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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026
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Merit.s
on 30/08/2025, 12:11:38 UTC
Fulham took the lead against Chelsea but were denied by VAR. The refree had cleared it as a goal but the VAR claimed there was potential foul when Fulham player took possession from Chelsea. Fans are sad, these late minute denial of goals due to an event further in the past would decrease the credibility of VAR.
It's a pity that VAR disallowed King first goal for Fulham due to the foul committed by Fulham jersey number 9 player before the ball was passed to King. The game is not going smoothly, there is a lot of stop due to several fouls in the match. However, Fulham is attacking better than Chelsea currently. I don't think that Chelsea have understood how to pass through Fulham defense. Iwobi is a pain on their ass.

I am not enjoying the match because the match is not going smoothly. Everyone is trying to bully the other.
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Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)
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Merit.s
on 29/08/2025, 20:39:32 UTC


Who was waiting to see Milan's comeback today? Milan made a mistake against Cremonese in the first match. Despite being a home match, Milan lost the match. So naturally, today we were waiting to see Milan's stronger gameplay.

In the first half, we did not see any goals from any team. Lecce is a weak opponent. Even Lecce is one of the weakest teams in Serie A. But we did not see Milan perform well against this team. Only 5 shots were made by Milan's players in the first half. Milan definitely needed to play with a full attacking strategy against Lecce. But I am not satisfied with Milan's performance in the first half. Even then, I expect that we will see a good performance from Milan in the second half and Milan will leave the field with a victory in this match.
Finally, Milan was able to score a goal that counted after Gabbia and Gimenez scored two goals that was disallowed. Lofus-Cheek scored broke the deadlock with a good header on the 66th minutes. Lecce hasn't made any goal attempt,

Pulisic has sealed up Milan's victory as he scored with a clinical finish on the 86th minutes to make the scoreline 2-0 against the host. Winning one game and lose the other isn't a bad start for Milan. It's two minutes left to the end of the second half.
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Re: Emergency Access for Bitcoin Wallets – a Thought Experiment
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Merit.s
on 29/08/2025, 19:34:12 UTC
  • There’s a wait period (a few days?)—during that time, you could approve or deny. If you do nothing, access is automatically granted.
You use locktime. When you use locktime, it is either you use a block height or a certain time to prevent miners from adding your transaction in the blockchain until that time is over or your transaction will be mined after the specific block height that you set it to. You can read this if it suits what you want.

https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/transaction/locktime/
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Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL!
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Merit.s
on 29/08/2025, 15:02:21 UTC
My dear fellow PLEBS,

If you didn't buy the DIP yet, it's your opportunity to buy NOW before Bitcoin surges back to $120,000 NEXT WEEK. If you're a DCA investor, DOUBLE your bids and adjust them accordingly when Bitcoin is above $120,000 again.

Our objective is to stack more units of Bitcoin as much as possible during the DIP, and HODL.

Currently, the price of BTC is declining, and I think your advice is absolutely correct. This is an opportunity to buy BTC, as it's still at a low price. However, it would be a shame not to buy BTC at the current price, as it's already considered cheap, and there's potential for the price to rise to $120,000 or even more in the next few weeks.

Um... unfortunately, I haven't increased my purchases in the DCA because my discretionary income hasn't increased, but I think I'll try to increase my funds for now. It would be a shame to miss this great opportunity. Your advice is excellent, and it certainly makes me more enthusiastic about buying and accumulating BTC.
If your discretionary income hasn't increased, you should continue DCAing with that amount and you will still buy more quantity of bitcoin when the price is higher than the current price. It's better that you don't use money that's not your discretionary income to buy bitcoin because it's not compulsory for you to use more money that's not part from your discretionary income to buy bitcoin because the price dipped, so that you don't put yourself in a tight situation that you will have to sell part of your bitcoin when you need that money.

When we make the wrong decision in our bitcoin purchase, it will lead to depreciation of your bitcoin portfolio and that is what we should prevent and avoid. It's better to continue piling up, than reducing your bitcoin size when it is not of our own will.
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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026
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Merit.s
on 29/08/2025, 12:03:58 UTC
The current Liverpool team isn't as strong as that of the previous season. It's obvious that they have conceded a total of 4 goals making it a strong possibility that Arsenal can still score them in Anfield. Since the both teams are strong,home advantage wouldn't count much to determine the winner of this game. It would also be difficult for Liverpool to concede defeat in Anfield and Arsenal wouldn't want to lose the game either. My own prediction of this match between Liverpool vs Arsenal is Draw. This game will end as a draw and  with Both sides scoring each other.

