If that was the case then it really is bad, we can't fight the popularity with individual opinion, Keynesian beauty contest suggests that we are not in control of who is popular but the combined opinion of the many which means that if someone of a celebrity status were to make a statement that will affect a stock or in this case a cryptocurrency then that means that a lot of people will follow that opinion, you should know how advertisement works because that will be the same. What OP is just a what if situation so I don't think that we don't have to worry about it.

I would say that this is a favorable situation for cryptocurrency in South Africa, it is a good thing that Africa is getting into the cryptocurrency industry because there are a lot of developing country which means that they can go for the newest innovations without a hitch that it will be destroyed by fundamentalist principles, the only problem that I can see is that most African countries have a tribal disputes that are sometimes a cause for civil wars, like what is happening in South Sudan. I think that there is no correlation but we can use it as an analogy.

Even if the IMF and World Bank are the reason for destroying African Economies, we can't just brush the fact that some leaders on African countries are corrupt and will violate the rights of their citizens. The problem isn't solely on the bankers that are manipulating the puppets behind the back, the people of a country is responsible for who they put on that seat so if they were to put someone that is corrupt then it is also their fault.
An increase in the minimum wage does not hurt the business, it hurts the businessmen that are profiting billions of dollars every year. Look at Dan Price, with his company having a huge wages for his employees, the productivity and their revenue increased a lot of times and that is because his employees are given a living wages enough to save money. There should be a dramatic increase in minimum wages because the gap of the last increase in minimum wage and the inflation is so wide that a puny amount will not be enough.

It might be because they do not have a full control on what is happening in crypto and we all know that governments do not like it when they are not in control of the situation. Take India for example, they have a hot and cold relationship with bitcoin despite having a lot of users in their country. I know that it is said a lot of times but I have to say that the only way for cryptocurrency to coexist with the government is if they accept and go with the flow, make regulations instead of prohibitions that will not be good for the populace and they are missing big time on taxes that they could've taken from those cryptocurrency users.

When's the deadline?

You are technically right about that but it is still an investment and nothing can take that fact away that OP did double his/her investment. But you are right, OP could have made more if he/she doubled the bitcoin instead of cashing it out based on the fiat equivalent. Congratulations to OP for getting a big profit out of it, I hope that there is no regrets when you sold it at 30k price point because we are currently pushing a 50k point.

This is just my suggestion and that is if we make the mines get close to the sources like hydroelectric powerplants or the best case scenario is nuclear powerplants, renewable energy is out of the equation because the most efficient and durable will occupy so much land area to be fully functional, there is a possibility that solar energy is useful but logistics of the materials for installation will still be a carbon footprint.

I can see a pattern that this next break on 50k will be easy like what happened at 30k being easily broken after a hard resistance at around the 20k. 75k is a far fetch for now but with Tesla's action, I think that there is more to come but 100k is not impossible, we never expected this current prices back when bitcoin was still 10 dollar apiece so we just have to trust the volatility of bitcoin and that it will only go up. One thing that worries me is that we might reach a prices that are unattainable for certain people which will defeat the purpose of bitcoin of being an all walks of life investment.

Being middle man is a difficult job, not the part where you are a middle man but the part where you are going to gain the trust of the people that you are helping to make a smooth transaction, not to mention that in this forum, they base their trust mostly on what is your rank which is understandable but the people that wants to prove something doesn't get a chance because they are easily disregarded. Another problem with this service advertisement is that you need to gain the trust of the person that is doing the service that you are going to really advertise their services. Faucets are still a thing if you want to be really lazy about earning bitcoin.

That is still reckless tactic in my opinion and buying every dip and hodling is still a better tactic, many didn't expect the prices to crash at 2018 but it did happen, buy the price at every down turn to make sure that you aren't losing a lot of money when a big dip ever happens. The problem is that we don't know what is in store for the future so all we can do is right now is to risk a little but be full of caution on what you are doing. You can hodl but you don't need to buy at every price point, if you want to profit big, you need to wait for a big increase in the prices which could take years or in best case months.

It is a good thing that Apple is planning to buy bitcoin but they are still the scummiest company there is, removing features to their phone but says that it is revolutionary is the most bullshit statement ever and the funny thing is the fanatics swallow those lies like a good dog they are. If it comes to that point that Apple is going to buy Bitcoin for real, I think that we will be seeing a big pump in their stocks too because this will be another publicity for Apple. God, I wish that no one is supporting this scummy company, they exploit workers and they sell overpriced smart phones that can do the same thing as the most cheap good phones that are on the market.

