One can not conceive any constructive thought about crypto currency without picturing Bitcoin as the symbol of cryptocurrency, in fact, I always tell newbies that there are two types of cryptocurrencies in the world to which are.
1- Bitcoin= decentralized free ecosystem coin aka the king of crypto.
2-  altcoins=shit coin highly centralized and controlled cryptocurrencies aka altcoins.

A close look and observations of both will tell you what their both stand for, their strength and weaknesses e.g
Bitcoin is a highly decentralized digital currency that gives its user total control, this freedom is possible because the Bitcoin network is on an automatic pilot mood. That is to say, no individual owned or control its network, so the room for influence is zero since the Bitcoin creator remain anonymous a long time ago.
Altcoins on the other hand are suffering from the grips of capitalization, over the controlled and highly unsecured method of network protocols, since their creators are known and they have 100% control of the coins, this has made the altcoin market become a dumping ground for bad projects and coin development.
These factors of Satoshi's lawlessness have made Bitcoin stand out and become the image representing cryptocurrency today and if Satoshi is identified today I think Bitcoin will start losing its position as number one.

How low would Bitcoin have to fall before it was no longer recoverable?

Price, in my opinion, would not dictate this. It would have to be something that would destroy the foundation and system on which it is built.

what you say?

Polkadot is indeed a good coin but I don't think there is a crypto that can last forever and even the mightiest coins which are btc and eth, will still end up on the same path, they can also disappear soon. We are in a bear and people are actually focused on here now that prices are likely to dump more but other than that, they are also waiting for a recovery because many of them wants to sell badly.

Pandemic and Russian-Ukraine war are not strong as before but the inflation, yes this was one of the latest issues we are facing now. OP is kinda late to discover dot as this coin was overly hyped before but still, it's better to be late than later or never.

As far as I know, governments don't like a decentralized system. The Bitcoin principle is the opposite of the government's principle. So, it doesn't make sense if governments are trying to ruin their own principle by creating Bitcoin. People or a person who creates Bitcoin must be anti-government, they/he is unhappy with the centralized system used by the governments. That's why they or he made a solution by creating something that can't be controlled by the government.  

*Check again Bitcoin WP https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, please understand its implicit goal!

After recent events I wouldn’t even consider it.

Seriously get your coins off exchanges & even worse, don’t think about trying to earn yield by giving up your keys. It’s just not worth the risk.

This is a good moment for investors to cashout profit they need for daily expenses made from recent bitcoin purchases, when bitcoin was near 19,000$-20,000$. But since there is no apparent solid reason for this pump, I believe it's too risky to claim we are entering a new stage in crypto market. We need to understand what is causing these positive fluctuations yet and if they are trustful enough to draw an upside tendency on medium term.

Curiously, it seems Tesla and Elon Musk didn't like the recent pump very much, because as soon as bitcoin started rising, he made sure to infest news' portals announcing Tesla has sold BTC holdings... The intention is clear: to revert the positive tendency. The question is, why?

Surely the price will drop down to $20k. What we see with the rise in the price of bitcoin is just a part of relief rally. If the price is able to cross the $25k barrier, then we can expect something positive out of the market. Until then there is more chances of drop in the market than big bounce. The market is uncertain and we didn't heard any big news which could bump the price harder.

Firstly, Bitcoin isn't Turing complete and hence any kind of computations to run on top of Bitcoin is almost impossible to be carried out. This was one among the primary  reason behind the creation of Ethereum. Only recently, An year back we were truly able to define the meaning of Web3 with the widespread usage of Defi and NFTs. However, "web5" as coined by Jack is less likely to become popular, as developers won't be in a position to utilize the Bitcoin blockchain to it's full potential without being Turing complete. With Ethereum migrating to POS, we will be able to witness the centralization slowly gaining momentum and as a result developers will be coming up with newer ways to mitigate the issues.

On the other hand, it will take some time for Web2 users to be migrated to Web3 as the terminologies and functionalities are completely different from general web development and requires extra efforts for the developers to be onboarded for building dapps. As you have stated, web5 is a maximalist perception and viewpoint to bring new investors but on the whole, Bitcoin will continue to exist as Digital Gold as it isn't Turning Complete and Ethereum would continue the way it functions as a platform for developers to build decentralized applications!

