The OP's view is objectively incorrect.

Freelancing is a method of using your skills to complete a job and get paid for it. Depends on how rare that skill is and how difficult it is to learn to get bigger pays and more frequest jobs/permanent jobs in which case it no longer remains just freelancing.

Trading is where you take the risk of the market movement to make money. It is a prediction game and if you are having some basis of buying an asset then you should be good but the risk is always there for a drop in price.

So depending on your skills either of these can be good for a certain person but does not mean one is better than the other.

You can completely understand the status that is carried with being involved in a project that pays in bitcoin. This is why I implore all the newer members of this forum to learn about bitcoin and how this forum works and not going for bounties. Those who listen to such advice actually learn some good things about how to approach crypto and not get caught in down-spirals of bounties which ends up always in a waste of time.

You need to use money to make money. Projects that give out free money for useless stuff are very likely going to be worthless. It is common sense.

Sadly they dont learn and repeat the same mistake. The mindset that bounty hunting is a easy way to make free money is a wrong one because there is no such thing as free money.

Like I have said, it is a cat and mouse game. You catch one and another one will appear. They scam and make money from these scams so they continue doing so ripping bounty hunters and investors.

It is easier to conclude that these projects are all going to be failures. No use hunting behind them and no use trying to find a pin in a haystack. The days of ICOs being big are long gone and it has been 3years where no such coin has risen to come close to bitcoin.

The fees involved in this procedure will be bigger than just buying gold with cash. Its sad that we dont have direct methods of buying/selling gold vs bitcoin. BitGold was there at one time though I have not used it myself.

Technically yes, but the fees are big for the entire transaction. But there are P2P sales available with reputable members of this forum. You could take part in those and sell your bitcoins for gold or precious gems.

Bottom line is that every method carries some risk but you have to try them all to find out which one is going best for you. Do not send first to any seller without using an escrow.

Courses? Meh no. Dont for any paid ones if you are really enthusiastic about those. While it might seem like a good option for a newbie to listen to courses and learn, the reality is that you will learn a lot more from actual trading. This might sound strange but this is where I suggest people to go for stock markets courses, because crypto promoters will often shill their shitcoins for the viewer to buy them.

Again paid courses are a type of a blanket scam. You can get indicator knowledge from youtube. Why pay for them when you can learn them for free?

If you are getting scared while buying or selling crypto then you will be half defeated already. The trick to not to get scared. Some shills will either promote or sabotage the images of different assets. But you have to make sure your points are strong and that you are willing to hold it for some time before selling or buying more. If you have that mentality you will not lose money due to panic selling, cant say about other things though.

While ETH may be dropping BTC is the first which stated to fall. This is likely the correction for the 10k touching a week or more back. No directly attributable to any pathogen (fear initiates panic). Because humans tend to quickly draw connections without having proof, such will be the theme of the social medias.

You can use betmoose. It is a less known but trustworthy site. I believe many users there are from North America and Europe. You can post a pick of your own and generate a pot to allow other people to bet on both sides. Most of the time you will find a pick that you are looking for here, political or so. You can always go for the non-p2p sites like sportsbet and nitrogen but please check TOS of all sites before depositing.

Betmoose is P2P, If I am not wrong. Onehash is also a good site like others have suggested.

You won't be able to go complete every daily necessities with the crypto payments, that is if you are lucky enough to have those type of payment systems where you live. So in a way this develops more panic about the virus outbreak. Better to stay careful yourself and wait it out than being delusional and devloping more panic about the situation.

Do go out and not stay completely at home during this time unless you are very scared. More people become sick of panic than disease.

Those coins going 400% or more is very likely to be suspicious of of problems. While there are many coins that grow big in price with time but some others are pump and dump. If you check coinmarketcap lists of coins with biggest prices on the site and show as that high level increase in a short time, you can very wel be sure that it will be pump and dump.

Although if you are lucky to hold such a coin from low price you will get a good return on selling it at this price. 

It would be best if you keep it at that level. There is nothing better than getting a taste of gambling and how bitter it becomes with more losses. That will also stop you from wasting money on gambling.

Both are actually wrong ways to proceed. These things make you lose more in the cycle of gambling and there is always the chance of getting addicted for a new player. While managing losses is important keeping a check on habits is also important.

Just play when you wish to but keep limited bankroll to play with. Don't be the foolish gambler who rages when playing.

