The problem with regards to investors having a hard time to invest on ICO projects, in my opinion, is the situation at this moment. Well, last year, that's really the case, scam projects, but there are ways in order to avoid such problem. The main thing right now is market volatility. Most of the projects are failing and if not, results to either less profit or no profit at all. The time of the investors are being wasted and what's sad about this case is that, we, as investors and holders of cryptos, cannot do anything but to hold and wait for the complete recovery of the market.

I would prefer not to buy at this moment. The decrease on the price (percentage) of both of these cryptos are not that far from one another simply implying that both of these coins are negatively affected by the downfall, same with other cryptos in the market. I would go with the "playsafe" strategy as what was practiced before, to hold and not to be discouraged by the downfall. The situation is really tempting. I have even planned to sell some of my holdings but good thing I was advised by my friends, not to. Maybe, we should wait for a little more.Investing I think is not suitable this time still.

Still has something to do with natural market volatility. The only problem is that the market value of cryptos are way too active, continuous pump and dumps can be seen these past few months. But the thing here is that, the situation is more favor with alts over bitcoin. Actually, there are expectations that alts would replace Bitcoin as the top crypto. Who knows right? But I would agree with the idea that the market prices should go back to its state *few weeks ago in which stability is more observable than the present. The least thing that we should do now is to avoid concluding at times like this, perhaps, be more observable to avoid risky decisions whether to invest on a token or to just keep on holding tokens.

It would still be hard to determine in my opinion, also, maybe we are just used of seeing Bitcoin on top of other cryptos which gives some people assumptions that Bitcoin would still be able to remain on its place despite of the downfall that it is having at this moment. One thing for sure is advisable, simply, to hold both bitcoin and altcoins. Actually, I did not let go of my alts even if some of its prices are close to zero. The reason is simple, the market is way unpredictable and just maybe, there would be a chance that those tokens that we thought of being dead, will soon rise? Who knows? Alts are quite having a good time, if you know what I mean. Holdstill!

This question have been asked for a couple of times since then. The question that I am referring to , is in general. Many people are making assumptions and predictions of what could tomorrow bring for either of any cryptos (alts and btc) but the thing here is that, assurance is still a problem. The market itself is very volatile making any calculations, invalid. Altcoins sre really giving a hind. The scenario is here: cryptos uncluding btc and any alts are showing positive signs at this moment which encourage many people to invest and give it a try. Hopefully the market itself would be showing positive signs not only alts. That season would come someday but at this point people should be more careful on alts that they have given time and investment to avoid disappointment if ever downfall would be worst than what we are currently experiencing.

The assumption with regards to total elimination of intermediaries is a bit blurry simply because we are talking about blockchain in this case. Blockchain is indeed showing advantages over banks with regards to transactions but we should always keep in mind that banks do not tolerate anonymity in which blockchain does. Transactions are well organized and monitored on intermediaries which is an important thing especially if we are referring to transactions, obviously, it secures everything on every transaction. Also, banks are under each countries' governments. They would obviously support it over such changes. In my opinion, despite of the huge potential cryptos and blockchain that we are seeing right now, total replacement won't still happen in the future, and rather coexistence.

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Title: [GABAY] Paano mag-import ng iyong private-key mula ibang wallet sa MEW/MetaMask
Your Feedback on why it should be given Merits: Useful for Filipino MEW/MetaMask users.

Panimula

Maaaring alam mo na ang iyong ETH at ERC20-Token ay hindi nakalagay sa loob ng iyong wallet kundi sa loob ng Blockchain. Ang mga wallet tulad ng MyEtherWallet, Metamask, Jaxx [...] ay tanging user-interface lamang upang ma-access ang blockchain gamit ang iyong private-key.

Sa kadahilanang ito, maaari mong mai-export ang iyong private-key mula sa isang wallet (hal. Jaxx) at gamitin ito upang mag-log in sa ibang wallet (hal. MyEtherWallet).

Kung hindi mo alam kung paano i-export ang iyong private-key nai-publish ni Nestade ang gabay para sa ImToken, Jaxx, Eidoo at Parity:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3057277.msg31485515#msg31485515

Bilang pagpapauna: Maaaring magamit ang iyong private key bilang isa sa mga sumusunod na 'formats' pagkatapos na mag-export:


Private-Key

Ito ang iyong unencrypted private-key. Ito ay hindi masyadong ligtas na gamitin para sa permanenteng paggamit kung nagpaplano kang magpatuloy sa paggamit ng MyEtherWallet / Metamask matapos mag-import. Para sa karagdagang impormasyon tingnan ang 'Security'-section sa ibaba.

Recovery phrase

Gaya ng private-key ang iyong recovery-phrase ay hindi nangangailangan ng anumang password at hindi inirerekomenda para sa permanenteng paggamit. Para sa karagdagang impormasyon tingnan ang 'Security'-section sa ibaba.

Keystore-file

Ang keystore-file ay isang encrypted na bersyon ng iyong private-key. Nagtatakda ka ng password na kakailanganin upang ikaw ay makapag log-in sa anumang wallet. Inererekomenda kong gamitin ang pamamaraang ito!

Seguridad

Bilang maliit na hint tungkol sa seguridad. Tulad ng nabanggit ang private-key at ang recovery phrase ay hindi masyadong ligtas.

Pano gumawa ng keystore-file gamit ang iyong private-key/recovery phrase: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3014688.msg30996799#msg30996799
Pangunahing seguridad at pagpapanatili ng iyong private-key nang ligtas: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3002655.msg30874759#msg30874759


Ngayon ay uumpisahan na natin ang aktwal na gabay.



