I often do this whenever I go to shops, stores, and other places I frequently visit. It helps with the publicity since the people around me could hear what me and the attendant are talking about. The stores might even consider accepting it if they see that more people asks if they can pay through this method so its a win-win.

I doubt anyone can give you answers to that. We're all in the dark here; people have different speculations in prices. I, however believe that bitcoin will be bullish in the last few months this year. This has always been the case in the previous year. Though we might not see a new ath then.
The forum is fine as it is. Not very hospitable to newbies due to various restrictions but overall a good source of information.

Ideas are simply endless. When someone thinks of something awesome and it has blockchain applications, there's a good chance that they will creat a coin for it. Though there's a much more common reason that is greed. Some guy will conduct an ICO to get rich overnight and some greedy investor will be trapped and this is an endless cycle.

Not having any interest in Eth does not necessarily mean some guy is not really interested in crypto and is just in it for the money. There are many alts which is basically just the same as ETH, like EOS, NEM, and WAVES. It just so happens that eth is the progenitor of smart contracts which is why it is ubiquitous--hence, discussions with it are sometimes repetitive and becomes boring.

Your kind are one of the reason why this forum is full of spamming and low quality post. I will not be a hypocrite, sometimes I make less informative post, but at least, I only have one account and one campaign. In your case, it is possible that you have many alt accounts.

ICOs are not doing well so obviously doing bounties will be the same. Its very hard for projects now to accumulate fundings since the entire market has been bearish for some time. IMO 2019 would be more troublesome for bounty hunters now that ERC20 tokens are getting less popular for investors.

There are many metrics to use. One is to look at their linkedn profile. Their whitepaper can also be a tell. In my experience, when the text in the whitepaper is not selectable, most likely the project is a scam. Pretty absurd but it happend to me in translations many times.

IMO, if you will be starting now, consider yourself still in one of the early adopters. Why? only a small percentage of the world population knows crypto. Now give it a few years when adoption becomes full blown.

The next difficulty bomb for eth will happen next year so I doubt 2019 will also be the year of altcoins. Besides, there's not much development in the crypto space to support the recovery.

A terrible idea. Once all the countries convert to cryptocurrency, the less advanced countries will be taken advantage of more advanced countries. Many skilled hackers can infiltrate exchanges with cutting-edge securities, what more if the wallet (of some sort) of a country got hacked? It could potentially ruin a nation.

Bitcoin has trouble in terms of transactions per second--it is not going to be sustainable when it becomes mainstream in the future. The miner fee might be too high too. It needs to be more scalable first to be used as a global currency.

Granted that the study is true, it can be inferred that developed tend to be more open about bitcoin being integrated into business. As for the asian countries not included there, it might be that the small business are not included.

Who knows, maybe banks themselves conspired with the CIA or other influential entities to create bitcoin for some kind of experiment--any other silly to absurd conspiracies can be possible for all we know so we can't say for sure that cryptocurrency destroyed/will destroy banks.

This is why one should not put a substantial amount of their investment in exchanges. Better yet, if you they are trading, choose the best exchange with the most secure ecosystem. Anyway, needless to say that those funds would not be returned to the owners. I'm curious to how this event will affect the market.

Investment projects are have more chance to prosper in the future since most of the investors hold and believe that that it will appreciate in the future. Airdrops on the other hand, are more bound to fail since the participants only got them for free; no regards for the money lost.

This might be the cause of Trump banning tarifs in trades(?). Many countries have risen inflation rates when this happened at it is starting to affect the crytocurrency market as well.

This might actually be the solution to our aimed widespread adoption. In this time, you can't find people that has no phone. Say, half of the population in this planet and all of them have phones with blockchain. Global awareness would skyrocket

Bitcoin is a new form of money that is revolutionary. It can even change how some people perceive money. It has started and offered new ecosystems with its creation like decentralized exchanges, electronic wallets, a currency that also functions as an investment, store of value, etc so it is enough reason to believe that it really does redefine money.

Well, you'll be seeing more of eth's boring ride since as I see it, we are still in the accumulation phase. Last year's price of eth was just a mixture of good coincidences, that is, bitcoin bull run in the last quarter qoupled oupled with the demand due to the popularity of ICOs.

This is why I only base my decision on the news. Any intelligent prediction made by experts are always being made false by the nature of an unexpected news. With this, whenever the nature of the news is bad, I do the opposite that is, buy, vice-versa.