Ethereum network is experiencing congestion for quite a period. Shrading is a nice concept and they should implement it as soon as possible.
In my opinion, scaling is the only obstacle that's holding the price of Ethereum.

IBM well know for it's involvement in crypto development is going to issue a token carbon credit blockchain in stellar platform with the partnershipto Veridium Labs.
Veridium Labs is an environment focused company which verified the partnership.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/15/veridium-labs-teams-with-ibm-and-stellar-on-carbon-credit-blockchain/

My country doesn't even know what crypto is. They have restriction on buying and selling through bank account but still peer to peer buying and selling is common. We have some large mining farms and the only difficulty is in converting the coins to fiat.

It's certainly time for crypto to rise. Many of the rumors and FUDs had been clear and we are getting all good news. With so much attention from the streamline media, a large group of people are Keen to jump into the train.

Not only a good investment, but it also yields GAS as product which at current time sells to offer you about 4% yearly income in your investment.

It was much hyped and it badly needed a correction. The market always behaves this way. The huge investors advertise the product after keeping a good stock for themselves and dump it back to new investors. But holding would never let you down. It's been proved for centuries.

That's a bad decision early for the exchange. Binance the leader is not asking for KYC upto 2BTC daily trading.
The move would increase the dependence of Binance.
KYC with it's recent misuses have led negative image of it on every investors and traders.

1. Tron is shifting to its mainnet from 31st May, not a instantaneous task. Most of the popular exchange would  support automatic swap. 
2. New York exchange too keen to trade bitcoin. https://bit.ly/2rwhtUJ
3. Aeternity launches house of blockchain coworking space for startups in Liechtenstein. https://bit.ly/2IuFPJ2
4. Ripple joins Coinone, Korean remittance company to facilitate remittance. https://bit.ly/2jIoPkh

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If they are able to release their promised network, they will put a stop on false accusation and FUD the  project is facing.
Though it's early to decide but if the team mean what they are saying, EOS would be the next big thing in crypto.

Never invest more than 25% of your money to a single coin. Have your 75% investment in 10 of your choices no more.
Diversify your investments between ICO tokens, Mineable currencies, Privacy focused and as many different fields as possible.

Ripple were looking to venture this sector and coinone is a good choice as south korea is one of the largest remittance provider. But the real problem lies in utilizing the Ripple in the destination countries as most of the remittance receiving countries are third world countries and are mostly hostile to cryptocurrencies. Philippines is an exception.

I aspect the price of $2K for a unit of Etyhereum within this year.
It can go there by October, It's not my random guess but many analysis and surveys have concluded on similar prices.

I don't think so. Not only the start of ETC or as the call not going in the path of ETH shady, the team has taken many suspicious actions after that fork as well.
Though I would appreciate some of their agile and good decision making a different roadmap than ETH, the team still has a lot to prove for their intentions.

They are trying to create an alternative trading currency.
They are the countries most affected by embargo and IMF. It's just a start from the two. Soon we will be seeing many such regional projects to make the financial world free from the dictatorship of IMF.

Interesting project. Joined the Signature and Telegram campaign.
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As we know, the founder of Litecoin is out of his own boat and the future development of this coin is uncertain. Though there are volunteer developers working on it but with the queen out of the hive, they have mostly dispersed and are dispersing rendering Litecoin a dead coin soon.

It's a great news for every crypto lovers especially in the US.
Here's a cnbc article about it
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/25/nasdaq-is-open-to-becoming-cryptocurrency-exchange-ceo-says.html

If NASDAQ started crypto exchange, that would certainly change the way people (investors) view cryptocurrencies.

With Charlie out of it, there are very few core developers following it. Which would make it's further development lousy.
It doesn't have a huge community and userbase like bitcoin and has no proper team to lead any further. So, it just on its own.

They were among the newest and now are already leading on their sector.
The development is swift and they are already professional in both technology and finance.
Though decentralisation may be an issue for them but they are the immediate competitor to ETh.

To some extent yes, bitcoin is still the top choice for base currency among crypto.
So, most of the price movement of Bitcoin are independent of Alts while Alts price are largely influenced by Bitcoin.