I do not believe that anyone should be forced to do anything. With few exceptions. But certainly no one should be forced to read books. Those you mention are good books, but we seem to be in an age that ignores what they wrote, where most of the world is turning towards a covert social communism within the market economy.

Not really. In general, I do not miss any politician. However, I prefer his policies to Biden's (also in general) even though I think his manners left much to be desired. But, yeah, he was entertaining. We had a reality show USA president.

From what it seems the OP is referring to the altcoins section, which bounties no longer offer signature campaigns. I don't know about that because I hardly ever visit that section. But as far as I can see, the signature campaigns that are paid in Bitcoin and advertised in the Services section are alive and well. The only thing is that as Paxmao says, they have quality requirements.

Actually, seeing thar OP hasn't earned any merit, I'm not surprised that he complains.

Assuming that the story told by the OP is true, I don't believe everything I read on the forums, what I see is that this is typical of people with the mentality of hitting the big time. It is much better and less risky to gradually buy what you can save, with DCA. I believe that Bitcoin will continue to be the most profitable asset for years to come, but I think that person is playing roulette.

Feast today, famine tomorrow.

Something weird is going on with that. It's not normal that they won't stop printing massively and the dollar is strengthening, though I guess it's due to 1) Pure short-term fluctuation/variability 2) Other currencies are printing a lot more. Let's not forget what's going on with the Turkish lira lately.

I am surprised after a few comments I am going to be the first one to disagree with what OP says because he bases his reasoning in a false analogy:


That comparison is wrong. Both are decentralized.


That's again wrong. Gold is as decentralized as Bitcoin. The value of Gold doesn't come from a Central Bank, unlike in the case of the value of USD, which comes from the FED and the US government. Gold is valuable because people believe it's valuable, the same as Bitcoin, they don't need a Central Bank or a Government saying that they are valuable.

Other than that, the government can confiscate your Bitcoin just like they can confiscate your Gold if they make an executive order for Bitcoin like they did in 1933. Is it a little harder to confiscate it? Yes, but it is similar. If such an order were passed, all Bitcoin from centralized exchanges would be confiscated by the government, and in the case of people who keep Bitcoins in hard wallets it would be more difficult but just as it was difficult to confiscate gold from someone who had a little bit of it hidden at home.


This is also false. Gold is both an investment asset and you can use it to make payments. It's not so usual nowadays, but you can, and it has been widely used to make payments throughout History.



Why are you?



Bitcoin nowadays is not a currency and it's not the only decentralized asset, as I have shown.

Yes, of course, it is clear that it affects in the short term, just as it affects in the short term if the stock markets rise. But in the long term what matters most is massive fiat printing, 0% rates and limited supply of Bitcoin. In the long term it can only go up.

They may or not but this forum has the advantage of being the largest, the best known, and the oldest, founded by Satoshi. It is like Coca-Cola, it has the power of the brand. Others will try to compete with it, but they will have a hard time.

Nowadays that forum has virtually no traffic.

No.


It's not either.

What is usually called luck in this type of games is reduced to mathematical certainty. There is an unpredictability of outcomes in the short term, but a predictability of outcomes in the long term. I have explained about this in other posts, if you want to know more learn about the concepts of Mathematical Expectation and House Edge as well as statistics applied to gambling in general..

That surprises me. Actually I think it's the other way around and I haven't found people who say what you say. Online you can also see tells, but at the end of the day you play with a screen. Live you see the person, their face, their body, their moves, how they pick up cards and chips. For me it is clear that it is easier to see tells when playing in land-based casinos.

 If you change "credit" to "debit", I can agree with you, because at the end of the day debit cards are a form of cash, electronic of course, and that implies less friction when it comes to spending. In today's increasingly cashless society, debit cards are the least bad alternative. Credit cards are a much poorer alternative because they involve less friction when it comes to spending and many people end up getting into too much debt and paying a lot of interest for using them.

This dream is not new. A future world where we work less and live better thanks to machines, and, in this case AI. Today we live better than we did 50, 100 and 1000 years ago, but we don't stop working, at least most of us. I hope this is the case, but I have my doubts. It would be ideal a future where working is not an obligation and people do what they like, being the rest of productive jobs carried out by machines.

Yeah well, strictly speaking it is indeed false. However a pound was worth one pound of silver 300 years ago. Nowadays you only get 0.05 ounces or 0.003125 pounds, which means it has lost more than 99% of its initial value.

I agree with the previous opinions that this is normal. Just a minor setback that was to be expected. For those of us who invest for the long term, all this does is yawn.

Although I appreciate the effort and time you may have put into it, I believe that with buy & hold you will have more than enough profitability. The bitcoin has been the most profitable asset of the last decade and everything looks like it will be the most profitable of the next decade, outperforming by far any other asset. Strategies to supposedly get an even higher return seems like a waste of time to me.

It is good to know for next time but that user confessed:

For those of you who don't know yet, I caught the OP in his more than questionable behavior and exposed him on meta:

Can someone check if there is something wrong with this?

I decided to lock the thread after @fortune1002 begger for forgiveness multiple times and kept telling the DTs who had red tagged him to take it off. As I saw that there was no point in continuing with that thread and that it had already served its purpose, I closed it.

But although deep down I feel a little sorry for him, it is clear that he has not yet assumed the consequences of his actions.

Hi LoyceV, thank you very much for this post. Today I wanted to send a small transaction and I was on the verge of not sending it because if I sent the high fee, the commission would be more expensive than the transaction itself. If I sent the standard fee, the transaction cost me the same as the commission, i.e. twice as much. If I put the low fee a little less but almost the same. I searched the forum and found this post, I tried with 10 sat/vb, which was about 2% of fees, that is much cheaper, and in about 12 minutes I had three confirmations. I will keep this thread in my whatchlist and reread it because I am a noob in this transaction stuff.

Edit: I've just tried now 5 sat/vb with the address I had with the lowest amount, like 5/6$, I think this thread is going to be useful for me.

To be honest, I feel a little sorry for you but what has happened here is that you have chosen the fast way, cheating. Once I discovered this and brought it to the attention of the community, there is nothing more I can do. It is up to the moderators to ban you and to the DT members to give you negative trust.

Actually, some classical scams are like that, based on greed. They require you to pay a sum with the promise that you will get much more. Online scams are just a normal evolution of this.