Yeah, it's crazy. I believe keeping such a non-profit yielding business for that long is hoping against hope. It's the same thing a sore trader would do to a losing trade. Instead of closing it, they would rather allow the loss run deep in the hope that the trade would revert to profit. I don't think any seriously minded businessman would want to keep a business that's not making them any profit to run that long as three years. Except that person is a money-miss-road and that's certainly not business.

Which wan com be toto for man again? Na blokos dem dey call those two small balls wey dey follow peepee go everywhere for man body. Toto na vagina for woman. Again, na two proverbs you throw enta there sef. The wan wey you take wan explain am na anoda proverb too.

I for pour you colele wata but I gat nothin now. Keep it up, my gee.

You guessed right. However, your comment is a page-turner and I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to read it to the end.

I'm glad and truly satisfied with your response and that makes me more proud supporting your brand. Keep it up, BestChange. I look forward to celebrating more anniversaries here.

If you don't have any pressing need or emergency to use the money from the sale of your BTC, please resist the urge of selling now. Don't sell for the mere sake of selling or trying to check your trading skills. You may not be able to buy back cheap. Instead of selling, buy more on DCA if you can afford it. This incoming bull rally will frog jump Bitcoin to over $120k if we should rely on the mathematical derivation from past data. It's common knowledge that every preceding ATH more than doubled the past one. The current ATH is $69k. Now do the maths and we expect a new ATH to happen between 2024 and 2025. So, brace up.

If it happened to you often and your predictions come to pass but you still haven't learnt how to stick to your instincts, it simply means that you don't have a worked out trading plan then. What is trading if it's not prediction? Your emotions shouldn't come into your trades if most of your predictions work out in your direction. Back tests your strategy and stick to it if your predictions work better with it.

That's not possible. Humans will always display emotions and that's what makes us humans. The only thing is that every trader needs to have a strong control over their emotion.

Things slightly changed the last time and that was in 2021. My observation was that altcoins usually went into bull rally after each Bitcoin circle recorded a fresh ATH. Bitcoin had its peak at 69k in November 2021. I expected that alts would rally the following year but that didn't happen. So, I don't know what to actually expect now. All I can say now is that everyone should just be mindful of the alts they're buying. Make sure they've utility. Otherwise, the alts can be swallowed up when a bear rally hits them.

I think that's very common in Africa. I don't know what continent you're from but I tell you it's worse with my countrymen. Just tell people you're a priest/pastor, most of them will cease to reason intelligently. They literally hand over their brain to you. Even when the priest is discovered to be wrong and false, a lot won't dare criticize him.

Don't say never. This industry is highly unpredictable. Nothing is certain in the crypto industry. That was how so many people never believed in Bitcoin when it debuted. None ever imagined that Bitcoin could get to $1k let alone $10k. Today, we all know better.

Nope, not at all. Just spend a few days on demo platform to get acquitted to the platform, then move quickly to the real thing. Demo is simulation. It doesn't have emotions attached to it like the real thing. Years spent on demo trading won't translate to being successful on live trading. In fact, if one overstays on demo trading, it could make one to panic when the real trading kicks in. Instead of dwelling on demo for long, I advise that you fund a live account and reduce your risk to the nearest minimum.

I will eliminate the "or" and write on both. Let me start with your second question. I stumbled on this forum by chance. That was how I "detected it". I was ferociously looking for sites that could teach me what Bitcoin was all about and that was in 2017. My search on Google brought me to this forum. I observed it awhile and in less than two weeks I made my conclusion and registered on it.

My decision to remain active here, besides the monetary gain, is simply because there are loads of insights on knowledge one gets for free here. Most crypto fora are full of spam and shitposts. It's discouraging posting there, to say the least. I had accounts in a few of them but I stopped posting there after awhile. There was one – Moonforum (or so) – that would've served as a strong competition for Bitcointalk. Sadly, that forum didn't last before it went under and shutdown.

An in-law is an in-law. It doesn't matter if he's someone older than you're. Except you meant to write "uncle's in-law". That's, as in, an inlaw to your uncle. If you're referring to a man who is married to your aunt as "uncle in-law", that's wrong. By the way, your uncle can only be someone from your dad or mum's bloodline. Nothing else. I even hear or read people say, "my cousin brother"or "cousin sister". What the heck does that mean? A cousin is a cousin, except you say a "male cousin or a female cousin." You guys should stop complicating stuff with all those unnecessary placements. As a Nigerian, I understand your drift but those from other nations may not get it (in the deep sense of its usage).

No parent should be absent in the lives of their children, especially the formative years. Making ends meet shouldn't be a reason for not being around. Keep your family close and tight by being around in their lives.

