Haven't used other independent p2p platforms but I am a regular user of the binance p2p services. I trusted this platform more than any other service provider because of their established reputation in this industry. However, as far as I know, a lot are using the localbitcoins - https://localbitcoins.com/.

this is the kind of subject that doesn't need to be discussed much, the thing is quite simple: if a government creates a law that prohibits using bitcoin then people in that country just have to obey the laws

Iota has free transactions and very innovative. I guess bitcoin is still in the dinosaur age.

Problem is the admins like to lock threads so no free speach and the people here exist to shoot ideas down which is fine I wouldnt have that any other way but the admins shouldnt be locking threads. They should let a free discussion but they dont.

I mean, there is some truth to what he said, but correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there anything new with what he said to anyone with decent knowledge in this space? Most cryptocurrencies being centralized, pump and dumps, manipulation, and other shady stuff and all that. In a mostly anonymous and pseudonymous industry, it's almost guaranteed to have a lot of bad actors.

Great resources, I'd like to chime in and add https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook!

Expect this as many people or institution trying to became relevant or want to create a noise and get a free publicity to the bitcoin users community that's why some other like this release a high price prediction so that there name will also be mentioned for their released speculation. But lets stick to reality and  provably we will not see that price as that figures is so expensive to be bought by many people and I think the demand will get affected if the price surge so high as people cannot afford it anymore.

Nonsensical prediction. Anyone can make such wild predictions. Nuts is the appropriate answer to this question in my opinion. Would you call me nuts if I predicted that BTC would drop to a $1 by 2035?

Honestly, after all the rallies and crashes over time, I learnt that the current price of BTC matters more than its past price or future price(Present matters more than the Past and Future).

I don't know what to think anymore, until not too long ago, professional investors either dismissed Bitcoin or said it was a scam, a ponzi scheme etc. Now it seems that they are changing their minds Saylor's style. In the case of Fidelity, it's not that they have changed their mind, as they started mining in 2014, but they have just come off the hook with a prediction that a couple of years ago would have seemed too crazy to us:

Fidelity Predicting $100 Million per Bitcoin by 2035

"...the firm is putting out bullish reports on Bitcoin and sees the leading digital asset hitting $1 million before this decade is over and a whopping $100 million by 2035.

This much hopium was difficult to digest for some as one Redditor noted, “Bitcoin is not gonna reach $100 million. That would give it a market cap of $2,100 trillion. The total wealth of the entire world is $418 trillion.”

I suppose that here they take into account inflation by massive printing, because otherwise it is simply impossible.

To better understand what exactly BTC is better read the whitepaper. To summarise, btc is peer to peer electronics cash transfer protocol.
Miners are running to solve a complex program and who ever solves this complex program wins the chance to write to next available block and is given reward for his services.

I quit trading back in February, a little after Elon Musk purchased Bitcoin. I took a decent loss then, which I partially managed to recoup shortly after. However, I decided that trading isn't for me, it's way too risky and unpredictable for my liking. On top of that, it was making me anxious, seeing all these ups and downs, which I understand that is the interesting part of crypto, but it would make me irritating and distressed.

I wish it's easy for everyone of us to spot the lowest price. Since that's the cycle, would this mean that we will soon see a long bear period since the market is still bullish until now? We saw bitcoin dip at $28k, but that was not brought by a long bear market, it's just a short correction that resulted in an easy bounce-back of price.

It is really not easy to catch the dip levels and not to miss those chances. Because we don't know what price the dip is for a coin. We just want to make use of the chance when the coin price decreases at a high rate. For example, I guess many people bought Bitcoin when the price was at $30k. It was a good opportunity to accumulate after a big dump. Some people wanted to wait more and expected a bigger drop. But that didn't happen and they missed it.

I suppose if the us dollar ever became worthless so that people used it as toilet paper, MAYBE bitcoin could be some form of bartering value but that's just a maybe. Gold and silver would be more likely. Or other things like gasoline or food or shelter. Physical assets. Not intangibles.

One thing's for sure though, they (cryptocurrencies) have shaken the foundation of money as we know it, hence even why bankers are thinking of making the switch into cryptocurrencies. It will take a while before we see crypto being issued on banks, but I think it is the way forward for our society. Also, I don't think this is a sign that bitcoin or any other decentralized crypto will take over, it's just that crypto will just be prevalent in our society and there is a possibility that bank-issued cryptos will arise.

Any custodial solution they could be required to "freeze" someone's funds no matter what form they are in unless and this is a big one, they keep it hidden underneath their mattress. So all other things being equal, I prefer something to be insured. That way as long as the government and bank don't sieze my cash, it belongs to me! And if the bank happened to go bankrupt the government would step in and pay me back.

if bitcoin has the ability to allow people to freeze things at the UTXO level (in a certain sense) then I dont see why it is such a stretch to want to be able to freeze things at the ADDRESS level. not alot of people probably using the UTXO level freezing feature but it is there.

Of course, many of us longer term BTC HODLers are recognizing and appreciating that likely the BTC investment thesis is stronger in current times than it had been a few years back, so even if the UPside BTC price performance potential has been reduced by already happened bitcoin price movements, there remains some additional assurances regarding the downside potential (safety) too.

And, buy the dip also might be questions about how much of a dip is sufficient this time around, and so far we have had a dip of about 7% from $50,562 to $47,100 - is the dip over?  did anyone buy this particular dip?

So all the big and medium businesses should forget about accepting Bitcoin? Then how you expect to see any sort of meaningful Bitcoin adoption? People want payment methods that are universally accepted. People love Visa and Mastercard cards because you can pay with them everywhere. Why would people adopt Bitcoin if you can only make some p2p purchases with it or spend it with small businesses only (which is even now not a reality).