Depends on the person of course, I personally prefer to learn it by myself without a tutor but if you think that others would have easier time with a tutor then you could be right, I am not going to argue against that. My point was that you are learning from someone else one way or another, if you have a mentor then that mentor is explaining to you how you should trade and what things mean, but if you are "learning by yourself" then you might be watching a youtube video of someone, isn't that also learning from someone else too?

I would guess that in either case you are learning from someone else anyway, so I would rather find the material that I like to find and then study that instead of being limited by some mentor who would teach only his way that worked for him, because what may have worked for someone may not work for me at all.

It's better to have no limitations on your studying because it would result with different opinions and you will have the chance to pick whichever fits you better, after finding that one which fits you and your character the best then you will start trying to build something that could make some return and could be a greater profit in the end for you.

I do not think that bearish market could ever be here to stay, we have more and more people who are buying and holding for the long term, making the supply even less, so when the price starts to go up even a little bit, there will be a lot of people who wants to buy but there won't be that many bitcoins left to sell, sellers have a harder time if they want to keep selling it and drop the price, they need to convince others to end up selling their holdings, and that's not an easy job during a bull run.

So, bearish will not be all that easy and should not be all that possible, sure it happens sometimes but that doesn't mean that it will happen at all times and we should be seeing it change one way or another for sure.

That's the thing about current era, creativity is trying to be taken away from  you. You want to write?
You have chatgpt that writes for people, maybe it is not good enough for now, but it may get better than ever, or you want to paint?

Midjourney can do it better than you already, you need to work hard to be better, but by that time it could improve to be better than you. Creativity is getting killed, and automation is getting many jobs for the past 100 years as well. So, what do we have left?

I do not think that humanity has anything but staying lazy left for them to do. In an unreal world, we could literally share the wealth that all these improvements have made and not do a damn thing and just enjoy world, obviously that's not the world we live, people hate sharing.

I agree that type of thinking and people who are not veterans should be a lot more careful but personally I do not really deal with that. I can't really bother with "not your keys not your coins" at this stage of my life, ı trust Binance more than I trust myself at this point, plus I have connection to my account anywhere in the world and do not have to carry anything. I am at a different IP? They want to ask something? I know my google auth, my mail, my password and I have an image of myself anytime they want to ask that, with my ID as well.

So all in all, it is going to be something easy and doesn't really bother me. I get that you may not like that, and there are a lot of people who do not like that type of thinking, but even the biggest companies are doing that, you think places like microstrategy put in that much money and put it on some cold wallet? Of course not, they use companies like coinbase to store their wealth there and they are protected in that sense.

I don't know if the @OP only putted his title as I clicked bait but his last sentence seems like an answer too to it. Other than that, new meme coins are created whenever there is a new trend, so it's a no-brainer on why a meme coin can get trendy.

Anyway, I'm also aware about that fake news you are talking about. Is it about the Bitcoin ETF right? But for me, that's okay if you exchange all your meme coins to Bitcoin because Bitcoin is more valuable than them. Maybe you can regret more if you didn't do it because most meme coins value can only decline and there is a low chance that they will also pump during the bull run period.

I would say that learning from others and learning all by yourself is not as different as people think it is. I understand that when you talk about "learn from others" you are talking about someone actively teaching you, but even if you are learning all by yourself, you are technically learning from someone else because all the books you read all the videos you watch all the articles you check they are all made by someone.

I would prefer that of course, because I would be able to learn it from many different people and the result will definitely be great, I know that it shouldn't be all that different or difficult but that is what you should be doing in the end, it will give you a better approach to it one way or another, would be smarter to have different views.

I believe that if we are not careful with what we are doing then the result will not be all that interesting, we should be focusing on something that's a bit more different in the end. I get that people may not like the situation we are in right now, but we just need to find a balance between them without a doubt. I know that life is not all that easy and we could end up with a troubled future if we are not sure about what we are doing but that's how it's going to look.

