that's why they keep gathering bitcoin (by these different so called "investment" schemes). they use those funds to pump and dump different shitcoins, not jut their own token, and make money doing so. there are coins there without any volume that suddenly jump up with clearly fake orders placed clearly by the exchange itself since nobody else can do it that way through their API.

what do you mean "it often fails"?

the only way you fail is if you didn't "invest" in bitcoin and were trading instead and were losing money on trying to predict a market that you didn't have any experience in. or you were then investing bitcoin in an altcoin and since they always tank you lost money.
otherwise if you really "invested" in bitcoin (which means buying something and not touching it for a long time) there is no way you could have failed so far.

maybe a handful of them have some government ties but majority of them are just opportunists who have found an area that wasn't saturated already and started a business to make money. that's why we see all these chainanalysis services grow like mushrooms over the past couple of years. and that's why most of their services are pretty crappy too.

its a bad news for these  exchanges and people who want to day trade bitcoin not for bitcoin or bitcoin users.
another thing to keep in mind is that the entire system is not mature enough yet. for example how many major popular bitcoin exchanges we have? it is still only a handful. so they all have the power and don't have to compete with anything. if instead the number of exchanges was 50 (keep in mind that it is a global market) and they had to compete to get customers and stay afloat then they could never lose business by closing an account just because it contained a history of coinjoin transactions. additionally if majority of users were using coinjoins and other privacy oriented things then again these exchanges had to close all accounts instead of a select few.

with that said i believe that slowly but surely things will change. for example if we look back a couple of years ago (eg. 2012-2013) there were only 1 big exchange (85% of volume) and a bunch of small ones but today there are more users, more exchanges,... this is just a period that we should get past before people realize  bitcoin is not just something you trade on a centralized exchange to make fiat profit.

that's just your opinion

show me one invention in the entire human history that doesn't have limitations and flaws.

the trick has always been to create something that is better than its predecessors, to solve problems in a better way than others and to improve different aspects of the existing systems (in this case payment system) and bitcoin has done that very well.

you are right, it is so much easier to move bitcoin than it is to move money because there is no bank (aka the middle man) to interfere and cause problems and slow things down or even block you.

again that's just your opinion.

you don't have consistency in your statements, you just contradicted yourself!

bitcoin IS the first successful decentralized currency that was created and has been running for more than a decade servicing lots of people all around the world 24/7.
but it was never meant to replace anything.

what's this spam link doing here?!!

bitcoin core is the reference implementation of bitcoin protocol. there is no such thing as "official" in a decentralized system because there is no centralized authority to release one.

if someone colors a piece of wood yellow and sells it to you as a bar of gold, you don't end up owning gold no matter how much you try. you still own a yellow wood!
that's what these "wallet" files are, they are fake manipulated files that easily fool greedy people thinking they have won the lottery and can now become rich.

not really, there isn't any easy way of doing it. that's why it is called "final".
of course you can always perform a double spend but the problem is that when bitcoin nodes receive a transaction that is final (aka it is not longer market as RBF since its sequences are set to max value) they consider any new transaction, even the same with higher fee, to be a double spend attempt and reject the new one. so your new tx with higher fee will not propagate and will not reach any miners.
that means even though there are ways to create a new tx with higher fee, there is not much point in doing so.

wrong. the previous bull run started in the last quarter of 2015 and lasted more than 2 years going from the bottom with a very long accumulation period at $200 and then ended at $20000.
similarly this time the bull run started in the first quarter of 2019 after a very long accumulation at the bottom at $3000 and it is still ongoing and probably last until the end of 2021.

well that's the problem when you ignore bitcoin for 2 years while it is in a bull run and only pay attention to it when the hype part of the bull run (which is the closer we get to the end) starts. you miss the entire thing.

why would anybody want to waste their time on garbage tokens and copycat shitcoins? you can spend the same amount of time into literary anything like working in a fast food restaurant flipping burgers and make a lot more money then buy bitcoin with it!
not to mention that when you help scam ICO tokens or scam altcoins advertise their garbage you are also a partner in crime because you are collaborating in the scam.

Yobit is a shady exchange that will never ever have KYC in any form because the only reason why anybody would ever use their service is that they are shady and won't ask for KYC ever.

as for Binance it could still be considered new and they are asking for KYC but not forcing it yet because they are fighting the regulations in the fear that they too will lose the position in ranking they temporary have which belonged to a series of other exchanges as #1 and be replaced by another one just like how they replaced their predecessor as soon as they forced KYC.

this. and your title is also not good at all. when choosing a title you should try to be concise and to the point. "wrong conception" is too broad and vague to interest anybody to click on it and check it out. it also is not possible to find it by searching. but a clear title that says what the topic is about like "keys are stored in wallet, coins on blockchain" is so much more comprehensible.

