Admins never DM first, never ask for money, never ask for private keys and so on. Remember this principle and people who know about this as well as are careful enough will not be scammed by impersonators.

The scam method you mentioned is quite common. It's IDN Homograph Attack.
Punycode Phishing attacks - how to stay safe - Spoofed URLs and fake websites!

Checking your addresses many times before broadcasting and finalizing your Bitcoin transactions.
How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V.

With Bitcoin, there are attacks like Address Poisoning Attacks and Dust Attacks which must be known by Bitcoin users.
Bitcoin Address Poisoning Attacks.
What are Address Poisoning Scams?
Dust Attack, what it is, why it is dangerous and how to prevent falling to it.

With Bitcoin, you only need Bitcoin mnemonic seed, private key to own your bitcoins, and fully access your coins as well as free to broadcast your Bitcoin transactions.

With Bitcoin, if you are your self custodian, you don't rely on any third party with 2FA, face verification like with banks or centralized exchanges. It's unnecessary and it's risky too.

With Bitcoin wallets for example Electrum, you can have 2FA wallet with 2FA is from TrustedCoin but you can always import the wallet mnemonic seed and disable 2FA if you no longer want to use it from Trustedcoin.

Remove 2FA in Electrum and use Standard Wallet instead.

It can be a physical or software issues so hot wallets basically are never safe to store big fund. If you store big fund on a phone, you will have trouble some time in the future like you lose it somewhere, it breaks down physically or it has technical issues or hacks, whatsoever issues. You can have problems with smart phones from all brands, not only iPhone from Apple so security-wise practice is the same for all phone brand companies.

Phones are more sensitive and vulnerable with technical, physical issues as well as online threats from hackers. Lastly, the advice is always store big fund in cold wallets and always have different wallet backups for a single wallet. Even it is a hot wallet on a phone, you must have different wallet backups and this practice is like a standard.

Experience with decentralized exchanges or casinos is always related to more fees in on chain transactions but if people consider that KYC is not what they want, as it is dangerous while their main priority is privacy and anonymity, web3 wallets and decentralized platforms would be their most favorite and even only choices.

Experience and practice with decentralized casinos, web3 casinos will also require interactions through smart contracts. It's dangerous and people must know the importance of revoking smart contract approval and access as well.
https://app.unrekt.net/

DuckDice has very bad reputation here. They got big issues in the past, and after very long time, they resolved those cases, then seemed to operate well for several months before they began to have problems with scam accusations again and tend to ignore those cases so again their reputation declines.

Pick tier 1 exchanges in lists given by Coinmarketcap or Coingecko but remember that centralized exchanges are dangerous for storing your bitcoins there.

Good hardware wallets must be non custodial and open source.
[LIST] Open Source Hardware Wallets

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3. I assume that when i send crypto to my hardware wallet, i use the wallet address ? so any wallet i choose this can be accomplished?
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To receive bitcoins, you have to let the sender knowing your Bitcoin public address. In HD wallet, there are many addresses and you can share one of those addresses to the sender.

Learn more about HD wallets.
https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/keys/hd-wallets/

Bitcoin blockchain has never been 51% attacked.

Cold wallets, and hardware wallets are cold ones.

It is untrue and I am not a fan of either Trump or the US. but I am tired of such liars from Putin and many propagandas from the Russia Federation.

Bitcoin does not have that power and even if Trump and the US want to devalue their national debt, Bitcoin is not able to help them achieving this. Let's deal with their national debt by doing many systematic and national policies to fix their country's problems. They can not hope that Bitcoin will fix many things for them including systematic and national issues.

By the way let's check the US national debt.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Customers first and all business must know this as well as put it on a top of their to-do things for serving customers.

In general, both business and customers must respect each other and treat each other well. Regarding to customers, they should not react emotionally, and be crudal agains any business, as such actions only escalating things quickly. We know "Business must treat customers first" but staffs are human and they can lose their controls anytime so customers must know it and have proper elegantly actions when contacting for support, whatsoever.

Ignoring customer complaints, accusations is bad as it is harmful for a business reputation.

The US government can deal with Coinbase, sign a contract with Coinbase and use Coinbase as their custodian but we individually should not try to do the same. Coinbase never intend to cheat the US. government in any national contract between the US government and Coinbase. They know what to do in order to keep their business and owners safe but with non-government customers, Coinbase can do differently.

I don't say Coinbase have already cheated or treated their individual customers bad but it's a principle for individual Bitcoin users and investors to keep in mind. This means you should not trust Coinbase and should not trust any other third party companies.

It is a bill introduction and it needs to be passed by the Congress through votes and this progress can fail at the end. I don't care about it, as it does not mean the USA governement will buy more bitcoins and no new buying force will appear from them. There is a limited effect by they will no longer sell those seized bitcoins if the Bill approved in the future, which we are uncertain now.

Coinbase can be their custodian but I hope that people don't immediately choose Coinbase as where they store bitcoins after reading this news. The US. governement can choose Coinbase but as individual investors and even institutional investors, go with self custodial wallets and be your own custodians is best.

