First post was April 3rd...

I think this thread may have been inspired by an April Fool's Day joke post somewhere or other.  Getting a scan of your teeth is easy enough for a dentist to do and they can advise if you are or are not brushing your teeth as well as you should.

Thank you for the help up.

Thank you for the link -

You haven't really given any examples of why you think the Trump scenario (or Biden for that matter) will affect the markets.  Unless there is a war, pandemic or apocalyptic disaster then the markets will fluctuate up and down - it always does.  If you're hoping to make your fortune on Crypto, then it would seem you are a decade too late unless you want to put a little aside each month until you retire.

I haven't looked into defi before now (and your English is a little stilted), but if I'm reading your question correctly, then I can see a big crash coming in the defisphere.  Borrowing and not paying back in this forum is seen as a scam.  Once people get a taste for borrow/not pay back/borrow again, we'll see a whole new wave of scams occurring.

Think Mortgage Subprime.  Debt was on-sold to those who thought they could make a quick buck, then on-sold again (and again).  The debt never went away.

I think you need more distrust than you already have. 

Manipulating the market is what scares ordinary folk who would otherwise be tempted to dabble in the cryptosphere and use any crypto to trade or make purchases as Bitcoin is intended to be used.

Bitcoin has always been intended as a method of securely transferring funds online (especially when making purchases) so there will always be those of use who will use bitcoin for what it is intended - to securely send funds (not as a method of storing wealth, or for making a quick buck on the overnight market)

Bitcoin may be the grandfather (Adam AND Eve??) of all Crypto and have a place for exchanging high volumes of fiat dollars/euro etc, but the smaller than one satoshi it is aimed, then people will turn to other cypto and use the bitcoin to transition their funds back to fiat.  We may have already seen bitcoin at its ATH for that very reason.

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Is anyone tallying up these suggestions?  I'll always suggest Bitcoin is in anyone's bag along with two mid to newer coins and one or two older (or even much longer if they've lived this long) coins.

I'd be looking at where the hype is coming from and work out if they are participants, or more likely they are just that building hype around that product.

Most parts of the world abhor any form of animal fighting, so for your region to flagrantly host and participate in those kinds of animal cruelty games, then it is little wonder they have no regard for other people's lives (much less their own I would imagine)

Bitcoin is struggling to break $12,000 and stay at that price for any length of time.  There'd need to be some new players (a pod of Whales?) come into the Cryptosphere and take a fair chunk of the available coins off of the market with a strategy to HODL them for three to five years.  If it were a sudden land grab, then that'd shock the market upwards, but if it was done softly-softly, then the market might not necessarily notice at first the availability drying up.

True, the price would go up (supply and demand) but not as much as a shock and awe plunder.

If a bull run is going to run for a year then there is no point reaching deep into your purse and making one hefty transaction.  Spread the trades out over the twelve months in monthly, fortnightly or even weekly trades.  Work out what your overall out of pocket is going to be then work out how you might divvy up the trades.  Above all keep a small bag set aside for a long term retirement plan (even if it is as little as $10 worth of Crypto a week - there's no telling where the price will be in ten or twenty years time.

Very brave to go all in for either side.  Having the balls to *not* go all in is far better.

Check out the odds, decide how much you can afford to loose.  Don't forget, if either side were a sure winner, the odds would be "even" or worse.

By all means if you think you are on a winner, it's up to you alone to make the decision to bet, just don't cry afterwards if you loose everything.

Originally I was thinking that printing out a paper wallet would be the way to go, it's safe, just don't keep a copy of the private key or you'll end up in hot water - If you buy a reasonable BTC 0.01 (about $ 6.50 at the moment) they can put it in a safe place like a family bible or the high school year book, something they keep safe, but don't look at all the time.  They can then come across the paper wallet in multi years time and see how much the value has appreciated in those intermediate years.

But then I also thought that you could install a BitCoin Wallet that doesn't download the entire block chain, this way they can experiment with sending each other (I presume you're going to give out to the parents, siblings, children Aunts & Uncles and or cousins all at the one time) the BitCoins.  You can walk them through the receiving their first BitCoins, then guide them through sending each other coins one afternoon at a family gathering.

Then when they've played with BTC 0.01 for a while drop a hefty BTC 0.1 (or more!) into their wallets each and see their beaming smiles when they realise how much you've just given them.

Haven't we already done this thread in another thread?

The price of BitCoins jumped before the halving and has stayed fairly fixed in the low $ 600's for a few weeks now, so this is the new benchmark.

Maybe you should lock this thread.

I've seen a working TV immersed in liquid CFC to demonstrate it's inert properties.  Isn't there a paste or gum that you can use to remove hard to remove fluff and dirt from hard to reach places on motherboards and cards?

If it aint broke, don't fix it is my motto.  My 2001 Win XP Pro box lasted more than a dozen years, it was actually the Mother Board that finally died.  I never had the blue screen of death - ever - not once.

I've replaced it with an acer Win XP Home Edition (second hand) - swapped out the Ram for the maximum (which would have cost a small fortune new) and added a graphics card.

Hasn't missed a beat in the last three years.

Each time you receive a utility bill (power, water, cooking/heating gas) pay a little bit extra, it doesn't matter if it's $5 or 5%, $10 or 10%

For the next billing cycle, see what the full amount owing is (not the less the little bit extra you paid) and again pay an extra little bit $5 or 5%, $10 or 10% - what ever...  This will get you just that little bit ahead and can act as a barrier whenever there's an unexpected item such as fixing the car, the house or boat, whatever - You can fix those things and won't have to worry about the utility bills mounting up.

Pick an amont that is easy to add on to your bill and keep paying it each month / quarter when the bill comes in.