And even when Liverpool won the league, they were just lucky because not all the clubs were doing well. The thing now is that every club has improved, and we are going to know if Liverpool is really good or not. To me, they were just lucky. And even Arsenal is on the same level, but we should not underestimate them because when it happens, we will not be able to predict who is going to win. Arsenal is starting the season well, and their blood is still hot, maybe because the season is just starting.

And if Arsenal cannot in anything this season, then they need to do something about their coach because his not fit for that job, and some people are ready to do better than him. And the game between the two of them is going to be a tough one.
It's not something new for Arsenal to start the season in a grand style. As a matter of fact, I am expecting the best from them till mid season before there problem will start playing out. However, they have added a few players to the squad for easy rotation. Maybe, the team wouldn't be weighed down with fatigue in the last quarter of the season.

Liverpool didn't win the title last season by luck because Arsenal was informed and was the runner up. A club that have already won the title before they league ended, you call that luck..
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Re: Slow or fast?
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Merit.s
on 28/08/2025, 18:55:58 UTC
Your financial circumstances playing around you the moment you receive your paycheck is what will determine if you will spend it fast or slow. It's when you lavish it that it doesn't make any sense because people who lavish their money spends it in a fast way.

The rich has the flexibility to spend money in a fast way without it affecting them that much because they have other means of income but if a poor man spends his money fast, he will be broke within a few days. Financial management matters a lot.
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Re: which has better odds
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Merit.s
on 28/08/2025, 15:51:02 UTC
Talking about operational costs, online gambling is certainly more friendly. Not all offline casinos are experienced. Some people seek pleasure and art in offline games. Offline gambling is more often done by people who are quite old. Enjoy the best games only at offline casinos.
Offline casino is fun when you gamble there because of the socialize aspect of it. The environment, music and everything makes it fun but their odd wouldn't be the same as an online casino that you don't have access to all those fun and entertainment.

Online casinos will give a better odd because that is how they can use to lure offline casino gamblers to try something new with a different experience.
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Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL!
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Merit.s
on 28/08/2025, 13:47:44 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)
My dear fellow PLEBS,

If you didn't buy the DIP yet, it's your opportunity to buy NOW before Bitcoin surges back to $120,000 NEXT WEEK. If you're a DCA investor, DOUBLE your bids and adjust them accordingly when Bitcoin is above $120,000 again.

Our objective is to stack more units of Bitcoin as much as possible during the DIP, and HODL.
There is no need thinking about the dip, if you are on your regular DCA purchase because that will make you not miss out any opportunity in the market. It's people that are waiting for bitcoin to dip to their preferred price before buying that are losing out. There is nothing to adjust as a regular DCA weekly investor because it's your discretionary income that will determine how much bitcoin that you will purchase. Also it doesn't matter what price bitcoin is or will be just keep on stacking to avoid limiting your bitcoin quantity in the long run.
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Re: Is online betting safe in India?
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Merit.s
on 28/08/2025, 12:53:30 UTC
Online betting can be safe, but only if you use licensed and trusted platforms. The key things to check are secure payment methods, fast withdrawals, customer support, and transparency in odds. While laws in India are still evolving, millions of people already use international betting exchanges safely. Always gamble responsibly and stick to platforms that prioritize user protection.
Yea, using government licensed and casinos with good reputation is important to avoid any loss of funds. I heard that the government in India banned betting apps that are going against the government law and not licensed by the government. India government is on strict regulations with casinos this year and came up with an online gaming bill 2025.

If the local casinos cannot provide you the games of your interest, you can gamble online using VPN in a casino that VPN is allowed provided that it's not stricter for people from your country.
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Re: Money is power and it open doors for you if you are financially discipline
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Merit.s
on 26/08/2025, 18:07:03 UTC
Money is power and for you to get that power, you need to invest,save money. You don't wake up one day and get that power, it takes a lot of financial discipline to achieve that.so I suggest you save up and buy some bitcoins for the rainy days.
 Bitcoin is one thing that will not lose value rather it appreciate in value. Just invest because at old age you will not have the strength to start doing all that you were doing when young.
Of course, anyone that's not financially discipline will end up having nothing to fall back on at old age. Bitcoin long-term investment needs financial discipline in order for you to buy with DCA method build, grow and hodli for the future. If you are not financially disciplined, when you see a little profit, you will sell and feel that you are smart.

