That's the point I would like to emphasize as well.
As soon as someone has managed to gather some portion of BTC (0.1 or above) to spend $100 for the hardware wallet should not be a question (or to spend $1 on a paper wallet, if you want to accumulate only, and to HODL for years). Hardware wallet is useful to someone who want to manage actively his/her bitcoins, do transactions frequenty from different computers or from mobile phone... For HODLing, paper wallets are just fine, just make sure you have several copies in different locations, hidden... It's always better to be safe than sorry...

Probably because Trezor is a hardware wallet and MyEtherWallet is not. Or, do you mean that if you select the Ledger Nano S instead of Trezor, you can use your Ledger with MyEtherWallet? Both Trezor and Ledger has it's own method, how you can use it, if you connect it to a mobile wallet (e.g. Mycelium), there's no difference.

Unless you have your seed at hand you won't get forward easily. Is your problem OS related or your trezor broke down? If OS, you can try to hook your trezor up to your mobile via a micro USB-micro USB OTG cable and set it up with mycelium, it can handle trezor's wallet. If your trezor broke down, you will need the word list (seed) to restore your wallet. More details, please, if possible.

It doesn't matter if you set up a dummy one if they know the exact amount you have...
Trezor's solution is good agains everyday (OK, not everyday but only the simple) robbers who doesn't know exactly what amount you have and it's enough for them if you show them a little amount... Trezor's passphrase is for this purpose. If they know your public key and they see your amount, they should be educated about bitcoin and won't let you know unless they got what they want...

Good idea to sell virtual idea for crypto. Be sure to gamble only for fun and don't expect to get rich from gambling... Only risk you can afford to lose, you can find this sentence in nearly every 5th or 6th post in connection with gambling, but it's still true. You can easily lose the amount you gather from selling those things.
If you think that it's easy come and easy go, then it's not a problem to gamble a bit...
If you want to earn some bitcoins after you have lost everyting in casinos, check the services section of the forum, there are always some small jobs paying in bitcoin

Bitcoin can help people to somehow manage their financial situation better. It won't make difference in countries where people are hunting for food and hardly use money but in some developing countries it can really make a difference. Google also has started it's own wallet in India (not bitcoin wallet but fiat) because of the need. There's a demand for easy money management and we're at the beginning, we have only a few options now to choose from (bitcoin is one of them) but we still need to wait more. Bitcoin will be a major player in this market if governments don't ban it globally. Today it seems that they are just trying to regulate it, because they see some potential in it (hopefully).

You can have a look at XAPO (it's not an exchange, but an online wallet). You can feed your XAPO wallet with an EUR - SEPA transfer, and when your transfer arrives at XAPO, they will put the bitcoins into your wallet. After, you can send your bitcoins into any of the exchanges to do what you want. However I don't recommend XAPO 100%, because their support is slow (they're always overloaded, because they're so big). If you can find another wallet that can accept SEPA transfer to feed the wallet, you're good to go.

OK gold is difficult to keep, you need a safebox or something, alarm system, etc... if you store that at home. But I don't think that bitcoin is less riskier to store or to handle. Gold is not hacked by malicious codes or malwares on your computer so do bitcoin. You need to install antivirus, anti malware, etc... If you have your bitcoin wallet on your phone, you can drop it and it will break, you drop it into water, etc... you also need a safe place to store your bitcoins (hardware wallet, paper wallet). The risk is the same, the way you can handle the risk is different. People need education about online (digital) security as well.

There were rumours about Russia, they were about to reopen an old nuclear plant to feed the newcomer crypto miners with cheap energy in north Russia, where the summer is also below 0 Celsius, so there's no need to install expensive airco machines for the mining gear, it's enough to have the windows open 24/7

Mining is not the nr.1 problem. Problem is that the mass adoption is still far away. As long as most of the people are not aware of bitcoin or under educated about that, there will be easy to manipulate bitcoin with fake news, price manipulations, etc... If bitcoin would be widespread already, price would be less volatile and bitcoin itself would be less vulnerable to forks and so on. Bitcoin needs to build trust in itself among average people, but it's not easy to trust something you don't know at all.

Step nr. 1.: Assuming that your computer is compromised, reinstall the OS asap, install an antivirus and anti malware.
Paper wallet or hardware wallet.
If you want to buy and hold, you can use paper wallet, if you need to do transactions frequently your choise should be a hardware wallet.
If you want to maximize the security of the paper wallet, download a copy of a paper wallet generator, and install a fresh OS on a PC with a USB printer (without internet connection) and generate and print a paper wallet (or print at least 10 to be on the safe side).
If you don't reveal your private keys, your paper wallets will be fine to store the coins. You can use your public key to send coins to the wallets and you can check you balance without any risk.

Your fee would be decent if the situation was not like this...
Average fee according to fork.lol now:

Your fee is half of the average, so you need to accelerate somehow.
You can try ViaBTC:
https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/
Try at full hour, first few transactions are accelerated, and it's free.

There's minor difference between Trezor (original) and Nano S, both have screen, which is a minimum requirement for security. The altcoin support is the difference, the Nano S supports a bit more alt than the Trezor but both are working on the support of various alts . Maybe you can hang the Nano S on a keychain, because of it's shape but that's only a personal preference.

Appropirate fees nowdays is about 350 sat/B, which made my first confirmation in 11 minutes. Bitcoin network works, but I don't want to calculate the fee in USD... It's enough for me that despite of the huge backlog, I can manage my transfer, if it's a real need...
Mempool looks really bad now:

If you can react quickly, you can buy anything you want. ETH could be a good idea, because a lot of people are trying to avoid the risk and want to buy something different from BTC and BCH. ETH is a well known alt, but as soon as the BTC vs. BCH battle finishes, alts will be down again, because people will sell their alts. So just react quickly

I don't think they will call it 'crypto' because if government creates something, it needs to be accepted by all the average people too. People without proper technological or financial (or crypto ) knowledge will be afraid of the new government issued coin if it's called crypto money or similar... They probably will issue it 'silently'. Maybe, in the first round, they will let only the banks use that and if it's successfull, then they will let people use it. They will probaly call it the 'digital' money instead of crypto.

It's really a zero sum game. If something in the pump phase, first those will buy, who have the information that it worths to buy. When the price starts to skyrocket, people start to think that they will miss something (FOMO) and despite of the higher and higher prices, they jump in, when the first buyers are already selling. Crash comes after...

If you check the mempool, it seems that something has already started:

It needs some time but it will normalize soon. Would be interested to see the mix of the transactions in the mempool sorted by the fee (sat/byte). If there are a lot of 0 to 10 sat/byte transactions again, the situation would be similar when in summer we were right before the first fork...

It won't replace fiat even in 25 years, bitcoin and (that time digital type of) fiat will leave next to each other. Governments and central banks are developing their own digital currency (digital fiat like in Sweeden) so Bitcoin will have competitors in case of national payments. For international payments, we only need to reduce the volatility of the price of bitcoin and gain mass adoption, because bitcoin is capable to handle international transactions but not ideal yet.

More and more banks are saying no to cryptos nowdays, and more and more exhanges and online wallet providers are implementing AML and KYC regulations. My XAPO debit card will be cancelled on 10th December because I haven't identified myself properly in their system... I have used the card for just a few times, to check if it really works, so this will not be a major loss, but seems that the cashout will be much difficult in the future if this continues like this...