Nah, everyone who offers you a "free crypto" probably wants to scam/ take advantage of you. There is nothing free or easy in this world.

It is the other way around, in fact. With a few exceptions, if you want to buy stocks and hold them for life, you'd better look for those that pay around 3% yield. The exception is that a particular company may be undervalued at the moment and give a higher yield. I also depend a bit on the sector; for REITs, the best at the moment is Realty Income, which pays around 5%. Getting into REITs that pay more than 10% is entering the risk zone, as high yields usually indicate problems in the company, which ends up cutting or suspending the dividend, or with a considerable loss of value.

Yeah but the thing is, if the whole market is down simply because people aren't buying stocks and not because business for dividend-paying companies is bad, the dividend yield is higher.  When there's a soaring bull market and stocks are waaaay overvalued, yields are lower--assuming companies aren't jacking up their payouts.  And I'm also a big fan of this investment strategy, and I used to have a pretty nice portfolio of stocks (including Coca-Cola, thanks Warren Buffett).  Unfortunately, I had to sell off much of what I had.

By the way, REIT stocks generally pay very high dividends, and some of them pay monthly.  I didn't watch that video so I don't know if any of them were mentioned, but I've had a hard-on for a few of them for years.  One that I own pays something like 13% annually, which is a hell of a lot better than Coca-Cola or pretty much any stock in the Dow or even S&P 500.

I wouldn't call it a bad decision actually. The usage of Bitcoin had to start somewhere. If transactions like the 10,000 Bitcoin for a pizza wouldn't have happened, what would the actual utility that people ascribe value to eventually have been? Now speaking for the individuals and the concrete amounts sold back then, it was a "bad" decision, yes. But in the end it was the major precondition for Bitcoin to get going. Someone had to make the first step in order to demonstrate to other people what this is all about and evoke some aha-effect. Bitcoin started to get a price. Those using it very early on realized that there are others accepting it. Selling those 10,000 Bitcoin in exchange for a pizza might have been the best decision of his lifetime because that was his aha-effect and he started to stock up like mad and put thousands and thousands into long-term cold storage.

The difference is very clear but their are some person that don't pay attention to details. The sound and the spelling looks somehow alike and many uninformed persons might be deceived. In my country many people have been misinformed and scammed because some set of fraudulent individual choose to clone a particular product making it look like the original. Many shitcoins promoters claim that their coins are the same or even better than Bitcoin. That's why I always encourage anyone that engage in Bitcoin awarenesses projects because we really need them. We need to keep spreading the news of Bitcoin until it becomes a household name globally.

Now I get it, thanks for explaining better,  you and @jackg,  I don't know how hardware wallets function,  I thought the only thing that makes a hardware wallet different from a hot wallet is the security side of things and also keeping the wallet offline. 

I'm excited for the new Ledger Stax coming out. How about you guys?

I want to know if it is appropriate to give this advice to my friend?