1/ If you are angry with the #bitcoin and/or "crypto" dump, stop looking for someone to blame.
If you traded a highly volatile market with leverage and were stopped out, that is your fault.
If you overextended yourself and are underwater, that is your fault.
2/ The #bitcoin people I know always recommend the same:
- Don't invest what you can't afford to lose
- Have a multi-year timeframe
- Trading is hard and risky
- Consider DCA
- Leverage is dangerous
- Shitcoins are also risky
Buy spot and hold securely is the best advice.
3/ #bitcoin is an attempt to destroy the power of the cancer of central banks. It is attacked constantly:
- Weak journalists
- Regulatory actions
- Disinformation from morons
- Bitterness from those who didn't buy
The market reacts constantly.
4/ The price you pay for bull market gains is volatility.
If you gamble then this is entirely your fault. 12 years of #bitcoin history is out there, the cycles look very similar.
If 200% annual return isn't enough then have a word with yourself.
5/ There is a reason why hardened #bitcoiner handle corrections like a boss, because they are usually for the benefit of the network...a priority over their personal gains.
Elon sells? Good, his influence is gone.
Chinese miners gone? Good, narrative of centralisation is dead.
6/ Stop blaming others and get your shit together. Reassess your strategy, decide whether this market is for you.
There are thousands of people out there offering the same solid advice, ignore it at your own risk.
1/ Dear @elonmusk. The perfect troll is one where people don't know whether it is a troll or not. Your recent poorly informed criticism of #bicoin + support for Doge may be the perfect troll...or you might actually believe this (God I hope not).
2/ Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant right now, the implications are in play, and there are two specific ones I want to discuss:
a) Doge investors will get rekt
b) You are increasing the workload of Bitcoiners
I am not the smartest bitcoiner but I will do my best.
3/ Doge is a meme, a joke, it has no real developers and long-term serves little purpose beyond coin-flipping.
The blocksize debate is over. Bitcoin is the only meaningfully decentralised cryptocurrency serving to solve problems caused by central banking.
2/ Let's start with your subtitle "This is virtual money with a real carbon footprint."
#bitcoin isn't virtual money, money in computer games is virtual. #bitcoin is as much money as dollar bills, gold or cigarettes in prison.
3/ This pejorative use of "virtual money" implies it has less meaning that other forms of money. This is obviously false to those people who save or transact in #bitcoin.
I have just listened to your podcast for the @guardian regarding #bitcoin. You open by saying you first wrote about #bitcoin seven years ago yet you keep recycling false narratives.
2/ Would you like to do a follow up where someone who understands #bitcoin can respond to your criticism?
I assume as a responsible journalist your goal is to ensure you keep to the code of practice of ethical journalism, including "Accuracy and standards for factual reporting"
3/ I operate a popular #bitcoin podcast and would be able to assemble the right candidates to help you with this.
The result would be that you could release a new podcast for your listeners which is balanced and fair.
I've just read Andrew's interview regarding #Bitcoin for @thisismoney, where he says digital currencies will fail as businesses, consumers and regulators look for digital currencies which are "stable, safe and well-designed."
2/ I think Andrew does not understand why #bitcoin is so successful.
Firstly #bitcoin is stable, safe and well designed.
The best part is the design of its monetary policy, a design which is a response to the policies of central banks such as the @bankofengland.
3/ Let's look at your Twitter profile as a reference point, where you state you work to ensure:
- Low inflation
- A stable financial system
The reason people like I hold #bitcoin is that low inflation is not enough, with #bitcoin we are targeting no inflation.
tl;dr
- Traded $32k to $1.2m
- Thought I was a genius
- Made poor investments
- Didn't conserve capital
- Peaked at 150 BTC
- Lost nearly all of it
2 weeks from losing my house + no income. Oops.
3/ I am going to assume you are in it for the money rather than the tech. Yeah, you might Tweet about the amazing blockchaining of cross-border payments and oracles yadda yadda...really, you are in it to make money.
If you are really in it for the tech, go and build something.
Dear @TuvaluGov, it was just announced that you will embark upon a project to become the world's first paperless society using Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV).
I am sure you have spoken to Mr @CalvinAyre about this project, I have attached a picture to jog your memory.
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Perhaps you do not know too much about Mr Ayre or his colleagues, I have attached some links for you.