SO

jesschester

I can count on one hand the amount of counter arguments I have heard where the opposition actually delves into any scientific facts/details about Kennedy’s positions like you are doing. But it has happened before, and every time it does, it makes me hesitate. Believe me when I tell you, I am painfully aware of the fact that I could be wrong about this. But even so, I instinctively feel SO much more comfortable with the idea of him being in the White House than any elite DNC / RNC operatives. When the DNC ran Bernie out in 2016 , that was the day I quit supporting them. And every election since then has been nearly the exact same story: rigged primaries, anointed candidates, and Trump. So forgive me if I see an independent guy who has a little bit of work to do on his science lessons as a huge step up from the establishment candidates we’re being given now who are raping and pillaging the middle class.

RF_IT_Services

ISIS uses everything and everything knows that. Capital One. Reddit. The NYSE. Get real. Of course they used Binance. CoinBase. Etc. He didn't invite ISIS. Did he personally know or see them on there? Who knows. Guess what though: Anyone running a financial institution KNOWS criminals including terrorists use it! Anyone! I don't care about this guy. I'm just also not racist because he's chinese. What about the american crypto companies allowing terrorists? Hmm? Coinbase? Hmm? Oh, just a SEC fine. That's okay, right? Or did you forget about that? OR IS IT SO BURIED IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND?!?!? Racism. If this dude was american you wouldn't care. I'm american but I can see it clear as day. If that was trump, you'd be all in defense of him. "He didn't know, he's a god, how could he have known? ... wait a minute ...." I've had criminals on my own websites that didn't break more than tens of thousands of dollars a month. CRIMINALS ARE EVERYWHERE. IF YOU OWN A WEBSITE, YOU WILL HAVE CRIMINALS ON IT. If it moves money, CRIMINALS WILL USE IT TO MOVE MONEY. Use some logic before starting a flame war, please.

JustinPooDough

For most people, investing in stocks via ETF's is still less risky than Bitcoin. Sure, Bitcoin has always recovered *SO FAR,* but that's not guaranteed forever... also, you need to factor in the individual risk of selling when Bitcoin swings into the red. A high, HIGH percentage of people will panic sell like always. Just playing devils advocate. I'm heavy into BTC myself, but for a lot of people, they *will* lose money on Bitcoin because they WILL eat up the FUD and sell. They always do. Sure, that's not an inherent risk of Bitcoin itself, but the end result is still a loss for a lot of people. Both have pros and cons. That being said I still recommend Bitcoin to people, and advise them not to look at the price and just forget about it.

Friendly_Essay5772

This is what you need to know first! I can't tell you how many people I've talked to that ask me SO MANY questions about Bitcoin and trying to poke holes in it, and they don't understand or care a tiny amount as much about how fiat works

still_salty_22

Oh SO likely bro, like yea

Westernation

And that helps the average American SO much 🙄

Webbed_Bubble

Also, there is SO much data out there to help determine when we are "close " to a top and "close" to a bottom that it really is a viable strategy. Bitcoin is the easiest asset to time . It runs on a clock . You might not get the exact time but you can get within 15-30 min and that's what matters

Btcmot

This is “bla bla bla” really. If someone in the US writes a post that is from their perspective, SO WHAT ! You write from your perspective where ever that is. You are doing the same thing, so pull the log outa your own eye before you point out the stick in someone elses eye. And your name reveals your bad strategy… exit best. See ya!

anneFescada

SO true!! Thank you!

Sithaun_Meefase

They will eventually be arguing with the wall, saying, SEE I TOLD YOU SO. with 0 BTC lol

Tasty-Bed-6108

SO are the crypto bulls going to trick everyone including banks and short the 2025 run, walking away with everyones money?

Effective_Device_185

Easy...sociopathic narcissist. SO many in society. Really frightening.

BeingBalanced

To the moon! LMFAO There's SO many desperate people trying to pay their monthly rent on crypto trading (including leveraged) so I get a kick out of reading the eToro posts after a major surge or decline. It's very hard to take the emotions out of trading. If you would have bot Bitcoin at it's all time high in the Spring 2021 when it was SOARING, you'd be up about 15% today or about an average annual return of 4%.

ForestFreund

I see things like this and go "Ok yeah maybe BTC does hit $1mm/BTC down the line." Been around since 2012 and it is SO WEIRD that it still feels early.

KeepTruthAlive

1.) people bought at the top in 2021 & didn't average down 2.) Charles is a very confident man who shows conviction in his beliefs & people don't like that 3.) lack of marketing attention thus slow lagging price development 4.) its competition to ETH & SO and Tribalism is real in the crypto space

4xfun

A very wealthy SO

chiefzon

Plus Texas isn’t hooked up the National Grid so there’s no recourse SO when it fails, it fails HARD.

DivinityInsanity

We are back, we are SO back!

