Best trading site for now to me is Binance due to its volume that help the price of any coin bought and followed by poloniex. Also, there are some good exchanges with low transaction fees that will help a trader but the troll box and volume affect the market on these exchanges...I don't want to mention names

I still prefer coinmarketcap though, if not CMC then I use my own api to get the price, some other sites UI seem too boring for just price checking. Have tried blockfolio and one tracker like that, they seems cool too just that I prefer CMC.

The market still striving in the red with a lot of attempt to escape the bear but it seems there is no enough volume to support the bull in BTC... For now, now hasty decision is advised until the market bounce back to be predictable.

I couldn't follow the add up of the lost BTC on this thread but I lost a negligible amount of BTC of recent as well due to my stolen device. It amounts to  0.0003BTC 

Most project now make coin in the aim to get money not for the purpose of building real life project that will enhance the block chain technology. But in the mist of all these new coin there are few legit ones with real tech.

This is one of the bad side of unregulated cryptocurrency projects, agreed some projects are not scam but at the same time they have no purpose in the market while some are just cloning of some other project already on the market.
The effect shitcoin have in market is rather negative as people tends to see crypto has a application of technology with no trust, a ponzi to make rich quick etc.

The decentralization era seems to need some sort of regulations because a lot of are abusing the privilege of decentralization as many useless projects are been embarked on to scam people. We don't need to control us but we may need them to control/regulate things.

The XRP token budget is one of the reasons investors are not really interested in XRP long term investment as the analysis shows it. XRP is a good project and requires consistency as many project are planning better concept of the same  project.

I think the purpose of cryptocurrenxies is more than stability,  if stability is to be considered then a like of USDT,  CORION etc. will be preferable for transaction because of there price stability  which gives good effect to it market price. BCC and others can't  really be preferred  to BTC due to the fact that no one claims the development of BTC, unlike others that have a known developer, this gives them a level of centralization that the public will never look as an as advantage.

Receiving token in your wallet does not always mean that a platform is working, I can easily create token and send to any address that doesn't mean that I have a working platform...ability to create token easily is one of the cons of the cryptoworld.

That's interesting, I hope it is true because it will be a good news to cryptoworld generally. But I doubt if it is true, presently I am sure they are working more on keeping users data safe due to what has happened recently in the US.

Now, there are local exchanges that transact directly in FIAT to buy BTC or ETH (most common) in which you can later send it to exchange of your choice where you want to make transaction. Example of such is LUNO (a former BitX company etc.)

If Bitcoin is approved in a country, definitely there would be inflation in the economy but that would only be in the start. If BTC is reasoned as an asset it would later get to a price where the volatility would be low then there would be no more inflation. But at start it is unavoidable.

I once listened to a economics expert speaks on CNN, she said it is hard to regulate cryptocurrency even though she was not in support of cryptocurrency because of it liquidity (she believes there will be huge dump in the price). Crypto is hard to regulate because of its decentralization and what make it worst is that the governments are not the one controlling higher percentage of most crypto.
But there are ways in which it can be regulated such as exchanges regulation etc. To me, I think crypto market doesn't need regulation.

Firstly, one of the target market of BTC is banks, if banks can be using it as a transacting currency but what will limit that from happening is the speed and the transaction fee of a Bitcoin network. Also, another targeted market of Bitcoin is the government, using a crypto currency will give a more clarity and transparency to how our money is spent as the transaction history will be available to the public.

As a beginner who want to start reasoning buying in an ICO, then you need to step up on how to select a legit project. And also you'll need fundamental knowledge of TA to start trading. I'll recommend babypips for TA learning.

This is a decentralized market, I agree if there are whales in China that tries to control the market but to say China is controlling BTC I wouldn't agree. There was a time in early 2017 when their was FUD from China about BTC transaction been banned in China and we saw what later result from it as BTC came back strong to doubles its ATH price.

Beginners don't really need technical analysis but rather the basis of how the whole cryptomarket operates. Basis of TA like trend lines may be necessary at some point but not at the start.

If you think KYC is what will stop multiple accounts registration for bounty program the question would be why do I need KYC to support a project? Because bounty is usually attached to campaigns. There are other efficient ways to stop multiple account registration in fact KYC (Know Your Customers) is not really meant for such but rather for company-customer relationship.

I wouldn't say Bitcoin is the future of banking but I'd rather say blockchain is the future technology that would be adopted in the banking sectors. And there's possibility of altcoins dominating banking transactions later in the future because of the speed in the transaction.