Some of the keys factor to look as an investor
Know your risk tolerance, the ability of accepting the losses of your investment exchange, invest only what you can afford to lose. Not your life saving not what you borrow, only what you afford to lose in case such happen as a beginner.
Other factor like your homework, research Bitcoin trending news, coinmarkercap, coin telegraph, understand why you are investing not as just a feeling because others are doing it
Start small, scale slow, test with the manageable amount to lose in case marker exchange change as a newbie, then gradually increase as you feel comfy. Set rules, No emotion , in this case decide price to buy/sell before you sweat. Stay updated, not obsessed, that's to set alerts on weekly check, join calm crypto communities group (Twitter, telegram Facebook ) seek support, talk to a trusted financial advisor not influencers , all this help in managing the fear of investors.
i hear you great advice and could not agree with you more. controlling fear is a hard thing to achieve especially when it comes to money. bitcoin is in a bit of a state at the moment and a lot of people panicking selling even tho their at a loss but the fear of losing everything is greater then stay in the game. many rich and successful people today have been in a situation when they have hit zero but they have learnt lesson and come back from it easier said then done i know but think long term and stop following advice from others who are also panicking. take time to sit and learn before going straight in or out |
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Do you agree or disagree? I myself used to believe bitcoin was the greatest store of value ever created,
but after giving it a lot of thought I no longer believe that is the case, and here is why.
1. People often say bitcoin is a store of value, but in the same breath also tell you it is highly volatile.
Those are two contradictory things. A store of value has to be more or less stable in price. It cannot be both
highly volatile and a good store of value imo.
When something is very volatile, it tends to shake people out and cause them to panic and sell.
That is why most people will not be able to HODL bitcoin for long. Of course there are some hardcore HODLers
who are able to hold it for many years (I was one of them) but they are the exception not the rule.
HODLing and "never sell your bitcoins" are nice slogans but in reality it is easier said than done for most.
2. Bitcoin doesn't have a stable source of demand.
By that I mean there is little to no demand for bitcoin beyond speculation. For example, Apple has a strong stable source of
(non-speculative) demand because billions of people in the world are buying iPhones and Mac computers every day.
Only 10 to 20% of demand comes from people speculating on Apple stock while 80 to 90% is from commercial product sales.
That contributes to the price stability for Apple. Same thing for gold. The primary source of demand for gold is the commercial
market for jewelry and other products. Unlike bitcoin gold doesn't rely on the speculation market nearly as much and is
what helps makes gold such a good store of value.
3. It is easy to HODL it when prices were low.
In the early days of bitcoin there were many bitcoin OGs who bought it very cheaply. You can buy one bitcoin for a few dollars,
or even a hundred bitcoins for very little. Of course, it is easy for you to HODL it for many years even during extreme volatility,
because it cost you almost nothing. Even if the price goes to zero you aren't losing much.
But it is not so easy to HODL for those who bought in later when prices are much higher, because you now have a lot more to lose.
When the volatility hits you are more likely to hit the sell button. That is why the path from zero to $100K is a lot easier.
But the path from $100K to $200K will probably be much tougher and longer IMO, assuming it will get that high.
4. Bitcoin is too correlated to risk assets and the economy.
When the economy tanks so do risk assets such as bitcoin. Which shows that people do not generally view bitcoin as a flight to safety
or a good store of value when times are bad. To the contrary it is one of the first things that gets dumped. Again, this is tied
to the fact that bitcoin has no strong or stable source of demand outside of speculation. Without it bitcoin may be forever
destined and limited to the niche market.
yea i hear what you saying however every market is like this its not just a bitcoin problem. all different types of markets such as gold and estate can be just as volatile as bitcoin when the economy suffers. when times come where for some reason the economy suffers whether that be pandemics, scandals or war markets sufferer in some way it just a knock on effect that cant be stopped as people what there assets to be saft so say for example the economy suffered people would pull out of bitcion and places there money in gold as for that moment it the safest option but when the economy comes back to a good place they would take there money from gold and put it back into bitcoin while the dip has already occurred. |
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My altcoin portfolio was +83% on the 9th June but is now +51% just 9 days later.
