If everything was so simple then that 95 % of traders were not losing money. Those advices will just help you to minimize your loses. It doesn't mean that following this tips will make you a profitable trader.
There always will be about 90% of traders that are losing money. Without them the price chart would look like a horizontal line.

I remember the hysteria of Democrats during the previous US elections where they were claiming that Trump is a Russian spy and he is totally controlled by Putin.
Now when the time is coming to the next elections we gonna see more of such news. Just wait and you will see in newspapers that Trump is a Putin's android or even Putin by himself with tons of make-up (and the real Trump is held somewhere in the basement of the white house).

Both France and China are willing to use African natural resources. It will not cause any development of African countries. Then why should we care about France here? Situation from Chinese point of view is more interesting.

And answering the main question of the thread:


No, he is always welcome in Marseille and many other French cities.

What features of Bitcoin allowed those people to buy a house? Maybe blockchain? Fiat money are so centralized that people refuse to sell property in exchange for it?
The answer is simple: some people just got lucky and became wealthier because they earned some BTC by doing some simple online stuff (it is mostly about India). Money gave then an opportunity to buy a house and not a bitcoin by itself.

I would be very glad if some Indian genius will show how deflationary economy will work.
BTC is not dangerous for the global economy just because it will not play an important role in monetary supply of any country.

If some government issue its own cryptocurrency on blockchain then it might be considered as electronic cash but I don't feel like someone will do that. For now BTC also can be counted as a mix of electronic cash and gold but it is still pretty far from being cash.
Governments will have more control over cash flow on its territory and lower costs for emission of new paper money. I don't see anything that should stimulate them to make a new kind of cash.

In some EU countries you may be able to open a bank account even if legally you should be at least a tax resident of that country. In come countries banks care about the rules, in other not even within EU. My friends faced with banks in 2 countries:
1. Poland. Account was opened in a single visit to bank. Everything works fine.
2. France. Bank refused in the account opening even when a non-eu person had legal permission to work there. Even general rules there is a real massacre.

The process is different in different countries but imho you can legally cash out your crypto in all countries ofc if you are not trying to do this in North Korea or Iran. So it is easier just to use your local bank unless you are trying to evade taxes. Then you will get caught anyway.

So if I follow your logic then I can say that people that are buying stocks in order to hold it for several years are not investors but speculators. Which imho is not correct.
Under speculations, people usually understand gaining profit from price fluctuations on a smaller period while investing is gaining profits on longer terms. So hodling BTC can be called investing and if you are going to sell your BTC stock in a few days (or within a day) after purchase that will be speculations.

Companies from big 4 are working only with companies and the government. I am not surprised that they are not making any tools for private usage. Even if they did all those  things about connections to multiple exchanges sound too complicated for personal users and small businesses. Especially considering that most of private users are not using cryptocurrencies on a daily basis and their annual "crypto volume" is not that big to have a separate tool for that.

Why should users even care about that? You are not storing your private keys in any Bitcoin ATM and you are not risking if someone hacks this ATM. All cash inside it belongs to the ATM owner. Even if malware will replace receiving BTC address into the wrong one then your money still have to be ensured. At least this is how it works with traditional ATMs.

The problem is that Iran suffers not because they don't have access to some source of payment to buy some goods from abroad. Even if they buy something with Bitcoin then the seller will immediately get under the US sanctions and probably go to jail. It will not help Iran to avoid international sanctions.
It should work the same way with and without LN. Transaction speed doesn't really matter with international transactions.

First of all the Swiss Government is trusted so much because they have proven their reputation over decades and their business is resilient to any political and military conflicts. Personally, I don't see any reason why they should give up now and loose everything.
Also, nothing tells us that any major country is going to use BTC as a reserve. Why? There is plenty of safer ways to invest money and a government supposed to pick safer ones to be resilient to significant BTC rate changes.

It seems like there could be some better way to insert hardware wallet into cell phone. I also got 2-SIM phone but it is not the latest flagman and it doesn't have much memory so I have to use this 2nd slot for SSD card. Considering that I use SSD more often than cryptocurrencies I probably won't use such wallet if I get one.

The amount of transactions is not really related to the condition of the market and does not show a real demand in bitcoin. As you see, the number of transactions is growing while the bitcoin price remains at the same level. In this situation, the only thing we can get is increased miner fees.

This question may sound stupid, but...
Why people even care about the built-in Samsung wallet? Almost every major crypto wallet have apps for android and ios so is that a big problem to install one? IMHO that news are way overhyped.

As it was already mentioned, you better move this thread to trading discussion.
You can check this website, they have some good step-by-step lessons: https://www.babypips.com/learn/forex
This is mostly related to forex but everything related to technical analysis can be related to every kind of charts. No matter if it is forex, crypto or stocks.

And this is the best feature of Tesla and Elon Musk. They have a huge amount of followers and they are successfully turning their faith into money.
Tesla is not getting revenue for many quarters. They can't organize a decent production because of many different management issues and they don't produce as many cars as they promise for a long time. The company is alive just because they are getting huge money from the government, banks and their huge army of followers via stock emission and pre-payment for cars, or features that were not yet even added into production.  Actually, this is why Tesla stocks are considered as speculative while traditional car makers are starting a production that works fine from the start. I don't know why I should think that Tesla will finally make a decent production and overtake the other car makers.

Blockchain was only overhyped thru social media. It did not change anything inside social media.
You can see that major social media for the last time are banning everything they can and trying to censor everything that they think can be related to terrorism, hate speech etc.
Everyone is thinking about how to ban "harmful" information and not about the free speech and remaining all content originally unchanged.


No.

Bitcoin rate is growing because people are buying. There is a lot of HODLers that are not doing anything but having a positive attitude. Unfortunately, the currency rate is not growing just because they are doing nothing, smiling and thinking that they will become rich in a few years.

The absolute bottom is 0. I'm sure that no one will pay me just to give me his Bitcoins. Everything else is just a combination of sentiment and technical analysis.
Imho mining costs are not the bottom price simply because not BTC sellers on exchanges are miners. Also, ICO investors at some point can realize that they have to fix their loses and sell tokens lower then they got it. The same thing could work with miners.

There is a guarantee that deflationary currency (in our case Bitcoin) will never overtake fiat currencies and will never be the main payment method.
This solid rise does not say anything about future Bitcoin adoption and the way of crypto market development in the future. I'm also a crypto lover but lets be frank, the fact that BTC performed good at the past time does not say that we will be able to buy some valuable shit for 45 sat.