There is no singular form of manipulation, it could happen in various ways;
• Pump and dump: here a whale buys up a large amount of a small cap asset and moves the price up, attracting investors. When more people start to buy at that price, they dump,
• News and media can also be used to manipulate trader sentiment. Social media influencers are now becoming more popular to shill projects,
• Governments can also manipulate the market with policies they adopt.

Bitcoin as the most popular and adopted  cryptocurrency is somewhat inoculated from the effects of manipulation. It's mostly unrewarding and expensive to attempt.

Technology is the currency of now and the future, if a country has a healthy community base who are highly skilled in Tech and E-commerce, they would have many of the leading industries in those fields, bringing in revenue from other countries around the world.
This is one reason nations around the world are investing in education.

Freelancing is a broader blanket, involving so many skills besides those which are tech related.

Bitcoin is quite common for use on sport betting platforms.
There are so many casino games out there which use Bitcoin as well as some other cryptos to facilitate bets.

Head over to the gambling section and you will find a number of such platforms there.

YouTube channels say whatever for the views.
In reality, majority of crypto users do not care about their privacy or desire to keep their financial transactions away from he eyes of the government - "if you're not doing anything wrong you don't need to hide".
The minority users who value their privacy would avoid centralized exchanges and stick to decentralizated, P2P ones to avoid the regulations that come with CEX.

Care to tell how?

Yes, promoted multiple projects in the past and learnt a lot from them, but would be difficult to describe that in a few words.

• First advice is not to invest solely based on marketing. The actual product is the value of a project and is more important,
• If you like the product, you then scrutinize the marketing strategy. There are projects which prioritize quantity over quality; such projects would encourage numerous spam posts about them around the forum (and internet), in the hopes that it gets them some traffic and users.
This is more common on social platforms like YouTube and Twitter, with bots promoting several projects multiple times, sometimes in the same comment section,
• Customer response is also an important aspect of customer relations. Do not only check out how a project tries to announce themselves to new users, also check how the interact with existing ones.

A giant Panda is a bear, so your NFTs would be promoting the bear market, just kidding. But mroe seriously, the Bitcoin centric part of the forum would not care for a forum themed NFTs, or any NFT for that matter. There are definitely members who see value in it and associate with them, but do not expect a wide spread interest if you did create some.

Basing them off "ethereum improvements"? It frankly would have been much better if they actually were inspired by the bear market.

No, you didn't.
And the reward has nothing to do with more people joining the network, it's a protocol in the system; every 210,000 blocks, the coinbase reward is halved and it is currently at 6.25BTC. You might want to correct the OP.

Use of Bitcoin does not reduce cost of living. Bitcoin barely impacts the economy of a Nation, and cannot directly impact the life of holders, simply cause they hodl.

The number 2 point is the most practical. But Bitcoin is already very popular, and I would not be expecting a demand shock due to increased population, which happens gradually overtime.

Bitcoin does not create new jobs either.

Outdated figures.
The current coinbase reward on each completed block is 6.25BTC.
It stopped being 25 after the halving in 2016.

The difficulty level can increase or decrease with each difficulty adjustment, depending on how the hashrate increases or decreases.
The average time was always designed to be 10 minutes for each block.

This is a reach in my opinion. Bitcoin is barely being adopted by the approximately 8 billion people on Earth now. And of those who have adopted it, it's not utilized much for purchases of daily needs. An increase in population, would not significantly impact demand, unless there is a rise in adoption.

In the technical definition of a payment processor (PP), Bitcoin was not meant or designed to act that way.
A payment processor, although described a bit differently by different website, has some similar terms across all definitions, in how it mediates between buyers and sellers, or in a more basic term credit and debit (cards).
PP acts as a middle man or intermediary, enabling user A, to send funds to user B, more easily and efficiently, despite barriers like banks, currency or border. It's effectively a third party.

Bitcoin is not a third party, infact it eliminates the need for one and allows users transact P2P, so it's not meant to be on that list.

