I think the best thing governments can do is to stop regulating the economy at all and privatize as many sides of public sphere as possible. These simple things helped to turn poor agricultural Singapore into the central economic hub of Asia.

Most likely, people return to the sound money such as gold and silver which existed for milleniums. Without electricity and the Internet btc simply won't exist.

I think it's all about marketing. Most people don't base their decicions on pure utility of one or another coin, but rather they evaluate the way this coin is presented. That subjectivity creates the difference in popularity and capitalization.

The most common opinion currently states that we have just passed the year's bottom and are now on the way to recovery. Hopefully, that rising postive spirit will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The point is that there are different economic movements and they may vary from university to university. Currently, modern economics is divided into mainstream and mainline. Mainstream economics has a more mathematical approach and encourages governmental interventions into the economy, while mainline is pro laissez-faire and agaist interventions. So which would you like to see taught?

Bitcoin is just a tool which can be used for different causes. Therefore, it cannot encourage people for doing anything. People launder money because they don't want to pay coerced taxes, war in drugs doesn't work. So are these things really crimes?

I guess a lot of investors pervceived that ban as Facebook neglecting the whole crypto sphere which resulted in that 5% dip of Facebook share price. I still hope that Telegram will be the first to fully integrate crypto into their messenger.

You can only attempt to destroy a coin reputationally or make mining unattractive or inprofitable or gain over half of total mining powers for a 51% attack, but basically an active blockchain is more or less indestructible.

Spotcoin's CEO Tim Gick is in the US setting new partnerships. Hope, that will be something huge and will give the crowdsale a new boost!

As far as I participate in bounties from time to time, I have noticed a few bounty managers who usually support only quality projects. For instance g0blin.com works with top-notch NEO-based ICOs. Spotcoin (https://www.spotcoin.com/) is one of those. That's going to be a comprehensive platform for making crypto/fiat operations more accessible for regular people.

So far bitcoin has weathered the bloodbath a bit better than ETH which shows that most of investors still deem it a best asset for securing their funds.

That volatility cuts off those who came to bitcoin for wrong reasons. Therefore, I prefer treating these dips as a cleansing process.

Protectionism is always a negative thing and every society that practices it inevitably suffers economically. The only positive thing I can see for crypto here is a chance that more businesses will start using crypto in order to evade taxes and alleviate the harm from tariffs.

I don't think crypto should be regulated at all. Finally, we have a tool that can make these regulations, tariffs and taxes obsolete and expose how useless and harmful they are.

Early investors buy tokens at a price much lower than during the ICO. For that reason they can afford dropping coin's rate below the ICO level. Nevertheless, now the reason for that fall is the general depression on the market.

I don't think World Cup has anything to do with it. Yes, it steals a fair share of attention from crypto, but in terms of money flow it doens't affect crypto.

It's much more likely that instead of giving up people will just start developing mechanisms aimed at making ICOs more transparent and easier to detect scam at early stages. Moreover, that sphere of scam alerts and ICO evaluation can also be monetized.

I think such price dumps are only possible when ICOs calculate the proportion of bounty unwisely. For instance, some ICOs don't shrink pools if they don't hit the hardcap which results in too many tokens allocated to bounty hunters most of whom are eager to fix their profit.

I prefer decentralized exchanges. If you take all safety measures, the chance of having your funds stolen is pretty low. While centralized ones regularly get hacked and funds get stolen.

If I had some spare fiat I would definitely buy. Maybe it's not the year's minimum yet, but it's very close. It's not likely whales will let it fall much lower.