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1  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: Today at 08:48:54 AM
Investing in the DCA method is safer than investing a large sum at a time and it reduces mental stress. The DCA method is more effective for ordinary people who have limited monthly income and limited risk-taking capacity. Here they can gradually build a significant portfolio by continuing to invest small amounts. And in this way they move forward on the path to financial freedom in the long term.
DCA method isn't about safety but about the quantity of discretionary income at your disposal as an investor. If you've a large discretionary income available at the point you want to invest, then you can go ahead and lump sum and it's still financially safe. DCA provides a slow and steady approach to investing into Bitcoin and even when using DCA, if you're over aggressive in DCAing, you would not be too safe as you may not able to sustain it for long.
DCA method is typically made for people to be able to invest in bitcoin regardless of their financial strength and mostly for people who could barely have something left as discretionary funds because this method helps you buy and hold regardless of the price and condition of the market.
2  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Avoid buying Bitcoin from someone all because you know them. on: September 20, 2025, 05:49:20 AM
Is there any local news that talked about it? I will like to read from a site about it.

This is very possible.

But the reason I do not like face to face sales of bitcoin is that it can lead to physical attack. We have read on different news about different people that were physically attack all because those that attacked them know that they have bitcoin. Attack can come from anywhere, even from someone that you will not expect.
News like this are supposed to be published and I would really love to read more about it if there is already a post about it online.
Since you witnessed it live, there might be possibilities that you not even know which platform it was posted but incase you see, please share it with us.

Just as @charles-Tim already said, the only reason I will not trade with someone physically is because of an attack else I will scrutinize the hell out of you if you want to buy from me physically because I know that, I will definitely point you to exchanges where you can easily buy which I know there are handful of them.

And the case with the 25years old guy was want to make abnormal profit even when there were clear red flags and I trust our police, they will make the whole case seem like it was a money heist case😔

I hope we all learn from incidences like this and try to stay very safe in the industry
3  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: September 20, 2025, 05:28:12 AM
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some people are just venturing into bitcoin investment without the Basic tools, and once you go into bitcoin investment without gathering some informations about how it works you will just be fucking around doing unnecessary things like market monitoring wasting time and later end up achieving nothing.
An investor does not need to know much before investing in Bitcoin. If he has the ability to invest for the long term, especially if he has a prudent income facility, then he can start his investment. Sometimes, spending too much time trying to acquire knowledge can exceed the limits of buying bitcoin. So if someone regularly collects Bitcoins according to his ability by doing DCA and at the same time he acquires knowledge about Bitcoin, then he will not panic. In the future, he will try to collect more Bitcoins. But when an investor tries to learn about Bitcoin without buying it, during that time, if Bitcoin temporarily falls, it can bring a big panic for him. That is why the step of buying Bitcoin should be taken first, after which a better idea about Bitcoin can be obtained.
Your points are not bad but from my perspective, as a new investor who truly wants to invest and hold for a longer period of time, then what is needed is a basic knowledge of which wallet is best, how to buy and how best to hold what is already acquired while trying to learn other important things in crypto.
It is not nice that we have the money at hand and instead of buying, we want to becomes guru in knowledge before acquiring and you already know what that means that, you will definitely miss out all the ride bitcoin had to offer those period while watching and trying to gather all the knowledge.
It is very much possible to accumulate and hold while we’re trying to learn and by so doing, we are using one single stone to kill two bird, those are the kind of privileges bitcoin and cryptocurrency offers.
4  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Has anyone ever had luck recovering an old wallet? on: September 18, 2025, 05:57:56 AM
I've personally got a blockchain wallet from 2014 that I'm locked out of.

Don't know how much is in there.

Has anyone here had luck recovering old/lost wallets? If so how much was in there?

I've tried various passwords over the years but no luck.


If this is not a fun post, you should probably be more concerned about wanting to recover your wallet than concerned about how much is in the wallet of the next person, and just incase you do not know that, people wouldn’t want to disclose how much they hold in their wallet to anyone so you should probably take some chill pill and be worried more over how to recover your wallet safely.
For the record, they have been people or companies that offer wallet recovery services and one of them I’ve seen lately is the keychainx, don’t know if I got the name right but they are into wallet recovery and I don’t think they charge so much and in one of their post, they made mentioned of helping to recover a wallet with small amount for free but they charge around 10 to 20 percent, depending on how much you have in your wallet.

Dont reply to any DMs that are sent to you, someone claiming to help you for free. Don't send your encrypted wallet to anyone except a wallet recovery service. If you search this forum you will find a few of those services.

