They really have some balls out rightly refusing refusing the demands of IMF, who would have thought a small country like El-salvador would have the courage to stand up against a giant organization like the IMF, the minister was right they have the right to make a sovereign decision as a sovereign country,  no need to dance to their tune, lets see what action great IMF with take against El-salvador.

I use to have the same notion too until I became following an nft channel that gives updates about everything regarding nft and I must say judging from what I read on the channel, nft space is bigger than as we view it, "In January, NFT trading volume hit an all-time high of $6.13 billion according to a statistic presented in the channel",

And according to Josh Katz, the CEO of YellowHeart
"A new form of NFTs is attempting to radically change the way we buy tickets for live events.  YellowHeart is a blockchain live event ticketing platform based in New York City"  and there are several other big news regarding nft that probably know nothing about, nft is taking the crypto space by storm and soon everyone will recognize its impact.

If the funds are not already or no promises from the opensea team to return the funds of various affected victims believe it would have been made public long before now, am almost certain the teams have addressed the issue and promised a full refund to victims which were affected.

Unlike before,  now there is what they called play-2-earn, gamers can now spend time playing games and earn money in return, people spend thousands to buy PlayStation to play games for nothing (all for the fun of it) they spend real cash to buy in-game items before without getting anything in return, but with metaverse introducing the p2e idea, the narrative is changing, it is possible to actually earn something, if you see it as a waste of time, know that it didn't start from metaverse, because most metaverse projects are game related and gaming has been in existence way back when I don't see what is bad in it,
But I do think nft are overhyped, I can't imagine spending so much money on digital art, I guess art lovers don't have a problem with that.

$8000! That will be a massive opportunity for many people to become full BTC owners, an opportunity for new fresh BTC whales to be born, but then people like you would probably wait for $800 seeing it has dropped that low, eventually you will end up not utilizing the opportunity when you had one,
It is not enough to wish for a low price but the ability to actually take action when it happens, let's assume your prediction happens for a few days, I bet you still won't have the guts to buy because you don't have that mindset  
"Make hay while the sun shines" because you never know what direction the market will go next.

A combination of it won't hurt don't you think! You never know what people will be hyped about the next coming months, and lots of discussions have been flying around about web 3.0 projects being the main focus in 2022, although, it is not a fact this could be the case having a small portion of your portfolio fill with Web 3.0 project is not a bad idea.

What do you mean by "pump or dump" usdt is stablecoin and has always been since the beginning, there is no possibility of price pump or dump, except there is very bad publicity about the owners that will make the stablecoin lose value, despite all controversial information out there about usdt regarding the unknown supply (unknown supply means the owner can print even more), it still remains the highest pairing stablecoin in almost..... if not all exchange, both centralized and decentralized, and a major player in liquidity provider, it is impossible to ignore it.
However, it is left for users to pick their choice since there are other alternatives to choose from.

That's a lot of money, and for that, I would want to invest wisely not to lose the investment, reason why I won't put it in high-risk alts, perhaps I will put 70% on eth, the rest of 30% will be shared among bnb, sol, dot, Matic, these may not bring huge gains but still decent enough and you won't worry so much about your investment.

For you to turn that half btc to 1 btc requires taking a risk and I wonder if you are ready for that after the ups and downs you went through to achieve this 0.5 btc, remember holding won't increase the quantity only the price, if you decide to trade with it, you taking a risk,  you invest it in other alts, even a bigger risk, but since you seem determined and already aware of what is involved, then good luck to you buddy.

Our government are too selfish and always interested in what they can have control over else that thing is automatically tagged as bad, bitcoin is not the root of the problems we have in this world, even before the advent of btc, there have always been multiple of crimes of different economic and political status, but for some selfish reasons, they want to attribute majorities of these problems as a result of btc existence,
Since crypto gives a certain level of financial freedom and can prevent users from being tied to the apron string of the government, they are not so happy with that and must do everything to prevent it.

