You have to ask yourself first where those taxes go, if you see improvements in public transportation, infrastructures, energy, health and education and other aspects that the government has a say then you're a bad guy in that situation especially if you are a big business but if you know that it's not going anywhere besides lining the pockets of the corrupt politicians then I suppose tax evade away to your heart's content. Those are the only things that I believe should be your guidelines whether you're doing it right because in a way taxes are someone's payment to be in that country.

A lot of country has done that over the years so I don't necessarily agree that the dump in prices is because the government is regulating bitcoin, pretty sure SEC considered bitcoin a while as an asset and not a currency like other crypto so how can regulation be the problem when SEC is on bitcoin's side? If it did made an impact, how come bitcoin's still able to survive to this day? When the regulations in bitcoin tightens, it will just make it increase in demand because people will be paying more to get their hands on it.

Regarding the recent dump, I don't think that the government is in any way involved in this, the economy has been crashing even before the price have dumped so it's not them, it's probably just SpaceX and we are just overthinking and overanalyzing things, I'd say we just let this day go by and move on, it's a good time to buy now if you ask me.

As @Wend have already said, two sources of income is still better than one and I don't believe that opportunity doesn't knock on everyone's doors, I am pretty sure that in some way, there was a time it did for everybody. Working overtime for your only job is not making more cashflow though, the money generated on that isn't a lot so I wouldn't count it as a different cash flow.
As the saying goes, "If everyone is special, no one is."

Iirc I said that to be considered making money, it needs to not be a break even but a profit so the daily profit minus the capital is where I considered as a "making money". Have you considered the capital that they've put in to build the gas station? I don't think that there's enough money in a day's work will cover or even surpass the capital build a gas station, technically you do make money but what that business was built on a loan, can you still consider it your money?
How does it exactly work, I'm not familiar with mining but I think you'll have to pay for cooling the machine and the electricity and the blocks take more time to be mined at a lesser amount so I don't consider that a means to make money especially if you're only using only 1 ASIC.

Dude, increase in minimum wage is always possible, the companies just want you to think it's impossible because they don't want you getting the idea that you and your co-workers can demand something from them, if you look at the profits of most companies, you'll be able to see that they can all afford to pay their workers higher minimum wage or even increase their wages. Another reason I could see why it's not helping the economic health of Europe is that the budgeting of countries and their spending are either misused, incompetent or rife with corruption so the money goes nowhere.

Just make more money, increase your cashflow so you don't have to worry about budgeting too much, yes it's a good thing that there's a budget and you have a discipline on how you spend money but you've got to step up your money making game too, if there's an opportunity that allows you to make more money, get it. Sometimes it's not that you are overspending, sometimes it's your cashflow, it's  so little that you're forced to skimp on stuff that you're not supposed to skimp on.

South Africa is on the verge of collapsing and the other countries in BRICS can't even meet an agreement to find a match against dollar so they can start de-dollarization so I don't see them as a threat against US economy or that they can be a contributing factor to the economic collapse. I would lean more on the possibility of the crash as a result of the housing market bubble popping and the continuous money printing of the Federal Reserve but that don't mean that bitcoin is the ultimate safe haven asset because if US economy collapses, that's a major economy and it's going to lead to a market volatility that even bitcoin market will be affected because people are still scrambling on what to do which causes fluctuations as some will be buying because they want to safeguard their finances while others are selling because they have other obligations/responsibilities.

That's playing a major role because the topic is solely focused on cryptocurrency so I don't think that's really what crypto is right now, someone could easily change that to some other aspect of an economy or country like agriculture and real estate and we would assume the same thing, the best measure is to list the stuff that's regulating the economy and vote on it to see who's on top and I'm telling you it's not cryptocurrency.
Not enough optimism, we need people to be more aware and rid the crypto space of negative stereotypes, this is a case of overhyped and fanaticism of cryptocurrency, we should be realistic and see that it's not really the case because if crypto really has a big role in a country's economy, we would feel it given that crypto market is volatile.

It shouldn't be that difficult imo because if you really have a plan of action on how you can keep hodling on to your bitcoin, you will find a way not to spend those bitcoins and you should start hodling bitcoin for the long-term if you know that you have a consistent cash flow like a day job although I can understand that in a bad economy that's a problem as lay offs are a big thing so it's definitely difficult to do that, I guess the luckiest and the one's that have planned ahead for economic problems are the one's will be able to do what I've just said earlier.

@Icalical's 3rd entry is my best pick of all his entries, it's an affront to the current avatar schemes so I like something refreshing to look at although I hope he can sharpen the colors a bit or balance the background and the text

@PX-Z 1st entry is my best pick of all his entries, the one bit vibes is awesome, the pirate theme is strong especially with the worn out flag design.

@xLays have the same feels as my pick on PX-Z entry, although I would like more changes since it's almost the same as the current avatar.

I don't feel like picking any from @tjtonmoy's entry, the 1st entry is similar vibes to the current avatar but the color scheme of neon seems not in the direction of the brand.

@SamReomo's 2nd entry is my kind of style although I would love it if the Jolly Roger is a bit bigger than the lock and utilize the negative spaces more or at least lessen it.

