I don't think that would be happening. Every startup has a planner who plans things and gets them executed. Similarly every ICO must be having a strategy prepared to be executed at the given time.
Every ICO has different goals and the amount to be raised is also different for every ICO. I am sure every ICO allocates a percentage of amount raised and distributes it towards the expenses of developing the project which includes promotion. Lets say if an ICO raise $10M then 50% should go for marketing and promotion, 20% for payments of team, 10% reserved funds, 20% for further developments etc... Just an example though.
It just won't make sense if an ICO is raising $10M and spending 90% of it promoting it.

Definitely no. A coin's price can never tell about it's potentiality. The price fluctuation is just another speculation and there can be many causes for the surge in price.
We cannot determine the potential of a coin with it's price. If it was so then bitcoin should have been having a bad potential since it dumped from $19k to $5k but it's not.
Bitcoin is having the highest potential among any other coins in the crypto market.

The potentiality of a coin can be observed just by knowing a few facts like the aim of the project, the team behind it, the time span of the project, the goals of the project etc..
Every things has an important role in it's place and if we feel that everything is right with the project then we can say that the coin might have a good potential.

You should definitely read this post made by franky1 and if you already did then do it again. This clearly explains the fundamentals of mining difficulty and the units of bitcoin.

I won't believe any word McAfee says because he simply speaks lie all the time. He keeps making random predictions which is by far from what actually happens.
If you do a little research and find out his previous predictions then you will yourself stop believing in him. Besides that Satoshi was not afraid of anyone which is why he created bitcoin in the first place.
Why do you think he would reveal his identity now just because McAfee said so. If Satoshi wanted to reveal his identity then he would have done that already.

It has been discussed over many times on this forum and the solution is just to use the divisible units of bitcoins 'Satoshis' to the maximu extent.
Since bitcoin has not gone mainstream it is easy to classify bitcoins as a whole but as the adoption takes place and bitcoin grows bigger, the classification should switch to Satoshis instead.
Only then it would be appropriate to  make the payments and transactions smooth. Further more as Franky1 said if later in the future the devs decide to divide it into milli sats, it would be an addition to the current maximum divisible units of bitcoin.

Word correction: it's 100 B and not million.
Well if look out through the charts then the 100 B marketcap is soon to be achieved as the price grows steadily.
18 M BTC supply is yet to take ample amount of time to be achieved as the leonair mentioned.
Anyway, the increase in marketcap certainly won't make a huge difference though.

Holding bitcoins for a long term won't do any harm to you because it is known that any long term investment yields a profit which includes bitcoin.
It's true that bitcoin may pump and dump at any time but it doesn't happen so frequently and besides that one who believes in bitcoin won't care even if the price dumps.
Because he knows that the price will recover sooner or later. So buying it while the price is affordable would be the best deal to make.

These things happen in crypto. There are various possibilities for this to happen. It might also be a pump and dump.
Although there is not a pump, it might be a result for a previous pump as well. Also can you put the reference to this chart.
Waves has been going sideways since the last 2 weeks which shows it's pretty normal  

What's wrong with tradingview ? I have been using for so long now.
I don't see any kind of advertisements in it if that's what you mean with 'pop ups'. It's been clear for me since so long.
By the way, even if they display popups on your screen you can simply close them. It's the least you can do for a free version of charts.
You have to face some struggle if you want quality data for free.

The sites you mentioned are really good to learn technical analysis and to learn the basic fundamentals candlesticks and other properties of charts and graphs.
But I don't think that it will be much useful to carry out profitable trades on cryptocurrencies. It might be useful to analyse the historic price of various cryptocurrencies but it won't be useful in predicting the prices of crypto.
In fact the crypto market is not meant for predictions at all since it is purely based on the demand and supply at that point of time.
Anyway, it is still useful in analysing the current market conditions so newbie traders should definitely go through these once before they start trading crypto.

