Imagine if Elon Musk just mentioned his BTC address and everyone goes crazy over the amount of Bitcoin he holds.

We only have BTC addresses here that holds a lot of BTC, but the person behind it is unknown. Isn't that what Bitcoin is all about? Being pseudonymous if not anonymous? Check bL4nkcode's reply.

Not everyone is fan of the volatility of the market, this is why we still have many people that are just indecisive when they first bought their coins here in crypto.
And yes, the volatility still comes from the buying and selling, AKA supply and demand, but because Bitcoin is so accessible almost everywhere, everyone in the world could just be whale and cause the price to be manipulated.

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Can we also count aliens? 

This is kind of similar when people back then discussed if Bitcoin will replace fiat or even gold. Kind of an absurd thread to discuss at back in the days, because Bitcoin is not regulated by anybody and government is all by means of regulation/s taking only the word itself.
From the looks of it, it will only exist along with fiat and government would still be there because otherwise there would be anarchy.

The money laundering somehow gets controlled by the government by doing KYC verification. I had seen that quite a lot when using any custodial wallet involving crypto. That is what they fear of.
Though at some point, I wouldn't let anyone get hold of my money anyway. I wouldn't send it to anyone that is surely not part of what I am aware of interacting at everyday.

Well aren't many be like that anyway. I invested in Bitcoin for both of the reasons that I can use it to pay and I can invest on it as well.
Back then I was like wanting to own those cards issued by the bank whether whatever you call it, dr or cr cards. Good thing I discovered Bitcoin first because I just realize how harsh it is to be under by a bank rather than just have Bitcoin on your own wallet without involving anyone.

The thread compilation that the OP made isn't really about the "popularity",  but pretty much it points out on how viable it is for such uses in different scenarios. One mentioned in one of the thread is about the payment of Bitcoin as a salary. Pretty much that has been happening quite a while now, although it is not getting reported that much but it is expected to be anytime soon. I even recall one boss of a company wanting the paycheck of one of his employee to be paid back because the price of Bitcoin just went ^^^^^.

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Reference: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/371098

From the reference of your feedback, your identity/personal information is not a valid collateral.  Have you considered reading what are the valid collaterals here? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577765.msg6311902#msg6311902 before even creating that thread.

This is pretty much a "trust me bro, I am legit." loan. 

I think it fits more in Reputation.

Uh no, OP. Not at all times.
It is kind of annoying if there are those users that don't use the search feature here in the forum, and just directly post a question.
It does not encourage any single conversation, since pretty much the answer is already here around the forum.
How about encourage them to search first before asking question, OP?

Maybe asking questions that asks for an opinion about certain stuff would be good. I would love to have a small conversation inside a thread.

Doing the youtube tutorials alone won't do. It is like learning how to program by just watching crash courses out there. You need to exactly do something and your mistakes will determine on how much you learn. Not sure what you mean by encrypted sites and encrypted indicators though, surely all those indicators like Bollinger Band and RSI would be enough for you to learn the ropes already in trading.

No. The condition of the market could be different when they were doing it than when you were doing it. I would advise you to listen closely to whatever tutorial you were following.
I did the same about 'copy trading' in tutorial and of course it wasn't all profit. Cryptojack was the one Youtuber I watched back then but his tutorials could be outdate right now or irrelevant.

Well just because it is volatile does not make it not manageable. There are just those people going crazy over the "volatile" price of Bitcoin making them think that they'll easily lose their money.
Sure, they'll lose their money if they had invested everything in their stash but if they just invest something that they don't mind losing, it's manageable.
Oh and gold is regulated as well. I don't want anyone involved when I hold my investment. My money, my responsibility. I don't want any other authorities involved.

Got one scammer attempting to lead me into their phishing site. I remember it was one of the airdrops I joined to test how would it go.
Turns out they attempted to convince me that I am into their legitimate copy-pasted MEW site, because that is what I usually use when I hold tokens from some ICO back in the days.
I reported the site from their web hosting service and it got taken down immediately. The thread here was gone though.

I wouldn't mind trying buying pizza. Buying pizza was discussed a lot of times in here and I was kind of looking forward to buy it with my Bitcoins as well. I might not be able to hold the tempt, but now that you mentioned it also the risks though. So far my only options to buy some merchs for now is by using custodial wallet which isn't really the best option considering the privacy that I want when I use my money, but my country isn't really adopting Bitcoin that much at least at some non-metropolitan area.

Not surprised if OP decides to buy Lambo tomorrow though.

Curious to how this happened though, could you tell us more what exactly happened? $600 is obviously a lot and you know you should be careful to what you're about to click next.
Did you manage to get back though?

It's hell of a circus when you scroll around Twitter that are crypto-related. Lots of dummy accounts spreading FUDs and shilling their own shitcoins. There are still some portion where I read legitimate conversation though, but expect that when a celebrity and crypto meets there will be hell of a mixed feelings in the Replies section.

In Facebook, don't get me started again. I only wanted to read crypto news from a page dedicated to crypto news and thoughts by other people in the comments, but all I get is this.

We can only hope, because there are also bounties that do not mind letting participants that have negative trust to join their campaign. Even if scam moderation was possible in the first place, they'll just keep coming back with their alt account/s and that would be hell of a headache for the mods here in the forum without getting into the desired resolution.

The same could be said to those who have higher ranks, and not just newbies. I recall a certain non-newbie member trying to get his tag removed but it was already too late.


This warning isn't even that hard to get noticed. It's obvious that they're after the money more than their reputation. They don't mind earning "dirty money".

Well expect the reaction to every emotion. Some people are too "immersed" to their money in crypto. I recall the emotional effects of crypto that made someone do something inappropriate to him/herself.

Well gold is surely regulated by Feds and I am not sure how you would feel that your investment is under monitored by authorities. It is not your gold in the first place, and anytime they would take it away from you.
In Bitcoin, it is your own money unless you use custodial wallets which is the usual "Not your keys, not your coins".

Well that is just now the problem of those people themselves that they have still control at.
Disabled people do not have the control to their disability and they would need to just adapt to their current condition. I would say those who get easily get their coins stolen are simply the uninformed people, because in general nobody wants their money stolen anyway.

That is the only drawback actually. Every code is still open for another well-written one. From the whole years that Bitcoin ran, it does not seem to be that the code will be a problem now these days.
It is that some countries are prohibiting their people to use it.