there is and it is called pump and dump, at least for majority of them this is their only use case. there are a couple of others that are made to scam people for example the ones that spread malware such as BTG so that they could steal user's bitcoins. or BCH that is fooling newbies.

thanks for the list, i had only heard the name of 2 of them!
i think for the wallet i am going to try what squatter suggested with MyEtherWallet  and the tether tokens instead, that sounds like a more reasonable choice than Omniwallet to me since there is no account per se.

dump? not at all
a small drop maybe? possible.
can anybody predict it? absolutely not

the thing is that we are again at a point where it becomes impossible to predict which way the market is going to go. if price starts going higher we can easily see a much bigger jump passing through $10k and shooting above it. but if 10% resists then we can see a drop to get ready again. however this "drop" is not a dump, it will be something like going to $8900 then coming back up again.

as i explained when you sign with SIGHASH_NONE you are not setting any destination for the coins you are spending, as the result anybody can set the destination (output) and receive the coins. so in the scheme i outlined above, at least one of the signers has to sign everything (namely the outputs) so that they can't be changed. to sign everything you have to use SIGHASH_ALL.

i'm looking to exchange a small amount of bitcoin to tether but i have never done this before in anywhere other than a regular exchange which i don't want to use this time. i am looking for a more decentralized way in a site like shapeshift for example that doesn't require KYC or any kind of registration.

additionally do you know any tether wallet i could use to receive and then send it later locally that also doesn't need signing up on a website or KYC,...?

i disagree with most of the things in that chart!
for starters HYIP, gambling and a lot of things that are categorized as "micro earning" such as faucets are not ways to earn bitcoin at all.
HYIP is an obvious scam that you only lose money in so it can't even be in this category.
gambling is also not a way to "earn" money but it is instead a way to "spend" money.

as for effort:
mining doesn't have "high" effort. you just invest and maintain the equipment, there is no much else to do. the equipment (ASIC or gpu rigs for altcoin mining then dumping for bitcoin) does it automatically.

owning a faucet is also definitely not "high" profitable at all. and it is medium effort at best.

i suspected that it had to have to do something with abusers. sad that there are some people that ruin it for everyone...
maybe it could be changed to reward to only one deposit per user per week.

true but it adds a lot of unnecessary complications in my opinion. you'll have to do the same process multiple times and encrypt each paper wallet with a unique complicated (strong) password and backup that password too. so you'll soon end up with a pile of papers that you need to store in different places.

not to mention that finding a safe place to hide the paper wallet is another issue. where shold it be hidden? at home? at someone else's home? can you trust them? in a safety deposit box? how much will it cost to store each in a different one? does the cost justify the result?...

the site used to have a lot of promotions for deposits that gave golden tickets almost every week but i have not seen any for a while now (maybe 2 months?). did it stop doing them for this round of the Lambo lottery game or am i just getting unlucky and missing all of them?

that is the route for only when you want to create a new Electrum wallet either with seed or an empty one where you can import the key into. OP seems to want to sweep his key which is the more secure option so he has to link his hardware wallet there, get an address and send the funds there from that key.

i don't consider short term ups and downs as bull or bear market so i disagree with saying "bitcoin entered bull market" because bitcoin entered bull market a year ago when it first broke the $4k resistance and a big freak out aka FOMO occurred, we have been experiencing the bull market ever since that day which ended with more than a 250% rise. this is just the continuation where both the speed and size of the rises on each step increases.

yes they will see what input you spent which would tell them the amount you had and where you sent the remainder to. and if that kind of privacy is important to you then splitting makes sense otherwise i can't think of any reason.

just remember that if you decided to do that then don't use single key cold storages like a private key printed on a paper. use a deterministic wallet for example you can generate a wallet using Electrum and print the seed phrase. then split your bitcoin among multiple addresses. this way you only have to backup one thing and in the future when you spend X amount of coins your change address is also recoverable using the same seed backup.

both of these  depend on how big a hashrate mining farms have. for example if there were a mining farm with 60% or even 30% of the hashrate then it could cause a lot of problems in short term until difficulty adjusts but when mining farms have 1-5% it won't matter.
i don't believe there is any single farm that has a big enough hashrate that its shutdown could cause any trouble for bitcoin.

that would be pure speculation about price. but apart from that if hashrate doesn't grow that means bitcoin price isn't going up and that means it stopped growing in which case there is no incentive for government to attack something that is not even growing!

this is simply a list of random people making random guesses for their own benefit they are either owners of some bitcoin related business or some random idiots on the internet (like that dude from Youtube who you call "influencer") who don't have any clue what they are talking about and are just trying to gain some attention.

they are all making a bet with excellent odds too. bitcoin is on the rise and currently in a bull run that started a year ago and predicting a big rise doesn't really need any expertise.

there is the electrum docs here: https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/merchant.html that contain the needed information to start accepting bitcoin as a merchant using Electrum. it mainly explains accepting payment but the principle is the same for sending payments too.
there are also some articles on the internet that you can find in google search for keyword "bitcoin" + "electrum" + "merchants". i haven't used any of them so i can't recommend any.

i disagree. PoW works well for bitcoin and will continue that way because of its decentralization and the fact that the hashrate keeps on growing and currently it is at a stage that it costs a ridiculous amount of money to control a small percentage of the hashrate.
otherwise PoW on its own in general is not a magical solution to secure any cryptocurrency. you can take a look at dozens of altcoins that were 51% attacked including those with moderately high hashrate like bcash that one or two entities control nearly the entire hashrate.

what you refer to as "brainwashing" has been happening ever since bitcoin was created. it has been under constant attacks and there are thousands of FUDs against it. all the while it keeps on growing without taking any effects from any of them.

"bitcoin's image" isn't what some 89 year old elderly, a bankster or some random idiot on twitter says. the real "bitcoin's image" is a network that has been running for 11 years with a growing user base, rising price and is currently handling millions of dollars worth of transaction per day without fault.

i don't think it is that recent though.
Schnorr related discussions existed around the time of SegWit and the BIP was actually created last year in July and has been discussed and improved ever since. you can see it here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016203.html
it was only recently that the final draft was added to the "bitcoin account" on github.

you are talking about two entirely different things.
accepting bitcoin is just like starting to add a new payment method. like not accepting credit cards and now doing so. you just learn a little about what bitcoin is and how things work and what risks there are and then create your own wallet and start accepting payments through bitcoin.

becoming an exchange is an entirely different thing. you basically want to start a brand new business that you probably have no experience in since your job has been something else. so first of all your chances of success are very minimal and secondly you have to initially spend a lot of money and have a large capital to start a decent exchange for the cost of creating it, security, maintenance, advertisement and more.

you can do both with Electrum JSONRPC. the commands support both creation and signing of transactions from your keys with commands such as "signtransaction()" and then you can broadcast them using "broadcast(tx)".

to this day there has only been a handful of "speeches" that only affected the price a little bit. there has never been any significant case such as "soaring" because of it.

it is understandable too because although the market may have many newbie participants but the majority of it are not idiots to jump at whatever someone said.