you aren't missing anything, it is a problem (a bug) with blockexplorer.com database that doesn't show that address for some reason. maybe they haven't indexed it!
but if you check the same block and address on another block explorer you can see the address shows the appropriate balance. for example on blockchain.com:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/19vhPMtzq2RnrTUQWxqmio4SfvMbGvbpJ8

you can't make a living by doing silly micro jobs online such as "bounty hunting". not to mention that majority of ICOs have been scams and you lost a lot of money if you participated in any of them. additionally like anything else, entering cryptocurrency market requires a lot of experience and also needs spending a lot of time doing it.

the real question is why would anybody want to use a new centralized cryptocurrency with all its complications, the risks and unstable price (even though it is "called" stable), risk of having your money stolen by the company, the company running away,.... while they can easily use another centralized currency such as Paypal, VISA or their banks which is safer and they have been using it all this time!

you see, the only reason why something like bitcoin is successful and it is growing every day is that it is decentralized.

apart from the obvious facts that new ICOs are dead in their infancy, most old ICO tokens are dying and in a short time the number of altcoins is going to decrease drastically because of high "fatality" rate! i have to say i see 2019 to have at least one medium sized pumping season in it where we will see a new altcoin that we weren't hearing much about get pumped and be shooted up to top ranks such as #2 in coinmarket cap replacing the current old over pumped ones.

but what i hope for 2019 is that we can see at least one decent new altcoin out of all this mess to be created so that we can have something to show for for nearly 8-9 years of altcoin market.

there is always going to be a bunch of greedy bear whales who want to short bitcoin or want to buy cheaper bitcoin and accumulate more. it is true at literary all the times. the difference is that they are not the only players in the market and as soon as the market sentiment changes and the trend reverses in the other direction, they will have to stop or be crushed by it.

it has little to do with "psychology" in my opinion. it is mostly naivete accompanied by greed and small size of the market which makes it easy to manipulate if you have enough money.

the fiat system is a pretty bad one and in many countries it is corrupted but it still won't go away because fiat is not something that just dies one day even if bitcoin was at mass adoption stage and every one was using it for their day to day transactions, fiat would still be around because bitcoin is an additional option and is not meant to replace anything.

i am not sure how much are the taxes on bitcoin but i am taking your word for it. but i am sure about one thing and it is the fact that you are missing the fact that this tax is for when you "invest in bitcoin" not when you use it "as a currency". in other words if you are a trader who buys and sells bitcoin and takes profit then you have to pay whatever% tax on it but if you use bitcoin as a currency to purchase stuff then the tax on it is 0. for example you can receive your salary in bitcoin and end up having 20BTC and not pay anything for taxes.
and that helps with adoption  A LOT.

you can't tell everyone that selling their "crypto" is wrong because for majority of them it is a correct move. consider the case of someone who bought an altcoin in its dip after the huge dump that we had a couple of weeks ago. for that person this recovery which is a good rise after that low is a good place to dump that altcoin before it gets dumped on him and he loses his chance.
or for a day trader who has been doing this on every up and down, selling after the "up" is a good choice so that he can buy back when the "down" came. of course in this context up and down can mean something like sell at $4010 and buy back at $3990. rinse and repeat. (just an example though).

ICOs are risky, many of them are pure scams, and all of them are useless because none of them have ever done anything. all they do is create a useless token and get paid for it just to stop working the day they receive the payment. in other words they are getting paid for a one time job!!!

this flawed model is doomed to fail. which is what has been happening from start of 2017. people no longer trust them specially since they stopped being profitable but also because they start to realize how useless they all are.

this is an absolute forking mess that has been going on with ethereum. and i think it is partly showing the desperation of them for pumping their useless token after it lose 90% of its pumped value last year. with these "airdrops" they are trying to encourage newbies to buy the coin itself so that its price can go back up again.
so far there has been little success in this desperate attempt. not to mention that things like this can ruin a coin. they are forgetting the short while after the fork when every whale is going to start dumping all of their coins to get the profit out and also stay ahead of the newbie panic sells.

