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.

Many ICO give up to 50% discount in the pre-sale. An investor participating in the pre-sale ( in this case),  technically obtained free tokens that is, the 50% bonus. Now it does not matter for an investor if the listing price is much less than the ICO price as long as they got bonus--resulting in the dumping.

Study the market with the motivation to actually learn about the underlying technology before the potential investment gains it brings. If you wont do this, it will give you false hopes and expectations and ultimately, you add up to a ton of folks with weak hands.

I personally think that the only reliable indicator of a price increase/decrease is the nature of the news. As you have said, this seems to be true for the past months, even in the past years.

Of course the work needs to be serious as we are being compensated for our work; the least we could do is to do it honestly. However, it is not a good choice to make bounty hunting your job. Earning here is very unpredictable unlike if you have a day job, you can be sure that you will get paid for the time you spent doing your job.

There's this undying notion here that cryptocurrencies are used only for illegal purpose which is why when I introduced it to some of my peers, the gave me a funny look and disregarded anything I was about to say. I'm not entirely upset that this happens, but I hope that they change their views ASAP since cryptocurrency is becoming more and more mainstream.

In this space, we don't compare or predict the price movement based on the past events. Just because of the last year's pump, it does not mean that we will have it this year also. The circumstances are different and most of all, it all just depends on how the whales play their cards.

I call BULL. If bitcoin is regulated, what happens to the freedom of being your "own bank" or the pseudo-anonimity that it offers? All of it will be taken away fron the community. Much better if the regulate centralized exchanges. Those folks do some shady stuffs that needed to be addressed.

This is very likely though we might not see a new ATH. Last year, the investors were in burnout and needed to recuperate their losses. Anyway, we will never know unless we reach to that point but it be wise to accumulate for the mean time.

Bounty campaigns are essential for marketing and community building. It depends on the team actually  so they have the option to market their product in different ways without conducting a bounty.

And that is why we won't be seeing a new ATH this year. Those people who bought at high prices would try to breakeven at every sign of pumps. Majority of them wouldn't be investing anytime soon sincr their confidence has been shattered then.