you can do trading to make some profits thoughout the months, and you can have a certain amount of coins aside as a long term investment. you don't need to choose between one of the two when you can combine them both for maximum profits. this is what i have been doing since i started with seriously investing in bitcoin back in 2014.

for the average joe stability is a great thing because that's exactly what they are looking for. i personally wouldn't mind some sort of stability, but as a trader i also like the times where the volatility takes over the market.

you can do long and short term investments in the same time. i do exactly that. i am holding my coins for the long term, and in the mean time i entertain myself with trading against the volatility. that way i can benefit from both without having to choose for one of the two.

if you store all your coins offline in your own control, and don't make use of online wallets and exchanges to store your coins, then no one can freeze your coins or tell you what to do with them. there is no interference from anyone. it's just you and your coins.

nothing beside having a chat with him. i will make sure his identity remains unknown by not letting anybody know who i managed to find. i think that's fair enough.

there is no need to think about this. governments will never allow something to take over that is capable of bringing their economy in danger. they will never allow bitcoin to come close to banks or any other fiat currency. at that moment governments will come in action to push bitcoin back as far as possible.

he has $20k for investment purposes. so i think it's quite safe to assume he also has his savings alongside the $20k he is looking to invest. but yes, holding and trading are great options. holding is more for people not willing to take the risk of investing it.

gold is for people always the safest option. especially because of the fact that a lot people see gold as some sort of safe haven. another important aspect for the average person is that with gold you own something physical. i quite often hear that they can't hold bitcoin in their hands, and thus it's not real money to them. very weird.

not sure from which countries you guys are coming, but here in the netherlands i don't have any problems with atm's at all. the only error i once have seen in the news, was that atm's were giving out much more money than people were initially withdrawing.

and once you're moved, and the free country you moved to suddenly also puts all kinds of restrictions (ban) regarding bitcoin usage, will you move again? in my case, i would simply rent myself a vps and do my bitcoin related stuff from there.

you don't have to seize someone's private key in order to steal people's coins. you connecting to an unknown wifi network is enough for someone to have access to your device, and send your coins to one of his addresses. and this is just one common reason of how people get robbed while they don't know it.

you know what the best thing of this all is? there is absolutely no need to choose between these two options since you can use both at the same time without any problems.

bitcoin in its current form functions extremely well the way we use it. in that aspect there is basically no need for bitcoin to replace anything. especially because it's simply not realistic to think bitcoin has even a slight chance to replace any fiat currency. people should stop hoping for this to happen. it's a waste of time.

depending on what kind of efforts you are doing to gain 0.01btc per day, it's not that bad at all. it basically means that if you are having a month full of bad days, that you earn around 0.3btc in that time. i think that's quite impressive.

you shouldn't be comparing the current price with how it was years ago. the current situation is a whole lot different. back then when the price was much higher than right now, it was a bubble that was about to burst. at the moment we seem to have managed to go up in a sustainable manner that suits us all. and that's what you should be looking at.

saving money to have some money aside for when you really need it is a good thing, but saving in order to gain a little bit of interest is basically a waste of time. that's why it's always a good thing to spread things. i say have at all times your fiat percentage sitting at 50%, and with the other part you can do trading, or invest it in something you think is a good investment.

in some cases art can be a more than decent store of value tool, but only a very small number of people are interested in art as an investment/store of value. gold is a much more preferred option compared to art.

the corruption will most likely prevent bitcoin from getting its foots on their territory. if bitcoin implemented well enough, it can definitely have a decent contribution towards giving people a better future and such. but the corruption in these countries don't want that to happen. everything they do, is done in their own interest, and not in the interest of the citizens.

this just shows that even in the early days you should never store coins in an exchange. but still, people don't seem to have learned anything as certain people use exchanges as a long term way of storing coins. that's just stupid. it really makes me think whether or not they know what they are doing. probably not...

getting rich is definitely not an easy task. but people shouldn't have their focus pointed at getting rich. especially because the majority of the people don't even have 1btc. in order to be rich, or to get rich in the future, you'll need hundreds of coins. one or two coins don't make it.