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August 19, 2023, 04:23:00 AM

But again I tell you, using Bitcoin to buy Heroine from the dark markets is actually one of its greatest use cases to illustrate censorship-resistance - the network's main value proposition. That it can't be shut down even if it's being used for "bad use cases" shows that it works.


But if BTC continues to be misused like this then authorities will take some bold actions against it


Misused"? Who said it's "misused"? The participants in the transaction were merely using Bitcoin in a way that you don't approve of. And if the authorities should take some bold action against it, then it should first take bold action against the Banks because the most used currency for crime is? FIAT. Cool


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but i think your intentions are just to show that BTC could be used for anything, and those authorities still cannot do anything at all and i am agree with you. Smiley Smiley


No, my intention was to show technically how and why Bitcoin could be used for anything, read this write up by StopAndDecrypt, https://medium.com/hackernoon/bitcoin-miners-beware-invalid-blocks-need-not-apply-51c293ee278b
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August 18, 2023, 11:02:53 PM
This is a good point Dr.Bitcoin_Strange.  Sure, there may well be some advantages in terms of having some flexibilities in terms of where to place BTC buy orders, yet at the same time, we can get misled in terms to figuring out when the down correction is going to either stop or reverse... so time and time again, guys can end up getting way too greedy in terms of thinking that they can figure out a lower bottom and thereby failing to sufficiently/adequately prepare themselves for UP at any given price point, even if they might have ONLY executed a few buy orders between $25.6k (our current low) and $29k-ish (the starting point of our most recent downward breaking).
After one of our conversation when you said you have small percentage of your money set as buy order even below $20k, I actually adjusted my limit orders too to capture the $24k,  $26k and 28k zone where majority of the orders were as I felt price might soar from that zone. I am happy to tapped from your wealth of experience. The recent dip in price have shown me the beauty of flexibility in the market as most of my orders have been filled at much lower prices than it would have been should I had market executed.  Even if no further dips, I'm good now and should there be more dip, I will maximize it as well.

Let the market do what it does...

I don't get a lot of pleasure from my buy orders getting filled, yet I usually consider them to be offsetting the negative news in which the BTC price ends up dropping and frequently dropping further than we really think that it will...

it is kind of like making lemonade out of lemons.. with the assumption that you did not want the lemons, but you will still try to get some kind of benefit out of them...

and like you said that if we end up setting these up correctly, we can achieve a bit more of a kind of emotional neutrality - even though I doubt that we can really completely achieve emotional neutrality but having preparations in place for a wide set of scenarios does seem to take off some of the severity of the bite.

Its seems good ideas with your planning keep accumulate to reach 1 Bitcoin assets in your portfolio and don't stop for buying back exactly right now another dip coming again. Last night my order have been filled with Bitcoin price around $25,800 and its the best chance for investing with bitcoin in dip price. Almost raise 1 Bitcoin in my portfolio by accumulate every day with not too bigger amount but I don't give u for spending few of my salary to invest in Bitcoin. Looks Bitcoin still on stable around $26,000 have good moment keep accumulate how many possible as our portfolio assets until expecting break out to higher price again one day later.
Well, the plans seem good, I won't say its stable on the 26K because, for a couple of days, we can experience a new tight range of 25 to 26 and I would like to say this can be a good opportunity who still haven't prepared themselves for the halving at least they should not let go this event. Also, i won't say this is a good strategy to follow the accumulation Because on regular accumulation you never wait for the dips like 6% 7% market drop there you need to follow DCA.

As if my Goal is 1BTC accumulation i cant afford 1 and once even I cant afford 25% of it, so there i will prepare my way to constantly accumulate all i can do for more progressive accumulation is i can buy more as if i was buying X$ a week and now market recently took a dip of 6% or 7% i will try to go for 2X or at least 1.5X of regular events.

For sure the buying on dips and DCA are not mutually exclusive techniques, even if sometimes guys mix up the ways that they are talking about them.

So if you have $100 per week that is available to you for buying BTC, then you could choose to ONLY buy $30 per week or maybe $50 per week, and then to let the other balance of that add up with the passage of time in order that you can use it for buying on dips, so sure any DCA strategy may well end up diluting the amount that you have available for buying on dips, but also the balancing works in the other direction too because you could end up overallocating to buying on dips and not DCA'ing or ONLY DCAing $10 per week and holding $90 for buying on dips,

but then if the dips do not end up coming, then you may well end up wishing that you would have allocated more towards DCA.  Each of us has to figure out our own balances in these regards, including if we might want to be extreme towards one of the practices at the exclusion of the other, and perhaps we end up regretting our choices later, if we end up striking a balance that we feel did not end up working out very well for our situation.
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August 18, 2023, 06:54:53 PM
Its seems good ideas with your planning keep accumulate to reach 1 Bitcoin assets in your portfolio and don't stop for buying back exactly right now another dip coming again. Last night my order have been filled with Bitcoin price around $25,800 and its the best chance for investing with bitcoin in dip price. Almost raise 1 Bitcoin in my portfolio by accumulate every day with not too bigger amount but I don't give u for spending few of my salary to invest in Bitcoin. Looks Bitcoin still on stable around $26,000 have good moment keep accumulate how many possible as our portfolio assets until expecting break out to higher price again one day later.

