It's really bizarre, and I can't fathom what the excuse from the authorities that be would be on that double standard.

I'm hopeful OP will return to sign off when it's past a month of takedown of the other two sites. So, let's see what happens after May 25th 👇

€92,500

I noticed the hiatus of over 6 years in your post history (2019 – 2025). I hope the account didn't change hands, having been registered here in 2017? I'm only wondering. The reason I asked was because of the nature of services you're proposing to render in the nearest future here.

Anyway, as for copy trading; I haven't done that before and I don't intend to do it in future. I like trading by myself. The reason is because I believe there's no holy grail in trading. No trader has a 100% winning rate. So, to mirror another's trade isn't my thing. I may have a look at one's strategy and see how it adds to mine but to copy their trades isn't my thing.

Not just does it require tight discipline, it requires having set skills for trading. Discipline without deep knowledge of what works or how it works will end up in frustration because nothing will seem to work to one's favour or expectations.

You just dealt precisely with what most traders' mindset is about trading. When this set who think that way lose, they conclude that trading isn't different from gambling. Definitely, they're wrong on this. Trading isn't gambling, in any way.

You're right in all you've said about going low-key on revealing one's identity, location and families despite being an influencer but what about that part bolded. What if that tiny number who knew you from the past is criminally minded and is the percentage that can be the Judas? This thing about privacy isn't easy to keep as we think it's, except one pre-conceives that idea right even before one ventures into this space.

What makes you think you can't be among the few that are profitable in trading? Those who are profitable are humans without horns or two heads. They aren't aliens or UFOs. That was how I used to encourage and pick myself up when I started and was running into losses here and there like mad. So, you too can do it. All you need is to burn that midnight candle with focus. Oh, yes you've to research and practise like it's going out of fashion if you want to acquire those skills and be good at trading. It doesn't come any cheap or easy. That's the honest truth.

You didn't take that trade because of fear of loss. You've to kill that fear mentality in you to overcome. The best way to overcome that is that have a control of your emotions, and the best way to control your emotions is to practise good MM strategy (Money Management).

If a favour from a stranger sounds too good to be true, you should suspect it to be a Greek gift. All you've to do when faced with such a scenario is to look for the loophole. There's always a loophole. Find it. It's hard to find strangers who run charities in cryptos. There must be something they ask for in return, sometimes it's hidden.

When next you find yourself in such a situation and you feel you don't want to let go of that opportunity (because actually that point was where you should've left the group), create a fresh wallet and deposit a minimal amount to test run it. Don't ever use your main wallet with huge funds in it.

Sorry for your loss, anyway. It's the cost you pay for experience. Most of us here have gone through one form of such loss or the other. That's what makes us advise newbies of certain things to avoid from the point of experience.

Chips.gg Username: Mpamaegbu
Your ETH address in Chips.gg: 0x4Ab88B968b204F251516b9FAfA2653bcEBd9fAE5
Your Prediction: 107,500

I do that all the time while travelling. To be able to do that thoroughly, I normally check for setup, entry positions before leaving my house to know if I will take any trade or not during that journey. I don't begin to look for setups in transit. All I do need is the right time to trigger trades. That's if I don't set pending order for them before hand. It's the same way I visit this forum or check on my SM handles while on transit. It helps me kill boredom. I can't be on a journey of more than two hours and not surf the net or peep to see what's happening with my apps. However, I try as much as I can to dodge other co-travellers from looking at my phone while I'm on it. Times are really bad. We don't know who may be lurking or looking. Prevention, they say, is better than cure.

OP, drawing your closure from a global scale on this issue, I wasn't surprised to find taking care/killing boredom and for pleasure to be among the reasons for elderly folks indulging gambling. I dare say that those reasons too depend on the environment/area/country such sampling is taken from. In well-organized societies where pension funds and gratuities of elderly and retired folks from public service are duely handed over to retirees, they will have little or no worries for how to scout for money or where their next meal is coming from. Hence, they've relaxed minds and funds available to them to indulge past time that gives them joy; even if it means gambling to get pleasure.

Sadly, we can't say "not gambling for money" is what we can find in underdeveloped countries/areas/environments. I take my country as an example where people gamble to double up whatever little money they've.

You really captured dat scenario wella here as you mentioned, "green like say na football field" Na so e dey be. Dat wan na during d excitation stage market dey be like dat and na FOMO dey cause am. But Brainboss, you set look am well na, u go agree wit me sey we already dey bull run oh. E even started late 2023 in preparation for pre-halving wey we experienced in 2024. In fact, na around $32k I start to observe my own sef. Maybe wetin most people dey call bull run na dat FOMO and excitation wey dey make market go gaga. E go soon happen dis year. Newbies wey nor listen na to buy small keep go cry had I known.

