Maybe the first publicly known if this happens but there is a chance that this might not be the first one. Government funds especially the ones in LGUs have cash reserves that are meant for investment and most of them invest on anything they want depending on their risk factor and as long as it is legal so I won't be surprised if their analysts and fund managers have bought cryptocurrencies as a chance for growing their fund. Also for me the mayor is already late in the action and I just hope their fund manager knows that, buying in now will just give them a little space between the ATH.

Well, we should be. Let's take that as a breather and it happens every time the price makes these kinds of pumps. The price is going back and forth at $30K and $33K and we are seeing the price getting unpredictable again. I don't know if we will be hitting the price at $20K but I don't think it will last there considering the number of investors lately.

This might have been answered elsewhere but couldn't find it, if it has.

The miners get paid less and less as time goes on. 
With the ledger also growing bigger and bigger, wouldn't the cost of mining start to exceed the profitability of mining?  If no one would mine bitcoins anymore, wouldn't it shut the whole system down?

I don't think that it would be possible in future, even though cryptocurrency has been used by so many people around the world, even though it is really helpful for everyone who is using it, it cannot still be a standard currency in the future because as what we all know it is decentralized, which means it cannot be handled by the government and its volatility makes it not suitable to be used for daily lives.

I think cryptocurrency is only good as an alternative currency for fiat currency, it is meant to be converted to fiat currency whenever we want to.

Any politicization who realize they could get additional donation by accepting Bitcoin. At very least least they claim they support Bitcoin, even though usually they'll forget about Bitcoin afterwards.

Seems like an old article? 12 bitcoins which equated to $5000, at today's price, 12 bitcoins should go for around more than $100,000. Sides, even if we do say that the woman got it since she didn't hide her address, that was years ago when not much was really being paid attention to the security or privacy of addresses of most people. Plus, oddly enough, it's either the killer met up with the woman herself and transferred BTC directly, or through address, but in that case, the killers should also know who the woman is. If that was the case, kind of stupid from the side of the woman who hired the killer.

There is, but negotiations broke down. If what @TedMosby's link is actually the article op has said, then negotiations broke down after the killer tried to offer more expensive ways to kill someone. Seeing that OP and the link provided pertain to the same woman, it should be the same story OP has said.

No one knows will btc break 20k again in this run or not. We already stucked between 11-12k range and this getting dangerous for furhter growth

All of that is true, but its not that easy to world’s reserve currency maintain its strenght/value while printing like MAD.
This is real problem, everyone but USA mostly printing like mad lads. Value of currency beign printed this way plummeting, other resources price going up (gold, BTC etc.)
Dollar wont recover from that easily. I dont think its even possible, especially now while crippled economy from covid.

The scams and other allegations in the crypto space are very alarming these days. Although some people will have fears investing in crypto’s, a lot more people are also eager to join. Well for people who do not understand much about cryptocurrency and just see it as another source of investment alongside what the banks offer, they would be bothered. Those of us who have witnessed scams even in the banking systems understand it’s normal.

1. For privacy: Not like I'm buying dragon dildos or something similar, but I feel more comfortable buying stuff peer-to-peer; without(or with less) centralized entities knowing what I'm buying. Unfortunately of course, what you can buy with bitcoin online is very limited.

There are a lot of various advantages of Bitcoin in general, but it's mostly:
2. Having self custody: not necessarily concerning payments, but it feels great having total ownership of the money(bitcoin) I have; especially right now whereas the whole world is going bonkers.

3. Because fuck PayPal. Seriously. So much problems with it throughout the years that it's unfortunate that my options mostly are pretty much either use PayPal, or use my debit card.

If it ever becomes a world reserve currency used for payments all around the world like some people believe we will have to think of something.

By the time Bitcoin reaches 21 million we will probably have at least 1/4 of that permanently lost and another 1/4 in safe accounts of lifetime hodlers which will leave only 10 million in circulation. That's not enough for over 500 million people. I said 500 because not all people in the world will use Bitcoin just like USD and EUR are estimated to be used by about 350 million people each.

In the real world, we used fiat or physical money in our daily spending. And this physical notes can be use in fraudulence or a so-called Fake Money.
How about in Cryptoworld, is there also a Fake Bitcoin? If there's any, how can we identify it?

This trader has made a profit of $40000, with the capital investment of $45000. This too is achieved using the stablecoins USDT and USDC. In between the trader has borrowed $40500 and with the swapping between exchanges has netted the profit of $40000 after paying a transaction fees of $2000. In simple the process involved in the trade is being depicted in a flowchart.

Source : coindesk

Do you know of any resources to help victims of crypto scams recover their losses?

I was a victim of one made by coinkast.io where they had me pay more money to release my funds and then they kept adding additional fees... so basically I lost $100k+ and I need to recover it someone especially since much of that were loans I took out.

Any help or links to agencies that can help would be appreciated...

Thank you in advance

For long, Bitcoin has been touted as the "store of value" of the crypto/Blockchain space with its limited supply of 21 million coins. Based on estimates, all Bitcoin will be mined by 2100. Now, what if developers decide to increase that hard cap in supply? If at that point in time, Bitcoin's prices stay just the way they are right now (less than $1m), it may become unprofitable for miners to continue supporting the Blockchain. With no block reward, they'll be living off fees. If prices are too low, earned fees won't be able to sustain miner's operations. By then, developers would need to raise the limit of 21 million coins to a higher value, re-introducing a block reward in order to attract miners into the Blockchain. Otherwise, the security of the Bitcoin blockchain will be at risk.

Do you think that the need to increase BTC's max supply will arise in the future? Or will Bitcoin be able to "live" just fine with a max supply of 21 million coins? Your input will be greatly appreciated.

There is no problem that cannot be resolved, so don't worry about it, why say tens of years from now, why do you have to later if today it could die, you don't have to overdo it to analyze something that is not certain, bitcoin still looks fine even up to 2106