Current users are not like they used to be with the beginning of the forum, when everyone was capable of discussing the pure technical details related to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Currently discussion are more "broad" and "normal" hence I think majority of people here are "ordinary citizens" or people with no extensive technical experience.

Allot, and not regular PC's but mining equipment.

I earned a bitcoin in the beginning 2 years ago through promotions, and tasks through different small tasks, sold it a while ago and so don't possess it now but the same idea.

I don't know and I don't want to consider that anytime soon, you could always keep your private keys in a secure bank vault and giving the passphrase to a trusted family member to use if there is a need, Most people here are less than 50 though and not considering that point now.

This is probably the most controversial issue with bitcoin, the fact it isn't regulated and anonymous this leads to significant regulating issues with countries trying to have complete control on the Tx's in their countries like India and Russia/China.

The new mined bitcoins, the ones coming with every new block is getting halved after a certain increase in difficulty with time, to eventually starting to half from 50 BTC per block and decreasing every time, Therefore it will take many years and will never become 0 except after a million or so years.

I would consider it to be sound money, money is in the end, something exchangeable for services and goods (which is the oldest and most basic classification). That is the case with bitcoin, which can be directly used through multiple platforms, it's not usable for everything yet, but it is still qualifies as money.

I've used both Localbitcoins (The older, more trustworthy and competent version) and Paxful, The outcome is 8/8 on disputes on LBC and 3/5, I always the clearly favorites side, but was new in Paxful against an older trader (That went scamming people), I have to say I'm shocked on the random way Paxful solves disputes at - waiting days for a reply of the other party and not 30 minutes for my reply-..

Fair or not fair, the point is the demand and request, currently with the increased frequency of transactions, the demand for inclusion in blocks is higher and for that, the needed fees is higher as everyone try to compete for a better spot.
it's expensive right now, particularly for any transactions less than $100 or more (which would be around $1.5 USD per Tx or so).

Currently, I intend and try to accumulate as much bitcoins as I can and afterwards keeping them till the price reaches prices that I consider sufficient to sell at (which probably won't be soon, so it will be long term holding).

I try to spread it through friendly and educative way, giving the person links, references to bitcoin and even few microbitcoins to encourage them to study and learn more about bitcoin rather than trying to push them to it, I think this is a more successful way.

I doubt a government can shutdown the internet, particularly in the developed world were you can't do a single thing without a list of restrictions, laws and public attention, this isn't Castro Cuba or Syria, The internet won't be shutdown on whims, and asking "what if" is the same as asking about a Zombie or Alien invasion etc.. highly unlikely and next to impossible, a waste of time to consider.

I've been working hard in promoting bitcoins before and spending significant effort trying to make people use it, I've seen plenty of good interest now and even few people asking me on their own initiative, which is something I never seen except in 2016 spike..

Comparing both of them is difficult IMO, Bitcoin currency system, although smaller than Forex, much more reliable and user based than Forex, in which a majority of brokers play against the user rather than an actual market.
BTC and altcoins are truly open markets for people, rather than the closed and suspicious Forex universe.

If you are storing MORE than or even half of that (which is equal to 300k, allot of money by every countries standard), a paper or an offline hardware wallet is necessary, even better, a paper wallet generated through Armory and 3-4 copies of it (encrypted) are stored in multiple bank vaults.

I first found out about it in 2012 or 2013, not sure about the exact time but a bitcoin was worth $12 in MTGOX and the first time, I didn't stay long but came back at the $100 and left again, came back now at ~$3000 and feel I'm late but with still time left..

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I'm glad to see the level 5 requirement being added, that should limit the amount of people trying with two accounts or more and to have an additional Chane at winning,
BTW if the 10 billion bet isn't eligible the next eligible bet will win?

There are multiple factors and luck is one of them definitely, regarding how good your analysis, it's not guaranteed even a single time to win, at best your analysis can improve it by a point or two. Sportbook's spread is usually high too, so mostly they aren't in a loss.

That would be excessive IMO, Although a casino should send using decent fees demanding remuneration is almost impossible to achieve, also calculating it would be another issue.. Technically the withdrawal is in the blockchain so their job is done.
A good solution however is to let the player set the fees himself "with a minimum of 0.0001", This way, the player can't complaint sine he/she is the one who decided the fees.