I am buying some dips but mainly just holding during these times and hoping we recover in the coming weeks.
When will this crash stop? and how is everyone feeling?
I have it in my mind we still have a few more months till alt season so I am just holding on for now.
when will the crash stop is a question we all find our selves asking at this moment. defo agree still a good few month ahead before we hope to see and improvement in the market. buying at a dip is risky we dont really know if thing will even improve but if your willing to risk why not. holding is the best option right now |
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Kidnapping related to cryptocurrencies increased in France in 2025, but it has continued this year. A magistrate and her mother was reportedly kidnapped last Wednesday to Thursday when the magistrate partner was not around. The magistrate partner has a leading position in a cryptocurrency start-up. The kidnappers threatened to mutilate the victims if the transfer was not made quickly. The victims were able to escape but police are still on the matter. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260208-french-police-arrest-six-over-crypto-linked-magistrate-kidnappingPrivacy is very important, but not everyone can hide that they know about cryptocurrencies. Security is very important in this later case. o my gosh this is deep the lengths people will go to for money is crazy they must have been terrified lucky they escaped. having these types of positions as a job must be tough but this type of information should be kept private so things like this does not happen. france crime rate is increasing year on year they need to sort this out before it start to drive people away and this would effect their economy massively. |
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there is no solid credible evidence in what was released to show that epstein was involved din the actually creation of bitcoin it self. it is all speculation because there was email where people were asking him about how successful he thought it would be in future. did he have input in the way of his views yes he did he use it for transactions yes but he never held bitcoin from what we can see. its the media being controlled by the government to make sure people pull out when they see a dip so no one actually make money from in and becomes rich. |
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Eye-Opening Insights Revealed!
Lately, I’ve noticed a growing number of complaints about AI usage scattered across the forum. This frustration is understandable—it’s been derailing legitimate threads and sparking off-topic debates in places where they don’t belong.
To address this head-on and maintain focus, I’m launching this dedicated thread as the go-to spot for all AI-related discussions, debates, and insights.
Let’s funnel that passion here and keep other threads on track!
Now, let’s dive into AI 🤖
In our fast-evolving world, AI is omnipresent and irreversible—it’s quietly embedding itself into everyday life, from recommendations to automation, often without fanfare.
This thread is your hub for unpacking the facts, weighing the pros and cons, brainstorming potential forum rules, and deciding what’s permissible versus off-limits.
Starting with the Essential—key facts to ground our discussion:
• AI is a potent tool, ultimately shaped and directed by its human operator.
• Like any technology, AI has inherent limitations. It shouldn’t be trusted blindly; always verify and peer-review its outputs.
• AI detection tools are imperfect, prone to false positives and negatives.
• BitcoinTalk lacks official guidelines or policies on AI usage—yet.
The Compelling Pros: Why AI Will Revolutionize Our World!
• Blazing Speed and Insight: AI analyzes vast datasets in moments, revealing patterns and trends that might elude even the sharpest human minds. Though still maturing, envision an ultra-intelligent aide with real-time access to the web’s collective knowledge!
• Creativity Catalyst: Platforms like ChatGPT excel at ideation, counterarguments, and innovative problem-solving, fueling breakthroughs in projects big and small.
• Democratizing Access: AI breaks down barriers, distilling complex ideas into digestible forms, empowering beginners to learn, contribute, and thrive.
• Fortified Security: Advanced AI detects fraud, scams, and hacks with precision, safeguarding communities like ours.
• Enhanced Objectivity: By minimizing emotional bias, AI promotes fairer, more professional exchanges and decision-making.
The Alarming Cons: The Dark Side of AI’s Power!