Even if it is a wallet recovery service, always do a whole lot of research about their services, check their trust feedback, verify their website and make sure you are talking to the right people, they internet and scammers can be really crazy at times.

Goodluck
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Does intent matter? on: September 16, 2025, 07:49:35 PM

I would say yes. If your intent is to keep up with the trends and make easy money then you are most likely to give up immediately and be attacked by FUD easily. But if you truly believe in bitcoin and its fundamental characteristics then you can stick with it against the bear market.
One might still be following others and be doing the right thing and at the long run, what truly fuels zeal and determination is result, the moment we are getting results on our works and investments, it gives more urge to want to do more and continue with what we’re doing.
Personally, I am on the motive that, one can believe so much in bitcoin and still not be able to invest in it while some other might just be casually buying and stacking up just by following threads and end up having a good portfolio at the end of the da, what matters in investing is that, we have the capital and doing the right time by investing at every opportunity we get.
6  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: July 28, 2025, 12:02:57 AM
Sitting idly and waiting for dips to happen before you buy Bitcoin is a bad practice that should be discouraged by all because it has made a lot of people to miss buying Bitcoin at decent prices instead jumped in when then felt price was leaving them behind with some ending up in problems. The only condition I will support someone keeping some funds for dips is when the person is using a hybrid system of DCA combined with buying the dips, This way you can keep the DCA ongoing while allocating some funds for buying the dips so that you will not miss your chances of getting Bitcoin at any market condition. Apart from this, I will always go with the DCA method which is easier to use for everyone.
Some people just initiate the habit of procrastinatiion and tag it that they are waiting for the dip not knowing that they are indirectly doing their bad, this habit is always common with newbies,

On the contrary, these ideas are not common amongst just the newbies but also with some persons who have known and been with bitcoin over some time.
I believe there are several other reasons why one might not be able to buy bitcoin at a particular time but one easy thing to do is simply blame it on waiting for the dip and for the few years I’ve been in the crypto space, I have also realized that, bitcoin can’t be easily predicted that’s why we only speculate and one reason the DCA method has been invoked all these while is simply because it supports the principle of speculations and gives room for people to buy bitcoin at anytime regardless of the market price.
7  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: July 13, 2025, 02:31:08 AM
We had plenty of time, say since 2015 if they were earlier, or since 2017 when the Bitcoin hype was all over the world. We had plenty of time to buy Bitcoin for half a decade and accumulate it at a low price. But what did we do then?

While most of us bought Bitcoin at that time, most of us also made mistakes. Mistakes are the best teachers, and we shouldn't repeat the same mistakes.

Now that Bitcoin is trading at its highest price, who wouldn't be happy? Certainly, all holders are happy and hope the price continues to rise to $150,000.
The only people who wouldn’t be happy are those waiters and traders who were waiting for a further dip and failed to capitalise on the opportunity at hand, for them bitcoin has disappointed them but it’s actually they who disappointed their investment.  Also those traders who went short expecting a decline and maybe that no coiner somewhere waiting for a lump sum to invest or waiting to build an emergency funds first before investing, also that investor who sold @$106k…..
These are the people who I think are at loss atleast for now, surely this people will regret but since bitcoin has proven them wrong they’ll have to follow bitcoin in the current ride by investing now and holding for long term so they wouldn’t say “had I known” twice
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency at large are two edge sword and one thing is certain, is either you are losing or you are gaining, the coin is solely dependent on the investor.
We don’t have to start talking about the price of bitcoin as at 2015, because all this incidence made up for today’s glory and if you’re to talk about past incidence. Then the pizza story should have made the guys felt extremely bad but trust, me all those stories gave rise to the glory present glory of today.

Rather than feel bad of the past, we should look to future so you and start holding no matter how little it is
8  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: KeychainX - Crypto Wallet Recovery Services since 2017 on: July 11, 2025, 04:20:50 PM
They should make themselves available here though, however little an information from them will go a long way, granted, it still makes sense to write up their email address for any pressing issue especially if you need their services right now, I don't know why they are not making any form of information available here yet and it is becoming a bit of a bother, still though there is a good chance that we will be getting a reply from the OP or any other representative anytime soon.
I think there email is available although I don't know if am they have a different email for complaints unless mistaking but all this you mentioned here are needed, i don't know if they have been able to respond to the several question asked here, before needing services, I think there should be response from them first, although you are right, there have been some suggestions by many users here ranging from what they can do to gain trust and visibility for people to know how their services is and also for trust to be initiated between them and potential clients.
I think they responded just first few days but we haven’t heard from them again and that’s a course for concern because I do agree with you guys that, at this point, they need to come and answer to some questions asked here so that the people can get the desired clarity needed rather than just keeping mute.

