I mean I wouldn't even loan to invest into Bitcoin and what more for meme coins? The only saving grace for that kind of thing would be another "Elon-like" influence around Twitter since we all know what happened with coins like Shiba and Doge that year.

I would not be able to sleep thinking that my loaned investment might not be able to cut it even in its breakeven point plus knowing that my earnings might just go to the repayment anyway along with the interest rates. Meh I'll pass.

This is true. Nobody even bothers to check the papers in my university back in the days when written homeworks were a common activities. Not sure if other sites like Facebook and Reddit handles plagiarism differently, but surely some subs in Reddit related to writing enforce those kind of rules (cause why not?)

Due to this, I am not surprised why a lot of newbies are getting nuked easily due to plagiarism.

That would really suck. I get the habit of welcoming others, but maybe not being to the point of you being the doormat. Regardless of any amount, the trust was already lost at that point and you even mentioned that you're not rich. Having a money lent to someone is just like an investment of you thinking that the money you gave will surely be losses and you would not get it back regardless.

This is why I also do not really want to lend. I hate chasing people to pay and I don't really enjoy interacting with people that are trying to test my patience. It is either I would not talk to you at all anymore or I would talk to you in a one-liner to end the communication there and never ever hear anything from me again.

No worries if you even took some profit from your small investment. Celebrating small wins, ey? No problem there. Just keep hodling after the one you bought or maybe even forget that you bought Bitcoin in a long time and you would be hella surprised on how much its price that time. 100k? 200k? Whatever the price is, you can never go wrong always with Bitcoin even as a short-term investment.

Keep it up!

You already had answered your question, OP. He's not trustworthy at all. Even here in the forum, nobody would lend you a single penny if you have a bad history of being not trusted or even defaulting on a loan at all.

Don't feel too bad that just because you're "family" that you should be like a pushover or even a doormat to your relatives. Imagine a situation on chasing after your cousin through calls or phone message to pay you up, but received no reply and the only response you would possibly get is "just move on with it, we're family right?". Sometimes even one of your own would be the one to destroy your trust.

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This seems like a common stuff to happen in Asian countries and believe me, it really happens. Some would even do the opposite of wanting you to repay their lent money.

This is really true. People think that adoption would be coming from becoming the legalization of Bitcoin or crypto in general. Legalization might even hurt the true nature of decentralization of Bitcoin since surely govt ain't just sitting around looking at their people not paying taxes from their income and surely regulations will take place.

P2P trading has been like an old school practice already in trading/exchanging crypto with other people, and surely that alone is enough for at least "global adoption" of Bitcoin.

Kinda sucks tho for some children especially the eldest ones to be made like a retirement fund of their parents. That surely is why some people when they grow up to stay poor. There are just parents that are bullshitting their children that they wanted them to be successful, but the truth is that they wanted them to get their shit cleaned up by their own without any sort of support. It happens here in Asian countries commonly. Not entirely sure in Western Culture.

No problem! Currently I am just treading around Altcoins to just read around and not really planning to invest "just yet". Wishing luck to your project's progression!

I would look into your project when my vacant time allows me to do so.

Many people are eyeing for a bull run in that halving like they always do when Bitcoin halves as always. It's not like a really "smart" thing literally, and just a common scenario to happen.

Well nothing so much is happening. Maybe you might need to take a break from crypto for now, OP since it has been affecting you somehow this year.
As for me, I just leave my "hodling wallet" alone and never make something come out of it from a time being. I might consider just buying more when the savings allow me to do so, but for these days, I am not really buying anything for now.  I am just fine with my holdings.

I know you're looking for sites that allow their workers to pay in Bitcoin. From my experience in freelancing before I moved to Upwork, I tried in LaborX. Unfortunately Bitcoin is not being accepted there, though I am not sure if they do now these days since I worked there long time ago.

Other than that, there isn't really any more favorite sites in my list since I do not intentionally really want to get paid in Bitcoin in my freelancing work since I am kinda organizing where my salaries go and how should I hold them in different ways.

