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EmpiricalRutabaga

> Naked shorting of shares is not banned and is performed in a very simple way - You borrow existing shares from, say, a pension fund, and you sell them. All shares exist, nothing fictitious. How uninformed are you? That's not naked shorting. "You borrow existing shares" means you're NOT NAKED SHORTING. Naked shorting is when you DON'T borrow shares from anywhere, you just sell something you never borrowed or owned and rely on settlement delays and corrupt brokerages to hide the fact that you're shorting NAKED.

BarryTheBaptistAU

I. DON'T. CARE. Anyone can make up stories (your exact words)

Dynatox

The impatience in the bitcoin space and market is palpable and laughable at this point. I can't even believe people come up with this nonsense. We're not even 1 month after the halving and we usually top 18 months after the halving. I like Steve and I listen regularly, but its only to gather different opinions and see what they are all saying. I listen to the bears, the bulls, the moon boys, the schiffs, the giovannis, the PlanBs, etc etc. Why not . . . . keep your mind open to differing opinions? And when you read between the lines, every technical analyst says exactly this in every video: "OMG Look at this deadly candle, bitcoin bulls are in trouble! We could go down! Unless we go up! IF we go up the bears are in big trouble!". But to answer your question, could we not see phase 4? Its possible. Now let me ask this question. **Do you want to bet against bitcoin in 2024-2025, 3-18 months after the halving?** How positive of a trade do you think this will be? Do you want your money against bitcoin or for bitcoin with everything we know about the 4 year cycle? And Someone should Steve this question. He will say what he's been saying, which is "its much riskier to be out of bitcoin right now than it is to be in bitcoin right now". Steve (and every other TA person, just about position themselves so they can say they were right no matter what happens. Its like the palm reader that tells you 5 general things, and when one is right, they look like a genius. No one knows exactly what bitcoin is going to do. If you want an opinion from some random stranger: there is a <5% chance we DON'T see a phase 4.

TheGreatMuffin

Copying an older post of mine, some of the links might be out of date *Nobody in bitcoin is interested in securing your privacy, except you yourself. Below is an incomplete list of things that an average user can do to increase their privacy on the bitcoin network.* **DO:** - run your own full node and connect your wallet to it: this avoids leaking your transactions/your IP to third parties (f.ex your Ledger/Trezor gives your addresses to their servers every time you receive coins) - try to avoid KYC services, if possible: instead use [Bisq](https://bisq.network), [HodlHodl](https://hodlhodl.com), or other [p2p exchanges](https://github.com/cointastical/P2P-Trading-Exchanges), establish a network for in-person buying/selling, go to meetups, start earning bitcoin etc - use ~~[Wasabi](https://wasabiwallet.io)~~ to mix your coins (or coinjoin features of ~~[Samourai](https://www.samouraiwallet.com/whirlpool) for Android~~, or the [Joinmarket](https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver) project) - practice [coin control](https://medium.com/@nopara73/coin-control-is-must-learn-if-you-care-about-your-privacy-in-bitcoin-33b9a5f224a2) after, before, and even without mixing - use [Tor browser](https://www.torproject.org/download/) when dealing with bitcoin services (blockexplorers especially) - consider using the Lightning network for more privacy **DON'T:** - reuse addresses - reveal your public keys to any software (watch-only wallets, f.ex), as it’s possible to derive all possible future receiving addresses from the pubkey - look up your own bitcoin transactions on blockexplorers, or at least use the Tor browser - don’t post your receiving addresses in public unnecessarily - don’t consolidate UTXOs without need: consider the trade-off between decreasing future fees and potential decrease in privacy **Reading material:** very extensive privacy wiki (see “Methods for improving privacy” especially), by u/belcher_: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy privacy FAQ by u/6102bitcoin: http://web.archive.org/web/20201104212122/https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/hodl-privacy.md “Beginner’s Guide to Lightning on a Raspberry Pi” (includes connecting your hardware wallet to the Raspberry node, setting up Tor etc.. feel free to skip the Lightning part and jump to bonus section if only interested in privacy), by u/stadicus: https://raspibolt.org/ very basic introduction to some of the privacy pitfalls in bitcoin: https://bitcoin.org/en/protect-your-privacy "Bitcoin Anonymity Guide 2019: How to use BTC like a straight up G": https://www.coincache.net/2019/01/02/bitcoin-anonymity-guide-2019-how-to-use-btc-like-a-straight-up-g/

xehlers

I would joke around with the women I would date and say " I have a micro penis, I hope thats okay with you" - and some would laugh - some would say oh size doesn't matter, and then one women called me out and said "You know how I know you DON'T have a micro penis? Guys with Micro Penis's don't tell others, even jokingly that they have a Micro Penis... " So you know how I know you don't have 63 Million Bitcoins?

TheGreatMuffin

The recent events certainly suck, but the same principle apply still (older post of mine): *Nobody in bitcoin is interested in securing your privacy, except you yourself. Below is an incomplete list of things that an average user can do to increase their privacy on the bitcoin network.* **DO:** - run your own full node and connect your wallet to it: this avoids leaking your transactions/your IP to third parties (f.ex your Ledger/Trezor gives your addresses to their servers every time you receive coins) - try to avoid KYC services, if possible: instead use [Bisq](https://bisq.network), [HodlHodl](https://hodlhodl.com), or other [p2p exchanges](https://github.com/cointastical/P2P-Trading-Exchanges), establish a network for in-person buying/selling, go to meetups, start earning bitcoin etc - use ~[Wasabi](https://wasabiwallet.io)~ to mix your coins (or coinjoin features of ~@[Samourai](https://www.samouraiwallet.com/whirlpool) for Android~, or the [Joinmarket](https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver) project) - practice [coin control](https://medium.com/@nopara73/coin-control-is-must-learn-if-you-care-about-your-privacy-in-bitcoin-33b9a5f224a2) after, before, and even without mixing - use [Tor browser](https://www.torproject.org/download/) when dealing with bitcoin services (blockexplorers especially) - consider using the Lightning network for more privacy **DON'T:** - reuse addresses - reveal your public keys to any software (watch-only wallets, f.ex), as it’s possible to derive all possible future receiving addresses from the pubkey - look up your own bitcoin transactions on blockexplorers, or at least use the Tor browser - don’t post your receiving addresses in public unnecessarily - don’t consolidate UTXOs without need: consider the trade-off between decreasing future fees and potential decrease in privacy **Reading material:** very extensive privacy wiki (see “Methods for improving privacy” especially), by u/belcher_: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy privacy FAQ by u/6102bitcoin: http://web.archive.org/web/20201104212122/https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/hodl-privacy.md “Beginner’s Guide to Lightning on a Raspberry Pi” (includes connecting your hardware wallet to the Raspberry node, setting up Tor etc.. feel free to skip the Lightning part and jump to bonus section if only interested in privacy), by u/stadicus: https://raspibolt.org/ very basic introduction to some of the privacy pitfalls in bitcoin: https://bitcoin.org/en/protect-your-privacy "Bitcoin Anonymity Guide 2019: How to use BTC like a straight up G": https://www.coincache.net/2019/01/02/bitcoin-anonymity-guide-2019-how-to-use-btc-like-a-straight-up-g/

