Japan luxury car dealer allow btc holders to buy cars on bitflyer exchange. I think Japan is the most Cryptocurrency-friendly nation in the globe.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/japanese-luxury-car-dealer-to-accept-btc-as-payment-option-through-bitflyer-exchange

The survey shows that huge number of American are into cryptocurrency and 8% of the population planning to buy a crypto.
This is an indicator that many people around the world are crypto-educated. It can boost a crypto market.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-survey-shows-around-26-mln-americans-own-and-8-percent-plan-to-buy-cryptocurrencies

Recently Binance been hacked and lost almost 20 Billion Dollar worth of crypto just an overnight.

 Buterin had a proposal that uses scaling that will prevent hacking on exchange.
https://concisetuts.pro/ethereum-founder-presented-a-scaling-solution-that-will-prevent-hack/

Hope this will succeed to revolutionize the exchange and the blockchain as a whole.
What is your thought on this?

The US State Georgia considered to accept cryptocurrencies as  tax payment.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-georgia-next-state-in-line-to-accept-crypto-for-taxes-licenses
Georgia file bill after the Arizona considered BTC as a tax payment.
Which State is next?
This is pretty good news!

The U.S. Federal Reserve seems interested on ripple mode of transaction.
If this would happened this could be catapulted the ripple's price in the market.
Investing in ripple right now will not be wasted. 

https://viraldocks.com/us-federal-might-accept-ripple/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahsu/2017/10/19/will-china-host-the-worlds-biggest-state-backed-digital-currency/#380d56461231

Though the news was on October 2017 but still relevant and could be one of the contributor why there is huge dip of BTC's price recently.
 
Majority of Chinese patronize their own. We cannot deny the fact that there are large of Chinese population in  the market of Cryptocurrency and their absence will be a huge blow to the price of BTC and other cryptocurrencies in generals.

Many people asking why there are a lot of altcoins, and they suggest limits the altcoin making should be done.

The reasons why I don't agree to limits the altcoin aside from the reason of decentralization.

Here are the few;
1.   The monopoly of market will be avoided.
2.   There is a competition of prices in the market  that can limit the price of the stellar cryptocurrency to overshoot.
3.   Altcoins can cause unpredictable fluctuation of prices in the market. Fluctuation of prices result revenue for the traders/investors.
4.   New and small investors/traders will be given a chance to trade in the market.
5.   There is a healthy circulation of money in the market because hoarding/holding will be prevented.
6.   Exchange site/market can gain also a suitable amount.
7.     Bounty campaign will be continued to progress. 

Merits should not be view as a punishment or suppressor for the lower ranks. It should be considered as a training and a test that you are worthy of a ranks.
 Honor of having a merits is the thing that we lower ranks should be proud of.  If we ranks up we earn it in a hard way which you will cherish it and savor every merits we earn.
Just continue the hard works, do more research we will reap then in the later.
'We will reap of what we sow.'