Yes, that is true. In fact such cases are increasing from time to time. I personally know some people in my neighbor who are addicted gambler and now they have started illegal activities to collect money for playing gambling, I think that we need to educate people to avoid playing gambling or at least should play up to their limits. Where they can afford to lose a limited amount of money, which may not affect their social life.

The points you have listed are good but these days ,scammers are ready to go any length just to scam people if their hard earned money. They are ready to do most of these things, including building a prefect unique site and even buying likes and all that just to deceive investors.

Your sixth can be a lot helpful, cause when they have good partners it’s likely not to be a scam, because no good exchange with good reputation would like to stain it by partnering with scammers.

The bankrupting deal has nothing to do with bitcoin tough, yes I lived the same thing as others did and having a lot of money gone is a horrible feeling but that is a human error not bitcoin error. Bitcoin is not something that goes up and down by itself, people decide what bitcoin worth, bitcoin worth a lot and now worth less than half that because what people think.

Market needs to value bitcoin at what it is and not what they think it could be. People saw potential in bitcoin and increased the value because of that but if you value something for what it could be today then people who know the value of today will take advantage of that. So, the biggest problem is that people value bitcoin for what it could be but not what it is today and that is why we always have ups and downs.

If you mean adoption, then I believe the reason why no one is adopting cryptocurrency till now is because of its volatile nature. I don’t think anyone is ready to take such a risk; you put your money into it, only to wake up the next day and realize that the amount you put in yesterday is no longer what you have there. So that’s why nobody is ready to make use of it.

All my friends that I mention it to always talk about the volatility. They say that they believe that it (cryptocurrency) is an investment that is very risky. They see it as an asset and not as a currency. And there is big risk involved.

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I don’t think adoption is really a problem to the crypto market and I also don’t think it was meant to be a currency like some people claim. All these people saying all that are just some cryptocurrency fans that never get their facts right before spitting it out lol.

The only thing might be a problem is the volatile nature of cryptocurrencies, but to me that’s not really problem as long as I’m investing in the best coins, especially the top coins like Bitcoin and ETH. Volatile nature will remain intact for near future too as this is how basic concepts of cryptocurrencies was designed. We need to accept and bear it if we decide to adopt cryptos.

If you don’t need Blockchain, then you as well does not need cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency cannot work without the blockchain and same blockchain; I haven’t seen any other thing one can do with blockchain apart from cryptocurrency. I have seen people say a lot of things that can be done with blockchain including message encryption, but none of those has been done yet. But as for cryptocurrency? Yes you still need blockchain.

There are hundreds of industries start making use of blockchain technology but unfortunately OP is against it due to serious of bitter experiences with lots of scammy coins/projects. He must understand that due to few wrong examples, we cannot ignore a versatile new invention.

I am just curious to know what makes OP thinks that crypto exchanges are dead ?
As long as there are cryptocurrencies, there will continue to be exchanges for you to trade or exchange cryptocurrencies. So since there are still cryptocurrency, then exchanges are not dead.

Unless you mean the new exchanges, cause they are usually the ones that faces problems. Innovation and creativity is always fading out in the crypto space, most of what you see these days are just copy and paste, you will hardly see anything that is unique (that’s if there is any).

It’s good to be patience in this, but the kind of project you’re being patient for matters a lot. Some projects are not worth having patience for, that’s why you should follow with every coin you’re investing in and also know what the media is saying about it so that you don’t make a mistake. Not all of these coins do survive, some of them will end up dying at last and investors losing their money in it. The only time you can talk of having patience is when it’s a good coin, just like the top coins, example – BTC.

Practically no one will be ready to remain calm when you will be watching your coins are getting lower value over the time. If you want to encash your time and efforts you have spent for bounty campaigns then probably you will rush to beat others for converting your coins/tokens into bitcoin/etehreum. Getting disturbed on down fall market is common but not making people panic/disturbed must be the duty of devs of that project but most people are not ready to take that responsibility.

Yeah, being calm will be possible only we are having more faith on a project. This is why bitcoin is having more number of long-term holder. Bitcoin must be a living proof for making people to hold long-term but I'm not seeing any devs are learning from that example.

POS and masternodes kinds of mining options are available for the reason of preventing dumps. But, these will not be helpful for a ethereum token based project.

Then the universal solution must be, having good concept for your project and keep promoting all your development with proper proof. When people will be seeing your progress along with your roadmap then no one will prefer to dump but at the same time will rush for buying. You cannot avoid dumping because people will always prefer to book profit or will be having their own reasons to sell. We cannot do anything about that.

But what we can do is, making more people to buy so that selling pressure will be neutralized. This is what most successful projects are going. Just remember ethereum is having unlimited supply are still managing to beat most deflationary projects with this kind of things.

Almost 90+% of all coins are "after ICO" levels right now, there are few coins that are on ICO right now.

It means the most common investments are made towards coins that are after ICO which still gives you profits no matter what. When people bought bitcoin (which never had any ICO) or ETH (neither did ETH) do they invest into ICO or do they invest into a regular coin? They still do make decent amount of return and know that they will not be scammed and coin founders won't leave (well satoshi kinda left anyway) so that means if bitcoin and ETH is still decent options than investing after the ICO is still valid.