Banning crypto should be the least on each countries government list imo but unfortunately, instead of finding solutions to all the pressing issues that affect the economy they are more focused on crypto ban as if it is the solution to all political and economic issues,
I don't know if they are able to completely ban crypto, I know they can alter crypto activities to a great deal, still it won't stop crypto enthusiasts except they will follow up with physical arrest.

How low exactly do you expect the price to go! Because as at now 100k ame is around $700 which is reasonable and with the reward you can get for staking for 15 months is not bad,
However, I hope you know there are better projects that offer more for a shorter period, 50% Apr for 4 months is not reasonable imo, many other projects offer same or more for a month period,  well the choice is yours, and since I was a participant of their campaign and I know what it took for the reward to be fully paid, I don't think I trust them enough to stake for that long, plus the liquidity is low, just my 2 cent.

Well, I think it depends on the business model, if your type of business only affects the high-income earners then I don't think the low or poor class (as you put it) will not be in the picture,
For me, I would prefer a business model that connects directly to the high-income earners because such business requires big capital to set up and in turn can bring in a good amount of income, even if the cash flow is not on a daily basis but comes in huge amount whenever it is due, daily earning business is good but if I want to establish myself as a successful business mogul it is important to aim high.

If you are asking if btc already hit bottom and from here on now is uptrend, nobody can be able to tell you in other for you to make the decision to buy now or wait later, you know your target and should know whether you want to buy at this price or not,
Although I don't see what's stopping you from buying now except you have a short-term target, otherwise buying some percentage now (even if not buy all at once) is not a bad idea, the market can reverse now or still correct down, it is not that easy to tell, the decision is yours.

"A picture speaks a thousand words" indeed, how the winners of years back became the losers of today, it was laughable 10 years back but not anymore, the future is uncertain, many people never thought btc will be this popular and valuable, if not the reaction would have been totally different,
Am sure even those who came 5th- 8th won't be so happy with their price since what they got was just 25 worthless btc coins   (if only they knew they were practically given a fortune), my take from this is, 10 years from now btc can still surprise us and everything that is happening now will be like the picture.

The guy is not talking about just a red trust to those who are cut cheating,  he is talking about a real life punishment to those who are cut cheating in an online forum where virtually everyone is anonymous,  I don't know exactly how he expects the admins to carry out this duty of punishing every cheater real life, the highest punishment the admins can give here in the forum is permanently ban a member and that's it.

If you suspect anyone cheating in real life you can always turn to the appropriate authorities for proper investigation and justice.

Predictions are just what it means........ Predictions, don't expect them to be 100% accurate, people just use the situation of the market to say what they think will happen in so and so time, it doesn't necessarily mean that's what actually going to happen,

Most predictions are made out of excitement about the market price movement, and once the market is down most of those making these predictions are probably not too motivated to give any prediction until the market has reversed, although I think it is fun to see different predictions but shouldn't be taken as financial advice, every investor should be able to have their own set goal to achieve.

Good gesture, it is good to know you care so much about your nephew and his upbringing, $100 btc is not small if we can estimate in 10 to 18 years time at what price btc will be trading at,
there is a high possibility btc price is very high and your $100 investment increases a lot too, on the other hand, it can be the opposite, the more reason why you shouldn't rely only on your little investment for his studies,
Your brother needs to be more responsible now that he has a family to care for, find a way of earning more to support your nephews education when the time comes, I hope btc worth more in future so your gift can be more valuable.

All I can say from your newly found behavior is that you are taking things too extreme to the point that your friends and family will find it difficult to hang with you and have a normal conversation, I think if you keep this up it will make look wired   (especially to those people who have not knowledge of this space), which means you can't be around people who don't share or behave the same way as you,

This is your choice but imo there is no need for that, you can be a fan of btc, be supportive as much as you can and still have a life that includes all manner of people, family, friends,     isolating yourself from the rest of the world because they don't have similar views as you is unreasonable.

Am not sure I can be as tough as you to hold btc through these years and through all different ath without being tempted to sell, you are one true holder bro, 2013 till date is a long period of holding and it looks like you will continue, you have made yourself a fortune, congratulations for your determination.