It's what we work down for the future that we determine our financial strength at old age which is the main reason why we most make investment our priority than spending money on consumptional things. It's easy to start up your bitcoin investment than any other business and personally, I put bitcoin first before anything.
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Re: Could Bitcoin survive if all hardware wallets suddenly stopped working?
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Merit.s
on 26/08/2025, 14:24:56 UTC
⭐ Merited by Cookdata (2)
It's not only hardware wallet that can be used to store bitcoin. We also have hot wallets which I believe that's what majority of newbies with little bitcoin are using currently.

However, we can still store our bitcoin in a cold storage and not compulsory that it must be a hardware wallet. Electrum cold storage is a good wallet to store your bitcoin offline. You only need to download it and generate your keys in an air gapped device and never connect it to the internet.
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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026
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Merit.s
on 25/08/2025, 20:56:13 UTC
Newcastle vs Liverpool

Liverpool: Alisson; Szoboszlai, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Jones; Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo; Ekitike

Substitutes: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Leoni, Bradley, Robertson, Endo, Elliott, Ngumoha, Chiesa

Newcastle: Pope; Trippier, Schar, Burn, Livramento; Tonali, Joelinton, Guimaraes; Elanga, Barnes, Gordon

Substitutes: Ramsdale, Botman, Thiaw, Hall, Willock, Miley, Ramsey, Murphy, Osula

Liverpool will be travelling to St James’ Park to play their second game of the season against Newcastle United who are the host, Newcastle United ended their last game with a draw against Aston villa which wasn't funny because at 66 minutes of the game they played 10 against 11 but despite that they couldn't be able to penetrate and that is how the game ends up draw. I don't think they could be able to win tonight because the opponent they are facing are the current champions and they are still on their best form.

Newcastle United were completely dominated by Liverpool, and their position was severely disadvantaged. A Newcastle player was sent off for a red card in the final minutes of the first half, leaving them reduced to 10 men for the second half.

Ekitike was a surprise; the new Liverpool player truly showed his incredible potential, scoring again for Liverpool just a minute into the second half. Another surprise came from Guimaraes, who scored against Liverpool, reducing the score to 2-1. The match was still far from over and now entering the crucial minutes, anything was possible, including a draw.
Liverpool have equalized the goal on the 88th minutes to balance the scoreline 2-2. Newcastle looks stronger playing with ten men than when they were initially playing with 11 men. They have been aggressive in this second half and they were able to work out two goals from nothing.

This is quite an incredible display tonight from Newcastle. Liverpool should work on themselves because they easily lose focus when they are been pressured. If this match ends in a draw, it will favor Newcastle more than Liverpool who is trying their possible best to defend the title.
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Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)
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Merit.s
on 25/08/2025, 20:13:12 UTC
Inter vs Torino

Inter Milan predicted lineup (3-5-2): Yann Sommer (GK), Benjamin Pavard, Francesco Acerbi, Alessandro Bastoni, Denzel Dumfries, Nicolo Barella, Petar Sucic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Federico Dimarco, Marcus Thuram, Lautaro Martinez.

Torino predicted lineup (4-3-3): Franco Israel (GK), Marcus Holmgren Pedersen, Guillermo Maripan, Saul Coco, Cristiano Biraghi, Emirhan Ilkhan, Cesare Casadei, Gvidas Gineitis, Cyril Ngonge, Giovanni Simeone, Nikola Vlasic.

Inter Milan are set to begin another season against Torino, this will be their first host of the season which I hope they have a very good beginning. Inter Milan has failed almost 60% of football fans including their own fans too due to sudden decline of the performance on the very moment they needed to answer call of their fans but unfortunately they choose to disappoint them by let go of all the opportunity they had. Tonight game will be play at Giuseppe Meazza home of Inter Milan, before now I was saying I can't support them but I have changed my mind to give them a second chance who knows they may be able to close that wide gap between themselves.
Inter Milan made a strong start, scoring twice in the first half. Even though Torino weren't threatening, they continued their high-pressure attack until the end of the first half, and Inter were very eager. I don't think Inter Mılan slow down in the second half either. It seems Inter wants to score more goals to get off to a solid start to the season. Their high-pressure attack will likely pay off in the second half.
Thuram have scored his second goal on the 62nd minilutes with a header to increase the goal gap for Torino to catch up with. Thuram is having his moment in this match because he is everywhere and taking advantage of his opponents weakness. Finally, Thuram has been substituted. I thought that he will get a hat trick but that's impossible.

