If all those people want just 1 bitcoin the pump would be huge because there just isn't the supply of 100k bitcoins on coinbase for under say 25k - 50k price.

Not the drug dealers on silk road though as many of them did just as good.  If you think some of their daily orders to ship for an average seller was a few BTC. If they held any decent of % btc they took for orders i doubt they are having to deal drugs right now.

No thats not correct, take a look at the numbers again.  I know for tier 3 alone they have $200k limit per month and $25k per day. Tier 4 is for high end mega rich customers.

If they make all these things nice and easy for everyone to dump then the price goes to zero.  They want to make sure they've dumped their coins first and then we get to dump later lol.

Kraken you can get tier 4 verification and i think the limits go up to like 200k deposit and withdraws etc but you have no GBP only EURO.  You could try an exchange like coinfloor which is UK specific but hey i've never used them and i never got a answer from their support when i asked a question.

If you panic you rely on luck since your emotions block your rationality.  Does mean you cant make good trade though, i panic sold all my ltc for btc back a month ago and it worked out pretty good.

Have you got an actual withdraw sat waiting or site errors are not letting you put it through? all i can say is i continue to have very decent experience moving funds in and out of kraken.  I've not had a problem yet so dont know how that might go.  However maybe you should consider the volume of people they might be dealing with right now is huge.

OP can chargeback any trade if buying with paypal like you say, he has zero risk buying bitcoin from anyone with that protect. You can try localbitcoins also and see if anyone is willing o trade but no doubt they will want your details incase.

Since paypal is basically ebay owned and not accepted at amazon it does make sense they might incorporate a crypto as a way to attack paypal. Maybe they will launch amazon coin we will see.

Its not just the news though bud, we had good news at like $300 dollars about microsoft and paypal etc but the price only went to $500 - $600. Fundamental forces are at play when we get a big move like this.

Mostly its supply and demand with the supply limited by 50% each halving we see a move in the bitcoin price a few months after.  This move is still initiated originally by the halving.  But overall its an idea for money which is much needed in the world, the blockchain provides much utility which we've not experienced before.

Just investing and hodling doesn't take too much work these days. Maybe a few weeks research and time learning.  Years ago you had to become more of an expert but now there are greater options with exchanges and wallets.

I can just see that 1 trillion market cap post on reddit in the future comin.  Probably the 2020 halving should do it unless we go totally crazy now.  Gold is 7 trillion so i think is reasonable to think 1 trillion is attainable.

They wanted to bring down or control the internet but that never worked out.  The gov can cause some damage but the whole gov idealogy is only strong to a point. I dont think they can stop true change over years/decades, they never have.

Kraken sends an email but its not a click to confirm withdraw one etc.  It just tells you withdraw is happening and to stop into you have o take action. What they do though is not allow any withdraw address to be added unless confirmed via email.  The OP is saying his email got hacked though so would not have saved him.

I find it hard to understand why coinbase would have it so if you reset your password there is no 2FA?  Most other exchanges block you from doing stuff after a password reset not lessen your security and give you more freedom. Never used coinbase so dont know.

I see it more as becoming redundant if we progress with AI technology as predicted at some point the need to transact in money of any kind would have little meaning to a form of super AI which would be able to organise world resources in superior ways. AI likely would collaborate with other AI almost instantly. Trade happens now because people disagree, money is needed for trade.

Most people are not good tradings, please dont anyone go fooling themselves that they can actually trade without a decent track record of high volume trading. It you are sat with some funds waiting to buy and sell on news that is possible for most people though.

I like the idea of a well researched investment into a HYIP as it could in theory be +ev but straight up gambling where its -ev seems like you would be better off working at mcdonalds and just banking everything into bitcoin.

Would suggest you ignore alts right now and put half your BTC fund in right now incase price goes to $10k - if it did you could then sell the half and wait and see from there.  Incase price goes down you just put in the other half fiat fund and you get more bitcoin overall.  This is a strategy i sometimes use when buying back in.