I doubt there is anything left. Mainstream media tried everything in their power to make it go away but bitcoin is not going away. Why did media wanted it go away? Because, there are a lot of rich people who own the media and they didn't wanted bitcoin to succeed because if bitcoin did they would lose a lot of money so they spent all their effort and power to belittle bitcoin but they failed because nobody cared about mainstream media when they could simply just make money and profit. That is what matters to people, their own personal money.

You think there is a political thing that is wrong in your country? Tell people to spend their own money to keep it going and they will say no and that thing will soon be gone because nobody believes in anything as much as their own money.

I'm always surprised when I see people that engage themselves in investment that they don't know much about. It's really funny, how do you invest in something when you don't know the people that are running the project and where they are from. I can never invest in any project if the team are not being transparent with who they are and their plans. Investing in projects like that is like taking a huge risk, because you can wake up tomorrow and they may decide to call off the project without refunding their investors (scammers) and there will be no way for you to trace them.

Knowing the team is not the only thing that is important , you also need to know what their plans are, and the possibility of them achieving success with the project. These and more are the things you have to check before you for any investment so that you don't waste your hard earned money on nothing.

Everything here for now is full of risk, which I think that there is no way that we can avoid it if we want to continue to be a part of this bounty hunting, so it is either we give up completely or we just keep pressing till we get the right project that will not maltreat us bounty hunters.

Most of the projects that we have now can really not be predicted, and like you said, there is still possibility of them scamming even if we join the campaign along the line, so better we join at the early stage, though we still have to look at it In the aspect of our time, it would have saved our time also if the period we took part in the project is when they have started raising fund, and if they eventually scam, it will still not be like the period that we have used on them from the beginning.

Holder would definitely celebrate again one day and those that are thinking holders are wasting their time will be amazed at the profit that these people will get at the end of the season. The next bull run that is coming might be the biggest that we have seen so far because I am sure that it will supersede the last all-time high of $19800 that many people have their investment in right now.

There are lots of reason that made me believe that next year is the year that we are going to see these improvements in the market when the bull run start as there is halving that is coming up, same as the Ethereum 2.0 that is also going to come up too which I am quite optimistic also that Facebook will succeed in releasing their coin too for next year.

It is only countries that does not know how to control the emission of carbon in their country that are very much concerned about bitcoin being a disaster, for countries like china and the United states, they already have the things that they do to curtail this and in curtailing this does not mean that they will stop every technology that has such emission of carbon, but they have the gadgets that will be out in place to reduce the manner and way that they are being exposed to the atmosphere.

When it comes to electricity, countries like china has a very strong electricity and a very cheap one that no matter how heavy the machine in mining bitcoin is, they might never feel the effect of it on their power system, so we should stop complaining of bitcoin consuming power but countries should be the one to expand more in what they generate.

At the early stage, it may be very difficult, but overtime, those countries that may have become adamant about the project will eventually loosen up because when it comes to transaction, there will always be the need to actually partner with other countries in this, and if one of the country to partner with has adopted bitcoin, they might tend to ignore, but once they start seeing 2 or 3 countries with the same, they will surely want to join the train also so that they can continue their relationship with the country, but unfortunately, the country that would have set sample for this is not helping as they are all about themselves alone which even after they have accepted cryptocurrency, what they are thinking of is how they can create their which I am talking of china.

We have stable coins already and they are the first attempt by developers and Coins like Libra is also one of those, as it is backed by a reserve to keep the price stable. But as we all know it, Libra might no longer be a success due to the government being against the idea of having a global cryptocurrency that will be controlled by Facebook and whatever it is that made them disagree.

But, there are still others like USDT, TUSD, etc. though investors are not showing much interest in it. Bitcoin is volatile, but it is still the cryptocurrency that is getting more attention from most investors.

I have been able to overcome the fear of missing out. Unlike when I was a newbie, I will always be rushing in when the price starts to go up and sometimes I will get in and at the end the price will still fall back to the lower price. Price speculation by people was part of what makes to jump without taking the time to read the chart and all that.

