Why exactly do you think that these companies need a crypto platform or to run an ICO? Okay, let's take WhatsApp off the list because Facebook's Libra. But if you should check these companies you have mentioned you will see that they are all big companies and there is really no need for them to run an ICO. These companies have been around for a very long time and there is no need for it and they don't even have a cryptocurrency and having is not a must and doesn't even determine success.

We already have lots of ICOs and it's meant for new companies in the cryptocurrency platform and there are still some platforms that run ICOs but still end up not achieving anything.

The past two halving that we have had has made a very significant impact on the value of bitcoin and we could see how the value surge by greater percentage during the halving which could not have been a coincidence at all, so if all the other halving have had effect on bitcoin despite all the low adoption that we had then, it would not be now that we have more adoption of bitcoin than the last halving for us not to see any changes.

Many people including me are eagerly waiting for the halving which I am sure that it will encourage a lot of people to start putting more fund in their wallet as against the expectation of the halving which I think that it is just like 5 months away from us now. Your article really hit lots of point and I agree with it a lot which should be enough to motivate us in preparing for the surge.

Someone that doesn't have much interest in anything that is related to the internet will also not have interest in bitcoin. So these local people you're talking about, it depends on the type of people they are exactly. I have tried telling some people I see as local about Bitcoin and they are not always interested, only say that it is meant for those of us that are computer geeks. These types of people I'm talking about are the ones that focused on the mainstream society and have no interest in computer and online stuff, and they can hardly be convinced.

I don't stress much about convincing people to make use of cryptocurrency, I think when it's the right time they wouldn't need anyone to convince them at all, they will just do it on their own.

I am thinking that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies will only go mainstream when the government changes the system. If the system should remain fiat , a lot of people will still prefer to make use of the fiat system and refuse to use crypto. Or maybe everything will be step by step - maybe as time goes on a lot of people will start to recognize Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general and how good they are and then will they start to adopt it.

Though one thing that discourages me about people adopting Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies is the fact that it is being viewed as an investment. When it's being seen as an investment then there will be lack of much interest and those that joins will only come to just make money expecting bull run and once they have that, they will quit.

There are lots of scam projects and you could hardly tell the difference between the right project and the real project except you do a very major and thorough research in them and even in doing thorough research on them, you will still get confused.

It seems right now like bitcoin investment is still the most reliable investment for any investor for now and if there is any need for us to diversify our portfolio, it would be to coins that are listed within the top 20 coins on the CMC these are coins that have solid backup off string communities and also with very real working product and for any project to continue to survive, it has to have a real working products like some of these ones that we have there in tops.

Does accepting cryptocurrency as payment for work you do count as well? I discovered cryptocurrency and after playing around with faucets for a while I decided it was of no use. Then I dropped it. After some time I landed a project that required me to accept Bitcoin as a payment method, at first I never trusted them because I was afraid that there is no protection and I might be doing free work.

But, I still took the risk and luckily, I got paid for it. After that, I started coming across lots of companies that wanted to pay with bitcoin and the current job I'm doing now is a remote job and pays with Bitcoin.

I have been investing in gold before I discovered Bitcoin, but now I don't invest much in it. My focus is more on Bitcoin than gold because that's where I make the most profit. Whatever happens to Fiat does not have anything to do with cryptocurrency unless it's one that is backed by fiat like most stable coins.

I also have two lands, and I have no intention of selling any of them, but to keep them. It's good to have assets like these. I can tell for sure that the price of land in my country has increased more than what it used to sell in the last decade. If I should sell land I know how much I will be getting. That's the same with gold and Bitcoin, they all increase. If you don't have any you are just missing out and when there is an economic crash it will affect you badly.

I expect so much positivity from this next halving and do you know why? Having studied how halving has affected the value of bitcoin positively for two consecutive period now, I am sure that many people would have been convinced now that they next having will surely make the same positive impact on the value of bitcoin, and that event is what people would not like to miss out at all as many of the old and new investor will start rushing to buy bitcoin at any slight opportunity they get to buy at cheaper rate starting form next year after the new year celebration.

From this action alone, I expect the value of bitcoin to cross over the last all time high prior to when the having will occur and shortly after the halving, I also expect that the value will surge to almost 2x of the last all time high also.

If the market closes this year with $10k, I think that it is still a very big achievement considering what the market opened with at the beginning of the year, we would never have imagined that the value could have gone this high and the way the bear market was so dip, who would have also even imagined that bitcoin amidst all other altcoins could have make it this far.

It would have been so frustrating if bitcoin was still in the same position has those other altcoins that is giving us lots of frustrations are now. I do hope that bitcoin gets back to $10k this year ending and if it does, I dint think we should term that as it ending at negative trend, it is a fair value because it is 3x of what it started with at the beginning of this year.

It is very difficult to see any project that will give all those things that is listed there because many of them all claim that they are working under the decentralization program which requires the full protection of identity if any cryptocurrency user be it developer or end user, but I think that they have also taking advantage of this too much by scamming so much people under this disguise and enough is really enough.

If we can stand on our feet as an investor that before any project can get our own penny, they should be able to go by that three rules even if they have to forget the issue of decentralization and operate in a centralized way for us to really be able to fully identify them and confirm them to be a genuine project or not.

Investing in IEO projects has not been that easy as you say here because those top exchanges has not been releasing projects as much as ICO still does, so it can't be possible to be participating in them easily just like that and sometimes, when these top exchanges like binance eventually released their IEO.

