these two are contradictory
you held an ICO and got people's moneyz and now you are saying it doesn't need people's moneyz.

and the project looks more like a joke than anything else, specially since you keep advertising it on bitcointalk on your own.

maybe you forgot to read what they are telling you to the end! or maybe they are idiots who are telling you just to HODL.

the correct way is to hold if you are not a trader or if you are not comfortable with trusting all these shady exchanges out there! but both strategies are viable as long as you know what you are doing not just blindly HODLing or blindly selling while prices are falling or dump just because you heard some FUD!

no.

no. if you like doing that then do it. that is your strategy but you can't say it is better than other strategies or worse than others. it just is A strategy.

as the bold part above.... if you don't know what you are doing then yeah you are gambling.

the start day trading and at the same time accept the risk that some day the exchange you are using to day trade can decide it is time to scam its users and takes all your money. in which case your coins fall to 0% because you lose all of them

the only challenge that i can think of which really matters is adoption. and that is not something you can fix, it is something that is fixed on its own with time.
as time goes by more people find out about bitcoin and more of them start using it. some are merchants and some are users and they all make the ecosystem grow.

this is not really a tough time that bitcoin is facing, it is mainly the newbie investors who are facing the tough time instead. when people don't know what is going on in bitcoin market this is what happens.
for the rest of the investors this has only been a golden opportunity to buy cheaper coins and end up a bigger BitcoinHodler.

that is what happens to all the pump and dump altcoins. they finally go down to their real value at some point. they may get pumped a couple of times more  because the "death" of an altcoin does not happen overnight specially when they are this big but it is inevitable.

add to that the fact that the supply of ETH is out of hand at this point and the sell pressure is great and increasing day by day thanks to the no cap thing, then you  can see why it is truly dropping hard.

let's do a challenge
and i invite others to join also. we can be two groups.

one group will HODL bitcoin and call that "portfolio" and only trade altcoins for short term by joining their pumps and dump them before they get dumped.
and the other group HODL their bags of altcoins and call it "portfolio"

then lets see who will be worth more in long term. we can start with $1000 worth of investment.

you can never predict bitcoin by looking at its charts and not even with doing technical analysis. it may give you some guidelines for the possible futures but it won't tell you what will happen exactly to the number.

price will rise and we will see another huge rise followed by a big bubble at some point but when and how much of it is not something we can predict. the same way nobody could ever tell you by the end of 2017 price of BTC would be $20k!

by the way this is altcoin speculation board not bitcoin.

that is the list of a bunch of altcoins that are known to have big pumps. so it is a safe bet to say that they will be pumped once again at some point in the near future. and when the article is saying it at this point where the dumping is at its peak he has a lower chance of being wrong about it too.

this is not a real speculation and they don't have any real future. coins like Ripple, etc are pure pump and dump and their pumping days won't last forever. at some point people are going to move on.

because people believe in the future of bitcoin and because bitcoin is the only thing that matters. it is the only cryptocurrency which is not just carrying the word "currency" around but it actually performs as one too. because bitcoin has limited supply and a small supply and a lot of other reasons.

in comparison other coins like eth have huge supplies with no cap and no usage and nobody believes in their future apart from a bunch of bag holders.

NEO can have a huge pump and get there so much faster than litecoin can. so there is a good chance that NEO gets there faster and first. but that will only happen if it gets the big pump, otherwise it will never happen.

but LTC can simply get there as bitcoin comes back to life after a while and rise up with it. and LTC is rising anyways and it has been sometime since it had a pump. so it has 2 different reasons for getting pumped and reaching $1k.

no NEVER invest during the drops of the altcoin market. because altcoins are different from anything else and different from bitcoin.

in other markets when the prices fall, it will recover at some point unless that asset is dead or something. in case of altcoins they are already dead but rise and fall too. so when they drop, they may never recover.

you should only invest when the prices of these altcoins are starting to rise. and that is obviously not now.

finally the inevitable doom of ethereum started

supply and demand is a very serious matter for all the altcoins out there which people don't take seriously most of the times. altcoins with a smaller supply will always soar better than the coins like eth which have an enormous supply.

for some reason which i will never understand, some people will always call bitcoin a "bubble" no matter what happens with it. my best guess is that they always want to see bitcoin at a lower price as long as they are buying more of it so they try to convince everyone else not to buy. they know the smart money don't listen to them they just want to convince the masses for the time being while they accumulate!

kudos for the effort that you put into this but i honestly don't see the point of this topic, specially since you have multiple one of these wrong. there are already websites that keep track of these things and update regularly such as the wikipedia page on legality of bitcoin and the politics page in coin.dance

patterns like this exist but you can not really rely on them forever to make trades. there are a lot of situations when these patters are not true. for example now as bitcoin dropped and all the altcoins were dropping, there were some altcoins that were defying all the laws and were getting pumped.
that is the nature of manipulated market, you can not make patterns and certainly you should never follow them.

there are quite a number of altcoins which are so much better than Ethereum, specially when it comes to creating smart contracts (ICOs). but the problem is that since people don't know their names and since these coins like Waves are not hyped up as much, the ICO makers don't go to them for creating their tokens!
otherwise you are  correct, Waves and a couple of others have a lot of potential. they may not be the best and may even have flaws of their own but we won't know them until they are used more.

congratulations you just found the reason why this market is so terrible!

altcoins, tokens,... are only used for speculation, just as an investment and everyone wants to get rich from them. nobody cares about the technology, nobody cares enough to even read the white paper (not that it does much good), and in this market the shitcoins rule because those who know how to pump can make a coin the biggest possible!

unfortunately there is nothing we can do to avoid these situations.
there was some precautions to reduce the risk though. for example you should never leave your money on an exchange. withdraw as often as possible, although it makes everything a nightmare but it is a good thing.

enable 2 factor authentication.
if you have API keys, disable certain features that you don't want if the platform allows you. for example disable withdrawals, only allow making trades.

the problem starts from when FUDs become effective. at some point everyone starts liking them and doing the same. it is not about being true or not, and it is not just about certain terms. when a news about some regulation comes out and everyone sees a drop thanks to the FUD, next time automatically everyone starts dumping because they expect FUD and then a drop.

although this is a possibility but from what i see the chances of that happening is very low.
we are not in 2013 anymore and market is no longer as young as before. although it is still in its infancy i don't think we are going to see such a long (2 year) bear market now.

however we might see a huge altcoin dump pretty soon. because the dumps are getting severe enough to reach the alt panic sell stage where bag holders give up hope.