Each country has its own currency, and this greatly affects the country's economic conditions, the higher the value of a country's currency, the more "considered" the country's economy is successful. That's why every country is always competing to increase the value of its currency. The currency of a country has been considered as identity, so if a new currency appears and circulates in a country, then it is considered a threat. The government will not be willing if the identity of the country is changed.

I must admit that Bitcoin's volatility is very high, it's not right if it is used as a currency to measure the price of an item, so if at this time bitcoin is also used as the main payment instrument, it will create uncontrolled price inflation movements. This can only happen if many producers and businesses, as well as humans around the world, make the price of their goods and services using bitcoin, 1 Bitcoin = 1 Bitcoin, not of 1 Bitcoin = 1 Fiat, then many countries jointly recognize and use Bitcoin as a currency, to become the currency of a country around the world seems impossible, unless the country's currency crumbles and is unable to stabilize their currency, as is the case in some countries with very high currency inflation, where their currency no longer has value, the possibility that happens is Bitcoin as a global currency, and in my opinion, it has happened, because the world's currency does not need regulation, it only needs an agreement between users.

At first glance, it looks easy and very sweet, buys and profit. The real problem when we buy Alts is that few people (including me) are not able to analyze the quality of the price of the coin, sometimes we see a coin with such a large community, the development team looks professional and solid and the product service provided looks very good. But many coins like that sometimes trap our emotional game, high volatility and very unstable volume sometimes make our hands itchy to sell so easily when the price looks down sharply, then try to buy back below, but what happens then is the price getting down, and when it decided to leave, the coin bounced.

Kalo tokennya saya trading om, tapi kalo produknya / servicenya saya ngga masuk, makanya gagal faham dan berasa ngga ngerti kripto didepan mereka.

Ripple has been caught up in a high-stakes legal dispute with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since last year. But the price movement of XRP is always positive, September 1, 2020, the price of XRP is $0.29222, while the current price, September 1, 2021, is $1.18260. This means XRP has increased over 300%.

If you look at the price history since it first entered the market (2013) XRP may touch the price of $5, especially if XRP does win the SEC lawsuit, I believe the price of XRP will be higher than $50 in the last BTC halving period. The Ripple network works differently from the Bitcoin system. When a transaction is proposed to the network, nodes in the network vote to see if the transaction is valid. If more than 80% agree that the transaction is valid, it will be added to the network. However, nodes are not rewarded for this. Unlike Bitcoin, XRP is not actually an official cryptocurrency. Instead, the coin aims to be a kind of payment protocol owned by one big company, Ripple.

In addition, Ripple which is an altcoin distinguishes itself from Bitcoin in that no new XRP is “mined”. With the creation of the XRP ledger, 100 billion XRP have been created, some of which have already been released. The rest is in Ripple's hands. They have pinned this to the XRP ledger and every month there are 1 billion XRP released for Ripple to spend. This is what makes XRP has its own fans outside of Bitcoin lovers, and in my personal opinion, XRP and STR/XLM are some of the cryptocurrencies that are still relevant to the original purpose of cryptocurrencies, transaction fees that remain cheap and fast.

Although XRP is fundamentally different from Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the value of this currency is also determined by the traders. Just like Bitcoin, the game of supply and demand determines the value of Ripple. With such a large community and fans, XRP may have its own time to experience high increases like Bitcoin, Doge, ETH, and other coins, history has proven that.

