Thing is emotions are almost part of every actions we made. It is almost like that known third law of Newton.
Only the best thing to do is just decide the opposite of how your reaction wants you to react. It might seem generic to say, but to put it bluntly, I day traded before and somehow in day 3 I managed to just stop panicking especially when I sell even if the market wants me to sell immediately.

Well Bitcoin just as it is.  If you are for quick bucks, sure go and invest in those pump and dump but it will surely hurt when it does not go into your favor plus adding it up that there are many shitcoins in the market having value just because BTC increased.

The Award system in Reddit is a better comparison than the rating/upvote system there.
You can upvote every single post in Reddit without being restricted, however in Award you're limited to how much Award you can give to a post and you need to buy them using Reddit Coins. That is pretty much close to sMerits as well except you don't buy them obviously.

They give free Award randomly sometimes and it is randomized on what Award they can let you give to a post. I commonly get the Bear Hug award, lol.

That is back in 2017. I am not sure if you can still find one of those, not like I would risk it myself and my time with it. Just look it up in CoinMarketCap for the upcoming ICOs.

Well you are not obliged to post anyway unless there is something you would want to ask or contribute to the topic. Feel free to ask anyone here in the forum, but before you do that, please use the Search bar here in the forum first before you click that "Create Topic".
There are other newbies that keeps asking the same thing that are just one search away here in the forum.

Nah, OP. If you were reading around the forum a little bit, you'll notice this newbie ranked account that posted couple of articles by his own. It is kind of long and that is the only issue I had.
[Check out RainbowKun's article to see if forums really need depth knowledge.]

Actually that's a bit of "okay" already for me when converted to my local currency. I only got cents when I day traded back and never got into single digit, but if I could have build that 1-3 USD, I might have focused into trading more than in my job but I know that is a bad decision.

The writer of the article just seemed to say it out the "nasty uses" of Bitcoin. Having your coin without any authority involved isn't a "nasty use" at all.
As what other mentioned in here, the first sentence pretty much tells it.

I used AdBlocker and the site begged to disable it for supporting the article.
Like hell I would read more from that writer.

It is actually reversed. These meme coins tend to follow Bitcoin price movement most of the time, OP aside from the hypes it get from some random popular people in the internet.
The influence is somehow random.

OP reminded me of those scambaiters in Youtube like Kit and Jim Browning.

One of the common tactics that scammers also do is the refund scam, not sure if this happened inside crypto, where they will claim that they are from popular companies like Amazon, Microsoft or even Geek Squad and you currently bought or subscribe to some random stuffs from their company and you have the option to refund or cancel them by calling their fake toll-free number and they will claim that they "accidentally" sent your bank account with too much money and you need to give them back that extra money through gift cards or sent through package but the former is commonly used. However the bank account was just edited through HTML to make it look like they sent too much money, and yes that scam will require them to have remote access to your desktop.

So yeah the lesson there is if someone calls or voicemails you and claims that they are from Microsoft, just go and hang up the call as large companies don't do that. Mostly seniors are the common target for these due to how some are uninformed of the dangers of letting someone getting remote access to your PC.

Thing is a lot don't have an idea where is the best time to invest into Bitcoin. Those two reactions you mentioned of "missed the boat" and "it is going to be dead" are just in between regret and applaud. From the looks of how much Bitcoin increased already in the past years, those non-crypto hodling people are confused on how much should they invest.

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I invested in the first place back in 2017, because I felt contented to what I had those days and I feel like it would not hurt to invest a little bit into Bitcoin slowly.

Meh. I wished it could have dropped a bit more so that I could have bought more actually.
Not every increases are good enough. I'll just keep on hold of my fiat and wait for another dip so I could buy more.
On the other side, it is still good to see that we managed to get past 40k.

Well 10 years ago, I was like meh when Bitcoin was mentioned. From my researches back then, it led me to a bad misconception on how Bitcoin was used. I thought it was primarily used by criminals since it is sort of "untraceable" and pseudonymous that one can't be caught even if they transact.

Well by that explanation, it could be but there is this whales trap sometimes where they dump their coins and the price gets lower making weak hodlers sell their coins and they will buy all the sold coins so that they can hodl more in the future without risking all their "big returns".

For Bitcoin, it could already had happened but who knows anyway. Just take opportunity when the price seems like a deal for all of you. Maybe others are just getting into bad luck that they tend and need to really panic and exit out of the market due to this so called "fear".

But mostly those bounties from what I can read just from now, they have higher allocation than other parts. It still does not stop you from joining other parts, if I can read it correctly, but surely it would make your post history really really bad if your post history is piled up of social media reports. geez.

For Electrum, this old thread should be of help. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5178675.0
It's kind of old version of the software, but note that the software should be just downloaded only from its official site.

This is why I stopped doing my day trading back in 2019. Well it was not only technically due to how easy it is, but to how no choice I had with my job and that.
I only have to hodl after all. It was a fun experience though, still. Hodling still sometimes stresses ones out when s/he keeps refreshing the price over and over.

For BTC, sure but for some alts? I am not sure about that.
What do you mean by the way about those factors you mentioned?

The problem lies on where one would start doing a research. Obviously it would be Google of course, but I am pretty sure that many newbies are lost on where they would look at to find that the project a legitimate.
Sure, WPs are there, but there are people that aren't just into technical stuffs.