I disagree with you to an extent. I agree, say when you dey poor e dey difficult for you to invest in bitcoin, but at the same time that on e no mean say poor man no fit invest in bitcoin. Bitcoin is the only thing wey be say you fit carry the least 10k to 50k take buy. This one alone dun show say even poor man fit buy am, unlike shares wey one share of profitable company na from N250k and above.

I know bikeman wey use 100k buy btc when e dey around $40k and he dun dey take profit from am dey use that one hold him side from time to time. Na poorman he be, but he dey hold btc.

The rich get the advantage, of course, but Bitcoin na the only thing wey i see say poor man sef fit invest in. Where poor man want to see N1 million+ to get better investment? But with bitcoin, your 50k fit dey give you the least 5k from time to time make you use support yourself.

I see you have a lot to complain about the country just like every other Nigerian, especially the enlighten ones.


But this here is not true. The government is very capable of handling, managing and maintaining the Nigerian refineries, they just don't want to do it because they prefer the money to go to their bank accounts instead of the actual project. One mistake Nigerians make is to believe the politicians don't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. They take the loans, with the pretense of carrying out a project but just keep the money for themselves.

Very few people who have power will give it away willingly. It is usually taken from them. If the people don't find a way to take the power away from these people, nothing will change.
The situation is the same in my country, if not worse. We come to a point where people play politics with everything, including the lives of people. They embezzle money meant for hospitals, healthcare and even displaced people.

People hate to hear it, but it's human nature to be that way. What stops people from doing that is a system. A system that checks how this money is spent and makes sure the money is being used properly. A system where there are heavy penalties for those caught, and the laws are enforced. Without a system like that, people will do whatever they want as long as they can get away with it. So as long as the people of the country don't wake up and take power back and create a system, things won't change.

A lot of these people that are into crypto are not into it because the naira is weak, they're into it because the country is too hard and people are just looking for any where they can make money from, however little it might be. This is why a lot of Nigerians were involved in the wave of airdrop when it was tapping, referrals and other games. A lot of them did not even have an idea what a token or coin was, but because they could make money from it, they did it.

The average Nigerian who knows and understands crypto will prefer to save their money in a stable coin to Bitcoin if they're trying to protect it against inflation and the weak naira, except it's someone who is a Bitcoin enthusiast.
They do not want to take the risk of saving their money somewhere they can lose it, so they will play it safe. 

Sometimes I wonder if people really understand the country they're from. Have you seen the leaders of this country? They're not progressive in any way, so the idea of Bitcoin ever being a legal tender is preposterous. You still can't use bitcoin or crypto as the description of your transfer, yet you're hoping for it to be legal tender.
A country where if police stop you on the road and find out you have bitcoin, they will start rejoicing because they've caught a big fish they can extort.

All we can ask and hope for is to be able to use it freely without being scrutinised by the authorities as fraudsters or criminals.

They may not necessarily get it wrong. From what I read, I don't think anybody will be playing Satoshi or even if someone does, it might most likely be just a voice with no face. It won't be that difficult if they want to make a good movie.


He is also an actor, not just a comedian, so I don't see anything wrong with casting him for a role. he has had other roles that are not comedy roles before. Plus, there are many other actors, so he may likely not play a big role, but since he's a big name, his name will be in the headlines.

I want to say a big thank you to @Shadiq for organizing something like this for the local board.
I had fun while doing this.

The ingredients for this are; Watermelon, cucumber, coconut, banana, pineapple, pear, apple and grapes.


This the finished result.


 

As someone who is from an underdeveloped country, you can't place the economy as secondary when talking about having kids. It's part of the most important things. In an economy like mine, you have to have different streams of income or a very large income if you're going to have a kid, because the government won't help you in any way. No free education at any level, inflation continuously on the rise, you have to find ways to provide your own electricity and other basic things the government should be providing for you, like water. You also have to consider the security. How safe will that child be? Will he be safe enough to and from school unharmed? each day? If you can't guarantee these things, I don't think you should have a child.

Any form of crypto trading is a risky business; people need to understand that. If you go into a business you don't know well and when you lose money you start shouting "scam" then you are a fool. Trading is something you learn and gradually get better at. So yes, you will not put in more than you can afford to lose, or else you'll lose an amount you can't come back from. People outside just feel it's simply buying and selling, but it's more than that. The worst are people who trade different shit coins and memecoins without fully understanding what they're doing

From the first day I heard about the creation of the coin, it was obvious it would be a huge failure. I guess some people just stayed somewhere and figured out a way to launch a project where they will use to get money off the budget for themselves, because I see no reason Nigeria should have a coin at that time.
First of all, the country was and probably still against crypto, so why should people use your coin when you don't fully embrace crypto or bitcoin? They fess about accounts that made transactions labeled with anything related to crypto, yet they created a cryptocurrency. How does that make sense?

Secondly, nobody trusts the Nigerian government. The seriously cant expect people, which majority are youths to use their coin.
Finally, the coin is backed to the naira. I mean, that alone can hinder the success of the coin. Who wants a coin that is worth nothing and will always be worth nothing? There is a higher chance of the coin losing value that gaining value. The project was doomed from the very beginning and I think they knew that.

I don't like it when somebody complains about something, and another person tries to act as if what the person said is false. There is nothing wrong with complaining about a thing that's wrong in our country, it doesn't mean you're not patriotic and pretending like a problem doesn't exist doesn't make you a patriot or whatever.

