There is only limited supplies of bitcoin in this world that is also why people are giving those things high appreciation and value. I just can't believe that they'd actually ban all the miners all over China, and they need to find a way to work on their mining since it is not recognized by the government.

But not every part of this world has internet so still it's not guarantee that those bills are effective in the end. Even now there is changes on how the countries approach crypto and what are their steps and plans towards it.

Most would predict it as the most possible scenario based on the real and present happenings in our current situation on our economy. Same as you do, I don't really rely on those predictions since even the most veteran traders failed to predict most of what happens in our economy nowadays specially in terms of bitcoin. There have been so many predictions that been concluded and most are even close to accurate but not as accurate as to when it will stop. We should also consider that not "them" the people who are doing predictions are the market but us all of the people who are into this is considered as market specially those whales.

Personally, I am not against it but there are several platforms already that are discussing NFTs such as telegram and discord or even twitter. In most cases, it is not important to have discussion in NFTs since they have their alternate coins in which they already have a specific section on this thread, but most of the time they it is a lot popular on social media platforms like facebook so I don't think that is something we need to think hard about. One more thing is that you can also have local discussion on your own local threads regarding popular NFTs on your countries in which you will be probably interested.

I can also relate to this at the same time I can also relate to the OP's story since I too lost my father at the very young age and some properties were taken over on the guise that "I am still too young to manage those said properties", but in the end they are the ones reaping the benefits for so long that all the resources are exhausted already leaving us nothing once we took over. That is why me and my family have to work our ass off extra harder just to get by and have something as savings and investment.

As I've said that I can also relate to this topic since it also reached to the point where I am already questioning my self if was I doing the right thing, or am I even enjoying this. There was also one time where I was sick to the point that I couldn't get up from the bed for 2 good weeks. That is also when I realized that life is really short and I wasted those days not even earning or enjoying, so now I am both doing those things on moderation since anytime we will be gone to the kingdom come.

To make things short I have to balance things out for me ro properly say that I am living not just a slave under my own mental pressure of things.

If I were to answer the OP's question then I'd say "that depends on how you manage your time". If you can do both at the same time then it's very well recommended option since you can earn from both. First of, trading as a side hustle or any side hustles you can think of while trading, and at the same time you are working to earn a stable source of income. Nowadays, it's no longer enough to have a stable source of income if you plan to have a leisurely life in the future while having extra money, and even if you do have a decent amount of income from your stable source of income, it is not enough nowadays to sustain you for a long time.

Even if we say you can support you and your family from that job, is that really enough? I don't think that is, since there will be times that you need to have an extra money. I had to learn this on a very hard way, coz our family may be considered as middle class but in terms of extra income to buy some things that we need, we cannot afford to do it immediately, the reason for that is we need to consider some areas in our finances before doing that and it would at least take a year to buy what we need so we really have to step up and come up with another source of income or side hustles to shorten that time frame.

We all know that someday we will pay the price of what hobbies or addiction we borrowed, but in the meantime, it's not bad to enjoy life for a moment and unwind. Life is very short and in a blink of an eye it can end sooner than you expected which is also why I have to agree with you guys saying it's not all the time beneficial for someone to bank their moneys while almost torturing their self to the point of no longer living but only working. I believe banking is still and option for you to save while you are still planning for the next move, but what's more important is how you will move from there and not only getting stucked at banking.

Well, basically in our country farmers aren't treated rightfully while some politicians are taking their lands to convert into business establishments or subdivisions. Aside from they are being treated unfairly, they are also suffering from injustice such as the companies are buying their products at the very low prices while the capital to start farming is much more expensive than their profits. That is mostly why farmers give up farming and try to make a living outside the country or go to urban places to find opportunities.

And the result? Due to lack of attention to farmers we import goods outside the country which makes it even more expensive and both ineffective and unhealthy for the economy.

I have no doubt that blockchain will still prevail in the end, but that doesn't mean those who are using it like us are not on the pinch. Since the regulation is on the way, most wallet providers will be monitored by the authorities, and in the end they will impose whatever laws they can come up as long as they can still monitor those who are using their platforms. For me living in a third world countries, we don't have much choice but to obey mostly what our authorities are going to regulate, though as of now they are still on the neutral stance regarding crypto, we don't know what will happen in the future. So as of now we are still enjoying the benefits while still not crossing the line.

Same as how I choose mine, but for me I usually check first if it's available in our country, then next if it can be easily accessed anywhere and whether I can send in any custodial wallets that I own.

In case of owning non-custodial wallets, first I need to check if it's accessible and can be trustes before I purchase coz who knows if the wallet cannot be trusted I may run the risk of my funds getting lost either failure of the wallet or the seller.

As far as I knew back then when I first started here you need to at least be a full member in order for you to wear avatars. To be honest this is news to me since I there are only few accounts remaining as newbies who are still wearing avatars like what the OP found coz mostly they already have high ranks as of today while others had already retired from this forum.

