Keep in mind that there is a reason why Electrum creates native SegWit address types (Bech32) by default instead of letting you choose other types such as Nested SegWit, the later is inefficient and at this point which is nearly 5 years after activation of SegWit there shouldn't be any service out there that doesn't recognize Bech32 addresses and if they do those services should be avoided because they definitely have security flaws that have been accumulating due to the incompetency of their owners who can't implement SegWit after 5 years.

I disagree. The sentiment is bullish or undecided not bearish. If it were bearish we would have seen mass sell offs and a huge increase in shorts which we clearly isn't seeing. Even over the past 30 hours we witnessed a lot of sell manipulation that could only take the price as low as $32k and it jumped back up to $37k again. If the sentiment were really "bearish" then it should have escalated into more sells and price should have been $25k by now which isn't clearly happening.

BTW the votes and comments, even though entertaining, they don't matter. What matters is what same people do in the market.

The point of doing something like this is to eliminate the browser, what you send here is exactly what you want opening a connection to the remote server and sending a single POST request whereas using a browser you keep the connection open and the remote server can communicate a lot more with you exploiting many things to de-anonymized, such as exploiting WebRTC, finger-printing, abusing the persistent data stored in the browser in previous visits, ...

The fact that you felt the need to start your topic with "As a rational real Person" says a lot about you and your topic

One of the reasons for diversification is to protect yourself from drops in the main asset you own so you look into buying things that can remain up or go higher when the drop occurs. Here is the problem with buying altcoins, whenever bitcoin has a bigger than normal rise or fall the altcoins get dumped.
So to answer your question, yes diversify but don't buy altcoins.

When price was stable (that is moving less than 10% in a day and lasting for over a week). Last time was last year and it is not rare to see this happening during accumulation phases.

Same with above, the volume drops when price is stable. Keep in mind that "volume" is the amount of bitcoin changing hand between day traders who need price to move big time so that they can make profit. When it is not moving or making small moves the volume drops also.

Yes, they are waiting for price to either go up over a certain level (probably $39k to $40k) or drop below a certain level (probably $30k) to start panic buying or panic selling respectively! So yes you are right it is the calm before the storm.

If you look at any other similar situation with a horizontal line on daily charts and compare them with volume and fees you will see the same thing.

And how is that been working for us?
They are not there to prevent "fraud" they are the fraud themselves. Or have you forgotten how they drove the economy to the grand 12 years ago, coincidentally that is when bitcoin (the decentralized currency) was created.

That has been the definition of "government" all around the world. They just have different levels of dictatorship but they all seek full control and "oppose freedom". It is not specific to China and their government.

You are judging all developing countries based on one! Take the recent news about El Salvador, a developing country. They announced that they are working on making bitcoin a legal tender. There are lots of other developing countries that are so open to bitcoin too.

Considering almost all wallets are deterministic and most of them produce same address type, the address/script types involved in inputs and outputs also help with the guess.
If the input is coming from the same address type as the output that we guessed is the change while the other output(s) are of different type there chance of our guess being correct is higher.

P2WPKH ┌── P2PKH (different type, higher possibility of being someone else)
       └── P2WPKH (same type, higher possibility of being from same wallet)

I can't say who but it definitely is not this group because the newbie weak hands were already removed from the market recently when the price dumped hard and they are still too scared to come back and start buying to have any more bitcoins to sell.
This is most probably the same whales and day traders trying to see if they can push the price down a little more to buy some cheaper coins or maybe some of them had some shorts they wanted to fill which has failed so far and they've been losing money.

so the real question is how much more money they are going to lose before they stop dumping?

Keep in mind that this only works if you were using the default English words with no passphrase (extension words) and obviously it assumes your Electrum specific checksum is correct.

I also wouldn't trust anything written in JavaScript, they are too hard to verify for lack of bugs or maliciousness and their dependencies can easily be changed to a malicious or buggy one. If you use Electrum itself for anything you want to do it is the safest option since it uses a solid cryptography library (same as bitcoin core) that has the least chance of having any kind of bugs that could lead to your funds being lost.

But that makes no sense. Why would you change the encoding of a string first before decoding it? You know internally from hex to ASCII it has to be converted to byte[] then to ASCII!
Also ASCII is a 7-bit encoding so you will lose bits and your final byte[] may not be what the initial hex represented.

I actually think that people in both groups (people who see bitcoin as a currency vs those seeing it as an investment) are growing at all times but the ratio differs based on when in the 4-year cycle we are in.
If we consider the cycle to start from the bubble burst, first year is the big drop and a long bear market, second year is accumulation and small rises, third year is bigger rises and build up of momentum, and forth year is the massive rises and the eventual bubble.
In year 1 and 4 we have more speculators due to the high volatility but in year 2 and 3 due to most stability (less profit to be made by traders) we have the least number of speculators and more "believers".

Yeah, you're right. I guess I'm just too strict about the code I write/use and "ignore" doesn't work for me. I have to have every little details about the algorithm implemented correctly and fully tested before I can use it.

El Salvador positive news isn't moving the price because we are still in an accumulation phase with a lot of ongoing FUD. It has always been like this, it is also similar to ineffectiveness of negative news or even FUD during an ongoing rise.
The news you linked however is just advertisement and not a serious matter.

It is always a good time to "invest" in bitcoin as long as you see the potential in bitcoin in the long run. The only thing that is not always good is trading bitcoin since the market is sometimes extremely volatile and very unpredictable otherwise if you want to invest which is to purchase and keep for over a year these short term fluctuations don't matter.
For example when I started back in 2014 there was similar drama to today and price fell from nearly $600 down to $220, you think anybody who bought at $600 back then cares today that price is 5700% higher?

If it were bearish then price should have fallen down below $30k by now instead of testing the bottom over an over again while setting higher lows and keep going back towards $40k testing the resistance again.

Also comparing this with 2018 is naive. 2018 was the product of a gigantic bubble that had to burst and lead to a very long bear market as the last step of the 4 year cycle. While this low price is just the product a large scale FUD campaign attacking bitcoin to push its price down despite the bull market.

Not that trivially because even though it may not like it but there are two major differences between the two algorithms. BIP39 simply uses a single SHA256 as its checksum which it will append to the end of the 128-bit entropy (assuming 12 word only) while Electrum uses an actual 132-bit entropy and increments it until it finds one that has a HMACSHA512 that starts with a certain bits.
That's not even the biggest difference, the biggest is in string normalization. BIP39 uses a simple KD normalization while Electrum significantly modifies the strings if they aren't plain English words (that includes the passphrase).

You can't call it a "portfolio" if you have bitcoin and altcoins. It is only a portfolio and is worth having if you have bitcoin and things that aren't dumping each time bitcoin price goes either up or down. That means assets that have no corrections with bitcoin like precious metals, stocks, etc.

Then you have already failed at that aim since altcoins have no real world value.

And if you continue bag holding altcoins in long run that 0.55 bitcoin that is held in altcoins will be worth a lot less. You can verify this by looking at the long term history of altcoins.

You aren't not-missing out on innovations by bag holding altcoins!

You don't know that. You are simply making a random guess probably after looking at the internet like reddit and seeing the price memes you suddenly concluded that they represent the "vast majority".

Sooner or later meaning after a hundred years.

Not being in circulation doesn't include the coins owned by some people even if they decide to not-spend them for the time being.

If you use a knife you pick food from your teeth that doesn't change the main utility of the knife and turn it into a toothpick.
Currencies can be considered an investment too. For example over the past year we have had countries with super inflation where the vast majority of people of that country have been "investing" in another currency like USD. That doesn't make USD an investment, it is still a currency.