First of all, thanks everyone for their answers and opinions, I starting out my Bitcoin journey and I learn a lot from discussions like this.
So, some clarifications and a couple of extra questions...  

I get the "Why not?" part of having both revenues... but my point was that IF a Trader is also a Youtuber (affiliate) then:

- Or he IS NOT a Highly Successful Trader, or at least not successful enough so that he values the "extra income" from being an affiliate.
- Or he IS Passionate about Bitcoin (not a Highly Successful in Trading or not even a trader at all) and wants to spread the word, but still in need for an extra buck.
- Or he is a Highly Successful Trader AND Passionate about Bitcoin, but in this case an affiliate link would make no sense.

Just as illustrative (and rather grotesque) examples of my point: I do not see Michael Saylor "selling" me an affiliate link, nor Ricardo Salinas. Of course they are extreme cases, already not worried about making a buck even before Satoshi's white paper, but you get my point... Should I prefer "influencers" that do not need the extra buck? (In this case I will be restricted to millionaires with their millionaires agenda, but detached from the affiliate noise)... Is this a cleaner solution to go through the noise? Do you have anyone that consistently shares good stuff to recommend (people not companies)?

An example that comes to mind would be Aaron Bennett who offers a great informative service, and still cares for the extra affiliate money. Which is totally fine for me.
I do not have anything against affiliates (I am -and want to believe- an honest affiliate myself in another sector), just trying to pick the voices I pay attention to... and the online Bitcoin and general crypto world is quite noisy for someone entering the space.

So, thanks everybody for their replies and opinions! I keep learning!

Just wondering for the sake of it, if crypto trading was so profitable for so many influencers and YouTubers, why would they care so much about affiliate money…? Why take the trouble of creating, editing and uploading so many videos? Does this mean that if you see any YouTuber or crypto “celebrity” pumping a product or trying to make a buck out of content, that you should run away from them? ‘Cos why take so much trouble if you are already making money with your trading? Of course not everyone is a trader, but…

Amazing! Gonna give it a try ... now creating content for listing the crypto games at our casino listing domain.
Do you have any banners in portuguese and or spanish? Else we can create the material and send it to you to add to the banner list! Thanks!

Bitcoin Blockchain Size was 470.93 GB for Apr 06 2023.
But it must be considered that Bitcoin Core can run in pruned mode, still verifying blocks, but discarding them, needing far less disk space and hence less investment in hardware.
That said I do not really know how much space this would require.

Good point about health, did not consider it on my answer,  but in general only borrow to buy tools or in a survival situation. Else wait, or increase your productivity with more skills, knowledge, network or tools.

(If you are not in a survival situation) Only get into debt to buy tools that are reasonably expected to increase your productivity which would help you to increase your income, pay your debt and be better off at the end.

(If you are in a survival situation) Ask for help, avoid getting into debt as it will spiral you down the debt hole.

(If you are getting into debt to consume) Clearly define your minimum needs to be well off and happy enough, avoid any "status" consumption, learn something new, acquire some skill that someone is willing to pay for, create something, offer something of value to your virtual o local community (hopefully bitcoiners) and try to live by your means, gradually increasing your minimum needs to be happier. Live slightly bellow your means, and you will always have something to save or spend in superfluous things. Keep yourself a sovereign individual  

Thanks for the good vibes! Already have a Figma prototype. Will code it using Flutter and try to launch a first version by EOY. Will got you posted about the progress here! Thanks again. Was in need of a favorable opinion to get impulse. Cheers!

As a developer I am thinking about contributing to the Bitcoin and Lightning Network adoption by creating a concept app to buy beer using BTC. Payments could be handled via Open Node. Would you use such an app? Any thoughts?

Thanks for the Electrum guide mate, thus I was thinking more of a guide making use of more resent developments in usability that new Lightning wallets mean for the average user or merchant like Breeze of Wallet of Satoshi, but I will keep looking or will make a guide myself if search ends with no results on that respect. Cheers!

