BCH has had the worst time among altcoins as it has been getting dumped hard all year long and it has not yet stopped. recently there is a new airdrop for it called bitcoin SV which they are going to give away free money to whoever holds any BCH that is why there was a small price pump since people were rushing to buy it to get that free money airdrop. otherwise there is no "catching attention" here! it is still the same useless altcoins as it has always been.

bitcoin speculators have never shown any interest in mining and hashrate so far. they didn't even care about the bitcoin cash itself and the hashrate that it stole from bitcoin. so I don't see why they should care about fork of fork of bitcoin and what that does!

it is funny that I all I can think of is all these empty blocks
so far we have 32 MB block space for BCH that is 99% empty and now when it forks to a new coin we will have 2 set of empty blocks that nobody uses at all... it is like an abandoned house of horror....

joining this forum is not something that can prevent you from being scammed! in fact many people have been scammed because they joined bitcointalk. and there are many different forms of scam, it is not just obvious ones when someone tricks you to give them your money and they run away with it. one of the most common ways of scamming people here is advertising already pumped shitcoins and getting newbies to invest in them so that they can dump on them. that is also an indirect way of taking their money!

bitcoin isn't involved in anything. bitcoin is just a currency like any other currency in the world and acts as a tool that happens to be used for a variety of reasons, most of which are good and legal but it also happens to be used for illegal activities too. the more popular bitcoin gets the more users will use it and usage of it for both legal and illegal activities will increase just like any other currency.
you just happened to stumble upon the negativity more than anything else because your source is news sites.

your big ass picture is false and misleading though. it is showing bitcoin price growth over the years while talking about the total market capitalization of all the shitcoins in the market!!! and that number ($200 billion) is 95% fake if you exclude bitcoin's market capitalization because of the thousands of useless tokens and fork coins that were  created last year which bloated the market cap with fake numbers.

haha, you just contradicted yourself.
that volume means $200 million worth of bitcoin is being sold daily and $200 million worth of bitcoin is being bought daily. so that many people are buying and selling bitcoin, it is just that there are equal forces by these two opposing sides that is keeping the price stable at the moment

although this is not a good example but if we also remove roads so that the conventional cars could no longer be used in transportation then you can't call them cars any more. they become obsolete.

yeah but the difference is that the bears had their time for a many months this year and they pulled the price down nearly 70% and made their profit that way. there is no more room left for them to pull it any lower than this so it is time for the bulls to take over again. not to mention that bitcoin is always on a bull run even if it takes some steps back temporarily.

sometimes definitions are not opinion based! there is a clear definition and it can not be changed. and that definition for a full node according to bitcoin.org is this:
"A full node is a program that fully validates transactions and blocks."
an old node can not "fully" validate transaction and blocks so it should not be called a full node. although since we have no other word for these types of nodes we have no choice but call them full nodes. we may call them "old full nodes" or something like "limited full node".

well bitcoin is stable! so you can call it "stable" but calling it stable doesn't mean it will not start being volatile again. and I believe that is what most people who call it "stable" mean. I don't think anybody has the delusion of thinking this is it, and we will stay at $6300 forever. everyone knows that the rise will start soon and we will see the same thing as we always do.
and don't forget that this is not the first time bitcoin became "stable". the last long time was back in 2015 when price was stuck at $220 for a long time. and bitcoin was "stable" back then too.

(stop using blue and bold it is annoying!)
was Tether really the first stable coin created? I don't really remember but I think there were other stable coins very similar to Tether if not sooner but they were around alongside each other. it is just that Tether has the benefit that it is created by the same company as Bitfinex and having a big exchange behind it made it big not it being first.

there is always struggle in any systems and there is always improvements to make it better. that will never stop or change for bitcoin or for any other system, company, product,...
as for bitcoin price it seems like the market is starting to get ready for the rise and with the positive news that keeps coming out we can expect the rise to start soon. but you shouldn't expect anything big at first. we will start by slow rises then follow it up with big jumps like last year and eventually we will end up with the same situation in a bigger bubble (possibly above $100k) and another drop and stable phase like this.

I am starting to feel that exchanges have some sort of expiration date!
think about it, in the past we have had lots of good exchanges that had no issues. Mt Gox, Cryptsy, Bittrex, Btter, Bitfinex,... they all were functioning properly and nobody had any issues. then their expiration date came and they all scammed their users and ran away. of course not all scams were that big to end up with closing the exchange but they got enough victims to be considered a huge scam.

stop looking for "signal groups" they will only scam you and you will eventually be left with a lot of losses on your hands. instead try to learn how to trade on your own! why do you want others to tell you what to do with your money when you can make even more profit if you spend a little time gaining some trading experience on your own?

going from $0.001 to $20000 was 1,999,999,900% rise. now you are arguing that 10000% rise is too much?! besides it has nothing to do with the percentage of the rise. when you look at the numbers like this of course you will be confused. instead you should look at it this way:
the cap is at 21 million bitcoin so there can't be any more. and there are billions of people around the world who are slowly adopting bitcoin and want a portion of it. as the supply remains fixed and the demand grows the price goes up with it. the fact is the unit that bitcoin has ever used is "satoshi" not "bitcoin"! and we should talk about 1 satoshi's price instead. 
right now the adoption is less than 1% of the world  and as that grows the price goes up.

of course it is always easier to talk about price, trends and speculation when we are looking at the history! for example it is easy to call $200 in 2015 the bottom and end of bear market now that you are looking at the charts of all the time that has passed!
but doing it later is not worth anything. it is worth something if you could call it a bottom and a "good time to buy" at the time when price was at $220. like calling it now that price is $6200+

investing A LOT of money in bitcoin is a stupid move unless you are a trillionaire who doesn't care about that much money! you should always invest what you can afford to lose and not think about making more profit and taking unreasonable risks.
at this point when bitcoin is at a stable price and has not that much room left for drops, is the best time to invest but bitcoin is still a risky investment.

that is the problem with your question which happens to be a very common one these day! you always assume something is better because you only sought out minimal information about that alternative. but if you actually go deeper and look at both pros and cons of that alternative (in this case the consensus algorithm) you  can see that it is not "better"!

but of course if the only factor that you look at is the energy consumption then PoS obviously comes out on top! but is it just about energy consumption?

a few millions? haha. you seem to have never checked the volume that some of the shitcoins have when they get pumped! it is more like a few thousands.
not to mention that OP is mainly talking about profit making although it may not be obvious from the things he said. and making profit is so easy when it comes to pump and dumping shitcoins. there are  coins that get pumped >1000% with 0.1-1BTC. it may seem like a small amount of profit but you should know that this is happening on a daily basis on a couple of different shitcoins. so the aggregated profit is huge.

it is a very good thing that the forum is sometimes filled with a lot of FUD like this!
it only proves that idiots exist and it helps everyone learn more about them. one thing that is very good about forums is that when you make a post it has a timestamp and it stays there for as long as that forum is alive! in this case you can see that this topic was posted 2 months ago and price has gotten stable and the volume is high showing accumulation. and soon enough you will see the rise and that proves the idiocy of the starter of this topic and anybody who believed him.

as a fun project you can always go back and look at old topics that were started very similar to this one. they all exist and if you search on google you will also find them. they all show the idiots throughout history who desperately tried spreading FUD like OP.