Some months ago, I needed an urgent $20 to cover a transaction elsewhere, so I decided to withdraw it from my new broker account. Thankfully, I detected an insane charge of 8 USDT just for a 22 USDT BEP20 withdrawal before proceeding. What would remain??

They even cited that the charge was for "mining fees." Are you kidding me? Mining fees for USDT. In short, I rushed to the live support, and we had a very heated argument that later made them apologize.

To my surprise, my USDT withdrawal charges have become 0 USDT since then, and I've withdrawn more than 30 times afterward. I believe others will continue to suffer those charges, but for me, this is what I get from knowing my rights and being a member of Bitcointalk.

Back in Jan, AI meta was so massive and all the AI coins went ATH such as Fartcoin, SNAI, Griffain, ai16z etc.

After Jan, the meta became so dead and no one wanted to talk about it nor invest.

However, it is now showing some revival sign and those tokens are starting to move.

Fartcoin is back to 1B MC and most of OG Ai tokens had massive pump.

I am expecting to see second wave of AI meta sooner than later.

What is everyone thinking of? Are we going to see new AI tech emerging? such as MCP + Swarms?

DARK token is a new candidate to become something huge.

SOL is overtaking ETH in every metrics.

SOL DeFi is likely to surpass ETH in the near future in my opinion.

Memecoins ecosystem is just way greater than ETH.

How ETH going to solve this issue and maintain the king spot?

Pls don't misunderstand, just an assumption: if Bitcoin were to reach $500 again today, do you think people would still be willing to buy?

In my opinion, it would have two implications. Firstly, it would likely have ruined many people's investments and life savings, considering those who bought in at $10k, $20k, or even $100k.
Secondly, it would reinforce the skepticism of those who don't trust digital currencies due to their perceived unreliability. So, if it happens, would you still buy it?

Bitcoin is such a good coin because it has good code

Bitcoin's code is so good because it is simple and solid. It was released by Satoshi Nakamoto and in its original form, Bitcoin is supposed to survive from its code alone. We do not need to change its code because it is simply a good code and it's well reviewed.


Bitcoin has SegWit to lower transaction fees

SegWit offers us compared to Legacy or nested SegWit really low transaction fees and it will reduce our costs paid for transaction fees a lot.
SegWit transactions are simply smaller in size compared to legacy transactions because all witness data (signatures) is separated from transaction data. As a result, we get a lower fee per transaction vbyte.


Bitcoin’s SegWit offers increased Block Capacity

Bitcoin has a limit of transactions in terms of transaction size for each Block: a limited number of transactions can only be fitted into each Bitcoin block, limiting Bitcoin’s capacity in terms of  transaction size per new block.
SegWit allows more transactions to be fitted into each block. By separating all witness data, SegWit effectively decreases size limits for each transaction and effectively increases Bitcoin’s block size limit, which helps to process more transactions per block.
So, SegWit actively helps to reduce congestion in Bitcoin’s mempool.

Overall, using SegWit addresses will help us to reduce transaction costs, have a better network performance and future-proofing for additional improvements and features for Bitcoin.


Reasons for and against Pos vs. PoW

Quite contrary to PoS, PoW is very hard or almost impossible to compromise. Not so for PoS, where more attack vectors can be found.

For example, PoS can be abused by rich stakers. Many PoS projects have a so-called pre-mining of coins allocated to the team and the team can abuse such pre-mined coins to gain influence about project decisions.
A large pre-mine is making a project centralized in many ways and devs can gain much influence by staking a large amount of PoS coins.
PoW is not having such issues.

A similar problem is called "nothing at stake", where attackers benefit from no cost to stake ETH or similar PoS coins. Should a fork occur, no matter if the fork is a friendly, accidental or a malicious attempt to rewrite history and reverse transactions, it’s a given strategy for any staker to stake on every chain. By doing so, he will get a reward no matter which fork will succeed and he will have no additional cost to do so.
In PoW, such a problem is not happening because PoW always means work (spending electricity) needs to be done. A cost occurs for every miner and he can’t mine on multiple chains because mining of a different chain means an extra cost.


Bitcoin is well reviewed

When Bitcoin was invented, it was set up to be a big security. Hacks should be impossible and get prevented by good code. Bitcoin attracted and still has a very large community of really educated developers.
Bitcoin has a very reliable coder community, where flaws will be detected early before implementation and no risks are being taken. Many much smaller coins have a very flawed code review process.
A large and educated coder community reviewing code during testing times is an important advantage for Bitcoin.

