I would just tell him to think about it himself and make decision based on their own mind because honestly nothing good coming out of giving away financial advice. if thing doesn't go as planned you'll get blame and if thing go well you're not rewarded so why bother?
But i think you've done the right thing to let him make the final decision himself, though if the coin he's investing to can be considered shitcoin that has potential of rugpull or rather pump and dump market manipulation it's better to tell him to back off and sell the coin if they're not ready for the consequences.

Even 1 billionaire could give significant effect to the market like the obvious example is elon musk and by far the strongest weapons to affect the market are fud and shill. Any capital you spend to manipulate crypto will definitely get outweighed by these fuds and shill that takes next to none capital of yours. Though a group of whales could definitely affect the market if they make planned movement at the same time making their sell off or buying looks massive and gives sense of doom to many people psychologically like making the market fear of dumping.

July there gonna be london hardfork to address the fee calculation so it's not just a mere rumour as everything is already scheduled before hand same with berlin hard fork. Also, there's not so much the dev can do to address the gas problem except the upcoming solution in july because there are just many factors that affect the gas price many of them are price increase (yes it's biggest cause by far), traffic, dapps and many more. because if they do have solution they would've resolved the problem from a long time ago as many people demands.

about a damn time. crypto is the future and if a tech giant didn't try to invest in blockchain technology it has I doubt they deserve to be called "tech" giant anymore. The thing I like about crypto is that it opens up a whole new audience and corporates to the open source project and if a company tries to invest to bitcoin or any blockchain based project, i'm pretty sure they're open to the idea of cryptocurrency. at this point I'm really looking forward to any other large corporation joining hands developing crypto space alongside the open source community as well as adopting cryptocurrency.

He said the seed was stored in metal box and the only device he used to access it was an ipad pro, if the story that was shared in reddit is really true I believe it's the ipad itself that has been compromised and there's so many transactions that was made aswell, I doubt the activity done manually, I think it's malware or such, I know IpadOS is rather strict but anything can happen right? not to mention if the ipad was bought in second hand condition, it might have some kind of fishy software installed, etc. so many possibilities.

BTC always gaining or recovering its dominance back once altcoin season is over and altcoin bearish come, the problem with altcoin as of today are how the investors are just temporarily there and don't have any intention to invest in most of altcoin for long except for the major altcoins or atleast those altcoins that have promising future.
As i observed many of the capital also flowing to BSC to fund those rather low quality projects where they could rugpull anytime and I honestly don't think they could be sustainable for long term.

tbh the digital revolution only happening from either developed countries or middle-income countries where most of them already exposed to internet to begin with, the rest of countries that aren't really exposed to internet further falling down instead of birthing a new innovation.
but to be fair, if we see from the advancement of technology in this past year in an entire planet we could see that it has been growing so fast it's actually surprises me. Though, at this current time amid pandemic government have the most important role to allow the country succesfully taking advantage of the current pandemic where they could enforce some new regulation for that.

it really depends and I don't think any ordinary people would know the answer but from my observation it may takes months, however for more accurate answer you should try to talk to any project developer that succesfully got their coin listed in reputable exchange, though if it's some 3rd rated shady exchange we're talking about they just gonna require you to pay some amount of money.
anyway, each exchange have different requirement so you should figure that out by contacting the exchange itself through available contact specifically made for talking about listing.

if the unbanning didn't benefit the government themselves by any mean I doubt they really gonna unban it after all as you mentioned the news is still uncertain but if they truly do then it's really good.
Though after the ban I'm pretty sure the trading volume in there not gonna be that much which means it's not gonna affect bitcoin market that much, still a good start for the neighboring countries to follow as well.
If they can see the opportunity behind crypto they will surely unban it but sometimes lawmakers view clouded by other political interests.

It certainly is, though it also takes many people's lives. Now many company also trying to approach a more efficient way to deal with the pandemic and while at the same time improving the workflow. I personally do like the nature of working remotely though it's just feel a lot more relaxing and all. Not to mention that the pandemic also forces us to use any digital means of paying things whether it's offline and online, at first it was through centralized digital payment services now it seems among the millenials we've been moving to cryptocurrency.
I wonder how much slower cryptocurrency gonna got its fame if not for the pandemic.

