I think he is dead. He was assassinated shortly after he invented the legendary Bitcoin. If not why is his almost one million holding still not depleted years after Bitcoin became popular? No one can hodl that long once their token/coin became highly priced. We all know what happened to Litecoin at its peak and how the creator cashed out.

I think OP is subjective where they used the word "normal". For me, I think crypto is already normal the way it is. We may not be having it good like the pre-2018 seasons but definitely we can't say the industry is fairing any worse. What we have now is crypto trying to react to the dynamics of market forces. And this pandemic too isn't making it any easier for the industry. But when compared to the stock exchange industry, we can assuredly conclude that crypto is making headway. Bitcoin selling about $6,000 at a time like this is something to cheer about.

There is also a proverb to this effect where I come from and it's loosely translated as - Don't test the depth of a river with both feet.

However, I like to point out from the OP that the story may not be chasing the clout. It could be a true life happening. There are certain people like that who are dare devil risk takers. They risk everything without putting something up by the side in case something goes wrong. They think life is in a straight jacket. But life isn't. UPs and DOWNs happen.

Trust me, whether you psych yourself up or now while trading it doesn't stop the reality on ground from hitting you hard. Especially, when you're in a losing trade. Besides, part of the major reason of failure with traders apart from lack of Money Management is allowing losing trades to run deep while cutting winning trades too early. If traders could take care of these they would soon hit a gold mine.

But of course, the OP is talking about hype in the cryptocurrency industry. Without mincing words, I think the OP is correct. We don't get to see hype in Forex Trading. At least, not the way we have it in the crypto space. Genuine news or speculations are what move and drive Forex Trading.

Nice effort the OP has put into this, at least to try and guard hunters from falling into scamming devs' and teams' deceitful antics. However, there are questions I should raise like why certain projects from 2018 and early 2019 are included? For instance, a project like Savedroid shouldn't be on the list to start with.

Firstly, I sympathise with your situation. One way or the other we're all caught up in this outbreak. Now, to your question: the thread is right where you've made the post. However, owing to your post count and activity it will be very hard for you to have a bounty that can accept you as it is - not even into any social media bounty. Most of them require a certain number of activities.

Nice compilation OP. It's either you're a good student of history or you teach it  . April Fool's Day is now a tradition, even in this forum and we always look up in anticipation to what theymos would always come up with each year. This year's prank was in tandem with the pandemic virus.

Chances are that anyone in this century who uses the Internet at least twice a week must've heard about Bitcoin. The greater work should be done offline to sensitise people about Bitcoin. I first heard about it on the radio a few years ago. It wasn't online. So, if I had being online at that time I would've heard about it long before I finally did in 2017.

Now, it looks very promising that more people will get to learn about Bitcoin with this compulsory stay at home (and access to the Internet) occasioned by Coronavirus pandemic. However, whether people will invest into it at a time like this that we are all struggling to stay alive remains another speculation. I think people will want to be alive first. Only the living make investments.

Besides what the OP pointed out as this being an easy scam to unravel (any scheme that promises more than 1% daily is a HYIP and that's scam in my opinion too), I believe the crypto industry will come out of this pandemic revolutionalized. So many things are going to change. Already, many countries are taking their businesses to the blockchain as a way of retrieving their battered economy at a time like this.

Gambling is a very high risk adventure besides having a morality issue hanging on its neck. Except one is a gambler, I don't think anyone would ordinarily want to toe that line. It's the easiest way to lose one's Bitcoin. If you doubt, show me a wealthy gambler. They come into wealth by chance and are quick to lose it. Luck always run out on them. For me, to grow one's Bitcoin would be through trading or loan. Even at that, they too have their own risks involved. But it can't be compared to the risk involved in gambling.

Honestly, the Toilet Paper token wowed me when I saw it displaced Bitcoin this morning on total  market cap. It was when I checked dominance percentage and saw Bitcoin at over 60% that I realized it was a prank. The ingenuity of CMC.

Soldierwitlittlefaith, my sympathy is with you and the rest of the Italian community. The number of deaths we hear of Coronavirus victims in Italy is really alarming. I hope it abates really quick. However, the pandemic is now spreading across Africa. Nigeria now has a recorded case of over 100 positive patients who have tested for the virus.

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I was in and I gladly reapply and hope I get in again to continue with the campaign. Thanks.

The surprise may even be Theymos not showing up since there has been much speculations of what evils he could perpetrate on the said date.

Payment received. Thanks and I hope the campaign comes on again soon.

Well, this is just March. It's the third month of the year and I guess it's still too early to conclude if bounty is profitable or not. Let's wait till the last quarter of the year to conclude. BTW, the crypto industry was doing well the beginning of this year, going to above $300 billion in total market cap until the Coronavirus scare stepped in and panic selling commenced. Now, we have the total cap slightly above $160 billion. Nothing says it won't even drop further if things continued the way they are. Besides, bounty payments and value become useful whenever the market is in an uptrend.

I have no sympathy for those who invested in this scheme of a project. We already knew it would end a scam. The gloomy writing was visible on the wall but I guess sheer stupidity and greed drove some people into it. Any veteran member who invested in that scam should be immediately derobed/deranked for such act of foolishness. They truly don't deserve their ranks. These things keep happening and those who have been longer here should know the signs.