Yeah, always plan for the rainy days. However shit happens and sometimes our plans just come crashing at the dying minute. Like the man in your story, I advise people to get into jobs/employment that will allow them time to themselves and family. That will allow them dictate their own pace and not being dictated to. Acquire skills and in acquiring those skills, make sure they're skills that can be used online.

So, invariably, it means this service is now defunct 🤔. Won't keeping this thread open continually lead to spamming here?

I was actually flummoxed but not scared so to say. I initially skipped the captcha the first time because I thought it could be something that might end up hacking my account if I solved it. When I later saw numerous users tagged "suspected spammer" same way as I was, after I had posted; I just posted my second straight away. I guess it was on the third post that I attempted solving the captcha and discovered it was a hard but to crack. Especially, when one was told one had over 50 coins to collect.

About the TryNinja hack? Nope, I never tried using it. I just let the fun be, knowing it would disappear the following day.

Theymos got me better than others. The "suspected spammer" tag got me until I saw that almost everyone who posted on the day got it and realized it was a prank. The funny thing was that I had thought of that annual prank from theymos a day to the event. Last year (2022) I preempted the April prank a few days to it by making my Another Fools' Day post. I took it down on advice not to spoil the fun and then reposted on the D-Day.

That didn't get my attention as I ain't fond of jumping from one campaign to another. Again, come to think of it that was an already existing campaign. How would it spike its reward that high? A lot of users who applied there didn't take those things into perspective. They were just blinded by the reward promised.

The link to YouTube gave it away instantly.

Well, there's a thing called "lost glory". If someone was thought to be established either from how they carried themselves here in their supposed exceptional posting habits or the way they resolved issues, and then they started abusing that by making off topic and spam posts. Sooner than later logic will catch up with them and their sham will become obvious. Their value will be lost forever. I've followed certain cases of established members who later turned rogues and got punished for that here.

What were you expecting? That banks should accept your school certificate in lieu of landed property or asset? That's not possible. Your certificate means nothing to the bank. It can mean the world to you but certainly not to the bank. Banks are cruel capitalists. Their major focus is always on how to recoup their money in case a borrower defaults. Your cert can't raise the money if you default because it can't be sold. Again, who told you that you can't get a job or earn a living without your cert once you hand it over to the bank? Of course, banks know all that gimmick and won't bow to it.

I disagree with him on the three years wait. I would shoot the business down if it went on a year without being productive. The only way I would leave it to that point of three years would be if the business started and then went on lock and key, only to be reopened again on the third year. Otherwise, why would I be feeding a business that isn't making me any profit for three years. Doing that isn't a good business strategy.

Yes, he did believe in me. However, I was teaching him at the time the principle of "never you trust anyone in this crypto industry". So, he failed the test.

Not really that. It was a wallet I tutored him to open. I knew it was blank. Even after he unwittingly gave me his passphrase, I told him to discard that wallet and open a new one.

That's the spirit!

Yeah, that should be the attitude. That's in case who dies intestate.

If you continue to think that way, losing yourself so to say because of the entrapment of female anatomy, then you're more likely to get into trouble than out of it.

This part captures an experience I had in 2021. Let me share that with you. I was teaching someone about Bitcoin and trading. When I got to wallet security and safety, I drummed it into my student NEVER to reveal his passphrase or password to anyone; not even to me. I included myself in it. Lecture continued for the rest of that day.

Two days later, while dwelling on a different topic, I asked him to send me his passphrase that I wanted to check for something. He refused, reminding me of what I told him. I pushed further and told him to remember I was different since I was the one teaching him. That broke his defense. He released his passphrase to me. BTW, it was an unused empty wallet for practice. I laughed him to scorn and reminded him how he should never give it out. He felt sorry for himself. I believe my shared experience answers that part of your question now.

The only time one can give that out should be in one's will.

Politicians will say it differently. This is because they know the political controls the economic. A man who pays the piper calls the tune. Politicians know all that. We've billionaires struggling to get into top political positions for the sole aim of controlling the affairs of government in policy making. Whatever political decision a president embarks on is binding on the economy.

I've tremendous respect for anyone who puts their family first above friendship. Friends will be there, but family is often thicker than friendship, let alone a friendship that's only strengthened on drinks. As a family man myself, I've had times in the past when I was faced with such a situation. I used to socialize a lot as a bachelor. Hangout on the weekends on booze. Then a few years in my marriage I figured out I needed to weed out certain influences of friends. I'm happier for it today. There's nothing much of benefit in hanging out for drinks on a regular. In fact, regular booze can damage one's organs to even think of it. The livers and kidneys aren't spared. Anyone having a nice home shouldn't compromise it for an exchange with beer friends. It's not worth it at all.