Gap7349

SO , just a few hundred percent returns for their illicit activities would teach them then?

Purple-Macaron-5042

I’m SO GLAD i sold yesterday evening. Woulda been down like 1.5k

analogOnly

Most of the time, if the company that's holding your asset flops, they may try to liquidate your assets to stay afloat or just disappear with your assets. That's why it is excruciatingly repeated ad nauseum to TAKE YOUR COINS OFF OF THE EXHCANGES. It has happened SO many times, SO many exchanges. EVERY YEAR exchanges close their doors for good.

Jazzlike_Record_8915

exactly... being a net exporter of products is SO AMERICAN and GOOD for Texas economy

GGAllinzGhost

"Usually they have surveillance at those sites" Oh ffs. They have surveillance everywhere. I walked by eight cameras just getting to the ATM. SO unless I'm doing something illegal (I'm not), and years from now they decide to try to figure out who that guy was who bought some coin at some random date and time, nobody cares. I'm buying anonymously.

viewmodeonly

I ignored this stupid ad for so long.... SO LONG! (it's a shitty ad)

analogOnly

Why not include the MANY MANY BitPay merchants? There are SO many retailers accepting BTC and others.

Diskopang92

WE ARE GONNA PUMP SO FKKNG HARD DADDDYYYYYYYY people have no idea whats coming for alts right now. August brings in retail, real retail not us noobs with 10-50k portfolio’s. Then some rate cuts cuz they fkkng have to. No matter what bloomberg thinks of it. And elections. Omfg… we made it boys hold on for half a year at least.

affluent-

250k by end of summer I’ll be back to sat told you SO!!!!

_AscendedLemon_

-10%: It's so over... +10%: WE'RE SO BACKKKK, YEAHHH Calm down, zoom out the chart, I can wait another 4 years in the worst case, amen

Icefiight

FOLLOW ME AND BECOME BIGGER BAGHOLDERS AND LOSE MORE MONEY BECAUSE CAPS LOCK MAKES IT SO. I legit feel bad for people like this

sleezuschristt

$MEGA is a sleeping giant. With the upcoming ETF and Trump campaign this narrative fits perfectly. And did I mention it has the same devs as $KENDU! SO BULLISH!!

sleezuschristt

$MEGA is a sleeping giant. With the upcoming ETF and Trump campaign this narrative fits perfectly. And did I mention it has the same devs as $KENDU! SO BULLISH!!

FilthyLennox

When you look at the underlying premise of POWSCHE, it's an amazing project. The team held the ATH, never sold. The community is stronger than ever, filled with real people doing real things, very mature and welcoming guys if I'm honest. The roadmap is wild, I love it and can't wait to see it unfold. The concept is SO UNIQUE and refreshing, I see a lot of capital going to rotate here this cycle, it's in a prime position to fly. CA: 8CkiSHHJDHJV4LUoiRMLUhqG58cUkbyJRtcP4Z3mCXNf

ReapVitalized

SO THAT WAS YOU!!! I was all set on having a nice quiet dinner with my girlfriend to celebrate our first year together... I’d bought some fresh tomatoes to make my homemade pasta sauce, and I’d gone to the small boutique bakery to buy some filo pastry for dessert. I was quietly going through the recipes in my mind when I heard your slurred grumbled announcement, “...You’re about to loot my balls...” I tried to ignore it, but I couldn’t ignore the furious grunting like a drunk man having a seizure. As I looked up I could see the fury in the other commuters eyes. A man looking like a professor had stood up and was about to reproach you when the dull clatter of your phone on the train car floor seemed seemed to pause all movement in the carriage. The professors eyes widened, sweat suddenly beaded on his forehead and with fevered anguish he started undoing his belt and fly like a man who thought a hornet was caught in his pants. I was bewildered as all the other men in the car started convulsing like extras in Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video. A woman sat across from me was doing her best to emulate a Russian gymnast trying to grate cheese from her crotch with the sole of her Nike running shoe. I bolted upright, panicked but prepared to fight, when in the corner of my eye the neon glow of your phones LCD screen drew me sight. I suddenly felt a bizarre euphoria fill my mind and a white hot heat electrify my spine and form a prism of pure desperate release in my loins. I can’t remember much else, I awoke from some kind of fever dream in a public toilet cubicle. My jeans and underwear had disappeared, but I was still wearing my Myrell slip ons, shirt and now crusted overcoat, like a cross between Donald Duck and a homeless student. I can hear another man weeping in the cubicle, keeps muttering he just wanted to fly. I feel so cold and drained. My organ is so mangled it could unpick the locks of wooden medieval doors. There’s filo pastry all over my thighs and knees. But despite all this I feel a warm contentment like I’d found ‘the’ answer. I don’t know what this means, I know there will be questions, that there should be much to fear. But truly I am grateful. Thank you.

