Then tell me please which BTC investor had to watch all profits fall back to zero if they HODLed until this very day? You are talking about on paper profits, but there is always an opportunity cost coming along with dumping your precious BTC. I saw people watch their profits go to zero by selling, FOMO buying back in at a higher price for less BTC, then FUD selling less BTC for a lower price because BTC price corrected, then FOMO rebuying even less BTC with the left over cash during a trend reversal, you get the point if you continue this infinitely until someone is left with nothing.

The only things that fell back to zero are coins that are not called "Bitcoin". BTC is alive and kicking more than ever. If someone sold but didn't have to for any particular reason, blame on them. If they had to, it could still be blame on them if they went all in with money that wasn't meant to be invested for a longer period of time. Volatility is both a devil and a friend and a simple look at the charts tells you exactly that. If they were hoping to catch a good wave and then get out anyway, well, that's a different ball game. Go and play poker or roulette instead.

Taking profits is right if it fits your overall investment strategy and capacity best. It depends on your individual profile and whether divestment makes sense or perhaps recommendable. But in general, BTC has proven to be maximally resilient over the years. I still think a BTC investment is a roller coaster when you look at the charts, but it doesn't have to be psychologically for an investor if they know what they are doing / buying.

Your post deserves some merit and I am surprised nobody decided to send some over to you. This is a very relevant topic you opened up and I feel you put this very well together. Indeed, there are personalities I came across and was talking and couldn't stop wondering why they aren't already sitting in their own multimillion dollars headquarter in a big city with their own company. But you brought up some important aspects: there are people who are genius coming up with new ideas, sometimes even designing them in their head and providing a strategy of how they would approach the realization of a specific project, but they can't convince themselves to go for it, to risk to fail, to bear the pressure and uncertainty until their idea is finally fully converted into tangible reality.

I think there are a lot of thinkers that should make sure they match with the right doers at some point in their life. I believe most of us have gone through a time of being a thinker without grabbing the bull by the horns and then we let go of an amazing idea or maybe even concept. I have had that and sometimes I look back and wish someone listened to me and said: let's go, seriously we do this now!

A lot of people thinkers, not many people are outstanding thinkers / unique thinkers, and some people are doers, only very few people are outstanding doers. And only a very small fraction of the population fits into the intersection of being an outstanding thinker and outstanding doers.

But frankly, nobody has to belong into the category of being outstanding at thinking and doing. As many great CEOs have said, the most important thing is to know where to find those people to do the job for you and the fun part is that many of the people sometimes don't really know themselves that they are either good thinkers or doers or both.

Your post got me thinking, was surely worth a merit!

It is indeed a strategically interesting construct what they are building. Not only do they have all these clubs around the world, but also are they building these ties with scouting agencies and so on and so forth. They are building academies for young players as well. All of that can feed the biggest clubs they have with the best talents while players that are not immediately making it, can be sent to the other clubs for development. It would be interesting to know what the long term plans are for Girona and whether there is a hidden plan that one day Guardiola is going to have a say there. It would be a small project, but one that he could help develop from the ground up. But maybe it is nothing he wants to do.

It wouldn't cost them their position just yet as they still have to play against Athtletic Bilbao and the good news for Atletico is that they play all the game against Barcelona, Girona and Bilbao at home. It would give them a much better position of course if they don't lose the game against Barcelona or in a best case scenario win it, but ok. They'll know that at least as good as I do.

In the semifinal of the Copa del Rey, Bilbao beat Atletico 4-0 in aggregate, 3-0 at home and 1-0 in Madrid, which means that this is certainly not a safe strategy to trust in winning the game against Bilbao if they now fall behind in case of a loss against Barcelona.

Yes but I think Liverpool had slightly more ball control and played better pressing than Manchester City. For obvious reasons this game took place on the highest level possible, but if you summarize all the stats and facts, Liverpool was a few percentage points better than Manchester City and I think they should have had two penalties instead of one. In the end it was a fair draw and both took the point and it was ok, but you could see that Liverpool was still upset about the final scene when their player was fouled in the Manchester City box. It wouldn't have been a wrong decision if the referee decided to give Liverpool that penalty.

Lol, I am not certain how exactly you meant this sentence. A generalization à la "the crypto world" is not risky really made me laugh man! If you said that BTC can be a safe investment compared to other investments outside the crypto world, I would agree if we presume that someone doesn't go bonkers and sells his wife's marriage ring (like someone here on the forum said) or takes a loan and goes all in being neck deep in the water financially. Throwing this sentence out there that "the crypto world" is not risky, that's ridiculous!

It also doesn't make sense because where is reward there is risk, that is how it is. But it's true that this ratio "risk-reward" was skewed in favor of those who studied BTC early and understood it better than others. Indeed, those people came to the conclusion that the risk-reward ratio of BTC outcompetes all the ratios of any other investment opportunities. But since I believe that your "crypto world" includes all these altcoins, then I can only say that they are damn risky and that the risk-reward ratio is so bad that your statement they would "not be too risky" is plainly false.