PrivateCallerIgnorer

Lol community takeover after a rugpull. A tale as old as time. DON'T INVEST YOU WILL BECOME EXIT LIQUIDITY

UniversalDarkMatter

Exactly he’ll go on to another website and keep scamming people! DON’T USE JUILOFXPRO.com Raising AWARENESS!

Zealousideal-Wrap-34

This is the internet. We come here to react with either despair or elation based on the last 6 hours. DON'T INTERRUPT MY AUTISTIC SCREECHING

MaximumStudent1839

> This also shows me that the community is purely toxic. Sadly, this is the reality. A large swath of participants here are very low-life human scums. It happens because of internet anonymity, permissionless system, and scamming/grifting has proven to be a very profitable endeavor here. It doesn't have to be that way. But it is right now. The hallmark signs of a very nascent but growing "economy" are all here. If you go back to early American history, you will also find a lot of unsavory characters making their fortunes. It is the same with more recent developing economies. China is a big example of crooks and criminals were the first to make their fortune. The logic is very simple. It is a risk-prone territory with not a great reputation. Ppl who have decent jobs and lives stick to the traditional stuff. ***They have less need to go out in the risk curve to make it in life.*** This means the space gets a disproportionately large influx of huge risk-takers. Often, these ppl take the risk not because they are interested in the space, but because they are somewhat strapped out of opportunities irl. You see this by how much the space idolizes former drug addicts, indicted criminals, proven serial grifters, etc. Yeah, the human quality side of crypto is absolute trash. > What are your thoughts on blockchain development? I wouldn't use the quality of humans here to gauge the usefulness of blockchain. As I said, there is no argument that we have the bottom of humanity's cesspool. I wouldn't recommend you build or invest in something you don't understand. You need to do your research! Always try out the product first before making any opinions. 99% of the stuff here is a waste of time. But that is part of the learning process - developing the intuition from trial/error to understand what is trash and what is gold. Again, for every newbie out there, DON'T INVEST IN ANYTHING HERE WITHOUT FIRST TRYING IT OUT! The only exception is BTC.

TroopSupportArrived

Personally, I convert every extra $ of fiat not actively being used to BTC; because, fiat is guaranteed to lose value at a rate of 2-9% APR to inflation; whereas Since inception, BTC has consistently shown significant annual gains; and are projected to continue for decades to come. It is already outperforming gold and replacing it as leverage! I purchased my first $10K of BTC in 2021 during the retreat (on the way down) from the ATH of 62K. I made a rookie mistake; and bought too soon, at 35K. Then I had to watch my 10k disintegrate to less than 5k as the price fell all the way to 16K. But you never lose money unless or until you SELL! So I said a few curse words and threw my Ledger wallet into a drawer, and said, "Screw it; it'll be back in a couple years." So I let it just sit there; then 1 1/2 years later BTC resurged agained; my loss was restored, then my investment doubled in just 10 days as BTC hit its new ALT of 74K. Bitcoin should be considered a solid long term investment (with occasional ops for short term gains, for the experienced)) Remember, you do not actually lose money unless or until you sell. I had full confidence in BTC so DON'T SELL THE DIPS! (USE DIPS TO BUY MORE!) DON'T THINK IT IS TOO LATE TO GET INTO BTC NOW, EVEN AT $70-80k! MOST ANALYSTS PROJECT BTC PRICE BY END OF YEAR TO BE $100K OR MORE; AND LIKE LIKELY A 100% GAIN A YEAR FROM NOW! AND THE PRICE BY 2030!? UNBELIEVABLE. START NOW FOR YOU, YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!

NeuAscension

What are they going to do? Make you prove you DON'T own/self custody bitcoin? Good luck to them.

EmpiricalRutabaga

DON'T EVER USE BLOCKCHAIN.COM They routinely and randomly steal funds from people. Use Electrum. It's not that fucking hard.

Fish_OuttaWater

I learned early on that I had to cap my losses w/ stocks…. In as much as I’m not looking for home runs, I get in with a plan of how much profit I want to take, same goes for when it tanks - when shit starts doing a nose dive, I strap on my parachute & get out. Depending on the company & fundamentals, etc… a LOT of times dives are excellent buying opportunities & help to leverage average cost per share/unit. Felt compelled to share this when I saw you’re down nearly 100%. My cutoff is 20% on either swing of the axe. BTC is an entirely different beast, as the more I understand the more I DON’T want to trade it for fiat.

wvutrip

You only lost $108 and learned a valuable lesson. DON’T TRADE . You are too emotional and buying literal shit with your money. Of course you going to lose. Now start DCA into bitcoin and don’t worry about it for 5 years. You’ll be good