Most likely not. One reason for this would be scalability issues; using Bitcoin as an accepted means of exchange would increase the demand for faster transactions, increasing the demand for 3rd party systems like BTC processors, or lightening network (best case scenario), or some centralized exchange system which is adopted by citizens (worse case scenario).

Another reason is how governments always want centralized and controlled systems. They wish to give the impression of being a citizens watchdog, which prevents them from getting into trouble, but in reality, they seek more control, which is not available on Bitcoin, without the use of 3rd parties.

If you can use Bitcoin today, you don't need to wish on any day where governments get into it.

China are the most unlikely entry for me on the list; with Nigeria, I'm aware that the ban only restricts banks from mediating between crypto transactions, but China have a full on crypto ban, which even affects mining activities in the country, but are ranked #10. Any history on where China was ranked a couple of years ago, before the effect of bans started kicking in?

Vietnam is also a country that comes up very little in crypto discussions, little surprise they are topping the list.

Bitcoin by default is pseudo anonymous. Information are public, but there is no real identity linked to them, so they effectively are private. Practices that one does to reveal their identity are not directly linked to Bitcoin, neither is it a product of the protocol, and there are some extra steps one can take, if they are very strict on maintaining 100% privacy.

A hardware wallet is not an alternative for running a full node. For full privacy you can adopt both, but do not rely on any one to maintain privacy, security or pseudo anonymity.

Pioneered the concept of blockchain technology you mean.
There are lots of history leading up to the creation of Bitcoin by Satoshi and that is definitely not disregarded when discussing cryptic financial technology, this however does not mean David Chaum built Bitcoin; Satoshi did.

That's the best case scenario that comes out of this, and it's cool that you are down with it, if that's the way you can get back into the forum.
Your appeal is here, and even though the admin does not comment much, they see all (or almost all) messaged posted here and would take an action if they consider your appeal.
If you do not get a response of any sort, that most likely means it's a No to your request.

The squad lineup for both Barcelona and Bayern have been announced, and I am somewhat surprised by both lineups.

Barcelona start Marcus Alonso and seem to be starting a more attacking lineup, with a midfield of Gavi, Sergio and Pedri. I'm highly surprised Jessie doesn't start. Dembele and Raphinha is also a very attacking strike force, would be interesting to see if Denbele starts from the left side, considering how good he has been on the right side of the pitch.

Bayern... meh. As a cule, I didn't check their lineup too much as I'm not too sure who's in form and who isn't at this time. Let's go Barca!!

With the recent attention mixers have been getting from government, I hope news like this would not turn attention to decentralized, P2P platforms like bisq, increasing censoring.
He did get a slap on the wrist and data carriers found in his him we're seized. There is no guarantee this contains the entire stolen amounts.

Apologies for detailing this thread
I've seen a couple of those around, but somehow never this one linked above and I wasn't too comfortable with the words used to pass the message across.
I also just saw this link (https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo) in another thread about factoids which are advertised in the forum ad banner space and was honestly surprised how many there are and how very little of them I have actually come across.

Oh, I somehow missed the last sentence in the quote, which would have explained it all.
Could have been someone's personal signature text with the forums' ad warning below.

Do you mind sharing what post you got this excerpt from here on the forum?
The block reward is more accurately called a coinbase, which is giving to the miner who validated the most recent block, and it is not technically created out of thin air, but is a reward for the Work the miner has done to complete the block (using computing power).

I can hardly see Bitcoin becoming similar to ETH in anyway, neither do I expect any major changes in the protocol due to the supply being completed. Minor ones are more probable.

There's no guarantee that ETH would even be the number 2 cryptocurrency at that time.

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You added an extra quote tag, which skewed how it appears, might want to fix that.

Can you provide a bit of clarity to your question, so someone can give an answer to it?
You seem to be inquiring about mining, with the talk on computing power and creating a fake blockchain?

If you asking why there's a need to use high computing power to validate blocks and why don't the network trust a digital signature, then you need to do a bit of research on how blocks are validated, and it doesn't have to do with "someone's" digital signature.