Most trusted centralized exchanges became KYC exchanges after all especially Bybit and Kucoin. So for me, doing KYC will force you to do so to continue trading with them because if you don't want you will end up using a decentralized exchange will take higher fees compared to these centralized exchanges.

For me, Kucoin and Bybit are good which is what I am using right now. If you want to use decentralized, you can use GMX which is already available on Arbitrum and Avalanche chains. I suggest do use the Arbitrum as they have higher TVL.

"Buy the rumor, sell the news." is already happened here. Some people already took profit on the first pump and I am not saying it's already late because, in most of these kinds of pumps, there is always a follow-up pump as long as the market is still not yet dumped. I believe on the following days, there will still be sideways and pump again, just like what happened on Bitcoin Cash (BCH) before it was listed on new wall street's cryptocurrency exchange.

I am more convinced to use layer-2 networks these days as most of the platforms are already integrated on most layer-2 networks especially most defi platforms and even exchanges.
About the OP concerned, every platform got different fees so for me, checking first before doing a transaction is better, in USDT, there are already a lot of networks that support USDT on different network, which on some network you can save a lot of fees versus using Ethereum network.

About the two books here, I am more sure about selecting the highest rating here in the store which is the second one (How to day trade for a Living)

I am amazed that there are still some people who are still able to learn via books compare to some video tutorials like youtube or any online video course.
I never experienced reading a physical book about trading, I wish I can do it in the future.

I can relate to this. I was once also a holder of Polkadot (DOT) I even joined most of their para chain auction sale before.
I can also say that there are really no excuses if we are in the bear market, even with how quality cryptocurrency project is, when the bear market comes, it will be bloody.

My advice is you can hold because selling with that kind of loss, it's already huge. But we will not know when it will or how much price will it be if just in case we will be in bull market and peak on the market.

Pure luck! It's not your day.
It's just a good thing you stopped which will help you to calm down and not play with your emotion, never chase loss with your emotion is not stable.
Changing the table is a good act to reset some luck like this but then again, you already said it, and it's still not working. So try again on another day would be better.

What I really notice about people is just misunderstanding. They misunderstand what really cryptocurrency is difficult to identify the scam.
They must think that the scam here are the people or platforms that use cryptocurrency for illegal activities, it's not the Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is a scam.
Because in fiat currency, there are also using fiat currency for criminal or illegal activities but fiat currency is not scam.

Exactly. Even popular exchanges these days could be also manipulating their numbers, especially on volume so people will tell that they are good enough.
So for me, just to beat the odds, go for popular exchanges that is proven already by time, who is already here for the long time.

I don't say that these data from exchanges are not 100% legit, but there could be some of it. Remember, they provide it, there's no decentralized part or transparent that we can see 100% there trading data.

There are always cons and pros.
Because for example on Ethereum: they can solve the scalability of the network but risk the being decentralized of the network.

So for me, most of those claiming that they are decentralized cryptocurrency projects right are indeed not decentralized. There are a lot of projects like this. They thought that once they are already a cryptocurrency project, they already a decentralized which is really not.

Nothing wrong with altcoins, I believe. It's just a simple high risk: high reward.
That's why people are very tempted to invest in random altcoins rather than Bitcoin because of the reward, which this reward is extremely high, there are a lot of altcoins that can be examples of this.

what @hugeblack said above me is a good strategy when investing in altcoins, identify the risks of each altcoin you want to invest and allocate a specific amount for that, don't go all in.

Update now: We are already in the middle of the month of July and the price of Bitcoin is still above $30,000.
For me, Bitcoin is already started to create strong support at the $30,000 price and another thing is $30,000 is psychological support which as you can see recently, this month. Every time we drop below $30,000, it just keeps bouncing.

Let's wait for the monthly close candle, I will be bullish once Bitcoin will stay above $30,000.

Same experience as you that you met again a person got regrets, I don't have any experience with that.
But a person who hates Bitcoin before and for sure regrets it but in silence, like they didn't talk it to me again about Bitcoin.

For me, people who are telling negative things about Bitcoin must first do research and have their basis for why they hate Bitcoin, it's like accusing a person for some crime without evidence.

Exactly, Bitcoin is the best example of Gold in the early days when gold before in intended as used for payment and later on become an investment.
Gold became an investment for most people because what they know is the gold price just keeps increasing.
Then now, it's the same thing happening with Bitcoin. That's why I can say we are still in early days on Bitcoin same before with Gold.

I missed the airdrop, lol. Even though I already signed up before, I just didn't get any invites.

Another thing, there was some issue that spreading about Arkham, some are saying that Arkham is a project of the CIA to have surveillance on people.
And the issue also that Arkham is just collecting every person's personal information like email, name, IP, and device info because that's indeed what is on their terms of service.

Overall, I'm not a hater of this project, it's a great project for on-chain analysis and an all-in-one wallet scanner. The only thing I don't like is the way they collect some personal information.

This is an already aged discussion which really at first, it's quite confusing for some people.
There are lot of kinds of gambling which for me gambling really acquired huge percentage on "luck" some could be skills (depends on what gambling)
While on trading, I can see the huge percentage here is skills and somehow on the other part, there's luck here but a very small percentage.

So for me, trading and gambling are far different from each other. Because trading is not only for luck.

True, OP must not be disappointed because he/she is not the only one who experienced this and additional. OP must always remember that no one knows what will happen in the future. Everything happens for a reason.
And I also believe if OP missed this kind of opportunity, I believe after that, it's already a lesson and they already took some opportunity after that.

This is already given, using a trading bot seems more technical and you can also find it difficult to make it run, it depends.
While on copy trading, you click 1 button and let the master trader do the job.
And both got difference advantages and disadvantages and I can only see the disadvantage of copy trader is the fee you are paying, which is extremely high that fee is only for profitable traders and if a trade is lost, you lost more than you earn, something like that,

Kinda bandwagon but I believe since they are media companies, for what is a trend, they are there because that's what is their job is, they need to get attention of the people and right now, this is kinda trending on the cryptocurrency market and here they are, praising bitcoin.

Take note also that there lot of gambling that use Bitcoin to gamble  (I can relate) but some of these people we can't call gambling addicts.

To be honest, this good idea, if they bought Bitcoin to use it for gambling, they should just keep it and not touch or use it for gambling. It's kinda related to saving fiat currency and not touching it or use for gambling.

Let's just hope that OP is storing their Bitcoin in a safe place which is a personal wallet and out of the exchanges because recently, there are a lot of incidents happening to most cryptocurrency exchanges, you could lose your investment here.

I can relate with OP because the money you invested in Bitcoin is your own, it's from your hard work and grind. Because people like these will value their money and they will be careful.