one of the biggest damages that the altcoin pump and dumps of last year did  was that it gave a lot of the newcomers false sense of being-experienced because literary they could close their eyes throw a stone that hit an altcoin, buy it and make profit. then many of them though they can make profit in this market but this year showed them another reality which was the dump.
which is why i believe we see a lot of newbies telling others "have patience"!

yeah, that is also my conclusion.
in fact that is why i never bothered to check them out despite the fact that i have tried almost all the bitcoin wallets that have ever existed! they advertise a lot but it is mostly hot air.

no there aren't. any mining website or commonly known as the cloud miners are a terrible things to use because they are either scams since they run a ponzi scheme to make money or they eventually are forced to turn into a ponzi scheme when they fail to make profit and have to sell hashrate they don't have.

i don't get why you call this a "big move" by t his particular exchange.
ZebPay was a fiat to bitcoin exchange where people could go dump their Indian Rupee for bitcoin and ever since the banks closed their accounts they were screwed because their money was blocked, they couldn't make more money and they had to pay their users back too.
closing their business which can't work for now is a logical move not a big one! which should have happened a long time ago.

i am curious to know whether anyone is currently even using Samurai wallet? i have heard the name many times, mostly because of SegWit but apart from that i have never heard anyone saying they use this wallet. for example if you check out the alternative clients board in the past 10 pages (i  didn't check more than 10) which is about 1 year there is only one topic!

you don't regulate things by having a stake in them! it is like saying for the government to regulate companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Dell,... they have to own majority of the shares of these companies to control them! which is obviously not the case. 
in a society when the law maker makes a new law the law enforcement enforces it. they don't need stakes to enforce it. and cryptocurrencies and their regulation doesn't have to be any different than regulating a company.

it will be a slow process and during that process as long as majority of those who are holding bitcoin are aware of why bitcoin was created in first place and as long as they are willing to spend bitcoin instead of just holding and selling at higher prices to make profit, then everything will be fine and it won't matter who is holding and who is selling. because our goal is to have a censorship resistance system so you can't force people to only go in one direction.

i think an overall chart plus a chart for a longer time than 1 year would have been better to show the trends that bitcoin usually follow because the cycles are a bit longer than 1 year sometimes and also the 2013-2014 case has been an exception that only happened once this past 10 years of bitcoins history.

in any case the long term is what you should always look at and 1 year charts are still a pretty good thing to see. it didn't have to be a whole year of down market after the $20k bubble but so far we have had 9 months of it because almost everyone believed that is how it should be!

these ups and downs to $6800 and $6100 that you mentioned are NOT really ups and downs so you can't really call it a "next move". it is not even a resistance there to break or not break. these are daily fluctuations. and we will continue seeing this for a while without it having any significant meaning other than signalling an accumulation phase.

1&2. LN is not bitcoin but a network that is build on top of bitcoin and relies on bitcoin and the blockchain of it. the fact that other altcoins use it doesn't make it any less true.
it uses multisig but you still are in full control of your funds. you can take it out anytime you wanted to. that "permission" that you need to get your bitcoin's out is granted to you when you open the channel and when the balance changes like after spending or receiving funds and you can use the already signed transaction to "cash out" or make the on-chain transaction closing the channel and taking your money out.

3. i don't know about it to deny or admit

i am not visiting reddit by the way...

why would a wallet want to spend money advertising itself? do you see Bitcoin Core, Electrum, Armory, Multi Bit, GreenAddress, Bitaddress.org, ... advertise on google?!!! that doesn't even make sense.

so advertising a wallet has an incentive in it. they are either some custodial service like coinbase that need advertising (which means they are not a wallet) or they are scammers trying to spread some malware and earn money that way.

now that's just absurd.
LN is not completely a separate network. it is a network strongly connected to bitcoin network. and calling it "like ripple" is just dumb. on Ripple network everything is centralized. even if it looks any other way. you holding private keys to Ripple addresses means nothing since they can spend your coins if they wanted to like they did once before. but you holding your bitcoin private keys and using LN means you are in control.

as for "change", LN could have been built on top of bitcoin that was before easily but the problem was the malleability that made it insecure and that much harder to use LN in a safe way.

the altcoin market has matured a lot compared to 2014 and altcoins are so much better now than before but even with all that they still remain pretty terrible coins and are still considered as the child market which is used to fuel the pockets of the whales who want an easy coin to pump and dump.

regarding fiat to altcoin markets, there are none that is being used. however there are lots of stable-altcoin to altcoin markets such as USDT which is NOT fiat. and so far it has been used for the purpose of escaping the dumps whenever bitcoin price is going down. which means the same story as always is still going on.

in the past or the present or the near future altcoins have acted as a way for traders to make more money. otherwise the volume of BTC/ALT wouldn't have been the highest volume compared to volume of ALT/ALT or as you want ALT/FIAT. for example ETH which is the biggest coin based on hype and pumps has a ration of 0.14 when you compare its total volume in ETH/BTC markets and ETH/USD, EUR, CNY, JPY GBP

in short if bitcoin's bear market starts up again you can kiss altcoins good bye as they will continue dropping so much harder. you can see the examples of it today and every other day for the pat 9 years. today: bitcoin -3%, most altcoins like ETH: >-10%

well at some point people started advertising bitcoin as "to the moon", "HODL", and stuff like that and then price went up too fast and too big like it usually does so we ended up with a large number of people who were only interested in making profit (when to buy and when to sell).
i don't think it is necessarily a bad thing. people who started like that can eventually see the real potential of bitcoin as the decentralized currency and see the other side of the coin to.

nobody said Google doesn't understand the importance of crypto! but the thing is, the advertisements that were using google ads were 90% or maybe more scams. they were either scam ICOs trying to rip off newbies while getting a bigger audience using google ads or they were phishing links to fake wallets and malwares trying to invest cryptocurrency users.... so the ban was not really a bad thing in first place.
and in my opinion this strict policy about advertisements on their platform is also justified.

in today's modern world if you don't use banks and other forms of electronic money, your life is going to be a nightmare specially when you want to make big purchases like buying a car for example! which is why i find it highly unbelievable that there exists someone who doesn't use any of them unless we are talking about a homeless person or some conspiracy theory crazy guy who lives in a van with a tinfoil hat

you can't expect everyone to be a born expert when they enter the market. there will always be different people from all ages (adolescent teenagers to elderly) with different range of experience and expertise. sometimes they are also lazy and want someone to take their hands and give them all the answers with them not moving a finger. that is not exactly something you can blame.

my point was that it can not be the "key to mass adoption" as your title suggests.
additionally i don't think countries creating their own cryptocurrency is going to change much about adoption of a decentralized currency like bitcoin or even legalization of it. it can go both ways. they can create their own coin while letting bitcoin grow or they can ban bitcoin while advertising their own coin as the only cryptocurrency people are allowed to use.

LOL. today was just another altcion pump and dump which took place with a dump and pump instead. nothing to see here really and it definitely is not something you open up a topic about in bitcoin board.
for example some whales have been dumping ethereum, letting it come back up then dumping again some more. all the while pumping XRP up.

i wouldn't call it key because although what you are saying is going to be great if it happens but it is still going to target a very small group of people whoa are actually buying tickets. how many people can actually go to an stadium and watch the matches anyways?

interestingly enough we will see this in action during the 2020 Olympics which is held  in Japan.