I guess the reason you weren't that much excited is because of your past experience with this type of thing. At every circle, Bitcoin had been known to replace its previous ATH. We know the present ATH is around $69k. If the current price is at $50k, we know it's still short of that mark. We still have more $20k to cover to get any veteran really excited. Those who bought at $69k level wouldn't be excited though they now know it's just a matter of weeks before their entry price is hit. This won't be same for those who bought around the $22k region. We know.

Nonetheless, people shouldn't FOMO. I think there's a retracement coming, as expected.

I wonder why they do that. To think that they're people you think you want to help makes it more embarrassing. You see them and think they need help financially only for you to approach them and realize they're very much comfortable in their ignorance and lack. I used to go out my way talking to people in my attempt to educating them on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies but would get a not too rosy responses. This day, I've lost that energy to do that, and gladly so.

Once that paradigm shift happens, trust Bitcoin to lose its allure. Whether we like to accept it or not, most of us hodling it are doing so because of the asset side of it and not as a means of payment. Bitcoin has since lost that right as a payment ease to newer tokens and coins because of its constant and unending congestion bottleneck and exorbitant fees. So, if the only thing Bitcoin becomes useful as in future becomes that, then it's going to become boring investing in it.

That will be interesting, really. On what app or platform can that be staked? I would like to peep into that to see how liable such is.

Well, while I wouldn't say your observation is wrong regarding that it has been stretched already in price and may not expand more, I think it's use-case should be factored in too. Look at its ATH of $20+ for a token whose max supply is infinite but with over one billion in supply already. Yet it did over $20+. It can still surpass its current ATH. Celestia is a good project.

Truth is that we don't know for certain a token that will do what multiples in ROI. We can only speculate and then take the risk. Even those that invested in Celestia didn't expect it would go this far in price. If you want a token to take a look at that can do similar to what TIA has done with staking and earning airdrops, you may want to check out Pyth Network. But first do your research to know about the project before investing in it.

Yes, airdrops are like additional money. No one throws away extra cash and that's what those you're alluding to are doing. They're putting more effort into engaging in it now. I don't think it's because they're scared of trading. Again, you've to realize that chasing airdrops is time consuming as there are zealy tasks to be done on them to qualify for getting airdropped tokens. You don't want to be distracted trading on Futures while chasing airdrops. Only those who can manage their time very well can multitask on it. Well, if the trader decides to go on Spot trading that should be very easy; almost like on autopilot. Just buy Bitcoin at correction and leave it till last quarters on this year or first quarters of 2025 to take profit. That's a simple way of trading it. Shorting Bitcoin now, no matter the dump anyone foresees, can lead to losses. Stay away from shorting it.

Regulations or not, scam activities won't go away as long as mankind exists. We've seen industries that are highly regulated but that hasn't stopped scam and fraudulent activites going on in them. It's there in the stock exchange. It's there in FX Trading. Scam is even there in religious circles. While I applaud the warning issued, I still believe the bulk of the prevention should come from the prey individuals involved. Many people are easily ruled by their own greed and that's why they easily fall to hyip (High Yield investment Programme). Anyone with the mindset of a quick return on their investment is prone to being a victim of scam.

Frankly, I didn't expect the $50k this soon. I was speculating it would be in March or even April before halving date. Despite the crash from $47k+ after the ETF news, I wasn't moved a bit that Bitcoin would relapse into a dump. I saw that as a correction and an opportunity to redistribute Bitcoin. Those who didn't buy before the ETF had a great entry opportunity. Those who didn't also buy after the retracement will also have another opportunity again as I expect price correction from this $50k. Surely, there will be. I wouldn't rush to buy on FOMO now if I were an investor. Wait a while for price to dip a bit. Bitcoin is on an upward trajectory. Whether the ETF happened or not, Bitcoin would still have been on an upward move. It's the circle. Halving pushes Bitcoin price every circle. Newbies should take note of that. It relates with the basic law of demand and supply.

Exactly! That's their game plan. This is why I will never add any token I'm buying on Pancakeswap and its ilks without using the token's CA (Contract Address). At least, I know that no project can use the CA of another. It's a shameful practice that people will deliberately hatch plans to scam others. Such is condemnable. Newbies should take note. We're going to see more of such as we progress into the bull rally proper.

I think this X-cash ran a bounty here on this forum in 2018/19, or so. I can't be too sure any more if we're looking at the same project or not. Anyway, many of those projects back then went under and couldn't make any good showing. There are a good number of them I'm baghodling and wouldn't want to trash them yet. No one knows what direction this industry can take and the devs of those projects decide to list them, possibly to offload their own bags too. Early this month, I saw someone trying to provide liquidity for another supposedly defunct project – ONZ on Pancakeswap. If that liquidity becomes high to the point that the token will become tradable, hodlers will certainly have an opportunity to sell off their bags. I'm baghodling this token too.

I don't know if it's just me being paranoia or careful, I tend to have instant disgust for any project that picks the name of a popular project for whatever they think is their reason. Such an action, for me, smacks of deceit. Once I smell a lie in any project, my antenna shoots out in protection of my emotional involvement in that project. OP using Satoshi and Binance to gain attraction for their project is going to be more of a backlash than patronage.