Not really sure where you reside, but had you made your research first or at least consult the people around your area if they are even at least interested to learn more about crypto like Bitcoin? Just like what others mentioned here, the people around you does not seem like to be interested at crypto at all and you even mentioned that there are "illiterate" people there.

You did not fail, OP. You just did not do the pre-requisite things to consider before you made Bitcoin as a payment method. Well I do not have idea on how advanced agriculture is to other countries, but I am pretty sure that cryptos are not yet part of many businesses relating to agricultural industries out there. I wouldn't say that you should give up, but maybe hold the usage of crypto for now, maybe?

Aside from what others mentioned in here about scams and rug pulls, my experience in day trading back in my days just made me stick with Bitcoin. I encountered lots of losses through majority of coins I day traded and it just happens that day trading is not meant for me. That's perfectly fine for me either way to still keep on holding one coin since Bitcoin already gave me greater experience in hodling rather than day trading.

I hope it does not discourage you OP to keep on pushing your projects though as I believe you are a part of a team in a project based on your post history. If you're truly a legitimate anyway, you're going to be okay.

That's really crazy, though I feel a little bit underwhelmed sometimes since I've been already in crypto for 6 years almost and knowing that 40k coins that we have right now is a bit....underwhelming though I would not be surprised that there are more than uncounted crypto coins inside those 40k considering how many just turned out to be a scam.

Bitcoin is still the way to go if you're okay with the volatility. You might be able to just get away with it through converting it right away to your local currency. Here in my country, we have an app that can do that.

If it is Bitcoin that we're talking about, then I highly doubt it though I mean that in a good way. If Bitcoin is going to replace the physical money, then surely government would intervene in this "replacement" idea happening and we all know that we use Bitcoin not just for investment but also to how decentralized it is.

There might be other cryptos into mind that "might" replace physical money considering how the common blah blah blah technological evolution happens, but take that with a grain of salt, OP.

Well I hope you already learned your lesson from that, OP. We'll never know what happens until we really experience how does it feel to have literally nothing in backup. I was at that point where I did not have any backup and could not even sleep for weeks properly thinking on how should I be able to still pay my bills. Thankfully my clothing and freelancing business pushed through and that would be now at least my lesson to always still have at least another source of income whenever I have the chance to do so.

In crypto, I do not fully commit all my savings to it anyway so it is perfectly fine for me whatever happens.

I wonder if those amount is still possible to these days. I never earned a single penny from airdrops ever and I do not even receive a token from my MEW back then. What's worse is that some fake projects just wanted to mess with me by trying to bait me into their phishing site which they believe that I would easily fall, lol.

The same could be said almost to some bounties I joined although I know they're a little bit different from each other.

For starters, I would immediately look for job obviously. That is where savings and/or our emergency funds come into place. Also consider filing for an unemployment since there are also unemployment benefits (depending on where he resides) and that might at least help him and his family.

For me, I would just keep on saving and just avoid spending on unnecessary stuff when I know that I am going to be lower than my tolerable saving amount. It is just a matter of having a peace of mind ya know and no, I am not going to sign up for credit cards for my wants.

Throughout when I was working in the metropolitan area in my country, the cost of living there was too much for my salary to handle and thankfully I live in a provincial area wherein it is more worth it to just transport your way home rather than relocate there since the cost of apartment there was like twice on how much I pay for my expenses back and forth monthly. Not really worth it in my end.

I feel bad for some of my colleagues that just tends to keep it that way. They even mentioned that it would be cheaper to buy a cooked food rather than cooking your own food there.

Even wherever university you came from, there are still times that you might not even make it to a great company to work with. It is just sometimes how it goes to some people. Just because you came from a reputated university, it does not mean that every hiring managers out there are going to be choosing you.

Thankfully there are even those great government schools here in my country that still provide quality education and you just have to maintain a great standing to keep that bills for your education away.

Well building business itself is not meant for everybody anyway. Not everyone has the patience to buy and expect nothing at the first month for returns. Freelancing is not really for everyone though, but when we're talking about capital investment be ready to just invest to something that might not yield you losses and lottttssss of losses at the end.

There might be other "capital investment" examples other than mine, and I would love to hear other people's examples.