Your last line caught my attention more, thus my reaction. Introducing the heavy and deep part of cryptos to very young people and at the same time restrict them from the distraction it affords is a difficult thing to do. We really may not be able to know where to draw the line. In my case, at a point my young son badgered me to teach him stuff about this industry but I struck a deal with him to wait until a certain age. However, he reads some of my posts here and other crypto activities and trading I do. I don't want the financial gains derived from cryptos distract him from his basic school studies, I often hush him. I have on few occasions caught him brag to his peers that he knew things about Bitcoin 😂. Kids and their bragging rights. For me, he will get there one day but for now I've made him realize that there's always time for everything.

If by below $20k you meant $12k, o seriously doubt we will get that roughed out to that dump. I would've expected that around the period before Bitcoin started pushing up in January. Since we didn't and Bitcoin is looking good in every sense of it at the moment, I don't think it will dip that much to that point. We can get it below $20k but I won't expect it to crash to that $12k region. Besides, we've to reckon that 2023 is expected to herald a bull rally as halving is next year. We know how positive all the previous halvings have been on Bitcoin and the entire crypto market. I expect same again.

I know you're trying to keep to that principle of "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" but what if that basket is the only available one to you or if it's the only one that will be useful to you? Quite alright it's good to have more than one stream of income. However, what happens when there's no other stream of income is for one to emphasize the one at hand by finding ways to be better at the game.

While I won't play anybody's solicitor on this, I will like to put my two cents forward on it. I think the reason for dodging to see other bitcoiners won't be far from the suspicion of trust. Anything involving money is always high risk and this is where trust comes to play. A lot of bitcoiners had been robbed in the past through such exposure, either on social media through their loud mouths or in physical meetings such as what you're suggesting. So, I guess the new bitcoiners have learnt how to keep distance and their mouths shut

That's the absolute! There's this saying that the bears make money, the bulls make money; only the hogs get slaughtered. Professional traders don't really get bothered about the market once there's volatility. Whether price goes up or slides down, it's not a bother to them. Traders who've the set skills know when to make entries or exit the market.

At least, I understood this part of your post better. I don't know how long you've been in this forum. If we go by your account registration date, it's just a few weeks. However, that doesn't distract the reality that you could've been here as a visitor for years without registering an account or you've been here on another account. Nonetheless, one thing you should've realized before now in all there is that Bitcoin has always done far greater than its previous ATH. Every fresh ATH is always higher than the previous one by more than double it's original price level. You can search previous data and then crosscheck all that. So don't panic

Honestly, if this momentum that we have seen these past few days were in the last quarters of this year I would've concluded that the bull was upon us. This is because I know that every last quarters of pre-halving year is often green for Bitcoin. It's the same with the halving and post halving years. This one starting this early still casts a shadow. The downward retracement may not be strong but I still believe up isn't yet the way to go at the moment.

Back in the day, I used to play with Poocoin and Tabtrader as platforms to monitor trades and do my analysis, technically. I still take a peep at them till date but I've since moved over to MetaTrader5. It's easier to chart on Meta5 and demarcate the daily since I also use it for other trading businesses and engagements. I once tried to monitor my trades on Tradingview but couldn't find it any better. On the part of indicators used, I like staying with leading indicators of Support & Resistance, Pivots, Trendlines or any other indicator that doesn't repaint.

I don't think that's a good way to trade. Why not take the loss and exit the market by setting a Stop Loss (SL). You can get in back and make more profit after it retraces if you still believe in the direction of your trade. I used to trade in a similar fashion and would martingale my positions or sometimes hedge my positions. In most cases I still lost those positions even after days (I've actually held some into weeks) of trying to save such situations. It's a waste of time not setting a SL.

My broda, your comments deserve colele wata. E just dey pain me as I nor get any to bless you with. Na ogbenge yarns you drop there so. Keep am up. You dey try.

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Na rat wey dey house dey tell d one wey dey outside sey fish dey hidden for house.
Meaning: Whatever happens to one is often traceable to those around one.

