I am more of a mix of investor and speculator because I gamble a percentage of my capital by putting them in risky and new coins hoping that they will yield some sort of money. So far, it's doing good speculating because I made a decent money out of it vut I don't want that wins get over my head and risk an all in.

Good for you that you have other streams of income that makes you much less susceptible to panic selling since you can't worry too much if the prices go down since you have other means to make money. I plan to do the same but I think that I will have to make sure that I put the right amount of money so it's not going to go under.

I don't know about that part because I feel like if CBDC becomes a thing in a country, it becomes a catalyst for governments to ban other cryptocurrencies because they think that cryptocurrencies threaten their project so they try to eliminate competition like what China did.

I'll tell you what happens, we will see the whole financial world collapse right in front of our eyes because cryptocurrency alone won't be able to handle the sudden vacuum in power that was in place after the fiat is gone although that's not the likely scenario to happen, most likely it will be a slow absorption until it becomes all digital.

77% is a lot of people, that's probably the reason why some people including me that expected the price to go up because of the declaration that bitcoin is a legal tender didn't happen. I think this will take time and all it needs is for the government to not budge and stick to the plan, people will adapt to it in the end.

It's not just that because if that's the only key then rich people won't commit suicide because they've fulfilled the key to life. I disagree with this because there's no satisfaction when it's just a selfish pursuit to finances. There are people out there that don't have a lot of money but is much happier than those that have money, those are the people that have found the key to life.

I think it will continue, it's not like every person on this planet knows the beauty and awesomeness of cryptocurrencies, and I don't it warrants for us to worry about the popularity of cryptocurrencies, it's here to stay and it won't disappear like a bubble in the air.

It could definitely but there's a small percentage in that group of people that studies Economics in school to not become economical themselves which is understandable given that not everyone is interested in Economics but at the very least it makes them aware about the subject and the things that it teaches.

Maybe in the past but right now, I think that launderers are trying their luck with cryptocurrency because of the advent rise of privacy coins so I don't think that it's not just fiat anymore but also cryptocurrencies and we have to be really proactive when it comes to this kind of thing. I mean no matter how we don't like it, terrorism is much more problem.

I think the protests is because of the pandemic not being able to resolved or being under control by the current regime. Plus another reason is that people are probably sick and tired of the current regime because they haven't made the lives of their countrymen easier which proves that communism doesn't work in practice.

Well, if being naive is taking high risk then call me as one because the moment that I have invested in bitcoin I was ready for all the risk that there is for me to see. Also, isn't life all about taking risks and taking the win? If you don't take risk OP then you are probably a coward.

This is just a theory but I think that it's because some of them are tied together so for example one of them were to ever go down which causes some of the investors of another coin that's connected to the coin that's going down to think that the prices for the other are also going down.

Maybe more countries adopting bitcoin like what El Salvador did could be the biggest trigger for another bull run and ATH. Although that's a wishful thinking on me because they might see adoption as a threat to their power like what China did.

I think that it's more of an improved but not evolved because evolved implies that it left the early parts of it which didn't happen to bitcoin. I think that we are going to be seeing much bigger increase in the prices in the near future.

It's not really a good thing to compare bitcoin to a bubble because bubbles work different and have a different effect, th Tulip Mania didn't affect the economy because rich people are the only ones that buy it and I don't think that not every Dutch bought it and there's the Housing Bubble of 2008, it did affect the economy. I don't think that bitcoin is going to cause a financial crisis because as @ paxmao said, it's not a lot and it represents only a small percentage of the market.

You can always start small, remember that most come from it and then slowly expand, you don't have to work with the big ones to know how it works but it's a welcoming option to do if you want to be meticulous about it.

It's not just that but they are also one of the oldest family in Europe meaning that they have a really deep influence in many countries because they mainly operate on banks.

There's no answer to that question unless there's a study conducted that tries to settle who is much more happier. In my opinion, it's a subjective matter in terms of happiness because sometimes what's fun to you, isn't fun for the other people. Plus, crypto and stocks is vastly different because crypto is much more volatile so a one digit percentage increase isn't sparking joy for crypto investors but for a stock market investor, that's a payday for them.

If you only save though, it wouldn't help because if you are a conventional type of saving then you aren't protected against inflation, on the other hand, I think that saving money on banks and slowly investing money at the same time is a much better idea.

I think that their a bit over the top because you have greed and lust in your establishment and I think that that kind of business destroys marriages more than anything especially if the sexy casinos have their own escort services where patrons can ask for their services no questions asked.