Reminder: do not keep your money in online accounts

It is not simply spending money for marketing and harvest results quickly but it requires long term business operation and marketing. Whilst marketing itself can not help if the company doss not build up good platform and services, customer cares for users.

Marketing is something on top and can make quick noise and even impression or attraction but to gain success, foundation of a business is more important but marketing and time will help to amplify that brand appearance and exposure to community, then help the brand development or even explosion if it goes viral.

If you consider profit from investment is part of your income, Bitcoin can bring passive income. It is a term and can be used depexently on each person's view. I don't think it is too important to have an agreement on which term is correct, which term is inaccurate.

I consider Bitcoin profit as my income and it does not mean I don't have to work. Buying, holding and securing my wallets and wallet backups are sort of works so it passive income for me.

With government, they surely consider it as capital gain as they enforce Capital Gain Tax on us.

It is non sense as from 2009 to 2025, how many generations exposed to Bitcoin and actually participated in Bitcoin community and market. I think it is two generations at least if not up to three generations and if Bitcoin has been successfully survived through two or three generations, it has been strong enough to move onwards to more future generations.

With time, Lindy effect will make Bitcoin stronger and has better survivalability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

This Lindy effect works with other things and will work with Bitcoin too.

Learn for knowledge first before doing your investment. Some people can invest money in Bitcoin without any learning but it is not recommended as this blind investment practice makes their mentality very weak. In this volatile market, lack of knowledge will lead to uncertainty and in most volatile times, such blind investors will more likely have weak hands, then sell bitcoins for losses.

By learning first, getting knowledge, people get good foundation for their investment start as well as long journey. It is helpful for them to avoid panic when market has tests aim at unknowledgeable, weak-handed and inexperienced investors. If they are well-prepared in knowledge, they are good to go through market tests and strongly aim at profitable investment result.

In a high competitive industry, running your gambling business for one year but this casino has been doing this for five years with mass success. There are times they received critics but overal they have gone through five years very well and at the moment, their reputation is quite good. It is a good mark from community that is most important for any business.

It's harder than simply spend money for marketing in short term and by gaining good recognition from the user community, forum community and maintain good reputation in five years, Chips.gg has already made their good brand here as well as in gambling industry.

What's free knowledge you shared here, honestly?

It's whether they want to learn or not. If they want to learn, they are surely able to learn it as it is not too hard for learning. Oppositely, if they don't want to learn, it does not mean they are not able to learn.

You said like you are careful and experienced but your story means you were careless and ignored many advice like the others. You ignored warnings, practiced like don't see risk of centralized exchanges before your account gets problems and you struggled to withdraw your fund.

Where did you share your story and problem with Kucoin exchange?
I'd like to read more details on it.

I don't know it is actually good as scammers tried another way with their exploitation on Taproot with Ordinals and Runes Protocol. These shit tokens on BRC20 actually attracted many unknownledgeable, inexperienced but over greedy people who spent a lot of money for ORDI and RUNEs as well as other shit tokens with hope of x100, x1000. Eventually they lost big with those shit and useless tokens on BRC20.

Scammers won't stop and they can move around to be adaptive with newest trend technically for launching new scam projects with highest chance of successful scams. They no longer create Bitcoin forks as they see this trend gone and they can not succeed with new forks.

Altcoins die, shitcoins die, meme tokens die but Bitcoin will continue to be strong and alive in this market. Choosing Bitcoin is a best choice you can make for your investment portfolio in this cryptocurrency market. It's like you pick the golden investment asset among thousands of useless and scam assets (altcoins).

The advice of picking Bitcoin, or even only Bitcoin for an investment portfolio is very common, but unfortunately most of newbies ignore Bitcoin and decide to invest in shitcoins.

How many cryptocurrencies have failed (dead coins)?

Hold it in your cold storage.
Hold it in your open source, non custodial wallet.
Hold it in a wallet that you already made wallet backups and test wallet backups for recovery.

DON'T hold it on centralized exchanges, in custodial wallets.
Reminder: do not keep your money in online accounts.

Governments are far from making Bitcoin legal tender globally and even if they want to try with Bitcoin legal tender, the actual acceptance and usage in societies would be something different that is not controlled by governments. It's natural and social selection and people as citizens of a nation and in the world have freedom to make their choices and decisions.

In my opinion it is too unrealistic for global Bitcoin legal tender to go into effects and actually used by all people and companies on this planet. Bitcoin adoption will grow up more, exponentialy too but I disbelive in any future with Global Bitcoin Legal Tender.

You can store your cash, gold at home in personal vaults or basements, anywhere you think secure and safe, but it's what you think and I agree that storing those things at home is very risky. Your home can be damaged by water, fire, explosion or natural catastrophe which can knock your house anytime. Storing them in banks is even not completely secure as there are reported bank heists in history.

Generally, one more thing to say no with this method, it is too cumbersome.

In contrast, storing bitcoin is not cumbersome and it is truly easy, flexible, portable and more.

The bullish case for Bitcoin.