I believe a lot of us recently got to know about this service and to be very truthful, the service is a good one and if they are truly genuine as they claim, then I think the issue with forgotten wallet access wouldn’t be much an issue again.
9  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Old Multibit Classic & Schildbach Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services on: July 10, 2025, 10:19:32 AM
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Trust be told that, publications don’t start and end with the forum but since it’s a bitcoin and cryptocurrency related issue, then the forum is absolutely suppose to be one of their greatest tool to publication.
With all these been said, I don’t know why they did not get all the trust they needed to grow their business considering how long they have been in existence and maybe they did not gain popularity on the forum but I think they did outside because their trustpilot review has more of positive reviews than the negative one.
I don't seem to understand your point about them building their trust over the years. Are you suggesting that they have been distrust by a forum member, at least a reputable one? I don't think that is the case here because I have not see where they are distrusted. My only interested is for there to be some verifiable data to support what they propose followed by active communication by their representative in the forum as well as other channels of communication they might have.
I never said they were distrusted by any forum member and I am sure you got me absolutely wrong, what I simply mean is that, considering how long they have been on the forum with sure a very relevant service, they ought to have gotten all the good and relevant recognition they needed but it seems they are not even well known on the forum and it might be or it will be challenging for them to gain trust easily now.

I also said that, maybe they might have gotten some sort of recognition outside of the forum for them to have gotten some good trustpilot reviews, so I think you should reread please.
10  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Old blockchain.info wallet from 2014 and before -16,17,19 words precovery phrase on: July 09, 2025, 06:20:00 PM
My no.1 rules in matters like this is, dont trust anyone who will come to your Dm offering to render you such services. DYOR before choosing any service by checking if they are legal or have any legal partnership with a reliable exchange.

Trust will get you killed in this kind of situation you have to mind the information you give out as the information you give out to the wrong person can be used to steal from you in the process of a scammer trying to help you, doing your own personal research is advised to avoid falling into wrong hands. If you get personal a messages from someone offering you help in this regard before accepting to explain yourself to the person be sure to have done a good background check about the geniuness of the person and whatever you do should be documented so that if there are issues along the line in the business you can pursue a legal case to get back your money if you had already paid for the services.

No one is to be trusted in the digital space not when scam is becoming a norm and I’ve read some comments where people were  advised to stay very careful while dealing with cases like because so they don’t end up getting scammed more while trying to recover their losses and i am curious to know the mode of payment for these service because personally i will not be comfortable paying for a service im not certain will be able to truly recover my wallet and i think for them to gain the needed trust, then payment should only be from the recover funds and i think they said a 20% fee is what they charge, then it should be from the funds they will recover else scammer will steal the show from them and make their work even more difficult for them.
11  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Old Multibit Classic & Schildbach Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services on: July 09, 2025, 03:37:58 PM
From the official site, https://keychainx.io I read how it was founded by some group of friends that helped a friend recovered 150 ETH from a ledger device he lost access to and what amazed me is how the funds was recovered in space of 2 nights, I find that very interesting but not very convinced which leads to my question which is, have the company created any form of advertisement here like a Sig campaign or so to create more awareness and spread to other boards where newbies and other members would get to notice them. If no, why haven't they done that yet? It's stated in the site that it's the oldest company of it's kind and coupled with the kind of skill the founders claim to have, i think it's supposed to be well recognised in the forum.
Trust be told that, publications don’t start and end with the forum but since it’s a bitcoin and cryptocurrency related issue, then the forum is absolutely suppose to be one of their greatest tool to publication.
With all these been said, I don’t know why they did not get all the trust they needed to grow their business considering how long they have been in existence and maybe they did not gain popularity on the forum but I think they did outside because their trustpilot review has more of positive reviews than the negative one.
12  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: Do we have hope for a better change in Nigeria? on: July 09, 2025, 06:47:39 AM
Some time I wonder where my country is going because th e hope we keep dreaming of is not forthcoming, years in years out we keep voting vultures instead of angels and the keep devouring and eating our flesh for their survival only. Nigeria is very big and blessed but the suffering masses is getting harder and higher. Many people are suggesting the east president, will this actually make a desirable change or what is the hope of the country, each day I walk out of the shore street of Nigeria I return home with tears feeling people's pain getting bigger than mine. Youths need help from this vultures call leaders.
Are there truly angels in Nigeria?
I doubt this because even those you see as angel might just be wolves in sheep’s clothing and we never can tell because it’s never written on the face.
Some times I Dey think say na the seat be the problem and not just the person because these very tinibu na same person wey been build Lagos state aggressively even when there was no allocation to the state, how come the country Dey bleed when na him hold the highest power in the country?