While what I'm about to say here shouldn't be taken as a financial advice, from the feelings I'm getting I perceive there's going to be a surge in price of BRC20 tokens this bull run. I believe these ones will give a great ROI. Already, Ordinals has shown promising sign of that and I know many more of them with several zeroes in their price level will spike once Bitcoin hits a fresh ATH. I suspect investors will want to take out their gains in Bitcoin and make BRC20 investment the alternative just like what always happened in the past with alts after Bitcoin surge. For me, it's a risk worth taking. Anyone can check the BRC20 category on coin site and monitor that. DYOR.

Nope, I won't. I don't think Satoshi would ever do that, that's if he/they're still alive. I would lose the tremendous respect I've got for that entity if he/they were ever to make any public appearance.

I would sell a part of it to get a grooving life and to give myself a pat on the back for all those slaving years in the lab, cooking up what's now a phenomenal innovation.

Nope, what for? I don't see the need for that.

That's the best thing to do, continue to remain anonymous.

Of course, yes.

You're asking the community to supply you links to verify any example of the hacks they will give? That's, if anyone actually finds out time to dig them up for you? Isn't that like trying to be entitled? Opening such a thread, is one of the easiest ways to make others begin to see you as a spammer or as a user who wants to be spoonfed. OP, the information you seek is right there at your finger tips. It's just a click away from you when you key in your query on your device. My suggestion to you, instead of opening threads to seek basic stuff you can readily get for yourself; why not utilize that time to ask questions on issues that will make others brainstorm on them? I think that will even benefit you more.

I don't know what your experiences are with that exchange that warranted you giving it a thumbs up. In my books, there's a lot that I don't find funny there. Though I haven't been using it for a long time, I discovered that tokens which aren't listed in the coin market can find their way to that exchange. Yeah, those tokens may not be tradable but for the fact that they're enabled on that exchange leaves little to be desired. There's a particular token alleged to be a scam, it's an ongoing mining token that is allowed to be added there with a Contract Address. The only thing the exchange has done is to give out a "Suspicious Scam Token" warning if anyone tries to add or trade it. I thought as a Cex, tokens don't get added on the exchange if they haven't passed scrutiny. One can understand that if it were a Dex.

I was given to understand the place of patience as a virtue in this industry. I learned that to take trigger a trade one must wait for that candle and its timeframe one is watching to run out its full course and close. It has to close before one can execute a trade. Otherwise, there could be a last minute change in the bias of the market.

Those three can't be overemphasized due to their importance in trading even if they're enumerated countless times. It's said that no matter how enticing and tempting you think your set-up is, don't over leverage on your position. That's true. Whenever we pick a trade we should always remember the place of market manipulation in it. We shouldn't leave anytime to chances. We ought to know how to safeguard our capital.

Pro traders will tell you that not trading is also trading. I quite agree with that because it retains one's capital. One of three things happens whenever a trade is triggered  – It's either it runs into profit or it goes into loss or it breaks even (BE). BE is when a trader is taken out at entry price so they don't incur any loss or make any profit.

No one is better than the other. It all depends on the temperament of the trader. In this industry, both can make you money the same way they can lose you money. A better way to trade them is to develop a trading plan that reflects one's temperament. If one is impatient, day trading or even scalping will be better suited for one. If one has a day job, maybe an office work or one that takes one away from screen time, then swinging or position trading should be a better option. Don't base your trading on what others are trading or the way they trade. Develop your own plan based on what works for you. It's custom made that way.

Funny, though, how that sounds 😏

Can you list the 1% exception you made then 😏 so the rest of the community can bag them?

Joking aside, yes I agree with you that what fuels projects and gives them unexpected push is hype. Hype comes from marketing. Besides, we've to factor in the place of backers of such projects. I've come to discover that any project with big VCs backing them easily do well because the financiers won't want their investments go down the drain. Take for instance, any project with backing from BinanceLab will easily get the attraction of the crypto community and that helps push demand for it.

Traders are different from investors. What causes cryptos to dump isn't the action of traders but investors. Whichever way a project goes, whether up or down, is immaterial to traders. They only need to position for the trend and profit from it. For investors, the trend must be upward for them to profit from it. Both are different.

Of course, it's a choice one has to make but not when one is still a minor and dependent on one's parents. Again, is there anything that isn't by choice for adults?

Comprehensively, that's what being in school or getting an education is all about. We share in the knowledge others have (authored in books) or by word of mouth and we exchange our experiences and realities with those we come in contact with.

Nope, not really. Meta is a section of the forum that discusses happenings in the forum. It's not about Bitcoin per se.

I ain't sure anyone would want to do that if you didn't infringe or break any rule in the forum. If your thread is locked, it could be that mods thought it redundant or off topic. You shouldn't take that to heart. Learn from it and move on. Again, one of the things you should learn first week of being here is that the forum doesn't tolerate anyone claiming to be Satoshi. Anything of such or similar to that is sacrilegious here.