It seems way too hard, almost like a punishing diet, torture like. I think just eating better is more beneficial along with exercise. Eat meat & greens plus daily exercise will help you lose weight but be healthy too.

Nobody controls the BTC market. Sure there are times when a whale or group of whales can move the market by dumping a load of coins or shorting in unison. A country can even ban bitcoin which, as we saw earlier in the year with China can be bad for the price.
Ultimately though nobody controls bitcoin, the market will always settle & a fair market price is found. We are seeing that at the moment, no FUD, no manipulation. The fair price of 1BTC seems to be around $50,000.

No he’s not, he just enjoys trolling & the fame behind singlehandedly pumping a shitcoin. He enjoys the publicity & attention it brings to him. Admittedly the guy is a genius & is one of the most iconic businessmen & great minds of history. He is a true narcissist though & pumping shitcoins is another little bit of attention for him.

Who knows what awaits us in the future. I could never have believed what has happened regarding the virus & restrictions worldwide if you told me it’d happen. Fiat currency is doomed, inflation is out of control. I predict a big financial crash in the coming years, a great depression if you like. Things will get bad for the average family, this is why we have BTC though.

I got cash, alcohol, socks, some other clothes etc. The best part of Christmas is just spending time with family & friends, money can’t buy that.

XRP will recover, 2025 is a year after the next bitcoin halving so I think maybe you could be looking at $5 or $6 per XRP, if bitcoin performs as will be predicted. It could be higher than $5 or $6 but I’d make that as a safe prediction imo.

NFA.

In a bear market you can do a lot worse than to invest as much as you can afford into the top 10 or so coins. You need to be patient though, dollar cost average buying is a good plan. Wait a few years until the next bull market & then bang, guaranteed profits. We are not in a bear market yet so hold your fire.

Satoshi era because it’s 2011/12?
Come on, that means absolutely nothing. It’s just an early adopter moving coins, there are loads of 2011 guys still active on this very forum. Does that mean they’re Satoshi, of course it doesn’t.
Engage your brain OP.

I watch a lot of sport, I don’t play much myself any more but I do like to watch a lot. One of my biggest hobbies although you could say past times is bitcoin. Without bitcoin I don't know where I’d be now, it’s such a big part of my life. I’m so happy I discovered it relatively early, it has changed my life.

Welcome to the forum guys, this is the best forum to learn about bitcoin. There are some very helpful people here. I’d advise you to read the whitepaper at bitcoin.org

Good luck.

I will definitely leave substantial funds to my kid. He will have generational wealth, thanks to bitcoin. I agree that a good man/woman leaves what they can to their kids. Not everybody can afford to leave big money but you should go without nice things in life so that your kids can have a better life.

Many things could be destroyed by time travel. I don’t want to know everything before it happens & I don’t want to change the past either. Luckily time travel isn’t a reality.

Anything more than probably 5BTC is worse considerable effort to keep it secure as hell. You can split up your seed to different locations. You could engrave your seed on a bar of metal & bury it in concrete in your garage. You can get inventive, if you don’t want somebody to know you have something or find it then you will find a way to keep it secure.

I have some XRP that I hodled for so many years, maybe stupidly. I’d love to see it reach new highs but it still, like many other alts relies on bitcoin to lead the way. We need to see where bitcoin goes before we can get excited again.

He doesn’t affect the price now, if he ever did in the first place. When we dumped to below 30k in May was during the time Elon was being weird, trolling, tweeting about the energy mining uses. This period coincided with the time China was actively banning mining & bitcoin use. It’s a misconception that Elon send the price tumbling when it was far more likely to be China.

Looks like this was your only post so far. Hopefully you come back & become more active. This place is daunting at first but it’s a great place to be to pick up knowledge on bitcoin. Most people are nice & trustworthy. Hope to see you soon.

I think we’ll still see the usual significant price rise post halving for another 1 or 2 cycles (assuming this cycle & high at 69k is over).
Once each block rewards miners with less than 1BTC we might start to see a reduction in the effect that the diminishing supply has on bitcoin. I think another 8+ years before this happens. The halving in 2024 will still create a supply shock & bull run in 2025.

Simple, bitcoin to go to something outrageous like $10,000,000 per coin. That will give me everything I need, without the need for any more wishes

We’ve been trending downwards for a while now, there doesn’t seem to be a willingness to get & stay above 50k. I do think we are at the start of a bear market yes. Whatever though, we all know this is what happens, bitcoin moves in cycles. Buy when everybody else panics & sell when everybody is greedy. We will see new highs agsin, just be patient.

To be honest this forum is a good place for information. Different to an article here is you can ask a question, start a thread & helpful people will comment & try to help you. Alternatively you can use reddit r/bitcoin.
My starting point would be to read the whitepaper at bitcoin.org