Honestly, it is unfortunate that the corruption is very widespread in the entire world and it is one of the biggest problems in this era. As well , it exists in most fields and this has caused economic problems in many countries ( especially   the poorest ones ) and delayed in the culture of many of them( particularly in Africa and Asia ).

On the other hand, the ideas must be implemented through actions rather than providing solutions only.
I guess that there are many ways to fight this corruption and it will be as this following:
Trying to reduce the proportion of bribery because it is very high in some countries.
Many fields must be monitored in the whole society, and all laws against corruption should be implemented and must punish those who resort the corruption to achieve their goals.

There is a little problem in merit system which it is the deleted post , For example :

When someone  gets merit point from another user, he can delete their post ( especially when their post does not deserve a merit point ) and the problem that the other members cannot read  this post anymore and when someone else clicks on the link of this post (on the coordinate of Merit) , it will appear " An Error Has Occurred! "

Maybe the best solution will be :  The post who gets a merit point their owner cannot delete it .

Hopefully that theymos will correct this problem.

Actually, Ripple is a profitable currency in the long term, but I do not think that their higher price in this month will be just $ 2. Moreover, it has reached $ 3.32 in a quick way at the beginning of last month and despite that this crisis in the market has led to a significant fall in the price of Ripple ($ 0.7) but it is certain that there will be a recovery soon (within the next days) in the value of this currency because many banks use Ripple and have invested huge proportion in it, so their value of market cap is big ( 30 Billion dollars) compared to other currencies with a weaker price.
In fact, I think the price of ripple at the end of this month will be between $ 3 and $ 5 and it will rise more and more quickly in the coming months.

For me , the investment should be in many currencies to be a continuous and guaranteed financial income( in a long and short term) , Furthermore,  this may be a good period for that because many currencies  are in low value. But before selecting the currencies you invest in, you should analyze the market well and  should not be affected by information of media because  there may be false news  on the expectations of some currencies.

In addition to that,  I think the most profitable currencies are :
Firstly, Bitcoin and Ethereum because those two currencies are always on the top of Market and  their value is always at full height and they are always the foundation of digital currencies.
Secondly, Ripple and Tron, they are the best currencies with a low price ( Ripple : $ 0.7 , Tron : $ 0.03) And when investing large amounts of them, the profit will be huge in the long term.
Thirdly, Lisk, although this currency is not well known in the media and  it is now ranked 15th But I believe that one day this currency will be more successful and may will be on top 5 in market .

Well, Bitcoin has returned to the rise, and now it has become more than $ 8000 (a develop of more than 25% in just one day). Furthermore, I believe that this progress of value will continue and the crisis of falling price is over. In my opinion, media news should be avoided and their expectations are mostly false and negatively affect the views of users, for example, in this period, many people are afraid of this sudden fall and some of them believe that the era of digital currencies is over.
On the other hand, I think that Bitcoin may return to $18000 within 2 weeks and will be in constant rise and there will be a great surprise for the future price this year. As well, there is a possibility that the price will become 100K and the end of this year.

It is unfortunate that many members use this forum to make money in the easiest ways who are shitposters and scammers...Also, there are some users who are manipulating the merit system.

Therefore, I have an idea that may help to reduce these problems, and it will be as the following:

The administrators will make a group of trusted members ( legendary ,VIP, Hero..)  and this group will be between 50 and 100 users and their mission is controlling  users, like this:

When someone makes a shitpost, he will be blacklisted and he will have a second chance to improve his posts  in 1 week  and If he succeeds in achieving that, he will be removed from the blacklist.
And if not , he will receive a negative trust.

For users who use this forum only to make money in the easiest ways,  they will receive an alert to stop these acts and else, they will receive a negative trust .

Members who have multiple accounts will receive a negative trust or get banned.

Members of this group will be paid weekly . And a manager ( Administrator)  will be in charge to pay them and to supervise their work.

I suggest that  the members of this group can add an Avatar like this one ( I designed this example of avatar which means controller )  :

In my opinion, If the price of bitcoin will go down to $ 6000 then the value of Ethereum will be less than $ 600 because all digital currencies are interconnected with developments of bitcoin. In fact, I think that  everything is expected to happen in this duration, so probably that the price of Ethereum will go down a lot and may reach between $ 300 and $ 400 .

As a matter of fact, the interest or ambition of every trader is to fall market prices with great value, in order to buy again. Furthermore, I think this decline in Etheruem and other digital currencies may continue, but it will not last long ( maybe within 1 week ).

Unfortunately not, I guess that Bitcoin connected with other currencies and when it disappears, the same thing will happen for  the other ones. In fact, when we see for example the big  drop in the market at this period then we will notice that when Bitcoin decreased , all other currencies have fallen with it. So  there is a  great connection among them.

On the other hand , I do not think that one day Bitcoin will disappear  but even if this happens, it will be achieved after a very long time (  like, 30-50 years). As well, we must avoid this pessimism  because Bitcoin will always be at the top of all currencies.

