Are you serious right now? Then what are you doing there if that is what you want? Hold a centralized coin that is eventually controlled by the government? What is the difference holding your own currency then and saying you want to invest in it? Let's be realistic here, a lot of us are here just because we simply enjoy the idea of decentralization and not because we just want to invest in anything we see. A coin issued by the government is no different to fiat.

No, we cannot assume that. Even bitcoin will be finding more success which will definitely trigger such thoughts to governments. We can expect some government to come up with their own coins in near future. But the success of those coins will not last as per decentralization principles.

I also have the same belief as well that this is a market that we obviously will have to wait to see how things play out with regulation as that is changing so many things even as at now. The ICO we used to have few months ago, is different from what we are having now and in few years’ time, will even be more different.

I am sure; ICOs will not be ending except that we won't just see any how ICOs popping up in the long run based on those regulations. When there will be some strict regulations then we can see more legit ICOs which will ensure more stronger crypto-world compared what we are having right now.

I have not even heard about dent before, so I cannot really give an advice on that. The only advice I can give right now is to do thorough research on what you want to invest in rather than basing your decision on other's judgment as you would not get anything tangible or possibly get even more confused.

I could tell you right now to go ahead investing in Dent because you mentioned it, but does that mean I am right. It is an investment, and you really want to be sure yourself you are putting your money in the right place.

Fraudsters are always the easiest to identify as long as you are smart but the thing is that a lot of people are so gullible to know what to identify and what not to bother about. These days, you still see a lot of people placing much focus on a whitepaper that can be cloned and an idea that can easily be copied and create a website for.

But, all those are face deception as the product cannot be cloned as no fraudster will go through the pain of creating a product that would bring in huge demand for the coin, and want to jeopardize that for scam. Also, even if product can even be cloned, team cannot be cloned, and any team trying to hide identity, should raise some red flag.

That would actually be a very devastating 404 lol ! I can imagine the look on someone's face in a scenario that happens. You are right, there is actually no business a long term investor do have with an exchange as the only thing you should use it for is to do your exchange to buy the coin or token you want to hold and transfer your stuff to your wallet where you have the private keys.

It is only for traders who trade often and moving coins and tokens around would obviously pay them but even in that case, it is always better to trade with what one can afford to lose.

That is usually the issue one would always have when it comes to arbitrage which makes it a whole lot risky.
Sometimes, even when a network transaction of the coin is fast, some exchanges do not do that immediately, some may even close deposit or withdrawal and some other things.

Hence, moving coins around exchanges can be a whole lot risky and you may end up losing so much than gaining. I simply prefer normal trading, at least, a lot easier than the stress that comes with arbitrage unless the percentage between those coins is just too much to overlook.

Except if you are day trading or a short term trader, I do not even see any reason why anyone should be focusing so much on the chart as if their life depends on it. The market will always fluctuate but the idea as a holder is to focus on the long term which was the idea of investing anyway.

Still, so many people who wanted to get rich overnight, invested more than what they could afford to see go down or even borrowed loan just for that reason but they sure are the reasons behind their own problem. Just checking charts will not help anyone but we must have some strategy to enter and exit the markets which will definitely help any trader.

Yeah, that is something we have to get used to. It is a speculative market and we just have to accept that fact that a lot of people will always want to share their opinion irrespective of whether they have an idea about the market and trading or they do not.

Market though has been bearish for a while now and there is simply no doubt about that, but one thing for sure is that it would not remain bearish forever, and the only thing we can say now is to see how things would just turn out.

It is always going to be hard to say as there is really no doubt about that, but one thing I am sure of is that there is a possibility it could happen and at least it is realistic. We may end up not seeing such a move, we may end up seeing it, but what matters is knowing that we are in for a pretty good ride in the long run and it is not really about the short term. I believe even if we do not see much this year, next year/2020 should be a glorious one.

Bitcoin will evolve more from this point then you may see there will be no competitions for bitcoins from currently 2nd and 3rd ranked cryptos. I mean most other coins are still lacking with real life applications which is the reason bitcoin will stand for ever as a leader.

It is for sure for the market to get back up again and start a normal proper trend to the upper side when it is ready but we all sure do know now is not the time. The drop was inevitable right from the onset the FOMO started last year and it was sure expected.

