I don't know what are the plans of Celsius' management, but it is a fact that once a brand has lost credibility, it is extremely hard or even impossible to grow it back and it comes with a massive bill which I'm not sure who is willing to bet with.

GS are not fools, if they're getting into a business/partnership they know what they have gotten into and they should have a well-planned strategy.

Positive declarations about crypto will encourage citizens to adopt Bitcoin. We need to understand that Fed is not likely to make massive steps towards adopting Bitcoin. Even if they might make plans secretly about hoarding Bitcoin as it might become a global reserve currency, they won't disclose it publicly - you don't want other countries to accumulate at these low prices, don't you?

I'm not sure about laws and policies, but I think the government should announce if tax payers' money goes towards stacking, crypto right?

Well if short-term trading was not profitable why would traders still do it? The truth is there are a gazillion strategies to "play" the market. It all comes down to the personality and temperament of the trader. For example if you are high in negative emotion sensitivity you might want to play the short-term - as seeing a position being on a significant drawdown for a lot of time might take a toll on your quality of life and trading.

Moreover your trading style needs to suit your lifestyle. Not everybody finds trading to be fulfiling, nor everyone likes to spend most of their awake time watching charts move on a monitor (although with today's technology you can get yourself an impressive setup with led lights, curved uhd monitors and all that good stuff )

It is the same old recipe - buy when there is blood on the streets. Right now people are under pressure with debt burden rising rapidly and lay-offs causing drops in income --> people are forced to sell assets. Many times they will do it at a considerable loss even if it is painful.

1% on every transaction is like banning all day-traders. This is definitely not freedom.
IMO governments should give economic agents as much freedom as possible. Taxing the transactions and then the income on top of that is non-sense. Not even talking about the business (exchanges) that get ruined.

Trading is a very unconventional profession indeed, especially retail trading.

I'll say this: it requires a lot of hard-work and dedication and at the end you still won't know for sure you are made for this. One could waste years from his life trying different strategies, markets, timeframes, etc. and still not become a successful (constantly profitable) trader. But with talent and a lot of determination you can become proficient at it and basically print money out of the markets. That is the dream of many, but to get there, oh boy... buckle up for some extreme up and downs. Few survive...

Yes, but first people should make contingency plans for the worse scenarios. You don't want to end up in the street because you DCA'ed in a bear market although you might have some beautiful gains in the future. I would even make an analogy with the martingale strategy from gambling. By DCA'ing you basically lower the breakeven price of your investments. In martingale you double the bet to recoup the already realized loss while in DCA'ing you don't really double it (but maybe you do). My point is that you need to be careful not to go bankrupt during times of accumulation.

There is not enough info for this stat. Is it referring to crypto users from the Bank of America customer base? - If yes, how is one active crypto user defined as?

It is normal the buying volume to be lower in bear markets. Didn't think it is quite so much (50%), but again I need more info of how this statistic has been created.

You make me laugh. So the liquidation of companies with bad management of capital is an indicator for the end of Bitcoin? Read that again and tell me it is not absurd.
Basing your investment decisions on the price of an asset is a recipe for disaster. Learn to differentiate between price and value. Price will intrinsically swing due to market forces, but value will remain constant.

How do you think Buffett made his fortune? Buying cheap - what does cheap mean? --> The price is low in comparison with the value of a company.

First of all hold your horses, step back, zoom out.
Then you might want to make a thorough analysis of your existing portfolio and personal finances. What are the funds you can allocate to investments? What are your goals from investing - maximising long-term account value or getting a steady passive income? What is your risk profile aka what is the maximum drawdown of your portfolio you digest on a monthly-yearly basis?

Only then you can make an educated decision on how much you are willing to invest in Bitcoin and at what price levels you will enter. If you have studied technical analysis you can come up with certain support/resistance levels where the price is more likely to hold. This way you can also minimize the swings of your portfolio - for example you can decide to sell your Bitcoin holdings if a certain level gets broken, but to apply that you need to be quite proficient at trading.

Well, it needs to be purchased with something. Think how hard would have been for Bitcoin to get adopted if people were not able to purchase it using fiat. In that case Bitcoin could have only propagated through the old barter. If Bitcoin would have been banned from the beginning I'm sure its growth would have been much slower.

I mean just think about the amount of free publicity Bitcoin got because of the valuations it reached. If Bitcoin would have been banned right from its nascent phase it would have been mainly used in underground activities. I mean I don't know many average joes that would get involved in forbidden transactions. Maybe 1 in 10. It's simple math.