And luckily, it saves us from possible hacks, when hackers are prevented from detecting flaws faster because all flaws are removed before implementation.
We have seen so many hacks, where a flawed code was exploited and people lost money, like for Altcoin cross chain bridges recently or when Terra Luna failed.
Still, people are buying coins from unreliable coders like Tron from Justin Sun or even weaker DeFi coins like Acala Stablecoin from Polkadot’s supplier Web 3.
Unfortunately, some people will only learn after a loss.

Some coins are very centralized and have a single point of failure like Solana, when it was down several times or devs have much power like in Binance Coin or Tron.
And DeFi coins can easily print some more coins / tokens into existence.
Bitcoin is having a big advantage here.



Bitcoin has PoW

It is big controversy for a long time, if a coin makes PoW or PoS, like it was for Ethereum [ETH]. Not for Bitcoin because Bitcoin developers have decided PoW is best because of security. From what Experts have said so far, PoW is very hard or almost impossible to compromise instead of PoS, where more attack vectors can be found. Like Corona, we should trust majority of experts who have education and experience in an issue. Satoshi implemented PoW not PoS because Satoshi knew. He was very experienced and called it right.
PoS can be abused by rich stakers and makes a project centralized in many ways like premined coins and devs can create much influence by staking a large amount of PoS coins. PoW is not having such issues.


Security is Bitcoin’s priority

As for a safe cryptocurrency, security standards are very important. First point, we need security standards and Satoshi implemented it right himself, when he developed Bitcoin. Early Bitcoin developers added more security standards. Second point is after some time, to NOT remove such security standards. First point and especially second point are relevant to many Altcoins, which is a big issue for Altcoins.
Many Altcoins don’t offer anymore to create private and public keys to prove ownership of funds and access it. It is very concerning and seems mind blowing to many experienced coders.
For example, when creating a Solana wallet or similar new Altcoins. Altcoin developers are not focusing on security.
Or even MEW is bitching around more and more every time going away by implementing insecure patches. We need to have our private key offline.
Many Altcoins are leaving people vulnerable which is very concerning.
Bitcoin is better like Electrum for example. Its design is not so nice but Electrum is good tech and recommended by many experts.

Bitcoin is still having very high security standards today because of Bitcoin does not want to build a hype coin, Bitcoin wants to build a safe coin.
It is our duty to select a safe coin instead of an unsafe hype coin.

Wow, this is really great information to know.

More holders mean growing trust in Bitcoin. Even though there have been some downtrends, more people are still committed to long-term holding. I think this helps strengthen Bitcoin, and maybe we won’t see those massive dumps like we’ve seen in the past.

This movement is probably being led by institutional investors. Their actions likely give individual investors more confidence to hold, especially since they don’t panic easily. It’s normal for Bitcoin to have sharp drops, but just like what happened earlier this year - it almost dropped to $60K, and now we’re back around the $90K range. Looks like we’re entering a bullish phase again. (hoping...)

I’m not the best at reading charts, but you can check it out from this source.



https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/04/24/long-term-bitcoin-holders-show-commitment-buy-more-btc-than-short-term-holders-sell

and these are also the the information we should know abou the topic.

I recently watch an anime which he was given a chance to do over his life. My imagination works on what if I experience this in my life and how can start my Bitcoin journey knowing that the price will sky rocket in the future.

I belong to a poor family when Bitcoin was introduced so I don’t have any access to computers or internet that time because we can’t afford to buy one.

So everything is still very challenging on how will I acquire my first Bitcoin and how can I secure my Bitcoin on secured wallets without losing my private key from hacker or floods(my country experience a lot of typhoon every year).


I want to know what’s your do over plan in case you have a chance to do it. Will you invest on altcoins or you will just focus on Bitcoin investment including mining.

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Brother, it is not right to rely on history to guarantee the future. Bitcoin has indeed recovered many times but that was at a time when the market was new and investors were very interested. Now the situation has changed a lot. Regulations, market situation, economic crisis, all of them are not as simple as before.

And many have lost by following this formula of buying only when it is dumped, because not everyone sees the pump they want to see or they cannot hold it. It is important to know history but not to follow it blindly. Risk management, proper strategy and understanding market conditions are more important now.