LargeSnorlax

You're 27 years old and have never worked a day in your life, by your own admission. You are ahead of 99.9% of people on Earth from the very start. International students here are going to food banks and working their ass off in a factory to make ends meet. There's no reason to deny this - You're the one that said it. Every other person on earth, except for the absolute top of the social ladder has had a different experience than you growing up. You "have to budget and plan everything", hahaha, you DON'T WORK. You're "budgeting" *other people's money.* You've never lived a day of your own life. Listen - If you want to live the life of a normal joe, stop blaming the "Tech layoffs", go and get a job for yourself, cut off the parent faucet, pay for your own school, and actually live the life of a normal person. You said your American friends look down upon you "for some reason" - I'm telling you the reason, because you're living a life that no one else lives.

pigeonwiggle

of course it makes sense. but good luck calling tops and bottoms. the best you can do is ride a general wave. but like, when bitcoin is up - and you sell - does it later go back down? or six months later are you fucked? when bitcoin popped from 16k to 40k, and you'd more than doubled your money - do you sell? ...it would then go on to 70k. and is still in the 60s right now. so if you sold at 40k, you'd be sitting here on your thumbs praying for a crash. best bet? DON'T SPEND MORE THAN YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE. TAKE SOME PROFITS. keep detailed notes of all your buys and sells for tax time.

uwu2420

"Hey honey the house is being foreclosed on next week and sadly we've exhausted our options, but DON'T WORRY THE BLOCKCHAIN STILL PROVES THAT I OWN BAYC #8399"

ScoobaMonsta

You are screaming for more regulation and less decentralisation! And you are talking about it like you know what this space needs! Crypto doesn't need regulation. Exchanges need regulating. But decentralised ecosystems DON'T! If you can't handle this space and do your due diligence and research what you are getting into, then you deserve to lose your money. Learning the basics of protecting your sensitive information is not difficult at all. Anyone who says it is, is straight up lazy and only wants to get quick fiat gains for doing nothing at all. People who leave their coins on exchanges where they don't have possession of the private keys or the seed phrase deserve to lose their coins! People like you who whine and complain about the exchange getting hacked have been told time and time again to protect their assets by removing their coins from exchanges into non custodial wallets which you control. Yet you people continue to ignore the advice! And you then blame exchanges for you losing your coins! So go shove your centralised, regulation rhetoric where the sun don't shine.

golden_bear_2016

there is a glitch in the blockchain, the price is wrong. DON'T SELL, THE PRICE IS FAKE!! AAAHH!!!!!

tannerjohngates

I used to by every week on CashApp from 2018-2021. Switched to Strike since. Both are good options for now. Here are some options ranked from best to worst IMO: * Strike * CashApp * River * Swan * Kraken * Coinbase * Gemini * Binance * Robinhood If it's not listed above, DON'T USE IT! Also, be sure you are using the correct site/s. Finally set up 2FA on every account with Authy and/or Google Authenticator. Never use SMS/text 2FA! Lastly, get a hardware wallet. Don't leave your coins on an exchange. The whole point of bitcoin is to be your own bank.

PlayerPlayer69

It’s only 2x, 5x, 10x, 69,420x, if you can luckily time your exit at the peak, which is basically day trading. Here’s an example of why you *DON’T* want to hold a leveraged ETF/asset for long term: For argument sake, let’s imagine that BITX was around in 2020. If you held that 2x leveraged ETF when Bitcoin was around $10,000 in November 2020, you would’ve made 12x your investment on the ETF in 6 months, when Bitcoin hit $60,000 in April 2021. That’s when you *HAVE* to sell your position to realize a profit of 12x, because you know what would’ve happened, had you held for the long term? You would’ve seen Bitcoin pull back down by 50%, from $30,000 to $60,000, in 3 months. Which means if you still held onto your leveraged position, you would’ve eaten a 100% loss. If you held from July 2021, and onward, you would’ve seen Bitcoin double in price from $30,000 to $60,000 giving you a 4x increase with your leveraged ETF. If you held for another 6 months, instead of taking that 4x profit, you would’ve seen another 50% downturn by May 2022, eating another 100% loss. So you tell me, does holding a leveraged ETF in an asset that has historically tanked by 50% in the months following ATH, a good long-term hold?

Sphinxsta

This post is riddled with mistakes. The halving refers to the reward for MINERS being cut in half. There is usually 12 months' worth of upward price action following a halving. I very much doubt you own 432 BTC! You must have 432 EUROS worth of BTC. Put simply, DON'T SELL.

SmooveMari

My best advice for this bull run is… DON’T FORGET TO SALE!

bigl7007

Yea, i get it, but why not SEE the future, so i have "concrete" evidence to back-up my investment strategy. Who knows, maybe somebody comes along and invents "SHITCOIN", and in 10 years that's the coin that's worth $5,000,000 ( I'm sure it would have a more glamorous name 😆). ANYTHING can happen, life is just too unpredictable. What can we "actually" be sure of. Read all your sheets, look at past performances, but in the end, we just DON'T KNOW, that's why any investments comes with risk.

CinnamonHeartBabe

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa Have Fun Staying Poor DON'T threaten me with a good time.

Dettol-tasting-menu

Bitcoin is reversible if the recipient agrees to return the coin, just like cash payments. But unilateral “charge back” style of recouping payment is a) unfair to the merchant who shipped the goods; b) requires a third party to be the mediator/authority. I think there are good use cases for reversible payments such as credit card charges; but as a society we already have them today. What we DON’T have is the irreversible digital payment that behave just like cash coins and notes, but could be done digitally and remotely.

mad_bitcoin

Number #1 rule of Bitcoin, DON'T TELL ANYONE YOU HAVE BITCOIN! Number #2 rule of Bitcoin, keep your hardware wallets, seed plates in a secure hidden location. Something can't be seized if no one knows about it!

burghblast

Do you see the irony here? You are literally encouraging others to suffer the same fate. Why? I really don't get it. DO NOT RUN FROM POLICE. DON'T DO IT. It won't matter if they're later found to be at fault

YourFixJustRuinsIt

It’s not like we don’t chant this EVERY thread, not your keys… and DON’T answer DMs

__Anomalous__

Haha. Aw. Don't be mean to the authoritarians. How would you like it if every time you thought about the relentless, unstoppable growth of the world's first, last and truest decentralised monetary network, you started convulsing wildly & vomiting profusely whilst shouting "IT'S NOTHING. I CAN'T CONTROL IT. I CAN'T CONTROL IT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO STOP IT. *HU-BLEEEERGH*. IT'S... NOTHING..."

