So OP thinks it's the exchanges that control the market and they own all the coins deposited by users and play around with them in a great ruse to buy all physical gold and stuff and then crash the price of bitcoin because they think it's worthless.

They build their multimillion dollar businesses on something they don't believe in and don't care about. It was all a big hoax

You can't even spell it right and start stupid threads based on your misreadings!
It's "Solotshi" not "Salotoshi" and there's a big difference between Solotshi and Satoshi.

What you are doing is taking words Happy and Hungry and saying that they have to mean the same thing because they look similar.

The article doesn't contain a single proof that there's a connection between this arrested gangster and the creator of bitcoin.

Correct. The topic doesn't get followed by the post.

FOMO is always bad because it makes you forget what you were supposed to do. If you're uncertain or fearful don't trade!

Buy at the bottom sell at the top applies to every single tradable asset not only top cryptocurrencies! You don't know what you're talking about OP!

They'll spend a lot of money to make a useless centralized cryptocurrency nobody will use just like Venezuela did.

I don't know what's going on in Russia but every year they come up with some new opinion about cryptocurrencies and their own crypto was supposed to be made like 2 years ago.

According to their site it's not Bitcoin addiction but addiction to day trading.
https://castlecraig.co.uk/treatment/behavioral-addictions/bitcoin-addiction-treatment

I wouldn't want to be treated by someone who obviously doesn't know anything about Bitcoin.


They said it in 2018 and some poor guys went there and paid for a therapy that stopped them from buying in 2019
They literally paid to be stopped from making money on Bitcoin.

Yo beat me to it, so I'll just say that I agree with the answer.

A doctor was one of the examples that came to my mind and was very general. We could say it's a currency exchange owner. He takes cash and exchanges it. Doesn't ask for your personal details, doesn't take a photo of you, doesn't check the bills for stains of blood or narcotics, doesn't ask you where you got it from.

Why are we all of a sudden demanding that a mixer does a checkup of the coins, denies service if he finds them suspicious or files a report to the authorities?

It's new but it still plays by the same rules as the stocks.

People say it cannot be stopped but it can be significantlu slowed down by laws, see China, Russia, and many other countries.

It definitely follows the world investment trends. When stocks fall Bitcoin also falls. It can pump and fall on its own because it's a small ecosystem but it is influenced by the big world around it, and the most important part. It is bought for fiat currencies. When people want to get it they use banks to tranfer money. You influence fiat currencies you influence the price of Bitcoin.

In the case from the link it was rather a matter of messing up with the private keys or mishandling them. It wouldn't really mattered if he had it on an offline or an online machine. If you delete the only backup you're usually in trouble.

I had my coins on my computer for many years without any problems. The important part is not messing with it if you don't have to. The more you send your coins between wallets and exchanges the greater are your chance of losing or exposing them. Just put them in one place, keep your pc clean and you'll be good.

You want to know who are the people who usually lose coins? The same people who try to invest in every single shitcoin, download a lot of new wallets for those shitcoins and enter all those suspicious sites like mlm, hyip, cloud mining, porn, bitcoin multiplyers, blockchain hacks, you name it.

Where does the question suggest that they are investing in a single place? 

Op is simply showing what stocks the rich are holding.

I'm pretty sure they have people working for them whose sole purpose is to be well informed and know what's going to happen around the world before everyone else.

The EU democracy really is different from the US model and they are both different from the fake democracy in Russia or Belarus.


What do you mean? How can Bitcoin threaten democracy? It's simple. The US democracy is viewed in terms of debt. They help other countries obtain it and send them the bill along with contracts for US corporations.

Wise words. I have to come clean that although 90% of my money is in a hardware wallet I still held some ofit on exchanges ffor various reasons that included:
-trading
-laziness - I used my exchange address as my master campaign address and just kept it like that.
-laziness 2 - I had some altcoins and just did not had time to install wallets for them. Itw as easier to keep them on exchanges. I lost like $200 by doing it but when you're lazy you usually have to pay the price
-laziness 3 - I preferred the exchanges to formk my coins for me because I did not trust some wallet providers like when bsv had forked

guilty as charged

And what evidence do you have that the banks created Bitcoin? We have plenty of evidence to support Satoshi, i'd like to see some of yours just to be able to compare.


He fell out of his stroller a few times, doctors sad it was nothing serious

It's never too late to start again. It's just a job, some people are losing their lives.


I'm still doing fine with my job so I can't really relate to OP but I know many people who lost a lot and never gave up. Life is full of surprises you never know what's in line for you. Many people became rich in their 60s after struggling for many years.

Please stop telling people such nonsense.

Market cap doesn't say anything about the coin's current and future performance!

XRP that is rank 4 on CMC is down about 90% from its ATH and also down a few % from the last month's price so you could buy it in 2018, 2019 or even last month and you'd still be at a loss.

They are lazy and incompetent because when it comes to property rights and even private disputes they're quick to give out strikes and delete channels. They also like to delete od block content they don't like like people talking about covid were having their videos deleted.

What about those youtube crypto channels that were under attack some months back?

Where's the freedom of speech?

This is a problem with centralization and decentralization. Centralization will lead to them doing what they want but decentralized platform have such limited content.

Sometimes you just can't do constructive criticism. If you want exapmples look for threads where some individuals defend Craig Wright. When you read their posts all you can do is respond with sacracsm or non-constructive criticism because nothing constructive is going to come out of saying that a liar is not a liar.

I say that both constructive and non-constructive criticism have their use and should not be avoided. It's important to know when to use each of them.

I treat BTC like I treat cash. I don't check my cash for traces of drugs, blood or semen so why should I care where my Bitcoins come from?

I think that mixers should offer their services to everyone just like doctors cure everyone. They don't discriminate between good and bad people they just do their job.

10 years is nothing in the life of a currency. What's 10 years when you look back at what stock market giants have achieved. In its first 10 years Apple barely made 4x gains.


Moving coins doesn't mean selling them! I've moved my coins many without selling or giving them away for example when I bought a hardware walet.

His war was nothing but a PR stunt and a way to influence the price.

He saw that the market reacted to his early negative opinions with some strong bearish moves so he keept on tweeting and told his people to try to use those influencial tweets to make money.

He even admitted later that his daughter is trading bitcoin.

Who can blame him though, bitcoin is a beast. A honeybadger of the markets.

But if you buy BTC and send it to somone that's taxable and that's your problem? A rather dumb and rare law if you ask me.

In most countries only your income is taxable not the action to buy or sell Bitcoin, because what if you sell at a loss? What if you just buy and sell at the same price because you made up your mind and decided not to get involved?

Mentioning your strange local laws when talking about usefulness of Bitcoin around the world is out of place. In the same way a Chinese citizen could say that Bitcoin is useless because he can't trade or take it to a store. The rest of the world will respond just like you did: not my problem.