Cryptocurrency adoption is actually growing quite fast. Now on many forums I use it's accepted as a main form of payment and there is more volume than ever on exchanges and betting websites. I see more and more of my friends constantly being involved and I expect this trend to only to keep continuing. With Paypal and more larger institutions beginning to offer cryptocurrency, I think that adoption will only continue to increase for the forseeable future.

Remember the best thing we can do to drive adoption is to use BTC whenever possible for our purchases and to teach others of its benefits.

At some point the United States will no longer be able to pay out Social Security and other ponzi scheme obligations, and they will either have to discontinue these programs or print money to the point of hyperinflation like Venezuela. At this point, fixed supply cryptocurrencies like BTC are a very great investment that are free from Federal Reserve manipulation.

Gold and oil serve different purposes than Bitcoin. They are resources with industrial uses while BTC is meant to be a decentralized form of currency. But in the future we may see oil and gold traded more often with BTC.

Most of crime is still done via fiat money, and governments are the widest perpetrators of crimes against humanity with constant taxation for war. Bitcoin is what allows people to be free from having their money be used to harm others.

Money laundering shouldn't be a crime because it does not have any victims. Taxation is a form of theft and used to fund wars and all types of human rights abuses. That war has been going on before Bitcoin was my point, that it isn't Bitcoin that is the main funder of terrorism or crime, it's the governments around the world.

I have become more involved with Spotify distribution lately and the idea of a decentralized platform is interesting.

I read more on the project and saw that Deadmau5 was involved which was pretty cool:
https://dancingastronaut.com/2020/10/audius-marks-audio-launch-with-deadmau5-and-rac-livestream/

I'll probably check out the selection of music here and see what I can find.

I think that having multiple types of options is a good thing, depending on whether users seek the advantages of centralized apps, decentralized apps, or both. I think that a hybrid idea can allow creators of a project to maintain control over the direction while implementing anti-censorship features and irreversability.

While I prefer decentralized trading, I think that more and more centralized exchanges like Paypal entering the cryptocurrency market is a great thing as it will just drive adoption forward and allow for more methods to obtain Bitcoin. If it's easier to obtain from centralized exchanges, then there's also going to be more volume for decentralized trading.

The trend towards the future will be towards more decentralized exchange, with UniSwap recently surpassing CoinBase's volume. There will always be demand for anonymous trading and money holding and cryptocurrencies will continue to evolve in that direction, Bitcoin is becoming more private with Taproot/Schnorr, and LTC is getting MimbleWimble implementation soon.

The idea of regulation compliant cryptocurrency also doesn't make sense as regulations are different around the world and it would be impossible to fit under all of them at the same time. This is why I believe the coins that focus on the actual technology and use rather than being compliant with regulations will succeed in the long term.

People should be able to move money over borders as they wish to and not have it restricted by governments.

Bitcoin improves the economy by promoting a more open and fair system of trade that is free from government regulation and consfication. Money laundering shouldn't be a crime as it just means someone is trying to keep their own money, and the most terrorism/war is funded by governments using fiats and involuntary taxation that cryptocurrency can further free us from. The trillion dollar war in the middle east didn't come from Bitcoin, it came from the US governments and governments around Europe directly financing terrorism themselves.

I think that as Bitcoin usage grows the services of the current financial system will continue to do so as well and they may be incentivized to adopt some of the benefits of Bitcoin over time. As more seek privacy and the ability to control their own funds, I think that the banking industry will have to evolve in that way in order to stay relevant.

With P2P exchanges, banks aren't a required part of the transaction. Users can simply trade fiat directly to cryptocurrency.

Institutions are starting to realize the value of the investment.  As the federal reserve continues to print money without end, more will realize the value of BTC's stable supply:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/10b-asset-manager-reveals-buying-115m-in-bitcoin-in-a-growing-trend

Privacy is an important part of money even in legal avenues. Just like how people may want to keep bank balances and documents private for security reasons, the same may be true of BTC.

The Wasabi Wallet has a built-in CoinJoin feature:
https://wasabiwallet.io/

I use NordVPN but for something truly free there is WindScribe:
https://windscribe.com/

It is definitely possible to live without banks. There are many already who utilize cash or checks only and buy things in this manner. Living through cryptocurrency is also possible in most areas now, since you can use it to buy off Amazon with https://purse.io/ and obtain many types of services on https://www.bitrefill.com/?hl=en.

There is also OpenBazaar where users can trade eachother directly P2P:
https://openbazaar.org/

At least in the United States, it seems very possible to live without banks, provided that you've set up a system to earn in cash or cryptocurrency, you can always exchange them to get what you need, and I think that it will only continue to become easier.

I think there's great hope for the continent of Africa and it is only a matter of time before they experience a more rapid pace of development. There are already huge construction projects going on all around, and cryptocurrency is going to play a new role in making financial services accessible to the unbanked.

IOHK is already doing amazing things there:
https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2018/05/29/vision-for-blockchain-in-africa-is-becoming-a-reality/

Hard forks can always occur if there is disagreement with the protocol, this led to the split with BTC and BCH and later BCH and BSV. This makes it so forming a centralization of power for nefarious purposes isn't usually worth it, when there is more profit to be made from continuing to process transactions.

The benefits of Bitcoin are uncensorable and unreversible transactions, and to a certain degree the ability to remain anonymous. It lets individuals control how there money is spend, free from the regulations and controls of authoritarian regimes.

I think that signatures are counted differently than links on main parts of websites. It would probably be best to find blogs be featured on that is related to your website and to pay or exchange for quality content posts.