• Employment Disruption: AI’s automation potential threatens jobs across sectors.
• Inherent Biases and Flaws: Fed flawed data? AI outputs misinformation, skewed analyses, or outright errors—garbage in, garbage out.
• Privacy and Resource Strain: AI’s data-hungry nature invades privacy while its processing demands can overwhelm servers, causing lags, crashes, or systemic vulnerabilities.
• Deception Dangers: From deepfakes to automated spam and scams, AI could infiltrate and undermine forum integrity.
Thought-Provoking Questions: Fuel the Debate!
1. How might we craft balanced AI regulations for BitcoinTalk that encourage innovation without inviting abuse?
2. How do we regulate without stifling AI’s legitimate usage?
3. Does AI-generated content (art, code, posts) qualify as “original” for merits, bounties, or rewards?
4. Ethical crossroads: Should undisclosed AI assistance be banned to ensure authentic, human-driven conversations?
5. What’s the fuss about AI? Share your top arguments in favor—and against.
6. Is an AI-assisted post inherently spam? Where do we draw the line between helpful enhancement and unwanted noise?
7. How can we truly certify or verify a post is AI generated if AI detection analyst tools are not 100% accurate?
8. If AI detection analyst tools are not 100% accurate and can read false positives or negatives can we count on them?
9. In non-AI threads, should mentions of AI be permitted, or do they inevitably derail productive dialogue?
10. Could it marginalize human contributors in forums, leaving bots to rule the roost?
11. What do you consider to be the strongest positive and negative impacts of AI?
12. Does utilizing AI inherently make users “Lazy” or “unintelligent”?
13. Ultimate verdict: Friend or foe? Where do you stand on AI’s role in our lives and community?
Share your personal stories, experiences, or wild ideas below. Let’s make this a respectful, enlightening exchange that could shape forum policies!
The goal here is to kill the stereotypes, end AI derailments, shine light on facts, and possibly create some official policy’s regarding AI on the Forum.
Eager to hear from you all!
Disclaimer: AI was indeed utilized to enhance this post; this is not spam. This is a genuine attempt to improve the forum and its policies regarding AI, as well as to direct AI disputes and discussions from unrelated threads here.
whether we like it or not ai is now apart of everyday life in some form. i personally dont mind ai being apart of life if some thing is there to work along side you and makes life just a little easier then why not i dont see the problem. people have the idea that ai is here to take over not to co exists this thought process is wrong yes it will change the format of everyday life but this is the world we live in and we have to learn to adapt and change with it. |
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This may sound like a stupid question, but is it possible children will buy stuff using crypto in the future? I mean, today's generation is "digitally-native". Long gone are the days where kids used to pay for stuff with cash. In this era, digital payments are the norm. Since non-custodial crypto doesn't require KYC checks of any kind, any kid can set up a wallet, receive crypto, and start spending wherever it's accepted physically or online.
Do you think kids will find crypto appealing? If not, why? Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. 🙂
i get where your coming from we live in a time now where kids grow along with technology and with technology developing in the way it has im sure its not going anywhere. cash is hardly seen now a days it all cards or mobile we use to pay with. so i think yeah a time will come where kids will grow interest in the crypto market and will find themselves using it as a way to deal with money. as long as they have some one there who knows what there doing to teach them the right ways of using it and how to stay safe while using it i think it would be appealing |
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yea 100% facts its the hypocrisy that get me they say one thing and do another while we all follow. you ca not believe a single word that come from their months this is every Politian globally. when a individual is trying to sell you some thing they will say almost any thing need in order to get that sale then after have a different point of view. its all lies which we fall for over and over |
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Bitcoin really isn’t doing very well these days but could this mistake be one of the reasons why it was dragged down even further? Bithumb, one of South Korea's crypto exchanges, said Saturday it has recovered almost all of the 620,000 bitcoins mistakenly sent to users.According to Bithumb, it had mistakenly sent 620,000 bitcoins to 249 users who participated in a promotional event around 7 p.m. on Friday, which translated into an average of 2,490 bitcoins worth 244 billion won (US$166 million) to a single user. An employee mistakenly put BTC instead of KRW (korean won) and sent the money. They halted the activities of the users immediately. Can you just imagine if you were one of the users who randomly received that amount of bitcoin? wooooow just wow if i received that i would have sold and run lol. however i dont think this is the reason for the state of bitcoin at the moment it has been dropping before that maybe could have contributed recently due to the amount but way already on the way down. more to the point some one is getting fired  |
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Public schools are absolutely horrendous evil environments for kids. Public schools are fucking violent. Parents that send their kids to public schools need to reconsider their bad decisions in life. THERE IS NO FUCKING EXCUSE!
