Bitcoin is not the only hope in the future, but projects based on bitcoin and Blockchain can be the key. Technology develops so fast that its pretty possible that in 5-10years will appear new Satoshi Nakomoto and suggest something revolutionary new. Human is the biggest mystery of the world. We are developing. People become more educated, to the power come new people who see that we need renovations, the whole system needs. Taday we may only dream about the future world, we can't know for sure how things will turn.

I also prefer to gamble with crypto. I am trying to stay away from different fiat deposits, because of I do not like to stay the number of my card or wallet here and there. From the other side gambling with crypto gives more freedom: for example, when you participate in a gambling signature campaign, in the most of cases they send the payment on your balance on their gambling site, so i may skip deposit thing. But in that case you gample on the site of the signature campaign you receive payment from. But I like to switch from the site to site, so its OK for me.

If I understood your question correctly, then yes, probably merit system is not the last stage of the forum's renovation with the target to clean it up from weak users. As the previous examples showed the new change will come unexpectedly and each of us should be careful to not to loose our place on the forum by doing out of rules things.
You said you've asked theymos about coming changes, did he reply and if yes, what did he say to you?

Yes I did. When I work an exchanger is always open in browser on my working computer. Trading is another way to me to earn, at least little by little. I am lucky that my boss understands that I doesn't say a thing about that. Anyway it doesn't take a lot of time and attention from my side to check the price for coin and sell/buy or whatever depends on situation.

Off course man. We are far far away from easy usage of bitcoin as a payment method. When there is nobody to accept it for purchase goods you have to exchange it into fiat and that is pain in the a**    Adoption on the largest scale and companies and firms paying salary in bitcoin( off course if its value stabilize completely). Then we can talk about bitcoin as everyday currency, spending for basic life needs...

I know exactly what pattern you are talking about and I have that same feeling, that it will be repeated. The price was going down for some period than it started to rise again and looking that same pattern it should be logical to touch bigger ATH in some next bull run. We can not know but we can believe and stick to our decision of holding and waiting for that moment. Fifty, two hundred thousand or some other price is speculative subject, I wouldn't mind if it touches twenty thousand again as its pick.

I wonder how much of donation he get... Interesting it is but not much profitable if you ask me.
Would you make a donation for that novel about Sathoshi? I could write one and edit it with QR code 

This is good for bitcoin and crypto currency in generally, getting accepted as a payment method. Also it is good for our community, giving us a choice for paying the service on the way that we want.
But, we are still small community, there will be no significant number of people that will use crypto currency for paying movie ticket or similar things. Crypto currencies are unstable in its price, holders would rather wait for the price increase than to buy something with it. On the other hand, movie theater owners wouldn`t have a problem with collecting bitcoin and other crypto coins because of the same reason. If or when the price increase, their profit will do the same.
But I am glad to hear this kind of news . It means that we are going the right way. Adoption of bitcoin is getting bigger day by day.

Maybe Malta could be good choice. It is not so far away from you and it is crypto friendly country. Island, full of tourists, happy people... all that you need. But you should investigate proper what are the options, can you really buy a real estate with crypto currency.
On the other hand, why don't you exchange it into fiat first? You will have much more options for making decisions what country you will move in..

Good idea is behind this project. I haven't heard for similar so far.
I do use cash and I use it a lot. I am getting paid for my work in cash and that is, in my opinion, most important thing, when we discuss about currency usage. I don't give a damn how I am going to pay some product that I am purchasing. If my firm have a policy to pay salary to her employees in bitcoin for example, I would be paying everything in bitcoin. I don't want to buy some coin so I could buy everything else. Very unnecessary.

