All the central banks around the world are usually against cryptocurrencies in general(this involves both trading and mining).I have never seen a central bank being friendly towards cryptocurrencies.
Russia is being anti-crypto for years and many Russians are still trading crypto and many miners have been mining crypto on Russian territory.I possible crypto ban means nothing,since many Russians don't care when it comes to breaking the Russian law.
This is just a proposal.It might be accepted or it might be declined.
I can see Russia becoming "the new China" for the cryptocurrency world.
More FUD news from Russia are yet to come.

I don't think that drugs,alcohol and crypto destroyed his life.His addiction destroyed his life.His addiction is his own internal problem.Putting the blame on external factors(drug,alcohol,crypto) is not the right path for curing his addictions.
Trading can be turned into gambling,if you have no risk management and you always go for the high risk leverage trading.The lack of emotional control can ruin everything for every trader out there.

You forgot to mention Bing. The only difference is that Bing was created by Microsoft,rather than being a separate company,which is acquired by them.
Jokes aside,I don't really think that Bing is dead.They are just totally behind Google in the search engine niche.The entire MSN portal is totally behind Google.
Anyway,paying 69 billion for a gaming company seems overpriced.Microsoft have Xbox,can't they just develop and expand Xbox even further,rather than spending billions on a gaming company?
Maybe there's something in the bigger picture,which I'm not seeing.
But yeah,this news definitely doesn't have anything to do with the metaverse concept.

Perhaps Real Madrid could get Pogba during the summer of 2022.
Luca Modrich is 36 years old.He will have to retire at the end of this season(or maybe he will leave Real and join a club in USA,Qatar or China).Real Madrid would definitely need a younger midfielder to replace Modrich.
I'm sure that Real Madrid has the finance to buy Mbappe and Haaland(or Lewandowski),but they will have to sell Eden Hazard and Gareth Bale.Anceloti definitely won't rely on Hazard and Bale for the rest of the season.

Are you receiving a text message or a phone call?
If it is phone call,how does the caller's voice sound like?Is he speaking with an accent?
I'm 99% sure that these phone scammers are located in countries like India and Bangladesh,where they have entire call centers of scammers working full time.
There's nothing else you could do except changing your phone number.There's no way to check about any bitcoins "blocked in your name".The whole idea of having some Bitcoins being "blocked in your name" and you having to pay,in order to "unblock" them is simply ridiculous.This is a pretty stupid scam.

Paying for "trading signals" is a big mistake.
Perhaps you could find some legit trading signals groups where they share trading signals for free.
However,there's no guarantee that their signals are going to be profitable all the time.
If you are looking for tutorials,tips and tricks about how to trade crypto,there's plenty of free info available online,but remember that your best teacher are your own mistakes.No tutorial,ebook or online course
is going to make you the perfect cryptocurrency trader.

How can cryptocurrencies improve the healthcare system and make healthcare more affordable?
I don't see a way for this happen.
Changing the currency you use to buy something won't make the thing you are buying cheaper.
The problem with the US healthcare system is that it is more "free market" oriented than the European healthcare systems.Creating a "healthcare market" is a bad thing,because the market can be distorted and this can increase the prices to unprecedented levels.Almost all the affordable healthcare systems around the world are dominated by the governments and the private sector inside the healthcare system is heavily regulated.
By the way,I'm sure that the Omicron wave won't lead to the collapse of any healthcare system located in the developed countries.I'm not sure about the underdeveloped countries,though.

I like the concept of the game.It's always good to see something different than all the slots and dice games and all the crypto casinos,which are using the same template.
I assume that you don't want to grow a business out of this and you are not making it for the money.
This game has an educational element,which is something I like.
It would be nice if more gambling games and casinos had an educational element attached to them,so the gamblers could play and learn new stuff at the same time.
The big problem is that many gamblers simply won't find your game to be interesting enough.
Most of gamblers want flashy games with a good design.
Good luck with this project,OP!

I remember that blockchain technology was really hyped years ago.
There were multiple articles about banks trying to adopt blockchain technology and all the bankers were saying
"We don't know about Bitcoin/crypto,but blockchain technology has a huge potential."
I guess that they were all hypocrites and I'm sure that 99% of them never knew how blockchain technology actually works.
Blockchain was a cool buzzword and every scammer around the world wanted to make a "decentralized blockchain project".
Nowadays the term blockchain isn't oversold anymore.The seekers of "the new big thing" are using new buzzwords,like NFT.

If you had 1M USD,would you want to double them by sending the money to a guy,who promises you 100% profit right away?Those "double your BTC" giveaways are a total nonsense.It doesn't make any sense.
Rich people can be naive.Who knows?
Perhaps this guy is so rich that he could throw away 26 BTC at some "fake giveaway" without caring about the consequences.He probably has 100 million dollars and he doesn't care about losing a million or two.

OP,you are just making a bunch of vague statements that cannot be statistically proven.
You are saying that many people had lost their jobs,but the unemployment rates had actually normalized since the 2020 levels of unemployment.
You say that many businesses went bankrupt,but I don't have actual data about businesses going bankrupt.
The vast majority of the "brick and mortar" businesses survived the pandemic,some of them are thriving.
Some countries are facing bigger economic problems than others.You can't make generalizations about the all the people and all the businesses around the world.
NFT games are close to becoming a ponzi scheme.Good luck with trying to make money this way.
A game is a game,you could win,but you could also lose.You can't make consistent money by always winning.
This is every gambler's "wet dream". It could never happen in reality.

