trading is the most common way that everybody knows about it certainly is not the best or even easiest way of earning bitcoin. because it is a risky job that brings about so much stress with itself which is not good for health!

i believe the best way which is also hard is running your own business with bitcoin, especially if you are offering some goods or services in return for bitcoin.

it will depend on what they are going to offer me in return.
if it is only a wallet in their bank with a card that i can spend from, then no thank you. i can spend bitcoin on my own much easier and much cheaper there is no need to pay fees to a bank to be able to use bitcoin.

but if what they offer in return is good enough, like profit, ability to use it like fiat "anywhere" and some other things then why not.

the first question you have to ask yourself is "how much i love my money?" then decide on choosing one of these web wallets.

if you don't care about losing your money to a hack, whether it is your password being leaked or the site getting hacked. then go with any of them.

and if you don't care if someday one of these wallet providers said "you broke our rules so we take your money and close your account" then go with coinbase.

i wanted to mine myself but i have never tried it because of the costs so i can't give you detailed reply to your questions but what i can do is to introduce you to this site called http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency which also has mining calculator which can help you decide on the profits of mining cryptocurrencies.
example for eth: http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/ethereum-mining-calculator

it is not yet changing any games and it may do it some day but for now bitcoin is too small especially with this block size to change any game in economy !

and so far the regulations have never been that extreme. i mean some countries made bitcoin illegal but those were always some third world country that noone cares about.
the countries like US is not doing it and even Japan has embraced bitcoin, so i think we can't expect anything bad in the future either.

bitcoin price is 700 dollar now and it doesn't matter how much some people dislike it because they missed out and it doesn't matter if it goes below it for a short time, the price is 700 dollar and it will go back there no matter how much they swing bitcoin around with dumps and spreading lies about china or other things!

in my experience from what i have seen most of these books about how to become such and such thing are mostly some general outlines with some big worlds and after reading it cover to cover you get the feeling you know everything but when you try it in actual world you realize you never learnt anything from those books.

that is why i suggest learning on your own or finding a mentor if you could.

please for the love of god stop this fake obsession with China and bitcoin. nothing will change ever with anything.

even if China stops using bitcoin in any form today, apart from a temporary hit to the price and hash rate there will be no other effect and bitcoin will continue on existing and being strong and popular.

the last bitcoin bubble is a different thing, it was the first time bitcoin, a crypto-currency was going this high 1000 times the value of a dollar. it is understandable that after that so many speculators rushed in to invest and then learned about altcoins too. so i guess it will be different now. since there is no new blood like those days but the good old pumpers who come back to pump altcoins.

they are the same in some aspects and different on some others. in general i think these two can be considered somewhat similar.

one of the differences that i have found is that in stocks market the rises are never like rises in altcoin trading market and that is because altcoin market is smaller, un-regulated and usually manipulated a lot.
also the country financial state usually affect stocks but it has no effect on altcoins.

if it is only a matter of price then maybe you are right but for solar panel usage you only need solar energy (a clear sky to see the sun) and it has nothing to do with the temperature although hotter countries have more clear sky and sun exposure but it is a strange thing to say.

and i think this is great but it is one of those things that we are too far away from seeing it in real world applications and be used.

as far as i remember the Greek crisis did change bitcoin price but since Greek and its crisis were small the effect was not that big either.

and about US election i have to say i still don't believe it can change anything about bitcoin price unless users continue creating topics like this and continue making the event bigger than it really should be!

i have been trying to make some passive income for myself in the past 2 months and i have been somewhat successful. unlike other comments in this topic i don't consider earnings through jobs and trading as passive income that is why i have made some long term investments in gold and also i invested in real estate which will make me a good profit in the near future because of its location.

this is nothing new and nothing to worry about.

it has always been like this. when price goes up it also becomes unstable too. it is like playing jump-rope with the $700 price, it goes up and down and helps traders make more money (hint) and then eventually it stops above $700 and never comes back down.

this has already happened a lot of times before.

the government actually can ban usage of all kinds of cryptocurrency what they can't do is preventing people from using then. besides banning then is never going to happen and even if it happens it can not be the reason for replacement.

the only scenario which bitcoin can be replaces is that some new coin with the same features and security but without some of the downsides is invented and since it has not yet happened and it is not easy to come up with it, replacement can not happen anytime soon.

i have been seeing lots of these so called "apps" that each do a different thing, they all have big ideas in their heads but they only seem good and never go anywhere.

in my opinion the biggest problem with this type of apps is that they think you need to make a new coin to do something that can already be done with bitcoin so they never succeed.

while trading you should plan ahead not when things happen.
this means that you should have this thing called stop loss in your mind that you sell when that limit is reached without any hesitation. i have also lost money because of being stubborn and not selling but now i sell no matter what happens next if my target is reached.

a small loss is a lot better than a big loss.

i don't think anyone apart from their competition dislikes coinbase. it actually is a good service and i believe that it and also others like circle are a helpful thing to have especially for newbies who want to start using bitcoin.

the only thing that people say against coinbase and service like that is that you shouldn't use them as your primary bitcoin wallet because first it is online and second it is a third party who controls the private keys.

first of all stores, and merchants in general would love it if price is stable, and also people who want to use bitcoin as currency would love it if they could be sure that $1 worth of bitcoin would be the same in a couple of months and doesn't go down.

second of all traders won't like it but they won't leave the market either. just the same way they have been trading USD, EUR, .... and so many other fiat currencies that have the same value (nearly stable price).

price these days have a very strong tendency to stay above $700 so it is like an spring at this moment. you can put pressure on it with panic sells and rumors you spread and make it go down but it will release and jump back up to the last lever above $700 again. and this has already happened once and will happen again.