it has been 8+ years and there have been hundreds of altcoins fighting pretending to be able to compete with the first spot. in the future this will only change if NEW altcoins are created with some utility and usefulness as a currency in mind not with "how to pump and dump more" in mind and as their main goal.

so far ethereum has been the pump and dump to make more money. and it is not a currency. it is a platform for smart contracts which in reality is used to create ICO scams! so it is more like a double fail for it.

besides if you want to compare you should compare things in their own category. bitcoin is a currency. ethereum is a platform for smart contracts with token called ether which is not even supposed to be used as a currency. if you want to compare then do it with other smart contract platforms. there are a lot of them and many do it so much better and easier than ether.

the only reason why price dropped so far is because of two things: uncertainty and being uneducated.
and because of these two there has been a lot of FUD to change the direction of bitcoin. the risk that you call "too much" is actually way too little at this point with the factual data that we have at our hands. but it was exaggerated through a lot of FUD and that is why price fell in the first place.

and just like the previous fork FUD, this one will also lead to a big rise when people realize it was all empty bullshit. unless the facts that we have today change in the future, which is not likely.

there i no if and there is no hard fork.
there is only a soft fork for bitcoin on August which will activate SegWit because it currently has a very high support from the miners (nearly 90% support and it only needs 80% so it is already over the mark). and when it activates like this there won't be another chain. there WILL BE ONE chain only and price will rise up faster than you can blink.

even if bitcoin dies right now, nobody will switch to a shitcoin like ETH. nobody even trust ETH anymore. everyone knows how unreliable its network is. how their transactions are going to be stuck and their money to disappear easily because it is buggy. exchanges have already disabled ETH wallets. and as you can see ETH price is dropping hard.

the second best thing (like always) is litecoin and always will be litecoin. and if someday we decide to replace bitcoin we will do it with LTC but that day will never come as i said by August 1 we will have a smooth 100% soft fork without a chain split.

if you want live data then go to the exchanges directly.
if you are not a developer then just open their website and look at their lists. for example poloniex has the list of coins on the right side you can sort it by % change or volume or ... bittrex has it on the top you can open with a click on the markets drop down and select the thing you want to sort the list with from the top. there is also a list on their home page after you log in.

if you are a developer then just use their API and then sort the data that you gain programmatically.

you know it is not the fault of developers. at least not only them. although i blame them for lack of proper communication and educating others.
it is the fault of:
miners who are greedy, miners who are uneducated and so childish
the nodes who haven't made a decision to what they want to support
the users who think they should be paid or rewarded for running a node
the users who didn't educate themselves to understand some basic things like what this split risk everyone talking about coming from and if it is even serious or a small possibility.
and the social places like forums for being filled with pointless arguments instead of real constructive discussions to reach a middle ground.

and you know, the whales always love drama like this. they short bitcoin now and make shitloads of money and then buy back at the bottom and become even bigger whales.

at that time nobody knew the split is going to become a big FUD because nobody had a time machine to see the future. and if this FUD about the split never became big and people didn't take it seriously then price would have only had a small correction back to $2500ish and by the end of the year price would have been nearly $3000.

but things changed. the FUD became bigger, and nobody cared enough to check the reality and they all decided to believe what they read from a comment and panic sell their coins.

if you want to blame anyone, blame the idiots who don't know the difference between a fork or a split but yet give opinion about everything related to those.

thanks.
1. this was not it, since i have logged in a couple of months ago when they did an upgrade and i changed my password and everything.
2. this shouldn't be the reason either. because i have a dynamic IP anyways and it changes every time i turn my router on
3. i am using the same browser (Firefox) but it was updated recently. i didn't know it changes the User Agent! so i am guessing this is the reason.
4. this one is strange, i don't think my AV has done anything. i checked the logs. it probably is the update to 54.0.1 combined with my IP change

let me translate it for you, maybe it helps understanding what OP means:
"I have sold my coins recently at $2200 and am now wishing and also desperately trying with this topic to see a much lower price so i can buy back what i've sold

here is a little more help: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2020368.0 and this was posted yesterday meaning he sold at ~$2200

there are a lot of these things around, and everyone thinks their coin is the one replacing bitcoin.
and you know what, i agree with what you said "it will happen in the future". but the problem currently is that as you can see from the previous 2 comments people don't want a "currency" they want "an investment" or in other words they want to make profit.
that is why nobody makes any of these with a currency in mind and that is why none of them has became the leading "currency" so far.

