In our time now, data is a weapon. Any data when processed becomes information, and information can be used for all sorts of things. Now if you think that your personal indentification is only worth 5$ in tokens, you're out of your mind.

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If the coin has a good idea for a project then it is worth holding; like how bitcoin dumped when mt.gox happened it recovered after many years. If it's from an ICO though, there's a thin chance that it will recover back.

Good news for us. Advertising is very essential towards mass adoption as long as it is used for good. Let's hope that this will bring forth new investors into the market-- wiser and stronger(hodlers) investors that is.

ERC20 based ICOs are done for; too much banality of ideas and moreover, eth is facing a big problem next year with the difficulty bomb so there's no way those are not affected.

I still think there can be profit in ICOs. Just make sure that the idea they propose is unique and they ate not ERC20.

Correct. I correlate trustworthiness to how established a coin is and how much support it receives from the community. That being said, OP can never go wrong in the top 10 cryptocurrencies in cmc.

Facebook having its own crypto is very unlikely. Their platform is free, when they integrate cryptocurrencies to it, it automatically becomes monetized--which is bad since their selling point is many people joining it.

Another reason for the decline of ICOs are the banality of ideas. Everyday we see different projects with almost the same idea as the one before it. No matter how good the advertising is, if the project's idea is a fail in the first place, it wouldn't have a chance of succeeding.

It is quite possible to achieve 80% dominance for btc after the market has shaken of shitcoins in the gutter. However, some altcoins are fairly good so 20% to be shared for those might not be realistic. Even 50% dominance for bitcoin is enough IMO.

The most innovative thing crypto brought forth is the decentralization. Traditional financial institutions have too much power before, but now, even if cryptocurrency is not yet fully adopted, it is keeping those banks in check. The second best thing is it being used as a form of payment. It can achieve the same task in a small amount of time compared to bank wiring.

Anonymity is the least of bitcoin's concern in the future. It needs to handle large numbers of transactions per second first to have its place in the future. There's also concern for it being an investment. So I think out of these all, the future of bitcoin is the amount of tps it can handle to let it compete with banks.

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I prefer using cryptocurrency with its anonymity and freedom in use. It also has a possibility that your holdings will appreciate over time whereas in banks, the interest you earn by depositing your money will just be eaten up by inflation. Besides, banks have other policies that are not client friendly like suspending an account without notice beforehand.

I bought my first fraction of bitcoin last year on July. I was an inexperienced trader then so I lost that money. Now, I'm settled in just hodling various altcoins since it is more safe and is less taxing for the mind.

Cryptocurrency is the only viable way of paying in the future when all people would be dependent on technology, especially internet. As for the microchips, yes, it can also be used but implementing it would be very costly. For a payment method to work, it should be easy to understand, stores should accept it as payment and most of all anyone can utilize it.

I think the bull run will happen in November, same thing that has happened last year. Though we will not reach new ATH then because investors are wiser now not to just jump into the bandwagon. Also based from the past graphs, q4 has always pumped bitcoin.

They don't understand the underlying technology yet. All they know is that it is an investment tool that can give profits at the right time with the right amount. Most of them are also being fed with false information about it, including government discouragements in using it so we have this condemnation.

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I believe this will happen too in the last quarter of this year. We may not reach new ATH but the confidence of investors in this market would be regained even just a little bit if this happens.