Actually not telling other people to make them earn in crypto through investment could be your opportunity to buy more.
Imagine if they bought more than you did and the price took off to the moon and now it is all what you had right now because it is the only thing you invested at.
It might be against adoption, but save yourself first before others.

Oh yes.
Many of the non-toppers end up losing value overnight anyway.
People dumping like crazy, can't be avoided.

Plus the hypes from other people contributes to the price being "pumped".
One notable example was the CEO of Tesla. Kinda getting tired to mention the name of that guy already.

This is one great way to see it in larger picture hmm.
Never thought of it.
I guess it could be said for those who had bought it in those years and while for those who had bought it around 60k, it is now 46 - 50% off.

Oh now you mentioned Binance and some scammers there claiming to be Binance, how about people should try to answer this quiz made by Binance themselves.

Phishing Quiz

Credits to Pmalek for this thread that was back in 2019 for bumping it for the awareness of many, not only newbies.
Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5144259.msg51092143#msg51092143

Well in #1, you could have bought the cheapest when it was around 29k before it surged back to 30k+.
It is still somehow a good deal for me to buy more of BTC, since our new target is around 70k now and imagine if you start to take the opportunity to buy now before the rocket refuels.

I wonder how many sold when the whales trap was around 29k.
It seemed to rebound back 30k+ as of writing this.
Nonetheless I don't care how much the hard support is now, or even if it is broken already.
Guess we'll see who are now panicking, yes?

But still not all that have ANN threads here in the forum are legitimate.
To be specific and precise to what you're trying to point at, OP should look for possible Scam Accusation in case red flags appear in the said project.

It is nothing new now. Even if it even goes below 20k, I wouldn't mind.
Bitcoin had its lowest back then when it hit from 6k to 3k. It was around 2019 if I can recall from my bought coins in every year.
This should encourage the many non-crypto hodlers or those who are easily being driven by news to buy more.

If a certain investor or hodler uses the hodl strategy and bought coins with all of his/er assets, the hodling strategy puts him/er at risk making it needed to be traded actively so that losses could be monitored, though we have stop-loss for that kind scenario but you should get the idea that not everyone suits for hodling strategy.

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Adding "Earned merits in the last 120 days: " to the application format would help, but sometimes I read that other users try to cheat on this by putting >5 in their application.
Blacklisting them, like others mentioned here, would be great.

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I was about to suggest that self-mod thread could be done, but it could be an additional work for you.

Does anyone remember when back in the days when memes were just like troll face, b**** please and u mad bro?
Now that memes are like new now these days and we even have Doge and those died out?
That would apply the same in crypto market. These meme coins will have their time, but not for long-term.
If there is any single thing in this world that could still make it alive, it would be just celebrities but you cannot depend on these people in the long-term. They're just gonna hype and when they sell/dumped, it is all over now.

I am not familiar with that coin, but since you are hodling it I would advise you to keep on the eye of the price.
There are common cases of pump and dump schemes here in crypto making what you hodl useless in the end.
Don't hodl on the moment you feel massive dumps coming in already.

Big celebrities, eh?
Seems like a pump and dump scheme for me. Are you indirectly mentioning Musk again? He promoted (sort of more like memed) Doge and it just went up and blew the media.
I wouldn't invest to any coins that are due to mentioning of celebrities ever.

What do you expect, OP?
They are either paid to shill one coin anyway or they are part of the said team of whoever made that shitcoin you are trying to point at.
Even the most popular celebrity could shill one coin and expect it to pump to the moon for a moment then dump.

Welcome to the forum, OP.
To get a merit, first you should rid of that mindset that "you're gonna earn here" because this is a forum and not an earning platform. That mindset will hinder you to even earn a single merit, because for sure one would pursue earning money over writing good posts.
If your post history is just full of bounty reports, don't expect people to give you a single merit even if you have older posts that are non-bounty reports because no one would ever bother scrolling and going page by page of one's post history from that.
It is like finding a tiny diamond covered in turd/crap. My apology for that kind of analogy, but it is how I see.

Newcomers are given merits, maybe "the one that told you" cannot earn merits because s/he is leaned too much in pursuing bounties or earning in here.

Not just the merit system, s/he is too focused as well in bounty campaigns just by looking on how s/he mentions "payment".
Feels like someone could have referred him/er in here to earn.

Same strategy there.
I don't ever open my wallet whenever I am just chilling at the moment.
I would be just like hiding under my bunker with my Bitcoins and even if the bearish dip happens, I wouldn't care and still hodl.
I'll just sell when "lemons in life" arrives.

Congrats for the full member climb there, OP.
To share my tiny and insignificant story, I was all cleared up from my misconception on how Bitcoin isn't entirely illegal. My mindset back then before I reached this forum is that Bitcoin is an illegal coin or something that is used as a currency only in the dark web.

To be honest, I even thought that I would only be able to see this forum through Tor browser and that thought scared me on my first few clicks in here because I was kind of paranoid what would be lying beneath the surface web.

What's with all these burst threads at the moment? Can you just ask these in a single thread?

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All of these questions are answerable if you just use the Search function or read around the thread. Stickies are there for a reason, OP.