But, this time around I don't let anything control, I will buy whenever I want, even when the price is falling I still buy. I learnt to buy during the bear trends because times like that are the best time for buying bitcoin or any other coin you want at a cheaper rate. And If there happens to be a bull run later you will be happy with yourself that you did. FOMO is a serious case and it's something that people need to learn how to control their emotions.

It is not a bad prediction anyway because Bittorent is a project that I give lots of respect to for the kind of content that they have and before they joined the cryptocurrency too, they have developed their working project that has been working, so I would not use this bear market to judge the project which I also know that they year 2020 which I to mark a very significant year in the history of some of these cryptocurrency will make the value of Bittorent to rise above the predicted price of yours.

Next year is the halving of bitcoin, which will lead to the increase of bitcoin and as bitcoin increases, the value of some of these altcoins will also surge, next year is also expected of Facebook to launch their Libra project and also the Ethereum update, so all these coming together will really make the value of Bittorent to surge.

You're right OP. Cryptocurrency scammers are hardly being caught. I think some people are getting this wrong; since cryptocurrency is anonymous it is hard to get someone when they scam another person, and that's because there is no means to trace them. If a hacker should hack an exchange and steal the money they can move it to a coin mixer and that way you won't be able to trace them for good.

But, if there were regulation and everyone that wants to make use of cryptocurrency is required to verify their identity, people will be afraid to try such, even hackers because they know that with the information they have given to their wallet provider they will be traced easily.

I saw someone post about someone that was involved in a project that scammed people over $16 million dollars and was caught. Well, that's a different case, those people were caught because they exposed their identity, which is different from the case I have explained above. You cannot start a project and get investors without proving your identity, that's why, sometimes, scammers will try to impersonate someone else.

I would not doubt a pump in Ethereum and every other top coins because their pump no longer depends on their real use case as it used to be, but on the increase of bitcoin. Most of the pump they have been having this year has been as a result of pump from bitcoin, so every time that I wish that these altcoins rise in value, what I wish for is that bitcoin goes on bull run.

I cannot now say if Ethereum plan to introduce their 2.0 next year will have any effect on the value, but it is our believe that at list the release of the project will create hype for the coin even if it will still not have real working product. The market is really going bad now with scam project and I don’t see the release of their 2.0 solving that, so whatever plan that they have for their 2.0, I hope that it is really worth it anyway.

It is because we don’t have regulation that we are having so many ridiculous altcoins in the market and if there was regulation, I am sure that not more than 200 coin would have made the list and seeing all these over 3000 coin with many of them having no real use case is really confusing lots of people.

Imagine that a novice comes to the market now, and then decided to invest or make use of a cryptocurrency for the first time, and then with the little knowledge that he has, he picks any of those coins to use and ended up getting disappointed, how would he be encouraged to continue using cryptocurrency, and that is how we keep losing many interest. It is not about researching on projects for now, but I think it is about looking for how to get rid of those confused and confusing projects that we have in the market.

Everyone already knows that the risks involved is that you can lose your money. If you're lucky you will be able to make lots of money. Anyone who is investing in cryptocurrency should always be aware of the risks that are involved.

When I started cryptocurrency I was never aware that Bitcoin can be really volatile and I was using a Xapo wallet then and the price if Bitcoin was $250 or so. So, I received some bitcoins from someone and left it in my Xapo wallet with plans to sell it the next day. The next day I opened the wallet and logged in and realized that the price dropped down to $240+.

I contacted support and questioned them about what happened to the money and they told me that that's how cryptocurrency is, that your money can go down at any time. Don't blame me for it, I never knew that cryptocurrency is something volatile. I was looking for a payment method to use and I searched on Google and Bitcoin came and I checked and it was available in my country, I didn't take out time to research more about it since people said it was legit. It was after this incident that I decided to do further research on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.

