no offense but it seems to me like you are bag holding a bunch of dead altcoins that you want to see pumped. and for that you want others to make the effort. not to mention that even if a developer picked up a dead altcoin and started working on it, that still wouldn't guarantee any pumps because the pumps happen in coordination with pumpers and nothing else.

ps. if the project was half decent then it wouldn't have needed help in first place!

nobody in the community cares about this event because it is very flawed, verging on idiotic.
it is one thing to tell newbies not to "store" their coins with third parties when they don't control the keys, but it is another to tell "everyone" including traders to stop trading and pull their coins out of exchanges for no reason!
it is like telling everyone not to go out of the house because they may have a car accident!!!

haha, you are a victim of some fake news on the internet so far as you even wrote an article on your website... it is so easy to take credit for something that has happened in the past. and that is what they are doing right here. the price stopped and naturally there was a stronger buy support there and now someone is trying to take credit.

it is a little odd because i was expecting the "handshake" to be more strict like how TCP handshake (SYN, ACK packets exchange before any data is exchanged) is strict.

interesting. i have not encountered this yet, they all seem to be waiting for my verack after sending the 3 messages.

all i have to do is to send the "version" message and the other node (v. 0.19.0.1) sends 3 messages: version+verack (as expected) alongside an alert message which seems strange because i have not yet sent any verack messages back to complete the handshake.
is alert a special case or does it happen with other messages too?

i am also wondering why bitcoin core nodes can't recognize a message if it has preceding garbage bytes (random bytes before the magic) but they are fine if it is after it. what's the point of magic then if it isn't used as the message start marker?

it seems like a good service. do you know what kind of fee they are charging (or maybe adding on top of their prices silently)? i've checked a couple of their prices and it seems like it is higher by about 1.8% to 1.9% compared to prices on Binance for the same coins.

for starters people who make a lot of noise are not "influential people", they are just noisy people. and your list is basically a compilation of those who have made a lot of noise over the past year. of course there are some popular names in there such as Elon Musk but i wouldn't categorize him as a "crypto experts, influential person".
and of course the biggest attention whore is also in that list, McAfee. i wonder if he is still trying to scam people with his altcoin advertisement and pumps?

i am not familiar with any of these you mentioned here and you didn't provide any link for further information, but if you are really interested in what these projects were designed to do and IF you think there is some potential then it would be best if you started a new project from scratch rather than trying to breathe life back into a corpse.

i would to see a separate board for Lightning Network (both technical discussion and clients) but i think it is  way too soon to create it since there aren't that much topics on the subject and most of the topics that already exist (like the ones you posted here) should still remain where they are like the one in beginners and help board or the Electrum related topic.

it is a downward spiral for this exchange that were surprisingly number one at some point. as it has been losing popularity and volume and as the result revenue, they don't have any means of paying anything to their users that got screwed over by their platform. Poloniex has been past their expiration date for a long time now.

from one scam exchange to another

they may create more incentive to manipulate the bitcoin price in the market but they are not the ones responsible for the manipulation. the market participants are!

not to mention that all these manipulations and "keeping the price down" is not a new thing for bitcoin. it has existed long before any of CME or Bakkt existed and will exist after them too. the market is still small, exchanges not-trustworthy and on top of all that the market is filled with a lot of weak hands that are so eager to press the big red button of panic sell or panic buy that intensifies all the big drops and rises in bitcoin. consequently when we see a big panic sell with a big drop like these days, that will be followed by a long period of price staying down for many reasons including fear and accumulation.

as i said the first time they started this "proof of keys" thing, it is the most nonsense social drama ever. the basis of it is good though, when it says "if you don't own the keys, you don't own bitcoin" but the fact that it keeps encouraging people to withdraw from exchanges on a certain date for instance, is pure nonsense and if people were to comply it will actually hurt the market as it would increase the volatility by a lot since it thins the order books and lets the whales manipulate the market so much easier!
for example if people made a withdrawal because of proof of keys nonsense today, we may see price either shoot up to $15k or drop to $5k since it would be easy and cheap to push it in that direction. of course it will come right back to its previous level as all the coins that were withdrawn would be deposited back if not more!

