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How many times bitcoin was said it is dead? After more than 10 years and many times like that, Bitcoin is Bitcoin, it is here. It is not dead and will never be dead.

Bitcoin is not a scam coin. Never. People who are scammers can try to abuse bitcoin, its name, to scam investors but Bitcoin is bitcoin and not a shit coin or scam coin.

Bitcoin is a scam to those people who are that knowledgeable to this technology but to us who are more inclined with it, ofcourse we value its advantages more than them. People often call it as "fraud" or scam because it does not meet their expectations of easy profit. We all know here that the market value is naturally volatile, thus profit is not always guaranteed especially during bear market situations. The situation nowadays are quite not the same but there are differences already.
More companies are accepting cryptos as mode of payment which establishes trust in this technology.And also, there are still issues being observed by other governments to not adapt to such technology.

When BTC was launched people were busy speaking that this is a new techniques of scammers, when gradually it started to grow they said it's a new technology let's see how it goes.

After all when it went over the moon in 2017, all started worrying. This is nothing new people are always there to speak negative of every stuff, it's always better to research on our own and plan accordingly rather than trusting others.

There really is no intelligent argument which suggests the Bitcoin is a scam. Lack of understanding of a particular technology does not mean it is a scam, the only people who hold and spread this fud are the government and probably others who regret not buying bitcoins, and PayPal adoption of cryptocurrencies would not change this idea. There is a chance it would help educate those who do not fully understand Bitcoin technology, but these profit oriented companies would give the version of Bitcoin they want their customers to know, a centralized payment system, which is as convenient as managing fiat.
Most people and establishments have been relatively skeptical about bitcoin, as is natural with any new technology especially a monetary software system which functions as an alternative to the norm.

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One of the issues with adoption of Bitcoin by centralized platforms, is that it can be dropped very easily should a government launch their CBDC, and users who only adopt Bitcoin when it is convenient would as easily switch to operating the blockchain fiat

It's still somewhat true. People calling bitcoin a scam and a ponzi scheme are still around especially on Facebook, and also, I actually have relatives that look down on my interests and investments because they think I'm taking part in a pyramid scheme lmao. Though one thing's for sure, they're slowly but surely getting less. Unfortunately there are a lot of people that call bitcoin a scam solely because they're bitter that they missed out on the gains.

Illegal and scam are different things. No one controls or could individually modify bitcoin, while anyone can join in mining and trading it. It's obviously not a scam. As of claim of bitcoin to be some sort of ponzi or pyramid scheme, we need to first realize that bitcoin is one of the most distributed currency. Not a single person have large enough of them to individually manipulate market. Though there are whale movements in every financial sector, bitcoin is much more distributed than any stocks or fiat.

remember that Paypal/crypto thing now assures nothing so far and we have to meet halfway before believing everything that it is a Adoption coming or ETC.

Paypal is yes a popular online Money but not all its users will trust Bitcoin or other altcoins so it will take time to be felt by everyone inside cryptoworld.
yeah i think OP is exaggerating here about in title it is Scam and then it was Illegal and two different thing.

If I read you correctly are you implying that once a central bank digital currency is going to be implemented that would be the end of bitcoin? What do you mean that (bitcoin) can be dropped very easily? No CBDC can replace the very characteristics which make bitcoin and its protocol special. CBDC will be an entry in a SQL database

Bitcoin is a decentralized currency worldwide.
Those who think bitcoin is a scam and not legalized in any where in the world, are  those who don't know anything about BTC. Many thought bitcoin will not last more than 5years  which bitcoin is more than 9 years now and it is dominating all over the world to assist all bitcoin community to grow and develop their businesse.
Cryptocurrency has improved in another danmention by introduce PayPal account that got many that though cryptocurrency is a scam to them. Cryptocurrency is not a scam and it will never be a scam to crypto users because  most of the users took their time to do some research about cryptocurrency that make them believed  that cryptocurrency can never be scam any where in the world.
Those who is getting it wrong with crypto currency are those who don't have any idea concerning cryptocurrency.