There are many reasons but one of the main reasons simply has to do for how a project has been in the market, many coins are copies of bitcoin, why those coins do not have an higher price, or why bitcoin price is not lower, and this is simple, bitcoin is original so despite the copies offering the same technology they are never going to compare with the original and this is why no coin has surpassed bitcoin in the market cap or the popularity among cryptocurrency users.

There is no problem for bitcoin to survive under those prices not long ago miners were mining for a bitcoin worth 600 dollars the price right now is above 6000, ten times that so yes they can easily survive even if the competition has gotten harder and the costs of electricity went up that is still a good price for the miners so do not worry too much about that, and the psychological impact of bitcoin below that price is not that great, we have seen bitcoin sometimes testing those levels and the price always bounces back.

Panic selling is one of the dumbest things an investor can do, if someone does that is because that person really did not took the time to look and study the market before investing, while I'm not the best and the most intelligent investor at least I knew why I was here in this market from the beginning so when the price began to crash I did not panic, I will not deny I was nervous but not enough to sell since I know the price will recover again and it will not be the right thing to do to sell now.

It is too soon to tell what it is going to happen, as many people may guess I think cryptocurerncies and bitcoin in particular are going to become successful but it is not a sure thing, we will need a series of events to happen at a particular time, for example the creation of bitcoin came at the perfect time when there was a huge economic crisis and people were looking for answers, now bitcoin is getting stronger and once it becomes used as a currency by more people we will need that a new crisis happens so the adoption of bitcoin grows exponentially.

While in some cultures that are very independent going back to live with your parents is a sign of failure, if you are that indebted then you need to move with them right now instead of waiting for your debts to be so big that you will need to do it anyway, if you do that you will be able to save money in rent and utilities which are some of the biggest costs when you are living alone and from now on you need to cut expenses as much as possible so you can pay your debts as fast as you can.

Many people seem unable to understand this concept they do not understand that the biggest profits are not made when there are clear signs the market is going up, if you do that you will be lucky to obtain any kind of profits, the real profits are made right now when the price is going down or when the price reaches some stability, then the only thing you need to do is to wait for the price to go up, this is the most difficult part since we will probably need a few years for the price to recover.

Bitcoin is not anonymous to being with, you can create a wallet and receive bitcoin without giving away your identity but if you ever try to cash out you will have to connect your identity to an address and all the transactions ever made to that address, so no, that is not going to be enough to kill bitcoin, that is something governments are going to try to use to at first to impose regulations to bitcoin then to ban it and finally when bitcoin beats them despite the ban they will legalize it in name even if at that point people will not care about the ban.

Governments only made worse the next crisis that is all, we were suffering from a reduction in banks loans to other banks due to the real estate bubble and the fact banks did not trust that other banks could repay their loans, so the government injected money to the banks, the problem is that money did not came from savings or taxes it was just printed, this created a huge expansion in the currency supply and after the crisis governments keep printing money with the hope of stimulating the economy, now governments are indebted and when the next crisis happens there will be nothing else to do but to print their way out of their debts.

This is a difficult question to answer because you do not give any context, if the coin in which I invested is a coin that I think has future and a recent development has happened that justifies that kind of growth I will probably keep holding my coins since this could be the beginning of a bull run for that coin, but if there is no justification for that movement then it is likely I will decide to sell my coins since that kind of growth could be the product of a pump and dump group.

The people that lost money during the fall of bitcoin either bought bitcoin when it was really expensive or they were traders that were not able to predict when the price was going to go down, in any case the most important thing they need to do is to get more education since those mistakes could only have happened due to inexperience and ignorance since anyone that took the time to take a good look at the price knew we were in the middle of a bubble.

The price of cryptocurrencies can go down at any moment due to its volatility but the technology of bitcoin is only improving and nothing more, so the volatility is mostly caused by speculation and the manipulation of some powerful entities but bitcoin as a technology goes in only one direction and that is up and this is the main reason of why I think cryptocurrencies will last for a lot of time because even if the price crashed bitcoin will still give a valuable service to the community with its ability to send money all over the world with cheap fees without the need of a third party enforcing their rules.

A greater degree of adoption will surely decrease the volatility of the market but at the same time we cannot hope to eliminate it, the volatility of bitcoin is going to be with us for a very long time since there are some factors that make more volatile, like the great accumulation of coins the whales posses and that no matter the price of bitcoin in fiat they can still move the market as much as when bitcoin was still very cheap and not only that it seems that each time there is a crash the whales use this to get bigger and not smaller.

The market of futures is having an effect on the price of bitcoin that is undeniable but the dump by mtgox had an even bigger effect in my opinion and the fact we know they have many more coins to sell is affecting the market since anyone with some common sense knows that a bigger supply of coins in the market will make the price to go down so everyone is waiting for the moment the dump of coins resumes so they can get cheap coins, so the price will only recover once the dumps are over.

This market does in fact offers opportunities to make money fast if you enter in the market at the right time and have the right skills and knowledge to take advantage of it, but that is not easy at all and you are a little bit dependent on your luck, for example, last year the market grew in an incredible way so someone investing at the beginning of the previous year and selling at the end made a fortune but in order to have such a perfect timing you will need to be a very good trader and that can only be gotten through experience.

Panic is the greatest profit killer, while many people talk about all kind of methods to make money the truth is that if you do not have complete control over your emotions at the end it is not going to matter what kind of method you are trying to use like short term trading or long term holding you are going to lose your money, this is why people need to understand very well why they are in this market if they do they have a chance to make money if they don't then they will lose money for sure when they panic.

There are many useful books out there but the problem is that trading is one of those things what you can only learn by doing, in a way it is very similar to ride a bicycle, you may read a hundred books about how to ride a bicycle and you may learn a lot from them but at the end the only way to learn how to ride a bicycle is by actually doing it and the same is true about trading, this is why I always recommend for people to first invest a very low sum of money that they do not mind losing so they can get some experience at a low cost.

Many people complain about the manipulation going on the market but one thing I always wonder is why people only complain of the manipulation when the price goes down? If there is such a big manipulation of the price as they say then this also happens when the price goes up and yet no one cares about it because at that point they are earning money but they do care when the manipulation brings the price down since now they are losing money, this show to us how little people care about the market since they only care about themselves and their own profits.

News have a great effect on the people but at the same time this effect is amplified by the ignorance of people, how many people invest in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies not really understanding what this market is about, they just care about the money and a person like that is the one at the greatest risk of losing everything since at the first sign of problems he will begin to doubt his decisions and will sell his coins, while those that know very well why they are here have no problem holding despite the losses.

The volatility is fine for people like us that are willing to deal with it and the same is true for speculators that in fact love the volatility but if we want that bitcoin is used in the future then we will need to volatility to be a lot lower so the average person can use it and feel sure that the price is not going to crash overnight, this is going to take some time but I'm sure this is something bitcoin can reach in the next decades as people discover the other great advantages that bitcoin offers over fiat.

I knew the developers were making tests but I did not knew that if you were an advanced user you could play around with it, that is great I will look into it but I will admit I'm not that familiar with technical stuff either, there have been many criticism for the lightning network but most of them come from the miners who as we know have an interest that things moved in another direction, but fortunately the superior option over the table won and when we can finally sen transactions for a low fee in an almost instantaneous way and bitcoin can handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second then bitcoin will be ready for full adoption.