For them, this is just another way to get more money. I guess that they are instantly converting their coins to fiat via something like BitPay and none of those people is holding any significant amount of coins (even if they get that much crypto payments).
Soccer teams are already sponsored by many financial organizations (including shady ones) like banks or forex brokers. Football teams do not care that much about activities of their sponsors so it is not a surprise to see crypto project among them.

This seems to be a good move but the problem is that they are solving a problem that does not exist yet. Most part of Bitcoin users never had a deal with LN. It is not even implemented anywhere (considering that we need LN for "offline" payments).
So in this case I guess that no one really cares about the security of their money on the system they don't use.

The only thing that Smart contracts can ensure is that people will get their token in exchange for their money. That's it. Most ICOs need funds for project development and they are not able to repay its investors if the project fails. Even if someone is not going to do any exit scam nothing can ensure that this team is not showing us a fake activity until the projects run out of money.
This is a human factor that can not be predicted by any code.

People won't be stopped but cryptocurrency adoption would be. One thing is when you are buying a used bike and paying with BTC directly to the seller and another thing is to implement cryptocurrencies into existing retailing system where the government can easily control your money.
Bitcoin may not be stopped but you are gonna get to the stone age if you are willing to use crypto in a country with any serious restrictions.

This thing can happen on almost every market. And the smaller you market is the fewer efforts it would take you to manipulate this market. So everyone who got millions worth of BTC may try to get some easy money.
But I believe that in case with stocks such things would be considered as a kind of fraud and you are risking to get into jail.

I have no idea about the service you are showing but the thing is that you can trade with x100 leverage on forex but not on crypto market. No one is using that leverage and it is always looks shady if someone if offering that much. There is a chance they are just willing to scam you.
You should also understand that every small price move with such a big leverage would bring you huge losses that you can never predict.

Converting your BTC to fiat online is much easier. Afterwards, you can withdraw paper cash via any normal ATM.

Nothing stops them from asking for KYC.

It seems like you guys have to think again about whom you are voting for lol. I'm not trying to promote crypto now but paper cash is also anonymous and people are also buying drugs and pay for illegal activities with it.

Traditional banks are earning their money from maintaining people's card transactions (acquiring). This is why they are happy to provide credit cards with 0% loan.
All of them have their huge IT teams that are gathering data from their clients (both companies and private users) to increase their profit. Even all those AML things they do is nothing more than an algorithm that is looking for deviations. Almost all their activities is a pure IT stuff. What else is not clear?

This is something like an interesting fact but nothing more.
It doesn't really matter what is the price of the national currenty. The most important thing is its stability. You can earn $100 per monts but you will be still more poor than the guy that earns billion of his cheap money.
From usability point of view BTC deflation is a bad thing.

Bitcoin can't be better than real gold simply because BTC market have much less money than real gold and it is too unsafe. For some reason people don't look at Bitcoin and don't sell all their savings aiming to buy BTC for it. And for the same reason people are not selling all their BTC stashes to buy all those "bitcoin killer" shitcoins.
Bigger and more established market is always the best one.

Please PM me. I would try to sell you 1 satoshi for $1k. I see you are a smart guy and see that 1 sat cost much more than its current value.

Market is controlled by whales. The more whales we have the less powerful the single one is and less influence on the market whales have. So right now we see that one whale can almost instantly crash the market by -5% so the market is more centralized than we want and it is controlled by whales.

Sure. But it only works like that if mining community is based on miners (that could be moved away) in that country and not on the community (that probably wouldn't relocate somewhere else).
One thing that I want to add is that if the power of Bitcoin is based on such shithole places like India or China just like OP thinks, then we are already fucked up without any bans.

Just guess how much worth to BTC bring people in India that are shitting on a street and then going to click on faucets. I think that the volume of their national market is low af.
Crypto ban in China is also not that important because miners would just move their equipment abroad and continue their work. Chinese crypto influence is only based on their  pools and not on their community.

Just IMHO but such bans can even help to develop BTC mining infrastructure and make BTC more reputable.

1. No one is trying to stop bitcoin. At the beginning banks just didn't want to use it bacause they had to avoid risks related to illegal activities of crypto users. And tbh many of them really had something to hide.
2. On the other side banks and the government can stop Bitcoin if they really want. It is impossible to buy something worthy irl and hide it from everyone while small transactions have no difference from good old paper cash and make no harm. But anyway, it would just take much efforts and in any case any huge crypto ban doesn't worth it.

There is no such thing as a Fintech Bank. There is even no clear statement about what is fintech and every project have its own understanding of that word.
Also in general fintech is not about cryptocurrencies. For example almost every big bank have a big IT team that is working on different things related to Big Data, which is also considered as fintech.
Pretty soon banks would be just another IT compsnies but nothing tells us that they gonna start using cryptocurrencies.

Fiat whales are not blindly buying every garbage that  someone is offering to them so the easiest and fastest way to sell those shitcoins would be to use exchange where normal users would buy it. And even if there will be enough volume to sell all this shit then the price would probably fall pretty low.
Most altcoins (and BCH too) probably would not survive this just because they exist only because different whales are shilling them.

Sure. They will just add a word "shitcoin" and we can consider that hundreds of altcoins are already added to the dictionary.

But frankly speaking if you are happy that someone admitted to use the word Bitcoin then we are far from adoption lol. Already for a long time people are not getting any new words from any dictionaries anymore.

On your likn it seems like you are trying to analyze the BTC price basing on mining cost, electricity cost etc. which is wrong by default. If miner had to pay X amount of money to mine a coin then it doesn't mean that the price won't get under that point. People are buying different assets and then selling it for lower price to fix their losses. Miners can't force people to hodl their coins.
And I'm just curious:
Why da fuck electricity cost at 9:40 AM is different from cost on 10:30 AM ?

I don't really care about that. A huge part of minor crypto users is coming from different shitholes like Venezuela or India and this part of users  deal absolutely nothing on the entire crypto ecosystem and at the same time they are holding or shilling a huge amount of crypto scams.
To make cryptocurrencies somehow established we need normal people to use it.

First of all Bitcoin never moved its headquarters to China simply because there is no such organization that is called a Bitcoin. This cryptocurrency that we use is not a company.
If you are talking about miners then it have nothing in common with US regulations. It is only about the price of electricity. Many miners would be happy to move to less authoritarian place than China but it would cause big losses.