Nowadays you need a license to make software. Next thing you're going to need a license to trade with other people.
-hey man, I have a bike for sale
-wait, I want that, just give me a month I have to apply for a purchaser's license

Fucking clown world!

We live in a clown world where you can be a citizen of another country and the US can get you arrested and extradited there. They can also imprison you for alleged crimes committed against its monetary policy which is another joke of a law.

Think about a scenario where you live in some remote country and one day local police arrests you and says you're going to the US because you did something that's forbidden there and they want to prosecute you. You don't even speak English and don't know US laws. This is how dumb this can get.

I'm not going to pity Roger because he did some shady shit in his life with that bch - sv fork and spamming bitcoin to show BCH is cheaper to transact with but he doesn't deserve prison.

I'd say video games are probably the next best thing.

They offer some degree of thrill and can pump you full of adrenaline. That's true especially for horror games and battle royale type of games like modern warfare where you feel alone on the battlefield with other players looking for you.
They allow you to relax if that's what you need.
You don't have to leave the house, so it's accessible 24/7.
When you find the game you like they allow you to immerse in the world and forget all your troubles.

The downside is they're also addictive, especially MMOs, so if you have trouble with gambling addiction it's possible you'll turn one into another.

Funny question because let's say I tell you that it's 100. Will you believe me? Will you feel confident in your skill when after 100 bets in dice or slots you are in profit? Will you tell everyone that you're a good player after that?

If I tell you that it's a million bets, will you play long enough to try it?

This thread cannot answer your question and even if it does, you probably won't do anything with that knowledge.

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I think that you've made a mistake in the transaction.
You were to return 0.00024118 and your transaction is for 0.00238039.
In other words you owed $8 and ended up returning $80




The fee is also below minimum, which means the tx is going to be stuck. The minimum for confirmation at the moment is 35sat/vB and you paid 15.

Good job! I guess some of the streamer's luck became your own.

I don't do such things but I understand how watching a streamer win can make you feel more confident and push you to try it out yourself. That's why all these companies that sell stuff have sponsored streamers and youtubers who make content for them starting with food producers sponsoring cooks, supplement makers sponsoring bodybuilders, shoe brands sponsoring soccer players and so on.
People think that by wearing a brand they'll look more professional and play better.

I've never been afraid of going out into the world and exchanging bitcoin. I do it in public and I've never had any problems.

Most of the time bitcoiners are really friendly. We exchange opinions about the market and joke around from funny situations, even talk about memes and tell bitcoin jokes.
I've never become real friends with any of these people because we're both cautious, but it was always a good experience.

If people were to target you as a bitcoiner, wouldn't they simply go to a bitcoin conference and follow people who attend?

I'm confident that we'll break above 40k this year, but short term action is anybody's game. It could go down again and then up, or simply get to 40 in one move by the end of this week. Nobody knows that.
What I know is it will happen eventually because the price action looks very strong and bullish.

That said, watch out for manipulation because analytics firms say we have the least coins on exchanges ever which means liquidity is at all time lows. We could expect small amounts of money to create giant waves on charts, so be safe, don't get liquidated and don't panic. It's only a matter of time before we get to ATH.

He didn't even take it to the extremes. Think of something bigger like a minimum age worker vs a gold watch on some rich man's wrist that costs more than the worker makes in 10 years. Or about a single meal of a rich person that could buy a month of meals for a whole family. At least the perfume may last many months if not abused, which many people do.

I have a rich friend and he uses good perfume, but every thing of his smells like that. His whole car, his coat, phone. He once visited me and sat on my coach and the whole room smelled like him for 2 days straight


For me financial freedom is having enough money to be able to afford a normal life, nothing fancy, for many years straight, even if I get sick, or be unable to work.
In other words financial freedom is financial safety.

If I need 1000 dollars a month to live, financial freedom would mean that multiplied by 20 years, located in a safe investment like bitcoin.

Exactly. He knows as much as he reads in the mainstream media.