Even investing right after ICO when it gets listed and everyone sells their coins dropping the price a lot is the perfect moment for it since you will be capable of buying it very cheap and have the advantage of knowing the project continues and thrives instead of investing while project only had one website.

What is the use of them ? Most of them are just garbage. I guess we do not need to go for searching for any waves based token's airdrop as their wallet platform itself, we do get without any efforts. All we need to do is having a waves official wallet and having few waves to be leased out.

Hope many people are aware of what is leasing in waves. It is another kind of mining within waves platform. We can earn some shares along with airdrops. But, you cannot expect any big returns from this but it may be a slow earner for no-big-efforts hence why not give it a try. In waves platform itself, they are filtering out most spam airdrops. Still, you may get no-value tokens under active listing. I am not sure why we are getting like that. Probably, they are having any future plans to list them into wave's in-house exchange portal.

That it can printed at any time doesn’t mean you can just keep on printing. If you keep on printing money just like that, then value of the country’s currency will drop. As for Bitcoin, it is limited and we all know that. But as the demand for it continues to increase you will see that the value will also continue to increase at the same time. It will reach a time where you won’t talk about buying a whole Bitcoin, rather you will talk about buying in fractions (that’s in satoshis)

This is how a typical sideways markets are used to be. No surprises.

You cannot expect after the severe down-fall, markets to bounce back quickly. Between falling-down and rising-up market conditions there is another phase of market is there. That must be known as sustaining phase. We are currently into that phase, hopefully.

If we are not breaking $3200 anymore and we will be trying to break the resistance around $4200 levels once again then we can conclude that we are into sustaining phase and it is also known as power gaining mode. In this mode, market will gain more power (in terms of more trading volume) to break up all upcoming resistance levels. Until breaking up major resistance levels, this kind of boring market will be inevitable.

All of these bearish forecasts are basing their theory on one thing ; volume. We have really low volume and always have a chaotic drop whenever a big sell happens. Now it is quite easy to sell 500 million dollar worth of bitcoin considering there are early investors and really rich folks who got into bitcoin a bit later.

However, its a lot harder to buy 500 million dollar worth of bitcoins considering it is first of a legal hassle for tax reasons plus you would make the market go higher because of your buy order and wouldn't be capable of buying bitcoin at the market value because of your own big purchase.

If the volume keeps staying low all we have to have is one big sell like Craig did 2 months ago and we will see another big drop in the price which is why bitcoin and crypto in general is "moderately bearish" until we get to a level where either price is high again so we don't have to worry about the drop or we have big enough volume to eat up any big sales.

There is no mystery about a sudden drop. The market works only one way, there are people who want to buy and there are people who want to sell, if there are more bitcoins that are sold than bought than sellers drop the price to be able to sell quicker and if there are more buy orders than sell than buyers offer higher price purchase to be able to buy and increase the price. That is how the market works and that is all it has been.

An instant drop basically means that bitcoin was sold at a high volume at one big huge order and that dropped the price and of course some stop loss was broken and some bots sold for dropping the average and so forth but basically it all comes down to more bitcoins being sold all at once than bought which makes the price go lower in matter of minutes.

We again saw a drop at the price today, it is a continuation of 2018 trend of December, we have been around 3-4 thousand dollars for couple months now. Ever since we had a drop from 6.5 thousand dollars the lowest we have seen is 3200 dollars which is not that far away however price is having resistance of not dropping there anymore, however whenever we reach over 4 thousand dollars there is really no improving on top of that neither.

All we need is just one push now and we can see both sides break quite easily. Just as when price is dropping fastly right now if someone sells a bunch of bitcoins we can see under 3200 for the first time in years and if when we are moving around 4+ thousand dollars if we see someone buying a bunch of bitcoins we can see price going above 4200 for the first time since we dropped here.

We just need push for any of them to happen. So its quite early to decide if we are going to "moon" or not, we might as well just take the bus to next station first.

The bitcoin cash fork war was the biggest reason why bitcoin went from 6.5 thousand dollars to 3.2 thousand dollars and that can't be denied. Anyone who says that is not the reason for it is either ignorant or has ill intentions. However, the reason why bitcoin went from 20 thousand dollars to 6.5 thousand dollars was the hype. When price was around 900 dollars or so just in April-May of 2017 people believed that was not enough and we reached to 3-4 thousand dollars after couple of months, which was expected and quite sustainable and proper.

However, when the price went as much as 20 thousand dollars anyone with a bit of mind sold all their coins because it was impossible to keep bitcoin at those levels and it was obvious price would fall. So we dropped to 6.5 thousand dollars not because something bad happened but because we actually didn't deserved that 20 thousand dollars. From April-May of 2017 to today moved about x6-x8 or so which is actually great.

I am not an expert on PoS so I can't really talk about the PoS aspect of this discussion but the fact is that PoS is giving the load back to people who holds their coins on their wallets and keep the wallet open 7/24 whereas PoW gives the load to miners who already run their rigs 7/24 anyway which means transactions are much faster and much cheaper, the reason PoW is used over PoS in many places is to make transactions much faster and cheaper. However, with the new systems and features coming into PoS that difference is closing quite quickly.

ETH is secure because the amount of PoW it has is insanely high and when it switches to PoS there will be a lot of wallets that's running the node as well. ETC, vert and btc gold was so small compared to ETH that its not even remotely close so no one that holds ETH needs to worry about it. It is a danger to smaller hash PoW coins only.