Arguably, the most significant driver of Bitcoin value is its future price speculation. There have been several speculations of BTC price by top crypto influencers, while some have come to pass but it appears that the 100k price milestone appears elusive.

The $60k prediction came to pass but BTC has since lost more than 65% of its ATH price.

Do you think that BTC will ever rise to and above 100k in the near future? Wil it be before or after the next Bitcoin halving or this price would never come?

What's your opinion?

As an investor and trader myself, I observed that early investment in very good coins such as IDO/IEO or buying promising tokens cheaply and holding for long term is more rewarding in terms of ROI than day trading, especially when you don't have large funds.

Most day traders take profits immediately when their daily target is met, which could be a single digit percentage ROI. Whereas some coins can give ×1000 just for holding for a couple of months. Take for instance AXS, Shiba Inu, Doge, Flow, Elon, FTM, SOL, among others. I have bought some of these tokens in large quantities for day trading before and sold for 5% profit.

Imagine I just hold for a couple of months what my ROI would have been?

So in my opinion, Holding trumps day trading for massive ROI.

What's your take on this?

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Decentralized finance, DeFi, has grown exponentially in the past few months. The promise of high rewards is one of the selling points that attract investors to purchase new tokens. Unfortunately many of these tokens are mere social experiments without proper security audit of their smart contracts. The presence of bugs and vulnerabilities such as unlimited mint functions, bear huge risk not only to the sustainability of the project but also to investor's investments.

We have seen in recent several instances of losses due to defective smart contracts. YAM finance,, Soft Yearnn finance (SYFI), are some of the examples of DeFi projects that failed or exited due to unaudited smart contracts.

So why do investors take such a huge risk despite these bad experiences to still invest in new crypto projects smart contract audit carried out by a reputable third-party security firm? Are they not scared of loss of their money?

Binance has been a leading force with respect to initial exchange offering (IEO) evidenced by its extraordinary success in raising funds for crypto startupa via its Launchpad. The likes of Gifto, Bread, BitTorent, Fetch.Ai, Celer Network, Elrond, Perlin, Kava, Injective Protocol have successfully met their funding goals via Binance IEO.

My concern, however, is in the performance of its recent IEOs such as thoseof Injective Protocol(INJ) and Axie Infinity (AXS). In the past, investors are often certain of getting almost ×10 of their capital once the token is launched after IEO but these two tokens hardly did ×2 of their IEO price. Does it mean that the Binance Effect is already waning or has weakened?

AXS was sold at $0.1 at IEO price but only breezed to $0.29 briefly while INJ sold at $0.4 managed to hit $1.49 as its brief ATH. These results are unlike Binance's past IEOs which made investors jostle to get in to the launchpad.

Do you think that it the end of Binance IEO has come or the exchange would rediscover its earlier form?

Let me know your opinion.

I know that threads would have been created on a similar topic but I think it's time we found a feasible solution to this incessant problem.

Crypto Projects are known to enlist the services of Bounty huntersto make a booze on various platforms that will attract attention to their products, in exchange for their token or another notable cryptocurrency. Through this marketing campaign, new projects aim to get investors and supporters for their idea.

It's unfortunate however that many projects have reneged on their promises to reward users for their contributions. Once the project becomes relatively successful, they begin to give excuses, delay distribution, block hunters who request for payment or even fail to pay anyone.

The common excuse given is that hunters hurriedly dump token after listing thus affecting token price.

Does this justify the unfair treatment meted out to hunters who have worked assiduously for months trusting the team to fulfill their end of the bargain?

Cryptocurrency is supposed to be decentralized but bounty reward is not, what an antithesis?

I will like us to proffer the way forward on this. Bounty hunters have invested their time, mental and physical resources to promote such projects, so they are stakeholders and should have a say.

Your contributions are welcome.

Recently, one or two countries have experimented with cryptocurrency, issuing a national (sovereign) crypto backed by the government of the day, and to serve as a legal tender. We have the cases of Venezuela's Petro (supposedly backed by the State crude oil) and Republic of the Marshall Island's 'Sovereign' (SOV). Some States are also rumored to be getting set to issue their own crypto such as Dubai.
But as we know Bitcoin, the first world acclaimed cryptocurrency, was developed out of a radical scheme to break free of the excessive control of central authorities such as government, banks etc. So if countries should start issuing their own crypto, don't we think it's a ploy to get smart on people and still control our lives and finances using a tool that's supposed to liberate us?

An example comes to mind in the case of Petro issued by Maduro's government. The government restricted people from owning Bitcoin as it was prohibited to spend more than $50 worth of BTC per day. Instead the government wanted the people to adopt and use Petro, dictating what currency people should favor.
So I have reservations for this move. I see it as a ploy for the government to control us. The gimmick is "if you can't beat them, you join them". So if they won't ban cryptocurrency, then they make a centralized crypto, that will definitely infringe on people's privacy as the government would still be able to track how the e-cash moves on the blockchain.

Crypto is a looming revolution, its huge stone is gathering moss, if not now, many countries may buy this idea anytime in the future.

I have been thinking about this for a while now........what do you think? Do you think this would help the blockchain/cryptocurrency industry or not?
As for me, I believe it is contrary to the ideals of the founder(s).

Would you own sovereign cryptocurrency if your government issues one?

What's your take on this?

Bitcoin price has failed to gather momentum to match 2017 ATH or even follow the predictions of top Bitcoin influencers. So what is your own opinion, a realistic price for Bitcoin before year end?

Consensus 2018 will begin tomorrow 14th May. From past experiences, the market is usually green during and after the conference. I'm expecting the market to pick up this year too.
Do you share this same view or you beg to differ? What will be the market response to 2018 Consensus Conference?

From recent trends, many great projects have excluded their community members from participating in the token sale as the tokens are exclusively preserved for heavy investors through closed door (private) sales. Some even after promising to conduct a public presale renege on their words. Is this not disappointing? Will an average man be able to participate at all in any cryptographic project if this trend should continue?
I even fear more that project dev/team allow big wigs who bought the tokens cheaply in private presale to dump on excluded community populace at the exchange. Personally, I've missed out of a couple of good projects because of this. So what's your take?