For learning and later teaching purposes I am having  trouble to find a full video or gif example of BTC beings used for peer-to-peer transfers (not commerce) from (this is key) BTC wallet, to opening a LN channel with a peer using a Lightning Wallet, closing then channel, and then re-transdering to a purely BTC wallet (where most self custodians would like to have their BTC). Anyone willing to help?

I think that a full example like that will be of much use for later teaching (friends and fellow merchants) purposes. Thanks!

Got it. You all have provided a great place to star overall. Lot of work to do.
Really appreciate all the info provided.
Will report my progress back as i develop my skills.
Cheers to you all!

EDIT: Just for the sake of informing this finding, I asked for a wallet developed in Flutter to which i could collaborate in the future. There is (at least) one, a Lightning Wallet called Breeze, you can find the code in the Github repo called "breezmobile" (as i imagine I cannot paste links here yet). Cheers!

Thanks to you all for the encouraging responses and explanations. I have one last question.
So if I understood well as a web2 mobile/web developer who prefers to support Bitcoin instead of going to the (most dev friendly and effervescent web3 side) I would have a change to contributing to crypto wallets UI/UX.
That sounds great! Would love if you could share any Flutter crypto wallet out there.

Also thinking about Smart Contracts and sorry if it’s a silly question, but is there any project planning to handle Smart Contracts in BTC on a side-chain? Is that even possible?

Thanks again for the patience!

After getting the basics and after hodling for some time, and now willing to enter the space. I am a mobile/web developer (have been for the last 10 years) but I am having a hard time where would it be the best place to start.

On one hand I am attracted by the BTC ethos and ecosystem, on the other hand the ETH/Solidity space seems fun and more friendly for a standard fairly good web/mobile developer with expertise on Vuejs & Flutter techs (as an example).

I am afraid I would not be of much help in the BTC space…
Where would you start?
What are the pros, cons of each?

Consider optimizing for being and feeling the most useful and really contributing as at this moment I am not really optimizing for money or getting paid much as a web3/dev or anything alike.

Thanks for your help!

I did't know that! Now I see. That history definitely points to marketing reasons. In any case I found it a bit contradictory (to say the least) with their own "mission" stated as bringing fair banking back to the "people". With this values this seems to be (once again) just marketing vocabulary since i don't know what percentage of common people have 10.000 available to bet on crypto assets.

Thing is trading requires an active rol, its quite time consuming and stressing, hodling isn't. So if this is your profile and that your risk capacity, 4% APY and loans against those crypto assets that looks like a good option to me. Trading is a whole different game. 

I was betting on the project to get 500 fiat loan against my bitcoin assets, unfortunately Celsius raised the limit of the minimum loan from 500 to 10.000! Which is insane for me. Is this correct? Anyone else having this limits? If so, what do you think is the strategy behind this, get rid of low-wage loands and therefore clients? 

Estoy de acuerdo que el hecho de la custodia es un tema importante que no todo principiante tiene en cuenta, y es algo que debería formar parte de la evaluación de riesgos de cada persona. En particular la comunidad que mencionaba parece tener buenos niveles de transparencia pero eso por supuesto que es subjetivo. En mi corta experiencia he no he tenido problemas en la operación. Me conforma la comunidad de usuarios detrás con datos interesantes sobre tasas de interés (el gran atractivo de la plataforma) y las stats sobre community growth que se pueden encontrar fácilmente.

Me gustaría saber si alguien tiene experiencia en su competencia directa Blockfi?
Además saber si alguien de LATAM ha tenido experiencia llegando a los mínimos para poder pedir préstamos fiat respaldados de crypto? (otro grán atractivo de la comunidad).

Hlla iketronic, bienvenido al foro, también soy nuevo por acá. Interessante lo de Bitbase, hasta el momento sólo he interactuado con Bitcoin a través de Celsius, mas como forma de hodler. ¿Alguien sabe si existe un product/servicio similar para LATAM?