I tend to agree with this, you can't conclude that it's a potential project a first glance.  It should be always best if you will engage closely with them and watch closely their activity before you will decide for yourself and rate them by your own perception based on your DYOR.

DYOR isn't not just reading the all documents of the project like reading the Whitepaper, Roadmap or etc.  It's all about engaging them, joining the community, find the real utility which is you can determine them as a good and potential ones.

The bolded part above can be fake which is it's hard to determine if it's fake.
Cybercriminals these days have many ways to fool people with their fake apps because when the company brand has many users it's very easy to confuse those new users.

In addition above, it could be also the right way of checking legitimate apps is the release date, you'll become suspicious if the app has been recently released but has a massive number of downloads.  The last and the best option is to go to their official website.

This is how decentralized works on open-source coding, you can even follow the developer's progress which means the code itself can be checked by anyone who wanted to know the progress.  So there is more advantage to open-source than the close source wallet.  The reliability, security, and decentralization were open-source.

However, closed-source reduced the increase of imitators wallet or exchange but this isn't a problem if you know how to verify the legitimate one.

A very volatile unpredictable market.

Everything can be learned when it comes to the technology behind the market, the utility of the project, and doing research about the potential project but when it comes to trading in the market, this is very hard for others to make money, why?
I answered above, there's no called master in trading because the price is unpredictable, though it has an advantage if you're an experienced and knowledgeable trader.

I can't imagine 40 years of research in Bitcoin before it launched.
I was also thinking about this before, how many years of research before Bitcoin becomes successfully launched?  And now here's an informative chart before Bitcoin becomes Bitcoin.

We should be thankful always the brilliant idea of Satoshi, even now Bitcoin still exists and becomes a successful alternative decentralized currency as the creator's goal.

Ain't know if there are still people doing this, a lender that didn't need money after a year or how many months.  But if there's really it is, then that's good.
Lending money to invest in Bitcoin is good but this will depend on your agreement, there shouldn't have a time range when you pay it back.

But IMO, investing in Bitcoin with the amount that you can afford is the best way to invest, just like saving the amount little by little and storing it in the bank that you have control with your own money (in a non-custodial wallet).

All kind of investments has been tied up with risk, you should understand it first and be ready for the consequences that may happen in the future, at least there's should be a plan B.

I remember this before when I was promoting a signature campaign, a gambling company.  I can't directly send from the gambling website to my local wallet (Coins.ph) because it warned me once and I received a notification the same as OP said that it might freeze my account which is the common problem of the centralized wallet or exchange.

But my problem was solved when I used the Electrum wallet, from the gambling wallet to my Electrum wallet, and then send it to my local wallet.
It might work in that way if you will try this option, it's ideal if you're looking for the cheapest transaction fee.  But if not, find an exchange platform that didn't prohibit transaction that comes from gambling wallets or better read the terms of service to avoid such violation.  This way, it's easy to transfer your fund to your local wallet using altcoins like XRP and convert it to fiat.

Mobile wallets aren't equally good as desktop wallets for example Electrum, IMO.
Considering its high risk when you're using Electrum in the app version especially if you will use your personal mobile phone or it's a rooted phone.

The best Bitcoin wallet IMO is the hardware wallet, because they'd built-in security features that will secure your fund.

Signing up without proper knowledge may result in losing the fund. 
It should be teaching them first how Bitcoin will work and how it will store in a safe place, let them understand that storing in custodial exchange might have a chance of losing their fund.  After purchasing it should be transferred into the non-custodial wallets.  Transferring crypto isn't reversible, they should be careful with every transaction.

Chose a wallet that you can modify the fee which I think Electrum wallet is enough for this.

Aside from what they suggested a decentralized exchange where to buy Bitcoin that will protect your privacy is a P2P exchange, you can also use this forum Bitcointalk the same as a p2p exchange.  Visit this section, Economy > Marketplace > Currency exchange and make sure to use a legitimate escrow member for every transaction that you have. 

A 50k of what?  It is a dollar?
Sound like it's a big amount and it might be good if you split them twice or more per transaction.  Regarding the fee, that's natural, even blockchain transaction has a fee, there's nothing free today upon moving your fund.

IMO, using Bitcoin in a regulated gambling casino/website isn't a problem, as long as they followed the certain regulation of the chosen jurisdictions where they get a license that operates legally which is very notable and popular in the Curacao iGaming jurisdiction that didn't prohibit cryptocurrencies.