you go through all that trouble and in a couple of years go through all that trouble again to recover the password just to realize that your cloud account is not longer accessible whether because the account was disabled or hacked or just simply wiped because the service provider decided to do so.
now you have a password but nothing to decrypt

no, because we are talking about finding the hash within a ~second and the chances of that happening is very small that it has happened very rarely in the past 646k blocks.

it is not that simple and there is already a much better solution: incentive. when the price is high and block reward is low and the total fee is a meaningful amount of money, it means if the miner finds an empty block they lose all that extra income.

the bitcoin design is that you get paid for the "work" you have done and you do pretty much the same amount of work for an empty block or for a full block so you get paid for it all the same, meaning the reward can not change.

it is probably because you haven't learned what they are and what they do, and i'm guessing you are creating all these transactions by hand instead of by code.

there are a bunch of size or lengths in bitcoin specifically in its scripts. a varint or compactint for the size of the entire script which is not part of the script itself but part of the transaction letting us know how many bytes to read to reach the end of the script. here they are 01 for the first and 02 for the second.
you should compute these after you are done writing the script and for example if the script was 254 bytes it becomes 0xfdfe00
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#Variable_length_integer

then there is items (bytes) that are supposed to be pushed to the stack. in a P2SH signature script it ends with the redeem script which is 0x5b and since it is one byte you use 0x01 but the same example above if you wanted to push 254 bytes it becomes 0x4cfe
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script#Constants

i'm very skeptical about this story because i have a very hard time believing someone who had $16 million worth of bitcoin wasn't using hardware wallets, didn't take care of basic security steps such as verifying the signature of the wallet he downloaded and was using an online PC to store his fortune!
just about everything is wrong with the story and it would have only made sense if he had a bitcoin or two not 1400!

he just found yet another hot topic and is trying to get his name (and his centralized exchange) heard and gather twitter followers.

usually wallets do support sending to multiple addresses and all you have to do is click a button like "add new recipient" or simply add more addresses in a textbox where you enter the recipient address and separate it with a new line. it all depends on the wallet you use, you'll have to look into the options your wallet offers. you can also always ask the developers to add the feature if it were missing.

in Electrum for instance it is the new line thing. you choose the Tools > Pay to many option and enter each address with the address, amount format each in a new line.

short answer is no, you are not really anonymous.

but it depends on who you are trying to hide from.
for example when you do this, an average Joe on the internet knowing your address can no longer track your coin movements, balance,... or maybe a family member or a friend that may know your address.
but if it is the government, the tax man,... that you are trying to increase your privacy against then they won't have any problem tracking you. for starters the centralized services you use (eg. the Casinos) will most probably keep a record of your IP address, browser finger print and other information you are leaking while visiting their website and your bitcoin addresses. additionally since it is a centralized service and is probably known, their addresses can be linked together and with some chain analysis they may figure out your coins too. for example if you deposited 65,479,531 satoshis and withdrew 65,024,111 then there is a good chance the second transaction belongs to you too. that becomes harder the more popular the service is and the bigger difference between the deposit and withdrawal amounts.

to be fair one way of looking at the current situation is that price just came back to normal and what we had recently was not a rise or market conditions improving, instead it was simply a (reverse) correction of an unreasonable crash due to the pandemic which had nothing to do with bitcoin.
remember that price was around the current price before the pandemic and it was actually rising trying to enter above $12k-13k levels.

it depends on how you define "being frozen" (since you mention exchanges).

when you deposit some coins (whether it is stablecoin or anything else including bitcoin) to an address provided to you by an exchange you do not own that address, you only own an account and the exchange owns the address while letting you access a number in their database representing how much you deposited.
obviously they can freeze your "account" if you deposit coins that they don't like. this affects everything from bitcoin to stablecoins, tokens, shitcoins,...

but when you send coins to an address that you and you alone control (created the private key locally and store it that way) then whether it could be frozen or not depends on whether the coin is centralized or not. for example nobody can ever freeze bitcoin coins. but when the coins are centralized, they are like accounts (exchange account or a bank account) and the centralized authority can easily freeze them or even move the coins.
all stablecoins that i have seen so far (that are in use and are stable) are centralized.

what is the site that screenshot belongs to? i really wish the address wasn't omitted so that we could investigate more or at least have the site to try other addresses and see the results.
in any case in most cases i've seen the "taint analysis" is pretty crappy. for example the worst thing i have seen so far is walletexplorer.com (belongs to a blockchain analysis company) used to categorize a lot of transactions that had absolutely nothing to do with coinjoin under "coinjoin mess".

as for how, they always use the known information and follow the transactions down the line to try and link them to some sources. exchanges, gambling sites,... all have publicly known addresses and it is linked to their hot wallets and is linked to all the transactions they send (both withdrawals they pay out and deposits they move). similarly a lot of other places including dark market also have known addresses. you'd be surprised to learn how many of them are linked to their coinbase accounts! just check the news of how they catch them from time to time.

his account hasn't been online for nearly 2 months. you may want to send him a personal message since by default users receive an Email when they get a PM and that may get his attention.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=3137