Inter is taking full possession of the match. Torino looks very weak and umcapable to meet up with Inter game strategy.
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Re: Can Bitcoin Replace Land and Gold as Store of Wealth in Nigeria?
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Merit.s
on 25/08/2025, 13:53:24 UTC
Currently, bitcoin is the fast growing asset in value and any youth that understands the potential of bitcoin should prioritize bitcoin over land. Gold has already been there since before our generation and I hardly see any of my friends who have invested in gold. They only buy it as jewelry to wear and show off with it.

Landed properties have little ROI compared to bitcoin and needs money for maintenance. I feel that's our fathers best form of investment . In this our generation, digital asset is invoke and the youths love to learn and try new innovation. We are in the digital era and I feel that as time passes on, youths will prefer to invest in bitcoin than gold because bitcoin gives you the opportunity to be in self custody of your funds. I will prefer to invest in bitcoin than landed property. In future, I will diversify into other form of assets.
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Re: Buy Buy Buy or Sell Sell Sell?
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Merit.s
on 25/08/2025, 12:00:02 UTC
it is also better to choose DCA strategy, because if someone buys Bitcoin with a lump sum, then later if the price of Bitcoin decreases a little, he may regret it, so DCA strategy should be chosen to buy at an average price.

I think the idea of lump summing is basically dependent on the level of income of the individual or investor. And yes, If you have the income to lump sum I don’t think the idea is wrong to accumulate bitcoin and hodl. The DCA strategy is good, and so is lump sum. The idea is to buy and hodl for a long term goal and sometimes you feel like to buy in bulk and keep rather then buying little by little on weekly or monthly basis due to the fear that if the money gets to remain with you, you might use it for other things that are not really worth it so it’s better you use that money to lump sum and hold. Getting emotional about the market is most common among traders, weather they are DCAing or lump summing.
As a matter of fact, all bitcoin investors need to take advantage of the three accumulation strategies and use them at the right time to accumulate bitcoin. When DCAing, there is nothing bad if you choose to lump sum along the line when you have the money to buy right away provided that you didn't stop your ongoing DCA. Buying at the dip is another way to increase your bitcoin portfolio fast when you have reserve funds to buy whenever the dip comes.

Having the mentality to tweak with these three-strategies based on your own financial circumstances playing around you at that moment. Any investor that combined these three strategies will do better in the long run than any investor who is only using the DCA strategy to accumulate bitcoin. However, if you don't have the understanding on how to use them, you should stick to DCA which you know.

There is risk in the lump sum method. In the lump sum method, investors sometimes make a one-time investment. Although a one-time investment is a good method. But to me, it seems like less investment and more trading.
You are wrong. You can buy bitcoin once if that's what you discretionary income permits you to do and buy another time when you have the money. As long as you plan to hodli for a long term and don't sell the bitcoin that you bought with lump sum, you are not a trader but a long term investor.
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Re: Reasons to use only Discretionary Income for Bitcoin investment.
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Merit.s
on 24/08/2025, 20:33:51 UTC
It is the early days of bitcoin that we should be very much cautious about the advice of investing what you can lose into bitcoin. We can take such advice seriously for shits but for bitcoin, invest the amount you want to use for investment. If you have $10k and you want to invest $3k, invest it, even if you can't to lose it.
Your money is not going to loselt in bitcoin and we all know about it. So, what is the essence of investing only what you are able to lose?
If $3k isn't your discretionary income and you invest it into bitcoin, you will end up selling it when the need for that money arises. You don't invest with any amount of money into bitcoin without proper calculation to know if that money is your extra cash that you can do without in the long run.

Bitcoin investment is not guaranteed to be profitable in future and that's the main reason why you should invest with your discretionary income. It's called the amount of money that you can afford to lose because whatever you use the money for, it wouldn't affect you financially.
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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026
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Merit.s
on 24/08/2025, 17:11:57 UTC
Mostly when two weak or strong teams are playing it is hard to predict but if weak and strong is playing it is not hard. Manchester United needs to win this game so that the fans will have hope on them in this season small. In the game Fulham is not possessing ball like Manchester United but we can't say Man U will win the game.
From the second half the two teams will display their real talents to win the game.
This Manchester United side really needs to win this match to boost their confidence especially after last weeks narrow 1 - 0 loss. Against Fulham, I'm not even seeing what Manchester United is playing, they played better against Arsenal than they are doing right now. It's 32 minutes now and no sign of scoring from them. Thier long ball passing is nothing to write home about. They need a goal.
Manchester United have good start of this game as their performance looking balanced with good control of ball, but sadly this missed penalty opportunity by Fernandes is going to be had serious impact on them in rest of match.