Cluster_Fluffed

The team has built more in the consolidation time than was ever built on the run to the current ATH. SO MUCH MORE. Because of this, I have no doubt Powsche is going to blow the nips off the ATH soon, on its way to billions

Kizawy

SO proud to be part of this community <3

Blarghnog

We need a startup to develop an AI to keep people from doing what scammers want. Like a TSR that just won’t allow you to download and install their software, access untrusted sites, etc. I hear about people getting scammed SO often these days. I’m sorry OP. Don’t feel bad. It happens. Just start again and never make the same mistake twice.

dvsbyknight

SO many, lol. I do realize you're being sarcastic, though. It's frightening how many people endorse this strategy as if it's a given that the underlying assets will always & forever be increasing. I get that for the ultra wealthy their risk is much lower & I imagine they have quite elaborate hedging strategies, but the plebs are like "If it works for Elon, why wouldn't it work for me?"

GeneralZaroff1

Look up cult of personality. Many of his followers see a completely different version of him that’s been validated by media outlets like Fox News. They see him as a literal savior who is being unfairly persecuted by a corrupt system, and they want to “save” him. Just for fun, I signed up for Trump’s newsletter and it’s wild. It’s all emails like “I just spoke with President Trump and I've got some bad news. We reviewed the most recent donor list and he noticed that your name STILL WASN'T ON IT. I want President Trump to know that he still has your full support, which is why if you step up in the NEXT 30 MINUTES, I'll guarantee that your name is at the TOP of the next list he sees.” It’s extremely predatory, but for many people you can imagine why this will be SO effective. They literally think Trump is sitting there going “hey, /u/superiorfarter didn’t donate today? I thought we were friends!”

Virtual-Baseball-297

Bitcoin fading? Lol? It’s scarcity and deflation is what makes it sort after and some value, but it’s still speculative. Outside of this, crypto is highly speculative and SO FAR 99% holds no true value, other than greater fool theory and tulip mania.

EnviroElk

Holding shiba SO FUCKING FAR WAY TO LONG and not holding everything else until like.. last yearish … yes I still have my shib

Lokijai

Sure I cannot help send me your address and seed phrase and we can build it together. MAKE SURE YOU DM ME THE DETAILS SO YOU DON'T GET SCAMMED!!!

KlutzyDog3633

hey no idea why youd say something like that assumptions are often funny because i burn my reddits often a I do business with things such as crypto, info and names being private data being secure etc so yeah i have 1 karma but i also have million dollar clients who like when there no data to be traced on the business. SO no not a scammer

4lt3r3dR341ity

Decentralized currency. Just made sense… I love cryptography in general, coding is a huge passion of mine and mixing the two was a great thing for me personally. Preoccupied my time with doing something I love. I everyone called me crazy for sticking to btc as hard as I did. I was making $12/hr at my job, meanwhile (even back then) I had miners making $16/hr. (SO WHOS LAUGHING NOW MOM!!?! /s) I just felt so secure (still do) with btc, the technology, the system at play, all of it. Hence why I still stack, mine, and participate in the community still.

benjaminchodroff

I’d take her through the entire portfolio. Show her the overall percentage relative to other assets, how it’s done (YTD, YoY, past five years), why it’s likely to continue to appreciate (The Bitcoin Standard). For my SO… it took awhile, but I’m open and honest about how much I’m stacking. She also loves that I have every purchase on CoinTracking.info so she can login to the mobile app and see how it’s doing too.

RuachDelSekai

Your SO is 100% right. Do not put a larger % of your assets into BTC. Cut into your personal disposable income and invest that into BTC over time. DCA. Don't lump sum. And do not go behind your SO's back and do things they don't agree with.

Opening_AI

Can someone explain why BTC is worth $66,617.10 USD right now after going up about $400 since midnight ($66192.00)? And was $69,979 just 4 days ago. That's a $3K drop in just 4 days. Maybe if you can explain the mechanics of it all, your SO/family may consider it? If you can't then you really don't understand BTC.

the_lone_unlearned

Yeah that's hard when it's an SO. Best bet is show them how much bitcoin appreciates versus other investments to try to make her understand bitcoin is not some stupid risky thing but is actually a great way to grow money a lot. The vast majority of people still think bitcoin is "stupid". It'll just take a lot of gradual convincing and education for you to get her onboard. Most people are gonna take many years to realize bitcoin is not some stupid risky scammy thing. I have a family member who I occasionally convince to buy some bitcoin, I think he might be up to around a whole coin now, but his wife always says no so even during the once or twice a cycle when I can get him motivated to buy bitcoin he can only do it with the little bit of spare money he is allowed to invest on his own. Most of their investment money can't go into bitcoin because they both have to agree on that money and she only believes in traditional investments.