Just to refresh your memory that Nigeria had been tagged one of the worst places to live in and I think it’s second to last place to live in recent times and I still have to wonder the condition of the country behind us that has made them occupy such position despite the harsh conditions we face here.

The government has proven to us over the years that, our votes and opinions don’t matter and if you’ve checked the recent happenings in rivers state, you’ll understand that we citizens also contribute to the problems we face in the country and at this point, all we have to do is pray for a selfless leader like the case with the military government in our sister country,
13  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Old Multibit Classic & Schildbach Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services on: July 07, 2025, 05:12:34 AM
...KeychainX has been helping recover Bitcoin wallets since 2017. You can read more at keychainx.medium.com or keychainx.io.

From the site on keychainx.io, i came across a statement the company made over there that to recover bitcoin from damaged phones that they'll need access to the phone and that clients would need to ship it to one of their labs in Europe, well I would've bothered about trust since one is giving out access to their device containing informations to a distance location but i saw where they mentioned that they have top score on Trustpilot with over 130 5 stars trust pilots so it made me calm concerning trust issues, but then I want to know if their plan concerning having a lab in Africa in the future since I didn't see any African countries in the list of countries where their lab is located, they should consider the cost of transportation, shipping from Africa down to Europe when they can have branches here in Africa to make it easier for Africans and save cost of shipment.
I agree with you that, they need a lab in Africa because their service is indeed a needed one and I’m sure a lot of people from Africa might not be able to benefit directly from this your service if they have to ship their devices down to you for recovery and most time, you’ll be agree with me that shipping intercontinentally are always expensive and you should possibly work on the possibility of doing this service without demanding the device the asset was it(my opinion)
14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: LOST PASSWORD to your JSON file service on: July 05, 2025, 09:01:15 PM
Most people including myself are just getting to hear about this keychainx for the very first time, so am just curious, can I be able to retrieve my asset back from my wallet if I can be able produce the lost wallet address?
You need some kind of info

Email address
Json encrypted backup
Wallet ID

What info do yoy have?

/KX
There is a scam that a friend experienced in the past which is address poisoning, as I later found out. The money is still sitting in the scammer's wallet and visible through blockchain explore. I want to ask if there is anything you can do to recover such fund. I understand it may be a lot of work for you or anyone and I don't even know if such cases are within the scope of your services.
I don’t think it will be possible to get access into someone else’s wallet without their consent, that will be tagged stealing and if it’s possible, then it’s not longer recovering but now hacking and stealing and I’m just they wouldn’t  want to tagged as such and with that been said, I think for them to be able to access an lost wallet, then it must be with the consent of the original owner, but now how will they know that, one is an original owner? The answer is by providing the necessary details for the work but my question is that, what if all these details are provided and the person who gives you the job isn’t the original owner of the wallet despite providing you with all the needed informations and details, what will be the repercussions?
15  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] LandDAO - Your Gateway to Tokenized Land Ownership on: June 20, 2025, 02:02:37 PM
What do you mean by special recognition?
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From my own view, the LandDao team wants everyone possibly to be a part of the white list and that’s why they made it open to the public and those who truly believe in their core goals and visions will queue into it just like with the case of bitcoin, a lot of people knew about it when it was barely nothing but didn’t believe in it but look at bitcoin today, and same thing now applies to LandDao if I’m not wrong, so rather than being bothered about missing out, you should focus more energy of how to possibly be a part of this white list.

Projects are all open to investors irrespective of the position or state of development. Teams always make sure they make the project accessible for all who could afford the investment to get whitelisted early enough so that no one would be left out of the investment phase but that does not mean that categories of investors would be left out.
This is why I believe the LandDao team would be at their utmost best to make sure the token is available in the market for investors to have their own quota through sales and this is only when they get whitelisted at the earliest stage.
Thank you for making this clearer for us and just as I said earlier, which I am glad that I got someone who falls in same alignment with me and the whitelist is more like an open invite to be a pioneer and maybe an early stake holder but as far as i know, I think the team would still make available their tokens to everyone who wishes to buy even after the whitelist duration must have ended and as such, there should not be any room to panic but rather find possible way to buy and also own a portion with them if you truly believe in the project
16  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] LandDAO - Your Gateway to Tokenized Land Ownership on: June 17, 2025, 10:32:51 PM
LandDAO Enters Pre-Launch Phase To Bring Land NFTs Backed by Real-World Assets On-Chain

