Whether one likes him or not, 4-digit marcus_of_augustus has been a fixture on this forum since 2011. He has always expressed the same types of opinions—agree or disagree, those are his opinions. So, his opinions have now magically morphed him into a Russian agent—because anyone, anywhere with an unpopular opinion about Russia is ipso facto on the Russian payroll! OK, whatever. Beware, beware, Russian agents are everywhere.
I understand that we have not seen Marcus for a while, but I did not know that anything was happening in regards to his forum account.. besides perhaps that he had been away voluntarily.. ...
A better theory: Vladimir Putin personally inserted a microchip into my brain, which made me trade on margin. This caused me to lose my BTC, so that Russia could buy it cheap from the liquidator bot. I blame Russia.
Personally, I give less than two shits about some of the politics, except sure sometimes they do get embedded into our conversation, and we know that there is misinformation coming from several angles regarding various aspects of the Ukraine conflict - and it is likely not going to go away, so I am probably exaggerating a wee bit when I say that I do not give two shits about politics because it is difficult to escape.. but at the same time death-wish, you have to take responsibility for your own actions in regards to your BTC portfolio management - and surely you admit mistakes were made.. and hopefully you learn enough of a lesson to minimize any further damages. I believe that i had already outlined my recommendation to get the fuck away from margin trading and focus on BTC accumulation based on more basic practices of dollar cost averaging, lump sum investing and buying on dips.... and if you ended up having to mostly start over (you have not been liquidated out of some aspect of your currently existing BTC), then recoup whatever you can.. and get the fuck out of shitcoins, especially since you have already shown that you do not seem to know what the fuck you are doing... even though you do happen to recognize and appreciate bitcoin's bullish case and its fundamentals.. so stay focused there first and don't get distracted into either shitcoins or margin until you get your BTC stash sufficiently rebuilt and maybe even overallocated (which surely could take you 4-10 years if you have already ended up losing a bunch).
Sorry.. my patronizing lil selfie could not help but to make some of those commentaries in regards to both your representation of taking responsibility for your BTC portfolio management (yes, I know that you were joking, but still), and the need for you to learn from your mistakes and get your lil selfie on a more solid BTC accumulating path.. that involves focusing and honing reason and prudence, rather than gambling inclinations..
Regarding your various points that seem to belong in the meta section of the forum, I find those kinds of comments less offensive than bringing up shitcoins (or moreso pumping shitcoins without any legitimate connection to bitcoin) in this thread, though I would imagine that there is a pretty decent (perhaps overwhelming) majority of WO regulars who don't want to see very much meta in the WO.. perhaps a reference here or there is going to be tolerable, but long meta rants is not likely to win you too many friends.. I probably won't complain too much about it, yet I will probably blow with the winds if other guys are complaining about it.. which seems quite likely to me... seen it several times previously..