At the end of the day, rich people can also say that "money is not everything" especially if they obtained their riches by trampling others(for example a corrupt politician or a drug lord who is not happy with their life).
While I do disagree with Hydrogen's point at some degree, I can at least say that those who are poor also console themselves by saying the same thing thus making everyone able to pontificate that statement.

The reason for that should be obvious to anyone. People want their currency to be pegged with fiat because of the trust of the citizens fiat currency gained from the backing of the government and central banks.
Entering of more whales in the game would not only destabilize bitcoin trading. It will also destabilize cryptocurrency trading as a whole, including the not well-known altcoins.

Are you really reading mate? You only answered the question in the title but it is not related to the OP at all. OP here is offering services including the creation of own cryptocurrency for other companies.
OP, I believe this thread is not suitable for Project Development since you are offering services here. You would have more luck in looking for customers in Services board or on Marketplace(altcoins).

Beginners can focus on buying altcoins as well so long as the altcoin they choose to invest into have long history and did not experience a pump recently. Focusing only on trading bitcoin would not help them gain more knowledge on trading cryptos.
That would depend on how much money they got on their portfolio IMO. If a beginner's portfolio is less than 100$, it is better to start with 15% of their money in crypto rather than 5%.

Since it is running on a free market, a huge difference in different pairs is not that uncommon. On a free market, the pair with most volume is the one who is constantly being updated and the pair/s that have low volume can sometimes differ in price. Also, the price is dependent on what price the market is willing to buy and sell a certain coin in a certain pair. From the statistics you gave, my only conclusion is that ETH pair had a +70% change instead of only +4% like the other pairs because it had more trading volume at that time and traders are willing to buy and sell at a higher rate than usual in that pair.

Theymos can easily implement that but a mere program cannot identify who makes a quality post that contributes to the community. If you are worried about merit sources, there are people assigned as merit sources(with replenishing sMerits stock) who goes around giving people merit for quality posts that contribute to the community although their judgement can somehow be affected by a subjective opinion sometimes.

You should pay no heed to statements made by experts like Vitalik Buterin because most of the times they act for their interest and profit. Crypto will always be profitable and the bull market will still exist so long as people use it for speculative purposes. An average joe might have heard blockchain at least once but the question is if they already own any crypto of some sort? Of course not. Keep in mind that so long as crypto can be developed further, there will be no ceiling in sight since bull run will continue.

At least being born and raised here is not an excuse for anyone who really wants to learn computer programming. I know a dozen people who are raised here in the Philippines but earns the same amount as what Moloch's friend earned and knows how to build websites(albeit their skill on it being self-taught).
We can't blame them for doing so because most of them are just doing bounty in their free time.

It is not already priced in IMO. I believe that it will be priced in ones we hear the news about ETF rejection or approval again. Either way, I think this BlackRock ETF have a bigger chance of acceptance in SEC because of it will track multiple cryptocurrencies that are currently listed in Coinbase's wallet.
Well, some newbies don't because they didn't care to research bitcoin's price history at all.

I am not someone from New Zealand or Australia but you might want to try using Paybis to purchase bitcoins using credit card balance and if you want some bitcoin cash, buy it on exchanges after you have bought some bitcoins. You can also refer to this site to choose which exchange is the best to use in buying bitcoins when the first option above did not work for you. They might be complicated to use but at least it is better than bitcoin.com

The article linked by OP probably is trying to shill FCoin using binance's popularity(although Zhao Changpeng's statement is completely unrelated to FCoin).
Based from their main website FCoin is a trading platform and if you are asking how the two is related, then I can say that they are only both platforms used in trading. Besides that, the two company behind it itself is not related to each other(and neither does Zhao Changpeng praised the technology behind FCoin).

That price of bitcoin there is made possible because of the massive increase in the inflation rate of their national currency, IRR.
If that is the case, then its value would be approximately 2417.77$ but it is still absurd because of the discounted selling price. It is still sitting in a good price to do arbitrage trading IMO by buying there in Iran and selling it on international exchanges. It would be a lot easier to move those funds rather than selling there.

I believe Enigma and Storj are made to fulfill that purpose although they are focused more on the security of the data you will store. Maybe in the future, there will be a blockchain implementation that will have the same functions as Google drive.
Based on OP's quoted post above, maybe he is planning to store a file with a large file size or probably a backup image of his own PC(containing sensitive data such as his private keys).

I would not expect that solution to work because it is impossible for everyone to learn and stop investing time and money on scams. Take con men and Ponzi scheme founders as an example. How were they able to scam people despite the rampant information spread about typical scams? The best solution to the problem at hand IMO is the strict regulation of announcement thread and marketplace posts(if theymos decides to help fight against in this forum).
Only fools will try to invest into ICOs managed by them because red tagged members have visible warnings under their profile. Anyone who didn't heed the warning beforehand is either an utter fool or someone who just invests blindly and does not read or do his research before investing.

You are right that OP is better off holding his bitcoins if he only learned margin trading recently but IMO he can use at least a little portion of his portfolio to try it, for education's sake.
I don't know if this will help you, but you can refer to this site for information about how margin trading works. After reading the information that can be found on the site, try searching up margin trading more here in bitcointalk and then educate yourself by trying it for education's sake. Just remember to only invest what you can afford to lose.

It is not the manifestation of the market decline but rather the dropping quality of bounties and ICOs are caused by developers who want to get money real quick by proposing repetitive ideas/products on their ICO(which is typically not better than its competitors). This in turn results to ICO's failure.
Bounties will be there so long as people use ICOs to gather funds for projects here in cryptospace.

You might want to move this thread to Scam accusations section or on Reputation section because IMO discussing alleged bounty manager abuse does not belong in altcoin discussions. Also, someone can give you a better answer if you can provide the name of the bounty campaign you have joined or its bounty thread. Showing a screenshot of telegram conversations is not a proof enough to prove bounty manager's abuse since he might have removed you because of terms and conditions or you might have had violated a rule.

It is normal that they didn't understand the normality of bitcoin price's fluctuation, most of them are just people who get drawn to bitcoin because they heard that somebody got rich quick by investing into it after all. Since they didn't research about bitcoin's history, it is a given that they only know little about its volatility. Either way, bitcoin being the best in a bearish market IMO is not the result of its utility but instead, it is the result of the trust of the community bitcoin itself has built up over the years.

The problem is that you cannot simply swap your batteries as fast as you can fill your gas tank to full. Also, anyone would not want to go through the hassle of opening up your hood(or anywhere your battery is stored) and the hassle of removing and reattaching some things when you are in a long distance travel because you could have had used that time to do other more important things or rest.
Still, the time it would take for it to be fully charged is a long time and typically charging happens at the busiest time of the day(which is in the morning). You would not need to drive to work at night, do you? (unless you are in a night shift or travels for only a kilometer or two, the long charging time is fine).

Most of those numbers you have seen from the blog you are referring to might have just tried to run a full node temporarily and lost interest. People probably lost interest in running a full node because of plummetting bitcoin price. Also, most people just simply cannot afford to run full bitcoin nodes because of the bandwidth limit on some countries(like in the Philippines for example).