Some countries aren't legalizing Bitcoin but they regulate people who use it, those who used centralized exchange may experience a heavy KYC requirements process.

Of course, it is.
It has been proven for how many bear market seasons passed but that there's always a new ATH come.  The problem is why the bear market becomes struggling to recover because of those newbies that keep panicking, sometimes those FUD continue to spread which makes other people panic.

But anyway, that's right, everything in crypto is unpredictable but if you'll look around, Bitcoin has already established its name and becomes trusted that supported in any e-commerce business which is very useful and I don't think there's a reason the market fall down.

And other altcoins?  
People should be careful about this, it might be considered if people will stay on Bitcoin investment because it's safe, not on random altcoins which have the potential of losing your funds very high.

Crypto isn't a quick investment scheme, there's no promising time for this when you'll get a profit, it's talk about "patience" that you have.
If you want an investment low risk it could be Bitcoin and wait until it will reach a new ATH.

If you're willing to spend another amount of money, you can reach out this company, Chainalysis.com.  I don't know how much it cost and also the percentage that you'll recover your lost fund.  One thing that I know is their experts tracing a blockchain transaction that could be the scammer's identity will unmask.

Sorry for your loss, hope that you've learned from this mistake and that won't happen again.
Think it twice before sending your crypto into another wallet, remember always that once the transaction has been confirmed, it's irreversible.

A hardware wallet has a security feature that didn't leave any footprint after use and I think even if you'll forget to disconnect it will automatically be disconnected to any device that you use.  I tend to agree with this that there are software wallets that didn't have this feature.

Sometimes our consciousness will lead from the hack if we aren't knowledgeable enough because we're confident of what we're doing even just writing it down on a piece of paper but we know how to keep it in a safe place.  Being paranoid won't help you to keep your private key safe and your wallet.

Make sure you didn't click the link that was sent to your email, it could be a fishing link that could be hacked your exchange account and might get your account information.  But you already checked it and if nothing happens you'll be fine.

You can withdraw the fund from the exchange to your non-custodial wallet and after that, you might contact the CS of that exchange and ask where the funds come from and you'll return it once it's confirmed the real owner via the sender's address.

Yes, possible this happen and it could be a coincidence.  Copy-pasting and send without checking the right address.

It might be good if there's a specific time for this, not "soon".

With the continuous improvement and developments of ETC right now, there's no doubt that it will reach that high amount but might not go up high to more than $100 this year if many investors will believe in ETC.  It could be below $100 this year and it will keep growing by next year.

IMO, ETC is a good and potential investment and of course, only invest what you can afford to lose.

I've read this article it seems the prediction was very closely related.
https://thenewscrypto.com/ethereum-classic-etc-price-prediction

IMO, it will not drop further beyond $15k, though Bitcoin now has been struggling to increase the price I believed it will not down too much this year.  As we noticed the adoption has been widely spread and not only that, some countries started legalizing Bitcoin.  So possible there's an increase and this time we're on the correction stage that might possibly will trigger to become pump after this year.

Price doesn't matter at all, if you invested at the $20k price range, never sell under that price, because if the price falls down and you have 1 Bitcoin, it will remain 1 Bitcoin and nothing will be a loss, not unless if you sell at the lowest price from where you purchase.

This isn't true, during that time, Bitcoin wasn't affected by covid-19.
Though we know that Bitcoin price is unpredictable and for sure there's also no infinite growth but I believed new ATH will always come, just wait for it.

Then at least you open your eyes here, it's indeed holding a long term will be the best way to make a profit.

Stop promoting obvious scam project campaigns.

Everything that's related to a financial service there's always prone to scams.
The pump and dump scheme which is a very common kind of scam still exists nowadays because there are a lot of greedy people who are looking to take advantage of the market.

There are a bunch of scams that we should be avoided and they always have an advantage if you're knowledgeable about everything that you wanted to invest in.  DYOR is still the best practice when you're new to in investing crypto.

This isn't new in the crypto world and most of them are those new projects, and their token becomes a pump and dump because it's manipulated.
That's why we should look closely at what we invested, investigations are a must because investing in crypto is very crucial, there are too many big players that wanted to play the market to gain profit.

This kind of project sometimes has investment schemers reap a large amount of profit by making poor investors becomes a loser because of manipulating the market.

Remember how Elon Musk manipulated the market before?