You registered in 2014 and deicide to go all-in during the last ATH? I'm kind of lost for words here. If you are now renting, I suggest to keep doing that :-)

Special jan 1st tax discount dip, get you screen-shots ready! Tomorrow we can go back to 20k.

After a temporary stay in the UK, I could not remotely close the account, so they kept sending regular mail and new cards to my current country. After many years they gave in and closed the account, and send me a UK check for the final balance: 14 cents, which will cost me several euro's to deposit at my local bank. I told them they could keep it or donate it to charity, but that wasn't possible in there system.

This is bitcoin. It's going up because it's going up and down because it's going down. That's by far the biggest thing driving it.
Hodling and planning to buy some cheap coins in a week or 2.

I'm hoping for an even lower bottom January 1st (for tax reasons). ATH's around new-year are expensive in my country.
Fortunately my tax-code doesn't specify a time on January 1st, so that gives quite a bit of wiggle-room in the case of bitcoin prices.

You have a good set of random words as your wallet pass phrase. But why post it?

Wall observation at stamp: nothing happening (yet)

(getting totally off-topic, but I'd like to add a positive note in light of the current prices)
Most of the problems you describe result from too high density of people because people all want to be where the most natural resources are, and then having conflicting ideas about who those resources belong to. (your link is the opposite of reducing population density)

I hope both will improve with renewable energy. It's one of the most important resources, and makes _many_ more location perfectly habitable, resulting in a lower population density. In case of solar, the resource is not bound to a location, so land-grab won't get you the resource, the owner will take the panels with them when you chaise them away.
Water is also an important resource, but anywhere near the coast it is easy to create when there is almost unlimited supply of energy.

I'm ok until someone eats the 5000 btc wall at $2000 on stamp.   (that's some serious fiat to throw at an exchange, and I bet the 10k btc wall at $1k is related)

Bitcoin has has several good reason to die every year since 2009. This isn't even a good one. Is bitcoin more dead this time than when silkroad was closed down? or the mtgox thingy? And those where real actually happened things, not a rumours mill. China is a very big place and the importance of federal rules varies a lot depending on where in China you happen to live. Even in the EU the "interpretation" of new EU rules varies a lot between member states, and some are running years behind others. Especially the financial EU rules are broken by almost any member, and also by the EU organizations themselves. China needs to export, they would never ban any form of payment, unless they are suddenly concerned about the profit margin of paypal.

We just dropped to 31% above last month price. A typical bottom in bitcoin logic.

Don't know much about trading or taxes (in any country), but maybe keep the bitcoins you regular trade with on a different bitcoin address? (which would already be the case if you keep them at an exchange). Then just call one an "investment account" and the other a "trading account".
Or just look at the lowest amount of BTC held in a year (or whatever the term is), and call that "savings/investments" and the rest trading stack or something.

Doesn't that just increase the mempool, raising transaction fees, raising profits for any miner that does process these high-fee transactions? Unless he mines nearly all the blocks, I don't see a problem. (low-fee transactions not getting processed is not a problem, transactions are not intended to be free.)

At least in the Netherlands, you still have to pay 30% income tax on a fictive 4% gain, which works out as a fixed 1.2% tax per year, based on the total value of property (excluding one house and car, but including bitcoin, gold, cash above a few hundred bucks, etc.).
The 4% is fixed. Even if your savings account pays 0.1% interest you have to pay for a 4% gain. if bitcoin is going up or down 99%, you still pay for a 4% gain. Value is based _only_ on the value at jan 1st, which kind of sucks if bitcoun peaks around newjear.

Short-term hodling is seen as speculating "work" and full income tax (upto 52% here) is due on the actual gains.
Long-term hodling is seen as investment and not taxed, except for the above 1.2% / year.

We still pay 21% sales tax if we spend any money, but conversions between bitcoin and euro's are not counted as spending.

1 satoshi is also the minimum (sensible) transaction fee, but I'm not complaining at 1$B.

Just 6 new bitcoins / 10 minutes after June 2020. (does a $3M block reward sound reasonable?)

South Korean BTC's trading $1000 above rest of the world was end of may. I suspect N. Korean BTC volume is minimal, unless the government started trading in BTC.

Bought when the price halved from the $1200 peak in 2013 to $600. Created this account when 2015 was far into the future. Bought some more on the way down to $200. hodling worked out for me. Bought one more at the $1000 dip, which was only march _this_ year. Bitcoin is anything but boring.

If you want my non-medical, non-smoker(ever), but computer programmer opinion, I would first stick to a fixed number of cigarettes per day/week, then cut it down slowly, maybe even 1/4 cigarettes at a time. And definitely find something else to chew on and play with, maybe get a huge box of wooden dowels at the hardware store. The habit is more addictive than the chemicals.

An (otherwise) healthy human body is surprisingly good at getting rid of toxic substances and recovering after you quit smoking. Many cells get completely replaced every few month anyway. Long term health effects statistics are mostly if you keep smoking, but are reduced to almost normal a couple years after quitting.
Quid smoking today, and if you must, delay seeing the doctor. If you still have not made up your mind a year later, you will at least feel a lot better already and not worry about seeing a doctor.

And on my 486 CPU it took 16 hours to convert 1 hour of ripped WAV files to a stereo MP3. None of this real-time encoding 4k video from a cheap phone.