Affectionate-Web-242

Yeap that's nice too BUT ALWAYS SET A TARGET AND DON'T GET GREEDY.....ask me how ? Let's say you invested $300 on Dodge at $0.07 and your target was to sell at $0.22 then always take profit at $0.22 first, wait for a correction then get back again into the market if you want to or stop there depending on your goals (was it a short term investment or a long term investment) don't go like "if it reached $0.22 then it'll reach 0.25 or $0.30" that way you'll be disappointed coz crypto prices always fluctuate, taking profit is the best part of any investment!

cecil_X

> I clicked on the email This is what all the people scammed have in common. STOP CLICKING ON EMAILS. DON'T. JUST DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON'T!!!!!!!!!!!

Puzzleheaded_Yard468

Is it cold? Or hot hot hot ? Cause you rather DON’T want a Wallet HOT HOT HOT ! 👎🏻

arlofischer

DON'T DO IT! Expensive weddings are overrated and never worth it.

vanlifecrypto

uhhh what?? You DON'T want to make more money? You don't want to use a higher salary to buy more Bitcoin, making more money on top of more money?? &#x200B; I mean if you have enough to never worry about money again then that's fine, but you say what you have is enough for an emergency, which is very different. Heck, I retired off my Bitcoin in 2019 and I am still thinking of how to make more money in the future during my retirement (partially to buy even more bitcoin). &#x200B; Jobs and making money are never guaranteed. You should definitely go for the promotion if you can get it, unless it involves new responsibilities which you just don't want. But feeling like you don't want to do more than the bare minimum and never make more money just because you own some bitcoin is probably some sort of issue with your ambition/motivation in life.

LUKIN_TEAST

I was just like you 3 years ago. Just remember that you cannot predict the market, you can just find opportunities with a long-term strategy. Now, let's start with my suggestion: Go on youtube and search for a video that teaches you how the blockchain works and what are the purposes of different cryptocurrencies (search for videos that explain it simply). Then, I recommend a book named THE BITCOIN STANDARD, by Saifedean Ammous, it was the first one I read and teaches you everything about currencies (old and modern). But when I finished reading that, I found out you need a base of knowledge on the technology behind this things to understand the rest. That's why I decided to write a short guide a couple months ago about cryptocurrencies and all that (wallets, why do some coins explode and die in days, how to create accounts and wallets, secure your assets...) and I will post it on Amazon as an ebook, if you are interested. After you did all that, find good projects with purposes and very specific utilities. Invest in them and wait for one or two to explode (I mean REALLY EXPLODE and make you 10, 20, 50 or 100x on your investment). Sell and enjoy. JUST DON'T GO CRAZY AT THE BEGGINING!

piggleii

Yeah so do the opposite of what this guy says and DON’T buy ADA.

ScoobaMonsta

Because you can hedge your trades for crypto profits and not fiat profits while not having to deal with submitting tax forms. If you hedge your trades for crypto you can increase your coin holdings on both sides of the trade. For example if you are trading BTC and ETH, you can increase both your ETH stack and BTC stack on each trade. Your overall coins increase. In the long run your wealth is much greater than just taking fiat profits. And when you do this on non kyc exchanges your government doesn't know how much crypto you own. I've been trading crypto for crypto since 2016. Increasing my crypto holdings has increased my wealth drastically more than how much fiat I have. I work and earn fiat. I use that fiat. I don't save my wealth in fiat. I save my wealth in crypto and in property and other assets. Don't look accumulation of fiat to increase your wealth. Look at accumulation of crypto to increase your wealth! People who care about the day to day price of their coins are noobs in the crypto space. If you want to get rich from crypto, DON'T think in how much fiat. Think in how much crypto you have.

Background-Paper-686

Yeah exactly, you can't find anything wrong with the coin, we have over 6M in liquidity, and it takes like $100k to move this coin anywhere, no one needs your $1, so you realize all of this, and then you resort to "well you know, o just, you know I don't like shilling" I DON'T LIKE SHILLING. I DON'T LIKE ADVERTISING. DON'T ADVERTISE TO ME. You're a loser end of story.

Bitcoin_To_The_Moon_

DON´T USE blockchain,com!

summonsterism

YOU DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A SCAM? Mate, when you go to a shop and don't get the thing you paid for - do they ask you to give them more money to fix it? You got scammed, You must see this.

what-why-

This is why you only invest with money you DON’T NEED. The money in crypto is gone. You hear me, gone!

JohnniePeters

Usually I am a "winning" futures trader. But even if you win, you will still feel like you lost. Example: Last thursday I made an 80% profit within the span of an hour. I was satisfied at that moment, I hit my target and closed my X20 position. Only to find out alter that day the coin didn't stop mooning after a small correction, therefore I missed out on another 400% gain that dat. So my feeling: I LOST! No matter what, you will always lose in futures. I'm doing this for a long time, so I know about this feeling and I can put it aside quickly, but I still have that feeling. Furthermore you should have done it with money you were prepared to lose without any regrets. And let me give everybody a tip: don't do it if you don't know what you're doing. And IF you do always take out the profit and DON'T re-invest in futures, but buy coins on the spot and hold them until bear market starts. So always come back to the initial amount of money. Even if you only "win" like $10,- on a trade, than transfer it to your spot account and buy more good crypto. Last thing: when bullmarket is over (I think this will be a long one, so at least 11-15 months from now) you keep an eye on meme-coins. They tank twice as hard when the sell-off begins.

reliable35

RENDER is going minimum $100+ this cycle. 1 - It’s Solana’s AI & Depin coin 2 - It’s got partnerships with Disney & has real world utility in Hollywood. J.J Abrams is on the board. 3 - Breaking News: Partnership with Stability AI worlds leading AI company. 4 - One of only two Crypto’s where the CEO is a key speaker at Nvidia GTC 2024. This years most significant tech conference. 5 - YOU DON’T OWN ENOUGH RENDER… hits every narrative this cycle..