you see, if you are trading then you have no other choice but leave your coins in open orders that you want to be filled on exchanges. and you can't single out one exchange and say this one is scam. they are all horrible. from the biggest and most trusted ones like Coinbase and Binance down to the worst one like Yobit are all the same when it comes to scamming their users. they can do the same exact thing and guess what they have been doing it!

well you are not the first person to fail in trading bitcoin and lose money then end up trying to find someone else to blame for their losses. but you are the first one that is linking it to decentralization, probably because you don't understand what being decentralized really means.
all the market manipulations and the things that led to your losses have nothing to do with bitcoin being decentralized, they are all stemming from the fact that there are a lot of people who don't understand what bitcoin is, and how its market works but they still want to trade it and only trade it. so the result is a lot of weak hands that could be easily manipulated and cause the wild market swings that lead to a lot of losses for the same people.

usually when you give bitcoin as a gift to someone, you should think of it as giving them some "money to spend" not an "investment to hodl"! with that view, your concern becomes moot so far as the paper wallet that is being gifted could even have an "expiration date", meaning a date where the gifter keeps the private key so that he can reclaim the coins back if they weren't spent already.

after all the point of giving away bitcoin should be to help people become more familiar with bitcoin, and their first act could be creating a new wallet and sweeping the key they received as gift. and the second thing would hopefully be to spend the coins just as they spend fiat.

(i agree that the creation steps should become safer though)

i can't think of any reason that could make version* 0 P2PKH addresses obsolete but not affect version** 0 P2WPKH addresses (the bech32 address you have in mind). apart from transaction serialization for signing and the final transaction and obviously the scripts they use exactly the same. the use the same hash algorithm and the same signature scheme (ECDSA over secp256k1).
if some day bitcoin stops supporting version 0 P2PKH addresses, surely it will stop supporting version 0 P2WPKH also.

* version here is the version byte added to the beginning of the hash160 result and the address sometimes is referred to as version one address although the version used is actually 0
** version here is the witness program version

these two suggestions aren't particularly good.
for starters the site is a site so it is unsafe to use, so he has to run the copy source code offline even then it is still a rather unpopular project (compared to the similar project bitaddress.org) and is using JavaScript which isn't known for its security!
as for  Coinomi, it is a closed source wallet which i wouldn't recommend to anybody unless they have no other choice which isn't the case here.

that would be a very weird strategy to sell one thing that is going down and hold others that are going down even faster or harder! if he has indeed sold any bitcoins that he might have held, then he has surely sold any of the airdrops that he had gotten due to owning bitcoin.
one possibility though could be that he got into those altcoins recently hoping for them to pump as bitcoin starts seeing some positive rises consistently and these altcoin dumps also comes close to being over.

the problem is with his messages and his wallet about how it defines the "new lines". normally new line is defined as being "\r\n" which is what all those tools use but his wallet (Mycellium) is defining new line as a "\n" and if you replace the new line with that the message could be successfully verified.
this would be the hex of his message:

you seem to be way out of loop with the market

the "cheap coins season" that you mentioned started about a year ago when the dumps of the very same small cap coins ended while the bigger altcoins were still being dumped. the pumpers have been pumping these small shitcoins ever since. not a day goes by without some coin with a value of from 0.01 satoshi to 1000 satoshi gets pumped big time.

none of it has anything to do with bitcoin though. and don't link other altcoins to bitcoin just because they are ranked in an arbitrary list right below bitcoin. there is no connection. right now bitcoin is in sideways market leading towards some accumulation while altcoins are still in dumping mode.

you are confusing a shitcoin pump with devs picking up a project!
here is the link to the source code of the project: https://github.com/dextrocoin/dextro it only has 2 commits
and the entire contribution of the creator over the past year has been only 7 times (including joining GitHub) https://github.com/dextrocoin lol.
if you check the forks there are none that did anything, they just copies. so you can't really say "devs" picked it up when there is no development being done whatsoever.

what you are looking at is a simple pump and dump group picking up a random altcoin (not dead) that has a value less than 100 sataoshi, then pump it at least 1000% within a week on average. then the downward spiral as the pumping group pulls out.
it happens almost every day with a different altcoin!

it is because the website you have been advertising for a while now, is not popular at all to attract anybody from the "community" to go there and write a review, additionally this project you happened to stumble upon to post/advertise your link is way too young, small and unpopular for anybody to have used it let alone have any reviews about it.