Close to 8 years for me. Congratulations to everybody who held through at least 1 cycle. It's really an achievement not being discouraged by your first bull to bear shift.
There are 2 worst moments for every bitcoin holder:
The first one is going through your first big crash of at least 50%
The second one is being in a bear market for more than a year and starting to lose hope at the bottom.

Once you go through this and see the price recover your view of bitcoin changes by a lot. It's like you went through puberty.

If "Ukrainian Nazis" look like that, I might be interested in joining.


Die? Like those prisoners turned soldiers that fight for Russia?

That suicide battalion made short work of Russian dragon's teeth and is doing good. I saw a video of them being interviewed yesterday and they're in good spirits. Doesn't look like they want to suicide.

I don't think that you can be so rich to reject that kind of money, especially in Nigeria. Maybe millionaires in USD terms, not in Nigerian currency, could actually reject it and live good, but even if you're far above the average income in the country, that should be huge money for you. A life changing sum of money.
How much he'd be able to improve his life, or the life of his whole family? Probably by a lot.

If you don't want the money for yourself, do something good for others. Help your neighbors, put it in a school fund for your child, or in a savings account so that your kid doesn't have to beg anyone for money when he makes bad choices in life. Don't throw it away or give it back to the casino.

If I were the kid and my father said that the money won't enter his house, I'd agree with him and put it in the bank

So you're a socialist. You'd like everyone to be the same and have the same incentive to mine, receive the same rewards and all that. What's next? We'll equalize bitcoin and make all the big wallets contribute to small wallets?
It's completely normal for companies to seek better and faster miners. Competition is good as it fuels innovation and paying more to those who are the best, the fastest, the most innovative, rewards them. If you give everybody the same reward, you'll reward laziness. Why would I rent a warehouse to have enough miners to compete for block rewards if I can get a USB asic miner?

I could answer that for Ukraine in the typical "Russian" style.
We don't know how they got them, we didn't provide them, they probably stole these machines from the battlefield.

Remember what Russia was saying about the Malaysian Flight 17 in 2014?
We weren't there, there were no Russian BUK systems in Ukraine. The US provided satellite images of Russian BUKs, but Russia answered that those belonged to the Ukrainian separatists.
Then the US provided satellite images showing the missile launchers were moved after the accident towards Russia - Russia denied again.
People were posting pictures and videos of Russian BUKs with Russian flags painted on them driving on the Ukrainian roads, but Russia kept denying and repeating that there were no Russian forces there.

When they catch you with your hand in the cookie jar, say it's not your hand.

It is possible the Russian soldiers who fought on the Ukrainian side took some of the abandoned vehicles for themselves, the way Ukrainian forces use salvaged Russian vehicles and weapons.
On the battlefield nobody cares who picks up what. If you find a tank - it's yours now. Same can be said about a hummer, or a missile launcher.

Damn, that didn't last long

Not like I care. Wasn't planning to throw any bitcoins at car dealers before the halving anyway, but decent price would make me feel better. When you wake up to a long green daily candle it does wonders for your mood. Red candle is like -oh, another one, here comes another boring day, where's my coffee...


I don't speak Chinese, but they were showing a bitcoin logo.
I know that for a shitcoiner like CZ it's all "crypto" but it would be great if people learned that bitcoin and this "crypto shit are not one and the same.

Also, it appears that CZ was really commingling funds according to the Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/crypto-binance-money/

It doesn't change anything in their case because he didn't have these bitcoins before marriage. He bought them later, when he was earning his 3 million a year.
AFAIK a prenup only makes it clear as to what they had as their own assets and assets that belonged to their families, but income earned during marriage is split.
The law even separates the property into personal property (protected by the prenup) and joint property (that gets divided).
BTC was bough with the money the husband earned during marriage, which is why she had the right to pursue it.  

Why are we even discussing this?
I'm always amazed by people who invite these weirdos to talk shows and make them explain how they think they're "between sexes" at the moment because they haven't decided yet what they want to be. 50 years ago such person would be sent to the mental institution for evaluation, now they're making stars out of them.


A little bit off topic, but...

I have an issue with people trying to make this normal.
There are things that are considered normal and things that we call deviations, or abnormalities.
We all agree that a self-harming person must suffer from a condition, like depression, or some mental illness. We agree that people who crave sex with children are sick, right? Men who cut off their dicks because they feel that there's a woman hidden inside of them aren't well. Suddenly these people are trying to make us all believe that we are sick for not accepting their choices.
When you cut off your nose and stitch it to your butt, you're sick, but when you cut off your genitals, you're OK, it's a choice and those who don't accept that should learn tolerance. And pronouns, don't forget about pronouns!  

