Does it matter what Bitcoin is, it both a currency and an asset. The most important things about bitcoin is that it is freedom and can be used in anyway you want. Bitcoin is the freedom the government do not want you have which is why they are trying all their best to end it but have not been successful because you can not kill what you can not control and Bitcoin is not controllable.

If you want to use Bitcoin as an asset, you are free to do so same as using it as a currency. You can also use it as a savings account. Bitcoin is financial freedom which is why it can be used for different purpose while still been in control of your finances.

We have so many things that are free in the world, the air you are breathing is free as you are not paying for it. Take a visit to the hospital to see how much per hour people relying on life support are paying for their oxygen that you are breath freely. In the cryptocurency space, we also have things that are free and they called airdrop. Now I am not taking about the airdrops that requires you to waste your time promoting them with different tasks they give you but those that are actually doing genuine airdrop.

While we keep saying airdrop are not worth it, people have made thousand of dollars from UNIswap airdrop, dydx airdrop and so many other airdrop. Do not just chase after the worthless airdrop that should be the advice but participants in genuine ones should be encouraged like if you see an exchange doing well but do not have a governance token, best you can do is make some trades on that exchange so as to be eligible or an airdrop if they come up with one in the future.

Let put it this way, the airdrop of today are strategic airdrop that reward real users of their platform and not those asking you to promote them for worthless tokens. Check out most of the profitable airdrop of today came as a result of using their platform like dydx, uniswap and the countless Defi related swap decentralized exchange airdropping their governance tokens to those that are using their platform.

We also have those airdropping their tokens for simply whitelisting your address during their early days of introduction to the industry. Do not waste your time on all this airdrop asking you to tag all your friends, retweet all theirs tweets and do all sorts of free promotions, usually they are worthless even though they finally send you the tokens.

That is what they want you think initially, just wait with time we will begin to see all type of unacceptable behavior from the binance team and it will already be too late to do anything by then. The government are playing a more bigger game here. Soon they'll start going after individual with the details binance has, you think binance will say no to the government when they are seriously trying to get them to like them?.

I'm disappointed with CZ recent decision although he still has the best trading platform out there but lets not forget we have other alternative and if they can give us what we went without having to sell out our private details then why not use them.

The government are does preventing this from happening, this CEO knows the government are against Bitcoin and do not want to get on the wrong side of the government because of the regulations and penalty that might follow for promoting Bitcoin in their social media. But CEO that are maximalist are not concerned which is why Jack Dorsey is doing so good in creating more awareness for Bitcoin.

The hype on Bitcoin is so huge that all CEO want a piece of it, you can see all what Mark Zuckerberg did to get in on this hype but failed due to the government not approving. I believe other social media CEO are passing through same challenge or maybe they do not just care.

Yes and again water is wet so what is new there, China just use this same old trick and news to manipulate the market when they want to get into the market. Did they not ban it in 2017 so what is different now. China needs to realize the market is bigger than them and their stuns would not work this time.

The market is now more mature and even though there'll be a short teem panicking, that would not last long. The market always recover and trade at a more higher price, this time would not be any different.

Mostly because crypto investors are seen as gamblers or ponzi investors and no body whats to be addressed that way and such thoughts are misconception but the society has made it seems like it is true. Around the world, most government are attacking this currency and if you do not want to be a target then it is better you stay hidden and just be making your profit peacefully.

Beside, the new thing now is not to brag about your source of wealth, back in the days when stock and forex trading were not that accessible, thoes engage in this act see themselves as the most privileged so they boast about it but now it is very easy to trade especially with cryptocurency everyone can get involved so there is nothing there to brag about.

People do not sell because they think it is going to zero  that was back in the days people thought that way now everyone selling is doing so because they are trying to avoid losses when the market is experiencing corrections or those hoping to be in the best position to buy more coins with the same capital they had when the market was bullish.

Everyone has different investment strategy so while yours could be holding until a price has be reached, others could be trading for more coins especially when the markets is looking bearish.

Today marks the start of the last quarter of the year in cryptocurency and this  is when the profits usually comes in at its best considering if the year was a bullish one. You'll see new token gaining popular so will the scams so we have to be very careful. Choose your investment wisely as this could be the last quarter to experience profit before we enter a bear market next year.

