If any of you feel uncertain or fearful you can try my strategy.

I see bitcoin price the way you should see real physical market. You own a rare good and the economy changes and affects it. One year people will have more money, the other year they will have less. One year there will be stimulus, or something will become fashionable and people will want to own it, the other year there will be war, rising fuel prices, inflation... You will not get the same amount of fiat money for your goods every year, or even every month.

You can always choose the moment you buy and sell. Don't sell cheap when the market doesn't want to pay you as much as it should. You can always wait a month or a year and get a better price. At the same time don't buy when it's expensive. Wait until the economy forces people to sell and use that opportunity to buy. Those who can relax and wait will always make money.

Situations like that remind us how short life is and how suddenly we may find ourselves doing what used to be the job of another family member. On one hand it's great that people divide responsibilities like in the home of our OP where mother probably took care of the house and the father dealt with money and investments but on the other hand when one of us gets sick we begin to struggle. I don't know how to fix that because you can't expect both mother and father to be able to take care of everything all alone.

I've seen some tasty looking pizas. Good job!

Edmund77 should get a ban for trying to cheat in a contest.
I don't know what's more pathetic - his photoshop skills or the fact he actually thought he could pull this off with these pictures.

It's not even the waiting that's important but recognizing the true value of what you invest in. When you own something you know is cheap now you feel confident and can wait for a long time.

It's great that bitcoin is in a way purifying itself of all that useless stuff.

I can't say I'm unhappy because the fees went back to normal and all the people who were overpaying hundreds of dollars to put ordinals or runes into the blockchain lost. I appreciate the effort but you guys lost and bitcoin won.

Nobody is going to miss ordinals and runes but people who thought they'd do money from it, just like nobody cares that NFTs are worthless but people who still own them.

Situations like that where everybody thinks alike are usually traps because that attitude pumps longs and it doesn't take much to start a liquidation cascade. When rich people see this it's an opportunity to liquidate overextended levered retards, which is why bitcoin has to increase slowly but surely. When you see a FOMO rally its time to get out or cold storage and get ready for the bear market.

I also think we'll get a new ATH this year, but it could go to $80000 or 85000 and end it there. Don't wait for it to hit a new high to buy because by that time it will be too late.

Nowadays you need a license to make software. Next thing you're going to need a license to trade with other people.
-hey man, I have a bike for sale
-wait, I want that, just give me a month I have to apply for a purchaser's license

Fucking clown world!

We live in a clown world where you can be a citizen of another country and the US can get you arrested and extradited there. They can also imprison you for alleged crimes committed against its monetary policy which is another joke of a law.

Think about a scenario where you live in some remote country and one day local police arrests you and says you're going to the US because you did something that's forbidden there and they want to prosecute you. You don't even speak English and don't know US laws. This is how dumb this can get.

I'm not going to pity Roger because he did some shady shit in his life with that bch - sv fork and spamming bitcoin to show BCH is cheaper to transact with, but he doesn't deserve prison.

I'd say video games are probably the next best thing.

They offer some degree of thrill and can pump you full of adrenaline. That's true especially for horror games and battle royale type of games like modern warfare where you feel alone on the battlefield with other players looking for you.
They allow you to relax if that's what you need.
You don't have to leave the house, so it's accessible 24/7.
When you find the game you like they allow you to immerse in the world and forget all your troubles.

The downside is they're also addictive, especially MMOs, so if you have trouble with gambling addiction it's possible you'll turn one into another.

Funny question because let's say I tell you that it's 100. Will you believe me? Will you feel confident in your skill when after 100 bets in dice or slots you are in profit? Will you tell everyone that you're a good player after that?

If I tell you that it's a million bets, will you play long enough to try it?

This thread cannot answer your question and even if it does, you probably won't do anything with that knowledge.

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I think that you've made a mistake in the transaction.
You were to return 0.00024118 and your transaction is for 0.00238039.
In other words you owed $8 and ended up returning $80

Good job! I guess some of the streamer's luck became your own.

I don't do such things but I understand how watching a streamer win can make you feel more confident and push you to try it out yourself. That's why all these companies that sell stuff have sponsored streamers and youtubers who make content for them starting with food producers sponsoring cooks, supplement makers sponsoring bodybuilders, shoe brands sponsoring soccer players and so on.
People think that by wearing a brand they'll look more professional and play better.

I've never been afraid of going out into the world and exchanging bitcoin. I do it in public and I've never had any problems.

Most of the time bitcoiners are really friendly. We exchange opinions about the market and joke around from funny situations, even talk about memes and tell bitcoin jokes.
I've never become real friends with any of these people because we're both cautious, but it was always a good experience.

If people were to target you as a bitcoiner, wouldn't they simply go to a bitcoin conference and follow people who attend?

I'm confident that we'll break above 40k this year, but short term action is anybody's game. It could go down again and then up, or simply get to 40 in one move by the end of this week. Nobody knows that.
What I know is it will happen eventually because the price action looks very strong and bullish.

That said, watch out for manipulation because analytics firms say we have the least coins on exchanges ever which means liquidity is at all time lows. We could expect small amounts of money to create giant waves on charts, so be safe, don't get liquidated and don't panic. It's only a matter of time before we get to ATH.

He didn't even take it to the extremes. Think of something bigger like a minimum age worker vs a gold watch on some rich man's wrist that costs more than the worker makes in 10 years. Or about a single meal of a rich person that could buy a month of meals for a whole family. At least the perfume may last many months if not abused, which many people do.

I have a rich friend and he uses good perfume, but every thing of his smells like that. His whole car, his coat, phone. He once visited me and sat on my coach and the whole room smelled like him for 2 days straight


For me financial freedom is having enough money to be able to afford a normal life, nothing fancy, for many years straight, even if I get sick, or be unable to work.
In other words financial freedom is financial safety.

If I need 1000 dollars a month to live, financial freedom would mean that multiplied by 20 years, located in a safe investment like bitcoin.

Exactly. He knows as much as he reads in the mainstream media.

Craig doesn't own the 1 million bitcoin he claims to own, otherwise he would've used the money to pump his SV shitcoin long time ago.
Michael Saylor doesn't control bitcoin in person. It's owned by Microstrategy and that company has a board.
Most of the coins associated with CZ is again owned by Binance, not him in person.

If Black Rock buys bitcoin for the ETF OP's friend will probably say that its another whale owning bitcoin that can dump it all.

Looks like JP took a chance with this prediction trying to slow down bitcoin and bitcoin showed JP the middle finger. Not literally of course.

Banksters are getting desperate watching bitcoin do its thing. I bet their trading desk went short before the article was published. I hope it was a leveraged short that just got liquidated.
No love for banks here.

He watched too much of those idiots who sell their courses on youtube.

Some of them use the attention they get by posting ridiculous predictions to get more sales and make some poor souls join their VIP trading group.

Based on my experience I'd choose cryptocurrencies because I did well in this field over the years and I know a thing or two about it.

This is a pointless question to be frank because most of us are already invested in crypto. It's like asking someone driving a car if he'd rather walk right now or keep driving

If you'd give me a million dollars now or a million in bitcoin I'd choose bitcoin, if that's what you're asking. I'd prefer bitcoin over stocks as well and my dedication proves it. Over the years I kept holding bitcoin instead of converting it to fiat money or anything else.