Definitely a good decision from the government, as tbh government shouldn't meddle with such trivial thing like people sending money using crypto anyway they got something better to do and as long as the crypto transaction didn't break any law and looks legit it should be ok.
This is the right mindset of government and also giving their citizens a chance to further explore cryptocurrency instead of banning it just because some obscure reasoning. Other countries should definitely follow this step.

No point in regretting, crypto market still offer the same opportunity anyway if you maybe keeping an eye to the market, even bitcoin still could go up to $100k there's no stopping people from making profit again and again through bitcoin though it's still kinda uncertain in many people's opinion.
Regardless whether your story is true or not we're still kinda at early phase of blockchain adoption if you're an IT person maybe you could make money from this once in a lifetime chance whether by working and being an blockchain developer, etc maybe wouldn't have as much ROI to those early investors but still worth to try.   

Manipulating doge maybe yes but I doubt he could be considered "manipulating" bitcoin market, he has influence but doesn't necessarily means he's manipulating it, the market itself could go up without even the help of elon musk but maybe not this high, even stocks are usually influenced by statements of some famous people as well but there's no one complaining of manipulation. Therefore if same thing happened to crypto more specifically bitcoin where the value keep increasing because of elon hype, it's simply because most of people are welcoming it.

Crypto definitely better, so many millenials has now switching over to crypto since it's just more profitable and the problem with stock market more specifically coming from third world countries the manipulation is rampant by the whales, the price could literally be controlled by the whales through the use of their massive capital meanwhile most of cryptocurrencies nowadays already have big market which make such thing hard to do.
There's this trend of leaving stock market for crypto around the world and if that's true meaning people already see crypto as a better option for investment.

That's like just a way for yahoo to improve view to their article, you know recently many medias are also making such clickbait article just for the views because crypto is so hot right now.
Just ignore this article really, I don't even think yahoo was intended to fud bitcoin anyway since i'm pretty sure such article isn't coordinated and published because the higher ups of yahoo intended but because journalist opinion.
not to mention this article created without any deep knowledge regarding the market condition seeing that he's recommending ltc over btc lol.

Depends, by incorporating BTC you could open up to a whole new userbase while also make huge profit from it but doesn't necessarily mean a company should incorporate it to go forward and i'm pretty sure not all company could take the risk of investing in BTC because it could potentially mess up with their company economy since as we all know crypto is high risk high return but a technology company should definitely incorporate it. Investment wise, it's still worrying but technology wise, cryptocurrency is really good for the company.

Just search up on telegram you gonna find like thousands of them but most of them are just some bullshit that praise themselves when they're right and silent when they're wrong not to mention following crypto signal blindly is not encouraged since it's basically like gambling giving up your financial decision to some stranger over internet whose interest is to make money as well whether from the trade and from you.

a meme coin having that huge market capital just seems kinda ridiculous, even though if doge stays at current price and just wait for a decade its market gonna grow as big as bitcoin just because the doge mined everyday if btc price also stays the same.
But yeah, doge reaching that price within few coming weeks seems like a wishful thinking, not even elon with his shill could do that much to doge, just don't put too much expectation in doge honestly since this coin was meant to be a meme and now becomes a pump and dump scheme.

Yeah trading is more mentally exhausting as many ever imagined. Just imagining having an asset that's really volatile could keep you up for the whole night but there's reason why exchanges offers a way to make buy limit, sell limit, etc or even there's reason why trading bot was created and it's mainly to give more leeway and relaxation to the traders, what you need is just to set up your strategy you don't need to stay awake the entire night though if the coins that you were invested in turns out flopping so hard the next morning and you don't set anything to prevent your asset from draining it could be really stressful indeed.
I personally prefer to invest long term, just put the money in some project or coin and then forget about it until next few years. One thing for sure though, if you don't want to get stressed out from trading avoid pump and dump shitcoins from telegram crypto groups.

It's more of different kind of customers in crypto market (those who understands what blockchain really is and those who just coming here to get profit) will have different preference. AFAIK people who just want to make profit and quit are those who don't care whether a coin is centralized or not, whether the blockchain is centralized or decentralized because such thing only essential to think about when we're talking about long term investment. I personally prefer ethereum because their blockchain is decentralized and the running validators aren't controlled by one entity.
But if anyone only come to crypto market for the sole purpose of trading that's not really necessary to think about I guess, therefore they gonna view a coin from the partnership or connection, like BSC was originally created by binance a popular exchange.