We know that in a lot of African countries, you can't make interbank transfers. I knew about things years ago because I have a friend in Cameroon, and she always complains to me about it. I was very surprised to hear about it, but as you can see, they're complaining about it because it's not convenient. You don't expect me to thank God that my situation is not as bad as in other countries. That makes you comfortable with mediocre, and you can't get better with that.

It's not just network issues. It's more than a network issue. My main issue is how they make simple things look very difficult and waste your time and stress you out. Then there's the bad customer service, both online and in the bank. I am a Nigerian who has used traditional banks in the country, and I know what I experienced. I haven't had such peace of mind since I started using an online bank. A simple email or complaint on the app can resolve a problem.
We shouldn't get used to incompetence, it's the reason the country is like this. We cheer politicians for doing the barest minimum.

But somehow, politicians don't care about this. I can't understand it. Is it that they don't care, or they don't know, or they're just out of their depth?
In my country, they print it at will, but somehow keep accusing others of the reason for the currency taking a nose dive.
A person doesn't need a Harvard degree to know that if something is not scarce or if there is too much of a thing, it loses its value, so why do they keep printing money when they know it's hurting the currency and the people using it?

I don't think I fully get your point, but what I know is that no one can actually be wealthy without investments. It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're starting small, you need to have an investment if you have plans to be wealthy one day. You have to put your money to work for you.
The investment can be in any form. It can be in the form of a business, a financial investment or real investments; what matters is, you have to put your money to work.

If you earn money, even if it's a lot of money and you don't make that money create more money for you, then it will surely run out, but even if it doesn't, you won't be wealthy.
You see footballers, basketballers, artists, and actors looking for ways to have different businesses and have different investments, even though they make a lot of money, because they know that without investments, they will just go back to the bottom with time.

E no go change anything. Aything way this government dey do na to first benefit themselves. Even with the law, you no fit still use anything related to "crypto" as your description of your money transfer. If you do am, your account fit enter trouble.
Even the SEC see Bitcoin and crypto like scam and anybody wey dey involved in am na scam.


How many new sources in Nigeria are more reliable than Forbs? And how many of them tat are reliable will take something like crypto news are something they can report? If is not propaganda for the government, its mainly controversies that drive traffic.

Yes, we can expect more price increases. 10x is still possible because there's still demand for Bitcoin. ETF also brings new investors, and all these demand for bitcoin. More corporations and individuals are buying bitcoin, which increases more demand for bitcoin. As long as there is demand, we can expect more price increases.
The thing is, don't expect 10x and 100x over a year. We know by now that Bitcoin doesn't work like that. It did not do 10x in a year; it did it over a couple of years, and the more halving it gets, which reduces the supply, the more scarce it will become. If the demand remains constant or increases while the supply reduces, the price will definitely keep going up.

At this point, I believe it's negligence from the exchange because people have been making these complaints for a while, and they've done nothing about it. They have not paid any interest to the complaints. I believe if they start banning accounts of culprits as example the rest will take note and stop.
There's nothings others can do aside reporting the accounts that do that, but if after reporting and the exchange doesn't do anything about it, the best advice is to look for another exchange.

Practically speaking, is there a way you can be on the internet without clicking links entirely? I don't think so. I mean, the OP posted links, and you also posted links, so if I don't click on the links posted, I won't learn about what the link contains.
I receive emails that require me to click links from streaming services, work related and other stuff, so personally speaking, I don't see how I can avoid clicking links entirely. All I can do is try not to click links that look suspicious. I know it's a flawed way, but I can't decide not to click links.
I'm super careful about the source of where it came from and other stuff because I know hackers can pretend to be something else and send me an email.
The good thing is emails from unverified sources usually go to "spam" but I'm still careful nonetheless.

When it comes to this "fractional shares", I always see it as one of those things that make sense in theory, but when it's time to be practical, it might not work out well. Because of that, I just assume it's me who doesn't know how the fractional share and the stock market entirely really work. 

From the article posted:

The average increase of a stock price yearly is 10%, so how much are you going to make with your fractional share in a year?
Let's assume the share price is $1000 and you buy 20% of that as a fractional share share which is $200. If there's a 15% increase in the share price at the end of the year, that's just about a $30 profit after a whole year. Even if you want to hold it for a long time, the profit at the end of those years won't be worth the time. Certainly, there can be other investments that can give you more than that in that same period.
Buying a single share is not that profitable, not to mention buying fractional shares.
This is why

I need someone who understands the stock market to explain this better to me if I'm getting it wrong.

I saw this from the article you posted.
I don't think I need a master degree to know these things about bitcoin. Aside the business development strategy which is a huge "if", I don't think there's anything here that you can learn online and on this forum. All these are basic things that anybody who actually wants to learn about bitcoin will learn by himself.  I'm not saying its a bad initiative, but I feel it should be deeper than this. They could focus on the more technical and more complicated part of it.

Some merchant dey like ask for phone number so them fit call you in case you dey delay to release coin, so e no necessary say na person wey you dey deal with steady alone go get you personal details. Even without dropping your phone number most people dey use online banks for P2P transaction and most of those banks dey use phone number as account number, so your phone number dun already dey exposed.
If you use traditional banks, for the account number alone sef, them fir get your real name so I no sure say these na wetin person suppose to dey look because all these information dun already dey exposed one way or the other when you do P2P trading for exchange.