So, figuring out what we can do all by yourself is the only way to go and shouldn't really move any further than that, it can't really change anything at all. I know that it's going to be quite troublesome one way or another, and yet it is not going to be all that major at all.

The period where you lose your job until you find a new job is the hardest and the weirdest part of the world and not usually all that common as well. I have worked all my life, with some months in between when I did not work and I can guarantee you that I did not had any financial trouble during the non-working parts of my life whereas I had huge huge huge financial trouble during the times when I worked.

The main reason for that is the fact that I always had a small savings during the non-working part, like the company pays you when you leave, and I knew that I was not working so there was no income, and I spent very very  very little, like barely anything, just surviving, nothing big, not even spend big on food, very tiny amounts.

However, when I am working, I know that I have a salary, so I get to end up spending even more because I trust on the money that will come soon enough and that was the issue that I faced with and that caused some trouble.

I agree, I have seen this list before and worked with some of them before, around maybe 10 years ago or so, and maybe it could be a good side income for someone who has a poor nation, but that is it. I mean this isn't even side income for an American, it is not a side income for a British or a German, it could be a side income for someone who lives in a very poor nation like Argentina or Venezuela.

And top of it off, that is not even main income neither, I am saying side income, so no matter how poor your nation is, you can't just live with these, that's not good enough. However, if you are a lgendary member and willing to write 25+ posts a week, then I am sure that you are going to do fine with bitcointalk income, there are places that pay 100+ dollars a week, that's 5200 dollars a year, meaning on average it is 433 dollars a month. Thinking that there are plenty of nations with less minimum wage, you could live with bitcointalk income without a doubt.

I disagree, doge is not something that I would even remotely consider investing into and I do not think that it would make sense if we wanted to invest into that. I believe that we should try to avoid it as much as you can and should not be really doing anything that would not make sense for anyone.

I get that it may not look awesome for the time being, but I believe that if we give it enough time then we are going to end up with a lot more profit with LTC on the long run. One of them only goes up due to hype and gets super high for a short period of time and if you make profit then you do if not then you miss your chance, the other is not like that at all and goes up long term consistently every single bull run.

Yeah, having a strategy is always good to begin with. I mean if you are doing something that needs adjusting depending on the situation that's fine, but you need to be ready for it beforehand, those adjustments should have been known, like "I will do X when Y happens", and not really come up with it at the time when something happens. That's an important thing and should be considered a big deal, I know that it may not be all that great for the time being, but it is definitely a great thing when it happens.

I hope that we could end up with a greater return if we could get ready for anything, since we are ready for it, we should be able to overcome any issues and end up with a profit when the time comes, that's the trick.

I do not think that football is there to make "profit", it is there to increase the value of the team for the owners, but not make a profit, you spend money to increase the value. Lets assume that you have a smaller club that worths 100 million, these days very rarely top teams worth that, but lets assume that you have a smaller one, barely relegating or not even in this league.

You end up spending 25 million euro on that club this year, so suddenly you are down 25 million, but if you club is now worth 150 million, that means you have made a profit, turned a 100 million club to 150 million club by spending just 25 million and that extra 25 million is your profit. This is why many celebs and rich people are buying teams, they want to spend money but gain more on the value. If you buy United for 8 billion, and they have no debt, no issues, you own 100% of the club, and you spent 1 billion on transfers, that means 9 billion total spent, but the club is now worth 10 billion? That means you made 1 billion in profit.

I mean just because it doesn't get hacked doesn't mean that it is perfect, we could always improve something. We do not have to improve it like crazy, but we could improve it. This means that it is going to take a lot of time for bitcoin to be perfect and in fact I think it will never be perfect, we are going to end up with something that will change things. We should be careful about what we are doing and based on that we could potentially do a lot better or worse.

We need to arrange it in a way that it could help with us a lot more. Sure, it is better than the rest, I am not arguing against that, yes it is the best but just because it is the best and I do not think that it will change anytime soon, it is going to be pretty similar if it doesn't keep on improving. I believe that we need to get bitcoin to be better.

