i have only seen stats of some altcoins (based on DAG) that report capability of processing ridiculously large number of transactions per second (TPS), some of them only report it as a theory but some others claim they have actually performed this test in their testnet.
the problem is that i have never seen any of them actually do this in real life and that matters most not theory. because in reality the problems show themselves.

i disagree. the ICOs should be rewarded because they were wise enough to figure out how many idiots exist in altcoin community who are willingly throwing their money away.

so if anything, the investors should be punished because they are the reason why ICOs even exist! if people started using their heads and stopped investing in ICOs there wouldn't have been any ICO to scam people and we would have only seen legitimate cryptocurrencies with no ICO nonsense.

sorry but your comment doesn't make any sense to me!
you don't explain why you think bitcoin will "keep going down".
and also what you say about the "mindset" doesn't make much sense either. you either speculate a rise in long term or you don't. if you do them you should be accumulating right now that price is stable and at least close to the bottom not just wait around!

you can't expect the volume to increase beyond what it currently is and was in the past week when price rise is still small. in other words when for the past week price has been rising slowly from $3700 to $4000 the volume stays the same as the rate of this rise. if it changes and price goes up faster then you can expect a bigger volume.

the thing about scams and ponzi schemes is that their failure (the time when they run away) has no clear deadline so you can't say it was 1-2 years before and it is not shorter or something like that.
it all depends on how many people they can scam and for how long. a ponzi scheme can run for 5 minutes before it goes belly up or it can go on for years while  scamming thousands of people.

and the most important thing to remember is that you can never beat the system. so don't even try to do it.

unlike some people i find the answer to this question is pretty easy.

it all comes down to the potential of bitcoin and the utility that it is providing us. that has only improved over the years and now bitcoin has an even bigger potential so asking whether it will rise again or not is silly to me because the answer is an obvious yes.
the only thing that remains unclear is WHEN it will start rising back up again because it can be today or it can take a couple of weeks.

then they should use fiat instead. using bitcoin is not mandatory so nobody is forcing them to choose it. they are  doing it on their own. and when they do, they also have to understand what it is they are using. when they do that they realize that "banks" don't make any sense with bitcoin as a decentralized currency without a middle man.

i don't think you should use the term "mining" for PoS coins and masternodes,... or basically anything that follow that pattern. mining a cryptocurrency is defined as the process of working to extract new coins and that work is done by using your computing power (whether it is GPU or CPU). but PoS is the process of earning a profit on your stake and they are very different concepts in my opinion and should be referred to with correct terminology.

when i look at the exchanges i still see pretty much the same price as before, in fact ETH has even lost a little bit of its value when it look at its price right now on Binance and other altcoin exchanges. what you may be referring to is their USD equivalent number which is only rising because bitcoin price went up a little more than $200 today and that has caused some numbers to change over the altcoin market when you look at the values in dollar terms instead of the real values in bitcoin.

as for supply if we had no other way of creating a fair amount of it and have control over it then maybe but i would still be hesitant to do something like that. now we already have good ways of controlling the supply, look at bitcoin and how that works.

as for distribution of the supply, the currency should NOT worry about or even be responsible for the distribution of its supply! it is not a charity giving away money to people! everyone has to earn their way.

it really doesn't matter in my opinion. what matters most to me is what is going to come afterwards and how ready i am going to be for that. this rise is going to happen sooner or later whether it is going to be this time or next time in a week from now. the part that i am most interested in is how much price is going to shoot up when the rise begins. meaning right after we break the $4200 resistance and when the FOMO buyers run to bitcoin while dumping their altcoin bags and cause the bitcoin price to suddenly shoot up something like $2000 in only 1 hour!!!

as the price starts recovering that fear of whales and manipulation is  going to get out of the market slowly at first but faster as we move forward. right now you can't tell this because price is still not shooting up but it is really happening, the volume is only a small part of it. and the main and the bigger step is going to take place when we cross the $4200 threshold and start the real rally to get out of this slump for good.

at this point because the market is overflowing with all these useless PoS coins and useless masternode coins there is an additional risk on top of the scam rise and that is the huge dumps risk. imagine there are 10 people investing in 10 coins before, they each buy a large amount of each coin and that coin can go up bigger. now imagine there are 20 people but investing in 500 coins none of them are going anywhere and the worst part is that all the 500 coins are exactly the same!

you can't force people to trust something they can not trust and is not trustworthy so there is nothing you can do to change investor's opinions about altcoins and tokens and specially ICOs because they have seen 2 years of scams and they have lost a lot of money in that process and people who lose money are always so much harder to be convinced to come back.

generally speaking token creation is dying and that includes all kinds including ICO, STO and IEO and any new ones that they may create in the near future to try and raise funds and distribute useless tokens in return.
so as they die, any other related services will also die. this includes bounty hunters, bounty campaigns, ICO websites, ...

i don't think anybody is disagreeing about the eventual bull run. at least nobody with brain is going to disagree with you as long as they are giving honest opinion.
the disagreement is about when it is going to start! i am one of those who say there should not be that much time left before we see rises start.

the choices are not only these two! you are naive if you think otherwise.
the most possible choice is that we will continue seeing the same price for a much longer time.

Wrong.
many of the altcoins (specially those that are not among top coins) have been showing a lot of profit as they have been getting huge pumps. and that is only because bitcoin is stable! otherwise they would have been dumping hard.

no, thank you. i am tired of all these new sites that you guys keep creating and then advertising here.

i think they have been mostly scared of falling behind and becoming obsolete rather than wanting any monopolization. that may come later as an attempt which i guess will fail but the main reason what what i said, with bitcoin growing every day and them seeing how the transaction volume of bitcoin has been growing they must be scared.

oh good a new useless website has been created to post clickbaits about bitcoin and try so hard every day to get people to visit it and read the things that don't even make sense on their website...

they already are a big part of bitcoin and that is not going to change. for instance Roger Ver is a whale who has a lot of bitcoin in his possession. and i believe that a big part of the reason why they even created BCH was to increase their bitcoin wealth!

why do you thin BCH is the first or only coin that is doing this?
have you forgotten how coins like Dash for example attacked bitcoin in 2017 during the spam attack? how they advertised themselves as "replacing bitcoin"? and how they pumped their shitcoin? and a lot more?

things won't end with BCH since they didn't start with them. they may be making the most noise but there are a lot of shitcoins that have been using the same tricks but most of them don't carry the name "bitcoin" in their names.