What was the amount with which you started trading
I mean your very basic investment and was that your extra money or required money?

I'm not even sure whether this is a bad or a good thing right now but this is definitely unusual and I have never seen it before even though I have been in the crypto scene since 2014.

From what I can see the development (Lightning network etc.) is more active than it ever was, so shouldn't that give a little boost to the price at least?

You're looking to make 10 times your investment within 2 years?  Dude, you really ought to lower your expectations unless you know something nobody else knows.  And if you plan to make that money in the altcoin market, be prepared for some serious disappointment.  One of these days people are going to figure out that there's no point in owning 99.99% of altcoins on the market, that there will never be any real-world use cases for any of them, and that the only thing they'll ever be good for is trading them with other suckers.

So, as to what to do with $10k.  If I were you, I'd either buy bitcoin (and that's pretty risky itself) and hold it, or I'd wait until the stock market crashes and then buy some good dividend-paying stocks when they're cheap.  Stay out of the shitcoin market if you know what's good for you, because the good times of making easy money aren't going to last.  In 2 years many shitcoins might not even exist anymore--or at least there might not be any buyers for the ones you want to sell.

Good luck and remember to put the dollar sign before the dollar amount.  lol

So saw many self airdrops of ERC20 tokens and wave platforms in social media. They would promise their investors a cheap token price purchase, and in turn promise a good listing price at the exchange. 98% of these self airdrop never make it to exchange, and the few that get listed in a decentralized exchange get pumped for 2hrs and there after dumped forever. Why do you think people still patronize these scamming project and not study good ICOs and buy? 

i think most people, including me, are looking forward to adoption of lightning network. it is already in use and there are some small businesses are using it on main net but because it is not yet completely ready (from what i understand) no big businesses have yet adopted it. so i am looking forward to that kind of adoption.

Does any one thinks that Ethereum can survive with the rising of Waves? I've heard that "Waves will be the next Ethereum"

Maybe its high time we worked out the reasons for still being here in the cryptosphere, pinpointing and exploring lucrative interconnected avenues through right research and education.

I'm in a fix! I took a quick loan to invest in a certain business that went really nasty. Used my only car as collateral. I only have less than a month to repay. In a nutshell, I need $5000 in less than 30 days. Got only $200 remaining. I know this is quite challenging but...I'm desperate. Any ideas on how to grow my $200? Cheers!

I'm not familiar to the world of trading (even the traditional ones). Can someone explain how a crypto exchange (like Binance or Kraken) benefits a cryptocurrency?

I believe that we should never trust 100% in any prediction about it, even if that person is presented as the greatest expert or master on the subject, because we must always keep in mind that at the beginning of 2017, when the price of bitcoin was just in $1,000, none of those alleged "gurus" was able to predict that the price of bitcoin would reach $20k some months later. And besides, neither was able to predict the tremendous collapse that the market would suffer next.

If those relevant historical events went completely unnoticed by the "experts", I think none of them has real bases to present themselves these days announcing that bitcoin will reach this or that price by the end of the year.

What criteria do you guys use to pick your signature campaigns.  With some of them lasting 2-3 months it seems like a critical decision and I'm not quite sure how to go about it.  With all the scams out there I am fearful of picking a junker which not only hurts me but the people looking at my promotions.  I would like to have one picked out for when I switch over to Jr Member. 

I got into the bitcoin again last year after losing all my 4.5 bitcoins to ponzi schemes early last year. I bought in bitcoin again at $20k. Now bitcoin is $6k+.  I'm regretting my actions.  

I'm not one who would invest in precious metals, but I have noticed that a good amount of the older generations are pretty keen in investing in these metals. They see it as a way to bet against the market, and a security that will always be safe -- even in the times of a market downturn/country failure as a whole.

I personally wouldn't even want to buy these metals in those events, as I don't see the reason to. I'd rather invest in securities that go up when the market shits itself (Payroll lending companies and so on and so forth)

Does anyone here know the reason behind people loving precious metals?

When are we going to see an end to this type of panic in the market? The expectation that bitcoin will rise up to $10,000 is the illusion creating this new FUD in the market.