first of all you say LendEDU as if it is a reliable source for this type of surveys! well it is not.
secondly what you are failing to mention in your own website (the article that was published by you on Match 2019) and this topic (which is again in 2019) is that the survey result was published in October 2017 which means it was conducted right in the middle of the ICO hype in 2017! NOT 2019. that hype my friend is dead and is never coming back.
if you do the same survey today the percentage is going to be closer to 0

before all this the same hype was going on with premined shitcoins. and in the future there will be new hype like there always is, in a different form with a different type of scams. they are trying to push STOs but they are failing because they are exactly the same as ICO and people aren't going for them.

you are misunderstanding a bunch of stuff here.
first of all bitcoin is not the same as other altcoins so you can't talk about them as if they are the same. bitcoin's volatility is not due to manipulation, at least not all of it. but altcoins volatility is 99% because of pure manipulation.
secondly you don't need to control the price to make an investment in something! that is ridiculous assumption that you need to be a whale and control the price to invest in something...
the only thing you need to look for is real potential and if it exists then you are good to go.

of course you would expect such fabricated results from a website that its whole existence purpose is to advertise ICOs and live off of them! otherwise such stats would have been closer to reality 2 years ago where the ICO hype was still ongoing not like now that it is already dead and gone. nowadays people either don't know what ICOs are or if they know about them they also know how scammy they are.

i actually believe that price is going to be a lot higher than $5000 by May which is a little more than 2 months from now. simply because at the moment there is a big amount of investors waiting on the side lines afraid to come in and waiting for that signal to jump in. so if we break $4k resistance i am sure that there will be a shoot up at firs which can easily bring the price to $6000 which was the real strong bottom before the manipulative dump happened.

this can happen in less than a week. and it certainly wouldn't be the first time!

the rise is going to happen sooner or later. in fact it probably wouldn't even take that long. the only thing that is happening right now is the fear of possible drops that is making most investors wait instead of jumping on the band wagon.

and it has always been like this too. whenever we have this sort of huge drops (it was 85% drop this time) people tend to get scared. then you add all the FUD and that panic grows more preventing (or better say delaying) the rise.

in the past couple of years, specially during the 2017 ICO fever i have seen at least 20 different projects which claimed to be working on A.I. and advertised it a lot. but checking their projects i have never seen slightest signs of any Intelligence let alone artificial one!
in other words AI has always been used as a buzzword for advertising and hyping the project.
i don't see why any new one should be any different! specially if they are an ICO instead of a real blockchain project.

there are two big flaws in any design that copies steemit and it will be the doom of them just like Steemit is doomed.

the first and biggest flaw is that they are rewarding people for posts and other similar activities. it only attracts crap and spam to their platform and in a short time it reduces the quality of the platform to a point where nobody ever visits it anymore apart from the spammers trying to make money.

the other problem is that it is centralized! it doesn't matter what they say, it is centralized as long as there is a centralized website with a centralized database and you have to sign up where you own an account which can be closed!!!
so as long as there is reddit, bitcointalk, twitter, facebook, medium,... and 100s of other blogs nobody is ever going to bother with these platforms!

most of the market (meaning most of the altcoins) are already dead and they won't revive ever again. so what you have been reading is partly true you just have to see the context not read the out of context!

as for bitcoin it obviously is not the end. anybody who says otherwise is either an idiot or is trying to buy bitcoin at a cheaper price and is getting desperate.


you do realize that you can not mathematically go lower than 100% right? a 100% drop means going down to nothing or zero!

actually ETH dev is quite wise, he clearly knows that nobody is going for this bullshit fork to PoS and he is completely sure that everyone will reject it. so he has come up with a workaround to force the fork on them. right now they are slowly injecting different forks on the network slowly pushing towards that target to force them to have no other option but to accept PoS!!!
if you remember they started with a "difficulty bomb" which they had to remove and all their plans went down the toilet with it so now they have come up with a new plan

it actually reminds on the frog that is being boiled alive in a pot while you increase the temprature slowly so he doesn't realize it

your account seems old but you seem to be very new to this world!

all these gambling crap has been going on for as long as bitcoin existed. there has literary been thousands of gambling sites many of which focused on these e-sports such as Dota2 and CSGO,...
they don't have anything to do with mass adoption though! people don't really care about them and don't play that much. which is why most of these gambling sites don't last that long.

i honestly have never thought about it!
i'll have to think of something though. probably will do it with a hardware wallet but i still can't bring myself to pay money to buy a bitcoin wallet! it sounds strange to me since i can store my coins safely in cold storage already.


they are wrong because they are only estimating based on whether the coins have moved or not. for example i have coins that i have not touched for nearly 4 years. they probably consider them as "lost coins"!

people are always skeptical about bitcoin specially when price is like this at a bottom after a long drop. back in 2015 nobody believed bitcoin could go back up to 3 digits ($1000) ever again. they were all saying "nobody is willing to use it" etc etc. and yet bitcoin keeps on growing.

to be fair most of these articles are not talking about people who claim they are Satoshi, they are authors who are speculating about someone being Satoshi and there is a big difference between the two!
when we speculate, it is our guess nothing more. but when someone claims to be Satoshi they have to provide proof otherwise they are scamming.

the only way you can get to the "moon" with an altcoin is when they get pumped and you will only be successful if you know how to get off that rocket and when to get off that rocket.
otherwise you will be like hundreds of others who bag hold some altcoin, miss their chance to sell after a pump and get dumped on to lose a lot of money.

maybe these people who you are talking about don't yet know what being bullish and bearish means!
sitting around and hoping for the market to move in a direction after you are done with it does't matter at all because you are already out of it and your thoughts don't matter.
what matters is when people are still in the market and are bullish meaning they buy more because they think price is going up or are bearish and think the opposite.

who cares about what Warren Buffet and others say about bitcoin, it should not matter even if they are positive about it. the only thing that you should care about is your own study about bitcoin and whether or not you see any potential in it. people like Warren Buffet never got rich by sharing their real secrets about how they got where they are at the time when they were investing.

there are risks involved with mining but the profit is not that unlikely. in fact profitability of mining bitcoin is one thing that you can always be sure about. for example right now price is very stable and miners are gaining a solid stable revenue from their computing power.

nobody has ever supported ICOs simply because they are all scams. there is no exception between regular people or banks in this case. everyone sees the true nature of them but only few decide to ignore it because of the possibility of some profit.

being intelligent when it comes to making an investment comes down to having a lot of experience. you might have the highest IQ in the world but as long as you don't know how the markets work you will never be able to successfully make profit from them.
the good news is that experience in investing and trading can easily be gained as long as you use your head instead of blindly following others on the internet. you just have to analyze a lot, both your trades and the market.

you are delusional if you think shitcoins such as XRP and ETH can replace bitcoin. and i am sorry to say this but you are an idiot that you think a token that is not even a currency is going to replace bitcoin which is a currency because it is like saying water is going to replace food!!! they are not even in same category so one can not replace the other.

all that aside, coins like that with huge supply and no cap have no future price-wise because the sheer amount of supply of them will kill their price whether you like it or not.