I think your vision won't come true. Bitcoin will remain to be the first and the most well known cryptocurrency and will in time reach 1% adoption worldwide. This will give it the value of over 100 thousand USD per coin. I'm sure of it.

I agree the tax should be a fixed one based on the amount. An easy to understand single tax preferably a property tax not an income tax because people can have no taxable income. You can collect cans and bottles or get paid in cash. Drug dealers, bums, gun traders and smugglers don't pay taxes. You want to spend the money on something like a car or a house, you can pay taxes.
I think that both income tax and capital gains tax should disappear.

Never say never!

Fiat can in time disappear because people don't need it. It's the form of payment imposed on us by the governments. Will the governments change their mind and allow us to get rid of fiat? Probably yes if they knew that we'd switch to a centralized cryptocurrency.

If this is what the application is capable of I'm not seeing a great future ahead of them.
Even if it were to be 50c with a god graphics onboard it's like nothing when you have to add fees and the power  bill. What will a good computer be able to mine? If it's $10 a month or less nobody is going to run it. I think it's getting popular now because people don't know the real numbers and want to try it out but the results are disappointing.

There's still not that many people with knowledge of cryptocurrencies so they have to hire anyone willing to do it. The typical recruitment process gives you points. Since you can't have much experience in cryptocurrency journalism (there are almost no pro cryptocurrency journalists that got fired from their previous jobs) you're getting points for interest, presence, any previous experience in journalism. News sites like Coindesk are full of writers who don't know much about cryptocurrencies and are paid to look for news elsewhere and rewrite them. News from China are translated from Chinese outlets, news from India are from Indian outlets, news about plans of companies like Bitmain are rephrased tweets. He said she said articles based on gossip.

Why hodl if you can sell and get more coins by the time halving happens. Even if you're waiting for a trend reversal and not even thinking about distant halving it's still better to leave the market when it's heavily bearish. If you sold at higher prices like 8000 or 10000 you shouldn't buy now and wait for clear signs of reversal. I think there's a bigger chance that Bitcoin will go to 5000 before going up to 8 or more.

We should blame them because they are restricting people's freedoms. The government should help us handle our affairs, take some burden from our shoulders. We are paying them and they are making our lives more comfortable. That's their purpose. If they're blocking access to sites that are giving people pleasure and allowing them to have some fun it's starting to get bad.
Thank God we have VPN

It can still go a bit lower. As you can see there's quite a bit of space between the two lines on the chart. It can keep going down until it touches the bottom in a month or two.

I also think that we shouldn't compare both charts because the timelines of every bear market are different. If you compare all big rallies of Bitcoin the bear markets lasted longer each time.

I think it's back in fiat waiting to get back into cryptocurrencies or if it doesn't play out well it will leave the crypto scene and go towards something else like stocks. Many people who sold in bear market is still waiting for a good moment to go in. A confirmation of the reversal will be that sign for sure. Maybe some of this money is in futures?

Real estate usd to be great. I know some people who were buying farmlands and converting them to construction areas with water electricity and sewer systems. Dividing the land into smaller patches and roadways and then selling to people as fully prepared construction land ready for housing. You could literally make millions on those deals but not anymore. The population isn't growing as fast and there are so many houses on the market that less people want to build a new one.

That's what people should understand. The lack of interest in chips has nothing to do with bear market. GPU mining was slowly becoming unprofitable anyway and their 100m predictions must have been based on the value of cryptocurrencies growing beyond the 2017 ATH. They made their predictions on the last 6 monts of 2017 and projected the profits onto 2018. You can't do that if you want reliable data.

Why are you generalizing and saying crypto is dangerous even though all you were involved with was some altcoin? Cryptocurrencies don't influence your life and decisions. They are nothing but inanimate objects that can be used by everyone in whatever way they want to. If you tripped on a rock, would you say rocks are dangerous?

So when do you start calling something gambling? When you have 10% control? 5%? 1%? If you analysed gambling you'd know that some games are 100% luck but some are only 50% or even less. Are some of them gambling while others are not?
In my opinion if there is some amount of luck involved it's gambling.

I've been travelling around Europe and in most Euro countries you can usually buy 3 for 1 euro, which is a bit more than a dollar. So In europe, depending on a country is something like 2,5 cans per dollar. Of course it depends on the can. I've seen vanilla coke in Germany for 1 Eur per can! That's not even 1 can per dollar.

The biggest ETF is still awaiting decision. The ETFs that got rejected were smaller ones that weren't planning to buy Bitcoins. Even if they would get approved it wouldn't change anything because people would be sending them fiat money to bet on bitcoin's price, without even touching it. Who cares about someone somewhere betting fiat to get more fiat?

I think it will all depend on the news. Bitcoin doesn't grow by itself. It depends on the economy. If ETF gets approved and there's no negative news we will go up. If not we could go as low as 4800 which would be in proportion to the 2014 and 15 bear market. Now we are still much higher when compared to 2015 lows.

Is 200GB a lot? It sure was in 2009 but now? I remember when I had my old computer with 15GB hard disk. That drive costed me close to 100 USD. Now for 100 USD I can get a 3TB drive. Times are changing. This is a quote from Forbes from over a year ago.
Generally it will cost you less than 10USD to store the whole blockchain on your computer. That cost will grow but not by a lot. Maybe next year it will be $12. Is that a lot? Not for me.

I sure don't give a fuck and the market seems to be getting more immune. The first rejections caused huge dumps but the recent ones ended up in a short rally instead of a drop. I think it's good that more people realize we don't need and ETF to exist. Bitcoin is here since 2009 and went from a few dollars to 20000 without ETF.
It will rally again with or without it, but I still think that we will have it approved next year.

I wouldn't start trading without at least 10k USD. If you want to know your limits enter with a low amount (100USD) and see how much you can make in a month. If you end up with 110 USD you'll know that it's possible for you to make 10% a month. I know that I would not make more than 10% especially in a bear market so I'd need to play with at least 10000USD to get get decent profit. The more the better.

You can always keep a paper wallet at home or have another wallet on another device so that if you lose the phone or somebody steals it from you will be able to move the money before they're able to crack the wallet. I wouldn't keep huge money on a phone. Some spare change for everyday use, nothing more.