Bitcoin is not in competition with Gold and I understand you will describe Gold to have done better though they dont any platform of competition. Bitcoin was design to link with main event and that had shown is relevance in use but I dont understand the type of exchange (decentralized or centralized) affect the price of bitcoin. The pandemic crisis comes once in long while and no project will define itself to handle such crisis but bitcoin IMO had done so well to pick from the dump in short period.

Binance had been a trailblazer with some feature of its exchange coin, most exchange are now adopting most of the use. its strong, reliable and productive utility for token in the space, exchange coin has one of the ability for manipulation as well. Binance burning of token had been very effective in managing token price and coin scarcity. The sentiment of exchange token had improved over time, which makes it enjoy the high volume trade.

Why the percentage of scam might have increase is the reduction in IEO/ICOs as a whole. Smart bounty managers that can analyse project and detect scam are virtually inactive, so the available bounties are mostly handled by inexperienced bounty managers. Asides the fact that they cant recognize scam they also dont know how to strike a deal with good reward, cant have token in there custody or hand it over to escrow. They are also push around by bounty participants with bad decisions.

Whenever i see the prediction of over 100k+, whereby expecting worse senerio,I like to ask if the death for the masses or the less privilege? If we understand that this crisis can hit anyone, old and young even those without underlining ailment unlike earlier predicted. We might have to have to give more urgency to adopt any provision for cure. China has given enough example and we understand that the whole country may not have to die before we arrest the situation.

To add to the list is Jack dorsey (twitter ) and Mark Zukerberg (Facebook), the 2 top used social media platform in the globe. Jack promised to make some commitment to the space this year and made several tweets last year to support bitcoin, i feel the pandemics situation could limit it this year. Facebook also plan to launch its coin but there are more important situation in health that could suspend the decision of the government to approve it. Other branches of Microsoft are involve in cryptocurrency especially Microsoft Azure.

The limitation in the market was not created by traders, it was created by the space especially the exchanges and other transaction platform. It was meant to manage the panic and contain the price drop.
Whales are not buying because of halving, to know what influence the big volume exchanges with manipulation will be surprising. If whales plan to manipulate it is mostly done on exchanges and if buying order was already there. It is better to know when to sell

Have seen this on the social media and thought it was a joke, we really laughed over it but to see it here after some hours that Yobit pick it and list is outrageous. When wil lyobit stop putting itself on top of the list of scam exchange? It is disgracing even for any new one interested in token to see some ridiculous news like this. I read the token was meant for purchase of toilet Paper and delivery at doorstep but was not expecting such early adoption

I share the same experience with IDEX and left when registration started, also left etherdelta and Forkdelta a long time ago, etherdelta after the hack and forkdelta got unhealthy to me. Other DEX do not have the same volume like in the ERC20. DEX had been safe with records but new exchanges dont get as many listed new token that can engage trade.

Am surprised to see this thread started a year ago, then I considered the space ambitious but now the exchange look like a threat to the space especially other exchanges and altcoins. I expect a reaction from other crypto force against acquisition except the CZ is not the owner of the exchange as some people rumored. He could be a name behind all this projects, and some funded by strong and wealthy hands around the world.

Have read several ways to stay safe with ones portfolio and I consider all to be vulnerable to loss. Dont use a single way and wallet to protect you portfolio, engage the portability of this coin. Take different risk that is consider not safe but keep this information only to the trusted fellow. Divide the portfolio into at least 2 (offline and online included). Sadly a lot of bitcoin are without reach in this space because of misplaced keys.

we are now digressing from the subject of the thread to our own frustration of the dump in bounty reward. This rewards are also investment for some people and dole out huge to own the token and they watch it without value. They never got any profit at any time since the purchase and I wish we could also look at it from most investors point. The market is not at the selling time and teams are not planning to do anything to pump the price until bitcoin gets close to its previous ATH

I still dont think the distribution was not random, there is possibility they give to that address because you have a certain named token in the wallet. I think having an interesting token in your custody should demand joining the respective community,get update on the token and ask any relevant question like this. Liquidity is not an attractive feature for most token with the state price volatility in the space, and is the reason for the token lock. More also, project team are not active with the economics of their project token.

As long as a stable coin maintain its value and can produce the crypto to fiat whenever necessary, it will always be useful and relevant. Tether had always been the with high volume in crypto use, more than 2x of its volume daily. This has been attractive to all exchanges, organizations and some governments but none had surpass Tether in use.

Everyone cares especially the long term holders; its a market of speculation and some uncertainties. If everyone takes profit at a time either in short term or long term means everyone is expectant. Profit in fiat is more reliable with certainty. The more the bullrun we have the more the dispersion of bitcoin holder and the higher the price.

Printing money is not profitable to US if the leaders use the money as expected, this is not a country with record of corruption like in some third world. There will always be a way the Government will pay back. I hope it wont result in recession, the economist did the necessaries. Even if USA planned to make profit from the virus they are already in financial loss and had lost more citizens to death.

The first bullrun had 100x, second bullrun was 33x and the next bullrun is predicted to be less than 15x. Is there any reason for the fall in the margin of pump at bullrun. I also feel altcoins made more profit in the last run than bitcoin but it could be the first know bullrun with a large number of altcoin, so it makes it difficult to make altcoin prediction in the next bullrun but I feel altcoin will always bring the profit that will attract more fund into the space for the next run

I don't desire any support from the government for cryptocurrency, they cant give what will replace fiat in their country but can show enough negligence to allow the use of cryptocurrency and allow the fiat to cryptocurrency trade. Development will always come from every country financial system that allow adoption and building project around cryptocurrency. However, Blockchain keeps enjoying the adoption in all sectors of the governent

Corbid 19 at this stage and the negligence by the government indicates that the period of lock down for most countries will be extended for more weeks into June or July. A lot of resources are going into this pandemic though not personal but the repercussion in the world economy might be extensive. Like everyone expects, after the halving in May, more miners will leave  their job with this present price which shows that bitcoin remain under priced and not profitable for miners so their is need to pump the price.

Private investment looks to be good option if u can defend the credibility of the project and require good funding. Private investors could be long term base on how attractive the offer is and I expect a strategy that can extend the exit plan of every investor. For possibilities of scam, project should at this time design a staggered investment process, that fund the delivery of each milestone till the project is sustainable. Such approach will be attractive for any investor

I will be waiting for coingecko quarterly review of the market to know the numbers of IEOs and ICOs in the period of 3 months, the amount of fund also raised by the startups, then I could know the percentage of bounty from this space. I found most of the project offering campaingn not interesting and my favorite bounty managers less active. The pandemic had brought more fear in the space and there is more fear to invest.