Regards,
-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.
wow just wow, school is school your there to learn that it what a person take away is up to them its not the best place to be but it is the legal place to be. condemning parents for sending their children to public school when there nothing they can do about it is a bit much. private schools are no better it is still the same place with the same type of environment. it the kids that make public schools horrendous not the actual schools or parents |
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I just saw a viral post where Elon Musk said that money can’t buy happiness.
It’s easy for the richest man on Earth to say that, right? Most of us are in the crypto world because we want to improve our lives and gain more freedom.
Do you think having a certain level of wealth actually makes people happier?
Personally, I’d rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy.
take it from a rich person with the saddest life work eat sleep repeat. having a certain amount of wealth allows you to have every day freedoms and less worry without a second thought no one wants to go through life struggle however struggles make you glad of the better time and gives a learning experience where being born rich dosnt. the appreciation for money when you dont have it is much more then when you do |
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I'm thinking how many are complaining about losing in trading though many women are successfully traders but I think the majority losses,I was opportune to hear it from a close friend who happened to be a lady,if ladies keep losing in trading is it not better to apply restrictions on them , because it look absurd if a lady which someone is supposed to keep at home always losing money.
Is it proper if women are to be restricted in trading,is it wise to restrict them?
o my gosh no why restrict them just because their a woman lol. how did you come to the conclusion majority of woman lose just cause you spoke to one that was a woman? woman traders are just as likely as men to lose and win. someone sex does not determine how good some one would be at trading. trading is a thing that any one can learn and gain experience on its a process. losing is apart of that process |
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I find investors using the DCA strategy invest for the long term.
Special Considerations Should Beginners Follow the DCA Method for Bitcoin Investments? What Can Be the Outcome -Future
Yup dca is the chill way to get into Bitcoin to be fair. you add money bit by bit instead of going all in and stressin every price dip. for beginners it helps smooth out the chaos and builds lastin habits. if btc grows in the long run you could stack some very good wins but it is still crypto so of course no guarantees. think patience not instant riches cause this is how people lose a lot |
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Blog time on bitcointalk.org. Supplies to decentralization
Decentralization the real plug no middleman just pure control in your hands. that the whole vibe of bitcoin freedom ownership and the power back to the people. if you aint paying attention you sleeping on the future. |
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This is not my solo mining win, this belongs to someone out there and I am happy for whoever this win belongs to, it makes me feel very good of myself for even trying. I can only hope that such luck finds my little farm someday, what do you think?  This is a better way of gambling without having to spend money on lottery tickets everytime don't you think? While your DCA is going on at one side it is not hard to give solo mining a try, I have purchased many trading ebooks that got me no where and also trading tools that are now useless {never ROI'd}. What is life without taking risks? This should be a man's means of having some adventures. How do you feel when someone hits a block, do you feel happy or you are sad that it's not you? at least you are taking the time to learn and explore the right ways of doing it keep at it you never know one day you may have a streak of luck. that what gambling is for the most part purely luck. obviously its a gut wrenching feeling when you see some one hit a big win but a great player when you can actually congratulate them shows alot about you as a person. keep trying you never know what the future holds |
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I remember back in 2014 and even 2017, altseason was easy. You just bought anything on bittrex and it went up. It didn't matter what the coin did. Now, it feels totally different and much harder. There are way too many coins now and most of them just seem to bleed against BTC forever.