Kalau melihat yang terjadi di lingkungan tempat tinggal saya, sebagai contoh kecil, 2 tahun ini memang banyak banget yang mulai pada terjun ke kripto, mulai dari pegawai bank, guru, pemda, karyawan pabrik, bahkan pelajar selalu ada saja yang saya jumpai dari hari ke hari, saya yakin hal ini terjadi juga di daerah lain, terutama di daerah2 yang punya kemudahan akses informasi dan tekhnologi. Kadang pengen dalam hati ngumpulin mereka, bikin komunitas dan memberikan edukasi yang benar tentang bitcoin dan mata uang kripto lain juga tentang blockchain, karena kasus penipuan di tempat saya yang mengatasnamakan Bitcoin juga sering terjadi.
Lahirnya BSC dan NFT serta masivnya promo market lokal ditambah boomingnya Doge sepertinya memberikan pengaruh besar terhadap pertumbuhan user di negara kita dan kebanyakan mereka pengguna biasa yang berharap untung besar dalam sekejap, tanpa mau menggali lebih dalam atau mungkin karena memang keterbatasan informasi.

I agree with you, but most people are impatient to wait, so most of them lose, which is the best way that most winners do. But I don't recommend this for obscure tokens, I'm mostly holding trading on old coins. It takes in-depth analysis if you do it on new tokens, most people will do scalping if you play on new tokens, not even a few do hit and run.
Actually, I'm still curious, is trading in the passive income category? because it seems we have to do a lot of things when trading, analyzing candles, checking price movements, looking at volume, diligently searching and following the news, plus we have to linger in front of the screen.

Honestly, I'm not good at analyzing the market or using the tools provided by the market to analyze candles based on price and volume movements. My day trading only relies on depth and EMAs 15, 20, 30, 50, 100, 200. So I'm not really thinking about which one to buy, BTC or ALTs. But this is what I do, always buy Bitcoin every 2 weeks regularly in small amounts, $10 - max $100, then I sell some when the price really goes up high, since 2016 I have never traded BTC/FIAT, for Bitcoin, I just swapped to a Fiat, then I cashed out.
This is also what I recommend, use some to buy bitcoins, and part others for alts, spend wisely and sell them when the price really hits your target price.

Baru faham proses kerjanya, dari kemaren-kemaren bingung, bagaimana NFT bisa sebooming ini (males googling juga), sampai anak2 smp+sma di sekitar rumah pd ramai ngobrolin NFT versi mereka, dan saya merasa noob gara2 gak tertarik mengikuti pengembangan dan perkembangan proyek NFT, terimakasih om blue Snow untuk postingan threadnya, ini sangat membantu. Langsung praktek.

Trading is my main option, so far trading is the most profitable for me. Most of it I get from the long term, while scalping is only part of the activity to fill my spare time. If you ask why, because every year the crypto assets that I buy regularly every 2 weeks since 2015 have always experienced an extraordinary increase, you can see for yourself how the prices of Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple (XRP), Stellar (STR/XLM), Ethereum (ETH), Wave, Doge, Dash, and many more, moving from year to year, even Doge which I thought would be destroyed because the developer left the project and got into trouble with the law, turned out to be very unreasonable, and came just in time.

Ini bagus, berarti pengguna Alts semakin banyak, pemain kripto entah itu Bitcoin ataupun Alts selalu tumbuh di Indonesia, terlepas dari undang-undang yang anda ketik tebal, pemerintah kita itu sudah sangat berbaik hati dengan pengguna Bitcoin dan mata uang kripto di dalam negeri, 13 market + 229  aset kripto dilegalkan oleh pemerintah melalui Bappebti, sah untuk dimiliki ataupun diperjual-belikan, tinggal pilih kita mau coba ambil cuan dari jenis yang mana saja yang kita suka, selama menggunakan cara-cara yang benar dan diperuntukan untuk hal-hal yang legal, maka tidak ada yang perlu dikhawatirkan. Menurut saya undang-undang tersebut dibikin juga bukan untuk menghalang-halangi kebebasan pengguna kripto seperti kita dalam mengelola aset kripto.

In my opinion, DeFi is just a platform, where they offer financial management services, the products are the same as banks, so their position is still the same as banks.
The banking world will never be replaced just because of cryptocurrencies, and what happens is that they will make peace with crypto and make certain coins that are considered valuable as part of their products, such as savings, loans, or financing products, and loan products become one of the flagships of almost all banks in the world.