Read the full press release here: https://bitcoinist.com/landdao-to-bring-land-nfts-backed-by-real-world-assets-on-chain/



Also published on: Binance, CoinJournal, CoinEdition, and more.
This is a great move for the team and I hope they do keep up with these energy and since they’re on presale, been wondering if it simply means that, the land(tokenized NFT ) is been sold for lesser price just as the case with the regular presale? This is one of the projects I’ve been really interested and concerned with because it seems I’m watching them from the grassroots and I do want to strictly follow them up to see where and how they intend to run their affairs and so far, I must say, they’re on the right track.
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18  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: June 17, 2025, 01:39:43 PM
It is never a good idea to wait to buy DIP. If you wait to buy DIP, you may fall behind your target. For example, if you wait to buy DIP, you will miss out on many opportunities to buy if the market does not go down as you expected. If you want, you can continue to buy continuously by adopting the DCA method, and when you see a decline in the market, you can buy DIP if you are financially sound.

It is never a good idea to invest in the short term. There is a lot of risk in short term investments, in which the possibility of losing your money is very high. Always aim for long term investments, such as 8 to 10 years. The risk in long term investments is much lower than in short term investments. The market often goes up and down. Do not be afraid of seeing a decline and continue to buy continuously until you have accumulated your target level of Bitcoin in your portfolio
The point you have laid out here is really good. waiting for a desire dip is one big mistake many keep repeating, i don't know why someone will choose to waste time to be waiting for some we are not sure of it occurance.waiting for a desire dips is waste of opportunities, is just like some one waiting and hoping to get a good opportunity to work in a high paid company when there are thousands of opportunities in front of him. A perfect example was when bitcoin was around $84k there were people who was speculating that it will dip more to $35k, so they started waiting for it to get to there desire dips but it didn't happen instead the price went up to $100k. so this person missed this opportunity because they were waiting for a desire dip of $35k.
instead of waiting for a desire dip while missing market opportunities, Dca strategy can be used to be accumulating bitcoin instead of waiting since it involves buying at all prices even when it is low or high  .

Most of this guy's that wait for the dip before buying thinks it's the best way to maximize profit because most of them has this mindset of buying low and selling high, so they wait for the market to dip before buying, not knowing that it's the wrong approach to Bitcoin investment, a Bitcoin investor that is only thinking long term should be buying anytime his discretionary income is available irrespective of it current price,  because in the future this current price would be a bargain comparing to how high the value of Bitcoin might has rise up to.
Holding for long is a great idea but the exemplar of 8 to 10 years is really long since no one is certain of seeing the next day despite we all hoping to see it and I think most times a 5 years budget is really good and I’m as much as crypto is not a Ponzi scheme, a lot of investors especially the newbie investors should learn how to be patient with the market and should learn financial management and be emotionally strong before attempting to hold for long.
Holding for long is the best and using the DCA method to continually building your portfolio regardless of the situation of the market will do us more good.
19  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] LandDAO - Your Gateway to Tokenized Land Ownership on: June 16, 2025, 11:29:13 PM
What do you mean by special recognition?
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one thing you should know is that people don't just ask questions for asking sake they always have reasons for asking questions, I believe you read through source provided by the landDAO representative and you understood the benefits of those who Will join the whitelist? What if I decide not to join the whitelist doesn't mean that I we not have any benefit from landDAO, rather than just been a mere Investor? this is my question, maybe your misunderstood my first post because I use special recognition.
You also got me wrong mate and since you’re getting it more personal on the issues of question, I was also curious as to what you meant by special recognition and you would have just answered with a straight rather than making it seem so personal.(please let’s not deviate from the actual thread topic).
From my own view, the LandDao team wants everyone possibly to be a part of the white list and that’s why they made it open to the public and those who truly believe in their core goals and visions will queue into it just like with the case of bitcoin, a lot of people knew about it when it was barely nothing but didn’t believe in it but look at bitcoin today, and same thing now applies to LandDao if I’m not wrong, so rather than being bothered about missing out, you should focus more energy of how to possibly be a part of this white list.
20  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] LandDAO - Your Gateway to Tokenized Land Ownership on: June 15, 2025, 09:30:44 PM
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What do you mean by special recognition?
Owning a land and tokenized NFT with LandDao is already a special recognition and if you want to get other several advantages just as you already mentioned then, all you have to do is join the white list and may you should see the white list as some sort of presale(my opinion) and there’s where all the benefits for early birds are been distributed and you are very for intimate that you are already having a first hand information about the whitelist and after I read the whitelist which was self explanatory, and we should be discussed on how to be stakeholders and early birds.
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