These two ideas are not contradictory though. As a matter of fact, in order for bitcoin to be money it has to be store of value as I pointed out earlier. This means bitcoin has to be an investment too if it wants to be money.

The real question is: what difference would that have made if he knew that? Could he have designed bitcoin in a different way to prevent volatility? The answer is no, it would not have made any difference and the design would have been the same. So knowing or not knowing it is not important.

Besides, I personally believe that this volatile price is just a phase. It may last another 5 to 10 years to reach mass adoption and stability but stable value (not price) is going to be the final result after mass adoption. After all Bitcoin is still pretty young and in its initial phase.

Musk never cared about bitcoin or its energy consumption or the environment for that matter. All he cared and still cares about is more power and more money. He started making positive statements about bitcoin because he thought he could influence the market and make a profit, and similarly he reversed his position and started spreading FUD because he again thought he could influence the market and make profit. Same as his involvement with shitcoins such as Dogecoin.

Besides, I don't even think people would even use the bitcoin payment option even if they wanted to buy Teslas
Bitcoin is much too valuable to exchange for a car. It's not like they are cheap either, you'd have to pay 2-5 bitcoins!

Even if you had better hardware in your PC I'd say it is not the best time to mine altcoins because these days altcoins are mostly dumping and for mining altcoins to be most profitable you want the pump season where they go higher as they get pumped and most importantly you have a larger number of choices that you can switch to each time one of them stops pumping.

It is slightly more complicated than that since you'll have to store all those addresses and also update/expand your list of 50 addresses each time you want to add a new address of your own. For example add 10 random addresses for each address of your own.
You are also forgetting that people use the web interface (not the API) to check their addresses and checking 50+ addresses manually is a very hard and time consuming process!

Besides, why go through this much trouble when there are easier ways...

Unlike this one, other cases similar to it are always a bug in the platform. For example I believe it was Coinbase a couple of years ago in 2017 where Ethereum buy order book was wiped clean and some orders are extremely low prices were filled. Later they reversed all those orders and ended the celebration of those few.

This is the same "global shuffle" I talked about 1-2 years ago, of course back then I mainly focused on the energy field (customers changing, etc.) but it is happening in all aspects globally like geopolitics.

As the Old World Order dies, a vacuum is create where everyone will try to take "their piece of the cake of power". For example over the past decade China is trying to become the new US while India is trying to become the new China. This is exactly why China has been moving into high tech productions and becoming a more serious player globally in matters other than economy while India has been doing what China did 30-40 years ago by getting closer to the West trying to reap the rewards while they can since the West is once again desperate for "allies" just like they were back when the World Order before the last was changing (US vs USSR where China got close to US to reap the rewards and grow).
This is also the reason why we saw India attend G20 like this while China is no longer enthusiastic enough about it.

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As for the One Road One Belt thing, the Indian relations and any future trade routs is not going to go against the Chinese thing. You have to consider that the amount of goods to be transferred is too massive to only rely on "one route" not to mention that India is already connected to and will use a lot of the same routes.

I believe the best way to describe Satoshi's intention for bitcoin is to say he wanted to create "money". Of course we have to know the fine line between money and currency. To put simply, money is a currency that is also store of value. In this world we have no money, everything we have like fiat is a currency.
Bitcoin comes close because of its finite supply but it is still too volatile to be counted as money. But it definitely has the potential to become money.

To be fair you should try to keep such papers as short as possible. It's just a very short abstract trying to introduce the main idea behind Bitcoin. Including details such as time between blocks being 10 min on average is too much information whereas pointing out PoW and the general idea behind it is enough.

That's why it is called "analysis" not "foolproof". It's a matter of probability, for example if you and only you check addresses A, B and C multiple times in a month then someone else checks address B once, there is a good chance that all A, B and C belong to you and not the other person.

Another matter that should not be overlooked is the fact that they now know there is a link between A, B and C even if they don't know the real IP address (ie. using VPN).