😂😂 na im be sey you go still get another last purchase with the old naira be dat as Emefiele don bow to pressure to shift the deadline to February 10th. Even the man don talk sey we fit still continue to dey deposit the old notes after the deadline sef. You go ask ursef wetin come be the need for deadline in the first place. The National Assembly really panic the guy. He has no balls at all to stick to what he said before. Dem look am for eyes, liver cut am, he chickened out at once.

No how wey eba go fall for ground come escape make sand nor gum am
Meaning: We should always expect an after effect of whatever action we embark on.

COVID-19 outbreak and its attendant lockdown created more awareness for online businesses and investments, not just Bitcoin alone. People realized with it that the best way to go was online to create wealth. Offices asked their employees to be working from home. Those with access to the internet and PCs ransacked different search engines. Bitcoin had great hit with that. It's still happening till date. So, OP's question whether Bitcoin will appreciate in price should be taken as mere rhetorics because it's obvious it will. This year and 2024 are expectedly going to be favourable years for Bitcoin. Halving is in 2024 and we know what happens around that time and the preceding year after it. It's going to soar.

I consider a deliberate and malicious spread of lies an obnoxious and unethical practice. We can't classify such practice as FUD – Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt because it's certainly not. We know how anything negative raises eyebrows while that which is positive causes excitement. When investors FOMO too (even unnecessarily) noob investors jump on it and buy in fear. Both FUD and FOMO aren't ethical when done with lies. It's either noobs are selling in fear or buying in fear. They never hold their own opinion by themselves. Well, it's a matter of time before they learn too.

I won't hastily say we're out of the woods right now even with all the rally going on with Bitcoin price. I think it's too early to preempt the market. The breakout in the weekly chart OP put out here could also retrace and then wipe out accords with high leverage (for those on Futures trade) as it's quite expected for price to retest its breakout position before moving on. It's a given that Bitcoin will do well this year but I expect that to come up in the last quarters of this year, not now. What I see now is that the party seems to have started too early and that's a bull trap if you asked me.

The question is "why is CMC allowing those perceived scam projects to be put on its site?" While starting out in 2017, the CMC was always my point of reference for this industry. Any coin I didn't find there was classified as a scam coin. There were some purchases I made solely based on their listings on CMC and not because anyone hyped them. Now, seeing that many scam projects are getting there and site owner is not bothered but only concerned for monetary gain is not just heartbreaking but appalling. For me, I won't touch anything Al is in it with a pole. I bought into one Al token last year but it's value is almost at zero level now.

Wow! I'm truly astonished by what I saw on the site. I never heard of a thing like a wooden Vespa before today let alone seen one myself. However, my genuine concern is the seat. We know how uncomfortable it gets sitting on a wooden surface for a relatively long time. What happens when the rider is on a long journey? It's obvious they will feel that discomfort. The ass is going to cake on the journey. That's the only reservation I've got for that beautiful work of art.

Doing that, would've defeated one of the cardinal points why Satoshi created Bitcoin for direct use as means of payment, don't you think so? On my part, I don't see how transacting directly with Bitcoin should  be a  problem. All OP has to do is get someone who also will want to transact in Bitcoin. Get an escrow to receive and release funds once deal is reported to have been done/executed. Buying with Bitcoin, is in fact, the easiest way once you've factored in the volatility.

Not in anyway; at least not negatively. If anything, the numerosity of altcoins in the market will even help boost the price of Bitcoin. Let me draw a simple analogy with this. Just imagine if we've only two altcoins in the market and Bitcoin, the law of demand and supply will kick in and investors will be propelled to buy either of the two alts and that will solidly increase demand and consequently the price. Bitcoin price wouldn't even be where it's today with just two solid altcoins in the market instead of the 22,390 cryptos in the market according to CMC data. More people are turning to Bitcoin (against altcoins) and investing there because of the prevalence of scam altcoins there are in the market. This has helped increase the demand and price of Bitcoin.

Thanks for going through that stress and quoting for visibility. Perhaps OP should've bought a Copper membership do they can easily display images on their own. That won't cost an arm or leg. I think it's around $30 to get it and they will be free from image issues.

You're right. That will be OP's greatest hurdle to cross at this moment, seeing that their account is barely a month old here and they're already advertising a service to the community. I ain't saying that OP isn't genuine but they've to prove that on their own.