Setuju banget, Rumusnya emang gitu om, semakin besar kesempatan untungnya, maka semakin besar juga kemungkinan ruginya, untung rugi berbanding lurus dengan resiko, jadi harus bijak dalam berinvestasi, harus pintar menganalisa, bukan hanya mengedapankan ego karena sebuah iming2. Meskipun masih ada faktor lucky yang ngga bisa dijadikan tolak ukur.

If your intention from the start was scalping and hoping to get a lot of profit in a short time, then you must dare to lose and lose a lot in a short time, and it's time for you to change your intention to become a Bitcoin investor, holding your assets as long as possible until you reach the target you want. Think of it as savings, I still believe in December 2021 the price could reach between 75k - 100k. I think you are in the right position, even though you feel that the purchase price is too high.

As long as you are not all-in, I think you haven't lost if there's only a price drop, as long as you still have the asset. What I do is analyze in more detail about the coin, if there is still a possibility to reverse direction, hold it and wait for the price to return to the price when buying. Unless you play on margin or futures, you must dare to cut loss, and this is where asset diversification is important because profits from other coins can minimize losses on coins that experience price drops. I personally have never All-in crypto assets in one coin. I always split the capital to play in a lot of coins.

This depends on the type of currency that will be used as a measure, if the full payment is in the form of Bitcoin with a fixed amount, then I think this will be a problem, as your own interrogative sentence
I think for now the full implementation of salaries in the form of Bitcoin is still too early. Unless done by:
(1) Giving the amount of their salary still calculated with Fiat but paid in Bitcoin, then it is the employee's sole right and responsibility to keep or exchange their Bitcoin salary. This is because the value of the price of necessities in many countries still refers to Fiat, If price volatility occurs, both the company and the employees can harm each other. When the price of Bitcoin goes up, the company has to spend more Fiat to pay employee salaries, and employees make big profits, on the other hand, if the price of Bitcoin when payday drops drastically, then employees will lose because their Fiat needs remain, but get their Fiat from Bitcoin much reduced

(2) Does not violate existing regulations in the country. Most countries still have not fully regulated Bitcoin as a means of payment. Of course, this will be a legal problem if forced to pay salaries using Bitcoin.

(3)There are many merchants and legal who are willing to accept payments in Bitcoin.

Actually, if we want to look at the positive side, then this is a free promotional tool, the more rich people openly oppose it, the more popular Bitcoin will be. Many people will almost certainly think "how is Bitcoin getting talked about more and more", if there is nothing special about Bitcoin then it is impossible to argue. If it is popular as it is today, we indirectly have a duty to provide the right education, straighten the news wisely.

In some countries this is regulated, especially when it involves many people in funding, the government always has many sides to be able to find loopholes to enter, on the grounds of protecting citizens from fraud, and always will be, on behalf of the citizens.

Indeed, they are not easy to control, but very easy to detect, and they always have a way of trying to control.

Blockchain adalah teknologi dan blockchain bukan hanya tentang Bitcoin atau mata uang kripto, kelas blockchain memang belum lumrah, tapi menurut saya blockchain sudah sangat lumrah dinegara kita, sudah banyak diadopsi oleh perusahaan2 nasional, perbankan baik swasta maupun BUMN, saat ini nyaris tidak ada pro kontra tentang teknologi blockchain, anda bisa coba googling, atau klik link berikut "Blockchain di Indonesia"
Bahkan Kominfo selaku wakil pemerintah yang menaungi masalah komunikasi informasi merilis artikel berjudul Beda Blockchain dengan Bitcoin dimana didalamnya juga di jelaskan tentang respon antara Bitcoin dan Blockchain