Well, the plans seem good, I won't say its stable on the 26K because, for a couple of days, we can experience a new tight range of 25 to 26 and I would like to say this can be a good opportunity who still haven't prepared themselves for the halving at least they should not let go this event. Also, i won't say this is a good strategy to follow the accumulation Because on regular accumulation you never wait for the dips like 6% 7% market drop there you need to follow DCA.

As if my Goal is 1BTC accumulation i cant afford 1 and once even I cant afford 25% of it, so there i will prepare my way to constantly accumulate all i can do for more progressive accumulation is i can buy more as if i was buying X$ a week and now market recently took a dip of 6% or 7% i will try to go for 2X or at least 1.5X of regular events.
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August 18, 2023, 04:32:11 PM
This is a good point Dr.Bitcoin_Strange.  Sure, there may well be some advantages in terms of having some flexibilities in terms of where to place BTC buy orders, yet at the same time, we can get misled in terms to figuring out when the down correction is going to either stop or reverse... so time and time again, guys can end up getting way too greedy in terms of thinking that they can figure out a lower bottom and thereby failing to sufficiently/adequately prepare themselves for UP at any given price point, even if they might have ONLY executed a few buy orders between $25.6k (our current low) and $29k-ish (the starting point of our most recent downward breaking).

After one of our conversation when you said you have small percentage of your money set as buy order even below $20k, I actually adjusted my limit orders too to capture the $24k,  $26k and 28k zone where majority of the orders were as I felt price might soar from that zone. I am happy to tapped from your wealth of experience. The recent dip in price have shown me the beauty of flexibility in the market as most of my orders have been filled at much lower prices than it would have been should I had market executed.  Even if no further dips, I'm good now and should there be more dip, I will maximize it as well.

Let the market do what it does...
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August 18, 2023, 03:01:20 PM
Not setting orders when overnight bitcoin fell I bought at $26K it was already a low point and a good "buy the dip" IMO.
I waited for the dip price for a long time but this time due to the market going down, I made an entry at that price, it doesn't matter if you get a buy order at $25.5K but at the price you bought it is enough for me, even though it's not about short-term profits but I want to accumulate to reach 1 BTC a little more, the current hope is maybe 30% for the portfolio to touch 1 BTC.
Its seems good ideas with your planning keep accumulate to reach 1 Bitcoin assets in your portfolio and don't stop for buying back exactly right now another dip coming again. Last night my order have been filled with Bitcoin price around $25,800 and its the best chance for investing with bitcoin in dip price. Almost raise 1 Bitcoin in my portfolio by accumulate every day with not too bigger amount but I don't give u for spending few of my salary to invest in Bitcoin. Looks Bitcoin still on stable around $26,000 have good moment keep accumulate how many possible as our portfolio assets until expecting break out to higher price again one day later.
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August 18, 2023, 03:00:53 PM
Bitcoin crash, don't panic, we are still expecting a buy dip, I will try to enter at the current lowest price.

It's not a problem when the price returns to bearish, it's an opportunity to accumulate more bitcoins at a discount with this we still have time and continue to buy at the lowest price. Take advantage of the situation that exists only for Bitcoin to be a good choice.

You are meant to have set your buy orders while you wait for the dip to go down. One can wait to buy at a lower price, and the market can just begin to recover again. Some weeks ago, I was just giving an example of someone who expected to buy Bitcoin at $25k, but after their desired price was reached, they still decided to readjust the order so they could buy at $23k. It could happen that the price does not drop to the new expected level.
Not setting orders when overnight bitcoin fell I bought at $26K it was already a low point and a good "buy the dip" IMO.
I waited for the dip price for a long time but this time due to the market going down, I made an entry at that price, it doesn't matter if you get a buy order at $25.5K but at the price you bought it is enough for me, even though it's not about short-term profits but I want to accumulate to reach 1 BTC a little more, the current hope is maybe 30% for the portfolio to touch 1 BTC.
Today I read that there might be a trend reversal and bitcoin price might have reversed. I don't know if we can trust these words, but the uptrend has been up all this year, which is not insignificant, considering that the main growth usually happens after the halving. So it could happen that we see a drop before the halving, as it happened in 2020.
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August 18, 2023, 02:53:04 PM
Therefore I don't really target the old age range, I target young people, adults and at least those generations where the Internet existed when it was born.
No doubt, Bitcoin resonate more with younger people... this is expected anyways. The Internet generation will always love anything Internet related so it will be easier communicating with them in this regard. Nevertheless, I know a handful of elderly that have interest in Bitcoin... but it is not worth wasting time teacher the older generation about Bitcoin unless perhaps the aim is to suggest to them to buy Bitcoin for their heirs which is a wise counsel.
I disagree with this, bitcoin is for everyone, and we need to teach bitcoin to anyone who is interested in bitcoin. It's not fair and disrespectful when you ignore the elders and focus only on the younger ones.