We're living in world governed by idiots and we pay the price.

Just think about it for a moment and you'll reach the same conclusion.

Germany shut down its nuclear reactors to go green and as a result they went dark, because there's not enough energy production in the country to keep the grid stable. They're forced to buy it from France, that, yes, you've guessed it, uses nuclear reactors!
Scotland decided to have green energy, like Germany, so they built some wind warms. Today I've read that they were using diesel generators to defrost these wind farms during winter, otherwise the generators would seize and stop producing power

I did bring a few of my friends but this was only to when a casino had some kind of promo where you could get free money, or play in a free tournament.
I gave my friends some invites and they got free money to play with. Back in 2015 and 2016 there was a lot of such events taking place and you could easily get $20 or more for free, without having to deposit any of your own money. I once got $25, played for 2 hours and withdrew $30, so I got my friends to try their luck.

Just as people who rode horses were when some weird people were telling them them that cars would revolutionize the world. Those old, loud, smoky machines that can't even reach the speed of a horse?

I could even argue that we aren't in a bear market anymore, but in a limbo between markets.
Technically speaking, a bear market marks constant lower lows, while bull market marks higher highs. What if there are no lower lows and no higher highs and price stabilizes? Yes, for bitcoin this is a stable situation.

Begging is not allowed, so please, don't do it. If you are in a hard spot, try gofundme, or some other similar service.
I hope you'll reach your goal of financial independence.
If you have skills, you can make money on this forum. Keep checking the services section daily and you should find offers where companies pay you money for reviewing their site. Sometimes they pay for articles, slogans, graphic designs, and it's not 2 EUR, like what you're hoping to get. It's often 20+ so don't try to get money for free when there's so many people who want to give it to you for performing simple tasks.

It's also not the obligation of a player to take part in such survey.
I think they should do it as long as they keep it in the voluntary form. If gamblers are fine with taking part in this, they will and if they're not, they won't.
From the point of view of the casino it's a good way to know what gamblers like, what changes would they want to be implemented, if they feel comfortable playing, do they understand the rules...
From the point of the gambler, they might have a way to make changes in some rules, like the mentioned VPN.

That's what I kept telling people for years. The time to buy is always good, but it can be better. It a;; depends on how long you can wait.
If you buy bitcoin at ATH, you may have to wait 4-5 years for profit, but if you do it at an average price, maybe 40% of ATH, you shouldn't have to wait more than 2 years for an opportunity to either exit with small profit, or at least without a loss.
If you have at least 5 years in mind, you can buy at any moment. I'm sure within that time bitcoin is going to experience a bull market.
I've held for 8 years and it gets easier with every passing year.

I think that it was cheaper and more compact than Trezor. I'm talking about 2019 when I bought mine. At the time it was a decent option and I've got mine in person from a physical store, so I did not have to share any personal information with Ledger and avoided the leak.
As long as the cloud update isn't enforced and you can decide not to do it (unless you cannot, but you should be able to, at least for now), I see nothing wrong with this. The problem will start if they one day decide that unless you do the update you won't be able to use the device. In such case I'll probably do it and immediately move my funds, to protect them from theft.

So, a centralized coin management team that regularly dumps XRP on their investors, to capitalize on the fact that someone believes in their ideas and adoption, is launching another centralized pseudo-crypto mechanism? Not amazed at all.
I'd like to remind you that Ripple's business model relies on promises, starting hype to get new people onboard and dumping some of the XRP that they're holding.
Before you fall into this, check out what XRP was trading for when they were pumping it it and selling empty promises to the public (the hype phase). I'll make it easy for you, it was over $2 in 2017. Then Ripple cashed in on the hype and made the price go to 0.3 USD in one year. Then it kept bouncing between 0.2 and 0.5 USD for 3 years, until the bull market of 2021 and guess what, it's back to 0.4 USD.

So, before you feel like it's time to sell some BTC and buy XRP, think about it for a moment. In late 2018, 2019, 2020 XRP was worth less than 0.5 USD, and so it was in 2022 and now in 2023. One could ask, if there is demand for the coin, why is the price still the same? The price of BTC is much higher than it was in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
It's because of the Ripple dumping. For instance, in q4 2022 Ripple sold $226m worth of coins and in q1 2023 $361m.

If they had the 500km range version then yes, but there's another one, with shorter range of only 250km and I believe that one was supplied to Ukraine, to prevent them from striking deep into Russia.
In a straight line, there's only 450km between Ukrainian border and Moscow



What is the propaganda you're talking about?

