For people to be able to bet on bitcoin's price going up without actually buying "real" bitcoin and spending their time into securing their funds. Quite an unpopular opinion, but this is the way to go for the older tech-illiterate folks.

As for "crypto ETFs", while not necessarily an ETF, investment funds such as Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund exists. Though I'm definitely not for investing in such funds because I'm personally not bullish on 99.9% of altcoins in the long-term.

Or better yet, watch out for AAVE itself and other "DeFi" baloney.

Jokes aside(definitely half meant on this case), make sure to always spend the few seconds just to report these scam sites: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/

Sure. I've never said that both assets are moving for the exact same reasons, as there's so little we can do to find out their exact reasons of price movement in the first place, and why they're actually somewhat correlated. But one thing's for sure, both are moving really really similarly and that's simply a fact. Weird how some people think that bitcoin and the S&P500's price correlation is my opinion for some reason.

1. Ethereum has far less nodes compared to Bitcoin simply due to the multi-terrabyte space required to run an Ethereum node.
2. Ethereum in it's entirety is pretty much just Vitalik Buterin + Consensys. There's a reason why Satoshi Nakamoto left the project early on, and that's to spread out the development and to remove biases from him.
3. The reversal of the Ethereum DAO hack. That itself is a red flag.
4. Don't even get me started on other altcoins as they're FAR worse. Pretty much just single teams having control over the entire networks.

In contrast to popular belief, USDT isn't safe either. If anything, if you'd force me to choose where I'd store 100% of my wealth, I'd choose bitcoin instead of USDT. We don't even know if the USDT are backed by real dollars or not. At least with bitcoin, sure it's going to go up and down, but it's guaranteed to have some value and that I believe it's going to be more expensive in the far future.

Bisq and HodlHodl are great. Though personally, I mostly use HodlHodl simply because it's a lot more convenient though Bisq is better in a privacy perspective.

As for PayPal, chances are, you wouldn't be able to buy bitcoin with PayPal as people wouldn't trust someone with zero positive feedback. Depending where you're from, you're probably going to find bitcoin sellers that accepts online banking and such. As for selling bitcoin for PayPal, there are a few people with decent amounts of feedback that pay with PayPal; but still watch out for scammers.

After buying the bitcoin, you send them over to the Trezor wallet that you've generated on the Trezor device itself. The Trezor is a hardware wallet, and hardware wallets are mainly used for securely holding your funds.

If you don't know much about wallets yet, probably read the basics:

• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631151.0
• https://cryptosec.info/wallets/

How wouldn't you? If USD would drop down in value, then chances are, BTC's value will go up. And if you think if USD becomes worthless over night, then you're delusional as that's very very VERY unlikely to happen. The United States has a lot of control over the country through their official currency, so why would they give it up?

USDT being worthless over night on the other hand, is a different topic.

I have personally donated to TheWaterProject a couple of times already in the past, and no; KYC is definitely not a requirement.

To be able to do that, obviously, they would actually need to sell the bitcoin for them to be able to have the cash. Whereas doing so could potentially expose their identity. And even if they coinjoin the coins and sell them through P2P platforms, there's still a lot of room for error.

It's pretty safe to assume that it's not worth the risk on their side. That, or they simply just wanted the publicity like some have mentioned.

Yeap. Even though chances are that Satoshi has a crap ton of bitcoin, not even Satoshi Nakamoto himself has control over the Bitcoin network. No sole entity has; and that's what Bitcoin has over every single altcoin in existence.

I totally agree with you with most, but this part is quiiite debatable. It's probably safe to assume(at least from where I'm from), that the "lazy" demographic I was referring to doesn't even know much about inflation/deflation; what more monetary policy in general? No monetary shift into a deflationary-ish society is going to change most of those people imo.

Lol a lot of people are looking for things and people to blame for their financial "inequality", even though what they mostly do on their free time is to be on Facebook and watch YouTube or Netflix all night whereas the future wealthy minority are actually working on stuff to get out of the shithole that they're in. Lazy people are just looking for an easy way out.

That's where you're wrong buddy. It's actually the reverse. Pretty much all cryptocurrencies(yes, even Ethereum) besides bitcoin is centralized, and probably 99% or more of cryptocurrencies are only pseudonymous.

If you ask me, of course I wouldn't want to submit KYC. But the fact is, most governments of these countries that these exchanges operate on requires KYC. It's not like most of them require KYC just because they want to; most of them are just following the government requirements.

Well, unsurprisingly, bitcoin is leading the poll even though there are currently only 8 votes. Not surprising though, knowing that bitcoin and crypto people are pretty active on Twitter. I'd honestly prefer a poll made on Facebook as I think opinions concerning bitcoin would be more spread out there.

I like that take. The price movements of both platforms are not necessarily a "breakup", but more of like a "cool off" when talking about relationships lmao, and will pretty much just come back together after a short while.

If you have to ask us how to earn merits "very quickly", then chances are, you aren't qualified for the task you're wanting to do.

Let me guess, you're referring to this article? https://cointelegraph.com/news/old-hands-selling-out-metric-shows-bitcoin-price-at-risk-of-hodlers-dumping

Then I'm not sure why you're really blaming Google here. It's not like they're the one who wrote the article, or something like them "sPrEaDiNg fUd To DeStRoY BitCorN". Because surprise surprise, articles like these are the ones that actually gets a lot of clicks, so it's partly our fault as readers.

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In summary:

• Negative news: FUD
• Positive news: MOON

Well guess what mate, the fact is, there is a correlation between how bitcoin and the stock market moves. This isn't even my opinion or "analysis", I'm just presenting factual data that's freely accessible by anyone lol. 🤷‍♂️

..so far. Take note that this chart(and the movement divergence) is only hours of trading activity, and bitcoin can definitely continue following the S&P500 till whoever knows when.

So bitcoiners are doing NFTs now?  

Kiddings aside, seriously. I'm personally not a fan of NFTs(because I think selling/buying digital art makes no freakin sense), but some people are making bank selling NFTs on whatever sites they're using. If I was artistically blessed, I'd definitely take advantage of that opportunity and just sell the earned ETH for more BTC.