They still do mate. Have you ever wondered why meme coins next to DOGE and SHIB like Pepe have become successful? As long as there are new trends, a meme can come out and so as a new meme coin. Many will try to ride it, in hopes that that it will pump and they can get some share of the pie. Maybe it's true that many are still rooting for the OG of meme coins but many have already lost their hope and moved on.

The upcoming bull reason can be one of the reasons on why retail investors will try to gamble for the meme coins for a while because they also expect that meme coins can pump. We don't know maybe institutional investors are like that too?

I mean coming from UK to Saudi Arabia is not an easy task, that dude lived in a western world, home of pubs, and cold wet weather raining all the time, to a Saudi country, with desert hot weather, with a different culture as well. Adapting to it must be a very difficult thing to do, I am not saying it's impossible, but it's definitely not an easy task neither, should be something that may take some time.

I still think that players do not need to leave, they could wait it out and get used to it with time, it is not like it's worlds apart, they are rich millionaires, their life is not the life of some poor folk, so they should wait it out and get paid, that seems like the better idea on the long run if they can be patient about it.

According to CMC, it has peaked at 45.9k at second of January, I agree that dropping to under 41k levels a day later may have scared some people, but also it peaked over 44k just a day later as well. That is why we call bitcoin volatile, there is a reason for that and I think it should be important to be aware of that.

I am not saying that it is going to be all that easy to handle it, all I am saying is that we are going to end up with something that should matter to us all the time. I get that it is not that easy, and I get that it may feel a bit off, like when you see it at 45k and then 40k, I get the "fear", but that is just volatility. Let the bitcoin world act all up and down, the long term will always be up in the end.

What makes you think that SOL will go back to $20? That is only possible if Bitcoin goes around $30k once again and I don't see that happening at all. The maximum value BTC can drop to from here is $35k in my opinion and that is also too low, to be honest. Just like everyone else, I'm also expecting another correction but it wouldn't be as deep as you are expecting, if SOL drops even to $50 from here, that will be the best price for buying during this market cycle.

Sometimes, you have to take some risks to earn great returns, which could happen to me if I had bought SOL when it was around $28 when I thought it wouldn't go high this soon, then it went to $48, and I thought it has already pumped enough and it will drop from here, and that made me miss one of the best trades.

I agree, not withdrawing right now is a good approach and should be considered as the best thing to do at the moment. I agree that there are some people who are fearing what may happen, but I think it would be quite good to just let it be, I feel like that would be an ideal situation. I am not saying that it is going to hurt us on the long run, but that is still a good thing and we need to let it be and not sell or not touch our coins and just hold and wait.

If we can do that for about a year, then we are going to get a lot more profit, and I am not sure how much more, but I bet that it is going to be way more than what most people assume it would be. I believe that in a year, we are going to peak over the ATH price and will do amazingly.

I would guess that when you are dealing with servers, it is really not that hard to find one that will not be taken down. Banned? Sure, but banned is not the same as taken down and that should be important.

Plus, you could literally have your own server, what we call a "server" is just a pc, I mean of course bigger ones look different, but if you could just have one pc that is running 7/24 then you will be fine, or you could even buy one of those server looking servers and not a pc, and that would run non-stop and you will not need anyone else. Want even bigger independence? Put some solar panels that means you are going to end up with non-stop electricity as well if you can get enough sun light to it.

So there are very few things, but it is possible to keep it running forever. I believe that is not going to be possible if you build it at New York though, you also have to pick a place that government won't try to reach and stop you, has to be somewhere with more easy laws.

I mean it's a stablecoin that is managed by the government, so it's basically fiat. I mean you do not have all your money in cash mostly right? It's in a bank somewhere, and you use your phone app, or your card to buy something, even something as simple as a cup of coffee, some people do use cash, but not everyone, commonly people use cards.

However, if we could have CBDC, basically a stablecoin by the government, that would also be accepted in the banks as well, which means you could be using the same card to spend. What changed in your life? You did the same thing using the same payment option and nothing has changed, I think that should be the most important part and I do not think that it will matter in the end. As long as the government is making a money, it will be exactly as the fiat for me, doesn't matter how the yare doing it, it doesn't matter who has it or how it's made, they have full control, and as long as they have full control, it's fiat for me.

Many people are like that, and unfortunately there is really nothing that we can do to prevent people from being like that. I get that we are going to try our very best to do something about it, but we are not going to achieve anything at all, there will always be some people who are paper handed, they will see the price dropping and they will end up with a big loss, there is really nothing wrong with that.

I hope that we could get to a point where it should be quite profitable to end up with a good return one way or another, and that doesn't mean that it is going to end up with a huge loss. I hope that we could just keep holding, more and more people should hold, that is by far the best way to make money. I know that it is not going to end up being that easy, there will be a lot of people who are going to end up selling anyway, but if we could just get rid of these sudden drops because people fear, that would all be enough, we do not need anything more than that.

That is not really a bad idea to be fair, I mean when you can make so much money from investing long term, trading doesn't really look that appealing to many people. I am not saying that nobody should trade, but at the same time it just doesn't feel like such a big deal neither.

I think that the best thing we could do right now would be making sure that we are dealing with something that should bring in as much money as possible. I hope that people could see that as a good idea, and we could make the most out of what we are dealing with. If trading is not making you enough income, then why even think about it?

Why risk your money trading and potentially make a loss, when you could just hold long term and make profit that way. I personally have done lesser and lesser trading in the last three years, and mainly just accumulate and get as much bitcoin as possible to hold long term, and I mean like maybe a decade if I can, that way I know I will make some profit.

It changes in a way that prices or the direction is going upwards. If some coins are already there, they will just continue it. There is also a change in the position or ranking of the coins, as some can gain a huge volume, so they will overtake the other normal performing coins. There is no bull run yet that happened. What we saw are still a recovery from the recent bear market.

