Tether is a scam and the people involved are inflating the scam. It will eventually collapse and it will be jail time for many.

Tell me why SIA is not a shitcoin.

Your question is valid and many beginners fell in the trap of buying coins because they were thinking they were "cheap".
In fact there is a catch here. It is the total supply of the tokens. Multiply this number with the current price and you will get a number that informs you of the current market cap of this token, which you can consider the current valuation of this coin (just as the valuation of a company).
Now try and make sense with these numbers. Is for example the coin ICON correctly valuated at 100m USD today? To answer that, you have to ask more questions as: Does it have a working product? How many people use it? Are the developers creating anything new? Has it solved the problem it claims to be solving after 3-4 years of activity? (ICON was an example here, I have no idea what it does to be honest).
It is hard to figure if a coin is expensive or cheap. Marketing is making this process harder as it inflates prices. I usually try to look into projects that use less promotion and try to figure out if they have any decent chance. Most of them have another 95% to lose from their current price.

The universe does not revolve around humanity. Humans are an insignificant part of time and space. Balance has to do with physics in cosmos, patterns and symmetries, and not with the population of our species on planet Earth. We are so vulnerable that we can be extinct in a few decades after a major catastrophe occurs.

Also Thomas Malthus was probably concerned about the certain era and not the distant future (our present). He was proven wrong, and his intentions are often criticized.

CBDC's will be financial slavery. I'd prefer to live as a nomad and accept camels as medium of exchange than ever use them.

I've given my view of them a few months ago in this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5210116.msg53363115#msg53363115 .

We should not be happy about digitized national currencies but scared of them.

The bounty managers are getting rich out of your work.
Perhaps you will realize how you are being played all this time following bounties.
They are getting paid you don't.

Having participating in many of his airdrops through the channel "Airdrop detective", I have to say that it was one of the worst airdrop sources during 2018-2019. He featured various airdrops which weren't paid as:
-Coin Island,
-Pngme,
-Correto,
-300-Fit,
-Dispatch,
-CINDX,
-Trustfeedback,
-O2O,
-INNOU,
-AIGO,
-Nestree,
-Navcoin,
-Want Marketplaces,
-Tok App
and probably dozens more, still I've deleted his telegram channels (which were obviously full of bots having more than 300.000 members...).

I took part in all his sponsored Airdrops and only got one, which was not ever valued and not ever listed in an exchange.
Obviously wasn't going to participate in his bounties ever, as I stopped taking part in most airdrops/bounties because of the lack of seriousness by both projects and especially by the failure of doing due diligence from bounty hunters, which treat bounty members basically as slaves.

Taking part in a few bounties, under certain bounty managers, was a terrible experience and basically I would advise everyone to stop doing bounties as:
1) You will not earn anything
2) You will spent time promoting scams
3) You will be treated unfairly and improper
4) The bounty manager will get paid - You won't.

A job as most don't/won't have one.

I think I remember Ripple giveaways happening since 2017 in youtube. Although not at this frequency.
Lately many active youtubers had their accounts hacked, changed name and used for this scam. Probably it is lucrative for the scammers, although the wallets they provide might display many fake transactions made by them, to lure people thinking it is legit giveaways.

Trading actually is quite different from what you have pictured in your brain. Day trading is 99% done with leveraged options. Judging by your post it is obvious you don't know that traders don't buy and sell, but they bet on the price going up or down. This is going long or going short.
Since you don't know what shorting is, you have a lot to learn. Try making a test account in some of the trading sites that allow this just to find out the options available.

You are probably lucky you didn't find that e-bike as you would have lost 20% profits.
Depending on the type of bicycle you've probably saved between $80-500


To the OP again:
The way I see it, you will rebuy 0.335BTC with the same amount of cash.

If you were in dire need of cash, I guess you are excused.
Personally I wouldn't advice anyone to cash out now though. I would especially advice not to panic and not to sell after a 40-50% dip. It is not different this time.The fundamentals have not changed and Bitcoin is still working exactly as it was supposed to.
Hopefully you will be able to recover financially soon and buy again without having missed out a lot.

Prayers might help raise morale, but mostly it is our actions that will help us overcome this obstacle.
Everyone must do their part to flatten the curve and allow our health system deal with this problem with ease.