i didn't mean to say ETF's approval is meaningless. i was trying to say that the expectation is that it will be rejected. of course there is still a possibility of it being approved by the SEC but the chance of that happening is very small, something like 5% if i am generous which means it won't change anything in the market prior to the decision because people expect denial, afterwards if it is denied then nobody would care because again they were expecting it and if it is accepted then there will be a big rally because it would come as a surprise.

the thing about hype is that sometimes some types of hypes are based on false promises and lies like what the altcoins have been doing for their pumps. this type of hype is not going to last and will go away. and there will be a big dump.
but another hype is based on facts and there is some reality to it. if this type leads to a rise then it will last even though there may be a correction in case of a bubble because of that hype.

the LN hype is of second type. there may be some exaggeration and misunderstanding in there too but it is based on facts. the facts that it offers limitless scalability, near no fees, instant transactions,...

killing the internet will kill 90% of the word and cripple 100% of it because although it may not look like it but we depend on the internet more than you know in all our activities specially when it comes to money.
besides killing the internet will not kill bitcoin, we can still broadcast blocks using radio waves and satellites

neither of these two are "rumors" they are facts.
- Fact: Ethereum has a hard fork upcoming
- Fact: hard forks are super risky and will split the chain into two in 90% of the cases
- Fact: forks are usually hyped up and can lead to pump
- Fact: the volume has been picking up but it can be be cause of the recovery  + the mini pump

a rumor would be something like hearing about ETH being listed on some big exchange that didn't have it before and buying it before there is any official announcement.

lol that is such a misleading article.

Bittorrent belongs to Tron. in case you have forgotten it they bought Bittorrent last year: https://www.coindesk.com/tron-bought-bittorrent-crypto-wont-stop-talking
and now they are just making a new useless token using the "brand" that they have bought to advertise that token and get some money out of it.

there will always be people who would want to convince you that the future of bitcoin is not good because of any of the following:
- they don't want to see bitcoin succeed because its success means their failure. like banks feeling threatened by bitcoin or some shitcoin that wants to be pumped more and knows if bitcoin is rising they have no chance of staying around
- they want to push bitcoin price lower so that they can buy more of it for themselves.

imagine a $1 bill in your mind (if you can't just google the picture). if you buy a printer, copy the design then change the background color to pink for example, change the font, change the size of the paper,... and print it then it won't be a $1 bill anymore. it will be a 1 somethingelse currency which is created by you and will only be accepted by whoever chooses to follow your print instead of the original print.

your question is the same as this one. when you change the consensus rules of bitcoin (changing PoW in this case) the coins you are creating are no longer bitcoin because they don't look like bitcoin and will be considered an alternative.
it won't be "fake bitcoin" it will be "alternative bitcoin".
the way it technically works is a bit complicated but basically it is every node verifying everything they receive and when something doesn't check out (like consensus rules) they simply reject it as invalid.

the word is "threat".

do you have a reference for this?
because in my experience usually they say the "technology" is a good thing not the decentralized implementations of the technology like bitcoin. with that in mind they may be talking about their own centralized altcoin (like what Venezuela did) and they have been working on it for a while now. this may be the groundwork for the release of that.

because it is a very old article on a very old topic
the shitty news site called CCN published this during the time when bitcoin price was very stable and absolutely nothing else was happening in the scene so they didn't have any other "news" to post. a news site has to publish some bullshit every day or they will go under. to do that they were publishing all kinds of crap during that time.

no it is not!

you are confusing one of many features of "bitcoin" with blockchain in general. bitcoin can be used as a store of value on top of a lot of other things. but the blockchain is the technology and even if you meant the altcoins you are still wrong because many of them are not just dropping in value in long term but also are quite unsafe because of their bugs, their lack of security, their centralization which can lead in your money being stolen by the developer and a lot of other things.