That is what is expected to happen, if they continue to pump without any direction to do so, the bubble will burst and disaster proportions of events will happen. The suits and the rich will not suffer in this collapse, I can guarantee that. They will only do a reset and everything will start all over again as if nothing happened, these bankers are not worried that this will happen because they know that they can survive this, this is the ripe time to go for cryptocurrency because it helps that you will have an insurance that when something happen then you are safe, the only downside is the prices will definitely go up.

Even if they are the biggest store, if people work together we can destroy their profit, I think that the Wallstreetbets fiasco is an enough proof that we can do it together. Sure them leading the way is good but this could spell disaster for the companies that are selling their products on Amazon because they would get overshadowed by the announcement of the bitcoin integration, as you have said they are the biggest of them all. And that top to bottom effect meant that the one at the top will get the biggest benefit while those on the lower will be fighting for crumbs and droplets.

I know that I am being radical but that will only make Jeff Bezos get more rich because bitcoin is steadily going up, if I were to wish something would happen, I hope that they wouldn't integrate bitcoin into their system. The best thing that can happen to adoption is the companies that are selling on the Amazon should have their own website make their own integration, about a big chunk of profit is taken away from the original companies by Amazon and if people were to buy directly to the website of the original company then the company will get no cuts from their profit and most of them have coupon codes for their own stores, what I wish is that this people are the ones to have that integration, mass adoption meant that all business no matter how small should be able to integrate and not just one company.

It will be easy, if people have the proof to identify or detect that the cryptocurrency that the company is just a number on the computer and not a real code then they would know for sure and most coin developers wouldn't really want their cryptocurrencies faked, and when the people know that, they will stop using the fake cryptocurrency and in the best case scenario, some of this people will try to sue the company or a far worse scenario is since the cryptocurrency doesn't leave the company and can be spent only on company partnered businesses the people will just overlook it and just keep on using that one.

Elon can support both you know that, its just that bitcoin is a far better investment at this moment. This will be a big move for Tesla, I would place my bet on the part where they would get their stock price more higher. Who should be the role model to follow then? I mean I don't know any one, almost every businessman that is famous that I know of is either private for their lives or straight up scummy, the best move is to not look at it emotionally, if this can make stocks and bitcoin go higher then we should just go for it, let it on the right ear and get out of the right, in fact, don't even listen what this billionaires says about everything online because most of the time it is probably a publicity stunt.

If Vod wants to add advertisement in the website, I think that he is on a liberty to do so. But I do agree with you, it kind of contradicts with the privacy of the website when advertiser can barge in to get some data trail on visitors. If you place the ads in the correct places and make it look like part of the aesthetics, I think that it will work out fine though.
Sponsorship is still an advertisement with extra steps, I would love the donator/investor but how can the website attract these people, there are some people that hates Vod and they will definitely go for this project and try to ruin it. If you can do the logos for investors and sponsors then you can do it with the advertisers, and the only problem is that you should be smart with creating the website.

The difference is that cryptocurrency is still under the bad side of many countries and authorities until this very moment because it gives the scammers new mode of funnel for their money in without the problem of being identified or being pointed to it quickly and directly. If this continues, more people will think that crypto is a bad thing or in a sense it is a bad publicity.
If the criminal is smart enough and not just a thug that has a computer then they can easily get their cyber trail out of the picture. It is possible to catch them but the smallest fish are sloppiest ones, remember Dr. Ruja aka CryptoQueen and the founder of OneCoin, she is still on the loose and the money stolen compared to this Serbian guy. The problem does not rely on the cryptocurrency, the problem is the people, they easily get taken by sweet words and cons of criminals and their greed, if people were to learn this kind of schemes, the chances of them not losing money gets higher.

They will find loopholes but knowing how banks work, they can do some lobbying to the government and the enforcement authorities to make the ban work its wonder. Hopefully, what happened in China would land in the same situation with Nigeria and have the ban become useless by a month's or by best is week's time. And if this is a political one though, that would be a problem because we all know that when normal people touch politics, the ones that are handling it will be really angry and they will do anything just to keep being in power. I feel bad for Nigeria, they are a big contributor to the cryptocurrency traffic besides USA and to see their freedom get taken away is a sad thing for me.

Well in terms of the amount then we can consider someone the richest in the world. For example, satoshi could be the richest person if bitcoin were to hit 100k USD, but that will be far fetched because satoshi never sold the coins but right now, holding more than what satoshi owns is very difficult. And for the record the richest man of all time is not Elon Musk, that would just be the 1/10 of a scale for that person and that is Mansa Musa, the king of Mali Empire where he is so rich that he made an artificial inflation because he is buying a lot of souvenirs on his way to Mecca.