It could also be anywhere from the people you mentioned to a nocoiner journalist who is more active when reporting news about a bitcoin dump rather than a good news about it. IMO they are the ones who play a huge role in influencing those bitcoin complainers OP mentioned(if there are any). I don't see what they will gain though by doing so(unless they are bribed).

The problem is that those nocoiner journalists will not try to understand it because they don't want to. They simply chose the bliss of ignorance and wants to stick with traditional censored ledgers.
People cannot learn to chill(especially those new in the market) because of nocoiner journalist being more active to report a bitcoin dump than reporting a good news related to crypto in general. Most of those who cannot chill panics every time they see one report or two that is like this and easily believes on the predictions included in the article.

Nice tips you got there but I strongly suggest beginners to not only buy and hold because buying and holding is not the best option all the time(specially if the one you bought is a scam coin that will be a shitcoin soon). My advice for beginners is to buy and hold only when market is in the red and if the certain coin you want to buy has potential for growth.

I think their rehab program is useful to some people who invest in any coin(even if it is just a shitcoin) without doing prior research(and uses gut feeling and emotion in picking a coin to invest into) hoping it would rise. It is not an utter nonsense. Nevertheless, I agree with you that they should first start to rehabilitate people who are addicted to facebook because those kinds of people mentioned above can easily change.

It is up to you if you want to get involved in crypto or not, but it might become useful to you in the future if you got more involved with it.
I think your current holdings are fine as is but if I were you, I would lessen my portfolio in real estates for a better balance and it will be safer if you don't put a large percentage of your portfolio(above 50%) on one asset.

As much as possible, I try not to look at ICO rating website because they only present their subjective opinion that can be influenced by bribery or any other factor. Nevertheless, when I invest into an ICO, I also look at its rating from the ICO rating website if I am not convinced with the current information I got(because they tend to give away some pieces of information that would help complete my research).

You already have your answers so please close this thread. IMO though, ETH transaction is not the cheapest and fastest out there. In fact, transactions that are done on other altcoins such as doge is cheaper and faster when compared to ETH so let's not start comparing the two in terms of transaction speed and fees because some altcoins are far better to use in transactions than ETH.You are right that bitcoin is slower because of its popularity(since btc got more volume of transaction per second than eth) but being the oldest doesn't mean that it is bound to be slow because improvements are also being done to bitcoin. Just like what this user said:

What made you think that there are more future contracts than the supply of bitcoin? Can you please include your source? If you cant, I shall consider what you say as hearsay.
Why are you still here then? Your signature is telling me otherwise(because it is still bitcoin related even if it is advertising an exchange).

Nice tips you got there but I think your tips are lacking something. One of the most common mistake a newbie does is to invest in only one coin which in the end leads to loss if that certain coin does not perform well. That being said, you should have had included there this: "diversify your investments. Never invest in one coin only and always remember to not put all your eggs in one basket".

I think this movement of the market is normal considering bitcoin has been on a prolonged bullish trend for a while before this slow decrease to where the price now happens. People(especially newbies who have started using crypto just recently) seem to be forgetting that bitcoin has been into lower prices than this, for this reason, some people who have been using bitcoin for a while(users who use bitcoin since before halving) would only consider these movements as a mere correction.

His recommendation is not always a good strategy. It would be better if you would just buy up coins that you think have the potential for more growth in the future(and is dumping a lot). To know if a coin still has a potential for growth, all you need to do is to look for its real world use cases and how active its community and developer is(in the development of their coin). If you see those, then it is highly likely that its price will rise when crypto market becomes bullish again.

You are right because they can still scam people without those platforms that help them create their own coins or tokens easily. With programming skills, I think they can still fork a coin or two and launch their shitty ICO's without Ethereum's help. That being said, do not blame ETH OP, it is one coin with real world use cases and its smart contract is meant to enforce negotiations and increase and not to scam people.

Taking a loan to buy bitcoins is not an advisable thing to do because price movements can be unpredictable at times(especially if there aren't any news to base your decision on). For now, I think there is a chance for bitcoin to sit at the speculated price by Christmas eve but I strongly suggest that you invest only what you can afford to lose(money that is not from loan). That way, you can hold it for a longer period of time if ever btc price didn't reach your target selling price.

The best course of action during times like this one is to simply HODL your stash and buy more coins with potential that is for sale if you can. When you have done so, expect to reap the benefits once crypto markets become bullish again. With institutional money flowing into crypto space and interest in blockchain technology growing, expect some coins to show a bullish trend soon.

As far as I know, China didn't ban the use of bitcoin in their country. Instead, they have only banned trading of cryptocurrency, and not bitcoin itself. This article might help in enlightening you.
They are of course since they haven't said any statement that is against the increasing adoption rate of blockchain(besides stopping trading because of some Chinese traders getting unexplained wealth via price manipulation).

I am having a hard time interpreting your question but I will try to answer it according to my perception. Since you are asking if we need to use code in different coin, do you want to ask if you need to have coding skills when creating your own coin? The answer to your question is yes, may it be a bitcoin forked one or not(even if it is made from eth smart contract or not), everyone who plans to develop their own altcoin would need to have programming skills to succeed in creating one.

The solution to your problem would be to diversify your capital into 2 exchanges by the time that it reaches 1 million and 300k satoshi, just transfer a little from it and start using another exchange that has a similar user interface with bittrex. Here is a list of good alternative exchanges that would help you choose the next exchange you will use besides bittrex. Those alternative exchanges somehow got a nice volume and might solve your problem.

In addition to that, there is also KYC which investors avoid because they want to keep their anonymity. They aren't just waiting for things to settle, they are still making their moves to earn more profit while waiting. Some of them don't want to sacrifice their anonymity for the sake of profit. That being said, those who want to be anonymous(and others who want to profit despite this mess) invested onto existing altcoins with potential instead of putting their money into upcoming ICO's that are currently being scrutinized by the government.

Them taking as much as 0.01 BTC from a bitcoin user is impossible unless he/she has a lot of crypto in his/her stash. Also, the Irish government will take it in the form of fiat currency as stated by:
It might give off a positive effect to countries planning to legalize bitcoin, but I doubt it will have a positive effect on most of the traders(except to those who trade based on emotion).

That will only be temporary since it is very likely that in the future, someone will find a way to lessen the risk of being compromised(inventing a more powerful encryption system that cannot be decrypted using quantum computing).
It poses a major threat for bitcoin and crypto as a whole since it might enable hackers to decrypt the private key of a wallet but like what I stated above, encryption by that time might improve to withstand quantum computing and in order for bitcoin to be quantum computing resistant, it will have a fork that will improve the encryption of its private key.