I do not deny that young people will be the future of the country and they are more open to new things. But there are also many elderly people who are always eager to learn new things, and we should not ignore them, should not underestimate the elderly. The future of bitcoin, of the world belongs to the young but don't forget the elders who built this world, and maybe Satoshi is also one of the old generations that created bitcoin for our young generation.

If I remember correctly, on our forum there was also a bitcoiner named Jet Cash and he was over 80 years old. I guess he is the oldest investor we have, but his enthusiasm and faith in bitcoin is many times greater than the younger investors we have.  Bitcoin is for everyone, we should not discriminate and ignore anyone especially older people and poorer people, they have the right to know bitcoin.

I agree with everything that you said Tony116 - yet surely, I think that it remains important to point out that there can be some difficulties in terms of some older people to actually begin to invest into BTC if they cannot have any kind of high confidence of an investment timeline of 4-10 years or longer, and surely, even if they are not able to commit to at least a 4 year investment timeline, that still might not preclude them from investing into bitcoin, but it surely might either affect the level of their abilities to be aggressive in their bitcoin investment but also the amounts that they might even allocate to bitcoin.

I do personally suggest that any newbie is within an acceptable bitcoin starting range if s/he considers a 1-25% allocation into bitcoin (in terms of measuring their overall quasi-liquid investment portfolio assets), and so for example if someone were to consider that 10% would be adequate for themselves to get started into bitcoin; however, if such person is older (maybe 70 or 80 years old?), then they may well have to consider a lower than 10% number - mainly based on the uncertainties within a 4 year timeline, including extreme volatility concerns.. and including that they might need some of their capital to be liquid in much shorter than 4 year timelines..  but still that same person could well still consider a smaller allocation, like 5% or even something lower than that - even though if all things were equal and if they had a longer timeline, they may well be able to justify 10% allocations into bitcoin,

so timeline can surely make a decently BIG difference in terms how anyone my look at their own practical abilities to even invest into bitcoin or how aggressive that they might be able to be, if they do choose to take some kind of a bitcoin stake.

Bitcoin crash, don't panic, we are still expecting a buy dip, I will try to enter at the current lowest price.

It's not a problem when the price returns to bearish, it's an opportunity to accumulate more bitcoins at a discount with this we still have time and continue to buy at the lowest price. Take advantage of the situation that exists only for Bitcoin to be a good choice.
You are meant to have set your buy orders while you wait for the dip to go down. One can wait to buy at a lower price, and the market can just begin to recover again. Some weeks ago, I was just giving an example of someone who expected to buy Bitcoin at $25k, but after their desired price was reached, they still decided to readjust the order so they could buy at $23k. It could happen that the price does not drop to the new expected level.

Although I usually set my buy order before hand, recently I have had no buy order. Just yesterday I saw how the Bitcoin price was behaving, and I decided to set an order to buy at $25,500. Surprisingly, to me, it got executed. Even if the price goes a bit low, at least I took advantage of what I consider a price dip yesterday.

This is a good point Dr.Bitcoin_Strange.  Sure, there may well be some advantages in terms of having some flexibilities in terms of where to place BTC buy orders, yet at the same time, we can get misled in terms to figuring out when the down correction is going to either stop or reverse... so time and time again, guys can end up getting way too greedy in terms of thinking that they can figure out a lower bottom and thereby failing to sufficiently/adequately prepare themselves for UP at any given price point, even if they might have ONLY executed a few buy orders between $25.6k (our current low) and $29k-ish (the starting point of our most recent downward breaking).

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Just being good with technology doesn't automatically mean you'll be good at trading or know what to do with things like bitcoin dips and holding onto it. In 2018, I started learning about designing user interfaces and experiences (UI/UX). Over the next few years, I got jobs where I created websites and mobile apps for different areas. This gave me a chance to work with people all around the world and learn about making products.

In 2021, I met a client who was into something called "web 3" and cryptocurrencies. I worked for them, designing apps and things related to crypto. One of the things I worked on is called "tatspace" and the "tataspace trader bot". This helped me learn about crypto and bitcoin. That's how I got interested in it. Slowly, I started buying some bitcoin with the money I earned from my work, and now I have a small collection of it.

What I'm trying to say is, if you're good with technology, it's a bonus if you're interested in bitcoin. While learning about bitcoin, you won't find the technical stuff too hard, and it won't take you a long time to get used to it and become good at it.

I agree with several of your points, yet I must mention that you surely do not need to cite the whole post, so it is usually better to ONLY cite the portion of the post that you are referring to (rather than the whole post).
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August 18, 2023, 01:36:39 PM
Bitcoin crash, don't panic, we are still expecting a buy dip, I will try to enter at the current lowest price.

