If I have to choose only 1 person: Andreas Antonopoulos
But with the whole concept of BTC and cryptos, it's not good to choose one person
But I choose this person because we have a lot of influent people in BTC that are crazy or stupids

Aside from money, I really like the idea of have my way of payment without any person keeping for me or the government know every detail about me

Another great thing that I'm passionate about is the fact that cryptos are not controlled or created by governments, it's awesome

It's interesting but totally impracticable to do nowadays

You can have a big solar system, ok
You can mine BTC or altcoins ok
Buy food, medicine, supplies in general with BTC without converting to fiat or use a system with KYC it's almost impossible, you will have to do a lot to maintain this lifestyle

Eu usava bastante a Cryptopia pois lá tinha umas moedas que não tinha em outras exchanges e era relativamente fácil de operar, tinha um volume legal
Durante o tempo que estava por lá, presenciei dois grandes problemas que eles congelaram saques e depois fiquei MUITO desconfiado de que poderia acontecer algo pior, então retirei praticamente tudo de lá
Olha que eu tinha um valor considerável, tomara que vocês recebam tudo de volta, mesmo que seja 10 dólares, afinal é de vocês
O duro é ter que ficar correndo atrás pra reaver algo que é de direito 

We can reach some great levels again, but I'm skeptical about that frenesi we got on 2017
At least in my country, people sold their houses and cars to invest on BTC, these people lost so much money...

We can have again but with another people or some great big investors

I have some doubts if we will have another crazy pump like before, and the reason is simple:
A lot of people sold car, house and move their investments to invest in BTC during 2017, and these people lost a lot of money in 2018, so they will be afraid to put money in BTC again

TOTALLY AGREE

I said in another thread how people always have to tie a fact to any price change of BTC
Analists always trying to predict the new trend, the price etc, but it makes no sense, we can follow some parameters to help us maximize our prediction, but it's only "predictions", and BTC have different pattern, it's not always because some news that BTC changes in price

Cara, se essa China lançar uma moeda e forçar a utilização para sua exportações seria algo MUITO grande que pode impactar demais
E se a China perceber que pode ganhar algo contra os EUA, pode ter certeza que irão fazer e muito rapidamente

I miss the good times of mining, but I'm good now, I don't want to keep a lot of GPUs mining, with a lot of problems to solve a lot of days during the week

I could do if the money is good, but the cost of electricity in my country is so expensive at the moment, that is not viable to mine

If you have a decent price of electricity, less than 10 cents, you can mine at a profit

Eu não gosto de defender ou vangloriar pessoas, é complicado, mas talvez algum de vocês possam ter conhecido o Bitcoin por causa desse cara que vocês estão criticando
Foi ou é, um defensor do BTC e das ideias que em que surgiu e existe o BTC, não faz muito sentido você defender o BTC e julga-lo por defender a mesma ideia da moeda que estão usando

I don't think people would sell BTC just to hear some news about quantum computing
It makes no sense, it's like: OMG quantum computing are here, and in a few minutes they will crack the BTC...

No, I think every fall of BTC people have to find some guilty news to spread, just this

I'm here for some time, and doing some trades are the best way to have more BTC for the long term
It's not difficult, but if you don't have patience or knowledge, it's better to hold, like you said

It's a good idea
Here in my country there are thousands of people who lives only managing "garbage" like copper for example, and it's a win-win situation because they can gain their money and reduce the garbage put on our soil

Continue this work man, you can exchange the money for BTC

Eu sabia mais ou menos como funcionava esse esquema, mas não tinha visto ainda um post tão detalhado assim
Quem conseguiu retirar a grana a tempo deu sorte e fez grana, mas duvido que praticamente todos que faziam essa arbitragem não acabaram perdendo uma boa grana no final
Eu agradeço a cada dia por ter retirado minha grana a tão pouco tempo de isso tudo estourar

It not works this way you're thinking,why and how big companies will use BTC to avoid taxes?
It makes no sense, this companies are regulated and they will not risk their business just to avoid some taxes

Sometimes it's just exhausting to see people saying BTC is dead, BTC will fall to 1k, OMG BTC will fall to zero because of bla bla bla...

It's the same thing every single time BTC drops, and I'm surprised that even people who are here for more than 1 year still believe in this kind of news

Only click a button, without any malicious intentions?
For 0.10 cents ok, but 0.5 cents NO

Nothing is free, I have to click everyday, ok, but if you don't pay a reasonable amount, people will lose interest, because at the end of a month, it's just a few dollars

É engraçado 
Eu sempre digo, ninguém consegue prever o BTC e o mercado em geral simplesmente não tem como traçar gráficos lindos, cheio de histórico e comparações sendo que cada dia é diferente do outro, nós só vemos especulações, quando alguém acerta fica se gabando, quando erra ninguém aparece para lembrar: olha, errei 10 vezes mas acertei 2 

Estamos todos tentando entender esse alta forte que teve
Eu não esperava nada assim, estavam todos falando de mercado em crise, bear market com possibilidade de voltar, desânimo e de repente BOOM, vem essa alta

A China solta notícias toda vez pra derrubar ou subir com o mercado, sinceramente eu estou estudando aqui essas notícias e em breve chegarei a uma conclusão

Mas vamos aproveitar rs

It's hard to define manipulated
Maybe the fall was because a person with a LOT of BTC decided to sell the coins and the market followed, maybe was a company, we'll never know exactly, there are a lot of players in this game and the fall surprised me to, but this rise...I don't know