I am going to be honest that I am seeing a lot of those news in Facebook about it being 100k-ish, but look on what the price is in it right now. We're still struggling to get past even by 50k.
It is not impossible, but it is still too early to tell actually.

Chipmixer is CFNP again.

I was about to mention that HODL post as well, but then you mentioned this.
Always reminds me of [this] and [this] whenever I see farm accounts getting caught.

I thought at first that their Play Store banned those legitimate apps again like back in the days when they banned Metamask. Kind of remembered that news, lol.

An informed individual wouldn't fall for these cloud mining schemes obviously, OP. I wouldn't even consider using any crypto-related app in my mobile, as my phone is usually exposed to many public networks/wifi. I wouldn't want for the same thing to ever happen again back in January 2020 where my account here got compromised, but I manage to secure it finally.

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For my news source by the way: https://cointelegraph.com/news/google-play-lifts-ban-on-ethereum-browser-extension-metamask

Seems like a meh, because living in crypto would be like having your own money without involving any authorities, and not even those who taxes one's income. We're still stuck to the paper money we have right now to be able to buy the usual stuffs we need daily.
I use custodial wallets here in my country which is Coin PH whenever I wanted to use their services such as buying Steam credits and all those digital goods that are available. I wouldn't call it living in crypto though.

Well expect it, OP. Same goes in some of youtubers claiming to be "crypto expert" with tons of ads in the video bar, just because they are getting a lot of watch hours and clicks.

Here in the forum, you could just use the search function and search about your particular question before thinking of making another thread asking that question.
I prefer reading around here rather than in Reddit. Many of the posts there are just <insert news headline> then in the content <insert link of the article>. It is kind of the same as mentioned in the OP except you have a comment section, but I highly doubt there would be an interesting conversation there unlike in here.

Pretty sure you need a rig for mining and that would require investment for it. If you're like pointing out those cloud mining, just don't. They're scams. My colleagues learned their lessons from it.
Not a fan of those airdrops, but I already had a bad experience with those trying to phish me back in the days so no.

You can do a google search and just include "site:bitcointalk.org" in whatever you're searching.
Example: "bitcoin site:bitcointalk.org"

You can also do a Google search right here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search.

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There was a similar thread long time ago that discussed the same thing in [here].

This is what I was thinking actually. Why still hold cryptocurrency when it was indeed illegal in your country? Sure you can still do the p2p transactions, but when you get caught, don't expect any much of a defense because it is already written law in your country to not ever hold one.

It's a walk on a broken glass.

It does. You can see it above the "Favorite profiles to send sMerit to". It only appears when a certain user changes his/her email/password at least once.

I refreshed the profile of the mentioned user in the OP, and there doesn't seem to be any sec/mod logs for any password or email changes, and from that, I highly doubt that the account changed hands nor hacked.

It is possible that the user was unaware of account selling being frowned upon as what The Pharmacist mentioned above me.

#1 might be something to be overlooked at, but take it from my experience that short-term trading didn't work for me. Back when I was day trading, I was kind of stressing out myself 8 hours staring at the charts and turns out I made bad decisions on what coin to buy.
I reverted back to long term and it worked for me. I just work in my full time job before starting to look a little bit in the charts.

Dedication to one stuff that you aren't good at won't make any difference at all. Even if I dedicate myself to day trade, but it doesn't really work for me, I won't earn more.

Well we kind of started the same, OP. Though those faucets didn't became really much of a role for me back then in introducing cryptocurrencies as I was late already in earning those like many have mentioned that these days, they are pretty much waste of time anymore.
I imagine if there was like an ordinary Joe back in the days that got rich due to faucets.

Ain't with the hype of Axie, but pretty much because a lot of people especially around my area are not into too much technical stuffs like trading/investing. I haven't still tried that game I mentioned, but I am pretty sure people are into it not just because of the price of it, but the interactivity throughout the game.

As what TheBeardedBaby said, you don't need a whole coin. You might not own a whole bitcoin, but let me tell you that you own more than 1 satoshi for sure.

No need to pressure everyone into buying one whole Bitcoin. Maybe in the future, someone would ask the same thing as you but this time it would be that they're concerned of people not buying a single sat.

Well they're milking it anyway in other means already, such as for those people using custodial wallets, plus they would need to comply to KYC requirements before they have the full features that their wallet offers. It is not just happening to Axie Infinity.

That game, by the way, gets pretty hyped up in here and people are finding all those opportunities to apply for scholarships.

Well in the end, you still need to repay that money. The risk at the table in here is whether you can pay or not, regardless if the OP's family needs the money or not. Here, I don't consider borrowing money from any of my relatives just yet unless it is really needed and now that we're talking about risking something that you'll still need to repay elevates the risk into higher level.

"Why didn't most people expect Bitcoin to be as brilliant as it is today?". Simply because it wasn't getting attention that much back in the days, plus people were young and surely they still didn't care about any crypto stuffs. In fact for me, I had a rough start of misconception when I first heard of Bitcoin. I thought it was that currency used only my criminals, since I heard it a lot in relation to the dark web. 

It wasn't due to the value, but due to misconception and being an uninformed random guy in the internet that made me miss those years from 2009 up to 2016.

I usually see the forum as a whole Discord server and each boards are the channels. You'll have a pretty relaxing conversation with people. You choose where you wanted to discuss something about as long as it is in relevant board/channel.

If the government does not allow that, people can still do peer-to-peer or p2p transaction. Others would even use VPNs to still get access to these sites.

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In the end, the government couldn't just go and do a total ban of crypto especially Bitcoin because people still have the available technologies out there in the internet to bypass these restrictions.

As what el_kaka22 mentioned above, it's all about how can you sustain.
15k is quite a lot to be honest. Considering that you don't have other means of income makes your decision to trade risky. Think of the what ifs, because losing that amount based on your condition is gonna be a nightmare. Trading, as what mk4 mentioned, isn't guaranteed profit. Take it from my experience as well when I day trade with just a small amount and I thought I was doing good with all these damn indicators, but it went all loss as the market condition itself is just not the "perfect time" for me to day trade.