It's not a problem when the price returns to bearish, it's an opportunity to accumulate more bitcoins at a discount with this we still have time and continue to buy at the lowest price. Take advantage of the situation that exists only for Bitcoin to be a good choice.

You are meant to have set your buy orders while you wait for the dip to go down. One can wait to buy at a lower price, and the market can just begin to recover again. Some weeks ago, I was just giving an example of someone who expected to buy Bitcoin at $25k, but after their desired price was reached, they still decided to readjust the order so they could buy at $23k. It could happen that the price does not drop to the new expected level.
Not setting orders when overnight bitcoin fell I bought at $26K it was already a low point and a good "buy the dip" IMO.
I waited for the dip price for a long time but this time due to the market going down, I made an entry at that price, it doesn't matter if you get a buy order at $25.5K but at the price you bought it is enough for me, even though it's not about short-term profits but I want to accumulate to reach 1 BTC a little more, the current hope is maybe 30% for the portfolio to touch 1 BTC.
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August 18, 2023, 12:30:11 PM


Therefore I don't really target the old age range, I target young people, adults and at least those generations where the Internet existed when it was born.
No doubt, Bitcoin resonate more with younger people... this is expected anyways. The Internet generation will always love anything Internet related so it will be easier communicating with them in this regard. Nevertheless, I know a handful of elderly that have interest in Bitcoin... but it is not worth wasting time teacher the older generation about Bitcoin unless perhaps the aim is to suggest to them to buy Bitcoin for their heirs which is a wise counsel.


I disagree with this, bitcoin is for everyone, and we need to teach bitcoin to anyone who is interested in bitcoin. It's not fair and disrespectful when you ignore the elders and focus only on the younger ones.

I do not deny that young people will be the future of the country and they are more open to new things. But there are also many elderly people who are always eager to learn new things, and we should not ignore them, should not underestimate the elderly. The future of bitcoin, of the world belongs to the young but don't forget the elders who built this world, and maybe Satoshi is also one of the old generations that created bitcoin for our young generation.

If I remember correctly, on our forum there was also a bitcoiner named Jet Cash and he was over 80 years old. I guess he is the oldest investor we have, but his enthusiasm and faith in bitcoin is many times greater than the younger investors we have.  Bitcoin is for everyone, we should not discriminate and ignore anyone especially older people and poorer people, they have the right to know bitcoin.
Tony you might actually be misunderstanding us a little. We are not disputing the fact that Bitcoin is for everyone because almost all of us in this forum will be super excited seeing Bitcoin sit comfortably in the mainstream and being a legal tender in all jurisdiction of the world.This is our utmost aspiration. We were actually talking with respect to the technology behind Bitcoin. You will agree with me that understanding the technology behind Bitcoin will make one appreciate the entire concept as well as the role of Bitcoin in the future we crave. This understanding is easier for the computer age and the tech savvy guys.

The older guys understand and appreciate Bitcoin more from the angle of investment that is why most of those having a firm grip of Bitcoin holding are the older guys because they know how to build and sustain wealth and so far, Bitcoin have proven to be a good source for that. Besides, computer was not started by our generation... there were computer gurus then and I guess the founder and creator of Bitcoin is not that young. So the resonate we mean is in terms of ease of understanding.

Odohu I think Tony focuses on the point that niara said about a waste of time teaching the older one's bitcoin unless to advise them to invest. And I'm on Tony's side here. You see, our main goal is to make bitcoin widely accepted everywhere, so it becomes a strong and recognized thing globally. So, why would we leave out the older generation?

Now, talking about the technology behind bitcoin, it's important to teach older folks about it. This helps them tell the difference between real opportunities and fake schemes, which keeps their money safe. If they don't know how to use bitcoin wallets or apps, how can they invest? Plus, these wallets and apps are part of the whole bitcoin technology thing. Don't we want them to stay connected in a world that's going digital all the time?
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August 18, 2023, 12:23:54 PM
Holdings is very important in an investor's life, because if we want to achieve anything good, we must hold the holdings. Holding is the key to achieving good things. But before that we must buy at the right time. And the right time to buy is at the Dip. We should all be buy the Dip and holding. If we can buy the Dip, keep holding all the time, we will be able to achieve the highest success of our life.
I agree, holding on tight is the way to benefit in the future, especially when it's bitcoin (I wouldn't recommend it for all coins). Buying at the lowest price of course will always be the best price to buy, but will we really know when the lowest price is touched? in fact many people are still scared when the price of bitcoin touched tens of thousands some time ago.
Well in this case there must be a strategy used, and DCA is a strategy that is widely recommended, including myself doing it. The strategy is one of the answers to this problem.

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August 18, 2023, 12:11:25 PM
....I don't know if you are into computer programming or computer related stuffs because I understand that Bitcoin resonate more with people like that given its technical nature.

