It is too soon to say anything. Even in 2018-19 season, Barcelona had rough start in defence with Umtiti getting injured and Lenglet getting red card in his first game. Pique was making huge mistakes and cost 4 points to Barcelona. But as season progressed, defensive duties turned better and Barcelona had pretty fine last season except Liverpool disappointment.
Similarly, I feel defensive crisis will soon get over this season too. In one or two months, Umtiti will be ready. Also, rumours are out there that Barcelona is planning to sign Rugani in winter window. So they will have quite number of choices in defence by the start of next year when important matches will be played.

Prediction in crypto market is actually unworthy, crypto market is totally unpredictable.
You listed down two reasons which you think were behind last run (most probably you pointing the bullrun of late 2017) but can you really trace them on price chart? I don't think 2016 halving created any instant uprise in Bitcoin price so that reason is completely ruled out. ICO Hype, maybe it contributed to Bitcoin price rise a bit but it wasn't surely the main reason because hardly 5% ICOs receive contributions in Bitcoin, rest of them are more inclined towards Ethereum and other alts. So in short, we can say it is not possible to determine single reason that push prices, there has to be number of reasons and when combination of them create a bullish trend, then only price start rising which is then turn to bullrun when more and more investors start jumping due to FOMO.

Well, natural market movement is considered to be around 5-10% plus/minus but in last 3 days drop is around 20% which isn't natural to be honest. The most prominent reason links to the expiry of high number of options on Bakkt. However, I agree with you later words, price will recover again soon. This drop is just temporary and we may see $15K again by Christmas.

Do you really think YoBit concern about the quality of campaign, all they want is trouble-free campaign on Bitcointalk until their funds allotted to campaign is exhausted. Hiring Yahoo solved this problem for them and they gained little reputation to run campaign without getting any hammer from Theymos. Though, I still think current scenario is quite ok because Yahoo is doing commendable job to cut-out spammers at maximum.

Haha, right! Nowadays even 2-3 days are long for these scamming sites. In my early days, I also used to fall for them. Actually my problem was I didn't know what Bitcoin is back then. So I used to buy Bitcoin from my Paypal account assuming it is some kind of investment tokens that can only be used to invest in these doubling sites and then invest Bitcoins in those sites. I lost around 0.02 BTC before realizing that Bitcoin is actually much more than that, lol.

Well it's easier said then done. The problem with gambling is that you don't know the stopping point. Let's talk a hypothetical example: You won one bet, you won another. Now you have 3x the amount you had initially. You decided to continue, you lost one, you continued, you won next. By this time, you are completely into game and decided to make you money 5x at least. But you lost all three of your next bets and ended with zero money.
Something similar happens to me everytime I decided to try casino. It's not like I don't win, I do win almost half of the bets but I hardly remember if I ever withdrew my winnings. Every time, every single time, I end up losing all money in the end.

There are still investors, angels, VCs out there is crypto space, nothing has changed. But the problem is with the number of projects getting launched everyday. It has become too easy to launch ICOs in 2019. A started pack includes $100 tokens on ETH chain, $20 whitepaper from some freelancers, $30-40 for designing and website, $0 for bounties. So you can launch ICO for just under $200. Hence, so many amteurs have entered the space with no vision. Just compare the average whitepaper of everyday ICO with whitepaper written by Vitalik Buterin in 2016, you will understand why investors hesitate to invest in these so-called visionary projects.

It is easy to say on paper but not possible to apply in practical. Underdeveloped countries like African and Asian countries are rich with natural resources and can do wonders if they get good value for their products. But they fall prey to the first-tier countries and their manipulative practices. First-tier countries especially European Union countries and USA have manipulated WTO to come to the arrangement where there is almost negligible import/export duty on raw materials but levy high duties on finished goods. So first-tier nations buy cheap raw materials from underdeveloped countries but sell them finished goods at inflated pricing. This leads to further depreciation in the value of fiat currencies of undervalued countries. Also they lack machineries and resources to consume natural resources in their own countries. 

You need to understand that cryptocurrencies are just like other market securities. These too don't have any intrinsic value. Cryptocurrency's value is determined by the reputation and operation of project underlying such coin. Better the project, better the value of coin. Another factor that determines value of coin is public believe in coin. So you can't say ICO are over-priced, it all depends upon how good the coin is. If people take high interest then it's under-priced and vice-versa.

