I made the deposit through the Lightning Network. The confirmation was instant as usual, and the fee was far lesser than the regular onchain Bitcoin transaction. Every Bitcoiner should have some sats in their Lightning wallets. It's just like owning an altcoin, but it's real actual, precious Bitcoins.

Poker was empty, and the freerolls don't start until 10 hours from now, and the others don't start until Friday and Sunday. I want to play another game during my lunch breaks. What dice games have low house edge?

CPI print, or Consumer Price Index, will be announced later! If it shows that inflation has finally peaked and has started to decrease/slow down, then I believe it's probably YOUR opportunity to buy EVERY DIP, and HODL. There might be actual fudsters in the forum who truly want that Bitcoin will crash more below $20,000 again, but perhaps they just missed their golden opportunity. There might be some DIPs to $21,000 though.

It's also better to take a long term HODL trade if you can't profit more in day trading. Because why do scalping if not to try to outperform the market in general? If you can't do it, just HODL. It wouldn't actually just be better for your pocket/wallet, it would also be better for your sanity.

To all the plebs like me who read all the trading "advice" in the topic, first ask the person who's giving the advice if he/she has been a profitable consistently, WITH PROOF. If they're not, then don't take their trading advice. Because for many plebs, the best trade is probably just a low time-preference HODL in Bitcoin. If can't perform better than Bitcoin-HODL through day trading, then why day trade?

No, I believe NOT. His "one word" could move shitcoins like Dogecoin, or it might move Bitcoin for one hour, but the market always prices information in. Elon Musk will become irrelevant, HAS ACTUALLY become irrelevant to Bitcoin and the market in general, than when Tesla announced their sale of their Bitcoins, the market didn't react negatively. In fact, it reacted positively. Bitcoin is higher than Tesla's sell price.

OK, thank you! I have my sats ready to try your Lightning deposits, and for some Poker play during my lunch break when I'm working. I will also try to withdraw through Lightning too, BUT if only I have something to withdraw from BetPlay. Hahaha.




Doesn't that depend on the user/player, and what his/her strengths and weaknesses are as a gambler? I'm not much of a gambler, I know I'm very weak in both Poker and BlackJack. Haha.

Plus in the community in general, does Bitcointalk have skilled players who play frequently in casinos with poker tables?

If you're looking for Real Winner, then anonymouscoward is defintiely NOT Real Winner. Real Winner's real Bitcointalk account is IndependentGambler, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=903350

He posts in this topic sometimes, calling for everyone to play with him and race him in the wagering competitions. If I'm wrong, and IndependentGambler is not BlackJack.fun's Real Winner, then just confirm it in the chat.

Plus it's currently RealWinner vs. GOD in the Hourly Wagering Competition if anyone wants to "whale watch".

Hahaha yes! That Bloomberg Senior Analyst must have been zooming the chart out to the maximum recently, and have just discovered the "HODLer's Secret". Simply shutting all the market noise off, and have conviction in a low time preference Bitcoin investment. Another HODLer's secret is, store ALL of your coins for HODLing in cold storage to help you resist/kill the temptation of selling.

It's probably because it was those same "great whales", or shall we say "the whalecumulators", who manipulated the price to go to a cycle low of $17,000.


It's a cycle, and crashes again come after price surges during bull cycles. That's why it's probably better to buy the DIP, and HODL than DCA because Bitcoin's halving-influenced 4-year market cycles. DCA is better for more unpredictable markets.

I believe companies listed in the stock market are required to report their market investments, but it doesn't mean they should report it on the day they made the move. I think they have a required schedule when they should be filing to the SEC, then reporting what they did for the quarter.

Elon Musk has enough legal problems from his failed bid to buy Twitter, I don't believe he wants more problems from the SEC for market manipulation. Hahaha. Everyone currently hates Elon Musk that they're looking for something wrong in his every move.

Plus Bitcoin never stayed under its 200-Week SMA for a long time in its history of being traded, AND Pi Cycle has already indicated that the bottom for the current cycle has been reached. It has never been wrong before.


There is the top 10% of active traders that do beat the market consistently in general, but if you're merely a pleb with neither the skills nor the capital, saving through HODLing is for you.

OP, it's not important "what price" Bitcoin might go, or how high it might surge. But it's very important to buy Bitcoin DIPs as low as you possibly can. It's going to be better for your sanity, and better for your stomach, believe me. Most of us plebs won't like HODLing an investment with a big loss. It forces many plebs to sell to relieve them of the stress, and to "cure " the mental illness. My advice to resist the temptation of selling is, USE COLD STORAGE. Hahaha.

Although Elon Musk is among the smartest men to live on the face of the Earth, he never truly understood Bitcoin based from what he tweets, and has he said about Bitcoin. There was a time when he was  merely parrotting what the big blockers were saying about efficiency and transaction throughput. He never learned that blockchains isn't entirely about speed, it's about settlement assurances.

If Poker is recognized as a game of skill, then it wouldn't be illegal for any entity to set up a poker game, and take a percentage of the players' winnings as a "fee or rake from the pot"? I have been learning/reading/researching about poker, and one of my research requires watching movies about Poker. Hahaha. One of those movies is "Molly's Game". She was taken by the FBI, because she was accused of running an "illegal gambling" room. She was told that if she did not take a fee/rake from the game, the FBI can't take her. WHY can't she or anyone fight the case by citing Poker is not a gambling game but a skill game?

OP, it's actually a complete protocol for a "hard money", and much much more. If you ask me, I believe that "Bitcoin" is actually hard to "define", because it can be one definition for one person like a cryptocurrency for personal finance, and an absolutely another definition for another person like a censorship-resistant protocol that can weaken political strongholds.

It's actually the world's first time to have a breakthrough of a true decentralized network like Bitcoin. We might actually not know what it is, or what it might be yet.

YES! Technical Analysis "can" work for the user as a guide for when to buy, how much coins to buy, and when to sell, with everything based on price and volatility. It's actually many "ifs" and "elses". What Technical Analysis CANNOT do is predict when the market might surge, and what price it might reach. It can help you if you use it the right way, but always accept the fact that we're merely "fooled by randomness". Plus Technical Analysis is NOT a real science.

There's also when "Technical Analysts" draw lines to connect two points in a chart and say, "I expect BIG MOVES coming this week, or the next week, or the next month". Plus you already said it. The always mandatory, "This is not financial advise". BUT IT IS ALREADY FINANCIAL ADVISE! Although, the plebs like me have actually stopped believing in "our Technical Analysts" in the forum.

Thanks to the both of you. I'm already in the middle of my "research" on "how to play Texas Holdem Poker". I downloaded a PDF of Poker For Dummies for a very quick introduction, and I have some YouTube videos to watch bookmarked and ready! This is the beginning of my journey as a "Poker Player". I want to be as diligent in learning Poker as my Bitcoin research and studies. Hahaha.

I believe no one actually knows what Bitcoin potentially is 12 years ago, and still no one knows what it can currently be today and the future. The market might not be pricing in the fact that Bitcoin can be used to weaken political "strongholds". That's no mere Medium Of Exchange for buying pizzas. Bitcoin's ethos and design to preserve censorship-resistance, and the resources spent to maintain it, it's more than just another "consumer-product" for personal finance.

Or if you don't see the "real owner" anywhere and you hold the private jey of a wallet containing some Bitcoins, THEN YOU are the owner. Private key holder controls the wallet. Is it theft? It's not, it's a feature of self-custody in Bitcoin, which makes it a very powerful tool. No one controls your wealth, except you as the holder of the private key, not the government, not the banks, not ANYONE. You!