I would not characterize myself as much of a techie.. and sometimes the techies get caught up into shitcoins because they find the shitcoins to be more flexible in their programmability.. .. so I am not sure if techies get bitcoin earlier than others, even though they likely have a lot of advantages in terms of understanding ways to protect their stash.. but even some techies can get caught up in their own tech and screw things up which seems to have contributed to how Luke Dasher had ended up losing around 200 BTC last year.
odohu has a point; it was my interest in computers and related tech, specifically distributed computing projects like folding@home and SETI@home, that gave me a head start in bitcoin.

ie back in the day (say 2011/2012), many peeps 1st experience with btc was buying from an exchange (mtgox maybe..) which takes a lot faith and trust in that exchange especially when sending kyc docs or btc to.

so for the 1st few years my coins were basically mined with GPUs (and later fpga) directly.. no exchange used. that alone gives a bit of a head start.. so when btc began gaining value some of us already had some that we had just hodled as really there wasnt much else to do with btc back then..

There's really no way that I can disagree with your assessment that you personally came into bitcoin from more of a techie kind of angle than the way that I ended up coming into bitcoin, and it seems that I pushed back a little harder on Odohu's assertion partially because he seemed to be assuming that the tech-minded folks had advantages in terms of their both getting into bitcoin early and that they would have more readily understood bitcoin in a better kind of way that gave them conviction to mostly HODL rather than overly selling too many coins too soon.


Currently Bitcoin is price of 29K that still much lower than the expected price which still serves as an opportunity for investors.

I would suggest not to get your expectations up too high.  Sure, it is good to consider upside scenarios, but we also should consider both downside and flat scenarios, and it seems to be an unhealthy perspective to consider $29k as if it was "overly suppressed" or some other kind of sentiment like that, even if there might be some truth to it.

Sure, we might be arguing somewhat about semantics because I am likely of a pretty similar conclusion to you in regards to the BTC price being low in light of historical context and in terms of the 200-week moving average, but that does not cause me to take for granted that the next likely step is UP rather than down or sideways.

So surely another way of framing any question regarding where we are at versus where we might be going is to attempt to put bitcoin in a kind of framework while still considering UP as one of the possible directions, but even if you might assign higher odds to up rather than down or sideways, that does not even mean that the higher odds will happen.

So let's say that you assign your odds as follows:  40% up  / 28%  down  and / 32% sideways.. so even if you assign the highest of odds to UPpity, you cannot assume those others to be zero or even lower than they actually are.

Sure, you might come up with different numbers than me.. and sure let's give it a timeframe of within the next year, so we should have both time and price... so what are you going to do?  Are you going to refuse to assign values to the other possible scenarios or just talk about them as if they are zero just because they are lower than what you believe to be the more likely scenario?  whether you are correct or not, that's likely even another question.

but even some techies can get caught up in their own tech and screw things up which seems to have contributed to how Luke Dasher had ended up losing around 200 BTC last year.
Wow this is a mistake someone will rue for a long time. 200 BTC is such a big number. I will not be able to forgive myself if anything close to that happen to me.

One of the ironies in the situation seems to be a bit of a surprise from some folks in regards to the number of BTC that Luke had when he was seeming to continuously pleading poverty, and I am not even suggesting that he was misleading anyone since he is a kind of well known developer who has contributed quite a bit... and so sure, maybe there going to be some seeming contradictions in some situations when some facts might come to be known that seem to conflict with other previously asserted (or maybe previously assumed) facts.

How did this actually happen? Maybe I can learn one or two thing from it.

There are probably some forum threads on the topic.. it seems that I might even be following some of them.. .but I had not seen anything posted recently..

I did a quick google search on the topic, and if you are interested in more then at least this article will give you something to springboard off of..

https://decrypt.co/118231/bitcoin-core-dev-loses-at-least-3-6-million-btc-to-hack 

Some have blamed him for being too arrogant in terms of some of the more basic wallets would have likely given him better security than his own seemingly make-shift systems... and surely he is not being criticized in regards to his technical skills prowess, but there have been assertions that there is some value in terms of various open-source systems receiving more scrutiny than some systems that we might create for ourselves and then not be able to adequately see their vulnerabilities well enough in order to protect ourselves from such vulnerabilities.

odohu has a point; it was my interest in computers and related tech, specifically distributed computing projects like folding@home and SETI@home, that gave me a head start in bitcoin.

so for the 1st few years my coins were basically mined with GPUs (and later fpga) directly.. no exchange used. that alone gives a bit of a head start.. so when btc began gaining value some of us already had some that we had just hodled as really there wasnt much else to do with btc back then..
Glad you confirmed my observation. Your name alone sound techie... pardon me as no offense was intended. People like us that are not deep into computer related stuffs still struggle to make sense of the technical aspect of Bitcoin. We tend to hide when the deep things like entropy, nodes, hash etc are being discussed. Conversely, for someone that is already into programing, Bitcoin will be like home-coming. Well, I guess I will put coding as a future plan... probably when I get some financial stability and get off 9/5 system that is making one work like elephant while eating like ant.