makemisteaks

This is it for me. I run our investments and while I ask my SO for consent and inform her of where the money is going, there’s an implicit understanding that I know more about this stuff than she does. Plus, we’re not all in on BTC, so she considerest is a reasonable “don’t have your eggs all on the same basket” type of situation.

xGsGt

More than her opinion on Bitcoin I would focus on why she threatened you bad, I mean it's your SO, in s healthy relationship you should able to talk it out even if you don't agree. I wonder what was your plan to make her go bananas in you

Sweaty-Milk-8995

SO means my husband

WallstreetBytes

Don’t tell your SO anything until you make wife changing money… 👋

Probablyinsanes

I’m not married but I have a friend who is very into Bitcoin and crypto in general. Early to mid 2023, he kept telling me to buy Bitcoin and I didn’t understand it and thought it was stupid. Told me to buy when it was around 30k then again at 25, then 20, and 15. It kept going down so I thought he was crazy. I said I’d buy if it went down to 9k because I read something online that said that’s where it would go. However, because he was so adamant, I started to do my research. Not just on Bitcoin but all of crypto and learning how the blockchain actually works. The security of Bitcoin and everything. After the technical analysis I started researching leaders in the financial space and gauging what their opinions were. I could only find positive things about Bitcoin that were logical and not emotion based. The ONLY bad thing I could find about Bitcoin at the time was the argument that it would be detrimental if it took over the US dollar completely. However, that point didn’t make sense since Bitcoin is meant as another underlying asset to diversify your portfolio in (at least as I see it) and to combat inflation. After that, I was totally bought into the idea of Bitcoin and crypto in general. All it took was the actual legwork to do my own research and be confident in the coin itself as well as the blockchain, not market analysis. Called my financial adviser at Morgan Stanley to tell him I wanted to withdraw money to put into it (at the time JPMCB publicly discredited Bitcoin) and he was against the idea but I did it anyways. I DCA’d for about 4 months with an average cost of 25k then a one time payment at roughly 40k. Average buy in price is around 29k. Roughly 130% gain. TLDR: Either have your SO do research, or create some type of power point to explain the benefits of Bitcoin (not the market) and make sure she understands so she can back you up with your decision to invest. Knowledge is power Also, explain the benefits of DCAing which is what I’d recommend to do.

GiverTakerMaker

Educate your your SO with Plan B's videos for the last couple years.

Globaller

I stacked aggressively and perhaps with too much of my income 10 years ago. Never asked or told my wife. She's very happy about it now. But I still ask no permission. Partly because she's seen I make the right choices. If your SO doesn't get it, keep your stacking secret. But don't let her ignorance stand in the way of a smart move.

Original_Lab628

If you’re gonna stay with an SO who resents you enough to think you’d even suggest something so “stupid” you’re gonna have a bad time.

HogOps

You obviously determined your SO attributes were other than financial. Therefore she is not significant in your financial interests. So why did you even ask her. Now you have to renegotiate with the insignificant SO. Compare investments dollar for dollar over the next 12 months, winner takes control, no questions asked.

phaattiee

I had BTC before me and my SO were involved I'll have it after. She's interested but we've agreed that I'll handle the crypto and she'll use more traditional investments so between us we are diversified. With each of us dabbling in the other. She still doesn't get it and is sceptical but she takes on look at the chart over the last decade on the monthly timeframes and agrees its a no brainer. My mother is an alcoholic pot smoking hippie and owns a fair amount of BTC after I convinced her to buy a load in 2019 with her inheritance. The rest of my family think I'm an idiot showed my sister my trading portfolio which is just on the exchange, not including my cold storage and asked if I paid money for the BTC and promptly laughed in my face and said someone is laughing to the bank with my money. They only care about pension contributions and being mortgage free... They believe all money is corrupt including crypto and just want to not work anymore and have a roof over their heads...

kehe3006

Im so bullish for $HEGE with the upcoming CEX Listing next week!! This will give us the next big burst over at least 10m for the first stop. SO HAPPY TO BE HERE!

69xX_MarkyMark_Xx69

I purchased a nano S from best buy as an emergency recovery tool when my hardware wallet was stolen this past summer. It worked in a pinch, but I encountered SO MANY software errors in the 2 short days that I used it, that it made me VERY afraid of losing my BTC during the recovery. I would never ever recommend buying a ledger product again, and even worse was the return process with bestbuy who tried at every opportunity to shirk responsibility for selling me a defunct device.  As others have said: Buy a BTC only device, my cold card hasn't thrown a single error for me. It's a little less intuitive and the sparrow wallet AI isn't as pretty as ledger live. But fuck ledger. I still receive scam calls from their data leaks over 3 years ago. Additionally, ledgers seed phrase cloud backup is a terrible idea, and even worse when you imagine a bad actor might find their way into abusing it

99redball0ons

Yes, Kendu is my future, our future. The future of DeFi is here. There are SO many more things we have not even been told yet, so if you ever wanted to practise 'believing in the Universe' the best time is yesterday. Today is second best time. Get a bag and join this army. Live it up with the KENDU army life.

dvsbyknight

My argument is not about societal norms. Taxation is a societal norm because the vast majority of society believes as you do & I accept that. I'm not arguing that it's not a societal norm, I'm arguing that it's still ethically & morally wrong. This is why I say I would respect statists SO MUCH MORE if they would just admit that it's necessary theft in their view, but that it's still theft.

