Bitcointalk does not allow freedom of speech, so you are posting this in the wrong place. Oh, they will allow the far-right Bitcoin infiltrators to express their views though. Pff, they will probably delete this reply anyway. Well fuck off bitcointalk anyway.

They are scammers. They were scamming people their whole lives. Basically everything they ever did was a huge scam.

Better sell all shitcoins as doom is approaching. Why the fuck you pump all these garbage as chainlink and cardano?

Such stupidity.

Bitcoin right now is defined by the funds that invested and trading it. Since Pomp is involved and you made him no1 influencer you have to expect investors treating it as a stock.
Next time don't allow sharks make your favorite asset a whore for wall street crackheads.

A lot websites with high-traffic can gain this money through ads, although I'm always using adblocks and can't tell which one has.

Tell me why SIA is not a shitcoin.

Your question is valid and many beginners fell in the trap of buying coins because they were thinking they were "cheap".
In fact there is a catch here. It is the total supply of the tokens. Multiply this number with the current price and you will get a number that informs you of the current market cap of this token, which you can consider the current valuation of this coin (just as the valuation of a company).
Now try and make sense with these numbers. Is for example the coin ICON correctly valuated at 100m USD today? To answer it you have to ask more questions as: Does it have a working product? How many people use it? Are the developers creating anything new? Has it solved the problem it claims to be solving after 3-4 years of activity? (ICON was an example here, I have no idea what it does to be honest).
It is hard to figure if a coin is expensive or cheap. Marketing is making this process harder and usually inflates prices. I usually try to look into projects that use less promotion and try to figure out if they have any decent chance. Most of them have another 95% to lose from their current price.

The problem is that you though of Bitcoin as a get rich quick scheme, because you've read countless articles in major media, about how early investors managed to make a lot of money in a few months. You've finally understood that these returns are impossible now and that you've missed out. What you shouldn't miss again is the opportunity of smaller profits and a chance to double up. My guess is that you bought at $10K where many traders were taking profits, and many influencers were telling you to buy as price would go vertical. Without trying to judge you, I am sure that you sold at the bottom, probably at $5k, validating the first rule of trading: Buy high, Sell low.

Sadly for humanity, the universe does not revolve around humanity. Humans are an insignificant part of time and space. Balance has to do with physics in cosmos, patterns and symmetries, and not with the population of our species on planet Earth. We are so vulnerable that we can be extinct in a few decades after a major catastrophe occurs.

For the next 10 years I am certain that Bitcoin will last and more people will be using it. It didn't exist in 2000 that's why it wasn't known.

Since you talk about it's price, as it is the only thing most care about, it will be directly impacted by adoption (demand). The supply and inflation are fixed, so it is only demand that affects price. Talks like "Bitcoin is not for everyone" aren't doing any good and I understand where they are aiming but they do more harm than help.
If demand is artificial then it will pump and dump, if demand is organic then we will see healthy market conditions and rise of price.

There are more things to consider than the market prices and lately it seems that ex-Bitconnect promoters are trying to use similar tactics to promote Bitcoin. I disagree with this marketing methodology of talking only about price and not utility. We haven't passed the point where everyone in the world understands how Bitcoin works, and we still have a lot of work to do informing them.

CBDC's will be financial slavery. I'd prefer to live as a nomad and have camels as medium of exchange than accept their use.

I've given my view of them a few months ago in this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5210116.msg53363115#msg53363115 .

We should not be happy about digitized national currencies but scared of them.

The bounty managers are getting rich out of your work.
Perhaps you will realize how you are being played all this time following bounties.
They are getting paid you don't.

Having participating in airdrops for a few years his channel airdrop detective was one of the worst during 2018-2019. He featured various airdrops which weren't paid as:
-Coin Island,
-Pngme,
-Correto,
-300-Fit,
-Dispatch,
-CINDX,
-Trustfeedback,
-O2O,
-INNOU,
-AIGO,
-Nestree,
-Navcoin,
-Want Marketplaces,
-Tok App
and probably dozens more, still I've deleted his telegram channels which was obviously full of bots (300.000 members...).

I took part in all his sponsored Airdrops and only got 1 which was not ever valued and not ever listed in an exchange.
Obviously wasn't going to participate in his bounties ever, as I stopped taking part in most airdrops because of the lack of seriousness by both projects and especially by the failure of doing due diligence from bounty hunters, which treat bounty members basically as slaves.

Taking part in a few bounties under certain individuals was a terrible experience and basically I would advise everyone to stop doing bounties as:
1) You will not earn anything
2) You will spent time promoting scams
3) You will be treated unfairly and improper
4) The bounty manager will get paid - You won't

A job as most don't/won't have one.

I think I remember Ripple giveaways happening since 2017 in youtube. Although not at this frequency.
Lately many active youtubers had their accounts hacked, changed name and used for this scam. Probably it is lucrative for the scammers, although the wallets they provide might display many fake transactions made by them, to lure people thinking it is legit giveaways.

Trading actually is quite different from what you have pictured in your brain. Day trading is 99% done with leveraged options. Judging by your post it is obvious you don't know that traders don't buy and sell, but they bet on the price going up or down. This is going long or going short.
Since you don't know what shorting is, you have a lot to learn. Try making a test account in some of the trading sites that allow this just to find out the options available.

You are probably lucky you didn't find that e-bike as you would have lost 20% profits.
Depending on the type of bicycle profit can vary between $50-500


To the OP again:
The way I see it, you will rebuy 0.335BTC with the same amount of cash.

Actually that's exactly what they should be doing. Any major network may have law implications and have to pay hefty fines (in the case of Google billions) if they display any misleading or scam advertisment. Besides being forced by the law to accept only clear and legal advertisments it is actually a honest approach. It would actually be unrealistic not to thoroughly research the validity of the companies they advertise, as it is for any major tv network, or social media.

If you were in dire need of cash, I guess you are excused.
Personally I wouldn't advice anyone to cash out now though. I would especially advice not to panic and not to sell after a 40-50% dip. It is not different this time.The fundamentals have not changed and Bitcoin is still working exactly as it was supposed to.
Hopefully you will be able to recover financially soon and buy again without having missed out a lot.

Prayers might help raise morale, but mostly it is our actions that will help us overcome this obstacle.
Everyone must do their part to flatten the curve and allow our health system deal with this problem with ease.

Most of the mining is done through excess energy produced mostly by "green" energy sources. The carbon footprint of Bitcoin is probably a lot lower from what some services provide, as they use the average carbon footprint for the industrial sector. These results are not scientific correct.