I have a couple friends who are Chinese and I'm amazed by their parents how they teach their children about business, which is good That's why China is the world's top trader. This is totally different in Japan, people out there is a workaholic, their culture of work must be imitated by employees everywhere, their discipline and loyalty to their boss are excellent. I think it doesn't matter if you want to teach your children to have businessman mentality or be successful employee since between being a businessman and employee is a good thing, nothing wrong with that.

instead it makes it easier for the government to keep an eye on their citizens, let's assume that everyone has a static address to transact as we know the transaction on the blockchain is public and permanently recorded out there so it will prevent money laundering, and the government can easily check your assets so you cannot evade paying the taxes. However, it's not decentralized anymore.

Besides as an investment tool bitcoin also is a payment method this is the reason why do people still buy it whatever the price is, nowadays people prefer to pay something online with bitcoin rather than another payment method such PayPal due to its simplicity. On the other hand, people believe in bitcoin, they think that it would be skyrocket in a few years. I personally keep buying bitcoin as much as i can and hold them as a long term investment, I strongly believe that the value will increase,Well I won't miss that moment.

The top advantages of cryptocurrency are decentralized, simplicity and anonymity, you have ultimate control over your asset no one can freeze or even lock it. You don't need to upload your document to start using it, sending money to all over the world with a single click. You can buy almost everything with crypto even purchasing something that even you don't want to people know, it's a useful technology in this era.

Exactly there is more than 1.3 billion china's population not included those who live outside the country. From an economic view, Mandarin and Japanese might be a good choice most people in Japan and China using their official language in any activities rather than English so I think it's a better idea to learn their language, you can get a lot of opportunities if you can master those languages.

I was just thinking the opposite, too much creative and innovative projects out there even makes me feel so overwhelmed to participate. one thing that makes them so unpopular is probably due to lack of adoption and didn't get enough attention from the community. Just google or visit announcement section in this forum and you'll find out a lot of creative projects out there.

Finally, someone asking this question, I'm thinking the same with you.
This is really hard to be honest,and participating in bounty of course you won't lose your time right?? so in my experience, you have to choose the project which has a better future by reading their whitepaper and also the popularity is very important here, the more popular the project the more chance for the coin will be successfull and of course, you will get more.

Ethereum has a feature that bitcoin doesn't have which is the smart contract that's why people call and use it as an alternative to the bitcoin, Ethereum and bitcoin basically cannot be compared since they are different, they have their own unique feature. However, if we compare ethereum to other smart contracts so far ethereum is a popular, favorite and the king of smart contract right now.

Didn't hear about that but that's gonna be cool if Mark launches their own crypto, instead of creating crypto I think they will focus on their job like improving their service and compete with other social media platforms.

A good benefit from the blockchain that maybe someday could be implemented.

A good coin I think must be decentralized, the cost is cheaper, and of course faster and also adopted by masses. However, there is no particular standard to state whether the coin is good or not since everyone has their opinion regarding this topic and will produce a different answer according to what that person wants, that's why altcoin borns to cover the feature that bitcoin has not and the person wants.

First of all I'm sorry for your lost.
Well this is strange, it's kinda impossible for the hackers to pass the 2fa unless they got your email or phone. I'm using coinpayment too but I only enabled the email verification and I'm using a dynamic IP so every time I login to the site I have to confirm that I'm the owner of the account, well pretty safe isn't it? This is why I'm scared, storing crypto on exchange.

They mean don't use exchange as your primary wallet or don't keep all your money for a long time on exchange, that's it.
If you are a daily trader you might store your coins out there and It's risky but there is no other way, the point is cashout your money immediately from there when you stop doing trading, don't put your money on something where you can't control the private key.

To be honest it's really hard to find out whether the project is scam or not, however you can make your own research about people behind the project (check their profile, LinkedIn account, etc) I think this is the most important, checking some feedbacks on the internet, asking the community, learn their whitepaper etc, one thing is for sure there is no guarantee that the project is completely legit.

I highly recommend you to invest on bitcoin or ethereum, those coins you mentioned are probably good but bitcoin and eth has better future comparing to them, since you only mentioned ripple and litecoin, I think I'm gonna go with litecoin as we know that it has shown a good progress in recent years. XRP is a good one though but I never consider and take it as my investment.

Who's selling the house to buy crypto? please don't do that.
They didn't suppose to sell their house for buying crypto (unless you have another house to live in). Crypto is the riskiest investments and property is the safest investment and the good one. I just don't get it why people doing this. By trading Crypto, there is no guarantee you will make money you can lose your money too, crypto is not something that makes you rich in one night.

It's called cut lost when the price goes down and you sell your coins in order to protect your loss. Believe it or not many people are doing this and it's normal, something that you have to do spontaneously in a panic situation after that you have to find a new way to recover your lost, usually need more time to get your money back after that crash. Don't hurt yourself seeing the price crash dramatically.

It's clear that op just get into the bitcoin (since 2017) and maybe didn't have enough experience like other people here, he better didn't invest his money more than he can't afford to lose. To be honest, I heard more stories about those who are successful by trading rather than the story of those than who lose money. Basically, Bitcoin is a good investment if you're holding them as a long-term investment and easiest and secure one.

If you have balance out there then you can get a free coin such a bitcoincash automatically on your blockchain wallet account otherwise then you got nothing, the point is if you were holding bitcoin during the forking you might get some free coins, for example the coins that I've just mentioned above (BCH,BTG etc). You can claim clams also but your address must be created or transact before 2014 (correct me if I'm wrong)

This exactly when I bought bitcoin couple years ago when the price was 600 $ or something and then sold them at $ 230, you know the reason why I did this?? because I was too scared that it would be hit $1 or even nothing. On the other hand, those who sold crypto at the lower price I think because they need cash so bad, so whatever the price they will sell their crypto and just don't care, all i can say this industry is so unpredictable.

It's cliche that the first time i joined btctalk the price was really cheap and my first signature campaign paid me 0.1 BTC weekly which about  $ 24 or something, as we can see 0.1 btc is a big money right now. Well I regret deeply when i didn't buy much at that time. One thing that i really like not too much ICOs at that time, it wasn't hard to select whther the project is good or not,