It is sad actually. You can see plenty of newbie accounts just continuing to make alt accounts to abuse bounties.
This forum is being seen as an earning platform by some as I mentioned in some threads from Meta.
Though I know theymos would never do the newbie jail from what I read, I just hope that some other people would change their views in this forum.

I even stumble upon some newbies not reading stickies and asking how to earn Bitcoin.

I only invested in Bitcoin, although it is not an altcoin project, but get me into this.
I just need something that can help me pay someone without having to go a lot of hassle to travel, pay taxes, and save time.
See those features, OP?

And no, I didn't include community as part of my reasoning on why I bought one although the community is great.

There wouldn't be known bullish market if it all was just bearish. You should get used to both trends, OP.
I don't see this as bearish market anyway, but it is on you on and you money on how you see the market's condition right now.
I assume you invested when Bitcoin was still back in 56k-ish that is why you're assuming already that this is a bear market.

Sad but true.
Even looking into other pictures like how businesses try too hard to be unique these days.
It'll never beat the good ol' fashion as always.
This is also the reason why I do not tread too much in coins that are below top 10 in CMC though I gotta be honest I only throw it all to BTC in the end anyway.

I haven't bought any NFTs nor I am leaning towards it.
It could still be a trend but it is a meh for me.
Sounds futuristic, but again. Meh.
All Bitcoin for me.

Well most of them you're pointing at are just like brand new people in here. You can't blame it.
It is like going to stock market and not knowing what all the acronyms of the establishment to buy stocks at mean.
Many are driven by the news already, and you should get used to those kind of people already.

Yeah you can somehow call it similar because it is all about promotion.
Only thing that differs it from marketing campaign is the methodology of the said promotion. In bounty campaigns, I often observe that most of it are either signature campaigns which obviously isn't done in marketing campaign but here in the forum.

Thing is what if the OP didn't get lucky? I do not want to be pessimistic nor optimistic that much but the market we're trading has been like that almost everytime. It is unstable.
How would the OP repay the amount even if the max he can wait is 5 years? We're not even sure how would the price of the coin would be at that year.
It is somehow looking like double or nothing now.

I never heard this coin before Dogecoin, but I suppose that it became that popular just because Elon Musk hyped Doge and Shiba Inu is somehow related to the image of the meme "Doge" that we all know for sure that are popping up in our meme pages that we stumble upon commonly.
It is all purely hype. I don't even know how this coin just like jumped suddenly into trend.

It is clear that we're also gaining..... opportunities to buy more coins because now is the June's special to buy more coins. Dunno what coins you're looking to get your "gains", but take the opportunity from the "bigger picture" that you're seeing.
For me, I just hodl. Just like the good ol' times.

Let's say your golden rule applies to me as well except I removed the "trade altcoin" part.
I just simply hold BTC in my bunker and revisit it once whales already entered the market or maybe not. I am not quite sure that even 100k in BTC is still enough.

Easier said than done.
This topic is somehow getting derailed a little bit already and it could fit to Off-Topic section.
Emotions is already part of us, and controlling it is hard but it would be best to hold off the reaction because that is where the result of emotion comes by.

Kinda barely recall already when was the last ICO launched.
They were booming and slightly declining back in 2017. I even recall a lot of discussion in here that many ICOs are scams and that the trust of investor just went poof because of it.
Then another trend came up, and that we call IEOs.

He is rich. People will follow whatever the fuck in this world he tweets and they'll take it as a investment advice. It is like them getting whispered "hey invest to this coin, psst don't tell the whales ok?"
People would dream to be like him... maybe not to be one of his employees but maybe his success.

I did not expect when it was the freshly reported.
I don't even know what's the connection of Anonymous to Bitcoin, though I think they gotta do something about it at least.
Hopefully this Elon Musk trend should be laid to rest already, it is getting ridiculous the more attention we give.

No one plays around the market, even in stocks. Though because of how accessible cryptos are to all ages, well almost, I could see others screwing themselves at this market.
Panic market? Do you mean panic selling? Yes, and they're hella a lot common here than you thought.
Post-2017 dip? 2019 dip? 2021 dip which is specifically right now after that "guy from Twitter" manipulated a lot of investor?
Yeah they're really really common.

I would just loan if it is a business that I would do a startup, but loaning to invest something that would not promise me to pay back the said loan in a certain year while you mentioned at yours for five years, I would not personally do a loan for that.
You never wanted to dug yourself into a hole that you will keep climbing over and over.

Thank goodness that I am not the only one thinking like this.
This is what I was emphasizing at my first reply.

Curious why you threw random year 2025, OP?
Is there something you're waiting at that year or is it that your country banned the utilization of Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is being traded worldwide already and yes there could be bans and regulations but it does not stop the p2p transaction from people to people.

I day traded some alts only to convert them all to Bitcoin. I guess it was sort of accidental but beneficial for me because I incurred a lot of losses when I started building up my capital in my day trading.
Was rough experience back then.

Taking advantage of the hype, huh?
I am not that type of investor but I guess it is up to one's judgement. Doge was one hell of a meme coin and I could've expected that it is easily manipulated by celebrities that is why I ain't dropping any single money on that.