Bullish for Bitcoin? Well, from what I see the price of Bitcoin is going down and not being bullish. The price has dropped From the rate of $9000+ and down to $8000+ now, so I don't see how that's being bullish. Well, China is going to benefit from bitcoin for sure: they have cheap electricity and they will be able to make income from miners and that's for sure.

This morning I read a news article that Bitcoin might drop once institutions starts to adopt it. The expert claimed that the price might even drop to zero once they start adopting it but I don't know if this is really true.

Well, at such situation you have no choice than to sell your coins at a cheap rate. There are some who will still not sell their coins because they strongly believe that the price will go up. I have seen someone that still held his Bitcoin after the price fell from $20,000 and down to $8000.

Of course, it would create a very big impact as many countries would fund it easy now to be able to trade through their coin using the platform. I think binance really needs to be given an award for trying everything in their best to make sure that the cryptocurrency market is working according to plan and not because of their selfish interest alone.

I like the fact that binance never runs out of idea to help improve the cryptocurrency space, when they saw the challenges that people were having during ico, they came up with IEO which was all their idea until some of these useless exchange who has nothing in their head other than to spoil another man’s work decide to join in the raise and I wonder if they cannot just think of ideas from their head, and don’t be shocked when you see some exchange coming up with this nee idea again through.

For this reason known to us already is why we need to be very selective about projects now, we have to just ensure that the project that we want to buy is such a project that will have a future that can be sustained for a long time and not the ones that developers will abandon.

Most project that usually gets abandoned by developers are project that usually do have developers that are inexperienced and because they are inexperienced, they lack the ability and understanding to be able to withstand any pressure, but a developer who has been in a business for a very long time, already understand the challenges that usually accompany most projects, so they are able to deal with them professionally when they come across any, so we have to watch out for project with team that have past experiences.

What makes you think that the developers have stopped working, because they are not giving promo out? It is not only doge coin team that is not promoting, also every other project too is not because we are in the bear market and no one seems to be interested in investing in altcoins for now until the bear market is over.

The doge team has already provided a solid project to a level where all they need now is people that is meant to use it to accept their token, in which they are trying their best to make sure that they do awareness in the little way they know it will have effect until the bear market is over. If you are judging doge coin like this, how come all other coins too even the top ones are acting similarly?

It should not be hard to convince people to actually buy Ethereum now if they really do understand that at every increase of bitcoin, Ethereum is always growing in price and for any smart investor, I think since bitcoin is hard not to accumulate one, I mean in term of prices, Ethereum can still be accumulate, but that should be when we know that bitcoin had dip and the recovery stage is what we were looking for.

The last time that Ethereum rose in value, it was still bitcoin that made the value if Ethereum to surge, and most of the altcoins in the market, everything still depend on the momentum of bitcoin and we should wish more that the bull run of bitcoin will start, if the bull run of bitcoin can start, then coins like Ethereum can also have value more than what it is now.

Ripple to me is still the wrongest choice of investment for anyone to really have amidst all the other coins that are more appreciated, I would even prefer to invest in an exchange token than to invest in ripple that I dint really know where they stand, if they are stable coin or high yield investment coin, because they have been stagnant on a particular value for a very long time now which I don’t even know how this does not bother them for the team to be more active.

They seat on the third level in coinmarket cap, but the team of Tron is more active as I hear of Tron project more than I hear of ripple project. People should just get into their mindset that ripple is centralized coin and what is the essence of using it when we can easily use bitcoin.

The difference between other bubbles and sportsbook being super popular right now is that stake is stake already, they are not turning into a sportsbook website, they will keep their casino part open for everyone and I am 99% sure their casino part will get more customers even after the sportsbook.

So, if sportsbook is still popular after years then it is great for stake, if sportsbook becomes boring and the bubble bursts and not many people play there, stake will still have the casino part of the deal so they will still make money from there. When a bubble happens it is something brand new with no fall back guarantee so it goes up but then crumbles down, here it is not like that, even if the bubble bursts there is a casino to fall back on so it is not that important.