you aren't and she can't set money aside on Bitcoin because she doesn't believe in Bitcoin anymore, then I don't think it matters much, and you can just give her the current hardware wallet. Also, I don't like the whole "I would be keeping custody" thing and giving it years later. It's very patronizing, and also anti-Bitcoin because one should always store one's own keys and rely on nobody else. I'd be mad if someone told me that someone has money for me but would keep control of it and not let me get it for years to come. If she doesn't know and it's a secret, then it's a different story and hodling it for now, so that you can give her much more later when the value grows makes sense.
In any case, you shouldn't push anyone to investing money. Like others pointed out, if she has two kids and can't afford to save up to invest in BTC, she's doing the right and responsible thing by not investing what she can't afford to lose.