And even if whales wished to liquidate all their holdings, in an attempt to drive bitcoin's price to zero, that would be great and healthy for the market, because we would finally get rid of manipulation here, as all the coins dropped by them for sale would be immediately purchased by new and small investors who were waiting bitcoin to get cheaper to invest. Indeed there would be a momentaneous crash in price, but that should be instantly reverted by a bullish tendendy due to removing the big players from the game. Whales aren't crazy to do that, though. That would be too good to be true.

It's addictive because it's accessible and reachable at anytime, since you have connection with the internet, what isn't hard nowadays too. The individual doesn't even need to get up from his bed to start gambling. Everything is done at the reach of his fingers. OP is right, and it's much more encouraging than having to go to a land based casino which is far from home or in another city. If the person isn't attentive to his gambling habits, the risks of developing an addiction are much more severe than in the previous era, when there weren't virtual casinos yet.

Nowadays with internet and crypto casinos, to ban gambling games in their country doesn't make sense, because any japanese citizen can simply sign up at one crypto casino, make a bitcoin deposit and start playing any game he likes and can't physically on his native country. Although it's bad news for japanese who want to start a gambling business, it's good news for online casinos which see their customers' base increasing exponentially because of government's measures like that.

You don't necessarily need to import goods from Alibaba or China. I don't know how the demand for such cheap product in EU is, but I guess you could try something more refined and elaborated. Since you want to invest your BTCs, the most logical alternative is imports, without any doubts, as Bitcoin is a boardless currency, very convenient to negotiate with people from other countries in an accessible way.

But first, check what the demand in your area is for, then go for that category of good, but not the cheap, copy ones. Import original goods of high quality and look for customers who are willing to pay the fair price for it. And don't stick to China only. Maybe you could even import something from an european country which you know you are going to resell easily.

In some cases it also applies. But regards altcoins, there is still a practical purpose on why we should acquire and hold them for real benefits.

True, but if you can speculate on something which has a practical usage it's more advised than speculating on NFTs which have as main argument the uniqueness of the pieces, although you can reproduce each of them for free with a simple print-screen function on your keyboard. The potential of these artistic NFT collections is the same potential of memecoins. Today they have demand, but tomorrow they might not have anymore, because it's exclusively about hype, instead of real benefits and application.

That was an example of scarcity, originality that could never be replaced by a digital format of art.

Because of the speculation which can last until tomorrow only, and not because those NFTs are considered outstanding art pieces. Speculative price can be 1$ million dollars, but artistic value of those NFTs is zero.

Regards NFTs, do you mean? In some months or years nobody will know what apes and punks are anymore and enthusiasts holding those pictures on their wallets are going to see their investments melting down... And that is not hate, just an alert for investors who are being deluded by this category of crypto investment.

No, just look how many crypto related businesses there are nowadays. Basically these businesses rely on bitcoin for the survival of their businesses. These people won't let bitcoin reach to zero. There is a whole ecosystem composed by employers, employees, developers, freelancers, investors, traders, merchants who beneft from bitcoin in a daily basis. Moreover, without bitcoin I don't think we would have access to a real decentralized currency which nobody can shut down or print more of it as they wished. The trust bitcoin achieved from adopters is unique and it's also a factor to boost the currency's price.

I believe each country has to solve the problems inside their own houses, before partnering with others. By mixing argentinian and brazilian currencies, they are bringing the consequences of internal economical problems from Argentina to the brazilians, and vice-versa.

Each country has its political and economical systems which were chosen by citizens in democractic elections. By doing this, authorities might be mixing systems people from one country or another aren't confortable with. And considering how chaotic is the economical situation in Argentina and Brazil right now, I don't see it as productive measure.

Anyway, the proposal doesn't replace the currently Real and Peso by a new currency. It's different from the Euro in Europe. They would coexist and the usage wouldn't be imposed to every citizens from both nations.

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Regards Africa, well, it's not a common currency for the whole continent which is going to be the solution for their problems.

Probably it's not going to be a major company, but minor ones ran by car dealers who resell used, second hand cars in different countries and regions. Since it's a tough business full of competition among each other, these professional sellers have to be creative and offer their customers different payment options. The more the better, and that is where bitcoin comes in handy. During a negotiation, bitcoin might be the decisive factor!

Tesla had plans of accepting BTC and DOGE as payment, but later it was revealed to be just a speculative declaration for manipulative purposes.