I really liked this thread @OP, I think this is genuine concern. Altcoins are truely the backbone of crypto industry. You can't expect everything from Bitcoin. It is first cryptocurrency but surely not the best one in terms of specification. Other cryptocurrencies like ETH, Tron, LISK, EOS provide comparatively much better blockchain to create DApps. And we surely don't want new altcoins stop coming. This market is still new and there is much more scope of improvement.

Are you new in crypto space? This bitcoin doubler scam is one of the oldest and most famous scam in crypto space. They usually pay people for first few days and then when they reach break-even and made enough profit, they close the site and run away with people's money. Never fall for them, no matter they are registered or even run by President of USA.

LoL, that's the most vague statement I read today! So you think there are projects out there which are making it difficult for investors to make investment because they think they are superior than other ICOs. Oh god, don't write anything for the sake of money. Be reasonable at least!

Good to see Barcelona finally keeping a clean sheet, clinching 3 points and winning away game all together in one game. It wasn't the best performance from them to be honest but what really mattered was that they kept the composure throughout the game. Pique was awesome in defending so was Firpo. Lenglet did make a silly mistake and got red trust but luckily it didn't cost Barca much. But what should I say about the duo of Frenkie and Arthur. How good both of them are, Xavi-Iniesta 2.0.
Quick fact: Arthur has got the highest SofaScore ratings among all Barca players in every of his last 5 matches he played for Barcelona.

You don't expect something to fall by 90% and still believe it will recover. It took around 8 months for Bitcoin to recover from 65% fall in 2018, imagine how many months will it take to recover 90% fall. So if you think it's ok for Bitcoin to fall to $1000 then it isn't really. If anything of such sort happens then Bitcoin will get the status of non-serious gambling investment than a competitive high-yielding investment status it has now.

I would still say there isn't much to panic about. It is still above $8000 and let's not forget the fact that it remains below $7K for most of the time in 2018. If it can recover 65% contraction of 2017-18 then this one is just a soft hit in the belly.
As we all know crypto market mainly rides on news and FOMOs and the events you mention especially halving next year are surely gonna create buzz again. I don't see any radical changes in speculative articles online. Most of them still stressing the idea that Bitcoin will cross the mark of $20K again next year.

Well you can't generalize the trading strategy for everyone. Everyone invest according to his own wisdom. If someone thinks he can make quick profits through day-trading or arbitrage then what's wrong with that.
Same goes with options too. Some investors love to stick with limited choices and invest in such coins for long term while some investors love to explore and switch between coins to earn margin. We can't say which strategy is good or bad, as far as one is making profits, such strategy is fine.

True! Both btc and eth are co-related in terms of market behavior. Except any strong market indicators, both btc and eth generally moves in same directions. When one is bullish, other is bullish too and vice-versa. So there is no point shifting between these two really.

Time when bounties actually used to work is over. Now bounties only create spam. Twitter Campaigns were used to be very popular back in 2015-2017 due to their high conversions for ICO projects. But as the number of participants grew over time, quality of accounts have started becoming dull and dull. With all those mass follows and follow-back, I doubt any ICO project actually reaches the target audience at all nowadays.
Same goes with signature campaigns too. All good posters usually lurk for Bitcoin paying campaigns. Hence, either low-quality posters or alts are left for bounties. As a result, they are unable to produce results for ICO on forum too.
So its wrong to blame projects alone for unsuccess. The blame should go two-ways. When people can't sensibly promote projects, why should they expect projects to be successful at all!

No doubt in that! The addiction gambling provides is incomparable. But there is a difference between thrill and fun.
Casino Gambling provides the feeling of thrill rather than fun. You can't say I am feeling bored, let's roll the dice or play slots. There is more of monetary motives involved in gambling than leisure motives. Well, these are my personal thoughts about standard games like dice, slots, roulette. If any casino have some exciting games, I would love to try them too.

So from your logic, there is also no good in taking insurance policy. Only 0.2-0.25% people actually claim insurance money, rest of the premium goes unused. But still taking insurance policy provides safety against unforeseen circumstances.
Similarly, lottery can also turn someone future without denting wallet much. Imagine buying $1 lottery ticket and winning $100K! I won't regred spending such $1 even though winning probability is just 0.001%.