After having strong performance against Arsenal it looks like Manchester United is having good improvement, but they needed to be converted their chances because if they keep missing then surely it's going to be hurt them badly in long run.

Altay Bayindir Mount and de Ligt are doing good in this game but still in second half they needed to have goal in front of their name because this can bring good changes for them in rest of season.
B. Fernandes missing the Penalty was bad but the game is designed for them to win so L. Yoro was assisted by B. Mbeumo to score another clean goal so they are on the lead now. And the game is on the intense time for the both side. Fulham is pushing to equalize the match and Manchester United is pushing to score another and win the match. Fulham can't score Manchester United. Man U has increased their performance on the field to make sure that they do well in this game.
It was an own goal from Yoro header. Fulham have gotten an equalizer on the 73rd minutes of the game. Fulham looks more aggressive and better in this second half than in the first half. Nwobi is doing a pretty job with his passes and crosses. He was the one who made the assist for the equalizer.

Manchester United is under pressure currently after they conceded that goal. Smith Rowe came from the bench to get an equalizer, what a supersub. I don't know if this match will end in a draw since non of the teams are ready to accept defeat.
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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026
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Merit.s
on 24/08/2025, 16:27:34 UTC
It is very difficult to predict who will win a football match. However, Manchester United has a high chance of winning because United is much better than the than the opposing team in terms of strength, experience, and current form, but I think United will not win easily because the opposing players will be desperate to win and perform on the field. I hope we can enjoy the United game with a lot of excitement.

In my opinion I think Manchester united will surely win this match because they are the favorites due to their squad and previous performance Against Arsenal, If in anyway Manchester united draw or lose this match to Fulham it will really be a setback as Champions league contender because they did not get any single point in their previous match, so a draw won't even be good for them they should be chasing on all three points. But we should not underestimate Fulham as a team because they are very dangerous and able of causing harm to who ever is their opponent, if you observe very carefully they usually make teams who are contending in the title or chasing for Champions league drop point in a crucial moment when they need the point so I think tey are able of making Manchester united drop point today.
Manchester United should have taken the lead by now, assuming Fernandez didn't miss that penalty. It's very unlikely of him. United dominated the first half but they still haven't broken the deadlock. I believe in goals and not possessions. It's high time United start scoring goals and stop wasting their chances.

The second half should be a good opportunity for United to score and win Fulham in order to achieve three points. If United don't win this match, it will be a bad start for them this season.
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Re: How much lucky have you got with crypto airdrops ?
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Merit.s
on 24/08/2025, 15:18:43 UTC
How much lucky have you got with crypto airdrops ?
Bad luck. I only participated once in airdrop which was Hamster Kombat after the news of how people made money from TON and Dog. I got disappointed after everything and that was how I abandoned airport hunting.

It was in the early days of crypto that airdrops were profitable and the pay was high. Those early air drop participants were lucky and that was why many of us add interest on these new projects when they started their airdrop.
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Re: Buy Buy Buy or Sell Sell Sell?
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Merit.s
on 23/08/2025, 19:41:18 UTC
The most reliable approach is DCA in every phase of the cycle whether bullish or bearish. While no one can predict when's the exact "best time" to invest but historically a bear season is an excellent opportunity and we should try to accumulate more if we have spare funds because Bitcoin has proven to be bullish in the long term.
There is no best time to buy bitcoin but now which is the reason why you don't need to wait before buying provided that your discretionary income is available. Even during the bear season, nobody can know the bottom line of the dip which is a big challenge for those waiters and one of the major reason why you should keep your bitcoin investment ongoing regularly weekly, consitently and persistently for 4-10 years and above to enable you not miss out the opportunity of buying at the bottom line of the dip without timing it.

Only DCA can give you that opportunity to do so, which is one of the reasons why those in their accumulation stage should adopt DCA strategy to keep their bitcoin accumulation ongoing overtime.