To be fair you are not disagreeing with the warning you were given. Your statements are correct but they are about security and have nothing to do with privacy. Privacy is about your identity, the list of addresses you own which also includes your total balance and being able to link these two together.

When you visit a blockchain explorer, the owners of that site can create a link between your identity (IP address, browser finger print, etc) and the address you checked there. Eventually they can build a database which would determine which addresses belong to you and how much bitcoin you own.

Technically an altcoin that copies bitcoin is a "fork" not a "hard fork".
Hard or soft are the characteristics of the forks done inside the same blockchain/project where you also remain in that chain after the fork is done. Otherwise if it becomes a separate chain it is an altcoin which can be created through both soft and hard fork. For example right now you can introduce version 3 witness program rules (which is a soft fork) but create an altcoin by forking off to a separate chain.

True but if they've accepted KYC, one should wonder what else they have also accepted and have done to the browser. Besides as I said it's not like there is a lack of good other open source browsers that people can use to improve their privacy.

Technically when you perform a hard fork you can change anything you like including old blocks. For example the hard fork that the shitcoin called Etherum had some years ago effectively modified the older blocks. There have also been some shitforks of bitcoin which modified the chain, allowed spending of old unmoved coins and things like that.

Brave browser guys ruined the whole project the day they decided to become regulated and started enforcing KYC on their users. This means as long as there are decent open source and very popular browsers such as Firefox, there is no reason to use something like Brave!

Although studying the charts (ie. the history) is a good idea but you should not think that it is always repeating. That's because bitcoin price is affected by a lot of things. For example these days we have the recession that has been keeping the price down then on top of that because a lot of countries like US are increasing interest rates, that sucks all the money out of all other markets like bitcoin into US bonds and stuff like that hence preventing bitcoin rise.

In the upcoming halving we have the interest rate stagnation where they can't increase it any more or if they do, it won't have the desired effect. That means we have two reasons for big rises that won't stop that easily like previous halving rallies.
On top of that as the inflation in US rises with interest games failing, it would act as another fuel for the bitcoin rocket to the moon...

The problem is that the scammer is bullying different individuals while exploiting the legal system. These two points you made here are not going to change that because people could already use a VPN or a mirror to get the whitepaper or just never read it (who said you need to also read the whitepaper when adopting bitcoin?!). And also even if Satoshi signed a message and published it on the internet is not going to help at all. He has to come forward and go to the court to battle the scammer! That means revealing his identity (same for Cobra) and it is not going to happen.

Not because of scarcity (since bitcoin supply is always increasing) but because of less new-sell-pressure as miners will have less income and they will be able to sell less freshly mined coins in the market.

Bitcoin price rise actually leads to altcoin dumps but what altcoin trades hope for is that as bitcoin starts rallying it will attract a lot of capital, some part of that capital can also go into the altcoin market and help pump some of the shitcoins they are bag holding.

Changing some bits in a possibly compromised key will only make the hacker's work harder not impossible, specially since you said it here, and it may also be something other "victims" did too, the hacker can easily write a loop to check in the same vicinity!

Being a little paranoid when it comes to security is not bad, but too much paranoia is not healthy either.
You can easily use an open source software which you can check its code and compile yourself; considering you know some python it shouldn't be that hard for you to check out Electrum source.
If that's not enough, check out how you could generate a key using coin flips or a die.

This is the part you have misunderstood.

The transaction fees are paid to purchase a portion of the finite space in a bitcoin block.
So when your transaction size (meaning in bytes not in value) is bigger you need to purchase a bigger portion of the block size which means paying a higher fee.
Similarly when there are more "demand" for that finite space than there is space, a competition is formed and people start "outbidding" each other hence the fees go up.

Exactly, there are already lots of news about domestic disturbance very similar to this case here that have nothing to do with bitcoin. We are going to see a lot more due to the increased economic hardship around the world too. But when bitcoin is involved the propaganda machines start getting active and choose it to spread FUD trying to slow down the adoption which they are too afraid of.