There are many reasons for Asia too be leading now. More favorable mining environment (low cost energy), many developers in Russia and South Korea..

But as you said, it may change soon or later. I believe USA is still struggling with regulations, but as soon as this phase passes, it may become a good place for new cryptocurrency projects.

You will find it difficult to link a name/person to a whale, because these people take good precautions to hide their true identity. They have to do this, because rich people can draw some attention from some criminal elements, if they know their true identity.

Bitcoin whales are also often targeted by beggars and spammers and nobody wants people like that to bug you for money 24/7. 

Some of these people also wants to avoid unnecessary attention from law enforcement agencies. <Market manipulation is frown on, by some governments in some countries.>   

I feel the same way. Too many SCAM projects use the Ethereum platform. This negative reputation also affects the platform itself. Ethereum should create a platform that greatly reduces the risk of a scam. If they succeed, I see the Ethereum course underrated.

Good news but I doubt about it being "most used product in crypto". It would be a single purpose means of payment (largely used).

I was making some research about Ethereum, trying to find some reason for the low price.

Ethereum Dapps are certainly one of the most important  and inovative aspects of the network.

Decentralized Applications are basically applications that cannot be stopped, as they run in a decentralized network. The problem is that it's quite expensive to use them because you need to pay gas for each interaction.

I found this website and I discovered that the most used Dapps in the Ethereum network are 0x and MarketDao. I don't know those projects very well, but their number of users in the last 24h was very low, 1000 users.

For such a great plataform like Ethereum and all the money they have (marketcap of billions ) , I think this number of users is very low. Dapps are not a thing yet.

Eos on the other hand has one Dapps with more than 15.000 users,. Endless dice. I think it's very strange to see a new plataform such as eos with more users than Ethereum... Maybe it's just temporary

It's too early to tell that bitcoin is rallying solely based these couple of days of increase. Assuming that bitcoin is rallying towards through out the end of the year, it might be due to the feeling of being optimistic for year 2019. The bitcoin ETF is expected to be approved on February. This is a good trigger thing for bull run.

Whats the connection? Lets say if you are one of those who buy, are you really willing to just to give it to someone just for a gift?

Xmas time ppl use money more maybe that's a clear sign it's goin up

Okay so long story short.

 

I donwloaded a program without AV because i thought Windows Defender was good enough.

 

This happened around 2 months ago: Downloaded the program, ran the setup installed it and ran it. All fine. In the next 2 hours, I have gone onto my emails to find out someone was in my yahoo mailbox and tried to get into my crypto online wallets which were empty. I bought bullguard antivirus straightaway and ran scan which found viruses. I changed my passwords, reinstalled windows and changed passwords again. I thought that was it. 300 dollars gone off my paypal account, and 15 dollars used to buy GTA V off my other paypal account.  I bought Ledger Nano S and stored 20 000 xrp on it, worth £10 000. Yesterday i woke up to find out that all my ripples from ledger have been moved to this adress which i suppose is the hackers address rUF5TKP4JNyXsHWjHYVWH7ugCB6FTabM8U.

 

Also the hacker who bought the gta has used a fake passport with my name on it to send to the game provider to prove "it was me" who bought it.

 

I probably wont be able to recover my life savings will I?

will be going to police station tomorrow also if they can help?

i had sensitive files on my pc, such as letters i wrote and pictures of my driving licence.

 

what can i do to make sure this does not happen ever again, and what else can the hackers do? Is my personal information for sale on dark web? Who knew 1 small application could ruin a life...

 

i am afraid they can take all my money from my bank accounts

I am hoping Bitcoin's price will reach again 17500 USD and then next mount - 28000

Well you can start by doing signature campaign bounty it's a sort of working for ico project and getting paid after for the services you render you can either get paid in bitcoin, ethereum on in the projects token

If you ask me im in favor of STO model and i think it is the real deal, STOs can replace the classical stocks, shares and equities markets but we have to be realistic and should be aware that for STOs to become compliant and legalized by the governments globally there is complicated process required and we do not know how much time it will take to pass regulators across the globe.

You are right, because there is a very serious price manipulation in the cryptocurrency market, which is very dangerous for ordinary investors.

Yes, it is 83 dollars now. So what? The whole market is falling and etherum is no exception. It is not worth mentioning the price, because ethereum network is working and will continue to do so even if the price continues to decline. Ethereum's technology and infrastructure is developing, this is the most important thing, and the price will come back to normal when the panic in the market calms down.

Same as internet when it was first introduced to people. Not everyone has access to it, and look at it now, it became as one of the major necessity in people's lives. Blockchain technology can change how everyone manager their funds in the future.