They are scammers for a reason. While it is true that many projects are scam, it is not always possible to detect a scam within proper time. The bounty hunters are less knowledgeable regarding this. They check a couple of accounts and then think that the project is legit. Specially the fist few team member links are often like that.

One will understand what I am trying to say if they have done a thorough research on these projects. But bounty hunters will always suffer if they are not careful.

I would not suggest any names, but there are sites that allow you to take a loan in the names of margin trading. While margin is essentially risky it gives a leverage to the trader to make more money. I don't suggest it to new users but if you are already experienced in this art then go for it but with risk management. If you don't know how to do that then don't venture into margin trading or leverage trading.

There is also the method to pawn collateral altcoins to get a loan for trading is you need - I dont know if that is what you asked in the first place. Poloniex is one which allows such trades. Also getting a loan outside and then using it to trade is also possible, but needs a bit more time to first get the loan.

Of course you risk your account and it's deposited money in case you are not able to make the money back.

There is nothing silly in asking questions you know. Clearing doubts is an essential part in the process of learning. However I feel the same because these topics quickly turn to a cesspool of spam with time if not locked. Again if I was in the place of the OP like 5years ago, I would been doing the same.

Few donts that I like to emphasise are not becoming emotional with losses and not chasing a price. Holding coins stubbornly is also not adviced.
Then again I have posted once but OP never took the time to respond.

I dont think that is a logical approach. A hedge fund does not make money by just allowing the market to move. They basically cut down the risks by making money from the movements. I still am less knowledgeable about how they function but they convert to fiat and hold that before the market goes down and vice versa. I know there are capital hedge fund groups in fiat but those in crypto - I tend to not have faith in them much. I prefer to keep my coins to myself or trade myself instead of giving it to someone for taking care of risks.

Although opinions may vary here.

I think the more correct way of telling this is that trading and investing is a part and parcel of the same thing. This is different from the stock market though. Here you will mostly be investing in altcoins, although they are other methods to invest too which are sadly much less in number few of which being casino bankroll investments. Here one will also trade those invested coins. So it is one after the other and not two separate things.

Of course market volatility is the reason why people trade. There are no reasons to trade a stagnant coin which shows no signs of life. We all know what to buy in and not what not to.

As long as they are aware of verification methods, it should not be a problem here. Those who are blindly rushing in to deposit without checking anything about the site are the ones at risk. But it is always safer to go with the well established casinos and not the new ones.
In that sense feedback is an essential thing for the development and growth of any new casino. Without having community feedback how would they expect to grow. But in retrospection, such casinos would not be a scams.

It is always encouraged. But like I said, one needs to be diligent before stepping into new waters.

Bitcoin is not the issue here. The problem is that some people are greedy enough to believe such things and get scammed. If someone really had such methods then they would be using those to make money for themselves and not help others.

You can teach them about possibilities of something being scam from doing research. Remember that knowledge trumps over ignorance and thus we need to learn more about how people have been scammed and how a project really pays out. Without such we cannot fight scams.

Now you can teach them a lot but they will still get scammed if they are being greedy. So controlling their greed is a important thing.

I wont give financial advise. So treat my words with a pinch of salt. This is what I would do.

You can buy at this point but the trend is slightly bearish right now. We might see 7k USD or even less in the worst case scenario. With this market trend you would be better off dividing the capital into two parts of 2:1 ratio the 2/3rd of it should be given to buy at this price and the rest 1/3rd kept to buy in case it dips even lower. After that you would be out of cash unless you want to approach this in a different strategy.

Sell these lots at a specific stop/losses that you wish to be in when the bullish trend takes over.

There has been a project by the name of CEDEX. It was going to develop a Diamond marketplace and using of their tokens to buy/sell real diamonds on their marketplace and use of these tokens as collateral for loans, that is token-backed lending. Alas, they seem to have gone backrupt in the recent months along with their parent holding TechFinancials.

BCD is a shitcoin.

They are precious because of their rarity. Gems have different uses in jewellery too. So they have a market. But it is absurd to think of everything to be a utility. These things are not even comparable to cryptocurrencies.

You cannot compare it with a hardware wallet like trezor. Hardware wallets provide a much higher level of security that online or desktop wallets. But if you are going to store coins that are not not yet supported by Trezor, better follow the official wallets for the time being and then add them to Trezor once they open their support for these coins.

You should never compromise the moving of coins to less secure wallets just because you dont know the advantages of the hardware wallets. But it also helps to keep your devices clean and updated to prevent attacks from hackers.