The Russian tactic is not admitting to any losses and when someone actually counts their wrecked machines, it's propaganda.
The pictures of t-62 in Ukraine are also propaganda, just as Iranian drones were propaganda because Iranians said they weren't selling any to Russia and we could keep counting.


Tanks are the second most deployed military unit of this war, right after IFVs. That's a fact, not propaganda. Artillery has third place.

The problem is Russians barely have any good hand held anti-tank launchers. That's why a Western tank that can take out numerous Cold War era Russian tanks and take a hit from an RPG, or a drone, can make a difference.


They are slowly running out of cruise and hypersonic missiles. Artillery doesn't take ground, especially the one Russia uses, as it's not mobile and not accurate enough. It can be used to shell defenses or towns and act as a deterrent. It buys time, but doesn't allow Russians to advance.
Sure, Russia has air superiority, but Ukraine doesn't try to fight them in the air. I've read today that Ukrainians shot down an aircraft with a patriot missile. What's going to happen in a year? Will Russia sacrifice it's air defense forces to attack Ukraine and open itself for a possible attack from the East?

Here's what they were saying 2 months ago:

Russia’s army is estimated to have lost nearly 40% of its prewar fleet of tanks after nine months of fighting in Ukraine, according to a count by the specialist thinktank the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS).
That rises to as much as 50% for some of the key tanks used in combat, forcing Russia to reach into its still sizeable cold war-era stocks. Ukraine’s tank numbers are estimated to have increased because of the number it has captured and supplies of Soviet-era tanks from its western allies.

Its headline count is that Russia’s number of tanks in its army have reduced by 38% from 2,927 to 1,800, while there have been particularly heavy losses of its workhorse T-72B3, an upgrade first delivered to its army in 2013.
Heavy losses on the battlefield have meant that Russia had lost “around 50% of its pre invasion fleet” of the tank and a related variant
 Ukraine could fight better with more NATO military support, but firstly, NATO military support for Ukraine already has unprecedented volumes, and secondly, it is not profitable for NATO to inflate the conflict too much so that it does not get out of control.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/russian-army-has-lost-up-to-half-of-key-battle-tanks-analysts-estimate-ukraine

At the beginning of its full-scale invasion in Feb., Russia had around 3,330 operational tanks (2,840 with the ground forces, 330 with its naval infantry, and 160 with its airborne forces), according to the Military Balance 2021 database.
The database includes all tank types currently employed by Russia’s military, notably T-72s, T-80s, and T-90s, and their modifications.
According to Oryx, an online investigative project documenting equipment losses in Russia’s war, Russia has lost at least 994 tanks as of Sept. 1.

The estimated total Russian loss of 1,300 machines in Ukraine roughly corresponds to 14 full-fledged armored brigades or 42 battalion tactical groups (BTGs). This amounts to more tank fleets than the U.K., France, Germany, and Italy combined.

https://kyivindependent.com/how-many-tanks-does-russia-really-have/

Saying that Russia has used 15% of its potential is an understatement, unless you count all the scrap tanks from the 50s and 60s, like Russian propagandists do, but most of these tanks will never be restored. Russia is a strange country where on paper there's 10k tanks in reserves, but in reality half of these have been in storage for over 50 years. They don't run, cannot be restored, and even if they are somehow restored, are useless on the modern battlefield.


The reality is, Russia has used maybe 20% of its total tank reserves (on paper), but more than 50% of working, fairly modern tanks. I say fairly modern because t72 has been in use since the 70s and Russians just can't let it go. They're just adding more electronics and reactive armor and calling it a modern tank because it's cheaper than making a new one. So, it's possible a grandfather was using a T72 in the Soviet Union, and now his grandson is using it in Ukraine

It's really easy to prove that they're running out of tanks, since they've started to deploy T-62s. These are tanks that were used by Russia in Afghanistan and were already outdated in the 80s.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-military-captured-first-russian-t-62-tank/



These Russians have a sense of humor. Look at the name of the tank "fury" written on the barrel. Also the state of the tank, as it's a version with no reactive armor.

OP's case is a bit different from normal gambling as it's obviously a scam. So, this is a comparison between choosing to gamble and choosing to get scammed.
When you go to a casino or an online gambling site, most of them are regulated and relatively fair, as long as you can accept that your odds are lower than they appear because of the house edge.
Street gambling is usually scam meant to steal your money and these people will lure you in promising free rolls and stuff and then they'll steal from you saying there was no free roll, you were supposed to play for money from the beginning.

There's definitely some luck involved too. Do you know how many church bell tower pictures are there?
I've just googled that and gave up after the first 100 pictures, none of which was that exact tower.


You're talking about your altcoin club, right?
Pepe to the moon!