That wasn't a depression. There hasn't been one since the Mt Gox collapse and it seems like there's still some time before the next one (if any).

That's never going to happen. And it's a very real risk with VC type investments as well, which are regulated.

Python is fairly easy to pick up and has some excellent applications.

It's hard to give you a good recommendation without knowing what you want to accomplish though.

USDT could very well collapse due to Bitfinex printing it like toilet paper.

Interesting. Hopefully it will fail to absorb a significant market share.

Doctors are often parrots who are neither up to date with, nor properly understand, science. You want to read papers or at least listen to scientists when it comes to making an informed decision.

Cooling usually won't be a concern (unless you live in the desert) with mining rigs, because it usually involves undervolting to save on electricity bills. If you do it in too large steps you can still fry your cards though.

Authoritarian under the guise of democracy. In short, it's a complete joke that people somehow take seriously and believe in.

Wow, you've been trading for a whole year? That's unheard of.

Sarcasm aside, you have no experience and you weren't trading. You were gambling. It's no surprise that you've lost so much money. That's not the markets fault, it's yours and yours alone. That's why you don't go in with large sums and start practicing with smaller amounts for a long time first. Trading is one of the easiest ways to lose money, especially when you don't have years of experience under the belt and/or a technical/mathematical background.

Sorry for your losses, but you've had it coming. Instead of blaming the market analyze your mistakes and learn from them.

Paypal doesn't accept Bitcoin, unless that changed very recently. But the last thing that I've known about Paypal was that they specifically "banned" crypto payments over Paypal by denying any buyer or seller protection for crypto trades.

You will for sure. They aren't very high right now, but that's bound to change once the smart contracts come out and ICOs start being run over the platform as well as with larger adoption of the DEX.

As already mentioned, it depends on your country. Make sure to check tax codes unless you want to lose all your profits in fines or worse (prison).

Also, it's generally not a good idea to go "all out" just like it's a bad idea to go "all in".

Have you tried contacting Coinbase? Although I doubt they would be very eager to help people out with getting their tokens back given the workload that would entice.

Only if you have multiple rigs I believe. But even if you could mine all at once on a single rig, you would divide your revenue among the coins. So if you had $1 in mining, you would then have $0.25 in each when mining 4 coins, so there really is no point in doing so. Just mine whatever brings the most $ and then trade the profits into other coins if you want to hedge or invest instead of cashing out.

You can lease any amount, even as little as 0.1 Waves. You need more to run a node, but just leasing to nodes has no lower or upper limits.

The mainstream will probably like something like a bank though, because they're generally not capable of keeping their own funds secure.

This is where banks/XRP come into play if no other solution is found. I personally don't want my money anywhere near Ripple or the like though.

As long as there are alternatives I don't care. I'm just concerned that it might eventually become the only method of payment (Ripple or not), which would be terrible.

It's never too early to identify a shitcoin.

Can't go wrong with that one.

I hope this will never become mandatory in any way. Don't want any chips for payments implanted. Imagine people cutting off your arm to steal your money, absolute insanity.