well here is a nicer gadget. I get zero for it. but it has mined non stop since last December.

and it gives me nice prices. Color green for up and red for down.

Actually, i'm a bit torn (wait, when am i actually not torn a bit?) about the idea to hook up 1 256 character oled display, which i happen to have lying around, to a raspberry PI3 for a bitcoin ticker, but i also fell in love with that "pihole" procject, which is a DNS server inside my LAN that filters requests to ads and malware...
What makes it more complicated is that i only have one idle PI3 and the oled display was intended for building a Eurorack module (for community sale), but i'd need to design and order a front panel for it, which i am procrastinating since a couple of years now.
First world problems  

EDIT: My hardware supplier (at work) ran out of stock yesterday, so i had to stop working (too much and too fast, lately anyway) until Monday.
Expect some more on- and offtopic garbage from me within that timeframe  
Not looking for excuses (yet)  


You're welcome.
But i'd rather call them suspicions. As said, for reasons, and historical bias (also for reasons).

EDIT: We have a lot of Newbie shitposters in here as the times were going on. This is why some of us are more suspicious about Newbies than the rest. Some call them by the reason they are mostly here for: "Merit whores". After all those scammers, spammers and beggars before the sMerit system was established.
I went down that route too, i was a Newbie myself and every ounce of respect you get in the WO is not earned easily. I wasn't delighted, i felt unwelcome at times, but today i know why, despite i'm some of the worst when it comes to social regards. Just sayin.

All in all, it will do a great job because everyone is starting to understand -

Bitcoin is a trap,,,

It pushes you to save.

It forces you to learn.

It makes you question everything.

It teaches you to protect your money.

It forces you to learn how to make a profit by protecting your wealth from inflation.

So is it a trap or not, yes, I, as a small ant, like to fall into such traps.
You might not feel bad about falling into such traps.

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Powel left the door open for an interest rate cut at the Fed’s September meeting. While not definitive, the shift in tone reflects concern over weak job growth and growing downside risks .

By the way if a guy is already weekly buying of BTC, then he is already likely to catch many dips, and he can also manually execute his weekly buys to potentially increase his chances of getting some level of dip, even though it can sometimes be difficult to completely get the dip.. and in the long run, it may not matter too much about whether guys are buying dips or not as long as they are regularly buying they may well end up in a better position rather than trying to figure out dips and maybe lapsing into waiting strategies rather than buying strategies.. but sure, yeah, guys gotta figure out these balances for themselves in terms of how much of one thing or another might help them to feel more comfortable with what they are doing.. and yeah, it does feel good to make your weekly $100 buy at $113k rather than at $116k, even though maybe it is not going to make a whole hell of a lot of difference in the whole scheme of things beyond just making you feel a little better for a short period of time.
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I agree with all of your suggestions and to be honest, I've not lost any money from the trading side but of course trading can't be comparable to long term accumulation and holding of Bitcoin that most of us do as investors. However, I've made my mind that 50% is for investment and 50% is for trading, and to be honest I've been enjoying that approach because with trading 50% I make profits from time to time and with the rest of the 50% I'm increasing my stash.

Although, at one point I'll surely consider to increase my investing level to 70% or even to 80% but as of this time 50% is okay for my needs. It's like saving, investing, trading, DCAying, and dip buying approach and to be honest this has helped me a lot and I'm quite satisfied from this approach as of this time. I would say again that there's no alternative of long term holding when it comes to Bitcoin, only those who hold for long term will make the most money from that type of holding. But, for me the present time of my life matters as well and that's the reason why I'm into trading.

Let's say if my 50% for trading is around $15k to $25k and I make 5-10% from each dip then that's more than enough for me to keep my current money and enjoy sometime with the short term profits. Let's say if I get around $1500-$2500 in profit with that approach without losing my initial capital then that's good income to enjoy a month or two. While, adding more to it with DCA would surely increase it as well overtime and at the same time my Bitcoin stash is also growing slowly. Whatever I buy with 50% of money during major dips will always be for long term holding, and no matter if price moves to $150k or even $300k I won't be selling that 50% which's into Bitcoin.

I find it so surprising when I see people so eagerly "buying the dip" and feeling so happy about it, when the price drops a bit.

So, let's say one has $1000 and he "buys the dip" ($112k) ---> 0.0089 BTC.
And then there's OG Saylor who "buys now, whatever the price" ($117k) ---> 0.0085 BTC.

Then Bitcoin goes to $1M.

"Buy the dip" guy: $8900
OG Saylor: $8500

Is $400 so important in a $7500+ profit?

I think the best advice for no-/low-coiners is to "buy when you can, market price, whatever the price, don't wait for a dip (which may never come)".

Worked fine for me.

Any of you guys that want in on the MFL FF league this year pop in and lock up a spot.

All regulars welcome, no nubs.

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