Personally, I have doubts about any kind of rush to necessarily learn things that you might not have the time and/or energies to learn, and sure if you have some chances to learn more technical aspects of bitcoin, then surely there is nothing wrong with that.... but I would not necessarily conclude that it is healthy to get too focused on the trees and thereby end up losing sight of the forest - because their are a whole lot of angles to bitcoin and there are a whole lot of people who still can value greatly from bitcoin without learning how to code or whatever you might speculate to be some kind of a technical barrier and/or handicap that you might have.

Sometimes, I do look to some of the techies to help me to figure out some of the issues, and there frequently be people who have knowledge in one direction who will attempt to lord it over you, and there were several of us who ended up NOT buying into the various techie BIG blocker arguments in 2016/2017/2018 and still sometimes brought up more recently, so there can be value in terms of engaging in critical thinking and sometimes being able to identify when someone is trying to lord your lack of knowledge over you. and sure sometimes I am way out of my league when I make some posts in some of the more techie threads of the forum, and sure sometimes I will still attempt to read some of those threads because sometimes there still can be some useful information that I understand and some technical people do have better ways of framing matters than others and they are not necessarily trying to trick you.

Just being good with technology doesn't automatically mean you'll be good at trading or know what to do with things like bitcoin dips and holding onto it. In 2018, I started learning about designing user interfaces and experiences (UI/UX). Over the next few years, I got jobs where I created websites and mobile apps for different areas. This gave me a chance to work with people all around the world and learn about making products.

In 2021, I met a client who was into something called "web 3" and cryptocurrencies. I worked for them, designing apps and things related to crypto. One of the things I worked on is called "tatspace" and the "tataspace trader bot". This helped me learn about crypto and bitcoin. That's how I got interested in it. Slowly, I started buying some bitcoin with the money I earned from my work, and now I have a small collection of it.

What I'm trying to say is, if you're good with technology, it's a bonus if you're interested in bitcoin. While learning about bitcoin, you won't find the technical stuff too hard, and it won't take you a long time to get used to it and become good at it.
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August 18, 2023, 10:55:09 AM
Bitcoin crash, don't panic, we are still expecting a buy dip, I will try to enter at the current lowest price.

It's not a problem when the price returns to bearish, it's an opportunity to accumulate more bitcoins at a discount with this we still have time and continue to buy at the lowest price. Take advantage of the situation that exists only for Bitcoin to be a good choice.

This period is not a season of i don't know what to do or an avenue to make a serious mistake releasing what you have hodl just because of the bearish market experience we had spontaneously within a day, sometimes it happens that you will have to experience dip for the market to boom up, now that we all that bitcoin is going towards the 2024 Halving should be a ground for as many as possible to have the opportunity of investing and holding, if this is not felt, how are we going to have new investors coming in to partook in the opportunity, there will always be this volatility chance to rise and fall till we get to where we are going, if you have already invested, then keep on holding.
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August 18, 2023, 10:01:28 AM

But we have to realize that each cycle has its own story, even though the movements can be said to be similar.
For now I think it's better to split your monthly DCA funds in anticipation of regretting the continued decline in order to get the Dip price in this month.

Yes, Interesting analysis and reasonable recommendations from you, Yes. DCA is a real solution for a time like this. But, if we pay attention to several trading exchanges, there are also many people playing the short-term type, assuming that they accumulate profits for a while, and if the timing is considered right, then they will enter into the main event buy again. and hodl for the time that is considered maximum.
     
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August 18, 2023, 09:21:05 AM
Holdings is very important in an investor's life, because if we want to achieve anything good, we must hold the holdings. Holding is the key to achieving good things. But before that we must buy at the right time. And the right time to buy is at the Dip. We should all be buy the Dip and holding. If we can buy the Dip, keep holding all the time, we will be able to achieve the highest success of our life.
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August 18, 2023, 06:49:09 AM
Bitcoin crash, don't panic, we are still expecting a buy dip, I will try to enter at the current lowest price.

It's not a problem when the price returns to bearish, it's an opportunity to accumulate more bitcoins at a discount with this we still have time and continue to buy at the lowest price. Take advantage of the situation that exists only for Bitcoin to be a good choice.

You are meant to have set your buy orders while you wait for the dip to go down. One can wait to buy at a lower price, and the market can just begin to recover again. Some weeks ago, I was just giving an example of someone who expected to buy Bitcoin at $25k, but after their desired price was reached, they still decided to readjust the order so they could buy at $23k. It could happen that the price does not drop to the new expected level.

Although I usually set my buy order before hand, recently I have had no buy order. Just yesterday I saw how the Bitcoin price was behaving, and I decided to set an order to buy at $25,500. Surprisingly, to me, it got executed. Even if the price goes a bit low, at least I took advantage of what I consider a price dip yesterday.
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August 18, 2023, 06:19:18 AM


Therefore I don't really target the old age range, I target young people, adults and at least those generations where the Internet existed when it was born.
No doubt, Bitcoin resonate more with younger people... this is expected anyways. The Internet generation will always love anything Internet related so it will be easier communicating with them in this regard. Nevertheless, I know a handful of elderly that have interest in Bitcoin... but it is not worth wasting time teacher the older generation about Bitcoin unless perhaps the aim is to suggest to them to buy Bitcoin for their heirs which is a wise counsel.