Kizawy

The meme are SO GOOD imo

Early_Asparagus_6510

ITS the long weekend here in MELBOURNE VICTORIA because it is HIS MAJESTY'S OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY so CHEERS to HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, WALES, NORTHERN IRELAND, SCOTLAND and to THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS particularly AUSTRALIA and the rest of the ASIA PACIFIC REGION. SO MISS IYATS where will you pledge your LOYALTY? I SOLEMNLY DECLARE MY OBEDIENCE AND LOYALTY to THE ONE who already SECURED HIS IMMUNITY... TO HIS MAJESTY CHARLES III R. COZ AT THE END OF THE DAY... are you all smarter than a 5TH GRADER? FOLLOW THE LIFE and complexities of the CRYPTOLOGIST R. PACIFICO-HUGGINS, the one who solved the PASSWORD from THE [NAKAMOTOFOUNDATON.ORG](http://NAKAMOTOFOUNDATON.ORG)

Just1_More

Ohh yes, sorry, Co2 bad. I know SO MANY people who "agree" with this. I don't know a single person who has changed their lifestyle in any meaningful way to reduce their carbon footprint. Curious, what have you don't to neutralize your carbon footprint?

Anonymouslystraight

XRP paying to be added 😭😭😭(SO SAD)

Cosmic_Orthagonist

If the other party knows of your BTC and you try that maneuver, it won’t go well in court. This can end up costing you more as it shows bad faith moves on your part. This could leads you to loose other skirmishes over other assets due to looking bad. I say work with your former SO and act like the BTC is no big deal and hardly worth any fuss

_RonPaulWasRight_

I know, right? Why so long. But also - title says it's an Australian commercial, but then it says in the video that it abides by the regulations of the "UK Financial Conduct Authority under European law". HUH???? I mean, there are SO MANY things wrong with that. First of all, the UK isn't part of Europe - they had Brexit. Also, this is supposed be Aussie, isn't it? WTF does UK Fin'l CA have to do with it. Gay ass shit, man. All part of the god damn British empire.

no_sight

In your scenario you have a computer and paper at home. A fire starts and your house burns down. All access to your bitcoin is now forever gone. All access to your banking and investments are fine. That's the main adoption problem with BTC. It is SO MUCH harder to recover in case of a disaster. You have to have a plan to either memorize a lot of random letters/numbers/words and/or store information safely in multiple different locations. A lot of people don't have access to multiple safe locations.

10xray1

The OP said SO DAMN EASYTO JUST HOLD YOUR OWN PROPERITY SAEFLY. Basically I have to buy something extra.

Suspended_Mind

Wow. I am so so so sorry. Please know that your friend probably fought SO incredibly hard. Silently too. This battle is for life, and it’s exhausting. It’s war with your own brain. In the midst of mania you put your life in danger by ‘living fast,’ with crazy ideas and plans. But during the depression you just want it all to end. I almost didn’t make it out. I attempted before I was put in the hospital. If I hadn’t been placed there against my will — put on meds and diagnosed — I don’t think I’d still be here today. Your friend was suffering from a pain that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. But I hope you find comfort in the fact that he is no longer suffering and finally at peace. That’s always such a weird thing to say, but after experiencing that pain myself, I don’t know any other way to put it. I’ll celebrate your friend today. Thinking of you both ♥️ Sending love & internet hugs. 🫶🏼

morrisdev

I don't know why this isn't brought up more, but hear me out: I program ERP systems. (Basically, logistics of stock from beginning to end). Years ago, I heard about this Amazon S3 thing that could be used to store unlimited files. There was no user interface at all, just command line. It was amazing. We started hard-coding it into tons of software. So did everyone else. This bizarre transaction thing became integrated permanently. It's still not user friendly, but it's hugely profitable. We do a ton of financial work as well, but people are still hesitant to use crypto, but not because it's not fast or efficient or anything, just due to reputation. However, at some point, I absolutely guarantee that all software financial transactions will be smart contracts on block chain. Maybe private coins or something, but it's SO much cheaper and less risky. Here's why: you can do a transaction on a secondary chain or a fast chain, like ADA, and then convert it to a stable coin, like USDC or any of the foreign ones, instantly for very little, and then convert it back to fiat of you want. So, if you had 2 different softwares, say company A and company B do a lot of business. You can set up a bank to bank transfer where you're going from wallet to wallet automatically and then step out of the "gambling" arena. The cost is negligible compared to ACH fees and the transaction chain can be seen by both parties and you can automatically assign rules to a smart contract. I've pushed a bit and gotten some very hesitant responses due to misinformation and suspicion, but it's getting there and I don't see any alternative coming down the pipe. I bet banks will even start using it among partner banks. Anyway, I have no idea about BTC, but those that make fast and cheap contracts are going to be heavily used and extremely stable in the near future. (To me, that's like 8-10yrs). BTC, I believe, will always be a good investment, but smart contracts will end up being more and more ubiquitous