Craig doesn't own the 1 million bitcoin he claims to own, otherwise he would've used the money to pump his SV shitcoin long time ago.
Michael Saylor doesn't control bitcoin in person. It's owned by Microstrategy and that company has a board.
Most of the coins associated with CZ is again owned by Binance, not him in person.

If Black Rock buys bitcoin for the ETF OP's friend will probably say that its another whale owning bitcoin that can dump it all.

Looks like JP took a chance with this prediction trying to slow down bitcoin and bitcoin showed JP the middle finger. Not literally of course.

Banksters are getting desperate watching bitcoin do its thing. I bet their trading desk went short before the article was published. I hope it was a leveraged short that just got liquidated.
No love for banks here.

News like that matter only to traders. If you're the average Joe who DCA, or you're a long time hodler who saw 16k and below, you don't care. So who are they trying to scare away? Institutions don't read JP reports.

He watched too much of idiots who sell their courses on youtube.

Some of them use the attention they get by posting ridiculous predictions to get more sales and make some poor souls join their VIP trading group.


It needed to cool the fear & greed index a little bit before adding some wood to the boiler.

Based on my experience I'd choose cryptocurrencies because I did well in this field over the years and I know a thing or two about it.

This is a pointless question to be frank because most of us are already invested in crypto. It's like asking someone driving a car if he'd rather walk right now or keep driving

If you'd give me a million dollars now or a million in bitcoin I'd choose bitcoin, if that's what you're asking. I'd prefer bitcoin over stocks as well and my dedication proves it. Over the years I kept holding bitcoin instead of converting it to fiat money or anything else.

Tell that to people who only own stocks. That's a single asset type.
If you own Tesla stock and bitcoin that's a 2 asset portfolio.
When you own investment real estate, gold, bitcoin and Tesla that's a 4 asset portfolio.

Stop telling people what to do with their money. Warren Buffet would tell you that holding crypto is a disaster. I think that people who have dozens of altcoins in their portfolios and have to waste time to keep track of all of them are causing themselves problems. Doing something like that instead of holding bitcoin is a real disaster.

I think that these exchanges are going to risk losing a part of their clients if that's what it takes to be able to transact in the country.
What choice do they really have? Give up users or shut down. They can also fight the government in court but that could take time and be expensive. Only the biggest exchanges will try this.

Do you think the governments don't know it that people will run away from centralized exchanges if they start sharing information about every transaction with the IRS and other 3 letter agencies?
It's great news for them because less legit exchanges means less legitimacy for the crypto ecosystem and slower adoption. In other words less competition for CBDC.

You're repeating the words of Klauss Schwab here who said that if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be afraid of CBDC.

Why do you shut your doors and close your windows? Let people look inside, unless you have something to hide.

I'm against KYC and yes, I have things to hide. We all do! Privacy is our basic right.

I'd love my pension to be voluntary.

In my country you can't decide to save up on your own. Want it or not, your pension is subtracted from your paycheck and that's done because the system is flawed. They have no more money in the system and it would all collapse if not for new money coming in. Your money!

I save in bitcoin for this exact reason and know this will turn out to be a life-changing decision for me, one way or the other.

Bitcoin has a number of uses and there are people who argue which one is best and which one we should be promoting

A peer to peer cash - the original concept of Satoshi
An inflation hedge - this use of bitcoin is popular especially in South America and Africa, where fiat currencies are suffering the most, yet people don't have enough wealth to use it as investment.
A speculative asset - that's what most newbies and traders use it as.
A digital gold - in the eyes of the hodlers.

IMO all these uses are great and you should use bitcoin the way you choose to, yet not all these uses are equal. Transacting in bitcoin is a far better use than trading it on a centralized exchange. At least that's how I see it.

Usually these handouts only make things go up in price and increase inflation. Stupid move if you ask me.

I also don't understand the restrictions because people paying their debts should be beneficial to the government. A person in debt is more prone to erratic behavior, mental problems, but a person who pays debts shows responsibility and long-term thinking. Don't they really want to incentivize that? Don't they want healthy and responsible society?