no market is easy, in fact making profit is never easy. if it were then everyone would have been rich by now. the difference is only made when people make an extra effort in order to become successful. otherwise when they just randomly throw their money away at different altcoins and bag hold them hoping to make profit, they will always lose.
it is not about "surviving" the market. it is all about knowing how to move with the current instead of against it.

this is exactly what I have been talking about for the past month. people kept focusing on $4000 but that price had no significance. the important prices were $4200 and partly $4100 and as $4200 was broken a big ass breakout happened and how it is partly due to FOMO but on a very small scale. if this keeps up for the following hours then we can easily see a gigantic FOMO which can easily bring the price back to real levels at $6000 and above.

there are cycles in bitcoin like there is in any other market in the world that has ever existed. but the important thing to remember is that you can never rely on these cycles and think it should be repeated each time the same way as it was repeated in the past. unfortunately nowadays because of the similarity of the current "cycle" of the past 2 years compared to the "cycle" that happened from 2013 to 2016 people are starting to think it is reliable and should be repeated the exact same way. and many of these clickbait sites like the one you posted here are posting misleading articles about this.

as a trader you should never be a lover of a certain trend. instead you should be able to make profit from any market situation and if you can't then you are not a "trader" hence the wrong board to be in. instead you are an investor who depending on why you chose the assets you invested in you might even be a gambler!

as for the current trend, the bearish one has been over for a long time and we have been preparing for the bull run for a couple of months now. the "traders" have been accumulating during that time to make good profit when the rises begin and others just find out about it too late.

it is always from a "problem".
sometimes that problem is small and doesn't involve that many aspects of the country/world so the effects of it are small and local but some other times it is too big and involves a lot of aspects and the corruption which usually leads to that exists in economical infrastructure that collapse during the crisis which lead to all the things that follow.

the answer is too easy. if bitcoin was really "too easy" to manipulate then the price should have never moved the way it has been moving 80% of the history of bitcoin. instead it should have been constant pumps and dumps because that is the real way you manipulate a market and make money. what we have is some manipulation while the market moves logically for the rest of the times and the bigger the market gets the harder it is getting for whales to manipulate it but it has not yet gotten big enough to have no manipulation.

you would be surprised how many people actually have no plans about things like that whatsoever. specially those who have a lot of bitcoin worth a lot of money. these people may even be more careful about leaving any kind of trace behind. the latest example was the owner of an exchange (Canadian exchange if I am not mistaken) who passed away and he was the only one controlling the private keys and took them to his grave.

throughout history not a single rich person has announced what they buy and where they invest their money to become rich because they don't want others to know what they are doing. so what made you think for a moment that this rule might have changed in this case?!

I am sure that this "joke" is already true and Buffet and people like him have invested in bitcoin in the big dips because they see potentials even if they don't show it.

people only "hear" the word bitcoin and maybe even the term cryptocurrency in passing but it mostly occurs when bitcoin price is either rising fast or falling fast. other times there is not that much mention of it in the media so they don't "hear about it" anymore.
not to mention that this "hearing about" is only about the price and its rise and fall in a fast way. most of the times with a lot of FUD so it is understandable why bitcoin has not yet reached mass adoption stage.

I think theymos chose a bad joke this year. although it is related to the incidents of past years with nonsense of ICOs and the way they fooled people with KYC and the fact that these days everyone is talking about regulations,... I think choosing to place a big red text on top asking for KYC (which you later find is a joke) may not have been the best choice.

yes, it is too early to predict the rise but that was not what OP was asking about.
it currently is obvious that the "bear market" is over. and we have no more reason to believe that it can go on any longer. and not just that, we no longer have any signs of the bear market even being capable of lasting any longer. but don't confuse that with rising. the bear market being over means the accumulation has started not the rise yet.

this has been discussed multiple times here before and I still think it is impossible to predict what will happen to bitcoin although I am leaning towards a rise in case of a global economic crisis.

but also I would say, like before, that it can greatly depend on the timing. we have seen how bitcoin has some kind of cycles when it comes to its price. it is always an overly excited big rise followed by another over excited (or depressed) correction before it is repeated again and price ends up at a higher level.
so if the "crisis" occurs during that rise, the price can shoot up to the moon much faster and bigger than a normal time and if it occurs during that downtrend we may see it become faster and bigger.

as for survival, it is obvious that bitcoin will survive in my opinion. it is not something that can be killed just because there some crisis in a sector unrelated to bitcoin as a global currency!

actually this shows the narrow way of thinking of certain people like you who think bitcoin is only some token that exists on exchanges and has no other purpose than being traded on exchanges and nothing else! so obviously you should think if exchanges do something wrong it reflects on bitcoin!!!

they have done a lot of shady things to pump some shitcoins and make profit, they have been even paid to list or not list coins on their platform simply because they have a lot of power among newbies who keep checking that site for prices instead of exchanges and think of a coin is in their list at certain rank it must be a good investment!!!
so it is not unimaginable to see them actually fake the volume they are reporting on their website too if it has some benefits for them.

you should focus on whether anybody would even want this type of data. I don't think it is even needed because most important of all, it won't help you trade any better by having or analyzing such data types. the altcoin market  doesn't work like that.

really? I have not done something like this ever since I never needed it but I think it is easy to fetch the trading history of an exchange as long as it is public and then store it somewhere.

bitcoin market is still young and small, so we have no way of knowing how it is going to react to different incidents and we have already seen that there are irrational behaviors in the market from time to time reacting to things they shouldn't react to and going in opposite directions of logically expected before.

I'd say anything is possible but my guess is that two scenarios are more possible than others. bitcoin is either not going to be affected at all and continues on the trend that it was on at the time of stock market crash or it will take a positive effect meaning its rise will become faster.

it is not just 2, 3 months. it is 4 months until the date of the speculation and also all the previous months (about 3) where price was in this area. so you are technically predicting about 6 months with only about 5% rise. just wanted to clarify what this speculation means.

as for what I think about it, I am more positive about bitcoin and think 5% rise in half a year is too small considering the whole last year was in downtrend mode and we need some reversal to correct that.

after nearly one year and a half? nothing.
in fact this should raise the question about why the hell have they (and also a lot of others) have been waiting and postponing addition of Segregated Witness related features to their platforms? security reviews, upgrades, and all the precautions of adding a new thing takes a couple of months (6 at most) not this long.

ps. I am wondering whether things like this can create some sort of competition. for example will traders choose Gemeni over Coinbase because they support SegWit?

Titanium sounds like an overkill to me and it is more expensive than other metals. I believe using a stainless steel plate will cost a lot less and also it is going to offer you the same material properties that you are looking for. after all what are you trying to protect it from? it is not like you are going to keep it in special corrosive and damaging environment!
besides an stainless steel plate is so much easier to find compared to titanium plate.

saying lightning network is created for conducting small transactions is like saying bitcoin is created to store arbitrary data in OP_Return outputs!
LN is mainly created and used to offer the ability to send/receive a large number of transactions at the highest speed possible while still being decentralized and be on top of bitcoin. using it for micro transactions is only one of the things that this design can offer.