The decision must have been taken listening to your instinct. Speculation is not a good vision and make you loose money and for this reason many people are fed up of bitcoin and want some relaxation. So have a good research, have a sharp insight into what may come next, lots of fluctuations in the market make it tough to take right decisions but the volatile turbulances shake you and I would say its a wise decision if it is at the cost of peaceful mind.

Public had gone into crypto frenzy but there seems to be loss of interest due to so much turbulence in the market. So its justified to get the perception of gloomy market. But its unpredictable if the mainstream looses interest what will happen. The market has been swaying for the last few months with lows and highs, due to the fluctations its advisable to hold and wait till the scenario shows up with some transparency. More secured blockchains are coming up in the recent future promising for a brighter world of cryptocurrency.

I believe in cryptocurrencies which have utility. The best project that I found out for 2018 is REMME.

The goal of the REMME high-end secure system is to build a distributed Public Key Infrastructure (“PKI”) that will help infrastructure companies, IoT, medtech, financial and blockchain companies address the problem of security failings.

Regarding the future potential of REMME, the company has setup a detailed Utility Sector Market Penetration Research.
The link for the research is here
https://medium.com/remme/utility-sector-market-penetration-research-ba80504fb0ed

In this saturated world of crypto block chain its tough to pick up the best one or two solid ICO's. Few upcmoing projects with robustic promises are:
1- Cryptk - its a hybrid blockchain which will take care of issues addressing to cyber security solutions.
2-Cryptocurve- based on Wanchain blockchain with a user friendly mobile app to ease the world of crypto users.
3-DNN- when everything around is fake news, this blockchain will bring neutral media source and authorities will take care to censor and publish the accurcay.
4-Quarkchain- there will be no scalability issue with this.

In the business world of cryptocurrency we need a healthy ecosystem , healthy competition and growth of the best.Having altcoin is the best option , otherwise we would stick to only bitcoin which will not fit in everyone's unique needs n expectations and it will also give one network all the power. Its just like one feels safe to invest in different banks rather than keeping all your savings in one bank and inviting the risk factors. So when you have choice with altcoins you will choose the best option. Some coins are more innovative and are equally good like Litecoin, dogecoin, namecoin, peercoin. So do give an eye for altcoins.

Bitcointalk Name: SummerBliss
Telegram Username: @SummerBliss
Username used in campaign, which you take a part: SummerBliss - Signature Campaign

It would be extremely hard to cross the 10000$ mark and I will explain why. So a lot of traders do a thing called shorting where they decide to sell their entire portfolio in case there is a profit or loss of 10%. So considering the fact that most of them bought it during the phase when bitcoin was 9000-9100$, their sell orders would automatically be initiated once bitcoin touches 9900-10000$. This would result in bitcoin losing its value and falling every time that level is touched. In order to cross that level, some big whale will have to put some huge buying orders to cross that resistance line, else it might take few months to get beyond that.

I dont feel this post itself would work. The crypto community is huge and not everyone is here on this forum. There are close to 2 million people here and your post would hardly get viewed more than 1000 times. So that's a really small number that you're targeting. If such FUDs don't come, the market would become boring.

That's really sad to know that you lost such a huge amount. 13 BTC is a big number. Although I haven't lost as much as you, but I had also lost 4 Bitcoins when a reputed online exchange ran away with all the money. I was left befuddled and in shock. After that I made a pledge not to store private keys anywhere except a paper wallet.

What is the source of your information that new investors are not entering the market? With the price of every coin increasing in last month, new investors were attracted and hence entered the market. It is evident from the total market cap increasing. You can view these stats on coinmarketcap.
In future, whenever you think about starting such a post, please post a credible source to back your claim.

I don't really gamble much but I know a few people who do it on a regular basis. Yahoo campaign manager is one such person who gambles a lot. Recently he won 102 bitcoins while gambling on a website and that makes him perhaps one of the richest members of the community. There are multiple other people too who haven't made it big in gambling, but yahoo's luck is amazing.

The bounties are not in danger. However the people who enroll themselves in hundreds of bounty campaigns might get banned from the respective websites for spamming. Both Facebook and Twitter were very clear in regards to the advertisements for ICOs and they are against it. Even Google joined them later on. I would also recommend you that as long as you don't trust a project fully, do not participate in its bounty.

You all must be knowing that the federal reserve of USA controls all the money in the world. There are also rumours that rotschild family is also behind controlling the world's wealth. There is no governing agency which can monitor what federal reserve is doing with the money so there was a need of introducing an alternate currency which could combat the ever increasing inflation. Hence, cryptos came into existence.

Where I don't believe in regulations on cryptocurrencies, I strongly support regulations on ICO conduction. While investing in already established cryptocurrency, an investor has many parameters to analyse before investing. But while investing in an ICO where projects and companies can be easily faked and there are no parameters available to analyse, it becomes difficult for an investor to make a right choice.
Right now, due to unavailability of any kind of regulation, many of the ICO coming are fake and scam. But I doubt if the number is 90%. It seems like most are a scam because many fail to raise anything and thus, calling their ICO off. But that doesn't mean that they are a scam.

The way market is going a periodic correction, I think cryptocurrencies are at accumulation stage. Every time Bitcoin hits $9500+, it undergoes a correction to $8700 level and then again pumps back. This means Bitcoin is trying to gain some momentum before the final leg. Since, whole market is dependent upon Bitcoin' movement, altcoins will also boom with Bitcoin gettting pumped. I would say we are building a momentum for the bull cycle and right now, we haven't reached there.

Bitcoin price is again going through a timely correction and is back to $8800. This is happening for the 3rd time after the bull phase started. Bitcoin has been hovering between $8700-$9700 for a time now and is unable to cross $10k which is more of a psychological support point. This is mainly due to the low volumes. Unlike last bull cycle, this time the volume is small and thus, coins might find it difficult to sustain their pumped prices.

You can read about the following ICOs and then decide for yourself which one to proceed with:
1. Datecoin - Recent partnership with Dehedge. Expect positive outcome.
2. Ubonium - Recently ended their campaign.
3. XiWatt
4. Aeternum
Both the above said campaigns managed by Sylon.
You can see which campaigns are being managed by good mangers and join them.

Your question should be in the speculation thread, not here.
To answer your question, BTC maintaining a stable price from last two weeks is a very positive sign and it is expected to remain like that for at least a month. If you follow other channels where people speculate, then you would understand that we have escaped the bull trap and have reached a stability point. Even when market fell in morning, it eventually recovered, so it shows that stability is here to stay.

I dont know what sort of campaigns you had been participating in, but most of the reputed bounty managers clearly mention when the campaign would end. Whether it is Sylon, or Yahoo, or even atriz, they inform you beforehand.
At times the manager himself doesn't know when campaign would end since they wait for response from marketing team who evaluate the current going campaign. In such a case the manager cannot commit a wrong date and hence doesn't comment. Such things are out of his control.

I feel market will have one more pump where the price of bitcoin would touch 10500$. After that the market will most probably get dumped again following a small distribution. I'm expecting bear riot from next week end or during the start of the second week of May.