Still don't see the connect for it pumping and the reason for it to dump by 7th November, i try to make a sense out of this sudden surge but can't quite understand it, i guess everyone is in the same dismay as to the reason while btc going crazy but most certainly it won't keep going up like this, better people decide when is the right time to get out, and 9k! i highly doubt it will go that low but lets see what happens in next days to come.

Both past and present, IEO still remains the most effective tools in fund raising no doubt about it, especially when it is well conducted and organized by a well known exchange, people are genuinely comfortable more with ieo than during ico, after the bitter experience of the past, nobody wants tio get involve with such method of fund raising, for sure my vote goes with ieo.

it could be the website in maintenance, perhaps you should have a chat with the team on their official telegram group, ohh i remember they don't have one, so i guess the best way to reach them is the Ann thread,
i also did a bit of follow up on some basic information about the team (because to me that's major thing to first check out) i think some of the team info are there, only their pics are animated sort of, i had to go the twitter page to see the real image of the CEO, just not very straight forward way of displaying team info but still better than the anonymous type  

Using small exchange is not necessarily the reason why a project should fail, (i know it can contribute to failure somtimes if care is not taken) i have seen i project like  Free Ton with no actual exchange except the telegram bot exchange but still maintain a good price despite conducting a bounty campaign,
i think the problem lies heavily on the team and their inability to be transparent with the community, what is the point of lying rather than coming out openly about the project,
perhaps maybe the allocation to hunters was part of the reason why the ship sinking fast, this is why limited participants and decent allocation is better for project in other to prevent price dump.

i can not say i entirely blame the OP for thinking otherwise, i think several other people out there have the same perception about btc until they come in contact with it only then would they have a change of mind, like what  this guy and his friend experience when using btc to transfer fund, now that the frind hard a great experience using btc to send money over his perception towards it must have change for the better, he will most likely recommend btc to other friends who have no knowledge of who think like the OP.

Perhaps he doesn't needs to say it but maybe his approach towards crypto would be a little lenient than that of trump who is outrightly aggressive towards crypto, there are many countries whose government did not openly accept crypto but there are not too hash restrictions either, but same can not be said in case of USA, between I don't think Bidden has won the race yet.

First time experience I can see and am glad everything went well despite it is the first encounter with btc between you and your friend, this is why many btc lovers are in favour of it, fast transaction without the middleman,
Am glad he sees positive in btc, I hope he will share his experience with others to understand the simplicity of using btc as an alternative means of transferring funds, experience is the best teacher they say.

400% short term profit! Who will believe that? ( even newbies should be skeptical about such offer) i just think anyone who believe in such offer is either too greedy regardless of if they are newbies or not, it is no longer news scammers uses this method and many more other ways to conquer their prey,
Anyone too desperate to make huge profit in a short possible time and fall in the grips of scammers like this will only have themselves to blame, I hope everyone stay alert and watch out for unusual offers.

You are entitled to your opinion mate but I think there are still many ways to benefit from btc, you don't necessarily need to be among the early adopters to benefit, even right now as you  complain those who understand btc are taking advantage of it,
Even with the highly volatile market, traders still trade and make profit so are flippers, all you need is find what suit you best and stick to doing it, nowadays some people prefer to use digital currency to pay and btc is top choice, so if you say no benefits then you are wrong.

You can not put an end to scam or scammers but you can try to develop yourself to be able to recognize a scam and stay away from it, and possibly warn others about it, but thinking you can entirely put an end to scam is fallacy, the only thing you can do is think of how to protect yourself from a known and the unknown scam, where there is good there will always be bad, whatever have advantage will also have a disadvantage,

scam does not only exit in btc or in crypto, in other aspect of life there are different form of scam and people have been able to survive one way or another, it is a question of being careful not to fall a victim, even the government will find it difficult to put an end to any form of scam, if that where the case, by now there will be no insecurities and all other social unrest, but that is not the case,  this is a way of life.

Lol and you just took the word right outta my mouth   left with nothing to say......
Okey let me just say, it takes a whole lot of patience to be a bm -  I have not yet manage one but I can already tell from being a participant, I mean you need a thick skin and some meanness to subdue those army of hunters that will invade your bounty (no joke)

Lets be real, 90% of hunters don't read any rules relating to the bounty they claim to be promoting, so repetitive questions becomes the order of the day, (someone already list those very frequently ask questions of hunters in previous page ) and you as a bm will find yourself answering them a zillion time none stop,

And the list of hunters misdeed goes on, the selfishness of many hunters make them to overlook the pressure the bm's are also going through, not that bm's are without any fault of their own but some hunters are more of a pain than support, and sadly nothing can be done to remedy the behaviour of some hunters even after spending so much time as one they still behave the same.

