the coins that crashed fast in the beginning have ALL being strong ever since. that is how the market works!

after a pump you need to get dumped back down to the bottom. some smaller coins got dumped fast and reached that bottom fast which is why they have been holding that price and also a lot of them have been having new pumps.

meanwhile the big coins that got pumped but their dump has been slow and never reached their bottom, are still struggling to keep up and experience dumps every now and then. that is why none of the top 10 coins had any pumps yet.

i would personally do it on an exchange. meaning you deposit your BCH on the exchange that supports the fork of fork coin so that you can act quick because in cases like this, similar to airdrops, people dump their freely acquired coins as fast as they can and crash the price so you need to act fast to dump and get the most profit out.

"risk" doesn't depend on rank of a coin because rank is an arbitrary number and is mostly opinion based. for instance if it was up to me i would put ETH and XRP and BCH in ranks above 1000. and put coins such as IOTA, byteball or platforms such as Waves on top 10 coins.

interesting enough when it comes to profit the coins that are not in top 100 are more profitable than those that are in top 100.

it is funny how people love to focus on a "rumor" that is not even true and never even pay attention to hundreds of good "news" which are actually real and happening to bitcoin these days. for example did you know how Lightning Network has grown in the past couple of months? do you know the shops that have been accepting payment through it?!!!
nobody talks about them! but you say some nonsense about India or China and everyone gets hot

banks are sneaky. they won't show any interest now and then suddenly you will see they are in. you may find some news here and there but nothing serious until someday you see they have adopted bitcoin.

the best advice that i can give you is that in this market if you can not make up your own decisions for when to buy and when to sell and what to buy/sell then you should be in this market. so if you have trouble making decision then my suggestion is to sell and getting out of the market until you can answer your own questions!

i think that is an obvious observation! and i believe that there is nobody that denies the fact that "cryptocurrency" is here to stay and will become better and better.

what people don't agree on is that the "existing cryptocurrencies" aka "the altcoins" are not going to live because almost all of them are shitcoins and have no reason to even exist let alone stay alive. and that means their eventual death. but the technology and the good coins like bitcoin will remain because they have actual usages.

reporting "data" is worthless as long as it is not accompanied by analysis so that the "data" gains a meaning.
in this case looking at it is frustrating for those who are bag holding altcoins but it is another proof that there is a lot of profit to be made even in  this market. you can see altcoins that are getting pumped every day even as everyone is crying about the red market and stable market!

bounty hunting is just a waste of time. you may get lucky as you can get lucky in winning lottery but generally speaking if you spend your time doing other things you can make a lot more money.

in my opinion trading altcoins is the best way of making profit on your money. you just have to learn how things work in altcoin market and start training your eye to be able to notice the pumps because that is where the real profit can be found.

the biggest problem is that the problems are not solveable. all they can do is to change things around and hype the fork up for a little while so that they can pump ETH again since it has been dumping for nearly a year now and they need something to help them pump it back up again. but in the end any hard fork, specially this hard fork will introduce even more problems to the system.

how do you know that he is an opponent! of bitcoin? based on what he said in the past?
that doesn't mean he is against bitcoin. as a matter of fact in my experience  those who talk about bitcoin the most are the ones that are interested in it the most and want to have more of it. so for all you know Warren Buffet may be one of the biggest bitcoin whales already. and accumulating more.

we are not yet at 10 years but this is still a good milestone in bitcoin history and is proving to all the naysayers that they were mistaken and also proves all the newbies who fell for their lies that they should not have listened to them in first place and trusted their own judgment instead.
bitcoin is here to stay and it will only grow more with every passing day.

this sounds to me like one of those cases where a company is too caught up in the hype of blockchain technology without knowing that it is not that useful when you use it in another area. of course that is my conclusion based on what i have seen in the past. we have to wait and see how this works out for them!

the project has to be created well enough with an innovative idea and with something different first before it can be considered for further success. so the developer is the most important part since that is where the initial innovation or lack of it will occur. and if a project is a shitcoin nobody can do anything about it anymore apart from pumping groups which pump it for some time before killing it for good.

you are oversimplifying it in my opinion.
buy a coin at x and sell at 10x to make 10 times profit is easier said that done. what you need to do is to first determine if  that coin you are buying is actually getting pumped or not. just because it is currently worth x that doesn't mean it should go to 10x even if it has gone there before!

as for masternodes i am with @jseverson on this because this kind of investment is even riskier since you have to 1) invest a larger amount 2) lock it away and not be able to dump it at a moment's notice if the price was tanking 3) you are locking it in an online wallet which is always going to be susceptible to hacking.

the only way a project can actually survive in the long run is if it has real intrinsic value. otherwise when the project is purely based on speculation and pump and dump that means it has no intrinsic value and it will never survive the long run.
these cons may get pumped after the long dump but that is a diminishing trend like a downward spiral which will eventually lead to the death of the project.

there are a lot more than 2081 altcoins in the market. coinmarketcap doesn't list all of them!
and they have all been the same! their percentage of pump may be different but the patterns are exactly the same. for example one coin among top 10 may be pumped 100% over 4 months and then dump back down to where it began pumping over 10 months but a small coin outside of top 100 can get pumped 5000% over the course of 1 week and then dump down back to where it started in 1 or 2 weeks. but in the end they are all the same.

to make profit you only need to master timing.

you can do it but before doing this first ask yourself the following question:
what will you do when ETH price drops from $200 down to $100 or even to $10? in this case you would lose $4750 out of $5000 and be left with only $250. what would you do then?

if you have a good answer to this question then by all means do it. go borrow that money and invest.

because it was not "bullish"

when a rise happens that doesn't mean a bull market in altcoins. what it means is that there is a pump going on and the price is artificially rising up and will end up in a fake bubble-y state which won't last long. as you can see now that some time has passed, this was indeed a short term pump that they performed to make money.

we need corporate entities and everyone else to adopt the crypto currencies not the technology. if they adopt the technology then there is nothing going to change regarding the mass adoption.
for example you can see that the banks have already adopted Ripple but they are ignoring XRP and that means nothing will change for the cryptocurrency token itself.