Do not be of the opinion that a coin has already increase in price therefore it can not increase further when they are quality projects, such mindset should not make you go searching for new gem and end up buying into Scam coins instead explore more possibilities in those well known project. Project like Solana, DOT, BNB, BTC, ETH can still give you good profit and you investing now does not mean you would be profiting less.

They are better option than most of the overhyped project that will come up this quarter just to deceive you to investing with them. Like I said, choose wisely because this is likely the last chance to get into quality project before they achieve new all time high for the year.

My costliest mistakes in cryptocurrency has been from trading which is why I spend time trying to advice those that are in that field. Trading is not gambling, the newbies coming into that field have to understand this. I misunderstood the market before now and it cost me alot which made me depressed but I am all good now as I began wining again. I wrote some advise on my posts and it'll be helpful for those wanting to be traders, 

• Reasons why they get it all wrong when trading
• Understanding how the market tricks you and how to prepare against such tricks.

When I started trading, I did most of guess works based on previous records of the coins I was about trading and it worked out for me so I continued until I lost both my capital and profit. It was then I realized I was doing it all wrong and had to spend money on my learning process. Many people are still making similar mistakes and if they are not advised they will end up regretting. My lost was $500 capital, the profits, that I can not recall but I did not keep track after I lost them all.

For everyone who has spent something in the market, you'll realize this situation I'm about to describe below to be 100% accurate. The market always has some tricks to throw at you, that's why we're advice to understand the market very well before wanting to earn from it or you'll lose. Have you notice whenever you're in profit, there isn't always a need of money that very moment which then make you think of exciding your initial target, in other words you become greedy and want to make more profit.

Now the story is different when you're in loss as that's the very moment you'll be in need of urgent cash, which will make you likely want to sell your coins off in panic to avoid further loss or use the cash for something else. This is usually the market tricking you. Assuming there was no active trade, there's every possiblity you'll find that money to solve that problem from somewhere else but no the market will mess with your mind to make you think selling is the only solution to this problem.

You can avoid been in such situations by simply listening to the advice giving of not investing money that might be needed urgently and secondly always securing profit to help in situations like this incase they araise when you're in that tight spot (having a bad trade). Take notes of this advice and you'll be one step ahead of the market.

Before an altcoins get launched, most times they must have been several funding phrase that the general public aren't allowed to participate in and some are done without anybody knowing which means there's always people that we're just enriching each time we buy newly launched tokens either from market or pre-sale.

Judging from what is happening in the market, it's very obvious that majority of the CEO are just after making money from the industry but they'll not tell you that instead they keep decieving everybody that they created the token to solve world problem meanwhile there's no utility of that project only just it been tradable.

While we Invest in project, we shouldn't blindly follow what the CEO are saying regarding their project, always make sure you research and have been convince based on the evidence you see that the projects is likely to succeed like roadmap, etc and not rely on what the CEO will say because everybody thinks theirs is the best and get clouded by emotions. There's so many altcoins, don't get too attached to anyone that you'll be blinded and not see what a scam they are before they exist scam.

Sometimes I begin to wonder how it's easy to misguide the members in this community. The rich has made so much money form their investment in crypto and other aspect of investing now they just want to have fun by playing with meme investment like Elon musk. Without understanding that, we now see that decision of theirs as an investment opportunities and go putting all our money in a joke.

The rate at such a stupidity is what make me believe, we still have a long way to go in this industry. We don't understand the rich are messing with our heads in this industry. How can someone bindly buy an Art fir such high amount all in the name of participating in NFT. We don't learn form our mistakes in this industry. Isn't it same way we had thousands but fICO in the past and they mostly scam their investors which the presale participate profited.

Why risk it all on meme and NFT when you can simply buy Bitcoin or other legit coins and profit in the future. We have to stop giving this rich bastard and scammers the room to scam us and ripoff of our money. Stop this worthless investment and Invest in the right things to secure a bright future.

I came across a meme some months back and it stuck to my my head that I had to put it down in writing to some extend on my profile (personal) statue. The meme was emphasizing on giving a man Bitcoin and you'll fees him for centuries and it got me wondering about the popular quotes that says "Give a poor man fish and you feed him for a day, but teach him how to make money and you feed him for lifetime". Now if the quote meaning is that giving out money only enslaved the mind of the receiver as he/she begin to think less on how to make a living for himself instead begins to rely on you, which is bad.