I disagree with this, bitcoin is for everyone, and we need to teach bitcoin to anyone who is interested in bitcoin. It's not fair and disrespectful when you ignore the elders and focus only on the younger ones.

I do not deny that young people will be the future of the country and they are more open to new things. But there are also many elderly people who are always eager to learn new things, and we should not ignore them, should not underestimate the elderly. The future of bitcoin, of the world belongs to the young but don't forget the elders who built this world, and maybe Satoshi is also one of the old generations that created bitcoin for our young generation.

If I remember correctly, on our forum there was also a bitcoiner named Jet Cash and he was over 80 years old. I guess he is the oldest investor we have, but his enthusiasm and faith in bitcoin is many times greater than the younger investors we have.  Bitcoin is for everyone, we should not discriminate and ignore anyone especially older people and poorer people, they have the right to know bitcoin.
Tony you might actually be misunderstanding us a little. We are not disputing the fact that Bitcoin is for everyone because almost all of us in this forum will be super excited seeing Bitcoin sit comfortably in the mainstream and being a legal tender in all jurisdiction of the world.This is our utmost aspiration. We were actually talking with respect to the technology behind Bitcoin. You will agree with me that understanding the technology behind Bitcoin will make one appreciate the entire concept as well as the role of Bitcoin in the future we crave. This understanding is easier for the computer age and the tech savvy guys.

The older guys understand and appreciate Bitcoin more from the angle of investment that is why most of those having a firm grip of Bitcoin holding are the older guys because they know how to build and sustain wealth and so far, Bitcoin have proven to be a good source for that. Besides, computer was not started by our generation... there were computer gurus then and I guess the founder and creator of Bitcoin is not that young. So the resonate we mean is in terms of ease of understanding.
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August 18, 2023, 05:02:52 AM
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No doubt, Bitcoin resonate more with younger people... this is expected anyways. The Internet generation will always love anything Internet related so it will be easier communicating with them in this regard. Nevertheless, I know a handful of elderly that have interest in Bitcoin... but it is not worth wasting time teacher the older generation about Bitcoin unless perhaps the aim is to suggest to them to buy Bitcoin for their heirs which is a wise counsel.


I disagree with this, bitcoin is for everyone, and we need to teach bitcoin to anyone who is interested in bitcoin. It's not fair and disrespectful when you ignore the elders and focus only on the younger ones.

I do not deny that young people will be the future of the country and they are more open to new things. But there are also many elderly people who are always eager to learn new things, and we should not ignore them, should not underestimate the elderly. The future of bitcoin, of the world belongs to the young but don't forget the elders who built this world, and maybe Satoshi is also one of the old generations that created bitcoin for our young generation.

If I remember correctly, on our forum there was also a bitcoiner named Jet Cash and he was over 80 years old. I guess he is the oldest investor we have, but his enthusiasm and faith in bitcoin is many times greater than the younger investors we have.  Bitcoin is for everyone, we should not discriminate and ignore anyone especially older people and poorer people, they have the right to know bitcoin.

Since I'm relating it to the age range, let me explain to you why to say it. And what you say is true, but emphasize that I do not discredit parents, so please understand more broadly that what I say is based on the surrounding environment and is stated here. So that when there is no match with your place or the people you know, it's natural. Regardless of old and young, of course I agree, but once again that parents in my area and your area must have a different level of understanding. Generally, parents are more focused on investing in assets that have a low level of risk. Given his old age, think about the benefits of retirement benefits, health insurance, and inheritance.

When referring to certain individuals, I don't think all parents have the same way of thinking or paradigm as the members you mentioned. Different backgrounds will show different results. You should consider this from the start when talking about individuals with their own investment goals. I'm not forbidding parents to invest in Bitcoin, but we also need to be responsible for the advice that will be given to parents who only look at it from a profit standpoint but are not prepared for losses. For example today Bitcoin touched $23K and are parents ready to see their portfolio shrink? then compare it with the stability of low-risk investment assets. whenever parents need funds to pay for health insurance they will not lose too much.

Again, compare it to young people who see a bearish market with a broad mind. They can find information quickly. There are 2 possibilities, namely selling or accumulation and Hodl. It depends on how you think, right?
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August 18, 2023, 04:31:46 AM


Therefore I don't really target the old age range, I target young people, adults and at least those generations where the Internet existed when it was born.
No doubt, Bitcoin resonate more with younger people... this is expected anyways. The Internet generation will always love anything Internet related so it will be easier communicating with them in this regard. Nevertheless, I know a handful of elderly that have interest in Bitcoin... but it is not worth wasting time teacher the older generation about Bitcoin unless perhaps the aim is to suggest to them to buy Bitcoin for their heirs which is a wise counsel.