RicoBelled

DON'T pay off your house, learn about inflation. Chances are the interest rate on your mortgage is lower than current inflation, so holding that loan actually MAKES you money. DO take profits off the table to cash or gold. I don't have kids so I can take bigger risks than you, but I believe in BTC for the long run; I'd be very surprised if it didn't hit at least 500k in the next 5 or 6 years. At some point, IMHO, the price will stabilize and become kind of like gold. I'm not selling most of my BTC until above 200k.

dark_deadline

Imagine being here and crying you could've done another 25x if you would've bought at 2c but keep crying WE DON'T CARE

yazan154a

PAXFUL SCAM COMPANY Don't using this company.. FROM 10 days trying to contact support teams but no answer. My issue is not a big issue just need verfiy phone number ( PAXFUL said need a mints to do this ) from 10 days no one back to me... Paxful trying to buy my account  but not accepted... PAXFUL CREATED A FAKE BUYER ACCOUNT TO STEEL MONEY.. ANYONE'S SENDING MONEY AND NOT RECEIVING ANYTHING MESSAGES ME TO SENDING IT TO MY LAWYER.. TRYING to HACKING my account.. AFTER THAT REPLY AND TELL ME ( HAVING SIMILAR PROBLEM) SO PAXFUL NO ABOUT HACKER'S OR PAXFUL A HACKER'S... PAXFUL DOWN BLOK MY ACCOUNT IF NOT A SCAM COMPANY PROVING THAT BY REPLY... IF NOT A SCAM.. I HAVING A PROVING THAT A PAXFUL A SCAM... ANYONE'S HAVING BALANCE IN PAXFUL SENDING OUT TO ANOTHER PLATFORM..( IF YOU CAN) HAVING A PROVE... IF PAXFUL NOT A SCAM REPLY DON'T BLOCK MY ACCOUNT...

AdAltruistic5445

I was also skeptic when I first saw this coin but the minute I saw how active, hard working and tight the community was I JUMPED IN and I DON’T regret it one second! We have people from 4 continents all working towards the same goal, it’s actually quite an amazing thing to witness!!

Pretenderinchief

Are you telling us to buy? I DON’T UNDERSTAND. To the MooooooOOOOOOooooon!!!!

analogOnly

>Please some good advice guys? DON'T TRADE HODL. I learned this lesson MAJORLY in 2018

Mr_Pocket_

Listen up - It will be a wild ride. I bought at 56 + 2 S19s miners sold at 19. Finally read the bitcoin standard and bought back at 32. DON’T be me. It was total hell but I learned the hard way. Now IDGAF, I honestly check bitcoin prices maybe once a day.

TheGreatMuffin

> What is the best thing I can do? Nothing, it's a scam site. DON'T SEND MONEY

SideWinderGX

Don't care if it's considered money or not. Gold or bearer bonds or cash or credit card or crypto or stocks all spends the same. But, if I buy stocks that go up, but DON'T sell them, I shouldn't have to pay taxes on those unrealized capital gains. And stocks definitely aren't money, so your analogy is stupid.

BigChampionship6883

Speaking about Bitcoin, selling for fiat at any price point was a mistake in general, but even a bigger mistake was selling just before the halving. The price was basically guaranteed to go higher. Obviously you make some money, its a win, so don’t feel bad, a lot of people lose money trading. Now, with that said, here comes the lesson you must learn. if you want to play that game in the future, not just with crypto but for any other asset, the rule is very sample, and it goes like this: DON’T SELL EVERYTHING! You had 3 coins and all in profit. Sell 20% to 30%, or lets say 1 BTC at the highest risk level. If it dips, buy it back and make some money. But if it doesn’t, you are still riding the wave with the rest of your stack. Hope that helps.

castorfromtheva

EXODUS IS CLOSED SOURCE, DON'T USE THIS SHIT. Dunno how often this has to be shouted out again and again!

Hanzerwagen

So no, bitcoin has not intrinsic value, but the servers do. All the value that people assign it to is extrinsic value. Any value that we DON'T assign it to is intrinsic value. Gold and it's properties doesn't care about where you thing it's trash or the best thing ever.

LighttBrite

My god...but his point is DON'T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET. damn dude.

T1Pimp

Maybe we DON'T listen to someone so lacking in intellect that they are anti-vaccination.

michaelinimoto

And this literally just happened. Trust me these etf companies DON'T want Btc to fail or they will have angry customers. It's a traditional way for boomers to try btc without dealing with exchanges and hardware wallets.

thunderc8

I'm already in profit for a good house and car, and only sold around 25% of my portfolio. I heavily bought BTC, ETH and ckb when BTC was at 16-30k range and stopped. I never really thought that i will actually make it. I'm sure anyone can do it as long as they don't follow trends and YouTubers pretending to be experts. Patience and DCA in and out. One last advice DON'T jump from project to project you'll loose 99% of the time, i know 😅.... DYOR. Good luck everyone, my best wishes to you all.

Psykotixx

Posts I DON'T want to see during a bull run: Learn from my mistakes / Friendly advice on selling... / Don't invest more than you can afford. Posts I want to see: This isn't the top, keep buying / Why Whatevercoin WILL be worth 3 trillion. Save that other shit for your real friends.

FightingWithSporks

DON'T SPEND SAVING ON CRYPTO. Spend extra money you have. Most don't realize if you need the money and sell there is a little thing called capital gains

Able_Security_3479

Isn't that like asking a woman's age? Just DON'T

Adventurous_Dingo351

And one more , DON'T BE GREEDY ...

