Even though I am in bitcoin world a lot, I would have to say bank is more comfortable right now. You do not wait for transfers, you do not pay for transfers, you could wire almost all around the world, and it is accepted everywhere you go and pay with the card bank gives you. Bitcoin still has a long way to, it would never be as debt oriented as banks, but at the same time we need to reach to a point where it is much faster and much cheaper to do transactions, also it is not accepted in many places, most of the time you have to pay with fiat, because almost no place accepts crypto payments.

Maybe not everything has to be a pattern, I get that sometimes it does feel like a pattern to do something like that but there are also times when it is totally random and has nothing like that at all? Four year cycle has become some sort of pattern so far, and we will see if it is like that again. If the price starts to go up about around late October or somewhere in November, be higher than ATH by the end of the year or start of the new year, and then peak at around spring of 2025, then that means it did exactly what people assumed that it would do, and that would be the most important part. I think that's the one that decides it all.

We are a bit responsible for it, I mean not exactly my generation but even elder generation is the one that is actually the responsible one but we couldn't stop it neither, we just let it happen, we tried but couldn't stop at times. The real reason is not gambling at all, the real reason is that we have made the younger generation lose hope that they could one day have financial freedom. They are aware that no matter how hard they work, they will not be as rich as their parents, and certainly not even close to their grandparents. The days of having one person in the family working and then buying a house and changing cars every 5 years and going to vacation for a month every year and sending the kids to best schools, all of that is gone. Hell, if I go to a two day weekend trip, I would be in debted for a month at least, maybe more depending on where I would go. This caused younger generation to look for shortcuts, and they saw gambling is rigged, but so is economy, so they hoped for a better result when gambling.

Market capacity is not a good criterion for judging any cryptocurrency as good or bad, or at least a good or bad investment.

This is not true. If the arrangement is important, it can easily be manipulated (which is what will happen). If you create a currency with a total supply of 10 million and succeed in selling 1 million of them at a price of 100 dollars, its market value will rise to 100 million dollars, while the truth is that it is 10 million dollars of investments, so market capacity is a wrong measure for ranking cryptocurrencies.

That is just for newly founded things, this is ETC, you can't do that. To be able to do what you are talking about, there needs to be some low amount of liquidity, preferably none at all. If I create a token with 10 trillion coins, and sell you one of them for 1 dollars, I have technically 1 trillion dollars worth of coins. But if you are ETC, you can't do that because millions of it is being traded as we speak, there is a limit to it. That "fake the value" thing can be done only at very very few tiny coins and tokens, not at high ranked ones. ETC is big enough that it would matter if it would get a higher ranking.

It is true that there are a lot of people who are not entirely doing what they should be doing and instead doing things that are a little bit... how shall I put this, weirdly? Some volatility is fine and crypto has always been a volatile place but the reality is that we have seen it change a lot, there are now some coins that go %90+ down, like memecoins for example and there is this feeling or at least trust in people that it will go beyond ATH again, which is really weird and could happen for a few of them, namely maybe for doge. This type of huge volatility wasn't around even for crypto, something like %60-70 down and then x3-x4 higher, that was the biggest we saw.

The only thing that might confuse people is that during the bull run, some airdrops could worth something because people hype things out of nowhere. So something like a shitcoin or a meme project could suddenly get a lot of attention and a lot of funding, and plenty of people investing into it after release, which could make your airdrop worth a lot. However, this confuses people a lot because they think that it can be done that way and it would be a good idea, when in reality that's actually quite rare that it would happen, so we should stay away from it as much as we possibly could. I get that some may enjoy the idea, but its not really possible most often.

It has happened to me once before, but I do not know if that one is true or not because I just checked my binance account as well and there were no messages like that from the system at all. Doesn't mean its wrong, if you saw this on the website itself and you are certain that its the correct website then maybe they are rolling it it in batches of accounts instead of all, but make sure that you are on the same website. Because if that's a phishing website that is trying to take your deposit, that could be a very risky move, make sure the website is correct. All in all, like mentioned before, your old one will keep coming to you probably, you can test that out with a small amount.