with the way Zuckerberg is hyping his coin and also the way the cryptocurrencies (blockchain in general) is hyped, there is a good chance that this project is going to become big in the sense that it can raise a lot of money (maybe billions even) and becomes super pumped and hyped up.
there is also the benefit of bitcoin being on the rise which will always hype everything up even more which can lead to their increased hyped up state.

but at the end of the day even if 1 FBcoin were worth 10 billion dollar, it still is going to be inferior to bitcoin because it is centralized. not to mention that Facebook is known for exploiting all your personal information so expect all your transactions to be reported to multiple government agencies right away.

well this "trade war" has been going on for a while now, it is not like it has started yesterday. and so far it had no effects on bitcoin price since bitcoin has been on the exact trend that was expected of it meaning a big breakout above the resistance at $4k followed by lots of FOMO and reaching the next major resistance at $8k. so I don't think this "trade war" or rather the continuation of it could start having any effects on bitcoin price now.

nobody has recognized him as dick, it is just that OP for some reason decide to choose this misleading title for his topic! what CW has done is just submission of a copyright which is not even accepted. and submission is not such a complicated or exclusive thing to do so anybody can do it.

and the scammer strikes again.

this is obviously an attempt to pump the shitcoin called BSV as they are trying so hard to pump it after the mass delist from major exchanges caused it to crash down hard and they were desperate for survival. a curious thing is that the date of the registration is 2019-04-11 or more than a month ago and the news of it is circulating the media today while the pumpers are super active on this shitcoin!

I don't know about him, but sometimes in some countries the governments have not yet decided what kind of approach to take about cryptocurrencies and some people prefer to keep their privacy in case their government suddenly decided to take an aggressive approach in which case those with a lot of cryptocurrency related transactions can face a hard time and a lot of legal fees to solve something that could have been avoided.

after the big breakout and reaching the $8k levels, things were quite volatile but as time passes the buy supports are becoming stronger and they are making the drops harder and harder. for now the $8k price may look like a strong resistance but it doesn't warrant a drop down, we are only in a small mid way accumulation which started after the cash out of some short term traders for small short term profit. the next upward momentum will start again pretty soon specially with all the good news that keeps on coming out these days.

unfortunately we don't really have any "critics" based on what I see, all we have are some people with doomsday signs saying "The End Is Nigh" who don't really have any convincing reasons for it either. at this point that the adoption of bitcoin has grown to a decent stage where even developed countries like Japan have accepted it as a legal currency and big companies like Microsoft are accepting it as payment, the only debate is whether it will reach mass adoption and $1 million+ or not.

I think you may need to visit the altcoin graveyard on sites like this one: https://deadcoins.com/
every now and then market purges the dead shitcoins otherwise we wouldn't have 2500ish coins and instead would have had 50,000 coins

just because they seem to support cryptocurrency it doesn't mean they should be favorites of crypto community members. for example McAfee is a selfish person who is only using bitcoin's name to make profit from it, he may seem like a true bitcoin enthusiast but if you read between the lines of what he says and look at what he is actually doing you can clearly see that he is only filling his pockets with money that he gains on the side of that popularity he gains.

to be accurate this has nothing to do with mining!
basically the scammer asks you to give him your private keys and then asks you to send coins to those keys, and if you do, the simply steals them. the scammer in this scenario is using combination of greed plus lack of knowledge (or laziness to do research) of the victims. otherwise that excuse they use to get your private keys is very easy to detect, it doesn't matter if they are using mining as an excuse, trading (API keys), doubling bitcoin,....

that is more complicated than be elegant and it is not suitable as a "bitcoin logo" in my opinion, I think these things are mostly good for clients for example if you have a wallet you can use that as its logo just as most clients do. for example Electrum uses a blue one with B in the middle and it looks like an atom.

it is also worth mentioning that if you decided to not get the updates right away then you have to follow the changes closely by checking the Github link of Electrum project to first see if there hasn't been any serious security issues by looking at the commits that you are missing out on.
also if you encounter any issues you first have to upgrade and see if that fixes it or not. usually most of the bugs people report while using an older version are already fixed.

don't do it!

first of all because this is not a question you should be asking. you should always be able to make financial decisions on your own. and if you can't do that in a market and can not analyze the situation then entering that market will only end badly for you because there are many different scenarios that keep on happening and you need to know what to do in each case.

secondly your choice is a bad one in my experience. you are planning to hold altcoins that are guaranteed to drop in value. for example ETH has unlimited supply and has been losing its only usage (ICO creation) and because of that it will lose value in the long run. other coins like XRP are just considered pure shitcons.

and finally you are trying to enter with a very large amount as your first move! the fact that you have been buying bitcoin doesn't make you experienced enough to enter the altcoin market with this size of money considering that 99% of altcoins are complete manipulation with no usage or future not to mention the centralization of many of them that is their point of failure.

people like him who are scamming others will continue what they are doing until they are behind bars or if they are lucky they continue it as long as their scam works and is making them money. in case of Wright, he will continue scamming people as long as BSV is alive and is being pumped and dumped, and also as long as those companies he has fooled and the developers who have fallen for his scam (or maybe are just using him for their own purpose) stop supporting him.

it is not just about money grabbing, but mainly because the existing centralized exchanges all have big flaws in their design that doesn't satisfy the needs of the cryptocurrency market traders so new ones are created to attempt at filling that gap but eventually they either don't gain enough traction or if they become big (like binance) they turn into the same flawed thing.
for example KYC is one of the worst things in altcoin exchanges. new ones come alone without needing KYC at first, they become big then they enforce it!

none of the coins you listed here are solid or legit. they are all weak projects with lots of problems like ETH and XRP being premined and having very huge supplies. BCH being useless altcoin with a bad history because it is a copy coin. and all 3 are fully centralized.
but they all have reached their "goal" because their goal has never been to replace bitcoin! their "goal" was to get pumped and they did do that and their owners became rich from them.

$50000 for price in 2020 seems like the safest bet you can make at this point because we are already in the beginning of a bull run and in a year from now which will be 3 years after the previous ATH, setting a new ATH is assured and $50k is about twice the previous one so it is a lowball bet. I would personally expect a higher one at $100k.

but not everything is price you know. it is mostly about adoption. and the main thing I am expecting in 2020 is more adoption of Lightning Network so that we can see the real boom happen.

the "bear" market which you are referring to as "winter" is a part of the market and it has been so for any other market too. you can't prevent things like that which are natural from happening again! that is kind of a duality of the market.

the only thing that we can prevent from happening is the prolonged bear market that lasts for many months, up to a year like the previous 2 times in 2018 and 2014. to do that we need a much bigger market with more packed order books so that it can't be manipulation and more importantly it can't swing up and down whenever there is a big surge of buyers or sellers.

I am not sure where you are getting these things from but none of what you said is correct.
China doesn't have 80% of bitcoin mining, it is barely 20% and they have never banned bitcoin to force their citizens to use VPNs. they just closed exchanges that were doing illegal stuff such as money laundering.

things that are obvious are also hard to explain. a better question would be to ask why bitcoin hasn't gone up more than this and why has it taken this long for the recovery to start when market was ready and the adoption has been growing!

China has been out of the game for a long time and it has no effects on bitcoin price anymore since they don't even have a decent exchange that is big enough to be among the big exchanges that do affect the price!

I would love to know more about these "experts" and where they get their stats...

there isn't  only one country and one government in the whole word to have a singular view about bitcoin. there are lots of countries and each have their own view. there are countries that view bitcoin as a currency as they should and there are others that see it as a commodity mostly for tax purposes and in most cases the governments are undecided but open to bitcoin and finally in rare cases we have total ban.