External-Practical

There's an important thing that most people need to remember about talking about any kind of success... unless people have a buy-in THEY DON'T CARE! I have a friend. We shall call him X. My friend, X, made it big on YouTube a few years ago and his "empire" continues to grow. I like him fine, but he's getting a little high and mighty about his success. Every other day he's posting about how thankful he is for his new house, his ability to pay other people to do things he doesn't want to do any more, the number of cars he has, his employees, now his airplane that he bought, etc. I am genuinely happy for most people's success and I do a decent job of not getting envious, but at some point it stoped looking like just "I'm happy I'm successful" to shaming other people for not being as successful. He'll make posts about how if you don't have $xx,xxx in the bank for emergencies you are living outside of your means, or about not holding any debt, etc. His failure to see how he comes across as preachy and "better than" is what is most distasteful these days. I think, for the most part, people like to see other people succeed because it gives them hope that they can succeed as well, but when they start to feel like that person thinks of themselves as "better than" they get a little cranky. If someone ASKS I think it's okay. Otherwise, just follow the Keanu Reeves rule. Be humble, help people when you can. Talk to them about the things that interest them. And if they ask, help them or support them, don't just use the conversation as a vehicle to brag.. and you should be fine.

mosheoofnikrulz

DON'T DO IT! It's really foolish to drop 10k! Would buy at least 20k in these prices

tyinthebox

No one knows. Learn more about investing. Build a diversified portfolio. Give it time. DON’T EVER PANIC. Some parts will win and some will lose but you can always adjust.

etherd0t

"Some sell to take profit, some sell to minimize losses"... ahh, I love this game!! How many times you have to get burned to learned the lesson that you DON'T BUY near the ATH... wait for a f\*cking retrace (like this) and wait till it finds its footing, or just sit it out.

Accurate_Argument98

Just a useful tip when selling on crypto.com DON'T sell to fiat because you will get overcharged. Always do sell swapping and then transfer your funds to an exchange that has low sell fees. Kraken has the lowest-selling fees right now so don't get scammed by crypto.scam

Accurate_Argument98

Just a useful tip when selling on crypto.com DON'T sell to fiat because you will get overcharged. Always do sell swapping and then transfer your funds to an exchange that has low sell fees. Kraken has the lowest-selling fees right now so don't get scammed by crypto.scam

Clean_Scarcity_7333

Before I make any trade I say to myself: DON'T PANIC. If that doesn't work, six pints of bitter gets me there.

thomgloams

This is the way. I'll zoom in one layer further: *DO* - hentai pfp - wolf, duck, penguins (not pudgy tho) - Turing, Euler, any of the OG cryptographers - names that reference classic game theory problems like the Byzantine General problem. Entropy related ones good too. - Pinned post that are educational but needed an hour to study and decipher. (Just use Chat-GPT these days) *DON'T* - multiple emojis in name, overly busy profile blurbs with links to groups, newsletters, or partnerships with exchanges or shitcoins - bitboy - unless you know the King frogs, avoid most frogs. They're more interested in social status and simping to UHNWI. Toxic. - 500k+ followers. Even 250k is borderline. Think quality, not quantity. Mid to high 5 fig accounts. - Laser eyes (BTC maxis) and to a lesser extent .eth (ETH maxis). Avoid. Biggest lesson I learned is that TRADERS v. INVESTORS have almost polar opposite strategies, signals, social/public motivations and goals. Know which one you are or wish to be. If you consume both equally, you'll end up paralyzed. Eg. Traders are looking for setups via price action (PA). They will take large momentum based positions, with leverage and proper risk mgmt (if they're pros). They're long at $60k looking to add at the next technical level, say $64k. While investors are looking to reduce risk and take some profit, *to rotate into another investment.* Investors want to accumulate assets at painfully low prices and build long time wealth in various assets (while taking profits as they go to reduce risk). They're looking for a CAGR over years, whether 8% or 18%. When an investor sells, they have a place to put those dirty dollars to keep earning a return at the very least above inflation, usually considered the risk-free rate. They don't want to ever hold investable cash in their bank. The bank is where the money from your job or business goes to pay living expenses. Their investing accounts are always invested in something, even if it's cash equivalents that earn RFR. It's no different conceptually if crypto is your main avenue - but you should def be aware that taking profits into USDC on chain and self-custodied or to an exchange carries risk in itself that a highly regulated TradFi brokerage does not have. For this reason I've learned to take all altcoin profits into BTC or ETH. If I want to sit on some cash, it's not worth it to hold USDC on Coinbase at 1.5% APY when Fidelity pays 5% APY, virtually risk free, while you plan your next move. Otherwise, I'm selling into ETH or BTC. Traders, while they all have spot bags, are mainly looking for the opposite - cash cash cash. When they buy and sell, it's derivatives, paper, contracts., synthetics. They close risky speculative short term bets into cash asap. Very profitable if risk is well managed (few do). They're paying their bills trading. It's their job, their income. Very different mindset than an investor building wealth over the long term. While you don't have to be just one or the other, you should know which type is your main one. Investors BTFD , Traders don't catch falling knives. Investors buy low, relative to their basis, and sell percentages in tranches, but do not aim to sell 100% into cash (unless rotating into a better investment). Traders buy high and sell higher, w 10x leverage. Or sell low and buy lower. This may be obvious but in real-time during the mania of a bull market, it's a mind fk. Trying to follow both is recipe for disaster unless it's your full time job that actually pays your bills month to month for at least one year consistently. It's not your job until it does. In the meantime, make sure you know which type you are so you don't follow strategies anthesis to your goals. Oh and, this time it's different. It's not, but it is. Crypto has existed (realistically) from 2011 - 2021 top with ZIRP only. 10 years of risk-on "up only". This is the first time it's in an era of 4.5% - 5.5% risk free yields, a skittish Fed, and President Powell. It's bullish, it's recessionary, it's bearish, it's expansionary. I've no idea. Mind your risks and watch for the rotations. Cheers

DryTechnology5224

You ask like governments around the world DON'T print currency... they all do.