This could end in a true photo finish and while so far Liverpool and Manchester City have been known to deliver each other a fierce fight, there is now a fourth club involved with Arsenal and I think they are more experienced now and will do better than last season. It is hard to tell whether any of the teams will mess up and lose a significant number of points on their way to the last match, but I doubt that Arsenal will suffer several stupid losses this time. It was almost the same last season for them, but yet they look to be playing more stable now.

Chelsea Just finished off Newcastle I think. I don't think there that is any chance to come back from being two goals down now. But the win is fair as Chelsea was stronger in this game although both teams aren't really playing for anything anymore. It's 13 and 14 points respectively. Maybe someone qualifies from the sixth rank. I think that's possible when Manchester City wins the Champions League and qualifies for it in the Premier League.

It is indeed rare that smaller clubs successfully establish themselves at the top of the best leagues in Europe. One such example that was expected to make the cut but did not was Newcastle United. When they played this strong season in 22/23, I thought they would take a lot of money and make a lot of right decisions to become a reliable top candidate in the Premier League. They are still not a bad team of course, but they are quite far below their level from last season. They got eliminated in the Champions League group, which I didn't expect either as I thought they could definitely beat Dortmund and AC Milan. It's not only about the money when new clubs are built, which I think Chelsea demonstrated quite well by now.

There is more information to this than just a coach who led Girona to the top of La Liga with his "cool hands". Girona is well financed. It is not a club that came out of nowhere and played its way to the top with mediocre players. They have invested big time in infrastructure and they have a well formed team within the club that understands how to build football teams. The City Football Group is backing it and they have the money to make sure that the coach stays if they want to keep him. By now the City Football Group owns 12 clubs worldwide. The chairman of Girona is so called Pere Guardiola, got it? The brother of Pep Guardiola. There are no amateurs at work.

I had to think twice while I was getting started with my answer. I don't even know whether investments in the agricultural sector are that feasible for young people who are looking into potential investments. It is probably not a sector that will keep growing for a long time as I believe at some point in time genetic technology will play a bigger role than it already does today.

Do you subsume any food production technologies under your so called farming and food related sectors? I assume yes and I think that's where things could become interesting again. Any advanced technology will be driven by younger generations at some point. Probably AI would take over when it comes to developing safe and effective genetic technologies.

After all, supply and demand will rule the (investment) markets and of course accessibility of these markets. At the moment my impression is that agricultural sectors are purely dominated by giants like Bill Gates and massive companies. They live off of the dividends whereas younger people look for investments that still have a lot of potential to grow. If it is about experimental technologies and breakthroughs, it's different as we have seen with some startups that exploded during the COVID crisis.

But in the agricultural sector, someone like Bill Gates owns so much that it is not important to him whether the share price increases. He makes billions from dividends alone, no matter whether the shares drop in price or increase price, whether there is a food crisis or not.

I think people were wondering for a long time whether this impressively determined approach will work out, but seriously MicroStrategy / Saylor are so determined and transparent about their buying decisions that it literally turned into a buying signal for global investors when they announce their moves. They have really never left any doubt that they won't stop. They bought when BTC went up and they bought when BTC went down and sometimes the more BTC went up, the bigger the buys.

I never fully understood how they are able to mobilize that much capital, but they have taken advantage of any option possible to get their hands on more cash to buy more BTC. I assume there isn't much left to say except for congratulations to MicroStrategy. They have worked their way towards an amazing position in the BTC industry. Step by step, their own DCA so to say, just with a little bit more money compared to the average Joe!

It is not so much about the quality of their team. I think they do have a good team for sure, but they are going through some harder times and nobody underestimates them anymore. They were at 48 points after 19 games and then they lost some of their momentum, which on the one hand was to be expected, but on the other hand they couldn't afford it in light of how Real Madrid has been performing. I think the La Liga title was too much of a goal for them this season. But honestly if Real Madrid also signs Mbappe, I don't know who the heck wants to stop them in La Liga. While Real Madrid has players like Vinicius Junior, Bellingham and then perhaps Mbappe, Barcelona is trying to solve debt problems. This could have consequences in the long run. The world stars aren't considering Barcelona anymore at the moment. If they have the choice, it would be Real Madrid 90% of the time.

But putting all of this aside, Girona is playing an amazing season no matter what. They are competing with the top La Liga teams and yet they are maintaining their spot ahead of Barcelona and Atletico.

I am not questioning that PSG will probably win the Ligue 1 title for the next 20 years in a row... But my point is that a player should usually be thriving for maximum goals and winning Ligue 1 really isn't such a goal once you have been praised as one of the best strikers in the world. If you are a top ten striker let's say, why the hell would you go to PSG and play in France? The answer is money. The highest you can achieve in club football is to win the Champions League and the Premier League. There were times when La Liga was the best league at least from the perspective of how hard it was to win. When Ronaldo and Messi played there, winning La Liga was incredibly hard because of that rivalry. Whereas in the Premier League the players are playing on the highest level almost non-stop during a season. If someone wants to compete with the best, I think the Premier League is still the number one league for top players.

