regardless of how OP lost funds or whether he is telling the truth or Coinomi, in the end this has been a very irresponsible design on their side! they are sending the most secretive information of your wallet (which is your seed that is used to generate ALL your private keys) out to a third party server! there is absolutely no reason for a wallet to even have such options in it.
"spell check" should be done locally and versus the fixed 2048 words that the seed is chosen from.

a single person selling his altcoins is not going to dump the market even if that single person has a large amount of that coin it won't be big enough. manipulation is not just having a lot of money to dump or pump, it is about knowing how to do it in a correct way that has the most influence and can affect the price.
if it was really that easy to manipulate the price then we would have seen price of every altcoin go up and down every hour instead of what happens now which is mostly one coin getting pumped then dumped for at least 6 months before it is pumped again.

to me this proves two things:
1. the huge potential of bitcoin and how only a small portion of that potential has been reached so far. this growth only proves that despite all the naysayers and FUD spreaders bitcoin continues rising and is not going to stop until it reaches mass adoption.
2. in earlier years the percentage of people who truly understood bitcoin and its purpose has been a lot more than it is now. these days the dominant percentage are investors who don't know what bitcoin is and only care about the profit.

this is a good point but not quite correct.
miners are neither "followers" nor "leaders", when you say they are "followers" you are exaggerating their involvement just as others are thinking of them as "leaders".
the fact is, miners are a part of this system like anybody else but they have more at stake compare to simple investors who only have bitcoin. because a miner both has bitcoin and has equipment. while a simple investor can sell and get out in a short time (as fast as he can transfer his coins to exchange and sell) the miner can't just get out if they want to because they have to shut down their miners and sell those to get out and you can't get back in as easy either because again it would require buying ASICs.

well when you look at fake numbers, obviously your conclusion is also fake (or false). it is like checking the temperature with a broken thermometer and say you have a fever of 1000 degrees because the thermometer said so regardless of it being broken.
in this case "15 billion" is the number that went out of total market cap and it is fake because a very high percentage (like 80%) of the total supply that is fake since you can easily create billions of tokens out of thin air and that creates market cap easily and when that shitcoin gets dumped from $2 to $1 the total market cap loses billions because of that coin alone. now imagine you have 2300-2500 of these shitcoins....

what you said about exchanges doesn't make any sense and it won't work at all. it may even make them look shadier than they already are!

something that I was saying for some time now is the one and only way to help price increase which involves exchanges and in short it is to have more reliable exchanges. which means traders who can trust them enough to leave their money on exchanges (not as storage obviously but in open orders in active market). that helps the market grow with more packed order books, makes the price less volatile, decreases whale manipulation and panic sell effects and we can see more solid rises instead of FOMO bubbles and lack of bubbles means lack of prolonged bear markets like 2018.

one way to do that would be for exchanges to set aside some assets as a guarantee of them having funds to pay their users in case they lost their coins in case of hacks,... that we have been seeing in the past 10 years. and some sort of legal enforcement in place to guarantee their honesty and enforces them to pay up in case they were hacked so the users aren't the ones being scammed because of exchange incompetence.

in this case I would say there aren't any whales manipulating or anything since it looks pretty natural to me. you just have to stop seeing it as a bull run and start seeing it as a "transition". in a market you can't expect a U turn like with a car! it takes time to reverse a certain trend just like price didn't fall from $20k to $3k in one day, the rise back up from $3k to $100k is not going to occur in 1 day either. we first see small rises like this which will be suppressed as people panic sell (not whales) thinking it is bull trap and then after a couple of these we see more rises which slowly grow in size and set a new high each time.

it is true that you can not rely on the altcoins but the reason for that is because they are mostly scams and poorly projects that were made for monetary reasons (meaning the developer wanted to become rich overnight either through premining or running an ICO).
but we are talking about bitcoin here and it is the most and only reliable currency out there. it is true that its price is volatile but if you look at the bigger picture you can see the price is pretty reliable. you can clearly see that in the past 3 years (long term outlook instead of short term) price has solidly risen from $800 to $3000+ and that shows growth and the strength of that growth.

the information provided by that site is not that accurate but the overall stat is pretty much what the title is saying. the site is mostly reporting from news sites and many of them are unreliable articles which is why it is not accurate.
as for the attitude I have to say it has never been negative towards bitcoin in general. at worst it was skeptical and a warning-like approach in most countries. and slowly it turned into acceptance in majority if them.