Rwitre

Ser....target audience are Bitcoiners who DON'T want to sell. They just want to unlock the value of their holdings, AND retain control of their Bitcoin

CapablePiglet1044

Im not so sure on that because of hype and fomo. If people see the price rise then traders will jump in and buy. You can think of it as momentum trading or just fomo in general. Tether just needs to ‘seed’ a price rise and people will jump in seeing the price going up as they don’t wanna miss out. That’s why you see all the ‘BULL RUN IS IN’ and ‘DON’T MISS OUT’ posts on here every time theres a slight increase in prices. Yes markets should reach the equilibrium of demand and supply but that’s for NON-MANIPULATED markets. If Tether and exchanges like Binance and Kraken are doing dodgy things like FTX did then they can easily push people in.

Immediate_Location16

I made a plan several years ago to ride a couple alts up until they equaled my BTC goal then swap them into BTC and I did it. Stuck to my plan and crushed it, but then the capital gains taxes crushed me right back. Expensive lesson learned. I paid up and have held that BTC since, so it has worked out well, but any chance I get I scream loudly ‘DON’T FORGET THE TAXES!’.

RiseBasti

I hope you're joking, but if you're not: DON'T DO IT!

flicman

You're 8 years older than you were in 2016 - if things DON'T feel different to you, there's a problem. It's a perspective thing, right? Like, of course THINGS are different, but the most different thing in the equation is you. Keep that in mind as you look into your options and examine your feelings.

spid3rfly

Welcome. A better place for questions like this would be r/BitcoinBeginners Some of us here have answered this question 500 million times(literally) lol. Until you save up enough in bitcoin(Let's just pluck a random number of 1,000 usd), I'd just keep it on whatever exchange/app(I use CashApp and Strike) you buy it from. If you do want to move it off as soon as you buy it, look into some of the phone wallets(I use BlueWallet) or you can download a desktop app on your computer(Sparrow is preferred by most). And those are free. Other important notes: -- When it's time for a hardware wallet, go with Trezor One or Blockstream Jade. There are a few others but those are about as cheap as you're going to get on the hardware side. -- Do some research to make sure whatever wallet you use is open-source(they're typically labeled as open-source because that's important) -- Whatever wallet you use - Write your seed words down. Store them safely. Those words are the keys/backup to your funds on that wallet. -- When you eventually buy a hardware wallet, buy from the company website(DON'T buy from Amazon/Ebay/Third Party) -- As you acquire bitcoin and start doing research, if you're buying small amounts... keep UTXO consolidation in the back of your mind to research at some point.

throwaway92715

The lesson here is - it's worth it even if you did buy at ATH... although not as worth it... just DON'T SELL AT A LOSS!

bigl7007

If you don't know what a balance transfer is, PLEASE DON'T DO ANYTHING ANYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT HERE!!

etherd0t

bro...I've been there and before that in 2018. 😏 repeat after me: YOU CAN ALWAY RE-ENTER DON'T GET ATTACHED TO THE FANTASY PROFIT IN YOURCRYPTO WALLET/ACCOUNT - BE HAPPY WITH THE REALIZED PROFIT AND INTO FIAT

Elevator2TheTop

This sounds like to me that OP is convinced it's going to 150k by 2025, and is trying to get advice on the craziest, stupidest, most self-destructive strategies without taking the heat for being crazy, stupid and self-destructive. Hopefully I'm wrong, but if I'm NOT, then DON'T DO IT!!

Successful-Snow-9210

I wouldn't trust that seed phrase. If your crypto is still on the blockchain and you plan to HODL then you should generate a new mnemonic recovery phrase. BUT this time DON'T type it on a keyboard or print it.

afkfrom

Staking means "lending your money to someone else, and TRUSTING them not to lose that money". They will do shady things and lose your money. In crypto, you cannot stake BTC, and you cannot stake USDC. You can stake Ethereum, but this requires additional knowledge, having a node (your own server) and it's complicated. It's not worth the risk. DON'T DO IT. It's 2022. You staked your money on FTX, it collapsed, you lost 100%. Celsius also collapsed and lost 100%. Tomorrow, it could be Kraken. Even funnier than that, Kraken's own CEO said "don't leave your tokens on any exchange including my own". Keep your crypto with your cold wallet, don't let anyone touch it. Have a look at DEFI however. AAVE has 7-10% return on USDC and your tokens don't leave your wallet, so that's a good thing. Have a look at Aave and other defi protocols.

Saintel

Good idea but don’t get a Keystone 3 Pro. DO NOT TRUST KeystoneWallet with your #Bitcoin  We have video of the #Keystone3Pro having hardware issues. We also have the support department on record admitting to the hardware issue. We can’t access our crypto. Yet, they refuse own responsibility & instead try to shift blame to Amazon. DON’T BUY THIS PRODUCT.

AlarmedAd9028

So guys let me share this experience of mine. It happened last year september, i invested in an online Financial platform,it was looking good till i wanted to withdraw my cash  I noticed I was not allowed to withdraw my invested funds nor my expected profits, I reached out to the lady who had introduced me to the platform, asking her about how to go about my invested funds and profits, well she told me I had to pay for some fees which has not been disclosed from the start, I gladly did, I paid series of payment to get my profits and invested funds until my total funds accumulated to $300,000. Then it dawned on me that I had been defrauded. I was frustrated, tired, weak, depressed, you name it! I was in need of my funds, I searched for solutions, wrote and reported to several agencies but to no avail, until I was in contact with the Crypto Recovery Agency who had helped me recover my funds from the bogus platform, they requested a certain percentage which I was happy to give, with the help of this agency, I was able to get a total 0f $280,000 and I couldn't thank them enough. Everyone out there needs to know they can get their crypto currency or any form of digital assets recovered with the service of the agency i used  by sending them an email via Hacking professional3 At g/ma/i/l  d.o.t COM.  DON'T WORRY IT IS NO HASSLE!

MPP22

The first DON'T DO is to not disclose your amounts. The second one is ask reddit for advice.

Raygunn13

DO: a "test transaction" with a minimal sum to make sure you've got the recipient address correct before sending a large sum. Expect your transaction (txn) to take up to 20 minutes, depending on the network. DON'T: send everything all at once, without doing a test transaction first. After a test txn it's fine. DO: triple check the first & last 4 digits of the wallet address you're sending crypto to. If you're one character off, it's lost forever. DON'T: ever believe anything that sounds too good to be true (in terms of getting rich quick). It almost definitely is, and you're about to be scammed.