China has been spreading the news of bitcoin mining ban frequently lately and I don't know whether it is true or not but I think they are just trying to spread a FUD.
Their motive might be that people dump bitcoin but I don't think that will happen since people have been over this already.
Even if China bans bitcoin mining it will create a temporary effect on bitcoin's price but then things will get settled up as bitcoin recovers the price.
New miners might then join the pool and if not then the older ones will be more benefitial as they will be getting more rewards.

We have all been there. Greed is something that any person could develop over the time. But once you have suffered enough losses you will fear of encountering any more losses.
That is how fear will over take greed. After that you will have to setup your mind to follow the strategies you will create to a make a successful trade.
I know saying it is easy while doing it is totally difficult. But once you start following the strategies you will get to know that following the strategy is more beneficial to risk it over greed.
You will have to set the targets and stop losses to execute a successful trade and remember to keep the profits smaller in the beginning as it will create a confidence in you.

Since you are still a newbie the best advice for you would be 'Never' ask for merits on this forum to anybody.
Asking for merit is called as 'Merit begging' and is against the forum rules. Just keep making good quality posts and the generous ones will bless you with a merit themselves.

You will first have to define your goal properly. If your goal is to learn programming then you must understand the basics of programming and start programming in languages like Python, Java etc..
You will find the guides on learning the basics on youtube and to learn the languages I would recommend doing some online courses. You can either try the free courses or join platforms like Udemy.

If your goal is to learn blockchain development then you must first learn the theoretical part of blockchain and then find courses which will teach you blockchain development.
I remember Tosh Academy having a Blockchain development course but it is a paid course for which you will also get a certification.
You can also join some free courses to learn in depth blockchain development but to accomplish that you must have good technical and programming skills.

These things are not so easy and it will take a good amount of time especially if you are not from a computer science background.

You are absolutely right. Thanks for posting Satoshi's message. It gave me an oversight to his character and I personally liked it very much.
It does prove that Satoshi and Craig has a huge difference in their respective characters. Craig is a more like an asshole though 
You have proved your point well and @HardFireMiner should probably understand it well now.

First things first, lets call him 'Fake Right' rather than 'Craig Wright' 
I don't think Satoshi revealing his identity would matter much to bitcoin. All it can do is add a little publicity to bitcoin which will in turn create a short temporary spike in bitcoin's price.
Once the things are settled bitcoin will continue to grow naturally as it always had been unless new developments take place.
So even if Fake Right is not fake it won't matter to bitcoin.

Well if that's the case then how would the 2017's and 2018's percentage would be found out ?
2017:
((900-300)/300)*100 = 200%

2018:
((3600-900)/900)*100 = 300%
But the percentage is different from what franky1 has posted.

I assumed the forumla franky1 used was
2017:
(900/300)*100 = 300%

2018:
(3600/900)*100 = 400%

hence for 2015:
(300/177)*100 = 170%

Well I want it for my own research and the charts are not helping me. But I have found out that it's just me and the numbers does not attract others.

Where anonymity is involved, money launderers get a bright opportunity to play around with money in that area. The only way to stop it is to alter the framework which in this case can be called as regulaiton.
Hence the anonymity concept is disrupted. I would say that binance is doing it's best thinking of the possible problems it could face in future and making itself ready for upcoming problems.
It's at least thinking of tackling such problems while it's competitors are doing nothing.

I just find out how you have calculated the percentage gains. According to me, the return should be 169% for the year 2016.
Must be a TYPO or something from your side. Well I was looking for a website or tool that could help me in calculating the returns for various period of time.
For example all the months in a particular year, all the years till date, a range of years etc..

Also if there is not such website I also thought of creating one. Would like to get opinions for the same. Would it be worth it ?
Is there a need for such ? I am personally interested in finding such average returns but are there others who think there is a need for such thing ?

From all that I could make out from watching the trailer was

• Money Laumdering
• Hacking
• Crypto getting stolen
• Bad people involved(probably Russian Mafia)
• Market crash

All creating a negative view on cryptocurrencies. The comments on the video proves the same.