Quote from: Kopyleft on January 08, 2019, 02:34:59 PM

I agree with you that no one should depend on bitcoin bounties, but I don't think anyone really does (except when limited by situation).

I disagree with you there, because if you've ever read any of the ban appeal threads in Meta, you'll hear all sorts of begging in the form of "plz unban me, my family depend on my earning" and so forth. Could those statements be lies? Absolutely, and I remain skeptical and cold in the face of them--but I do think that there are a lot of folks in 3rd world countries who think bitcointalk is a place to work. And I also believe that if you're earning bitcoin through bounties (and especially if you're employing alt accounts as well), someone in a poor country could earn far more with that than in real life.

Quote from: Andam76 on January 09, 2019, 02:31:38 PM

It is better if bitcoin is used as extra income not to lose the main job ... because bitcoin prices fluctuate and we also do not know when prices go up or down ...

That's true, and there are many other reasons why someone should have a job in real life instead of relying on shitty, shady bounties that might not be around for much longer. You can already see bitcoin-paying signature campaigns are getting rarer, but those altcoin bounties are eventually going to die off. The market is going to get saturated with this crap and people are going to stop falling for ICOs and their scams, and the devs are going to stop paying people for advertising/translating/social media posts. You'll see.

Quote from: abstractednerve on January 08, 2019, 04:46:47 PM

You are absolutely right! Last year a lot of people did this mistake! Some people sold their car, lands to buy bitcoin to hold! and now they are regretting every day!

Whoa there with the exclamation points. Those should be saved for special occasions.

I do remember some threads here about people selling their kids' toys, houses, and all of that. Who knows if they actually lost money, though? They could have sold in time to make a profit, and I don't think many of those threads were followed up on by the OPs. It was pure lunacy when bitcoin was approaching $20k, and what's amazing is that people want more of that type of bull market--the kind that's not sustainable.

Quote from: OgNasty on January 08, 2019, 08:27:24 PM

Earning fiat is good, but don't depend on it.

Man, not even I'm that cynical. Then again, if and when a Venezuela-type of hyperinflation hits the US I'll come back here and admit that you told me so. Let's hope that doesn't happen.