Most of the mining is done through excess energy produced mostly by "green" energy sources. The carbon footprint of Bitcoin is probably a lot lower from what some services provide, as they use the average carbon footprint for the industrial sector. These results are not scientific correct.

Well just to be certain I've looked the wikipedia exact definition on DAO's.
"A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), sometimes labeled a decentralized autonomous corporation (DAC), is an organization represented by rules encoded as a computer program that is transparent, controlled by shareholders and not influenced by a central government. A DAO's financial transaction record and program rules are maintained on a blockchain. The precise legal status of this type of business organization is unclear."
It is clear that in this model there is control by shareholders, something that is not true for Bitcoin.

Don't get caught up on this word though. Organization can mean different things in other languages. In it's original language Greek it has a few meanings. Mainly it is a group of people that are joined to achieve a certain goal. It can also mean a movement following certain agenta, or as a verb, the act of doing something after having it thorougly planned before. So the word probably does not mean the same in all languages. Although an organization in business and economic terms, means that there is certain authority running it.

In Bitcoin the only authority is consensus. The code itself. It can be changed but it needs agreement between everyone involved, from miners to exchanges and developers, along with the whole community.

[EDIT] I feel confused now. Perhaps it is an wider organization containing everyone that can agree on changes in the code. I would certainly bookmark this topic as I'm undecided even after careful consideration.

By the way as stated by other members, Bitcoin is not an industry either. Cryptocurrencies as a whole can be considered an industry, so your teacher was definitely wrong there.

I'm feeling a lot better that this clown will stop promoting Bitcoin.

He wasn't doing any good and was basically profiting by promoting all the altcoins with his pump and dump tweets.. I remember in 2017 when everyone was waiting for the next coin he would pump and we were rushing in Bittrex and Binance to buy and dump at "take profit" price after one minute from his tweet.

Hillarious moments.

  Thanks a lot friend, I hope my writing skills are up to standard and hopefully I can contribute with useful content as well!

Besides Onecoin Bitconnect and Plustoken we didn't give much attention to CoinUp which was a ponzi claiming to be an exchange, that managed to defraud investors out of 384 million USD.

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/11/13/south-korea-coinup-cryptocurrency-exchange-ponzi-pyramid-scheme-fraud-ceo-jail/

racist

then why you need eth 2.0?

Tone Vays is basically saying not to buy Bitcoin for the last 2 years and he is only talking about technical analysis that noone actually understands or cares about.
Andreas Antonopoulos is underpaid for the work he has done so far. He is talking mostly about the tech and the concept of decentralization. He is talking about what is wrong in today's failed economic system and how Bitcoin can be the force to create something better. It is clear to me that you haven't watched more than 5 minutes of him as you can't even type his name correctly. Try please to watch at least two videos from his youtube page. You won't waste any time and you will probably change your mind about him.

You will find out soon that admins in bitcointalk let anyone express their opinion, unless it is some low-effort shilling of a small capped crypto.
Proven wrong so far. Still The last point you make is valid.


We definitely need more decentralization and I agree that Bitmain along with their affiliate pools hold way too much percentage of mining activity. This will have implications in the future as countries that could affort cheap mining have either banned it or they still don't see the benefits in it.
I wouldn't mind much about it though. Bitmain has competition in their hardware production and it is not hard to compete with them and take a large percentage of their share. I think something like this will happen soon as there are plans for mining farms that will provide real decentralization of mining worldwide. There are plans rest assured.

I don't understand what you want to say. You do know though that Alexander Vinnik was arrested in Greece in 2017 and will probably be extradited to France (and consequently to the US)? Also how exactly he has any right over stolen funds? What exactly is your point?

Most youtubers, basically all of them are paid shills and also abusing referals senting their audiences in scam exchanges and making them lose money.
I hope they get banned all of them as they promoted scams, shitcoins, shady schemes and got paid a lot for it.
They are not even entertaining and their live chat rooms are full of ridiculous paid shills talking about ridiculous coins they were so stupid and blind to invest in. Probably paid youtube services of bots or total retards that only irritate rational viewers.
Perhaps only Chris Dunn is an exception but he also made a paid video lately while in the past he said he didn't need to do any.
I hope they ban them as they were useless and diverting people into scams.