Narrow_Elk6755

Anyone else try to talk to their SO about any of this and get absolutely zero interest? Our entire lives spent chasing what is essentially monopoly money and the average person could not care less about any of it.

phaattiee

Congratulations you missed the point entirely. Side note: Imagine calling a house worthless. Having a home, somewhere to live, raise a family and create memories with your SO, Pass down to your children. Imagine considering a yacht worthless... Free, sustainable travel anywhere in the world, also doubles up as the above. You need some perspective pal. BTC is sound money and a good store of value. It even has philosophical value in terms of what it represents in todays medium. Its not the goal. Nor should be. BTC absolutely ties up wealth if you're not planning on utilising it for something at some point. You're just watching numbers at that point... I'd much rather be sailing around the world on a yacht. Braindead take you got there mate. I'm a massive advocate for BTC, however selling up most my stack in 20/21 run to pay down 40% on my first house has had far greater rewards than if I had held onto the BTC... My life is far more stable and as a result i've had a lot more freedom to pursue other meaningful things in my life... I've nearly recovered my stack since I've been able to re-invest the money I would've been spending on rent since my loan on the house is significantly cheaper than renting.

jchesticals

Bruhhhh that's this entire sub, 95% of these people just post self jerkoffs constantly. WE ARE SO AMAZING FOR INVESTING IN A 15 YEAR OLD COIN IN YEAR 14 DURRRRR

ponki44

She should lose her jobb, dumb people like this should never be alowed to work in healthcare. Infact i belive she should be locked up for her own good, if your so dumb you fall for "investment coaches" and the "i gave money and i got twice as much back, so then i sendt all my life savings" if you fall for that you shouldnt be alowed to be outside as your a danger to your self. Ask any of these dumb people when was the last time a stranger on the street made them give the stranger money because he was going to double it for them, they would never do it, but when it come to the nett people go OH SO YOUR A NERUBIAN PRINCE AND IF I GIVE YOU 1000€ THEN I GOT 100000€ BACK!? HERE TAKE MY LIFE SAVINGS.

Gnawlydog

What? That doesn't even make sense. There was NO LAW. No one knew what it was supposed to be taxed at. There isn't a loophole. If boopybits came out tomorrow and those boopybits were something never seen before. Boopybits are beautiful.. SO are they art? Are they items? Are they investments? No one knows.. So when you make money off boopybits what percentage do you need to pay in taxes, smart guy? Previous dude said educate yourself.. It seems he was overestimating your capability. Bitcoin isn't Forex Spec!

Duncle_Rico

Everyone is SO polarized on this topic it's obnoxious. **Nobody** is claiming Trump as the crypto messiah. You're pushing the discussion into an extremist perspective so you can attack people on being delusional. Which is incorrect. You and many others are frustrated because the democratic candidate and his appointed SEC chairman have been *incredibly* aggressive towards crypto, and the republican candidate sees an opportunity to gain voter support by pushing pro crypto policy. Luckily for us all, we have 4 years of *each* candidate in office and can base our opinion on the topic **through their actions while in office.** The Biden administration vs. the Trump administration **is a night and day difference on crypto policy** There is **ZERO** argument towards that. If Democrats want support from the crypto community, then they need to voice their opinions to their elected officials and demand policy change. Posting rants on r/cryptocurrency about "orange man bad" literally does *nothing* for your cause.

godofpumpkins

The usual thought is that even if you’d bought at some ridiculously low price, you probably would’ve sold a big chunk when doubled, or hit OVER 9000, or whatever. Hindsight is easy but it’s a lot harder to hodl through the major troughs when your life savings depend on it and your SO is screaming at you that you squandered your kid’s future college career. IIRC 2013 was a local peak capping out around $1000 and then crashing to oblivion again. Either way virtually nobody held their coins since 2012 because it was basically irrational to hodl for that long. Obviously today we know it would’ve been great but don’t fool yourself and tell yourself you’d have had the conviction to do what almost nobody else has managed to do, and that includes a lot of the OG bitcoiners who got into it before there was any money in it.

Btcmot

SO WHAT if i am!!! Sorry, did that come out?