Whit assumption that person have required knowledge for trading, stress and panic is number one enemy of making results. People usually react to tragically when are losing money. It is not pleasant but there is no such a thing as being 100% successful. Everyone should work on embracing that fact. You will lose once in a while and should not care to much about it. It is something that is only logical, should thinking about the results on long term. At the same time it is the hardest thing to achieve because our mental state is unsteady, it is different from day to day. If we could tune ourselves as a machines can be tuned, it would be much easier but its not the case. I don`t know how people can achieve absolute calmness but for me, that`s the key reason for avoiding stress and panic, therefore the key reason for better results in trading.

I would suggest to invest in Bitcoin. Why experiment with alt coins when The Coin is perfectly good choice. I also like to think how spreading the funds is always good solution. You can invest major of that thousand in bitcoin and maybe ethereum, and some smaller amount on few
altcoins ( ripple, neo iota...).

I don't find hard to imagine that some new coin could or will take bitcoins place as a number one crypto coin. Some with bigger support of the investors and  community. Take for example MySpace and Facebook. It's not the same thing but same analogy can be implied.

My brother find himself in same situation as you were. He bought twenty bitcoins when its price was one dollar. He had a problem with cooler on his desktop, had replaced it but it has broke again. When it broke for the second time, he decided to leave the computer into service because it was old and obviously had more problems than just cooler part. In that moment, he didn't thinking to much about the bitcoin on his hardware wallet. He purchased those randomly, if I can say like that. Read about bitcoin and blockchain technology, find it interesting and bought it. Didn't care much. In 2017 he told me whole story. Many years have passed since that and he wasn't able to find his old hard... Classical ignorance and lack of precautionary made him lose real little fortune. He wasn't lucky as you are. Unfortunately, sometimes you have no other options but to give up.

As much as bounty campaigns used to be proper source of income it should never be considered as a prime source of income. I mean, look. How things can change.
I also found a job couple of months ago. More accurate, the job have found me. It is sort of temporary solution cause I have some other plans. Better jobs on a radar. But I will not quit doing bounties. It's not bad to have some coins in a possession.
It is ungrateful to give suggestions how to gain financial freedom, we know nothing about your environment, place where you live, country... your age, skills... Everything is everything on it. Doing hard, saving money on side for investing on any thing that you find attractive, payable, is one of the solution that you could try. Old fashion.

I can not name bitcoin a 'digital gold' at this moment. Its price is highly unstable and that reason is enough for making the difference between those two, gold and crypto currency. The problem is not increasing but decreasing in price, off course    Nobody would like to see his valuable asset becoming less valuable at some point.

We can not be sure but I do believe that bitcoins price will grow again in the near future. There are reasons that effect on its price going up and down, what keeps me still hoping is its cyclic behavior through its short history. Year or two it is in down trend and then explode in opposite direction, growing in price more than it has ever been.
Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain technology are revolutionary inventions for sure. Bitcoin popularity is on the test this last year and we will have to wait to see what will happen in near future. Will people, investors be more interested on it? We know that majority is interested on bitcoins price first as a source of investment and option for getting rich, or just earning some extra funds.
Maybe we will see paper money taking place in museums for our life time but it is highly unlikely to happen. Years and years will need to pass before it could be implemented in totally.

Bad situation. But if you have crypto currency you will exchange it into a Dollar, Euro... not in bolivar. In situation of hyper inflation with Euro and Dollar, person has good chances to survive tough period. In case like that it is pure richness. Only problem could be possibility of transferring crypto into a fiat. For example, If you have cryptocurrency in your wallet and no  one to sell it, or have difficulty to 'cash it out',

It's not complete to use it, problem is that you can not use it for everyday basic life need purchasing. You can easily transfer funds from one place to another. If people would be paid in bitcoin for work, it would be able to pay for the service by just scanning the wallet on your phone and that is the easiest that can be..

The best way should be participation on bounty campaigns here. With higher rank of your profile the reward is getting bigger. It is not guaranteed that you will be paid for your time doing bounty, project that you are working for could be unsuccessful. It was easier two years ago, nowadays situation is different. But it's not bad to try with bounties, I can not  think any better way right now.