MyEtherWallet

Pag-import ng iyong private-key sa MyEtherWallet ay talagang straightforward.

Bisitahin lamang ang opisyal na MyEtherWallet-Website (https://www.myetherwallet.com/) at piliin ang 'View Wallet Info' sa upper menu. Pagkatapos ay piliin ang 'Private Key‘, 'Mnemonic Phrase‘ (= Recovery phrase) o 'Keystore / JSON File‘ depend sa iyong exported 'format‘ ng iyong private-key. I-enter ang iyong private-key/recovery phrase o piliin ang iyong keystore-file at i-enter ang iyong password at i-click ang 'Unlock‘.

Binabati kita – ikaw ay naka log-in na.




MetaMask

Upang makapag-import ng existing na 'wallet' sa MetaMask kailangan mo munang gumawa ng isang bagong account (sundin lamang ang mga tagubilin na ibinigay ng MetaMask).

Recovery phrase

Pumunta sa tatlong 'stacked lines‘ sa bandang kanang itaas at piliin ang 'Log Out‘.




Pagkatapos, i-click ang 'Restore from seed phrase‘ sa ibaba ng login-button.




I-enter ang iyong recovery-phrase, piliin ang new password (huwag itong kalimutan) at i-click ang OK‘.

Private-Key/Keystore-file

Pumunta sa icon saumunod sa tatlong 'stacked lines‘ sa kanang itaas na bahagi at piliin ang 'Import Account‘.




Piliin ang 'Private Key‘ o 'JSON File‘ (= Keystore-file) mula sa dropdown-menu at i-enter ang iyong private key sa textbox o piliin ang iyong keystore-file, i-enter ang iyong password at i-click ang 'IMPORT‘.

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Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3124084

It is hard to tell right now. The market value have again fell and are now reaching lower market value. What happens at this moment makes it more impossible for recovery to take place before this year end. determining when the bull run would happen will be surely hard since the market have gone more unexpected this year. Let's just hope that the following year will be in favor for cryptos and for now hold and wait.

There are many possible reasons why bitcoin remain on top of the cryptos. First of all, cryptomarket at this moment is on downtrend giving a hardtime for cryptos to have a price increase. Another thing is the demand from the community of users. Bitcoin is a huge crypto due to its large community of users. Its market value havr continuously grew. And also, how long does bitcoin exist has a huge impact.

Anything is possible to happen but personally, I do expect for recovery to happen on the 10th year anniversary of cryptocurrency which is next year. It could be what we are waiting for which would generate hype and interest for investors to invest again. Some investors have stopped investing due to the downtrend which results to huge profit loss. So maybe, once their interest is caught up again, things will be continuous resulting to a bullrun once again.

It was really surprising that Ripple have manage to surpass Ethereum recently for being the 2nd topmost crypto but I think surpassing Bitcoin as already something. Bitcoin is a way bigger crypto than ripple and keep in mind that bull run has not yet taking over the market and just imagine how strong will Bitcoin again be once recovery occured. But who knows, what we should focus at this moment is holding and avoiding to panic.

It apeeared to be not a good year for ICOs and as well to cryptos. The majority of cryptos are on downtrend which affects the ICOs resulting to majority of ICO failure and if not, the market value of the tokens are falling way lower than the ico price which disappoints the investors most of the time this year. As such it is not surprising to know that many investosrs have taken a break to invest on projects due to the complicated market behavior.

It would assure that no profit will be lost at this moment if you will not invest at this moment wherein no recovery is happening but it would surely be a huge advantage if you would be able to invest in the right crypto because once recovery come to that coin, it will result to huge profit for sure. So the bottomline at this moment is the risk that is present since the market itself would be hard to depict.

Aside from Bitcoin, I think Ripple is the biggest competitor of ethereum and what proves this is what happened last month wherein XRP was able to surpass Ethereum as the 2nd topmost crypto despite of the continuous downtrend in the market.  There are many cryptos which could be able to beat ethereum at this moment but since recovery is yet to come we may expect for changes once bullrun occur and it could also be the dominance of ethereum over other cryptos.

There are many altcoins which are good to invest and to make profit with but due to the current market situtaion, things would not be going as expected. In fact, many investors are now losing huge amount of profit due to the continuous downtrend so maybe, investing at this moment will not be a good idea not only on altcoin but to all cryptos. It will be a huge risk because no one knows what crypto would be able to withstand the negative market behavior.

Nowadays, it won't be that much unlike last year wherein majority of the bounty hunters became rich. Many projects are now failing due to the negative influence of market downtrend for this year. It is a domino effect because investors are taking a break to invest in projects since there is a bigger probability to lose profit, which makes the ICOs to fall even more resulting to ICO postponement or delay that also makes the situation worse.

It is due to the negative market behavior which clearly influences the outcome of the market price of the tokens once released on different exchanger resulting to huge profit loss for the investors. This is also the reason why some investors have chosen to take a rest for now from investing due to the outcome of as such. But maybe. once recovery starts, they will be back at it again and I think there is nothing wrong with that.

I think there's a possibility that Bitcoin along with other cryptos would be able to recover next year due to the hype that the 10th year anniversary would give to the investors. Investors might again be interested to invest on projects that would give positive effect to the demand as well as the market value of cryptos which might be the start of the recovery from continuous downtrend for this year. So definitly, we should wait.

I am not having any plans of letting go a token just because the market value is falling especially those that I invested. As an investor, you should aim to win on every investment no matter what happen. Recovery is always possible and all you have to do is to wait and to just be patient during the times of downtrend. It would be really hard seeing how low the profit gets but that's the only way.