the even bigger problem is that these "projects" aren't really aiming to do any of those things! all of them are only making false promises that they can not even deliver because they are nothing, their team consists of a couple of kids who have no idea how the world works but know very well how to copy code and create a new ICO token and get paid for it in millions!

every single time when you see someone is "selling" something that can hack money for you easily then you have to be 100% sure  than it is a fake because of a simple reason: if it was that easy then they wouldn't be selling it to you to create competition for themselves and make their "method" or "tool" known so it could be patched. no, if it were real they would have kept it private and used it themselves instead without letting anybody know.

with the way you are describing your "clients" here it seems to me like you are dealing with a bunch of elderly incapable of making their own decisions while having money they don't know what to do with! which makes me wonder whether they should even be investing in cryptocurrencies in first place!
you see one of the first things about bitcoin is the fact that it gives the person full control and if they give that up then why are they even bothering getting involved with bitcoin? there are less riskier investments out there.

essentially yes, but also you should make a decision whether you want to be a trader or an investor and I consider these two to be very different from each other.
a trader only takes advantage of short term market movements and makes money from them while an investor only looks for a potential investment where he can put his money and keep it that way for long term so that he can make profit in the long term while ignoring all the short term fluctuations.
the options for a trader are the whole market and every coin that exists in it, but an investor has limited options and I personally consider only one option for investment and that is bitcoin.

so you say that innovation should also die because we are seeing a lot of shitcoins?
that is not going to happen. there still are some good altcoins too, take Grin for example which made a lot of noise recently because bitcointalk started accepting it as payment. it has a broken supply model which can make it fail in the long run as it loses value but the technology is being used in an interesting way in this coin. and examples like this are rare but can still be found.
what we need is people who don't waste their money on shitcoins so that they wouldn't gain any traction. (of course unlike you I categorize ETH under shitcoins).

$4000 is a strong psychological resistance more than anything else.
on top of that this price is the first resistance after a very long (more than a year) and big (nearly 85%) drop so naturally it will take longer and a lot of back and forth action before it can be broken but when it breaks there will be a breakout which means price will shoot up as people rush to buy back bitcoin seeing the reversal and becoming sure of it.

people usually use the terms "pump" and "dump" in wrong context in this board. for example they call any bitcoin price rise a "pump" just because they think the two words are synonyms and they call drops as "dump" for the same reason.
so maybe he means "correction" but he is using the wrong term "dump".

in which case it is understandable since a rise like this at this point where many are still filled with fear and want to exit will sell thinking it is a "bull trap". so usually rises like this after a long bottom are followed by a fast correction before rising back up again.

first you need to realize that "bear market", "price going down",... are not "hard times". it is just a different trend that you normally were used to see. so you need to adapt to the new trend and change your strategy so that you are not stuck in something that is over.

for example the simplest way of making profit during a downfall is to make profit during recoveries. generally whenever price moved in some direction too fast (in this case a big fast drop) there is a reversal. for instance when price drops 20% it recovers 5-10% right afterwards, you can make a good profit during that time.
another way is margin trading which I won't get into because I don't like it myself but you can find information about it online.

99% of the cloud mining services have been purely Ponzi schemes scamming people. that 1% that hasn't been a pure Ponzi scheme has also been scamming people and were partly Ponzi because they sold more hashrate than they had.
you see cloud mining is not a profitable business so they all have to turn into a Ponzi scheme if they want to survive and earn profit. in the end the users are not the ones making any meaningful profit, it is these companies. so don't waste your time with them.

they are not two different things. they are the same. not to mention that this board is not for "price discussions".
when technology is useful you are accepting that bitcoin is useful and it is and because of that it is valuable and its price will be rising.

regardless of what you think, bitcoin price will rise and set a new ATH every 2 or 3 years whether you think it is useful or useless doesn't change the fact that bitcoin is the only decentralized currency that is offering a very unique and useful tool and its adoption is growing every day and with its limited supply the rise is inevitable.

lol, neither of those reasons even make sense to a newbie. the only reason why they fail is because they have no idea what they are doing and also a great percentage of them are actually following some bullshit on the internet which usually comes from some pump and dumper who wants to dump on their head.

also stop advertising your website like this. all you are doing is that you are making it look bad, in other words right now you look so desperate for some customer that you have to spam your link everywhere inside nonsensical topics like this.