The next big moves in the gambling industry would be towards the VR(virtual reality).
I don't know how this VR thing will improve the gambling experience.For some reason,Meta and VR technology is becoming the new big trend in the online world.I don't know why.
Decentralized gambling platforms are something that might not happen in the future,since the gambling industry is so heavily regulated by the governments.I guess that the authorities want casinos to stay centralized,because this way it's pretty clear who has the responsibility to run the business and who will be persecuted in case of scams and other sorts of crimes.
NFTs and play-to-earn games are another wave of "innovation" in the gambling industry,but I'm not sure about what percentage of these Play-to-Earn games are going to turn into actual scams in the future.

Saying that Bitcoin has inelasticity of supply is basically the same as saying the Bitcoin is scarce.
Most of the scarce resources on the planet have inelasticity of their supply.
Nobody is forgetting that Bitcoin is a scarce resource.It's actually one of the main features of BTC.


The value of BTC might not de directly linked to supply/demand,but the BTC price is definitely linked to supply/demand.You can't avoid "high school economics". It doesn't matter how much you hate it.
Saying that demand has nothing to do with the price/value of an asset seems kinda delusional.
If demand has nothing to do with value,then why are the people buying this asset?
The 2 biggest reasons are:
1.Expectations of selling that asset for a higher price and making profits.
2.Utility.Some people find Bitcoin more useful as a payment method than fiat money.

And where is your great analysis about why the Bitcoin price should be at 16-22K right now?
The current Bitcoin price is what it is.Everything else is just wishful thinking and/or FUD.
Nobody can say when the bearish market will occur.Maybe we are in a bearish market right now,or maybe the bearish market will happen,when price drops below 40K or 30K.
There's no guarantee that the Bitcoin price is moving in cycles.The BTC price is determined mostly by supply and demand,not by some imaginary cycles.There are some other factors,which can influence the price,but most of them are temporary-crypto whales buying and selling,bullish or FUD news about Bitcoin,crypto miners being kicked out by some country,etc.

I don't think that all crypto trading platforms are misleading the people.Probably some of them.
Crypto exchanges are the same as banks.They want to make money.
They will impose high fees,as long as the customers are OK with paying those high fees.If the fees become too high,the customers will simply choose another service or completely stop using crypto exchange platforms.Nobody is obligated to use their services.
I couldn't care less about Bitpay and what they have to say about Bitcoin usage on their platform.
The majority of the people simply don't want to spend Bitcoin for goods and services.
It's pretty normal that some altcoins and stablecoins are being preferred over Bitcoin for retail payments.

 

The vast majority of the NFTs have nothing to do with art.They are mediocre pictures,which are being bought and sold with the expectation that their price is going to increase 10x.
If you are making "art" only for the sake of making money,then you are not making art.Believe me.
There's nothing wrong with the artists making money,but artistic expression and making money are two completely different things,which cannot be combined.
Maybe there's a real piece of art here and there among all NFTs,but NFT buyers don't care about art.They care about buying and selling for profit.

It's going to be weird to watch the FIFA world cup in November/December.
I got used to watching the world cups in June/July.
Is the football season in Europe going to stop because of the FIFA world cup?I don't know about this.
Anyway,everyone knows that European and Latin American teams are the strongest,followed by the African teams.The North American teams are usually at the level of African teams and the Asian teams(except Japan and maybe South Korea) are the weakest,compared to the rest of the continents.
I don't know about Australia,sometimes they play really good,sometimes they are a disappointment.
I'm sure that the pandemic will have a negative impact over the performance of the national teams.Some players will have to be quarantined,others might have post Covid syndromes,which will damage their performance.This is quite unfortunate.

Bitcoin didn't change my behavior at all.
I don't discuss Bitcoin/crypto with other people and I can't say that I'm "enthusiastic" about Bitcoin/crypto projects.
I have always been skeptical about everything and everyone and Bitcoin is one of the few things in my life,which never disappointed me.
I was already financially disciplined before getting into the world of Bitcoin,so I can't say that Bitcoin changed something in my financial activities.
I remember that I was obsessed with constantly checking the current Bitcoin price on preev.com,but that was 4 years ago.Now,I don't bother that much about the current Bitcoin price.

It depends of what do you mean by "getting used to the market situation".
Simply knowing the market situation isn't enough.You have make a good technical and fundamental analysis of the market situation and you have to pick the right trading signals.
You also have to take complete control over your emotions and not freak out every time the price moves to an unexpected direction.
Practice is the key to success.Failure is the best way to learn(unfortunately it costs a lot of money wasted on unsuccessful trades,but everything good in life comes at a high cost).
Even the best traders had lost lots of money.You can't become a "reliable trader" on Day 1.

I've always wondered how this Fear&Greed index is being calculated.Emotions like fear and desires like greed cannot be mathematically measured.
Extreme levels of fear on the Bitcoin market means panic selling.I don't see any panic selling right now.
Actually the price might start recovering slowly back to 50K USD.
I do believe that the price might be pumped back to 50-68K(or even above 70K) when the spring comes.
The Omicron wave will go away,the tensions between the western world and Russia/China will be settled and the global financial markets will face a rush of optimism.I also really hope that the "powers that be" won't launch another FUD attack over Bitcoin/crypto in the first quarter of 2022.