The difference is that "doing better" and 100k+ type of things are important things. We should remember that we are going to end up with a result that is higher because it's a good thing and we should all be looking for that but that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with a good return that is like ATH, if it happened today for example then I do not think that we are going to end up with that.

At the end of the day, we are going to end up with a profit that would be something that could hurt you on the long run. I get that it is going to be something that can make it change if we are not careful. I think the best case would be having it, and just hold it until it happens, because even if it doesn't happen then we are going to see the increase on the halving anyway so that should be the important thing.

Sometimes, but sometimes what is tested gets weaker, because it gets a piece of it destroyed. Imagine it like a wall, so lets say you want to go above 30k, but there is a wall at 30k, the more you hit that wall, the more possibility that it will break down eventually.

However, the most logical thing that happens most of the time is that when people hit that wall, they say there is a wall here and move somewhere else, just like how if you hit a wall, you do not keep trying to go through it in real life right? But there are rare moments when people are fed up with going down, so they just push through it, and with millions of people buying, that means millions of people punching the wall, soon the wall crumbles.

I feel like we are on the opposite side of the story though. When there is nothing bad, no wars, no famine, no bad things going on, then why would we even need anything like Crypto? Fiat would be fine as well and we would all do fine. Obviously cyrpto does better because when all those things happen, there is a good reason for fiat to drop in value, and that makes gold go up, that's how it has been for hundred years now, fiat goes down and gold goes up.

Nowadays, we have a digital gold, which is bitcoin and that means when things go badly then fiat loses value and when it does, people use bitcoin and buy it and store it to keep its value, that allows them to do fine. Obviously people should be doing a lot better.

I do agree that it won't happen this year, but even if it were to happen I would guess that maybe a late December run could be the only way. I still think that it would probably not be the case and we will probably not see anything major changing for now.

I believe that the best thing to do would be just letting the price be as it is right now and then if we can do better the new can do better, but we need to let this year go like this first. After this year, I believe 2024 will see some small increases by the end and 2025 will have a new and higher ATH without a doubt, that is what I believe in. I know that it's hard to wait for that to happen but it's the reality and we just need to come to accept it how it is so far.

This is true, you shouldn't trust someone else's smart if it's your money that is on the line and not theirs. Why would they feel any fear, they are using your money, so they could do whatever they want with it, if they are right they will make a profit and if the yare wrong they will lose money. That's as simple as it gets, and they do not have any incentive not to lose any money, not like if they lose money they have to pay it out of pocket, they are not putting anything on the table.

This is why you should always make your own trades, that would mean that if you lose money then you are losing your own money and you would rather not lose it so you would have an incentive to not do that. This makes you a lot better with your money than them.

I do agree that it is going to be clear that people are going to invest based on the historical pattern, but also the main reason will always be the lack of supply to an ever increasing demand. We are in a world where bitcoin gets more and more popular every single day, it is just a fact, look at how many people ever own bitcoin 10 years ago, look at 9, look at 8 and so forth until today and you will see that there are less and less people who are not in the market.

This means that we need to arrange something that will benefit everyone on the long run and keep it going. This is why I believe that we need to arrange something that we can hold for as long as possible and the increases will definitely benefit us on the long run. This should be important because it manages our future and sure maybe the real reason why it is going up is not because of historical pattern, but they could think of it that way and we would definitely be getting a good result from it.

I think you are right, I do not think that we are going to see something like that happen anytime soon. I get that it may not look all that crazy for the time being but I think it is going to happen and we should be guessing that it is going to be good. I know that it is not that nice and we could probably see it change a bit but at the end of the day it is going to be a lot higher. That should make people feel happy anyway, there is no need to think that it will reach to a point where will go insane, it doesn't have to break over all time high, as long as it is higher that is good enough.

I believe if we can peak at 40k, that would be insane, that would be highest I could ever expect, anything more than that then I would say it was unexpected, and anything above 30k before halving would be prices that I like to see, that is what I assume it will be. If we reach somewhere between that 30k to 40k range then I will be happy and that is more than enough for us.