Maybe one or two in 2 months, you will see that there is so much rush for it that makes people buy it out easily and if it was to be a physical purchase, I am sure that there would have been lots of stampede, which is why I don't like this IEO of a thing that much because every time I want to be a part of it, the chance to easily get it is limited unlike ICO. ICO actually is still the best, and I just wish that there would be a law that will actually protect investors against scammers.

The thing is that we still need the support of the government to be a bank of our own, and the only way that all those embassies too can recognize any cryptocurrency wallet statement is when they are fully well informed and assured that government is in support of it.
 
Imagine now that you have your money in your wallet and you are able to have full control of it, and then there is this thing that you need to go for in the embassy that requires your statement of account, this means that it is only your wallet account that you can provide, now tell me how the embassies will accept this? What I am just trying to say is that we cannot completely throw the traditional banks out like that except the government is done with them completely.

Imagine thinking in stats and suddenly the price crashes to a very low rate, I'm very sure that you wouldn't be happy with yourself because you will regret saving up and not selling when the price was about to crash.

I am not saying that you're wrong, but everyone has their own purpose for buying Bitcoin, in guessing maybe you just like it and that's why you're storing up numbers. There are people who are just interested in it as a method of transaction because it is cheap and fast and there are no restrictions, you can send to anyone in the world and pay the same fees and at the same speed rate which is faster than using banks. Then there are also people who are interested because it can be an investment and would yield a profit when they invest or trade it.

I work online for a company (a remote job) and they pay their workers with bitcoin. Some people just use it to receive their payment and once it comes into their wallet they will sell/withdraw it to their bank account.

They are only good at making things hard for people because they want their children to grow up and become their heads. This time around nobody cares, there are people who are talented and have been able to start up their own business or do some creative things to make money.

I have seen a lot of people like that on Instagram, social media has helped a lot of them to grow their own brand and start making money from adverts they place. It's not a must that one will work in a corporate office, you can start something of your own and earn from home. There are also people, freelancers, that started their businesses on platforms like Fiverr and I have read their stories, some were able to start making lots of money and built their own house and achieve a lot. You don't need to have time for people but focus on your business and yourself.

I think that this advice goes for newbies that are yet to invest in cryptocurrency and are feeling discouraged about the market situation, it is true that the altcoin season is fast approaching and there is need for them to actually start preparing for it now so that it will not catch them unaware because it is when it catches them unaware that many of them fall victims of fomo, you see them rushing to buy then at the time that the coin is almost getting to the peak because that is when it becomes very glaring to them that the altcoin season has actually started. For people like me who has been in this business for a long time, I think that I have had enough of these coins because from the top 100 coins, I already have the quality ones stored in my portfolio.

For the last part of the statement which is your own concern, I believe that everyone is aware of that since we are not running a decentralized exchange, so centralized exchanges may not really be able to guarantee us full security, but at least the reputable ones can try their best to meet up to the standard which is why you see us always talking of using exchange that are listed as the top exchanges in the market.

I buy crypto with fiat virtually every month because that is when I invest in bitcoin, but in doing so, I make sure that I consider using exchanges that has the lowest fees in the market of which the bets exchange that offers that for now is binance, I know that changelly and other exchanges has low fees also, but not as low as binance exchange.

It is quite difficult to totally ascertain the future of any project because we have so many great projects that started well and has turned to shitcoin today because it's either they did not get the support of the community for continuity of the project or the team itself lost it along the line as they could not keep up with the project because of lack of interest or lack of fund to continue it.

For any project that I desire to invest in, I make sure that I look at the team of the project very well and at the same time consider the product that is being offered. Most of the new projects that are available now are duplicates of already existing ones, so I do take my time to look for the best of them out while I also do the same thing for the holder coins also.

Lately, I have seen some developers actually trying to promote their project again, and some of them are the ones that I already feel were dead which makes me wonder if the altcoin season is approaching because it is during altcoin season that many of them use to rise again for their project which is why I am not even bothered about majority of the coins that I have in my wallet as shitcoin because I know that one day, they will rise back for me to be able to take out my investment before they die off completely.

It is worth that already existing investor of those coins keeps holding it but I don’t think that it is wise for any newbie to hold it as there is more guarantees and more prospect for projects that are within the top 100 in the coinmarketcap.

I believe that everyone here is not just expecting bitcoin to fall as manner form heaven form above, it is when you work hard for bitcoin that you earn it, just like you have to work hard for fiat before you can be able to earn fiat, those who are lazy to work hard are the ones that are gambling and thinking that they could earn some bitcoin through that.

All the years that I have been in cryptocurrency industry, there is no area aside gambling that I have not really exploited to be able to get some more bitcoin to use as investment, or to use for my personal need. Trading is what I even see as the most hard-working way to earn bitcoin, because it requires so much brain, calculation, smartness and skills for you to be able to trade perfectly and not lose the little money you are using.

I was about to mention the TrueUSD but you already said you don't like it and you also not interested in USDCoin. Okay, what about PAXOS STANDARD (PAX)? Their token is regulated and it's approved by the New York State Department of Financial Services. You should check it out and read more about them. Their already wallets that are offering them. If you have Blockchain wallet you will see the coin in your wallet and you can exchange to it. Their own exchange is itbit.com and it's also listed on other exchanges.

Apart from PAX there is also Gemini Dollar (GUSD) offered by Gemini exchange. I discovered this coin around the time PAX was launched so I think they came out the same time. And based on the information I have on them, they are really good.