P_e_a_s_h_o_o_t_e_r

The safest thing to do imo is to buy a bitcoin ETF. That way you get exposure to bitcoin without having to take custody over it yourself and learning all the ins and outs of taking custody over it yourself. The alternative is to buy bitcoin directly and send it to your own wallet but this requires that you learn how to safely take custody of your own bitcoin and how to send it to your own wallet. You'll have your own private key (which gives you access to your bitcoin) but if you lose it you also lose access to your bitcoin. If someone else gets a hold of it, they'll have access to your bitcoin. So just buying a bitcoin ETF is a lot easier. DON'T: * Leave your crypto on an exchange or lending platform. * Buy cryptocurrencies you know very little about.

Flynn_Kevin

>importantly the DON’T DO’S for this. Don't reply to any DMs. Don't forget to claim any gains or losses on taxes. Don't hold a bunch of meme coins. Don't hold on an exchange, browser wallet, or phone wallet. Don't chase yield. Don't take advice from internet strangers.

JubJubsFunFactory

If you DON'T understand it.... Wtf are you spouting off about then? Take 10 hours and STUDY it. Then come back in here and ask informed questions. Then, listen with the intention of comprehending, not disputing.

fvf

> You're pointing at bitcoin and telling me "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!! IT CAN'T EXIST!!!!" ...and then you proceed to claim that I'm the one struggling with reality? That's funny. I have said no such thing, of course, as is evidenced by the textual log right here on reddit, availably for anyone to see and examine (until you likely delete your comments when the cognitive dissonance becomes unbearable, which should be soonish now). But then again, that's just reality. Much better to ignore that and just deal with whatever pops into your head.

Frogolocalypse

> The reason, of course, is because you don't understand the basics of what we are talking about. I've heard the same shite from a different colour of numpty for almost ten years in exactly this place. You're pointing at bitcoin and telling me "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!! IT CAN'T EXIST!!!!" You're the one that's struggling with reality.

bitcoin_barry

Having it on an exchange or on some platform is just as bad as putting it on a platform that gives you interest. The fact that you are not getting interest while being on the same platform is kind of a violation. All the risks none of the benefits. 🤷🏻 But yeah, self custody is best. I would recommend BlueWallet if you want to have it on your mobile device, Sparrow Wallet if you want to keep it on a laptop or desktop pc, and if you want to explore hardware wallets, check out the cold card by coinkite. You will be given 12 or 24 words to write down and back up. NEVER give it to someone else, NEVER write it on a personal electronic device (phone, laptop, pc, anything that connects to the internet or connects to something that connects to the internet), NEVER take a digital photo of it (it's basically trivial to extract text from an image these days), NEVER split or shuffle the words in an attempt to make it harder to steal... You'll just make it harder for you to recover if you need it while an attacker will likely know how to use a computer program to rearrange the words in minutes. If a company asks for your seed words, even if the company seems reputable, DON'T give it to them. Don't ever write an email with the words. If you don't do any of these things, you will be fine, it's not hard, you just have to not make any of the silly mistakes.

aaronmichaelVA

THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T PRE-ORDER! Don't know how many times we will have to deal with this. CEO's get off on pumping out hype to make pre-sale orders with release promises, halving dates, etc. WITH NO INTENTION TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THOSE PROMISES! Yeah, I know the Bitcoin CEO never promised us an *exact* date, but we have to realize as long as the hype exists there will be no real incentive to follow through with the halving! They'll just keep kicking the ledger down the node. We have to stand firm and not pre-order anymore Bitcoin until *after* release of the new content!! ... Or just do what you want, I'm not your dad.

DeputyDoggg

It is way too common for a "good" project to create their own arbitrary token that may or may not have any relation to the project fundamentals. As you mentioned this can often be a fundraising mechanism that doesn't really do anything for the project other than give investors fake exposure to feel like they are investing in company shares. However this doesn't mean that they aren't out there. It's somewhat hard to call Ethereum an alt at this point but the ETH coin, much like BTC, secures the whole network and is used as the gas token to pay for transactions and executing smart contract code. This coin is fundamentally tied to the use of the Ethereum blockchain and thus isn't just some random coin that is unnecessary for the use of the network. Another good example, with a different technological use case, is the LINK token on the Chainlink oracle network. Chainlink is not a blockchain like Ethereum but instead is a decentralized oracle network (DON) that allows developers to bring real world data into smart contracts in a decentralized manner. The LINK token is also used fundamentally in the system to secure the DON as well as paying for data requests to and from smart contracts. If you look hard enough there are other alts of which use coins/tokens that are fundamentally tied into the project's use case. It is, unfortunately, hard to sift through all the grift and noise to find them.

MostBoringStan

Get yourself a hardware wallet. You don't need anything fancy. I have a Trezor One and it works great. When you get your wallet, first thing is you set it up. The wallet will give you 12-24 words. Write these down ON PAPER, don't store them digitally. These will be used to restore your wallet in case the device is damaged. After set up, go into your wallet. Click "receive" or something similar. It will give you a bitcoin address. Copy this address. Then go into your account on the exchange you use. Click "withdraw" or something similar. Now, you input the address you copied. DON'T SEND YET! Check the address. Compare it to the one from your device. Check the entire address. It only takes 20 seconds or so. If you check only the beginning and the end, you can be caught by malware that replaces your address when you copy and paste. After confirming the address is correct, click send/withdraw/whatever. The exchange should give you a transaction number. You can put this number into a blockchain explorer to get an idea of how quickly it will be confirmed by the network. And then your wallet will show that you have received bitcoin. Keep in mind that most exchanges charge a withdrawal fee. Do some research to find which exchange works best for you.

Equivalent-Fun-4587

# DON'T STOP BUYING Forget about having a whole Bitcoin. Just buy in the small amounts that you can. It is still early, even having 0.001 BTC in 10 years will be worth a lot of money. Just endure it. Valew