I'd mostly blame the ICOs for current bear. We will need proper regulation of ICO to boost both the ICO and cryptocurrency market. Still to date more than 2/3 of ICO are scam to most extent. And authorities would have no choice but to crackdown on them.

And it really depends on the place you are in. Only few exchanges support countries around the world and generally have a larger fees than the local exchange and traders. If you have a local exchange, they'll be the safest way to transact linking your bank account. Or you can look for traders on localbitcoin.

I'm not an expert either. But I believe if two chains exists, every tokens would too exist in two versions but not interchangeable. It's upto the token to decide which one is their own token or they can go with both if they want. The chain you use would be decided by the client you use as the private keys and address would be the same.

Watching the yearly trend the end of Q2 has been the bull time for crypto. It would start rising by the end of May or in the June.
Though not a sure analysis but current depression seems easing and it is highly likely to have a bull run soon.

It's not just for the bear trend. The bear trend is moving the whole crypto market. But even on normal times Ethereum is way undervalued that it is worth of. Many popular tokens uses ethereum as a gas for transaction, EOS, TRON, Vechain, BNB, Omisego being some popular names.

Using as a gas in an exchange doesn't necessary have large impact on the price of the coin.
The Stellar has a fixed transaction fees in lumen and they'll keep rotating in the network.
There will be no decrease in amount of lumen (unlike other exchange coins) and no sharing of dividend (like KCS).
And there are only less than 20% of lumen in supply which would increase in time.

Everyone of us can do it easily. But it's about how and where to use them and how to convince the investors to invest on it.
I dream of operating a restaurant chain and my tokens to be used for the payment for discount privilege than fiat.

This field is being competitive with the entry of many new coins for the same purpose.
ETH is still the winner.
NEM seem to have an edge on hosting token over other new tokens but they have problems for smart contracts.
NEO is overall a good choice but they have their own problems and users are not getting about GAS and NEO.
EOS has a much professional team that may challenge these two alternatives sooner.

China has banned it's people from investing in an ICO and forced exchanges to leave the country. But still the trading are being held and there are new ICOs getting international investment and working within the mainland. So, appears they are trying to get the best way to regulate investing and trading.

I don't think their are any coin meant for micro payments that offers a platform for ICO as all of them are speculative.
But with current price, the fees are less and every of them are good for micro payment.

With current number and supply of ERC20 token, only their transaction can too drive up the price of Ethereum for short term. For a long term Ethereum will start facing competition and the scenario can be different. With it's Top token EOS shifting to it's own blockchain.

One of the most popular social network and business accepting bitcoin as a payment has now stopped bitcoin as a source of payment.
This is in a way backward move for the crypto adaptability.

http://bitcoinist.com/reddit-has-stopped-accepting-bitcoin-payments/

It's the transitional phase for crypto. The debate about it's use and legality in a heated debate.
If authorities around the world comes to agree it as illegal (which is highly unlikely), the prices will free fall and without any clear statement about how the authorities are going to treat crypto, there are no chances of a bull run.

EOS was totally hyped from the start, had a huge successful ICO, a good and quick listing on exchanges and a nice volume and marketcap from the day 1.
Though they are still in developmental phase and small news from the project are creating huge turbulence on the price.

Ripple is an interesting project to follow and I believe they are good for investment as they have their support to the top level of authorities around the world.
They are indeed trying to link crypto and banking and if they are successful to convert themselves as a cheaper and quicker alternative for inter-national banking transactions, moon is not far.

If you are going for a coin with a blockchain, go with NEM. They are coming up as the nearest rival to Ethereum and are likely to increase in value and use in the upcoming years.
If you are trying to invest in an ICO, choose one whose price are linked to real company and their profit.

It's certainly an April Fool Joke, These stats are not shown in profile and it's timing and complexity connects it's dot to the humorous nature of theymos.

Arcblock have already concluded their ICO but you can get them for below the ICO price from the market and is a promising tech.
I think you are talking about neon exchange as there is not such thing as neo exchange that of I know.

Remember it as a 2018 recession in cryptocurrency, that's what your children are going to study in history.
Cryptocurrency would bounce back, I don't have an exact date but I can bet on it that one day crypto and the total marketcap of all crypto would be greater than what it is now.

Cryptocurrency and ICOs primarily had become an investing assets and most of them don't care about what regulations they may or may not have unless they are having the profit.
Regulation too is an easy word but the regulation of this technology would not be that easy for anyone.