If the exchange does not expressly prohibit it in its rules, I don't see any problem. The project that wins the competition saves the money that would have to pay for the listing and also receives $30,000 in the form of a marketing package. There is nothing wrong in distributing a part of that money among the users who vote for them.

I think this situation is temporary and sooner or later it will stabilize. Anyway, the difference is about two dollars, I think those large businesses that you mention would not have much problem with it. It would be different if the price of ETH and consequently the price of gas were ten times higher.

There will not be an economic crisis because of this dispute, things will not go that far, but, even if that happened, it would not negatively affect cryptocurrencies. If anything, the opposite could happen since people could use cryptos as a refuge.

I doubt that there are leaks about this before the decision is made public. There may be experts who think or are sure that it will be approved but until there is an official decision, all that is said will be mere conjecture.

First of all, you talk about altcoins as if they were one single thing and that's not the case. There are more than a thousand altcoins, counting tokens. Among these, some are and will be important but don't delude yourself thinking that any of these altcoins will have the importance of bitcoin because it will not be like that. If someone thinks that there is some altcoin that can be something like the new bitcoin, he is wrong.

It seems to me that this can be a double-edged sword, on the one hand it's true that it can attract new people to crypto world but, on the other hand, a browser wallet is not exactly a safe wallet, if you attract people to cryptos but then these people lose their funds because of some vulnerability or a hack you will get the opposite effect to that which you expected to get.

It's the law of supply and demand, there are many new coins and tokens that wish to be listed on exchanges and exchanges take advantage of the situation, especially those with a greater number of users and in which there is a higher trading volume. Anyway, there are other exchanges that are less popular where it's cheaper to list a coin or a token, it's a question of evaluating the possibilities.

This hack is not related to MEW security nor makes MEW less secure. What has been hacked is a browser extension. What people have to consider is the convenience of installing this type of extensions. Keep in mind that in the same way that hackers have been able to register the activity in MEW, they have been able to register any other activity in the browser. Anyway, you can always use the desktop version of MEW that is more secure.

It seems that facebook plans to implement their own cryptocurrency are serious although I don't know what utility it could have. Facebook is supposedly a free platform in which, if I'm not wrong, there are no paid services, and using Facebook to make transactions between individuals would not make much sense, unless you don't care about your privacy at all. It seems an attempt not to become obsolete more than anything else.

Download the wallet from the official site of each project. Scan the wallet file with an updated antivirus and send it to Virustotal site before installation. To add an extra security layer install the file on a virtual machine. With these steps you can reduce risks. On the other hand, there are wallets like coinomi that support various altcoins.

You need to take into account that the news you have posted is related to the future use of blockchain technology by IBM but it has no relation with cryptocurrencies. Therefore, it cannot influence the crypto market.

Where do these restrictions come from, from the government or from the banks themselves? It's surprising that this thing happens in a country like Switzerland. At least they have realized the error and are rectifying. In this globalized world, talent always seeks the most friendly place to develop, if you bet on a sector you have to do it well.

Now that Ethereum is suffering the problem of high fees, it's time for other projects to take advantage of the situation and offer themselves as an alternative. I think it's smarter to offer themselves as an alternative than as a substitute for Ethereum. Anyway, one thing is the words and another thing is the facts, and we must see what happens if Cardano or other projects are used massively as Ethereum, we will have to see if these projects suffer the same problems or not.

Your personal data is more valuable than any amount of money someone can give you for them. The problem is focused from an erroneous point of view, it's not about paying users for their data, it's about not taking that data.

This is one of the weaknesses of Ethereum, a kitties game and an exchange with an extravagant idea are enough to congest the network causing problems that affect not only the fees but also the ICOs operation. I guess this will be something good for their competitors since many ICOs will consider using other platforms in the future.

It will depend on several factors such as the number of people who know the cryptocurrencies, the number of people who own cryptos and, above all, the perception that people have of cryptocurrencies. If people see them as a safe store of value that can serve as a refuge, there can be a massive purchase of cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin. On the other hand, if the perception of people is that cryptos suppose a very high risk, it's possible that the opposite effect takes place and that those who have cryptos sell them to get fiat money. In the end, it will depend on whether people think that cryptos are more or less secure than fiat money. If we take into account the recent history, the most feasible option would be the first one.

The wallets to which the users send their tokens when they send them to the exchanges are not under the users control but under the exchanges control. Users only manage their usernames and passwords.

Following that strategy I'm afraid that you will run out of ETH very soon. At the end, the best thing you can do is leave those tokens in your wallet and forget about them, unless someday they become valuable.

Before, there was much less competition, there were hardly a couple of exchanges, now the competition is much higher, not only because of the large number of exchanges that exist now, but also because other exchange models are emerging, such as decentralized and hybrid ones. To this we must add that now they are being more controlled by the regulators and users themselves are more demanding.

It's clear that at this moment cryptos are not a threat to them and will hardly be in the future, but that is not their mission either. I think the report is quite interesting, especially when it comes to defining cryptocurrencies and the role they can play in the future.