I am sure taxing will be implemented one way or another. If you know about governments you would know for sure that their sole income is usually the taxes, or at least biggest in all cases, they take money from us when we are earning, they take money from us when spending, they take money one way or another and that's it.

This means that we are going to end up with them taxing crypto too, if they can find a way to tax the air we breath, they will do that. And not like this is just one nation, every single nation in the world does this, some maybe spend that tax on good stuff like education or healthcare, but some spend it on making themselves richer, that's the only difference.

It is understandable because people get into crypto world via bitcoin mostly, and then they start to look at other things as well. Not all people but most people buy bitcoin as their first coin, and then they could end up buying other things for bigger returns if they get greedy, or they could be like me where they end up with just bitcoin and maybe a bit of eth as well.

It is clear to me that it is the best option, but also more than that we have a HUGE futures market as well, people long or short bitcoin a lot too, and that is even bigger peoples market, billions change hand there everyday which causes the market to be huge and bitcoin being bigger than all others.

That's an option that you could use, but not many people have enough money to buy real estate for example, and I dislike gold because it is definitely not that much better. Think about it this way, gold is an asset that you invest into and it either goes up or down, but when was the last time you spent gold to buy something?

On the other hand, we are talking about bitcoin which is also an investment that can go up or down but you could also spend it to buy something as well. This is why it is such a better option for me, and I do diversify my portfolio as well but within the crypto world, sometimes it looks futile because they move together but the amount they go up or down are usually different.

I do this mostly, I am away from kitchen or living room or anything, I have an "office room" of my own where I just have my books, and my PC, and I keep working here with closed doors because it allows me to just focus on the good parts of the working day, and doesn't have any distractions. However sometimes PC itself could be distraction, there are so many websites you could go to and get distracted, a simple youtube search could literally cause you to lose hours upon hours, so you should be careful.

I disagree on clothes, many people say it but I never liked it, not only it doesn't work, it also makes me feel uncomfortable and unless the point is to be uncomfortable enough to want to finish work quick so you can take the clothes off, it doesn't work for me.

I am sure that most of them do not know how to do it, but they could always end up learning about it or hiring someone who already knows about it. That way it would be simpler and it would make sense, I am not saying it is going to be something that would be a big deal, it is an easy thing to do, if all other places in the world starts accepting bitcoin, then hospitals would have a field of people who worked in crypto related accounting jobs here and there, and they can hire people who have done it before.

I agree with the wallet deal though, crypto gives you the full power and nobody could take it away from you, it is your money and will always be your money.

Those type of hypes do happen all the time, usually it stayed with social media but this time around it became part of regular media as well, you started to see stuff about bitcoin and even smaller coins in the crypto world about altcoins as well.

I remember watching "coin founders" online as well, made no sense to me since I prefer decentralized projects, and seeing people who created their own coins to be talking on TV made no sense to me, it was still a good thing about media having some attention period towards all cryptos. Now we are back in bear market and not see that much on TV, we hear about it on newspapers but not on TV, which I am sure will change when the bull comes and we will be back on TV again.

Decentralization is not with you, it is with the coins. What you do with coins will never be decentralized, exchanges, wallets, trading, they are all under supervision of the government and so forth, which means that you shouldn't really be worried about it but that is how life is going to be like.

However, bitcoin itself is decentralized for example, it can't be controlled by anyone, in fact ETH is decentralized too, maybe we merged into another fork and another chain now, but that was decided all together, if we decided not to then it would have been a trouble. All in all we should be happy with what we have, not more.

Let me put it this way, USA supplied Ukraine with 1/10th of their yearly budget, and it has worked wonders and Ukraine has managed to push off Russia already, and that is literally just 1/10th of their budget, probably less. They sent about 40 billion dollars worth of military stuff, and around 40 billion dollars worth of cash or equal stuff, like to buy these things or food or shelter or clothes etc for people, and they have 800 billion dollars budget for military each year.

So, imagine the scenario where Russia and USA goes against each other. Obviously it would be horrible due to nuclear weapons that will destroy the world, but if we remove nuclear weapons, Russia would fall within just a few months, if 40 billion sends Russians back, think of 800 billion per year could do to them.

Hype is not a good enough reason to buy a token though. I mean if it's hyped then it will make you some money that is true but what if it isn't hyped? Why take that risk? I would personally discourage everyone to do something like that.

The better result would be just focusing on something that is a bit better by investing into fundamentals of a project. Look at the biggest one, bitcoin, it is by far the best rated one so far and ranked at the top, these tokens needs to provide me with a better reason to invest into them rather than bitcoin and so far "it could go up a lot if hyped" is the only reason people can give me and that is not a good reason at all.

People see it as go all in right now and wait for it to go up type of investment and not like 401k type of retirement fund. I rarely ever hear someone who puts up a certain amount of their salary into bitcoin every month, and plan on doing that until they retire.

I keep saying that if you put 10% of your salary into bitcoin for the next 20 years, and just keep doing that without ever selling, by the time you retire you are going to be able to say you are a wealthy person and could do whatever you want and your children will have an amazing future because you will leave them a wealth. But obviously most people want to get rich right now and that is the only thing they see in bitcoin.

