But it is the fact that China currently controls the majority of hashes although it's far from 51% attack it could be a problem later on. However, if China really does harsh law enforcement regarding cryptocurrencies or even banned it with punishment for those who break the law. We could potentially lose a major hashes power However it will then adjust automatically after 2016 blocks and become profitable again for small miners to mine bitcoin. Actually there's nothing really need to worry about as of now and to be clear, China didn't control Bitcoin but a price manipulation with massive capital could still happen.

Do you think miner doesn't need to the money they just mined to pay for the expenses which are quite big? They could only hold after spending some portion of their mined coins into paying the expenses and to be honest, it's not that easy. The plat that you elaborate also purely speculative and doesn't guarantee better profit because you don't know what might happen in the future and how do you know there'll be panic buying while the total supply remains the same? it's not like most people are really concerned about the decrease of miners reward anyway.

The price graph could differ though. It seems they are taking the price chart from different sources and there's a time when one of them encounters an error in their directories. I personally uses CMC more than coingecko just because it pleased my eyes by looking relatively clean.

True, although coingecko works exactly the same as CMC popularity affects a lot. People already have the mindset of thinking that anything listed in CMC is legit while that's actually not true but however, being listed in CMC will give a good first impression to anyone who hears the coin.

Turning into PoS which requires staking 32 ETH which is fairly expensive for some of the people although it won't go anywhere and instead of growing is a good deal I must say. Less carbon footprint and doesn't need to invest in GPU which to be honest if we're trying to reach profit will definitely need a few high-end GPUs so there's no excuse for the media to say that we're doing PoW for nothing. The specs also relatively low and the internet connection will not be a problem if the people who want to stake have home internet cables. Some people are okay even if the reward relatively small and some are not, there are people who have money but don't know what to do and as easy as staking is, it will be a good option for that kind of person. This also attract my interest.

Most of the time people don't even consider how biased all these so-called trading advisors are even they are popping everywhere including youtube and the funniest thing is people believe them despite not knowing their background. If it's not for some motive they won't take the hard way to make their own broadcast in youtube and any other platform just to tell people to do this and do that although some of the people can be trusted it's always better to stay cautious and not easily believing someone we don't know. Take for example the trading groups that uses everyone's resources to dump and pump based on their personal need.

The people who expect the price to go up at literally anything that happens to bitcoin is for sure overly optimistic anyway. The halving is already proposed from the day bitcoin was born and it's not a surprise. The total supply will remain the same and capped at 21 million and people shouldn't expect anything big to happen. Even I really doubt that it will do anything to bitcoin price even the slightest because halving should actually become a norm in the crypto community but people keep on discussing this. Heck, even burning coin that has done by some of the altcoins out there did nothing nowadays but it's a piece of big news like mass adoption or such that affect so much.

Isn't that obvious though, when the whole market is being dumped bitcoin instead increase its dominance and thus making altcoin suffer even worse than bitcoin itself and by that there's no way the trading volume of bitcoin below all these alts even the volume's gap is just too far and saying that bitcoin will be below #1 is just nonsense at its best. The fact that bitcoin is the most adopted coin will hardly make it fall below any other alts.

I highly doubt, those crap coins will usually just die out can't find another exchange except DEX that could just make the market your own. However, it is to be expected that some of the exchanges will eventually close down because there are too many exchanges right now and while the market share  dominated by the popular exchange the small exchange like this need to compete with another small exchange and therefore couldn't sustain all the fee and maintenance they need to pay each month I guess.

At least this one is not acting cowardly by running away with all the money. However, it's true though that at the end of the year there are usually so many things that happened to the whole bitcoin community even the biggest dump back then happen December-January 2018 if I'm not mistaken and that's such a scary thing to happen.

I'd recommend only uses reliable and trusted exchange not trying any new exchange that appears out of nowhere because the cycle will basically be happening again and if that goes on, many people will become a victim and losing money all over again. There's just no real reason for using such exchange.