And BTC is the starter of it. The rest will just follow after it. All should hold on as it won't take long for us to witness those positive movements. Apart of that, it is also a good idea to keep adding more coins to our stash. And as usual, those must only be good coins only.

I think consumerist life style is not the first thing you should get rid of. Remember, what you buy today, will be more expensive later on, so you could make a profit that way. I am not saying have stuff that would be useless, but do have stuff that can be both liabilities and assets.

Let's assume this, if you buy a tablet, like ipad for example, that would look quite useless, I did that, just about 6 months or so ago, but today it is 1.5 what it was, so I can sell it right now and make a profit, even though I used it. If you ask people, they would say it's liability, but because a newer version didn't come out, and it's new year, and everything got new prices, the amount an ipad costs ended up higher. Even if it is the same amount, it's investment, and I can sell it, and still have cash.

That is definitely the case, it would allow everyone to have something more decent, and less risk for sure. If you do DCA then drops are not scary but opportunity and if you could make it seem like that, then you are going to get better when it goes up. So, you do not have two option of losing or winning, you have two options of accumulating or winning, and that makes things a lot better.

Many people avoid that mindset and that causes a lot of trouble, I believe that you should definitely consider that as an option. I know that it is not going to end up with a great return, we should consider DCA as a way to make as much profit as possible, the return is not all that crazy when it is not moving, but when it starts moving the return becomes huge.

Those are very hard and difficult three factors and that means most people will not be able to get them all. I mean we are talking about something that would cause a lot of trouble, and people should figure out a way to master them all.

I know that rest will come easy, if you master these, then all you have to do is study and learn how to trade, and then you will have to just keep trading to gain more experience and you will become a great trader eventually. But for that road to be easy for you, first you need to have those three. Discipline is one of the hardest ones, there isn't a boss or a teacher or a parent making you do something anymore, it's just you and you alone, if you can't do it then nobody else will push you to do it.

I would guess that it is not really going to work out in the end because the whole world structure is based on the dollar. Like when you are considering what the barrel of an oil is, do you really consider it in any other currency? You talk about it in dollar terms, that's just the reality and we need to consider that as the most important thing.

I personally believe that we need to consider dollar as there to stay and not going to leave anytime soon. And the only way dollar would not be used as the biggest currency, would not come from other nations, it would only be possible if the empire falls within itself, you do not attack and defeat an empire, you let it destroy itself and then slowly it will destroy itself overtime, so USA would tell you when dollar is bad.

The problem with him was that he had some injuries, and he is basically loaned to Galatasaray for free, imagine not wanting a player so badly that you are willing to just let him go for free, that usually means something.

I do not know how he is playing at Galatasaray in general, but I can see that he didn't play all that many games, and that could be one of the reasons, and he could be a decent player there maybe, not sure, but a decent player for some games all season long is not something Chelsea would want, plus the level of competition is different for Chelsea and Galatasaray, and that means Ziyech wasn't someone they could tolerate at all. I believe that he is not really a key player to even Galatasaray, he could leave and they wouldn't suddenly become terrible.

I would guess that we could definitely consider about 30%+ to be the bear market, also I do not really consider staying low as bear market, like we had a period when it was 68k, then went as low as 15k, that was bear market when it was going down, but for a while it stayed at 20k, for months and months, people called that bear too, I do not believe that that was bear, it was just staying there and not going down.

Just because something is not back above its ATH price doesn't mean that it's in bear, it could be staying low but it is not going lower, and that's the most important part. I hope that people could see that and make a big enough distinction between that, and could end up with something that would benefit everyone at the same time.

Of course they still care, and that is to make money at a short period of time. I'm not sure if it's really a scam. I mean why it is still there? Also there is a reason on why it had collapsed and I think it is not because their main intention is to scam.

There's even rumours that they are preparing for a big comeback. The coin already had a major crash, so in case another one can happen, I don't think it will be huge as the first one and then people aren't going to get shocked or affected about it anymore. But yeah, some can feel that they are idiot for making the same mistakes again. That's good for them, and should teach them another lesson.

But is it important to know their history? Though some can find it interesting, especially if they are into trivia. Rich people are already showing off by the moment they avail a fancy place. I think they are only being generous to tip the workers there. And if they can do this good deed, then I am sure they are no way of showing off their wealth by visiting these fancy places. It's just that they are only treating their selves something good. I'm sure that many people wants to do that kind of generous act (the tipping), but it's only sad to know that their management are now restricting it. Suck them. Though maybe not all companies are like that.

I am having similar expectations even breaking ATH on halving year is not an usual thing in the bitcoin market cycle. I mean reaching beyond $68k might be possible by December 2024. I might go wrong as well. Because when everyone will be expecting a strong bull run in 2025 which would be very much similar to 2013/2017/2021 then we might start witnessing that well in advance like by last quarter of 2024 itself.

Coming back to this December happening, in my opinion this December ending up flat. Bitcoin market got stuck around $42k range which must be a good thing as we can count this range bound as a cooling period for another rally toward $50k levels before we are seeing any possible dominance of bears. Overall, I am confident about extension of bull market in the beginning of new year as well.

This unforeseen part is the reason why most people have trouble, it is not planned budget expenses that causes people to have trouble, we all have that and it happens and it's fine, we can't always think like that would be the worst case, we can't really see that change all that easily, what we need to do would be making sure that it's going to end up with a trouble later on.

So, if you can't plan for an expense, how can you prevent it, or how can you budget that accordingly? Well, you could try to have a "rainy day" savings along with your regular savings, on months that you get paid and nothing happens, keep putting some aside, and use that for urgent needs, but that's usually not enough. Basically, we just don't make enough to put money aside when something goes wrong.