If the following didn't clue you in about the joke, I don't know what to say. FYI, in a similar situation scams employ social engineering to make you trust what you are seeing. Don't easily believe what you see.

Even the most skeptic and Roubini-esque crypto observer will agree that the coming Bitcoin halving will surely make the price rally again. I do believe it is only 418 days left.

Therefore, only 328 days to see the price rise. (3 months ahead of event)

I don't know, guys. It actually depends on where you live, in what country. I lived in countries where transfering fiat is pain with so much background checks and middlemen, so bad that you could accumulate $1,000 in fees for a year. Cryptos? Forget it.

And then I lived in countries where every option is offered, every payment system is available and cheap, including bitcoin transactions.

You just have to be a little patient especially during this period of market downturn. I don't know why but when in a prolonged bear market, quality service also suffers  Besides you have no choice.

This uncertainty in your minds about P2P rentals launch delayed/non-existent/etc. Of course, no one knows outside of the core developer team. But remember this: Greed is a strong motivator. Various experts agree that the real estate industry fits perfectly with blockchains and is foreseen to be a trillion dollar market based on a blockchain.

They know if they can pull this through and be the first to make real estate work on a blockchain, they can make millions of dollars. If this is a scam, they are already gone long ago. The only reason would be is they are too incompetent.

Imagine being so close to a working and thriving real estate blockchain platform that no one has built yet.

Today's Ethereum price is the ideal price to buy and accumulate. It's perfect for a 10x run to all-time high of $1,400 something. I'm sure when the price reaches ATH, the bears will short it. You can take profit from there and re-buy again at a later date.

Ok, dude. Whatever floats your boat. Been in crypto for half a decade, I regret letting go of the Eth I bought for cents in the early years and regret hodling some dead coins in forgotten wallets, but in the end, I came out still making much profit. To each his own judgement call. Afterburn!

I doubt FB coin will have an impact on the bullishness of the crypto markets. Lately, all crypto markets whether Bitcoin or any assorted altcoin have the same price action.

I actually believe FB'c crypto project will mainly help the market through more publicity, more eyeballs on the whole industry.

Sad to say, cash is king in payments here in my country, even the coins. I often buy daily from a 7-11 store and the local wet market, both mostly transact in fiat. Even the use of credit/debit cards is limited to large purchases in malls and supermarkets.

This has been my sentiment since January 2018! The 2014 - 2015 bear market has been the worst. It was a time when almost all insiders were questioning whether crypto is really just a fad after all. Now, even with the current market, people are busy building.

Check out this article: https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/03/26/crypto-industry-execs-this-bitcoin-bear-market-is-the-best-yet/

From the article:

There will always be newbies needing to learn, newbies who dive right in without learning about the fundamentals of cryptocurrency, trading and the pitfalls. This is because the market is growing larger and there will always be a certain percentage who won't be diligent.

It is the best time to invest in ICOs. They are already stripped down for hype. In fact, most people will view them through a much skeptical lens. Also, it would be the cheapest price you can get. Of course, due diligence is still required for possible scams.

With what you said, it is definitely interesting. I would probably research how much data/store of transactions you can add to the blockchain and being cost-effective. I would also like to know how you can intelligently extract the data profiles from the chain (Like searching with parameters). I hope to see more developments on this.

How long to be patient? The whitepaper of Universa was really good. I hope developments for the Universa blockchain go faster. A lot of people are waiting and this thread is very long now.

I've seen this situation before.  When the price finally bottoms out, the community rep of the dev  team is nowhere to be found and a lot of angry holders posting their remorse in the coin's thread. Stuff that has nothing to do with the market movements.

And then one day, the market recovers and they will all be gone, replaced by new excited holders. And when the price goes parabolic, so does the sentiment.

They said blockchain technology is still years away from being massively adopted. What more about Genomic Data Markets? Isn't it too early to use blockchains for such use cases?

Of course, Visa wants in on crypto. You must be living in a cave if you don't know that blockchain technology will flourish and take over the world. And we know that tokens/coins and their use are what makes the blockchain network valuable.

ICO investing is still worth it as long as your picks should have been carefully analysed for red flags and a really good use case that will be adopted in the future.

It's sad though that no one from the official team is updating this thread. Yeah, I knew it all along - these ICO fundraisers just use the forum to raise capital and nothing more. What is so hard to create real discussion on the forum's threads?

It is because doing the real thing is a lot harder than faking it. In fact the  worst scams are done by legit coders who are brilliant and then when certain amount of time has passed, they do an exit strategy/ exit scam.