The best way to advertise or promote Bitcoin is this way, people that don't know what Bitcoin is will become curious here.
One of the pros that doing this is more Bitcoin rewards, a more convenient way to pay for your purchases.
More places will follow this bright idea to promote Bitcoin for sure, it's a big help for entire Bitcoin community.

I believe that it's always possible that synthetic indices can be manipulated because they can affect by pump-and-dump schemes or insider tradings.
For me, manipulation of prices can occur in any market especially when you are in cryptocurrency, but this manipulation comes in a lot of ways.

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I agree with this because your learnings will be applied along the way, it's like you are learning while trading. Because I believe that for every trade you do, you will have lessons to gain, like for example, after you close your trade, you will realize that you should do x, did y instead of z.
By doing this, you will master the learnings because real-time you are applying it.

I agree that Bitcoin price is always affected by different factors, commonly in world market news.
For example, when the COVID-19 virus last 2020 started to spread to the whole world, we saw a massive dump on Bitcoin also in 2017, when there was news that Bitcoin will launch its first Bitcoin futures ETF, that's 2017 when we created an all-time high of $20,000.
Just be careful sometimes because some news are not true and it just trying to manipulate the price of Bitcoin.

It's good news for me, El Salvador's president is smart indeed because the one that they hired knows what he is doing.
This kind of person is indeed the one that they need because this country is already a Bitcoin-friendly country.
Saifedean Ammous already contributes a lot to the Bitcoin community and I believe that other countries will follow once El Salvador will be able to prove that accepting Bitcoin as a legal tender is a good choice.

For me, there's nothing wrong with investing retirement money in Bitcoin, what's wrong is the investor is not aware of the consequences or good and bad.
Proper education to the owner of the money is a must so just in case something will happen to the money, the owner of the money is aware, aware that it will not give you 100%.
You should always carefully weigh the risks and potential rewards.

For me, initially, I don't really find that the Bitcoin network is capable of any BRC-20 tokens even stablecoins because that's not how Bitcoin is built, we already have Ethereum for it.

But if we will just assume about BRC-20 stablecoins, I can say it's the same with other stablecoins which are on another network, as long as they are transparent that it is pegged by real fiat currency 1:1, all good. Or existing stablecoins that already exists on other network could extend to BRC-20 which is much better.

There are a lot of coins out there that you can predict that they can dump in a few months but some of these coins are not available on some exchanges centralized/decentralized to short trade it.
So for sure, it's still difficult. Short selling is just same with long (or where you predict it will pump) because most of coins are just correlate with Bitcoin, so for me, you can't say short selling is easy money.

Someone I know was able to achieve a lot of things, he literally become financially independent after he left his full-time job, and he already bought his own car. He is my close friend and I was also the person who introduced him to cryptocurrency, I am happy for him. Because he doesn't need to work 8 hours a day, and he got a lot of time.
That's why he becomes a full-time trader.

You will realize how digital currency powerful once you already using it, you will see a huge gap when using it, the way we view and handle money could be completely altered by it.
But even with how powerful it is, there will be always a downside of it just like other things, like security, regulation, or volatility.
But I believe that it will continue to develop and grow, so these challenges in the future will be managed.

From what I can see and my own opinion about altcoins is: High risk, high reward.
Because all of the time since the beginning, there are already a lot of altcoins that come and go, and Bitcoin always stays. So the chance that altcoin will survive over time is extremely low, but if you properly enter a position before they will leave, the reward is high. Remember, investing in altcoins can be speculative, and not all projects will succeed.

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You already know the answer here, and these AI always have disclaimers if your questions are about financial like this financial advice which involves money and you can lose your money if AI is wrong.
So for me, not relying on these AI at the beginning is always good, it's like prevention better than cure.

Me, if Litecoin will just go parabolic, it will start anytime soon. Or Litecoin will wait for Bitcoin before the parabolic will commence. Because for me, I am looking forward Bitcoin to starting the run and everything will follow.
For me, the parabolic will start this year, especially for Litecoin, we all know Litecoin is always correlated with Bitcoin.

I believe that this is not the only Bitcoin wallet address of this person, what if there are still a lot of Bitcoin addresses of this? Because if you got a lot of money like this, you are smart enough not to store them in just 1 wallet or address, to be more safety.
But if we only base on this Bitcoin address, yes it's really huge loss for this address. But we'll never know what is the strategy of this Bitcoin address owner.

I think learning Bitcoin or knowing what Bitcoin is, and how Bitcoin works will never be illegal in any country in the world. So for me, it's better to start there, because it doesn't mean you need to own Bitcoin before you will know what Bitcoin is or how Bitcoin works.

Second, after you and your friends know what really Bitcoin is, identify in your country the real regulation about Bitcoin, and check what is really illegal, or illegal to own. illegal to buy or sell? Because maybe that is only fake news or there are some legal things to do with Bitcoin, it's just not clear how your government delivers to their people.

Make sense, I agree here because people will become curious once they hear every time about Bitcoin. And Bitcoin will get the attention most of people. As more people are aware of Bitcoin, they will start to see how Bitcoin will help their daily lives, especially in finance.
This will put pressure on both government and banks. And later on, banks/government will "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em".

You need also to consider the bear/bull market because some people are just lucky enough when they got on some projects, and some are lucky enough to exit early or exit on the peak.
But I believe some did some research and speculations before they was able to make good profits from their investment.

To answer the title of this topic, yes, because, for me, investment takes time and effort, you need to be patient sometimes.

If you want to be a good trader, I believe that you must be profitable always in different seasons of the market, either the bear market or the bull market.
For my own experience, I can say that during bear market is good for me because after that market, you will expect a bull market which if you are just active in bear market then you will able to predict when the bull market will start, I believe that time you will be profitable.