Well, despite that the value of Bitcoin decreased by more than 50% in this difficult period, but it is sure that this massive crisis will be overcome soon. Moreover, many users of this currency have become afraid of a continuing fall of Bitcoin and a large proportion of them are selling their financial balance of this currency for fear of crashing after a short time.

In addition to that, this panic is exaggerated because Bitcoin always comes back stronger after every crisis and this is what we see every beginning of each year.
So we must buy and hold as much as possible of this currency to secure profit in the near future.

Actually, the right decision in this total decrease is to buy, hold, and invest a large amounts of Bitcoin and other currencies but before that we should read the events of the market in a good way, especially  in this duration which are difficult  then must be purchased in medium quantities of various currencies in each event of every period.
On the other hand, for every trader this is the best period to ensure  the  financial profit in a long term because this crisis is temporary and after that many currencies will progress in a fast way.

In general, I guess that this huge drop on the market is best chance to buy many currencies and this opportunity may not be repeated so we must exploit this chance. As well, my strategy is to buy many currencies and the division of ratios is as follows:
40% Ripple (XRP) because their current price is $ 0.7 and this is appropriate to buy a large proportion of them because this currency will be more successful after a few years and it is expected that their price will hit $ 1000.
20 % Tron because this currency has a low price ($ 0.032) and it is on top 15 in the market and when we buy a big amount of it, then the profit will be more important and the same thing to SIACoin (20 %) which it is at the rank 32 and their price is less than  $ 0.002.
20 % Lisk, I believe on this currency, and I think that their value will be more huge after a long term.

In my opinion, this fall in Bitcoin is well-studied from the capitalist  and their goal of that is to reduce the price between $ 7000 and  $ 5000. And are aiming to repurchase large proportions of bitcoin and other currencies in that period.
As a matter of fact, I do not think that this crisis will last long ( the end of this drop  will be after  1-2 weeks ). and however there are some users of cryptocurrecies are afraid about this drop and they think that Bitcoin will die soon. and this thing is absolutely wrong because Bitcoin will jump soon and it become better than the above and may be the price will hit 40k after this crisis.

The main reason that banks are  always attacking Bitcoin or digital currencies is the financial losses and the decrease of Fiat value. Furthermore, They are afraid of the continued existence of  Bitcoin at the summit of the digital currencies, so they invested a huge value in other currencies in order to  affect negatively the  value of Bitcoin.

Absolutely not, at the beginning of each year there is always a big fall in price of Bitcoin so what happened is very expected. In spite of the price of bitcoin has decreased by more than 50% in the last period and that's unfortunate.
On the other hand, it's sure that this crisis is temporary and Bitcoin will overcome the difficulties and it will return more strongly and I think that next price of bitcoin will be more than 30K after a few weeks.

The big problem that the events of the past are affecting (in negative way) the psychic of the gambler like, the big crisis in Bitcoin price, the losses in the past... Moreover, usually  some gamblers fail due to the loss of self-confidence after a while of the bad events.
In addition to that, for me, the past will never affect my future in gambling and other fields because the experiences (particularly the negative ones) teach us do not to fail next time.

In general, the predictions are may be wrong about the most of time. especially when these expectations are from businessman's ( influential ) ideas because they want to influence public opinion through the media to be their big profits in the future , due to  those predictions affect on the users of bitcoin to buy a big quantity of this currency , and I never believe them in their expectations which are false and manipulative .

I think that this big crisis in the  market is very necessary to buy many currencies. In fact, for my opinion, the best two currencies to buy are Bitcoin and Ethereum because the profit in all of them is certain and in a long term and they are always the basic on the market.

As a matter of fact, Ripple , Tron, lisk are the best low currencies in price and it's essential to buy a large amount of them because it's sure that those currencies will progress in the near future.

Unfortunately, that Bitcoin in current time is in big drops and the price is volatile and in massively decreased which became less than $ 9000. Furthermore, the solutions will achieve when the problems will be resolved, which led to this huge crisis. And the most problems are:
The higher number of unconfirmed transactions (for example more than 35 000 unconfirmed transactions in Blockchain in this period).
The increase of the selling value in this period and which has led to drop in price of Bitcoin.

In my opinion, this is difficult to achieve, especially in this period. Because the majority of countries has rejected the presence of bitcoin in digital currencies and they consider it as a dangerous currency and the truth that Bitcoin do not correspond to their interests because those countries cannot control it.
On the other hand, the only way that Bitcoin will converted into cash  and this will achieve when the governments will recognize Bitcoin as a legal currency.

Well, every fail or loss in the field has a reason which leads to it. As well, in the field trading there are many problems which cause of financial losses, especially for the beginners and the most important of those reasons are:

Firstly, the rashness choices in different situations, and particularly when there is a big drop in the market.

Secondly, going to risky choices like, buy a huge quantity of currency, which are not successful and has a low value, so it's very important to learn the market before choose which currency to buy.