They could freely do that because the lack of law enforcement with something that happens on the internet and most of the time the authority doesn't take it seriously. But honestly, IMO won't replace IEO anytime soon. What I mean is, both the crowdfunding model could just exist and people will have the option. The very first thing people consider when it comes to investing in IEO is the fact that it was hosted by popular exchange and they automatically have the mindset of a project that is hosted by large companies more specifically exchange is legit although this IMO model could just do that.

isn't fud like this has existed from the day crypto was born, people are saying it's useless and has no fundamental value but the reality is the opposite. While they are just spouting nonsense crypto will strive for better mass adoption and I will say that this kind of person is irrelevant and you just ignore them instead of making them famous.
Even the most useless thing out there still have someone looking for it and pay for it. Ethereum which has many use cases and functionality will definitely not hit zero except the blockchain vanished into oblivion but that's not going to happen anytime soon.

Bitcoin bank... sounds weird isn't it? the main point of being decentralized so that you can control your own money and then exist bitcoin bank that could eliminate main point of decentralization because I'm sure that people will fancy it over saving crypto all by themselves because they find it inconvenient to be responsible for their own money but well, if that really happen. I'm curious how the entire community will change from online wallet dependent to crypto bank dependent

We all know that the supply of bitcoin is capped at 21 million and all these halving are predetermined event which everyone actually expected and I can't see this could drive the price up somehow. But, it could indeed become a catalyst aswell as a method to spread out news regarding bitcoin and giving impression that bitcoin is becoming scarce which could probably indirectly affect the whole market perception regarding the current market trend but that's it and nothing more, forget about bubble because it's not going to happen anytime soon but, just my opinion tho.

Well every movement is literally reported by media and as you said it's not simple. That's why I've repeatedly saying that chance the hackers is going to cash out at the moment is slim. it's more likely that they will deposit it to their cold wallet and leave it for months or even years after this case is not a thing anymore however I'm pretty sure that the entire crypto community will always watch the address' every movement just like how we can know the movement of every whale address without any effort.

Criminality happens everywhere and not just involving bitcoin it just happen that bitcoin is advanced in term of remmitances and could send money in an instant. These criminals could actually send money like using WU and still get over with it because no one know what they are transacting and what they know is the person just sending money to someone else anyway. Nowaday there's the implementation of KYC with purpose to fight scam and money laundering and I think it works quite well but can't entirely eliminate the problem because bitcoin is p2p and people could just do an individual transaction but I guess in the future we'll see some kind of regulation again.

or IDAX CEO are too afraid of being raided and just get away with the money because dem monies are just too shiny? I don't know where IDAX's office located but it seems that their exchange is chinese ones so maybe they have an office in China.
Even that, these kind of exit scam is just wicked to run away with people's money like that and I'm really doubtful that the police could somehow caught him because you see even the corruptors of certain nation the police still have a hard time dealing with those. Let alone these so called CEO of exchange that could possibly faking their identities.

But having all these Korean exchange being hacked is indeed kinda, odd. Maybe it's because the volume there are quite huge or just simply vuln and can be exploited but I think they need to invest more into security. This is also why when new exchange appear, they should undergo a code review so that it won't be exploited because honestly, some exchanges are lacking their concern in term of security.

Most of the time hackers are taking over the exchanges' wallet that hold tremendous amount of money though, but it's advised to use hardware wallet or if can't desktop wallet. But, a wallet that is not saving the private key generated into the server is relatively side but not advised.

It is already a reality, the centralized cryptocurrency. What do you think all those stablecoins are? despite being a little bit decentralized because some of stablecoin relies on the already existing blockchain from smart contract platform like Ethereum their value heavily depends on the company behind it and the company can do whatever they want with the coin even printing them as much as they can. I'm sure that some of government out there have in touch with centralized blockchain or you can just take over all the nodes existed and it will automatically be yours.

Quite amusing, the market is not being dumped or having a panic sell but instead it's climbing up little by little. It seems that the market could cope with the news or even don't care at all because it's not or later all these coins will eventually be dumped to the market anyway even without the hacking. However, that much of money being hacked will not be gone if they just invest into having more robust security. The thing is, the hacking will not stop because if there's new exchange site that means a new exploit aswell. It seems will go on for a longer time.

Even if those are Jeff bezos or Bill gates I wouldn't trust them I mean why should I? It's always better to trust on yourself in this case because it's your own money and not theirs. Even Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates could have their own motive. Maybe, the hype will build up because people always believe whatever the billionaires saying in term of financial and economy is the truth and therefore makes the coin gaining popularity or even instant profit but it's just temporary. There's just too many factors need to be considered and while these testimony from the billionaires could make the spotlight they are not the deciding factors.