That's true but the point in sports betting is to find odds that give you value for your money. The problem is that I doubt in the more popular sports that a gambler really has an information advantage over the bookmakers. This could be the case for niche sports, but the huge bookmakers certainly have analytics in place that understand quite well how to incorporate particular circumstances in a sports team into the odds calculation.

I can't talk about too many sports as only the big sports are my favorite, but perhaps someone is following a nice sport knows whether information pays off more than it does in the NBA or football or soccer. Injuries are publicly known and scandals as well, but it's not very often that I fins odds where I think the bookmaker is totally off. It does happen, but not too frequently.

Ok maybe using a phrase like "certainly not" takes things a bit too far. No need risking to be wrong because of using absolute terms. But as you said, they are an intermediary that follows the money and I am sure chances are very high that the "customer base" will most likely only grow from here. I don't like to call people who own BTC customers, but here it does apply as they get served by an intermediary.

I am basing my assumptions on observations in my closer environment. When I see 12 years old kids talking about BTC and cryptocurrencies, what are the chances that they prefer another asset class like gold or art over digital goods? The only risk I see is that all kinds of worthless digital goods could dilute some of the potential for BTC specifcially. But BTC clearly is the real deal and every time someone burns their fingers with some worthless meme coin or NFT, I believe that most of them will learn the lesson and decide to hold a significant portion of BTC in their portfolio even at quite a young age.

We will still see cycles I think and I am realistic about the downside and upside potential in the short term. Could BTC's price be cut in half? It could, it has done that in the past and it might do it again in the future. But unless something really bad happens, like some algorithmic issues or a new technology that makes BTC obsolete (which I have no idea about what that could be looking like in the near future), I am very optimistic for BTC.

PSG could be a good option for Osimhen although I am not a fan of Ligue 1. But he will certainly be paid a huge salary.

Though Mbappe leaving the club will make the club far less attractive for other players and for fans in general. These days it is still fun to watch PSG play exactly because of Mbappe. The goals he scored in the Champions League were once more unbelievable. His speed is impressive, his quick movements and finishes.

Osimhen is not on the same level, but he would be good enough to win the Ligue 1 title.

It was a massively important win for Girona as they have been losing too many points recently, but now with this win I think that there is no way they will drop out of the Champions League qualifiers. Athletic Bilbao is now 12 points behind, but has one game in hand. Still though, given that Atletico is struggling, it is more likely that they will get under pressure than it is for Girona.

It is too bad that Girona has lost three out of their last five games, since Real Madrid has had three draws during that time. It could be much closer than it now is.

If not based on information, upon what would you even place a bet then? Isn't the whole point in sports betting that you base your decisions on information that you think is sufficiently supportive of your picks?

If you don't bet on information that you gather, why don't you just roll the dice? No information needs to be obtained and it certainly makes sense to just roll the dice instead of betting on sports events that you have no idea about.

Leverkusen yes, but I don't see Roma being on the same level. In my opinion Roma is not even close. They improved their game lately, but there is still a huge gap when you compare them to Liverpool. But I think we will get to see a nice test when Liverpool now plays against Manchester City. That's the toughest test a team can have.

However, I think in a final everything is possible. If Roma can manage to make it into the final, then I wouldn't assume that they are without chances. Playing a final is always different from playing league games.

Those times are over when I tried to figure out when the next correction might happen. I would rather stick with a consistent buying strategy and follow the most important rule: don't shift your precious BTC into altcoins (aka shitcoins)! If for some reason you get the timing wrong, buy at the ATH and then BTC dumps hard, you can almost be certain that a recovery will follow, but it may take some time. Just check out when we last hit the upper 60k range. That is like 2.5 years ago. Make sure you invest money you don't need in half a year and you are on a quite safe way with your investment. Shitcoins may never recover! There are some that will probably recover because they are on the BTC bandwagon. But 99.9% of the shitcoins you can find on coinmarketcap.com will probably never go back to their ATHs. If you play that game of jumping back and forth between BTC and shitcoins long enough, you'll probably end up with empty hands.

By the way, what do you even consider a correction? 3%, 10%, 50%? People like Michael Saylor (or MicroStrategy) are adding more BTC frequently. I doubt they would do it if they thought any significant correction could be possible in the near future. With significant I mean something like 25% +. We aren't even at a point where 10% is really significant. BTC is volatile and if it drops from 68k to 61k, nobody who has been around for a long time would be talking about a significant correction. It wouldn't make a huge difference for potential investors either. Whether you get in at 61k or 68k, if you are pursuing long-term goals the overall impact is most likely going to be quite little.