- satoshi is not holding "millions"
- in fact we don't know and will never know how much he holds
- some speculate it is far less than ONE Million
- bitcoin was released in 2008 and that is barely 9 years and the "stash" that satoshi may or may not have was mined over the course of a year so a correct thing to say is those coins have not moved for 6-7 years.
- also hard fork is nothing to worry about, hard fork without consensus is something to worry about because that can lead to split

i believe he meant to say June. and that makes this news kind of old.
i have to say bitcoin price is mostly because of the high demand in India, it has little to do with its regulations. the high price ($2800-$3000 last time i checked) was on their bitcoin exchanges like zebpay not on some place like localbitcoins!
and as far as platforms outside if India goes, it is nearly impossible for them to deposit money on any of those exchanges, which is another reason for the very high price on their exchanges.

is it normal that sometimes when i visit bitsler i have to log in again?
is it the cookie expiring or does something about the website change, that eliminates previous log ins and logs out my account?

someone who hold such a massive amount of bitcoin (2.2 million or 5.1 billion dollar) is not stupid enough to publicly announce it, specially not on a platform like youtube.
first thing that is going to happen to him is that he will start being the target of hackers, thieves and other scumbags both online and offline. they may even attack him with machine guns!

second thing that will happen to him is that he will start being the target of the government and also the tax man. government wanting to know the origin of the coins, ... and the tax man wanting his share of the money.

so think again about the truthfulness of this. and try to think about "why he is pretending to have that much and what he is gaining from this online public stunt"

the first and probably the only feature that a new cryptocurrency must have is to be a crypto-currency.
and this feature has been forgotten for some time now! the developers are only looking for adding features that attract most people in short term to make the most profit. but they forget that if they succeed in making a real currency then they will have the long term. like bitcoin does.

and in order to be a currency, fast confirmation is a good thing but we should not forget the cost of that. most of the altcoins so far have the problem with scaling and centralization of nodes and turning into a couple of master nodes! this is not a decentralized cryptocurrency! so nobody will use it in the long run.

the other thing is ease of use. the wallet, the integration into services like merchants adopting it must be as easy as possible.

anonymity is good too but it is not really an absolute requirement in my opinion. the average Joe is not looking for a high level of anonymity. they usually don't even care about it! the normal level of anonymity that a normal cryptocurrency offers is more than enough.

it is just unpredictable right now though.
all these years we have had unpredictable times such as NOW. and they always go away and we can see clearly. many actually do stay away from the market at times like this and i think it is one of the reasons why volume drops a bit.
staying away and holding is probably the safest bet though. then after things become clear (like all the previous uncertain times) you can come back stronger and pick up the pieces.

this reminds me of STEEM and how people thought it will be a revolution, replace reddit, blah blah
but so far it seems like whenever you mix money with things like this (posting, tweeting,...) the farmers will show up and mess everything up. and when that happens the quality of the whole system will go down and people will be less willing to visit it even if there is a good thing there.
so as long as there are alternatives like reddit and twitter for them respectively and they are cleaner and better, people will stick to them.

haha,, this is actually what i came back to this topic to add to my previous comment here. glad i read other comments to see i am not the only person thinking this
people always forget that there are always two sides in a trade, one side is buying it over priced and once side is selling it overprice to the other sucker.

those articles were mostly because of over-excitement in my opinion. and what you are saying is also over-depression!
so far nothing has changed. price has gone up from $1000 to more than $2000 which is more than 100% rise in nearly  6 months and people are starting to act all weird because the "rise" has stopped. i mean this is already a crazy big rise for this whole year! and even if there wasn't any more rises and price stayed at $2400ish for the rest of this year the rise would still be the same percentage as previous years!

so why the weirdness about not rising!

there has been some speculation about who is spamming and why, but i personally think it was the miners all along!
they had the incentive: increasing fees and making more profit, also showing we need scaling solution
they also had the money to do it: the extra fees helped a lot! up to 3.5BTC fees per block is 10 times more than what you use for spamming.

offline storage or cold storage is not just transferring your wallet to somewhere else. it is the whole process of creating hat wallet offline. and this offline doesn't mean turning your internet off. it means going on a clean computer or operating system at least which has never been connected to the internet.

in other words if you install Jaxx on your USB while on your common pc which is always online or if you transfer it to that USB on that computer, it means your setup is not a cold storage.

a simple solution would be to boot up inside a live Linux and do the wallet installation there.