It did in the past, but we can already say that the rate of price increase due to halvening is decreasing. Previously it was like x100 gains or x20 gains, now it will probably be x5 or x3. Eventually it will stop having any effect at all because going from an already a tiny reward to a half of a tiny reward is not changing much.

Password is not a universal solution, because it comes with a risk. Losing it means losing the wallet too, so you are increasing your chance of locking yourself out of your funds. Theft and hacks are not the only danger, accidental loss of keys is probably a more common threat.

People who think Bitcoin is a scam view bitcoiners as a victim of a scam, rather than the scammers. And thinking that if someone owns Bitcoin then they must have obtained it through crime is a pretty big stretch. I don't think I ever witnessed such line of thinking in a Bitcoin critic that I encountered.

Let's not look for oppression where there is none.

Satoshi vision this, Satoshi vision that. Bitcoin belongs to us all now, because Satoshi entrusted it to us - the community. We can decide what it should be, and those who don't agree can make a fork. In some way we are all Satoshi. Even people who use it only as an investment are Satoshi.

Just keep in mind that if you make a mistake in your code and it sends the wrong amount, it would be nearly impossible to fix it. I suspect that some of those cases of enormous transaction fee could be a bug in automated script that mismatched the transaction amount and the fee, or miscalculated the fee.

Who really cares about a single incident, you can read stories about arguments turning into murder with literally any reason for the argument, like political preferences. You shouldn't be so anxious about Bitcoin that you view any negative news featuring Bitcoin as a directed attack on it or a sign that public opinion will turn against Bitcoin.

No it doesn't. Past performance is not a guarantee of future performance. You need to answer what was driving the price growth in the past and would the same force be present in the future? Spoiler: no, because Bitcoin experienced this explosive growth due to being new and unknown to most people in the world. This phase is over, many people who wanted to invest have already invested, and those that didn't won't change their mind easily.

Bitcoin itself didn't change much after Satoshi left, but Bitcoin community sure did. When he was active on the forum, the members were very enthusiastic about Bitcoin use, cypherpunk, financial revoulation. These days the users are mostly talking about the price, and even if they talk about how fiat currency is bad, it's only to justify being bullish on Bitcoin.

I too have a lot of spending transactions in my first Bitcoin wallet, and I don't feel any regret, because I have enough BTC from those earlier days to make me happy today. Sure, it would be great to have even more, but it could also be a lot worse if I wasted all my coins. In that case I would have to just accept the past mistakes, learn from them and work towards the future goals.

A pin is already a solid defense against that, and adding a fingerprint strengthens the security, but doesn't make it impenetrable. The attacker might use their finger while the victim sleeps - a realistic scenario if the attacker is a close person to the victim.

So no matter how good is the phone wallet security, it's only suitable for small amounts and not for all Bitcoin savings.

They never plan to deliver anything, they put the raised money into their pockets and fake activity for a few months until it becomes acceptable to silently abandon the so-called project. This is the destiny of nearly all tokens and altcoins. And the so-called community that hypes the so-called project is just a bunch of hired bounty hunters.

You know that people can pretend to have convictions? Or even if they do have them, this is in no way an argument that they are an anonymous person with same convictions.

This argument that intentionally refusing to prove to be Satoshi proves being Satoshi is just totally devoid of logic. It's just some mental gymnastics for CWS cultists.

Will it stay at $120k or will it briefly touch it before crashing? How many people will use the opportunity to dump at $120k and how many will decide that this isn't the peak, or will just miss it because it lasts only a few hours and they were sleeping when that happened.

I think all this hype about certain price milestones distracts investors from actually investing - buying and selling to take profits at a good price.

No it's not. The general advice is that closed source wallets are bad, but this doesn't make all open source good. If you can't review the wallet code yourself, if no one that you trust has reviewed it, then it's not too different from a closed source. Like, there's less chance that someone would put backdoors into an open source wallet, because it's possible to spot it, but this doesn't mean that no one will try such thing.

Only halvening can be considered the force behind a bull run, the rest of the mentioned factors can only be "bullish news" that help to accelerate the existing bull market. It's not even clear if they actually affect the price, or if the crypto media tends to pay more attention to them during a bull run, and ignores them when it's bear season and such events don't positively affect the price.

In the past the price reached and surpassed the previous peak aka ATH at around the halvening, but this doesn't mean it have to happen again with the next halvening. Halvenings are not equal, every halvning is weaker than the previous one, because a smaller share of total supply is being cut. Already over 93% of all coins have been mined, so I don't think we should expect from the next halvenings the same performance as when only 50% or 75% of the supply was mined.

We already saw the slow down of growth during the previous cycle when the ATH only increased from $20k to $69k, and not to $100-300k like many tried to predict based on past performance.

"Very safe" is an understatement, it's literally the safest coin and the gap between Bitcoin and altcoins is enormous. Bitcoin has hundreds of contributors, while altcoins have just a few or a small team. Another big difference is motivation - Bitcoin devs work on Bitcoin because they are enthusiastic about it, altcoin devs just launch a coin to sell their premine or are hired by someone who will do the same. So Bitcoin is in the same league as large open-source projects like Linux, while altcoins are closer to penny stocks scams.

What meltdown? The global economy is growing, global poverty is declining, developing countries are developing. We just recently had a global pandemic and we handled it quite well, it didn't become a Great Depression 2.0.

So far all the dooming about the repeat of 2008 crisis has been proven wrong. This of course doesn't mean that there will never be a crisis, but to say that the field of economics is useless and yielded no results sounds absurd to me. Today's economy seems more resilient because the hard lessons of crashes were learned.

Well of course if by "Bitcoin journey" you mean investing in Bitcoin, then it's not complete without actually investing. And simply studying Bitcoin will not yield any results if you don't obtain Bitcoin one way or another.

But remember that you don't have to be a Bitcoin expert to profit from Bitcoin. Bitcoin price movements are not dependent on your Bitcoin knowledge. And trying to trade to always profit from any price movement will likely backfire, because most short-term traders are losing money.

I doubt that people who are already interested in crypto can be influenced by celebrities, it only works on people who don't have any crypto and know nothing about it. However, crypto enthusiasts can be influenced by so called crypto experts - those who have made their name in crypto by starting a company, launching a project or even just talking about crypto a lot. This is as dangerous as getting influenced by a clueless celeb, because the experts can too promote a scam if they are paid well enough. Or they can promote a shitcoin that will collapse because its a shitcoin.