Tryingtodoit23

They could have easily 2-3 houses and been fine. Even though the meltdown killed their income. During 2005-2006, they needed to take on a huge real estate portfolio. It was a good lesson for me to learn: they weren't taking on debt to save their family, or a medical condition, or because they wanted to have a few houses. At a relatively young age they were borrowing massive sums of $ becuase they wanted to be SO RICH. The entire decision was driven by ego.

Kants_Paradigm

SO in contrary to Harry Pettit I can actually understand scientific methodology and criticise the method instead of being a dumbass that just copy paste the conclusion that fits my pretty narrative. Shall we look at the actual study? Here is the [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111453](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111453) link: "Dark personalities and Bitcoin®: The influence of the Dark Tetrad on cryptocurrency attitude and buying intention" It is published in the The Official Journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), with an impact factor of 4.3. Which to be honest.. Isn't that bad at all! And it is a good study. However Fuckboy Harry Pettit in his media text forgot to mention a VERY IMPORTANT ASPECT of the study. Namely that they were ONLY EXAMING DARK TETRAD TRAITS. So when you pose a method looking only for Dark tetrad traits? The outcomes are Dark tetred traits. From the text: **Importantly, we are not suggesting all crypto buyers exhibit Dark Tetrad traits.** Exactly there aren't suggesting that at all... they are just curious about what trait they would find if they dug into this segment of people. Running a N=566 survey and the found some of these trait to positively associate with a crypto attitude. So the author did NOT: Compare the population outcomes to a population that doesn't do crypto. So we don't know if there associations are just normal across the board. We don't know if these trait are actually part of a larger group called the "early adopters" of a new phenomenon and thus are perfectly normal traits. The only thing we know is that these traits are there... Next study? To actually see if these traits are significantly more present than in normal population. The reason why they didn't do this is because their population study numbers are just very low to get any power on a comparison between groups, making the whole thing obsolete. Conclusion: Fck people like Harry Pettit for writing this absolute gunk and fck the Sun for actually daring to post this.

GOR098

ok. I have heard recently hear that arbitrum is 1 of the top L2 and did see gains recently. Whereas I rarely hear anything about Opt. SO I was surprised when I saw that Price of Opt is more than double of ARB. Thats all.

Thin-Psychology7179

Yeah these dumb fucks even suck at math ? Everyone is looking to buy sport cars and shit they were brainwashed with called as good , not knowing it’s all about food and survival in reality. Bitcoin is not brought to cost 1 billion the price of USD SUCKERS BITCOIN IS A CURRENCY ITSELF SO STOP FUCKING PUMPING IT DOLLAR BASED AND START USING IT TO BUY/TRADE FOR DAY TO DAY ESSENTIALS. That if you believe that Btc will replace fiat and you have read even a small part of what “SATOSHI NAKAMOTO” wrote when presenting bitcoin. Rather then that profit suckers are everywhere , in fiat and crypto and so on. If you wait BTC to be 1 Btc=1B $ then keep dreaming. It may never happen and if it did , be sure the government/controllers have found a way to fake your wealthiness and they will still live better then you do. Keep flaming people when they say the truth but also keep fucking dying and going to jail for few $. We all dying anyways it’s suffering for some and a fun show for others

PerceptionLive8446

This was kinda my point actually. Especially in this Bitcoin subreddit. Or on Twitter. All the furus. The influencers. They all sound SO SURE of themselves, that it actually kinda irritates me. If it were THAT easy to get rich - then everyone would do it. And if everyone did it - then we WOULDNT get rich. To me, it’s an endless conundrum.

Efficient-Shop-4408

Ty SO much! I was really pissed off about it and u helped me big time Ty for swift response

phaattiee

Family estate and instil good principles/values in your grandchildren to do the same. Having a family home that operated as a safe haven and a hub to return to when in need is a peace of mind and fortune that will help them go on to achieve their own financial successes in their lives. There's a reason the old British families hang onto their estates for hundreds of years... Not that I'm in anyway against BTC... I sold up most my stack in 20/21 to purchase my first home for me and the SO at about 40% deposit... which has left us with a relatively small mortgage given the circumstances that has freed up a lot of my earnings and allowed me to rebuild my portfolio under £25k average price... As long as its going into something worthwhile and tangible theres nothing wrong with reaping some rewards for your Hodling... Anything but FIAT... never sell just to have more FIAT doing nothing but wasting away to inflation.

nerdiestnerdballer

Did you get your funds you, if so im so happy for you, you are SO lucky you saw this transaction and were able to RBF it before the attackers transaction settled! Please never enter your seed phrase into any online device EVER! this is what airgapped hardware wallets are for.

ARoundForEveryone

Yeah, of course no one knows. But still, just tell me everything is gonna moon so I feel better about my life and financial choices, please. Like, just whisper me a lullaby about Bitcoin rocket moon adoption explosion. IS THAT SO HARD?!