@cafter's 2nd and 3rd entry is my pick, the 2nd has the simplistic design but still slick looking, good color scheme too although I don't know if that's fine with the brand, 3rd entry looks like your typical campaign avatar, can never go wrong with that.

If I were to have a Top 3 I would probably go 1st with @cafter's 3rd entry, SamReomo's @2nd entry would be the 2nd, and @PX-Z's 1st entry would be my 3rd.

Futures is like an agreement or contract to buy and sell your bitcoin or crypto at a specific price on a specific date hoping that you're right about the price when that time arrives and we know that the price of bitcoin is dictated by supply and demand and the spot market is where bitcoin and other crypto are sold or bought quickly depending on the market sentiments and how many people are currently buying or selling, now with that in mind we can surmise that if the prices are influenced by supply and demand then which means that the movement is pretty random which might may affect the result of your prediction of the price on your futures so yes in a way you can move the futures market with spot market but that's difficult to do and it's expensive for a company to do that not to mention that they have to be sneaky about their intent to manipulate the market to their favor because it's still market manipulation and insider trading to some degree. Just take the current price dump of bitcoin, I doubt that there's no insider who has a short position because they know that the prices are going to go down

TLDR: If you have the money and influence, yes you can manipulate it.

In the OP it said that you can use the trading signals providers as a way to learn how they analyze the movement of the market, so I disagree to never depend on signals when you can learn from them, and OP clearly stated that you can always compare their statistics to see which one you can benefit from the most, not everyone has to be a stereotypical trader that only relies on his/her wits and analytical thinking to do trading if there are tools that might be able to help you, shouldn't everyone at the least try them to see if it really does help them right?

Not true, Herbalife is making billions in USA and the federal government can't do a thing about them MLM and Ponzi schemes grow where there are people that you can recruit into it, it doesn't matter if it's from a third-world country or not, scummy business like these trading platform will sprout and thrive no matter what.

How they pull off these scheme of trading as if it's really an AI is something, they really planned this from the start for sure, that kind of money won't be stolen by measly strategies and in a way you've got to admire their gall to be able to do some heinous shit like this, hopefully the people behind the MTFE identified because justice needs to prevail in this situation.

That's not the point, do you even know how doxing works? It doesn't matter if you know or don't know the people, if you have the skills and knack for investigating, you can identify these people depending on your expertise with ease. Also, you haven't watched Jim Browning reveal the faces and names of call center scammers in India. I agree with the raising awareness campaign but if we don't deal with the root of the problem, it will stay a problem nonetheless.

I think these campaign have been going on for too long and people aren't listening anymore so I am somewhat in the fence with these one though I agree with it and your solution albeit good intentioned, lacks the firepower to really stop these scammers.

It's not a matter of worth, everyone should have the access to knowledge and we shouldn't weigh in on how eligible they are to know something, if they permit to do so we should be able to give/impart them the knowledge that we have, education should be inclusive and not something that's prejudiced because of age or skin or race or ethnicity or social standing. If you think about it, the right old people that is curious and knows the risk of this technology will be a good help to the bitcoin community, in a PR standpoint, bitcoin will show that it's inclusive and that it's not just the millennials and Gen Z that can benefit from bitcoin but also the older generation.

I don't know about you OP but I believe that bitcoin is an ongoing revolution because there's still people out there that's not reached by the greatness of decentralization and financial freedom from the current financial institutions and in my book, a revolution is only completed when all the people are finally free and that the current financial institutions doesn't have the stranglehold on the population's financial sovereignty. Or I could be wrong about my own definition and that the creation of bitcoin itself is the revolution and bitcoin is the flag we carry in the frontlines.

Those transactions are just addresses of the wallets on them and not the name of the owner of that wallet, the reason that bitcoin transactions can be traced to a person is because they did a transaction on a website that has some sort of KYC policy so some people who transacts in bitcoin gets identified by cyber forensics, still better than using a credit card though, one swipe and they'll know what's your location. If you're really concerned about your privacy then using a bitcoin mixer might help you a lot, it mixes (as the service suggests) your coins with other coins so that the link to your target address is broken.

Same goal although I don't have a specific timeline, as long as I can accumulate every month no matter how small the amount of sats areI am making progress, hopefully I will be able to get to half a bitcoin in the next 3 years or less, hopefully more money making opportunities come my way so I can shorten the pace of my goal. Got myself some bitcoin already for this current dump coz I got my pay in my day job. This kind of goal is particularly difficult for those that don't have USD as their currency and in the case of my country, most of my money are spent on daily stuff and bills, I'm one of the lucky few that has money leftover after all the bills and necessities are paid for so I am still thankful.

That's a dream for many for Musk to be out of bitcoin entirely but I remember people were really happy that Musk is in the bitcoin space when his company Tesla bought bitcoins and allowed bitcoins as a payment for their cars, didn't a lot was also happy because he's making the price of bitcoin pump in the last bull run. I think SpaceX is really struggling at funding and you're definitely right, their cash flow is weak iirc they have a rocket that have exploded.

Yep, figured it as much that it's taken already, pretty cool painting/artwork and thank you for the PM for the other information regarding Sid's artworks and his pricing. I guess my list of stuff to buy will get 1 item longer and I don't mind, really want to own an artwork worth displaying for a really long time.