But then, if you teach that individual how to make money, they become independent and there's higher chances of them replicating same action to others and the good continues. Now in the cryptocurency community the opposite is the case, people are given fish (money Bitcoin) daily through giveaway and other means steadily on the social media platforms. Isn't this contradicting everything. We're producing dependant society that rely on others instead of looking for alternative ways to make a living for themselves and start earning bitcoin.

What the meme is saying 'Give a man Bitcoin and he'll be feed for centuries' should this be the case, why isn't it publicizing teaching about bitcoin and feeding the man for lifetime or is there something that I'm missing here?.

Like they said, politicians will always be politicians, they know how to tell people what they want just to get them on there side, I hope you're not just saying all this to get our mind but truly what to improve the life of your people. While I was reading your thread, I can see someone that believe in bitcoin from the get go so good lock. Well I don't think you election would have much contributions from this forum unless you're planning on getting some citizens from the forum to join your campaign team by volunteering.

I don't know how election campaigns are done at your end but I do hope you come out with a great campaign strategy to emerge the winner of the election. It would be nice having Bitcoin enthusiast in the government so we can get some break, there attack on the community is just too much. Good luck again.

Congratulations on achieving a new rank, you're now in the second half of ranks on the forums (1st half jnr to full member, 2nd half is from Snr to legendary) newbie Isn't relevant everyone gets that.  Your story won't have been completed without mentioning nutildah, he has been actively helping members lacking merits but are worth ranking up to rank up of recent, kudos to him for such generous act.

Surprising of all those he has helps you're the only user that I have seen acknowledge his help in your celebration thread maybe others has with replies but I haven't come across it. It's always a thing of joy when those you help show gratitude. I'm sure he must be smiling seeing he did have an impact on someone's account and the person appreciate him for that. Enjoy your new rank, it took sometimes but finally came, you deserve to celebrate it.

There can't never be the next Bitcoin and we have to understand that if we want to benefit massively form the industry, we have to understand that without bitcoin, this market won't have come into reality. Bitcoin has every factor supporting it to be dominating for a very long time. No cryptocurrency can out shine Bitcoin, they all need it to be worth something.

That been said, if you're investing, invest because you want to make profit and not to replace Bitcoin. As a cryptocurency investor you should always value Bitcoin and make sure you own some. We can only have one in the whole world while altcoins will always be widely available for purchase. If you miss this particular coin, no need to worry as others opportunity will present itself in due time, just keep accumulating fiat so when the opportunity comes this time, you won't miss it.

Campaign organizers knows social media has the biggest publicity coverage so in order to get more people to promote them on this various platform they offer better payrate for the promoters. Signature advertisment focusses on just one platform which is the forum and the numbers are limited unlike with twitter and other social media campaign there number are far more than signature so they have more promoters to pay which increase their budget for the campaign.

I feel the social media promoters are under paid in most of the campaigns while signature are over paid, I mean all the signature promoters like myself have to do is just comment on topic and the reach of our promotion are just limited to those who read the threads we write on but with social media, hashtags also has its advertising to do with addition to our friends or followers seeing our adverts on their feeds.

The popular opinion now is buy the coins that are down, and when the market recovers that you'll be in profit. While that saying is correct but that doesn't go for all coins. Don't go buying every coins you see losing value just because you think when the market bounces up, they'll follow. Majority are losing value because people are seeing them for what they truly are which are just a waste of investment and time, also a ticking time bomb waiting to explosed.

The memes you all are rushing to buy today most probably will die with this market and won't be much of a sort after coin when the next bull run comes same goes for the Defi, NFT, launchpad projects you're all rushing to get them cheap not knowing you're buying a waste. Choose wisely, follow up the project. See if their developers are working on something or just hiding behind the now popular saying, the market is unfavorable.

Project with visions uses the bear market to build as they'll be getting less distracted with the whole when moon or when binance question for those not listed there yet. The current market situation present an opportunity to research properly and invest wisely, take notes.

The market has experience some major setback and this will throw alot of hypes nonsense project out of the way for news ones to come on boards when the market starts recovering again therefore I'll advice against what you just indicated interest in. There'll be new projects that'll just be hyped as of last time and many will become a victim of their scams.

Instead of chasing after their underdogs as you'll call them, just look for established projects that has a future and buy into them. Majority are already at a big discount so getting them now will be a plus to you as they'll most likely regain price when the market stabilized. Owning Bitcoin is a must, it's currency undervalued don't miss the opportunity o buying this low.