What're you trying to accomplish actually? Earn from your knowledge in crypto or earn cryptos?

For the former, you could trade. Back then I watched Youtube vids made by CryptoJack though I am not sure if his channel is still live, but it taught me the basics on day trading in Binance back then.
For the latter, you could just offer your services in here. You could also do a freelance job in LaborX which pays in crypto.

It's quite common of just simply carbon copy of projects actually. I don't usually tread around the newer projects these days because I ain't that much interested to it, but see to it on how many common businesses come up these days for the purpose of milking out the money of the previous project that succeed.
Investors don't care how the business is structured, but on how it can benefit them in the end.

Sad that this isn't viewed by those who regulate the economy. I doubt about what you said that "it will overtake the traditional economy". We're getting adoption, yes, however on the other side we're getting bans as well that contradicts what you're saying.
This is like people saying back in 2017 if Bitcoin would even replace paper money we got these days.

Seriously even if Tesla would accept it, I wouldn't be even able to buy it because:
1. I don't want a Tesla Car. I could spend my money on something better.
2. I hold Bitcoin mostly, and even if Tesla adopted Bitcoin, it would be again go back to #1 reason.

Another one would be dusts as well upon the increased temperature as you mentioned. I guess keeping it in a really secluded container like trunk box or at least safe box would lessen the possibility of dust build-up.

Mine was scrapped because it just doesn't show the colors properly anymore.

Annoying, isn't it? OP seems to like to just get clicks to his blog/article and it is quite common actually.
@OP If BTC was to be overtaken by another crypto, there should be already one that did for the past 12 years.
ETH vs BTC has been going quite a while since 2017, but the discussion about it doesn't seem to go anywhere.

Dunno what the OP's goal in here. I was thinking of diversity but he mentioned that he went from BTC to Defi fully. It was a bold move of him because even getting past through 20k already was insane, and even I wouldn't think of jumping to any other coins in the market.
@OP You risked it, but I guess it didn't work in the end. Don't panic, OP. We're still stabilizing above 55k and price correction are often these days and you might get another opportunity to buy more.

That's okay, OP. It isn't necessary in the first place.
At least with the merit system, you can truly see that one would really like your post as sMerit is limited unlike with the "Like" function.
I recall someone even suggesting "Haha" reaction here in the forum which was more meh of suggestion. This isn't Facebook.

It is possible that your friend was victimized by a phishing site, like majority said here. It is like the private key was given away for some reason.
I had almost fell for one back in the old site of MEW.
I joined an airdrop and they emailed me about claiming my tokens then it redirected me to fake MEW site.

Thing is many would just go and storm in for the lowest possible priced coin right now and won't take that "Do your own research" mindset (DYOR).
Expect a lot of shitcoins to be pumped and people FOMO-ing.

We even went below than that when BTC did a price correction recently. It was like 47k-ish, and I can't exactly recall because I am not into shorter-term updates.
It was an opportunity for the many to buy more. I believe it was after Musk said that he sold his Bitcoins but then clearly stated that he still holds.

I doubt it though.
It is just like another guy naming his personal stuffs with Bitcoin. He can even name his dog, Doge but with no signs that he is buying coins. Unless he memed it out like Musk did, then there's not really much to talk about.

Work smart not work hard. People continuously believe that just by working hard you'll already belong with the 1% of those people in the world.
About the OP's point, I don't think the words should be taken literally.

Well if you insist, the market cap of Bitcoin isn't yet in 2 Trillion like Apple.
Wait no further though as it will surely "break the wall" like you mentioned. Still in the end, you can't compare these two actually.

How do you want to earn crypto? Investment? Creating your own coin?
There are various ways to earn one and there's a sticky thread here in B&H board.
About the programming part, unless that you alone, will create your own coin or you're gonna work for someone to create their coins and that's one of the ways to earn crypto.
You don't need to learn blockchain programming if that isn't your cup of tea. You could just freelance with your own skills here in Services board and earn crypto, most likely to be Bitcoin payment.

There are just different types of people on why they hold cryptos especially Bitcoin.
Falls either in the category of "wanting to earn money" from investment, or another would be that "don't wanna travel outside to pay for travel expenses when you can just pay from your home with cryptos".
There's just another one that falls for both.

I gotta admit that I had the thoughts back in the day that I'll invest in Doge because my other friends are like hyping it up and posting it all over my news feed in Facebook.
I just realize that I was like going along the flow by others making me like media-driven investor.
Now that I realize that there are people that are also celebrity-driven investors.
I never even thought of investing when Musk recently hyped it up.

This. It is a common pitfall for many, but it is already dead the day it plummeted in price. It could've went through the whole roadmap, but that roadmap is about to be stalled by the dumping.

Do you see how many people in media show their hatred in Bitcoin? People saying that it is used for money laundering? People that emphasizes that the bubble will burst and it will be worthless in the end. Yeah those are the reasons.
Some doesn't want to wait for their transaction to be confirmed within dozens of seconds.
All have their own reasoning. I wouldn't invest in crypto if my misconception of it being "dark web's money" isn't cleared up by my friend.

Issues aside.
It wasn't a pizza moment for me, but I remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin reached 20k and I remember that I can't cash out my investments in BTC back then til it started to crash.
It was like emotional moment for me, but hey something to celebrate at the least.