Hello everyone I'm new here.
Please what are  the fastest ways to learn about bitcoin? and how can a software development student meaningfully contribute to the forum?

If this is a new way to get merits, people are desperate about the merit system, I hope that it is an attempt to share *another amazing Bitcoin payment story*

I saw many videos for people who used bitcoin only to travel, but they were well planned visit with an additional balance of the dollar, which was transferred from Bitcoin to Cash.
So it is possible if the trip is well planned.

Sometimes someone invites his friends to play gambling and they both experience the same defeat. His friend could blame that person for asking him to gamble and causing him to lose. This has often been encountered and not infrequently ends with the breakup of the friendship. But they both know what the risks of gambling are and can accept whatever the outcome is, they won't blame each other and can even keep laughing while lamenting their defeat. This requires maturity on the part of a person to know that anything he does in gambling can cost him money.

OP worded it poorly. From the looks of it, they merely sold their bitcoins for cash so this isn't about merchants accepting bitcoin as a payment. In fact, last I heard Thailand banned it and I haven't seen any retractment of statement, see: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-ban-use-digital-assets-payments-april-sec-2022-03-23/

Each casino have their own system but as a responsible gambler you must be aware about the system otherwise you can't shift the blame on casino.They have set terms which you accept so it's mandatory according to them but we are ignoring it on our part but yes we should make ourselves aware about it.

I'm sorry to be rude, but you are a newbie account without any trust list, and therefore we cannot trust what you are trying to say, just as the link that you are trying to provide does not indicate anything.

There are many P2P trading platforms, you can ask him to create an account there like Bisq.

Almost 99% of investors want to deposit today, tomorrow they will become sultans.  Actually it can't be like that.  It could be possible that tomorrow it will be a loss and the next day it may still be a loss.

If we have lost, we have to pivot, analyze again, find out why, where did it go wrong, what is the future.  Not if the loss is already screaming scam, blaming people who give "advice", following influence etc.

What we have to understand first is that there is no investment today, tomorrow you will become a sultan. Even next year or in 10 years, you will not necessarily become a sultan.  Warren Buffet alone only returns 29% per year.  And that means if we invest $10k, it will only be $12.9k next year, not immediately becoming sultan.  Warren Buffet became a sultan because of consistent profits for decades. The key is patience, discipline and consistency in making investment decisions.  Warren Buffet never loses?  Of course, in 2015 Warren Buffet lost $444 million in Tesco shares.

Taking this loss as a good learning path to his career,

so instead of changing trainer better to try finding what's lacking him and adjust to be more prepared in case he will face another fighter with the same level as Tank or possible if a rematch may take place.

Improving needs time and it will be a good timing for him and Goosen to work it out and try to focus and stay
with what's the fight plan if in case he tries using his own strategy.

Yes, investing in bitcoin might not be guaranteed but the risks are actually minimized as bitcoin is already a decade long and has been proven throughout the years compared to the other coins that got more risks as most of them are centralized. Altcoins are also good investments but we need to be careful from choosing which altcoin should we include in our portfolio because there dozens of them which are just too good to be true.

Of course, if a well-known brand acts as the organizer or sponsor of the event, then there is no doubt about the honesty of the winner's choice. But we most often see that such an organizer is an unknown company that does not even have its own website, so you should not expect an honest distribution of the prize fund.

Banks is collapsing same as fiat. Bitcoin is the number choice to escape inflation in fiat. I think Bitcoin will pump more in the following weeks due to the bank and inflation crisis on US.

Staking when price fall you just buy more and put in to staking once price goes up you don't need to sell it you continue to staking so after u earn more.
The new feature on exchangers the EARN could be one of the best ways to earn income some of them Even no lock up or little as 14 days.
No liquitation risk and you sleep well newbie friendly method..instead of trading off course If you know what you doing trading good Also but staking Are great one.

I saw that 1 BTC was allocated as the main prize of the contest, but I do not know how honestly the results are summarized and indeed this bitcoin is transferred to the winner. It is more realistic to get a Bitcoin particle through a faucet, but this is too small a part, which is measured in cents.

The solution will be for all politicians to declare the donations or funding of their campaigns. This should be enforced and total transparency should be applied to make sure that things like this does not happen.

The problem is this... the politicians make the laws and they protect their own interests. So you should vote for politicians that can change the laws to protect the people. (This is not easy .... because most politicians are corrupt) 

But lowering their budget each time seems to be showing that they are starting to doubt the capacity of their advertising that they are gathering enough money from bitcointalk users to break even their expenses from paying their participants.

so maybe their past process are changing slowly and maybe we will find them stopping their collaboration also in bitcointalk in the coming days.
and I believe that this will happen in the sooner time.

Hype do come and go and on the time the hype settles down then this is where correction do happen and on the time that you got fomo then you would really be finding yourself get stuck on the peak price which you might be holding for a very long time until the price would be hitting up your position, but if not then it would really be that ending up holding
some shitcoins forever.

Given the fact that these tasks for you to earn some bitcoin is a fact, there's still no guarantee that those accumulated bitcoins to be withdrawable. History, even until today shows that bunch of these websites are frauds.
So, the time and effort you exerted to do certain task (although it's not that much) has a high possibility to be wasted.
Because of that, I think it would be better to avoid it at all.

It was just a rumor because anytime that Elon do make out some tweet about a certain coin then it would really be making out some pump. Remember about tweeting
about some UFO icon as far as i remember on which the price of coin did really soar up high and people make out some predictions and assumptions that Elon might be holding up this kind of coin. Next on the time that he had tweet about DOGE then it do soar up and then after that which Dog named coins is soaring up high which is something not that shocking considering this market is really that highly reactive when it comes to news and sentiments specially if it do comes from Elon.

Yes, Ryan Garcia doesn't need to fret about this fight because after all, it's not a total loss on his side because there's an experience which he learned from it. That same experience will be his guide and be the reason to step up his fight even more to be more unpredictable because Tank Davis literally exposed him. Being strong is not about being undefeated, it is about how you stand up after you stumble.

Nonetheless, Ryan Garcia somehow improved on that fight like his defense has been improved wherein his past fights, you can't see him really guarding himself because he was too focused giving the offensive strikes. But even that is not enough to take on Gervonta Davis, better luck next time.

Yeah, perhaps. Altcoins are always too risky to be held for long-term, no matter how famous or trusted they are at the moment of buying, you can never really know if you are ever going to get even an ROI after investing in an altcoin. As you said, even some of the coins that used to be in the top 10 are now struggling to reach a good price point.

Those who are to invest in altcoins should always check their history and how they have been doing for the past couple of years at least, if a token is new, it's better to avoid it, but if it's old, a bit of research before the investment should do well.