If we'll have an impact it's going to be indirect, which means the election news will hit the stock market first, just like the lockdown did and the stock market will impact bitcoin and bitcoin other cryptocurrencies. Since the election is usually a nervous period, many investors prefer to stay out of the market ready to go back in when it's all over and they know there were no riots or anything like that, I think we'll go up in a few months.

Probably because they're trying to comprehend the technology behind it which doesn't make sense. They don't know what operating system the server of their bank is based on so why do they have to know how blockchain operates to be able to use it? Nowadays sending and receiving BTC can be done by scanning a QR code and entering the pasword that's all it takes to pay someone. If that's hard, the person has to be tech illiterate.

What are they going to invest if they lost their jobs? People who have less money are less eager to invest because investment is a risk. When you have a lot of money or at least a steady source of income you can take a loss, you are not afraid to gamble a bit.
Since the current sutuation is bad for the stock market and stocks influence BTC, I say it's also bad for us. I'd like to see some good counterarguments.

Are you really bored at home? Don't you have hobbies? A girlfriend maybe?
I always had so much to do that I could spend months at home and not run out of things to do (as long as I had some money coming in of course).
I'm still unaffected by this whole shutdown. Yesterday I had some friends come over for a drink. Smart people don't care about the pandemic and continue to live their lives. Worst thing you can do is give up.

What about the holy war? Isn't it the idea of the religion of peace? What about virgins awaiting every dead jihadist?
They want peace through war.


Some support it some condemn it, but the truth is that no other religion goes as far to convert people to its teachings. Even if only 10% of Mulslims support jihad, it's stilll too much. While it's widely called the religion of peaace I don't hear about similar acts of violence commited in the name of other religions.

You're quick to judge but passive income is a better form of income and it doesn't mean a person who wants to acieve it is lazy. Many people I know worked hard all their lives to finally achieve passive income in their 50s or 60s. I know a man who owns warehouses and rents out storage space, I also know a guy who owns a hotel. They both had to spend a lot of time and money before the businesses grew enough. Demanding a high and sustainable passive income from something like PoS mining is a bit naive, but using market investments to build a self-sustainable business is a great idea.

It is true and it may never go mainstream but remain localized. For example, is a Russian ruble mainstream? I wouldn't go that far. It's not a world reserve currency and you can't use it to pay for goods and services outside Russia. You can exchange it to other currencies almost anywhere in the world, but it's the same with Bitcoin. Localbitcoins traders can be found all around the world and bitcoin exchanges exist in most countries. So, we don't need Bitcoin to be mainstream, we just need it to be there. To remain as an option.

You're saying that it won't happen but your main concern seems to be time. You're trying to fight the statement but end up confirming it in your own words by saying that we'll need a lot of time to create perfect robots. The truth is, it's going to happen sooner or later and most of us deep inside know that it will the moment we finally create the first self-learning and self-replicating machine.

This is the exact reason why I try to stay away from religious freaks. Some of them can be such annoying dicks to atheists or even people with a bit different understanding of the same religion. They think that only their interpretation is the right one and if you don't agree you're a subject in need of conversion. A great example of such dicks are jehovah's witnesses.

Makes me wonder if the time needed to move coins to an exchange will limit the supply during the next bull run and make the price skyrocket.
Think about it for a moment. The supply is getting low now, with the demand being relatively stable because people are moving coins from the exchanges. When demand explodes people who would be inclined to sell will not be able to get their coins to exchanges fast enough to satisfy the demand. I'm not a trader so I won't really benefit from it, but a big bull run would be good for Bitcoin's image.

Comparing it with the ICO market that is unstable and full of scams may not be the best idea.
I'm a believer who thinks that every 5 years or so people will reflect back on the old days and say "why didn't I go all in back then", but if you look at the big players on the market right now, if you were able to stay invested for decades, you did good no matter which of them you chose. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Tesla... they all started low and exploded.

It's funny how people have negative opinions about Bitcoin and say it's a bubble, while Tesla is in a similar bubble right now. It was worth 7 USD in 2013 and went to 440 in 7 years. We're talking about 60x growth when Bitcoin barely went from 1k USD to 11k in that time (11x). Based on the above, I say that Bitcoin is yet to see a real bubble that will easily take us to 50k USD.  

Too much promo can also be bad. He shouldn't do too much of it or he'll risk getting a label of that crazy guy who always talks about Bitcoin.
All that's needed from him is to remain consistent. If he likes Bitcoin, he likes Bitcoin. Worst thing a person can do is to be like McAfee: very enthusiastic at first, but quickly turning into a shill and a salty loser.

I've read somewhere that the virus is mutating and the strain that came from Wuhan and was spreading in March and April was not the one we're getting now. For this reason there's an increase in active cases around the world when compared to the numbers in Spring. Also our immune systems might be weaker now than they were in Spring and Summer due to lower temperatures. The weather in the EU has been really bad lately.

The religion of peace strikes again.
At least they say the suspect was shot so no more beheading for him. There are virging goats awaiting him in the afterlife.

You're generalizing. There are as many types of women as there are types of men.
Most women want strong men to accompany them, men who can take care of them, protect them, stay calm in dangerous situations, but not all demand men to be rich and pay for everything. They see it as an additional quality, but not a must.
None of my friends are rich and they have women. It's funny but I know 2 guys that are doing pretty good financially and both of them are struggling with women. They both look good and are in their 30s, drive nice cars, but women just don't stick with them.

I've watched a few of them but I don't like gore alone. I've enjoyed movies about revenge like I spit on your grave and the Last house on the left, although I think I saw the remake of that last one. The things you see being done to people don't have that much impact when you know those people deserved them.
Pure brutality and gore is very superficial and may be shocking at first but doesn't hit the audience as much without a real story behind it. For instance, I was more moved by The Pianist or The Schindler's List because in those movies you can see brutality mixed with real drama. Some movies like The Human Centipede are just stupid, I wouldn't waste my time on them.

It's interesting that among their recent buys are 3 medical companies.: amgn, syk and abbv. Right in the year of corona they are buying stocks of companies doing medical research.
There's much more going on around us than we understand. While stupid people spend money on masks that in China cost 10% of the retail price the rest of the world has  to pay, the rich manipulate the whole governments to buy covid tests that don't work, but cost millions of dollars. A great example of such tests were Polymerase Chain Reaction tests made in Turkey.

There are always options. The worst you can do is sit on your ass and do nothing because it's hard. See the world around you as a playground, not a monster that's sucking the life out of you. I've been in and out of jobs for many years, and it was really the same regardless of the statistics and the press. 5 years ago the unemployment was supposeddly high and most of my friends were jobless and hard to find seasonal jobs abroad. Now they say it's hard because of the pandemic but we all have jobs and I literally don't know a single person who lost their job in the last 6 months.

But will it work, that is the question. Take that recent case of CWT company, that paid the ransom and got their files decrypted. They chose this way because they knew that doing otherwise would mean bankruptcy. Most companies will be willing to pay the ransom and a fine imposed by the government, just to keep the boat afloat.
If they go down it will not matter if they save a million dollars or not since they will be unable to make any money from that point.

What do you mean by approved? The way I see it, if something is legal it also is approved. Up to thispoint at least half of the countries around the world have recognized Bitcoin as an investment or a financial instrument. I don't understand what OP is ranting about, but you can go to almost any EU country and be able to trade Bitcoin, use a Bitcoin ATM, be able to report a bitcoin theft to the authorities...