The problem with ideologies is that they are almost perfect in theory but far from perfect in practice. In my case, I think capitalism is the least bad once it is put into practice, but always putting certain limits on the part of the state and having some redistribution of wealth. Although, ideally, these limits and redistribution should tend to the minimum.

It of course is due to communism, which is a nice idea in the theory, but the one of the worst economic systems when you put it into practice.

It is as simple as this. Do you know why the Berlin Wall was built? Because people were escaping en masse from a regime of political and economic repression to a free country. So, the Eastern Bloc politicians decided to build the wall.

How many people tried to escape from West Germany to East Germany by jumping over the wall? 0

How many people tried to escape from East Germany to West Germany by jumping over the wall? Tens of thousands, putting their lives on the line.

How many people try to escape from South Korea and go to North Korea? 0
And the other way around?

How many people escape from the United States to Cuba on a raft?
And the other way around?

How many people have escaped from Venezuela?

Venezuela exodus set to top 5 million as long-term needs grow, officials say.

And so on.

You're not making any sense. To begin with, cash can also be spent using debit cards. Also, the UN also came out to deny that the use of banknotes was transmitting the coronavirus: World Health Organization: ‘We did NOT say that cash was transmitting coronavirus’

So, your argument doesn't hold.

LOL. A breakthrough in cryptocurrency adoption?

A card that converts crypto to fiat?

See this: Why Binance’s New Debit Card Fails to Fulfill Satoshi’s Vision.

In my opinion, it could be a breakthrough if that card would pay in crypto directly and thus if merchants accepted crypto payments, being those transactions recorded in the blockchain.

Apart form that, I agree with what others have said. Fiat is not dead.

Cash is still king.

If you refer to an anthropocentric God, that is, a god conceived in the image and likeness of man, but with super powers, no, I do not believe in him. This idea of God is expressed by the most multitudinous religions, like Christianity or Islam.

I agree with the ancient Greek Xenophanes of Colophon that if animals had a mind and also could paint, they would paint God with the form of an animal.

I do not deny that there is something like a "God", but if there is, it is surely something much more complex than what is expressed by anthropocentric religions.

You do not explicitly say whether you are investing in the long or short term, but from your words it is clear that you are playing short term. Keep trying to time the market. I think the only system that works for that is to consult your crystal ball, as short term prices depend a lot on human emotions reacting to certain events and not to intrinsic properties of assets.

I prefer to invest long-term: buy and hold.

Thanks! No, I'm not too worried. I think I have to receive the equivalent of around $0.50 in bitcoin LOL.

I was coming to the thread to ask about this just now because I've checked that I haven't received the payment.

Has everybody received it? Otherwise it seems to me that it has been delayed for more than 24 hours since the message was written. As this would be my first payment, I would like to know that everything is OK.

What? The economic tragedy in Venezuela has been caused by the communists who rule the country.

No. It has not been an unfortunate sequence of events. What has happened in all communist countries has happened in Venezuela: that the rulers are increasingly rich, at the cost of killing the population with hunger.

The problem is that the rulers have cut off all private initiative and with this, productive activity has been reduced to a minimum.

The best answer to your question will come from self-education.

Paying attention only to what people tell you in an internet forum like this doesn't seem very smart. Instead, get information and come to your own conclusions, it's not bad to take into account what other people say, but the decision has to be yours all the time. Nobody knows what is the correct way of behaving in a high volatility market but through information you can guess what the most likely correct way for you and that won't come only from answers to this thread.

No, you are not going to get merit for this post.

I take quite a few, actually. Currently vitamin C, high doses of vitamin D, krill oil (omega 3) and a compound of melatonine, valerian and other herbs to help sleep better. I quite often use products from Dr. Sam Robbins but I cycle them (don't take them every day), namely Alpha Viril, Lean Optimizer, Blood Sugar Optimizer and Blood Flow Optimizer. I'll try more of his products in the future. In the past, I would take zinc, magnesium and other minerals, but since I take compounds that have them in, I no longer take them isolated.

I spend a lot of money buying supplements.

I wouldn't give the influence of halvening up for lost. ATHs after halving were never immediate, they took months. I believe that if we have ATH before Christmas it is in part because of the influence of having. Although in a broad sense, as long as it is produced before the next halving, the bitcoin will be following its trend.

Yes, the problem is that we are in a historical moment in which the bitcoin is behaving like another financial asset. A volatile and high risk one, but a financial asset after all.

This has not always been the case, because when bitcoin went from $0.01 to $20,000 there were phases in which it was not correlated with the stock market. And it doesn't have to be that way in the future either. We hope it won't be.

That would be nice, and by the way, to have an active account on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube. But looking at the forum design I don't have much hope. This forum seems to be a remote corner of the internet, without much visibility, only for geeks.

Those who are looking for information about bitcoin, will find it, but the rest will not appear by chance.

I guess those who run it are fine like that, and don't think they need to expand much further but any other company with internet visibility works a lot these days its social networks.

I agree that it seems inevitable.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html

When you see that the debt of countries works like clockwork, it's normal to wonder if the economic system in which we live isn't shit. Bitcoin was born to combat this, but the day when the economic system changes, if it ever does, is far away.

What I don't see is the link between incels, feminazy etc. with the economic system. 20 years ago we didn't have them and we had a lot of debt already, although less than now.

I think a lot of people are going to walk away from this arrest. His famous "I will eat my dick" won him many enemies. And his pump and dump alts more. I don't feel sorry for him.

Wasn't he going to run for president? LOL.

This. I've registered in some crypto casinos and there is no way they know whether I am a minor or not. Another thing would be for them to somehow realize, which is very unlikely, that one of the registered players is a minor. In that case I think they would close the account.

Anyway, OP if you are a minor you'd better not play.

Of course, that's what I think when I see news like this. They are not a boom for bitcoin but they are another step on the road to mass adoption. There is quite a lot of news like this that you see from time to time on the forum but I dream of seeing the day when this is not even news.

By the way, I haven't seen one such machine near where I live, I also dream of seeing one.

That's what I was thinking about. Something tells me that a person who opens a post like this, without doing a search first, is not going to rank up.

If I had looked for it, I would have found it easily. I think that's what most beginners who end up ranking up do.