Yea.. I can definitely see that happening. A cryptography or an economics teacher introducing bitcoin as a sort of ponzi scheme experiment or probably just call it a straight-up scam lol. Expect to get a lot of similar opinions especially in the near to mid term future that having bitcoin in the educational sectors will probably just do damage and steer people off it. I don't think the phrases "any publicity is good publicity" fits that greatly in this case.

I really can't say, because I'm not a developer, but I don't think it would be too farfetched for bitcoin to reach such levels of anonymity that plausible deniability will be the default for even the people who don't do anything to improve their privacy. I'm guessing it's just probably a matter of when. But then again, I'm just guessing lol.

You can also securely store these types of things on a secure and encrypted database though. You'd figure if there was really a huge advantage of using blockchain, that huge data companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Apple would already be using blockchain for their storage?

Wait til mixing and coinjoining becomes the norm(hopefully someday, hopefully something built in on wallets that sort of happens automatically or something) that all circulating bitcoin becomes so called "tainted". By then, there will almost no be any tainted bitcoin and exchanges wouldn't be able to complain.

Or.. just screw all the "bLoCkChAiN" fluff, and just simply buy bitcoin off an exchange, or in rare cases, probably something like the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust for the older folks who don't even know how to use a computer.

Funnily enough, these security problems ain't only from the older folks. Even the younger internet-savvy people have been too comfortable with username:passwords accounts that there's a good chance that there's a good chance that even the younger folks will be leaving their funds in custodial exchanges; or something like saving their 12-24 word seed on a centralized server like on their email address or their phone's app.

It's really more of the Re-tweet, than the tweet itself. It's has some sort of implication(or at least what people on social media think) that he's going to do something to help adoption or something. Pretty hard to make conclusions due to the Tweet being extremely cryptic though.

To answer your topic question: It probably needs to be introduced on related subjects/courses like investing and finance and computer science in general.

But what needs to be more emphasized in schools in my opinion, is internet security in general. Not only does it help with the security of future bitcoiners, but also with internet users in general. As we move more and more to the digital space, internet security just becomes more and more important.

The thing is, how do we know if the current price(which is approximately around the pricepoint where MicroStrategy bought bitcoin at) is high or low? Only time will tell if now is the so called "right price" to buy or not because obviously we can't predict future price movements especially in the short term.

Also take note that these wall street guys are investors, not short-mid term traders.

I've heard multiple times on social media that Gene Simmons is a total a-hole(though I really don't know because I never followed him as a "celebrity"), but whatever. Any publicity is good publicity.

It's either help, or no impact in my opinion.

The news of China having a digital currency might just bring people more interest to bitcoin, and hopefully end up with most people realizing the importance and the advantages of having a digital trustless currency rather than a centralized one.

Voted for no impact because it's the safer bet.

Ah, the price manipulation argument. Sure they can, and nothing is stopping them from doing that; and not only the government, pretty much anyone with enough money. Them buying up a huge amount of bitcoin(hence spiking up the price), and using the bitcoin to crash it back down is quite of a stretch though(but I'm definitely not saying it's impossible).

In the long term, I also think it would. But the short-mid term will still be pretty random(as per usual with bitcoin). I'm not seeing the negatives in their total balance sheet per se, but more of the possibility that bitcoin might crash in the short-mid term, that would cause a lot of their investors to lose confidence in their company and sell their shares.

"Site is brand new"
"Signal provider"
"too good to be true"

Yea you've pretty much just listed 3 red flags mate. I suggest spending your time trying out other legitimate ways of making money instead. Learn a new skill/trade or something. Services like their are simply either scams, or totally unprofitable.

You're really going to barely see ATMs unless you're from the bigger countries like the United States; and especially if you're not in the sort of capital city of your country. I personally haven't seen a single one in my life either because I barely go to the main cities.

Quite mind boggling to be honest. We'd think that when we talk about buying bitcoin that people would mostly default to Coinbase and the like, but a good number of people seem to actually use Bitcoin ATMs despite the enormous price premiums(I know, potentially due to privacy and all that, but still).

Ano balita sa mga lugar niyo? Ung nearby cities na katabi ng city na tinitirahan ko and ung probinsya na tinitirahan ko has been racking up on new COVID cases ulit in the past few days after having almost near-zero cases for weeks. Mejo naging komportable ata masyado mga tao samin na lumabas labas ulit; may mga barkada nga akong nakapag ilang inuman na sa mga bahay bahay.

(Please don't mention your specific city for personal privacy purposes)

I'm pretty sure OP meant that bitcoin is seen as "easy money" in an investment perspective by some people; which really isn't new due to the huge number of moonboys online.

Also, you definitely can earn bitcoin from your laptop:

1. I earn bitcoin through my signature campaign.
2. I earn bitcoin through accepting bitcoin on an online store.
3. I earn bitcoin through trading alts sometimes.

..which all 3 are done through my Dell XPS laptop. Earning bitcoin doesn't necessarily mean mining it. You can earn bitcoin like how you earn fiat, because bitcoin is money.

I mean.. you don't even need a "smart wallet", you just need a typical mobile wallet. Most decent wallets have these features lol.

Here's a good one: https://bluewallet.io/

You can also set up a "watch only" wallet if you have a wallet on your desktop/laptop.

Keyword: could

I never left out the potentially positive results, but knowing that MicroStrategy was just worth around 1.3B when he made the $425M bitcoin bet(which is like 1/3 of the company's mcap), is definitely a huge bet. It's not like a company just allocated 1% of their cash on bitcoin; on MicroStrategy's case, the $425M is a huge chunk of their company.