Are you really discussing a statement meant to troll you? People can make various predictions but the ones that are completely disconnected from reality like 100 or even 1 dollar bitcoin are not meant to start a discussion but troll you into an argument you can't win because he'll ignore your opinion or disappear. If I told you the price of gold is going to drop by 99% in the next 2 years would you treat me like a sane person?

You're wrong about all of it.
Gambling isn't more effective than leveraged trading unless you bet on a game of skill like poker and you're good at it. Trading can be really profitable if you know what you're doing like betting on a coin right before its fork. Bitcoin pumped when it split into BCH, BCH pumped when it split into SV, ETH pumped when they announced the fork.

You aren't making consistent profits from trading. Most people don't, especially in the bear market.

Sure, it is risky. I usually tend to bet on the underdogs because the pay is so high that I can happily wage a low amount of money and never regret it like you never regret spending 1 dollar on a lottery ticket. You know you're playing against the odds and as long as you're ok with losing the bet can be called safe.

We still don't have ETF but we don't really need it. If you're waiting for an ETF to push Bitcoin to the moon you're going to be very disappointed like people who were waiting for futures were disappointed when it got launched.

So you're not afraid of giving away your data to companies as long as they are big? So thought the users of many Internet communicators and portals like Facebook.
The size of the company doesn't change much. It will only be more convenient for you to find and sue them but your data will be lost anyway.
KYC always sucks.

You're trying to cut off one head of a hydra. It's useless.
If you banned loot boxes what about rpg games that allow you to enhance your equipment with a chances of success and chances of burning it completely? It's also a form of gambling because equipment can be worth a lot of real money and you can make it worth much more if it's +++ or destroy it.
What about sites that allow you to bet ingame equipment or collectibles on pro esport matches?

Not many people are here for the technology and those who claim that usually lie like Steve Wozniak.
Some people are here for a quick gain like former stock traders and some are for the long run like people who invested in the dotcom bubble and various startups.
I guess those who are here for the tech are people who made companies in the space and are trying to improve it like hardware wallet manufacturers but they also need money to operate.

I'm a believer in Bitcoin but I don't underestimate the power of manipulation. This power is extremely strong on all crypto markets and the dump groups won't give up and let it grow when they know that supporters are still weak.

We aren't in the bull market yet and they will try to retest the lows at least one more time. For them to stop they will have to get rekt. This means that they will have to dump and get bought instantly like that time on march 14.

Number of transactions is not a good price or market indicator because it's not linked directly to the market. A transaction spam can make it look like the number is growing but it's not. Even if it was na natural growth it has nothing to do with trading volume and growth in volume is what we are waiting for not the number of transactions or google trends.

A played some poker but full time so not as much as OP and I didn't play with a lot of money because I'm poor. There's a big difference if you play low stake tables because people tend to be more careless and all the newbies play there so I can honestly say that I didn't play "real" poker with people who know what they're doing and run statistics. There's no point in trying to read random people at a low stake table that will quit and an hour later you'll be playing someone else.

There's a rule that usually close friends or family are connected with the crime. I don't know the statistics but it can be 70 % of cases or even more that are done with help of a close relative, friend, neighbor, coworker, lover. .

It's also possible they traded with him in person or saw him bragging about it at a bar. The less people know how wealthy you are the better.

The easiest way to increase value is creating use cases. When you need to buy a cryptocurrency to buy something unavailable otherwise or to buy something at a discount you will do it and many other people will. It doesn't matter that they will sell it later but it creates movement in the network and constant exchange for a purpose. Trading the same coins on an exchange is not a use case.

His cell is quite a change from the place he used to live in while his clients were crying over lost money.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659422.0

A positive thing about Karpeles is that with the current price of Bitcoin they were estimating that there's going to be some money left after the victims are paid back but he said he doesn't want it.

From what I heard they were testing some new algos that are supposed to implement acta rules. They are trying to block free speech, content sharing, and the spread of information. Acta is internet censorship and it will lead to most youtube content creators disappearing for good. Only decentralized platforms will survive.

When you google tips on what to do when you suddenly become rich one of the first on the list will be to never quit your job at least not until you feel comfortable in your new situation and are able to produce steady income. You did what most people do. Got too hyped and it lead you to bankruptcy. Gambling is fine but I would never send 50000 to a casino. This is supposed to be fun not a life changing experience.

Will there really be a brexit? They are delaying it so much that this can take a while.
Do you really believe that the EU will collapse with a large economy that Germany is leading it? It can become smaller with some countries leaving but it won't disappear. Poor countries need loans the EU provides and rich ones need markets for their companies to expand.
I don't see any way in which brexit could influence bitcoin. These are unrelated.

I prefer PoW because it's more secure. Both PoW and PoS require investment to start and both can be taken over by rich companies with a lot of money. Bitmain is big in BTC PoW mining but there's nothing stopping it from switching to PoS mining some other coin. They have enough money to do it.

So what's the advantage of PoS? No power requirement? Power can be bought similar to coins.

Based on the facts I think that we are being manipulated by companies like JPMorgan and others who were saying cryptos are a scam or a ponzi scheme and later launched trading desks or their own coins. You can see this manipulation in Venezuela which banned crypto and confiscated mining equipment to later launch their own coin.

They want to get on the train before it gains speed and are doing what they can to slow it down.

Early computer systems were also complicated. 20 years ago we all had to know DOS to use a computer and then came much easier noob friendly systems like norton and windows. This is what the industrial revolution brings to the table. We are in the early stage where people have to understand the system to use it. In the windows era of cryptocurrencies we will no longer have to.

It looks like something that was happening in Autumn of last year. There was a similar pattern of price action followed by a dump. We can't be sure if this will hold but even if it doesn't there's no reason to panic like you said. There are 3 directions this could take. It will go straight up from now or it will revisit the bottom to go up from there or it will break the bottom go just a bit lower like 2500 and go up from there. I don't care I'm not fishing for a new bottom I'm happy with what I have.