Bitcoin will be an option in time of war but not particularly the first or primary resort for them. There are many things out there that could be a safe haven for your money.

Speaking about manipulation, that kind of practices seems to have already running since long time ago. Though, so many attempt of manipulations by group of whales but still here we are. If people resorting to bitcoin which also automatically increase the market capitalization it will atleast become a lot harder and requires a lot more resource to manipulate.

That does make sense considering when people are almost facing a hard time and worrying about their wealth they always resort to crypto or other form of borderless store of value just like the recent inflated price of btc in Iran. It might be the government seeing their economy has becoming weaker and can't handle to let any capital out of their country.

This volatility problem has long been resolved. just use payment gateway services out there they will automatically convert all the cryptos they received into money and send it straight into your account. People keep repeating the same thing about volatility makes bitcoin unsuitable for payment but that's not actually the case. Even the transaction fee has now becoming so cheap and the transaction speed is well, not really fast but normal enough.

That is basically the same as using bank transfer then. Using centralized crypto which probably backed by the government would be a waste of time. Why going through hardship deploying crypto if it's centralized at the end of the day. Although i'm pessimistic whether world could run solely in decentralzied crypto or not but to have centralized crypto despite making sense will just be a waste of time.

How that could make the system less secure if all the chinese miners stopped mining? Isn't that will further increase the decentralization of hash power? Even if we lost so many hash power today in the next 2006 blocks it will adjust and once mining for people with relatively weak rigs is becoming profitable people will try to run their mining power again. This banning will actually influence nothing to the whole blockchain.

I believe that the main reason why these anonymous coin created is not for avoiding taxes which is a grave mistake if you use them for that purpose and the consequences once they find out thay you're doing such practices. Even if in the future these anonymous coins will be under supervision I guess the government only able to supervise it through exchange and not directly considering the nature of its anonymous coin's blockchain.

it’s true that stablecoin probably is a better option for payment method than using the volatiles one but there surprisingly people are still using bitcoin because they are more fond of it and it is already adopted widely.
The thing is, with the existence of payment gateway that facillitates businesman into accepting crypto but directly converting it to fiat as soon as they received the payment. It solves the problem about volatility in term of payment tool.

I mean, can’t really call it price manipulation if the whole market could be influenced that easily. People really are thristy of popular people’s tweet regarding crypto therefore a simple tweet like that vould ridiculously affect the market. Heck, even people are making conspiracy theory out of it.

Yeah they are not bad from the perspective of profit seekers but if that hardfork is trying to meddle with the already existing coin like bitcoin and trying to gather or lure people into using their hardfork coins with all the dirty tricks that means it’s bad. Althouh most of the time when I got the airdrop or free coin from all these hardforks I will just cash it out as fast as I can.

Got the same feeling about tesla, the company always growing up and the hype caused by people everytime it released a new car but what I'm afraid the most buying their stocks is once another big car manufacturing company started to adopt electric car the same way as tesla and that will be the time Tesla being tested whether they could compete with them or not. Even I think that at this point there's nothing tesla could offer anymore, though the stock might be just increasing steadily in the future due to being owned by "Elon Musk"

Big corporation or company just want to take advantage of blockchain and thats' why they are doing research and investment into the blockchain technology to find the real use of it and implement it to their system but doesn't necessarily means that they are gonna launch their own cryptocurrency.
Even I can't see the reason youtube should release their own cryptocurrency while they already have their google payment from its parent company. There's just no reason at all.

just tweeting randomly like that and people already assuming here and there. if Elon really want to build quantum computer then let him be, I'm sure that the whole crypto community will bring a counter measure against quantum computer in the future though that might bring massive change to the whole crypto.

That time when they decide to require KYC for all the users and those who want to register is the downfall of their exchange. No one is going to submit their ID for KYC just because they want to exchange some pennies they gathered out of altcoins and now they are seeking for new users. I guess in my opinion it's just too late for them considering many exchanges have taken majority of their former users.

Maybe it's true that people are converting their money out of fear if the war breaking out and then after getting some relief they intend to convert it back but the fact that Iran is not a major player in crypto actually means that it has no significant effect to the market and I think it's just global sentiment regarding the market driven by the fact that if the war breaks out it might affect the price of stocks and commodities therefore some people think it's alright to temporarily convert their wealth to bitcoin.

Although there's no clear parameter how you could determine whether a market is maturing or not, it's true that the massive bearish market and the stable price have succesfully getting rid of all the wannabe and shit project. At this point I expect the current project that could survive the winter of crypto to function and deliver their promise thus contribute to the whole crypto community.

It's called ATH for a reason and most of commodities or currency will always have its highest point. To compare the ATH and the current price is by no means depressing considering back then most of crypto was really overvalued.

every person's movement has a motive and well, a popular figure among crypto users like CZ to shill certain coin for his own gain is really to be expected and not something out of ordinary.
It's people's mistake to get easily lured into believing or taking into account the opinion or shill of certain figures like CZ to their trading decision, can't really blame him if you are thinking with that logic though if he shill both these coin and it succeed to pump up the price that's certainly in my favour.

Imposing ban just because they are fighting money laundering and terrorism is just a really weak reasoning. There should be a bigger motive behind this banning.
Although I'm sure that Qatar ban won't significantly affect the market but it's always such unfortunate to see a country is imposing ban without a strong reason and probably just making up excuse.

If there's war people will hardly care about Gold let alone bitcoin and that'll definitely not gonna make the price increase. Despite many people saying that people who at war are going to convert their money to BTC that's just hardly true.

However, if USA dollar weaking it'll yuan that have the highest chance of replacing it because China is 2nd biggest economy in the world.

not really, imagine investing to gold that's really hard to liquidate at the time of war.

Atleast public blockchain still has some individuals participating therefore it's a lot more decentralized than private blockchain which really feels like banking system disguising as a crypto. We also need to reconsider the fact that private blockchain could easily intervened by government or some people with power, meanwhile public blockchain is all about hash power talk though if we have less than 51% of all hash power we're basically can do nothing.

No significant influence by Iran simply because they are not major bitcoin market and the percentage of bitcoin users there quite small. I assume if war breaks they'll simply convert their bitcoin to some fiat that can be used to buy food and to shelter them. In the difficult time like war people don't care about wealth anymore as long they can get food and shelter.

Although some people might say that people in Iran will try to save their wealth by converting it to Bitcoin and some proof is the overly inflated price of bitcoin in Iran but that's not true. Things like that will just happen temporarily because people are panicking.