Actually i think not, from my search on the same site, cryptocurrency world map - blockchaincenter.net i think btc still remains the most search in most countries followed by eth,
here is better view of btc toping the chart of the most search crypto till date.

The truth is not all investors (especially the naive ones track the market cap before investing) in fact, majority don't even know the purpose of market cap and what to do with it,
there are lot of people till now who only invest through the recommendation of a friend, colleague or a family member, not necessarily an opinion or a research made by themselves, they just hang in the words of others, only those who knows what to look out for will make reference to market cap of a project before investing, although market cap don't necessarily stand as final tool to knowing it all when it comes to investment but it can only give you a closure and some form of estimate on the status of the project.

very well said, looking from an average or should i say less knowledge about crypto perspective, what paypal is offering is not entirely wrong, it is a matter of given a platform for the less knowledgeable people to have an opportunity to be in crypto, like  i said in one of my previous post, till now many crypto traders and non-traders prefer to leave their crypto assets in exchange which in my opinion is more or less same as having your crypto with paypal only with slight difference,
again if we want giant companies and corporations to be in crypto then definitely there will be some form of regulations that will be introduce along the line, crypto is too vulnerable, it won't hurt to see some little form of regulations here and there,  besides, this is still a question of choice.

yeah, i don't think it will be nice not to have a bounty group for easy communication especially with the bm, i hoping the bm with his rep will consider this.

Mate, we can go back and forth arguing this out but at the end we won't be able to come to an agreeable conclusion,  you know why! Because we are human and are allowed to have different opinions, views and choices,  now you said you have cut off with bank since 2018 but from 2017 or so downward the banks have served you and provide you with all financial services at the time when you needed them most.... now you don't need them anymore it is your choice.

One of the reason why many people criticise banks and payment system like PayPal is because of their high fees..... and you also agrees that cryptocurrency fees are also high...... but you still use them anyways because you are in control of your funds, but remember whatever have advantage also have disadvantage (if all individuals in the world have absolute control over their funds i can't imagine what it will result to)

You said a person will learn cryptocurrency if they choose to but the problem is many people are not willing to learn only interested in price and speculation,  I totally agree, for now people are more concerned about the price than the tech, this is because crypto is not widely used, even the big players in crypto all have same interest,  that fact is undeniable,

PayPal offer to educate people who would not have ordinarily want to learn crypto on their own, i see it as the beginning of crypto journey for people,  from there they can decide to do more research if they want to and make their own decisions base on PayPal services and other crypto service,  they are not tied down so it is a free entry and exit.

This explains a lot why the trc20 usdt transaction is free, from the experiment I carried out after reading the OP's post, I try to withdraw some usedt from Binance and from the withdrawal menu you can see it was clearly written in trc20 usdt "fee - 0 usdt" while clicking on erc20 "fee - 3 usdt"
In previous days, erc20 withdrawal fee in Binance was up to $5, I see now the fee has reduce again,  I guess it is because the tron network is not crowded like you earlier mentioned.

Exactly, despite all the negativity relating to PayPal, many people still trusting in their service, i myself prefer using PayPal than direct from my bank account because of their money back guarantee policy, this is just the honest truth, no institution or organization is without some flaws, even btc is not without some flaws, PayPal and banks have provided service to people for generations, people have always trust them and may still continue to do so, it is all about given it a try, especially to those people who are not familiar with crypto, through papal it will be much easier for them.
this is just the beginning who knows what other features they may decide to introduce as they progress.

Perhaps you are right in some ways but this type of thinking is only for those who have deep knowledge about crypto and the importance of having your personal wallet, even though in practice this is not mostly applicable to all the users in crypto (their are millions of users who still prefer to keep their crypto asset in exchange rather than in their personal wallet and this is after knowing about all the risk involve) in the case of PayPal, this is mostly relating to the average joe who have less knowledge of all this things you said and still want to be in crypto regardless,

And if your perception about "not your key, not your money is that strong" then i guess you have no funds with any financial institution, because as far as i know, financial institution are directly in control of people's funds and billions of people all over the world are still trusting them with their funds, we can not deny the fact that bank still plays a vital role in our spending, if not all then most of our cards are attached to a bank,
PayPal may have their own way of providing this service but bottom line is they recognize crypto and are willing to provide the service to people, and since they are willing to educate people in this regard then i don't think they will be misguided after all.    

This is a wake up call for those bm who have not introduce the use of POA in there bounty, it is very important they do so, even though majority of the bounties are already requesting users to submit POA in the bounty thread, still you will come across some who are have introduce if, there are many people with bad intent in the forum, it is btter not to give them opportunity to exercise their bad intention, so all bm's should always request for POA from hunters to prevent shady actions.