From what I see, the big money only cares about a few things like ETH or SOL. The rest of the market feels like a trap because of all these new tokens unlocking every month. I think waiting for everything to pump at the same time might be a mistake. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think we get that 2014 feeling again where every random coin 10x in a week.
Personally, I've been moving back into BTC and the bigger alts. I'm tired of holding mid-caps that just go down even when BTC is doing okay. I’ve seen too many projects die since I joined this forum, so I'm playing it safe now. Are you guys still holding your small bags or did you give up on them?
yea agree there are just to many coins not back in the day you would simply buy and see the coin go from strength to strength. playing is safe is okay nothing wrong in doing this probably the best thing to do looking at the market today many people are losing their money. giving up when your down is not an option for me personally id rather wait and risk all then lose a small amount by pulling out. |
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Sherman kept pushing on whether the government could step in, force banks to buy $BTC, or use taxpayer money.
Bessent’s answer was basically: no authority, no mechanism, no bailout.
And then the irony -- the U.S. held seized #Bitcoin anyway... and it worked.
Can we no say that trump controls bitcoin?
What are your thoughts??...
yea defo trump control bitcoin his actions show us this over and over. when trump throw a fits the global world gets scared and the price of bit coin drops. but majority of the time trump is all talk and threats and i think people now have had enough of it. this guy is unstable and bored with life leading him to causing trouble which always has an impact on bitcoin. look at the price of bitcoin today and look at trumps actions today, tells us everything we need to know |
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Are you just staring up?
Are you new to crypto?
You are still in college?
Single and no responsibilities? This is for you.
Take risks while you still can, I repeat, Take risks while you still can.
Most especially if you are single.
With no kids no mortgage.
No one depending on you to survive.
You can fall down and easily stand up again and no one will even noticed.
This is your best time to take risks.
Later in Life, every moves you make will get heavier and harder, every where you look will be bills to settle left and right, even if you decide to take risks in the later time it will comes will bills..
Mouth to feed.
The pressure to play it safe will be on you.
I am talking from experience.
There are things I cannot do anymore, simply because I have responsibility.
So pls gamble on yourself now while you are still young.
thats defo a thoughtful advise for the young today one in which i can totally agree with as well. take the risk young before it to late and you have a whole other worries to contended with. fail and learn early to make gain experience in the would which we lead to more success later on. |
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This is an alarming occurance that takes place every time the bitcoin price drops lower than expected, we hear rumors of suicide, heart failure, high BP and lots of sad news from families of traders and other bitcoin users
what measures can be considered when investing in bitcoin to reduce these problems?
yea its sad but it is a part of reality people cant deal with losing their money mental it destroys them. some people put their life saving in just to lose it when a dip happens. people should not invest if they know one of the risk is losing their money or invest a little so the loss is less we hear so many people of investing and making it people think of the positive in investing when there is negative to consider. |
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Donald trump has got to be the most dramatic but daring president ever, the man has no fear or whatsoever when it gets to speaking out his mind, here's a conversation between him and a guy from ABC channel some days ago in the white house.
TRUMP: "Who are you with?"
REPORTER: "I'm with ABC News."
TRUMP: "You're a loud person. Very loud. Let somebody else have a chance."
REPORTER: "Can you answer the question, why are you suing the IRS?"
TRUMP: "ABC, fake. ABC, fake news... I didn't call on you."
I love trump for his confidence and faith in his self
What do you think
yea for sure he is i agree with you, but one must think this is just rude and ignorance. if some one is not on his side or believed in his way or vision then they are worthless and they dont count. this kind of attitude is how people eventually fall. he need to start embracing the different in what people see and feel especially when it come to global relationships. |
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