This is such an easy thing to overlook, especially to new people getting into crypto. We hear so many stories about sites getting hacked that its not worth the risk, personally I store mine using a ledger nano s and it works perfectly for my use case

Bitcoin massively surpassed all our expectations when it hit $20k, maybe its now finding its true value? I believe it has potential but it's a long game that we'll need to play if we're in it for investment gains (which let's face most of us are!). I still think long term it'll rise it just needs to battle this uncertainty we have at the minute, it's so volatile. Imagine if the ETF got approved, then it'd rocket!

People looking towards the future is 1 thing, how can we move away from these centralised systems we rely on some much and take back some ownership. The other in my opinion is just FOMO, people saw the heights it reached over christmas last year and now don't want to miss out on the "next big thing"

Hacking is the main concern, its always best to keep your funds in hard or cold storage, that way you have full control over them and they're not prone to hacks or security breaches. I personally keep a small amount in coinbase but the majority of my funds are stored using the Ledger Nano S

Totally, its the reason why companies market people, people sell their products. I see this as a good thing, the more exposure we get the more Bitcoin can grow

Can you imagine if it was worthless? He's one brave person to put his house on the line like that, fair play to him though, he's rich now!

Just continue to hodl for me, I was fortunate enough to get in back in January 2017 when prices were comparatively low, as it stands I'm no longer looking to invest anymore so i'm just going to hodl and see what happens

For a complete Newbie I'd have to say stick with Coinbase, when any of my friends ask about buying them I point them in that direction. It's an easy entry point and the app is pretty easy to get up and running, once they'er familiar you can then look into other options like LocalBitcoins/Coinfloor

Not used one myself but if you want to be completely anonymous you could use a Bitcoin ATM, I believe you just need a wallet address. You can find a list here - https://coinatmradar.com/, other option is to buy them locally and in person from someone. Personally I've used Bittylicious which has worked well, you do need to verify your identify though

If you believe in bitcoin then any time is a good time to invest. My advice would be to average the buys out over a week and buy 20% each day, that way you're not locking into a fixed price and can guard yourself against sharp drops

If true that’s excellent news! We just need some more big companies to start adopting it and then bitcoin will begin to take off!

Bad news scares people and sells better, they’re just manipulating for their own gain. It’s difficult because it’s hard not to pay attention to the media when it’s part of our daily lives, best way is to just take everything with a pinch of salt

I’d say both, bofh are investments and so diversification is important. Having a split between both means you’ll get the best of both worlds whilst minimising risk

Biggest thing for me is hype, the media love to hype things up so it’s best to take everything with a pinch of salt, I’m holding all my coins anyway so it doesn’t affect me, when the times right for me to sell I’ll sell, I won’t be dragged into any speculation

I hope so! I bought mine 18 months ago but ended up selling some, I really want to get back into the 21 million club, at the minute I only own half

Either a paper wallet or a hardware wallet. Personally I use the Ledger Nano S which is great, I can store the private keys for multiple different coins (with new ones being added regularly) and access them securely with the device. There's also Trezor which is very similar, I haven't used that one though so can't comment on how good it is, I know it gets good reviews though.

Basically you need something secure and durable (if going down the hardware route), if going with a paper/offline wallet then somewhere secure to store your private keys!

Luckily no, I’ve been quite lucky with mine, the majority of my coins I bought in January 2017, I was then able to sell half a bitcoin and recoup my whole investment whilst still holding lots of other coins, that felt pretty good

Offline wallets are the safest option but I personally use the ledger nano s because it allows me to store the private keys for multiple coins, important to remember that if you go down this route then you need to keep your backup codes in a safe place that no one else can access!

I’m currently part of the Pricvy airdrop and I’ve already received the coins from the first drop and I also received coins from the deep onion airdrop so I don’t think they’re all scams, the ones that are trying to solve a real problem and have good tech will be legit, the rubbish coins will be the scams

I love how much Switzerland are embracing crypto, this is great though, the more the ‘real world’ adopts it the More exposure bitcoin gets and the better it gets for us, the investors