BTW, I nor know why e bi sey anytime wey I see CRV for aggregator sites I go just rememba u. Shey u still hodl some of dat token (Curve DAO)? E bi like it's picking up now.

The caveat in gambling, just like in trading too, is to stake what one can afford to lose. It doesn't matter whether it's small amount or not. For me, I don't think those who even stake little amount are better off than those who stake large funds. Just make sure what you're staking isn't something that gives you nightmare. If it does, it simply means you're over staking your funds. What I frown at in gambling isn't the amount that's staked but addiction. Amount staked is relative to gamblers. Every gambler should define their risk appetite by themselves.

Those who stake little amount always regret it when they hit wins. If one must eat a frog, why not eat the rotund ones? That's my philosophy.

For me, na even since January or so last year bull run started but when most people talk of bull run wetin dem dey refer to na ATH (All Time High) wey be d time wey Bitcoin price dey hit d roof to reach its peak. We still dey expect am, e neva happen. Na dat wan go carry price run enta anoda level. E go happen and many people wey nor believe now go believe by force wen time reach. E nor go pass last quarters of dis year 4rm wetin I dey speculate. All d fundamentals dey favour Bitcoin now, wetin remain na make price catch fire.

Na d koko you drop there so, especially dat part wey I bold. Maybe crypto hodlers dem be dey think sey since dem nor dey carry am waka around sey nobodi go wan harass dem as dem nor fit expect anybodi to cram Pkey or seedphrase for head. Dem nor know sey criminals are wise too. They know by kidnapping and keeping dem, dey can get their victims to instruct people at home who will get those information across to dem wit small torture or kidnappers can equally force dem to access their phones for whateva wey dem fit find there. We need to dey wise for dis industry. Whateva wey we get nor suppose be for bragging.

Not at all. E dey very easy to do. D main thing be sey, anytime wey you wan do P2P nor let anything distract you. Just take am slowly, and neva u leave dat transaction to do anything else until it's done. Na d reason wey make me dey like trade wit merchants wey dey 15mins window frame. E bad be sey I choose 30mins. You see those wans wey put 60mins? Nor be me go contact dem for deal.

Anoda thing to watch out for be – Don't deal wit a third party account. Even exchanges get dat warning on their sites and e get why. Nor look at rates mainly to pick ur merchants. Rather, look at reviews and percentage of their dealings. Na so me I dey do.

Dat na why we supposed report anybodi wey send us third party account to pay to or pay us 4rm a third party account. Nor waste time to do so or make u deal wit only those wey nor like dat third party account thing. Always read dem terms or service b4 u deal with any merchant.

I wish sey youths go really take data advice as dem still dey young bc na d koko you yarn there so.

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By the way, next time make u nor go quote d OP b4 u drop ur yarn. E nor sharp like dat.

Of course, referee's decision affects games and by extension; gambling. It's a two-edged sword because a bad call from a referee will affect some bettors negatively while being a source of blessing to others. The only people who complain of referee's bad officiating are those who are at the receiving end. We've to come to terms with the fact that every club has had one or two times a referee's bad call had helped them win a game or escaped punishment.

While hodling will benefit investors, trading will benefit the network as trades are carried out. It was for this reason that the famed 10,000 BTC was exchanged for just two pizzas. My argument has always been that if everyone decides not to sell their Bitcoin, no one will have an idea what Bitcoin value is today. Nothing is worth anything untill it's exposed to the dynamics of the market. Yes, Bitcoin will worth more in future but I rather not hodl all throughout without taking profit from time to time and then rebuying at low.

Except there's match-fixing, everything any paid site does is guess work like free sites give out. Everything in picking odds is pure luck. No one can of certainty tell the future. I remember when as a youngster we used to buy "keys" to NAP or do permutations of football matches every Friday as against Saturday in local pool offices. In most cases (8 out of 10), those keys bought weren't winning numbers. For those who don't know what "keys" are, they're supposed winning numbers of matches yet to be played but concealed. Those who sold them claimed they bought them from bookies. It was all a marketing strategy.

What were you even saying there? Your first sentence as quoted is as gibberish as anything. It's either you wrote in a hurry and couldn't read through it before posting or, let me not even say what I think.

Now to your second sentence, what do you mean by, "the number of bitcoin is very high so it price should now be very low." Bitcoin supply is fixed at 21 million maximum. What number being high were you referring to there?