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.

This is why you shouldn't write on sensitive stuff like this from the top of your head without making your research. It's really absurd to classify money (fiat) as a store of value. It's obviously not. Anything that depreciates in the presence of inflation can't be quantified as such. We can say Gold is. Bitcoin is. But not fiat. For instance, a few years ago in my country N100 was $1 in 2008. Today, N745 exchanges for $1. Inflation has beaten the hell out of the local currency with virtually no corresponding value to show for the difference. N100 in 2008 had a better purchasing power than the current N745 of today. Every Nigerian know this.

Actually, people don't become wealthy from saving their money. They become wealthy through investments; and that's even when such investments become profitable. This is the simple reason billionaires always look for ways to reinvest whatever that's left of their earnings after setting aside what's for their daily running cost. The fact remains that only those without investment plans let their money lie idle without putting it to use. Savers who don't have any investments is meaningless.

Now, you've it removed. Forum is back to status quo. Do you care for a shot of chilled 40-year-old bottled brandy? At least to celebrate what got most of us startled yesterday 🤪

Honestly! I think people should just relax and chill, enjoy the moment. There's no cause for alarm. All will be gone in less than 24hrs and forum resets to status quo.

The coin requirement fluctuates. My second post today required me collecting just 5 coins after the first asked for 52 coins. Now this one I'm making required 70 coins. Who knows, my next post today may require less than 20 coins. I think this is the hardest April Fool's prank theymos has pulled so far. I don't know if getting those coins is easier for those on PCs, unlike those of us on mobile phones.

Again, for those screaming this should be implemented in real life to curb spamming; don't be too sure that you will be able to make your regular posts, no matter how an excellent poster you think you're. This is a stringent measure.

I was wowed of the "50 merits" when I was notified of the splash from Satoshi but what gave it out was the YouTube link 😂. Immediately I saw that link I knew something was wrong and needed to check my profile to confirm it. How it escaped my mind it was another April Fool prank, even though I thought of it until yesterday.

Damn! Theymos doesn't disappoint on every Fool Anniversary. Today's anniversary nearly got me as I had forgotten the usual theymos ritual until I started seeing almost everyone having the "suspected spammer" warning thing.

So, my captcha is to collect 52 coins to post 🙄 when I can't even jump two hurdles. Well, maybe next time OP should give us another video game as Captcha instead of Mario. Mario is a difficult kid to please.

OP, I congratulate you my broda for dis big river wey you don cross. E nor easy to graduate and serve with the type of education wey we dey run for schools dis days with owa mumu lecturers intimidation and sorting and all dat. To graduate from tertiary institutions now be like surviving war front. Dis wan nor be to dampen your spirit oh, but from experience you too go still realize sey dat certificate nor worth much at all except you cap am reach PHD level or you get skills join am. Certificate wey nor fit put food on the table except you get connection. You gat to take here seriously because better dey here. Concentrate on your posts so you too go rise and you go understand wetin I dey talk now later. Learn other online stuff like trading and investments. A few years from now you go thank me for dis advice.

Na wetin show you sey owa ancestors dem dey organized and get betta cultural practices before oyibo com carry dem handicap unto slavery and then introduced western religion to us. Late Chinua Achebe describe proverb as the oil wey owa people take dey chew yarn.

Naysayers won't like that 🤔. Bitcoin to the moon!



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It also amuses me too. Trust me, I'm sure those who do it don't even know why those they copied doing it do it. It's just a thoughtless copycat intent, for me. I've seen someone mask their public address while leaving the QR code open 😆.

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As for you OP, you don't need to prove anything to anyone on where or what your investment is about. However, if you must, it should also be on the thread you announced your investment for your new born baby.

If I got your question well, you're asking if it's cool for anyone who's new to online stuff to go into investment and trading, right? Well, on my part, I don't see any issue with that; provided the person will know that there's a need to learn the basic skills for that first. Learn how to trade first before trading. That's the way I see it. The same thing applies to whatever investment they want to go into. No one should invest in anything just for the sake of investing.

Of a truth, it does. I got to understand why employers would always have "years of experience" included in job requirements as part of their criteria for picking new intakes. We may think it's high-handedness to do that but it's not. There's a part for experience in anything we do in life. Those with experience often go far ahead of their counterparts without experience.

On the part of failure and success, we learn from failure than we can do from successful. Failure gets us into adjusting our strategies and trading plan whereas success gets us excited and ego bloated. With it we conclude that we've accomplished and "arrived".

You're right but not many will accept that to be. Whenever I read about people who rue their lack of awareness when Bitcoin debuted and how they would've bought thousands of it and hedl, I just pout my lips. Nothing would've changed because they too would've sold long time ago too.

The "bubble" FUD was a thing in pre-2018 and it did actually scare the shit out of me as a noob in 2017. I wonder how that format of FUD died off. Nobody fuds with that anymore. This is because the globe is more enlightened about Bitcoin now than it was a few years ago.

Absolutely yes! It should be

I thought of that ATH (around $69k, actually) in 2021 too and if they didn't sell then, why they didn't but decided to sell now that's far below half of its current ATH. Then I thought perhaps OP also trades Futures or has been on DCA. Whatever approach OP used, it's a welcome development. That's the hope of everyone here, to achieve something tangible from our Bitcoin investments. Kudos, OP.

Well, for the fact that you even admitted that there are countries where you deemed it fit that Bitcoin could be referred to as a legal tender, it means anyone using that same term across board shouldn't be out of place. In as much as I didn't say it was globally accepted as a legal tender, I don't think it should be a malapropism. However, I get your drift.

What you've described there can better fit under burst posting, not necessarily spamming. Those who post much within a day or two just to meet up with the weekly quota are guilty of this. For spamming, I like to explain it as posting substandard comments which are out of point or irrelevant to the discussions at hand. A post that doesn't address what the thread is on or responds with relevant idea is a spam post.

Beyond all that you listed OP, I think the negligence of reading through threads and sticked posts is the bane of most beginners. They're often in a haste to start posting straight away because target is often to increase post count and activities but not realizing that it's good to put things in the right order first. That's reading before posting.

OP, you talked about patiently accumulating sats instead of waiting to buy a whole Bitcoin. It's a given that most users here may not even have owned a whole Bitcoin. Besides, the positive thing is to hodl and keep hodling as that shows support for Bitcoin. It shouldn't matter if it's not up to 1 BTC.

I believe you're referring to the pre-2017 era. I read it was a glorious era for faucet claimers. I tried my hand on faucets too around 2017/2018 but my experience was far from encouraging. I don't know how many people still indulge it now as it seems to be a waste of time.