Regaining trusts from their people is a hard battle they need to face and no one is willing to risk their own wealth and resource just to convince people to believe them without any monetary gain. I don't think blockchain can help in this case when we are talking about real time products and not just any other products you can easily manage as long as you have internet. Besides that, even as we are now facing global economic crisis, nobody would even want to risk losing what they have in exchange of recognition or patriotism, and I don't think it is also the answer to this problem especially now that even crypto is facing problems in terms of not only adoption but also from the hands of high authorities.

That is how the tradional banking works and mostly people who saved substancial amount of money realized how hard it is to endure during inflation. If I were to choose investment way back years ago I'd probably choose saving on the bank, but in this day and age? No, I'll choose something that can have a store value such as gold or even crypto even if it is quite a risky gamble.

When money is involved, people tend to panic easily and cannot hold their own emotions. They are easily tempted either to spend that money or if they choose investment, they'd want something that has the highest ROI possible in shortest amount of time.

During din sa time na yun aside sa marami ang nabiktima dahil sa hype yung mga na FOMO kaya pasok ng pasok sa ibang nga projects kahit hindi segurado, hindi natin maikakaila na marami ang mga napilitan at nagpursigeng matuto ng crypto. Dahilan na rin kung bakit unti-unting namulat ang ating mga kababayan sa financial awareness at ang importansya ng investments.

Sa tingin ko kakaunti lang nabigyan ng opportunities dahil sa bitcoin at crypto, hindi rin masyadong malaki ang epekto nito sa pilipinas pero at least nagbigay ito ng daan para matuto ang ating mga kababayan at maging aware sila sa financial stability at pagkakaroon ng kanilang future investment. Sabi nga nila opportunity goes hand in hand with risks, at ang nakita kong pinakamalaking risk ay ang yung pagtake advantage ng mga scammers sa mga baguhan pa lamang sa larangan ng crypto.

In the first place, the one who destroyed the so called "trust" first are the ones responsible for managing a lot of centralized transactions promising "safe" future for their user's finances. I hate to say this in advance but I don't think crypto industry needs a lot of trust since anything can happen as long as centralized platforms intervene, and if they did it will only cause huge problems for the crypto users and worse possible case is that, the so called trust will end up useless just like what mostly happens in the past.

Well, if I were to be asked personally about this question, it's just that there are some here who have high standards when it comes to giving off merits. I have known even before how much you have contributed on this forum aside from having high quality posts so I'm sure you won't suffer 0 merits even in 3 months, that's how a quality member you are here, but as of lately ther have been problems in merit cycles not only about your posts but also some other boards too due to inactivity of some merit sources, but that doesn't mean you don't deserve the merits you received.

There are also users that had recent achievements in terms of merit activities in the past few months. I can somehow notice the changes on this forum and some are slowly getting back on their feet and slowly making progress from their respective boards. I also hope they'd get recognized.

We know being patient sometimes can also be hard but let's just understand them since nobody started as very exceptional specially here on this forum. Though mostly aren't considered helpful in terms of posts and quoting, time will tell for them who knows they'll paved the path for the future foundation of thia forum.

When I first encountered bitcoin this is also what I have in mind. Honestly, what I was thinking is how can I get more bitcoin and how can I effectively utilize whatever satoshis I can earn, and that only triggers my curiosity deeply and tried various ways to earn bitcoin like faucets and other things like cloud mining in which we all knew it is somehow impossible to earn from there. I didn't have time to think of expanding from there since I didn't have any stable sources of income at that time and I am still underage if I have to find a job, besides that I didn't have proper knowledge that you can even get coins from joining campaigns here since what I knew is that I need to rank up my account for the sake of learning more. Only later on I found out that by joining campaigns you can actually earn, at first I was even doubtful since I have been joining so many ways to earn coins freely and seems like nothing is effective so I am not that hopeful I can get some from here. The only thing I was expecting here is that I felt anonymous and it feels like I have joined something that needs to be extra secretive. That's the vibe I get from exploring here on the forum, but investing and earning? Nah I didn't expect much on that.

Literally when I first came here, I keep on thinking "how nice would it be if I own 1 bitcoin" and "what does it feel like trading using the money I earned online".

This is why it's very hard to ban crypto on that country since mostly the market which is the people will have a hard time coping up the losses. I was even shocked years ago when they announced that China is prohibiting mining coz as far as I know they were amongst the first to recognized crypto and mostly launched campaigns to promote it and then suddenly they just declared out of the blue.

If I plan to sell my bitcoin, i'd probably choose to sell it at $80,000 or more since I didn't have much hassle investing to it, besides in the first place I haven't invested much and all I have invested are from what I have earned because of working free time since I wanted my time to be more productive. It's not that I didn't want to sell but, for me it is just an option for me whether I sell it or not.