How low we are going to get is what no one actually knows now and the only thing we can of course do is to keep watching the trend to see how things would turn out eventually but for now, nothing is certain yet. There could be hundreds of reasons which made prices to drop from $20k to current levels but all the hassles will vanish in near future as bitcoin's future is still believed as a brighter one.

Based on what you said about everyone using their own coin, how on earth do they even want to use it ?
Is it not when it is accepted in exchange for something that makes it usable ?

The thing here is more like, you creating your own currency and then bag holding it with no real life usage, nothing to use it for, just there in your wallet and then you get frustrated at the end and abandon it. Nothing different from all those scam coins with no value in the market as it will end up having no value at all just like you mentioned in your second paragraph.

That is the case but the fantastic part of it is that they have at least in a way been able to help the whole space grow. Sure, a lot of people invest in the crypto space for different reasons, and having bitcoin alone in this space, would actually have made things boring or slow a little bit.

As long as there are alternatives, even though they do not stand a chance of competing with bitcoin due to the first movers advantage, but at least they serve their own purpose, and they are useful in their own area, which I believe bitcoin cannot end up having it all, or probably, we could have just been dragging with growth and development somehow.

it is actually the perfect option. Although, some people may be a bit skeptical about the fact that no one knows what the future of bitcoin is like, how things will end up playing out, but at least from some of the hand writings on the wall.

For those who are smart enough to take some calculated risks, I want to believe that the future is bright and a lot of development and growth is going to eventually kick in the more. By the time one may not have even reached retirement age, you may even just want to quit and say you aren’t doing no more based on how much you may have been worth by then.

Yes, lack of understanding is totally the main reason why a lot of people take a blind risk. For instance, let’s even leave trading and hit investment into certain project. A lot of people took loans from the bank and a pretty huge one, to invest into a very volatile market, that is what I simply call stupidity and not risk taking.

Also, a lot of newbies want to trade, and they just refuse to learn or go by the books, and that is also a dumb way to ever take risk. Information is key, which is the knowledge that is needed to make good decisions even while taking risk.

Yeah, I believe having a general knowledge on how the crypto space operates entirely is always going to be a plus. What makes the altcoins responsive; what to always look out for in bitcoin before making any market decisions generally and so on and so forth. Although, the basics of trading is highly important as well as the use of every other indicators and that is what really makes the whole idea of trading not just some child's play but some real profession one should get serious at before making an attempt to dabble into.

The big whales can never be gone as there will still be some with pretty big position in the market whether we all like it or not. However, there is so little big whales can do when the capitalization of a market is already huge and a very crazily high volume being traded daily.

With that in mind, market will not move in an extremely speedy way as it is today, but we will get to see a more matured market as someone rightly said. This would not just come anyway, as there would have been a huge development based on usage to get to see something like this happens.

Not just people, but bounty hunters. A normal investor who bought an ICO price of let's say $0.1 with his money will obviously not be selling lower than that but wait for the value to hit top notch before even considering selling at all no matter how long he or she will have to wait. Bounty hunters however, who even had no single idea of the ICO price dump at any price, and these days, leave it or take it, investors are beginning to target those moments. I have used it to acquire some pretty good tokens too at a lower price than ICO price.

It is actually worth it, but in any case, it is only going to be worth it if you are not just investing in a token because it has low volume, but simply because it is a project that has a product that is worth gambling on. The idea of not ending up with shitcoin comes with what I mentioned above. Nevertheless, it is a lot risky as like you said, this can result into bag holding of shit coins, since in most cases, will be hard to see coins or tokens with prospect having a hugely low volume.

The problem with a lot of newbie is that because they felt they have missed the bitcoin train and the value has increased hugely, it will never increase again and in that case, they just invest in any low coin that they see as long as it gives them quantity, hoping that one day what happens to bitcoin will happen to those coins even if they are shitty.

Alts at least for now even when they increase hugely hardly do not last and they are basically more like a pump and dump market except for just very few that still hold up in a way. A good strategy not to hold on to alts for so long.

The knowledge is everywhere and a lot of people keep sharing it every day, the problem is that people like being spoon fed and they are too lazy to do research. Sometimes, even when I get to see people ask questions on this forum, questions so silly that once you typed on Google, you will get enormous answers to, but they still just ask anyway.

If people can learn to use the internet to do research, they will get all the information they need, and the only way we may say some can have that problem is if they lack those internet facilities.