I disagree with this, bitcoin is for everyone, and we need to teach bitcoin to anyone who is interested in bitcoin. It's not fair and disrespectful when you ignore the elders and focus only on the younger ones.

I do not deny that young people will be the future of the country and they are more open to new things. But there are also many elderly people who are always eager to learn new things, and we should not ignore them, should not underestimate the elderly. The future of bitcoin, of the world belongs to the young but don't forget the elders who built this world, and maybe Satoshi is also one of the old generations that created bitcoin for our young generation.

If I remember correctly, on our forum there was also a bitcoiner named Jet Cash and he was over 80 years old. I guess he is the oldest investor we have, but his enthusiasm and faith in bitcoin is many times greater than the younger investors we have.  Bitcoin is for everyone, we should not discriminate and ignore anyone especially older people and poorer people, they have the right to know bitcoin.
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August 18, 2023, 03:24:12 AM
Personally, I have doubts about any kind of rush to necessarily learn things that you might not have the time and/or energies to learn, and sure if you have some chances to learn more technical aspects of bitcoin, then surely there is nothing wrong with that.... but I would not necessarily conclude that it is healthy to get too focused on the trees and thereby end up losing sight of the forest - because their are a whole lot of angles to bitcoin and there are a whole lot of people who still can value greatly from bitcoin without learning how to code or whatever you might speculate to be some kind of a technical barrier and/or handicap that you might have.
I actually have passion for coding. I have attempted coding when I was in the university but due to the academic workload, which I could not combine with learning new skill, I had to drop coding. After graduation, I started white collar job which also rarely give me time to do any other thing. So, me going back to coding is a kind of passion driven and not necessarily because I want to do it because of Bitcoin.

Oh?  That actually sounds like a good idea, if you are going to do something that you already want to do, and even if bitcoin gives you a further incentive to do it, there is nothing wrong with that, and surely you might be able to figure out some kind of a particular niche for yourself or if you do end up studying the coding, you may well even figure out some various angles that you had never thought about previously and potentially be able to share some of those learnings with forum members or even possibly find some angles to bitcoin that others had not seen (which surely is a higher aspirational level, but it does not hurt to have more people looking at various aspects of bitcoin's code whether it is on the first layer or some higher up layers or perhaps some applications that might need some more eyes upon their code).  
It is actually passion-driven. Some of my happiest days in the university was when I could transform polynomial equation and multi-dimensional matrix into computer programs which I can vary the input data to study the corresponding outputs. We applied this in our school work in modeling different engineering systems. It was fun and fulfilling but short-lived. Well, these were basic programing done with MatLab, Visual Basic and Excel. To make a career in programming, one needed to learn more advanced languages like Java, Python, C++ and more; this I could not do because I had to find a job to survive... that was the reality on ground. Besides, the funding for such adventure was not there as I am not fortunate to come from country where there systems grant students access to academic loans. Had I had any means of surviving for the interim then, I would have pursued a career in coding.

I have not actually jettisoned the idea entirely because the passion is still there. So, it is a matter of time before I start all over again.


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August 18, 2023, 03:05:20 AM
Reason Behind this dump or small dump?

I was awake at the time when BTC crashes in just matter of minutes. (It was night here at that time). I was observing the market and began to think what the reason behind it would be. Then I slept and today I found one article posted on Coin telegraph website which covered 5 reasons that are not 100% accurate or confirmed reasons but it is what it is:

1. Elon's company SpaceX sold a lot of BTC (worth more than 350+ million dollars).
2. Fear of an increment in Interest rate.
3. Some Financial analysist says the bond yield was going up.
4. Devaluation of Chinese Yuan.
5. Some says, market was dumped by whales to enter into ETH, as just after the dump ETH ETF got approved.

To be honest I knew less but after reading such articles i can say i am improving day by day. Here is what I think, Fear of an increase in high interest rate and the yield bonds getting high are related to each other because in BTC there comes volatility but lending money to government do assure them returns at least plus the pressure of High interest rate also encouraged people to put money into government instead of BTC. Devaluation of Chinese yuan already affected the price of BTC once in past in 2015. (Already written in the article). Point is i quite not really understand if they are not adopting BTC like they banned it then how their currency could directly affect the BTC price because back in 2015 they did not ban BTC like they did it now.

Lastly, this ETH shit to buy more ETH they sold BTC. I am not buying this shit but let's say some people do not respect BTC or decentralization they respect money, and they are whales i think so it might be a reason too. Well, i can say one thing for sure that this is just a temporary thing, and we should not panic instead those who have fiat should take entries by doing DCA. Because in the long run BTC is there to stay. One more thing that really excites me back in 2020 the RSI of BTC was same as was today.

I am not seeing at the lowest RSI point (tbh i do not know what that mean is but i will learn about it too) the thing which i noticed is, back then after touching that RSI point BTC consistently went up to the new ATH does it mean now BTC will also go to that point.
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