If he is smart about it he can get away with the ransom. He could use sophisticated Bitcoin mixing methods and/or sell his Bitcoin anonymously underground. I'm not sure how efficient are the mixing services. Governments can have access to powerful blockchain analysis tools.

I am deeply concerned about the ability of our governments and publc institutions to keep our data safe, not even talking about individual companies. I think there should be certain policies implemented to enforce companies to respect certain safety standards and constantly invest in upgrading their cybersecurity.

Wealth and income seems to follow the Pareto distribution. Logically the rich will get richer as they are the first to have access to investment opportunities, new more productive technologies, etc. while the poor ones fight for their families survival. So one part is working mainly for basic necessities while the other is investing time and money to produce more of it.

In order to solve this problem, I think the very wealthy should invest a good part of their income for the betterment of the societies, not just for their self-interest. In other words to look at other kinds of return on investment not just at money. For example education has the highest ROI but it only makes its returns visibile in about a decade or so.

Furthermore, money needs to circulate, not to stay blocked in a bank account. Value needs to be unlocked in order for our society to advance. But unfortunately we also need competent, ethical leaders which the majority of the countries lack. Most of the politicians are greedy and lack the moral values required to make a society prosper.

Interesting story!

It never happened to me to not be able to make a transaction from my bank account though. Maybe your account is at a lower quality bank. Remember that services provided by banks are pretty similar as a concept, but they do differentiate through customer support, applications, etc.

I'm glad to see Bitcoin was the hero in your story. And may that bike produce you more Bitcoin than you spent on it. Drive safe!

It depends on what states are you referring to. If you go in third-world countries there are a lot of unbanked people especially older generatioon who are not educated enough to use a debit/credit card. It will be very hard to bank or digitalize such a big mass of people, so I think we still have to wait around 10-20 years before we can expect a true paperless economy.

Well, first of all happy birthday! Head confidently towards 100 and make the most of your time on Earth. We all should do the same.
Inflation is certainly not low especially for consumer goods. I'm not sure if the "super-elite" will benefit at the end from all this. Usually social situations will arise like protests and even civil wars. Wealth can get down pretty easily when you have a lot of wealth. Depends now on how well they geographically distribute their belongings and also their asset allocation but generally harsh economic crisis leads to revolts.

The market is composed of people ('agents') with different interests expressing their intentions in the market through buy and sell orders. Of course there are algorithms and trading bots, but after all they only do what they have been programmed to do by humans. Emotions still play an important rule. Bots and algorithms can be decoupled if the monitors consider so.

So what you're seeing in the market cycles is a wide spectrum of human emotions --> fear, greed and everything in-between
Successful investors need to learn to bypass their emotions and respect their strategy/reasoning.

I'm talking from the perspective of one who has pretty extensive experience in trading, but I decided to stop it at least temporary as it does not fulfill me.
Here are the mistakes I see right away from your post:

1) If you succeed just out of luck - you don't actually have a strategy.
2) If your strategy is giving you anxiety it means you haven't backtested it thoroughly - you don't really know what to do and when.

My advice: get back to the drawing table, establish a simple strategy start backtesting it and then tweak it along the way.

You should look for a trading group that see trading as it is. Having a working strategy (an edge) that you can derive an expected value from.

I think the adoption of Bitcoin should be viewed from two perspectives:

--> 1) Bitcoin - an instrument for storing value -- measures: institutional investments in BTC (pension funds, hedge & mutual funds, etc.), ETFs accepted and traded on the market, trading volume, number of states that declared BTC a legal tender, survey on people (do they hold BTC, for short-term or long-term, etc.)
--> 2) Bitcoin - a currency used for day-to-day transactions -- measures: number of daily transactions both on the main chain and the lightning network, surveys on people (have they used BTC in the past day, week, month, year)

Exactly, most people don't realise it but Bitcoin is doing an amazing job at doing what it was designed to do which is exactly what the OP said. You can send & transfer infinite amounts of money around the world with an insignificant fee. Moreover you can carry that money on an USB drive, laptop or other similar devices while you travel around the world with nobody controlling you at customs.

Moreover it is I'd say it is the most secure decentralized network in the financial world. I'm expecting a good increase in adoption of the lightning network as well. Indeed the poor countries with highly inflationary currencies seem to be the first adopting Bitcoin as a day-to-day transactional currency and not necessarily as an instrument for storing wealth/investing.