VisforVenom

True. And yet some people get really weird about money in their old age, especially when dying slowly from something that degrades their mental faculties. After my mom died, my dad quit his job and spent a couple of years just blowing all of his savings moving around the country and doing dumb shit (which I'm glad for... I'd rather he spend it on having some fun than deny himself in the spirit of saving it for his kids to blow on dumb shit after he dies...) But then when he got really sick, and had depleted pretty much all of his liquid assets, he developed some weird fixations as his brain started to go. He was SO concerned with making sure I kept all of his credit cards paid off every month... despite being fully aware (and me trying to remind him) that we had cancelled any automatic bills associated with them, and that credit card debt doesn't transfer after death. God doesn't care about your credit score lol. But idk, just a weird obsession that got stuck in the declining mind of a dying man who worked himself to death trying to get out of poverty.

phaattiee

DO NOT TRAVEL YOUNG. Here's the maths... If you can max out a 5% ISA (which is an extremely conservative investment strategy) you'll have £2k every other year to go travelling with... FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Every year you spend money you delay this possibility. This can be achieved earlier if you're prepared to take riskier investment strategies, BTC, Commodities and medium-high risk S&S's. You could be in your Mid 20's and be travelling off your interest... Don't listen to all these old people that have done nothing with their lives because they blew all their money travelling in their 20's I went travelling in my 18-early 20's and have regretted it ever since. I never once regretted buying BTC or Gold and me and my SO now hustle for a year then travel for a year with our PTO paid entirely with interest. Our pay checks go towards maxing out other investment options that will pay for more luxuries down the line.

phaattiee

Me and my other half only use interest for luxuries. Joint ISA at 5% pays for our holiday every other year. My S&S's ISA pays for my personal luxuries. BTC and Gold for the long haul. I still have to work atm but am well on the way for my paycheck pretty much entirely going towards more BTC and Gold whilst paying down the house. 30yo M, 22yo F SO, we only make 55k a year between us after tax atm but we already have one ISA maxed and I had a 40% down payment on my first home from BTC 20/21 rally profits.

Enderbeany

You absolutely can use its store of value functionality as a source of collateral. In the years to come, this will be SO much smarter than selling it. As in traditional finance - make your money and value work for you.

phaattiee

Problem is even tax advantage accounts aren't keeping up with inflation these days... I have one limited withdrawal ISA that me and the SO have maxed out that comes in about 5% AER, it doubles as our emergency fund since we get 3 withdrawals a year... it pays for a holiday once every other year for QoL... Every other penny is in Gold and BTC... Nothing even comes close on a ten year time frame... nothing even comes close save maybe the S&P but I can't fathom propping up the monopoly for the sake of 2-3% higher than inflation year on year...

dastree

I make money with crypto, heavily leaning towards btc mostly. I don't talk to anyone about it except my SO. Not wasting my time that I could be using to make some more money

ImmediateShape4204

ETH has awoken. Bought SO much under 3k. Now they gonna sell the bad news, I don't care if they drop it on the 23rd, I'll buy more. The beast has awoken.

oboshoe

I gotta say I like "Proof of Work". works on multiple levels. Personally I hate water pun names for boats. It SO overdone. I think the best yacht name I ever saw was on about a 100ft Yacht in Ft Lauderdale. "someday came"

Tumid_Butterfingers

Crypto scams? NO WAY! SAY IT AINT SO!

Derek-Gridlock

Many purists on Reddit suggest a hardware wallet because of the control and implied protection due to its offline inaccessibility. However, you hit upon an important consideration: the extra steps and hoops you must jump through to use hardware wallets safely and correctly. Overall, it's complex and cumbersome, and ultimately, you have to assume full ownership of keeping your seed phrase safe. The seed phrase is SO critically important, and many people do not give it the respect it deserves. In the worst case, you'll get a hardware wallet and then store your seed phrase on the piece of paper it came with. In the best case, you invent some complicated system to split the seed phrase into pieces, make copies, and distribute them randomly so that it's very hard to find all the pieces and somewhat robust even if you lose one of them. Mass adoption is impossible with a solution like this because it's difficult, complex, and confusing - especially for less technically savvy people.  What's the alternative? A distributed wallet behaves in the same way you might with your seed phrase, but it is done automatically for you. In reality, distributed wallets don't even have the concept of a seed phrase; instead, they have a backup based on distributed social recovery instead of a single point of failure that is a seed phrase. The result is that you get all the benefits and control of crypto ownership without any effort or risk of personal management.  There is a learning curve to wrap your head around the concept of distributed storage, but once you understand it, you see that it's an easier, safer, and non-custodial alternative to hardware wallets. 

Just1_More

This is not a black and white question. There are SO many factors to consider, and you've provided next to zero context.

SuccumbedToReddit

I mean he has been wrong SO MANY TIMES