That difference is not a small one. I have been getting paid in bitcoin for years for the work I do, and in return I have been spending bitcoin on many stuff as well, not just bitcoin but other coins as well. Which means that bitcoin could be like gold when it is used as an asset, but it is also like fiat when it is used for payment made to someone as well.

There is really nothing in the world that is both a great asset but also a great payment method at the same time, crypto is the only one and that is why it is valued so highly. I personally believe that we are going to do so much better with the upcoming times, all we need is waiting, and with that patience we are going to be rich.

Unfortunately there are some people who are still keeping some hope because it went down so much that their millions turned into cents, and there are of course a lot more people who invested thousands and didn't even worth a cent. Which means that if we end up with something that is this low, they could wait for it to go up. What is the point of cashing out a few cents?

I mean it is not going to make you rich to get out right now, it is too late, so the only hope for them would be Luna or LUNC going back up,  and they could profit from it finally, or even if not profit they would drop their losses at least. Which is why I honestly expect it to be a lot of people hoping the best for luna team.

I agree that it happened back in 2017 when most of the world heard about it, some did get in, some didn't, some didn't get in back in 2017 but then got in later on, but majority of the world heard about it back then. It is cool to be able to say I have been in crypto far longer than most people, but to be fair if you have nothing to show for it then mostly it is a bad thing and not a good thing.

People act as if they would have bought tens of thousands of bitcoin if they knew it soon enough, and they do not do it right now, so in 5 to 10 years they would be in the same position as me. It is not easy decision to make, I may have missed out on being wealthy, but I am still happy to be involved.

Surely a good and exciting change into game if we have ex player as ICC chairman and specially stated with gentleman like Kumara Sangakara is dream start as he is one of the best in his field with good knowledge and commitment about the game of cricket, but sadly it's not possible because right now system here in ICC is not working as we have in UEFA where few ex players are now joining this organization and its doing good.

Right now in ICC game is just between few big players, and mostly they are having their own friendships and like & dislikes which are working so having businessman is not stoppable for anyone, but soon we will have good changes as right now Ganguly is having BCCI post which is good thing and Ramiz Raja is on PCB hopefully if here changes will happen more like these than ICC could be also in good for these changes.

Unfortunately, that type of convincing yourself can't be broken by other people. If they believe that there are good people out there who are willing to help them then they will keep on believing that they are good people, not because someone else convinced them because if it was like that then one person convincing them that it is a good idea, could be turned by another person saying it is a bad idea.

But, when you convince yourself that they are good people thenthere isn't a situation where someone else could turn that idea, only the fact that they could make you lose money could make you realize it. When they do make you lose money then you would know what you are doing.

It is definitely helpful for the newbies for sure and even veterans could learn something from it. I do not need it because I do just one simple thing, which is buy bitcoin when you have some money to spend, and then hold it as long as you possibly could. This is literally all I do and that is why it looks like I do not need any help at all.

I mean I needed help back in the day, my investment style was all around the place and it wasn't that good and this kind of topic would have been amazing for me. But nowadays it is not really needed as much and all I do is end up with a situation where I buy and hold and do nothing else which is quite frankly an easy way to get rich.

When you are getting older, if the chaotic stuff in your life leaves and you are left alone in a retirement world, where you just wake up and have nothing to do, then it would be quite difficult to get rid of the worry, because you would have nothing but worry in your life.

I mean think about it, if I buy bitcoin now and hold it for 10 years, I will think about it here and there but meanwhile I have to work every day, still travel, go out with friends, maybe spend good or bad time with my wife but basically do so many things that days are too short and not enough. Whereas when you are retired, you just wake up and start worrying because you have nothing to do, and that is scary and harder to do.

That's the terrible thing about being rich, if you are rich and do not have the rich mindset then it is only a matter of time before you become poor again. I believe that the best thing you could do would be making sure that you invest into a bigger thing and bigger thing and bigger thing to keep growing.

If you stay the same while the economy is going worse then you will be the same amount of wealth whereas fiat will be less valuable and your money will be gone for sure. You should be trying to make more and more profit and have business' making you more and more money. That way even if the economy goes bad, you would have a plan B that can get you profits one way or another.

That's what I always say, there is a bigger risk in the crypto world but that also means that there is a bigger reward most of the time as well. Yes it could go from 68k to under 20k and that is the risk you are taking when you are facing bear market, but it could go from under 5k to over 65k as well which we had from 2020 to 2021 as well if you check from lowest to highest prices.

This is why we take the risk, we are not really dealing with anything that is serious right now because it's not volatile and it's around 20k a bit lower or higher but it's around there, but when the volatility hits it's going to be 100k and that's when people will realize why we are taking such a big risk.

I really do not understand how people fall for it though? I mean bitcoin is bitcoin and it is at the top of the list of every place which means that it is just bitcoin and I do not think that it would matter that much. On the other hand, we are talking about stuff like bitcoin cash or bitcoin gold or whatever it is named and they are not going to be that much of a big thing on volume and not going to be listed everywhere.

If people fall for it and buy it because it is cheap and they think they are buying the real bitcoin for such a cheap amount so they can sell it somewhere else then they are doing the wrong deal, I personally wouldn't want that to happen, which is why I believe that it is a mistake of their own and they should fix it, we have no obligation at all.