Bitcoin for long term gains and stocks market for stability, plus dividends income. Both are good alternatives for your money to avoid letting it idle depreciating in fiat currency, but right now I'm more confident in BTC than anything else from stocks market. The lack of trust in companies and institutions is really worrying investors around the world, while bitcoin becomes an alternative in this scenario of uncertainties and mistrust.

The ideal is to acquire a house, but sometimes we have no choice besides renting. Like myself, I've been always against renting, but now I had to go for it, paying 135$ monthly in a suite, in order to be able to seek for a higher educational level in another city. I concluded we can't be too strict on our views in a way it's going to paralyze us in life. Life is constant movement, and if we have to "waste money" renting a house or apartment to advance in life and persue goals, that we do it without regrets!

Also, if you live somewhere precarious and non-promising because a temporary job, better that you just rent, as the investment there will be lost, since these areas don't make your property gain value on long term.

Governments run ponzi schemes through their national currencies which are heavily manipulated by the central banks. If they adopt bitcoin or a strong stable currency, like dollar, they won't be able to continue their populist welfare programs which distribute "free" money to the poor class, while raising their own wages and increasing the number of useless jobs' spots in the state for their friends.

Actually, governments don't want to fix the economy for real, because it's seen as an unpopular measure in the eyes of the masses. So they prefer to play with "shitcurrencies".

SHIB is following BTC trend upside in this beginning of 2023. It's a good moment for those investors who were in loss with their SHIB portfolios to get rid of this token while they can and invest in something promising for the future. On the other hand, if you are risk taker, you might prefer to continue holding and see how far SHIB can reach yet, although personally I don't think it's a good idea, since the price of this token is blatantly manipulated in large scale.

I really can't sell that, because nobody will have interest in purchasing, since just like me, they can also get a .jpg identical copy for free. On the other hand, you could never have an identical Monalisa painting copy for free. The market of art pieces can work only in physical format.

NFT artistic pieces are purely speculative and a method to launder money virtually.

I believe NFTs have a lot of potential, but inside online multiplayer games only, as they have unique usages on practice there.

I think regulators shouldn't allow such products to be manufactured and negotiated. That is lack of respect and consideration with customers who have been acquiring the real product for their whole lives, but now have to make use of a parallel, mixed one. If things continue going this route, I believe in some years we won't be able to enjoy the same flavour of the food people did in the past. Everything is getting too artificial and dilute in order to maximize profits for businessmen.

This is a powerful message every gamblers have to learn before or while their games' sessions. Nobody survive for too long in gambling without proper money management, and those who think it's not important, start playing randomly going busted much faster than a responsible gambler who premeditate his steps during the game, potentially going bankrupt and becoming addicted, if they aren't careful and attentive to what they are doing.

I think the quote above summarizes everything. If dollar has never threated Bitcoin during all these 14 years of existence, why would an identical twin do?

There isn't anything special about digital dollar, because like the regulators said, it's the same thing of the currently dollar currency!

Many of those experts are actually altcoins' shillers, so they badmouth Bitcoin in order to make the altcoins they work for look more interesting in the eyes of the investors who follow their channels. I've already seen many times they claiming Bitcoin was over, and that they knew the cryptocurrency which was going to replace the king, so they were going to share this secret with everyone who paid them to participate an exclusive group of traders and crypto experts. The purpose is solely to take money from investors for themselves.

Here we are also facing a severe rainy season. It rains almost everyday and all day long, but that is normal, due to the currently season of the year. Dirt roads become impassable sometimes on the reclined parts and there is nothing we can do besides waiting. Plain, flat areas where farmers use to grow crops and let their cattle eat are completely taken by water, like a great river. But again, that is normal because the nature has been behaving like this since a long time ago.

We should adapt ourselves to this reality and prepare for times like this. For an example: don't spend too much money investing on crops that might be lost to the excessive rain, build houses on safe terrain, make sure there is a decent water flow mechanism in houses and city, prefer projecting and developing suspended buildings.

You can have some notion by accessing this website where they classify bitcoin's addresses by how many bitcoins each of them holds.
https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

Wealthiest addresses must belong to exchanges' wallets, not individual investors.

Total invested money in BTC should be the total number of coins in circulation multiplied by currently BTC's price, no?

One thing businessmen do in my country to raise their profits and keep the prices stable for customers is to change the ingredients of the products a little bit. Let's pick milk cream. It has been always made of milk, but now you hardly find pure milk cream on the supermarket for sale, because they created a new category of milk cream made of the serum of the milk. It's basically using the milk for something else, and what remains and should be discarded, they use to create another product, but with very inferior quality, flavour and nutrients.