Blockchain saat ini diakui pemerintah dan banyak institusi keuangan sebagai salah satu teknologi yang paling mutahir, Dirjen Pajak dengan Online Pajaknya yang diumumkan pada akhir April 2018 lalu sudah memanfaatkan blockchain untuk semakin memudahkan wajib pajak membayar pajak serta mendukung transparansi transaksi pajak. PT POS juga pernah memanfaatkan blockchain di produknya yaitu Digiroin dan yang terbaru PT POS Indonesia memanfaatkan blockchain ketika merilis produk layanan barunya yaitu POSGO Syariah.  Bahkan Bank BCA mengklaim sudah memanfaatkan blockchain sebagai salah satu sistem teknologi penunjang kerja mereka untuk mempercepat transaksi pembayaran dan mengurangi kompleksnya transaksi pada back office yang juga sebagai salah satu alternatif untuk menekan biaya operasional. Sebagai catatan untuk pemerintah, saat ini mayoritas nasabah perbankan lebih banyak memanfaatkan transaksi elektronik dan/atau internet banking dari pada ATM, bahkan Bank BCA menyatakan bahwa nasabah mereka dari yang sebelumnya 17% nasabah memanfaatkan ATM kini hanya tinggal 1,8% karena beralih menggunakan m-banking dan internet bangking, dengan prosentase yang berbeda, saya yakin Bank-bank lain pasti mengalami hal yang sama.

Jika melihat perkembangan pola pemanfaatan dan pengelolaan teknologi finansial dinegara kita khususnya dan didunia secara umum, saya yakin BI sebagai institusi keuangan pengelola Rupiah hampir pasti memilih mengalah dan berdamai dengan perkembangan zaman untuk memanfaatkan blockchain, salah satunya dengan menerbitkan stabel coin Rupiah bukan sebagai pengganti Fiat tentunya tetapi lebih ke pengembangan produk, idealnya akan tetap diukur berdasarkan total nilai yang dapat dicetak, hanya saja kita memang belum tau skenario yang bakal mereka jalani. Karena jika mereka tidak mau terjun langsung, kemungkinan besar layanan Rupiah perbankan akan ditinggalkan sebagian besar nasabahnya, plus potensi pajak PPN dimata uang kripto lumayan besar, dimana saat ini pemerintah melalui DJP (Direktorat Jenderal Pajak) sedang mengkaji mekanisme penerapan pajak PPN melalui market, bukan hanay PPN, tetapi PPh juga direncakan bakal dipungut. Tentunya untuk mempermudah menaikan devisa, pemerintah juga harus memiliki produknya sendiri, sehingga potensi pencapaian pajaknya juga semakin besar karena ditunjang oleh pemanfaatan produk mereka sendiri.

Lebih ke ekonomi secara menyeluruh om, karena bisa menimbulkan inflasi diatas ambang batas. Tapi ada faktor lain, yaitu jika ekonomi kita tidak terlalu ketergantungan dengan nilai $USD, maka tidak akan berpengaruh banyak, faktor penunjangnya adalah ketahanan pangan dan volume impor. Karena jika terlalu banyak impor maka harga dalam negeri akan mengikuti fluktuasi nilai mata uang global sebagai standar harga barang yang diimpor. Jika skenario tapering terjadi, setidaknya pasar kripto akan mendapatkan tambahan eksodus dari pasar Fiat, sehingga akan memberikan tambahan volume transaksi, dengan catatan tidak terjadi kepanikan karena tingkat kepercayaan user BTC dan Kripto yang cukup tinggi, maka idealnya market BTC akan semakin positif, lagi2 karena demandnya semakin tinggi.


Untuk urusan kripto, saya masih pake cara2 tradisional, menambah aset BTC dan ALTS secara periodik dalam jumlah kecil menggunakan uang yang benar2 free dan menjualnya 30% setiap terjadi kenaikan diatas 50% Sisanya ditarget sampai halving BTC terakhir, ngga banyak, cuma 200IDR per 2minggu, dan sudah saya lakukan sejak 2015. Lumayan bisa untuk menutupi jika terjadi loss trading. Anggap saja tabungan inflasi.