While projects such as Pancake deviated more or less from the UNI's contract source codes, however projects which were lead by Justin still relies on shitcoin tactics to lure the newbie investors into bad investments. May be at one point of time in future, we might be watching TRX failing miserably and Justin being questioned for the same but till then, the blockchain will run its course.

As far as I know, ETC is the one that is on the original blockchain, so ETH is the fork of ETC    Anyway yeah I agree, we just need to wait and see how this merging will affect the decentralization of ETH, and if another fork will happen, there is a lot of speculation but seeing it firsthand would be better than just hearing unfounded rumors about the effect of this merge.

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did they sell at a loss?

Most countries are giving excuses and  reason for banning Bitcoin is because it can easily be used to fund crimes.
But I think they are afraid of losing control of their citizens' financial activities because they believe being the ones regulating financial activities makes them powerful.
What are your thoughts

It seems that they have confused "inflation-resistant" to "inflation hedge", they are very different concepts.

One is something whose value should be relatively stable with respect to other governments' changes in interest rates, the second is some kind of stock you can always count on going up when inflation drags the rest of the markets down. Those people should buy Google or Amazon stock instead.

I think its best time to accept bitcoin for businesses, the current prices of bitcoin are low and any bitcoin transaction is bound to giver higher returns in term of bitcoin. Moreover these prices are bound to rise greatly in future, and this will help to give great gains. So if businesses accept bitcoin now, it will be a meaningful decision.

The first thing you need to understand what is PoS? Then all of your questions will get resolved automatically.

What you see on an exchanger as staking has got nothing to do with the PoS directly involved with the coin.

If you want to get involved with the direct PoS then you will have to become Validator in the system. This is similar to becoming a miner when you are doing PoW. In case of ETH - PoS validator you will have to stake your own 32 ETH on the network which is around ~ $ 50,000 as of today's date.

Once you do that you will have to follow the software running process which includes: an execution client, a consensus client, and a validator.

However there is catch in this! To overcome flood of Validator or risking the fishy flow of whales for that matter, the Validators will be put into queue before they can join the network for PoS work.

Once they in, they start to receive the blocks from peers and validators need to do attestation of the block by voting it and thus confirming the transaction.

In addition to this, its not about who has staked a lot (in our case you might be saying whale with huge money); but it's all about how "FINALITY" happens. Its distributed work of many validators which goes through checkpoints to confirm the vote.

To overcome the reversible transaction Validator would need to loose his stake from the balance and is charged around one third of total staked supply (currently around $10,000,000,000)

Similarly PoS is protected from 51% where an attacker would need 51% of the staked ETH (about $15,000,000,000 USD).

Its not truly centralised, it's still distributed from validator to validator and to be just single validator they will need huge amount of money and still above algorithms will be in place to validate the vote of one validator.

Its highly impossible to reverse, collapse, 51% attacked! So no exchangers can not do that, they simply running proof of stake collaboratively with their users. They can't risk it.

Most of the information and above knowledge can be found on PoS ETH on official site.

It really depends on how you view it right now. Each one of us has our own perspective regarding DOGE. There are some who are thinking it as funny and useless, but there are others who are thinking it as an opportunity to make money by trading. My second cousin from US was trading DOGE actually because he was intrigued by it. He had a specific target for a low price to buy and then sell it high and waiting for it to go down again to his preferred low price.

If I hadn't sold my 36,000 DOGE back then, I could have pocketed big time during the Elon hype days lol.

If you're in crypto space for quite a long time, you'd never going to worry if Btc crashes. We knew how Bitcoin works, we have an idea in what range Bitcoin would reach during bearish season, and we know how capable Bitcoin is for an unprecedented pump. Just remember, we did not expect Bitcoin to reach almost $20k in 2017 and we did not expect Btc to hit almost $70k in 2021. We did not expect for Bitcoin to fall $3k in 2018 either, and we should expect the worse range Bitcoin could reach in this current bearish run. Good thing is, recovery is guaranteed. It only matters of when.