Michael Saylor would go bankrupt if BTC goes below a certain price point. His strategy is based on BTC going up consistently and that is a huge risk if the market would stay bearish for a longer time. Watch this video which explains the risks surrounding MSTR well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF29eETxsRA

I'd much rather buy BTC directly or if that ain't possible (in a pension account) buy an ETF than buy MSTR stock.

Het beste doe je dit natuurlijk op een computer die niet op het internet is aangesloten. Gebruik hiervoor bijv. een oude pc. Je kan daar Electrum op installeren zonder dat die met de servers is verbonden en de private key importeren en dan een getekend transactiebestand aanmaken dat je via een usb stick kan importeren op een op internet aangesloten computer met Electrum die contact heeft met de servers en daarmen de transactie verzenden. Dit is een goedkoop alternatief voor een hardware wallet.

Dan zitten er bitcoins op het bijbehorende adres, die je er af kan halen door de sticker te verwijderen waardoor je de private key vindt. 0.5 BTC is momenteel €35.725,84 waard, een flink bedrag dus.

I bought some bitcoins today when I saw the price had dropped to 70K euro and am not looking at my wallets today. It's really a tough time to be in crypto and also stocks and even PMs. My treasury bonds are the only thing that is going up.

Is it true that Max Keiser now is a Salvadoran citizen and works for the government? I used to watch him on RT a lot but lost track of him when RT got banned following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Sterker nog, het is hier doods.

Not only crypto but the stockmarket as well.



I sold all my stocks except MSTR on April 1 (the day before "Liberation Day") and put the money into treasuries and gold and silver. Funnily enough the latter crashed too.

Given that there are lots of people who don't like Trump having pro-Trump/MAGA stuff on your phone might also be grounds for getting harassed by customs/TSA on an individual basis. There are lots of scare stories around, until someone shows evidence of Trump or someone in his entourage having ordered critics to be stopped at entry I'd rank those as either overreach by an individual official or "fake news". I wonder if the US is on the path towards a civil war after having seen the movie of the same name. There seem to be such high levels of civic mistrust. I don't care much for Trump but neither for Harris. Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin if you ask me.

I once had to urgently pay a €300 utility bill and fortunately there was this site called bitbill.nl (long since defunct) where I paid about 3 bitcoins to settle the bill. That would have been worth a tidy sum of money today. But necessity demanded it and back then (in 2013) only a few people (such as Max Keiser and Rick Falkvigne) figured the price could once be over $100K.

My postcount seems to be stuck, when I make a new reply it stays at 1386 posts.

I have a tumble dryer from 1997 that still works. The company that made it is long out of business but it still goes on. My coffee maker is from 2000, a Siemens Porsche that was featured in Firefly as a "futuristic coffee maker". And I have a mixer from my grandmother that dates back from the 1950s. They all still chug along. They just don't make quality goods anymore like they used to.

How long does negative trust have to stay on? I have negative feedback from over a decade ago. Would like to make a fresh start.

Maybe you need to step away for a while. Or read up some more.

Are you an American expat living in Europe? Maybe the Netherlands? As we have 21% VAT and I remember if you bought silver you had to pay the VAT unless you kept it at a vault technically outside the country, the international zone of an airport such as Schiphol (investment gold is VAT-free). Because you mention the IRS and unless you're a US person that doesn't apply to someone in the Eurozone. It's getting harder to get crypto over here, the new EU Travel Rule will enter force here, they want you to register every address on self custody wallets with a ID/passport scan and face scan. We will be forced into the Digital Euro and Ursula Von der Leyen said she is going to use people's savings to finance ReArm Europe because Europe needs to be armed if we want to fight World War 3 against the Russians. I don't have as much savings as you (only a few hundred euros) but I wouldn't leave them at the bank. Maybe you can put them in privacy coins such as Monero and come up with a plausible deniability scenario where you lost them during a boat trip or something.

Don't gamble in trading, only trade when you know what you are doing.

Make a list of what your skills are and look around on job sites to see what's available. Use friends and family as a network.

Er gebeurt hier niks meer, jammer.

Get a paper book (one you would read on a plane) and look for the words in the seed and underline them, one word per page, use a pencil so it's not so obvious. then write down the page numbers in a tiny notebook inconspicously in the order of the seed words. Walk through customs with the book in your hand luggage and put the notepad in your checked baggage. When you arrive at your destination you can put your seed back together. Even if your luggage gets seized or stolen you won't likely lose your bitcoins if you also have the seed backed up somewhere else.

In the Netherlands migrants can vote in local elections if they have lived in the country for 5 years. This does not apply to EU citizens, they can vote without having to have lived in the country before.

A Dutch guy called Didi Taihuttu sold his house in the Netherlands for 120 BTC in 2017 and moved into a trailer park with his wife and kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlHFzczbtis

He is currently a multimillionaire who runs a YouTube channel called The Bitcoin Family and lives in Thailand.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheBitcoinfamily

There was another Dutch guy called Ben Turas in 2013 who tried to sell his house for BTC but withdrew the ad because he had no takers.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155261.0

My country NL has put a stop to all construction because of the "nitrogen crisis", a judge ruled this.
At the same time we allow in hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers who get priority housing, the government aims to change this but judges threaten to thwart it because of "treaties".
Native citizens have to keep their adult children in their homes because getting a house of your own is nigh on impossible if you don't have a top income as house prices are driven up due to scarcity,, which is excercabated by the "nitrogen crisis"
The leftwing parties want to increase inheritance tax to 45% so their kids will have to move out when their parents die.
Then everyone in the establishment is shocked that people vote for far-right populist parties.
The establishment wants to ban these parties with a law that has already been written but still hasn't been voted on.
They increased "hate speech" laws so if you do "group insults" you get convicted and possibly jailed.
Somehow this is not a problem and everyone cries when an American VP talks about it.