Bitcoin was originally created as an alternative means of payment to the current state payment system. That is, new financial relations were created, in which intermediaries, and above all banks, were removed, and transactions became faster, more confidential and without geographical boundaries.
However, like all means of payment used as money, they simultaneously have the function of a measure of value and a store of value. Unfortunately, for many reasons, cryptocurrency is now performing its main function as a means of payment very poorly, and in the main it is used as a speculative asset, that is, preserving and accumulating value.

The ripple price is growing primarily due to the general growth of the cryptocurrency market. Also, do not forget that it is a centralized cryptocurrency and is easy to manage.
However, Ripple Labs has not yet won a lawsuit against it from the SEC. There is positive news, which is that the judge allowed this company to have access to the SEC documents regarding bitcoin and ethereum in terms of why the SEC considers these coins to be not securities, but ripple is a security. However, there is still a long way to go to a positive decision on this claim.

Of course, this is about controlling your population. It is much easier to incorporate various means of control over people into your software. In addition, Russia's isolation from the outside world and from foreign markets is now rapidly growing. Silly international policies based on the use of military force, blackmail and intimidation are leading to ever tougher international sanctions and this can lead to trade restrictions or to complete isolation of Russia from the outside world. Therefore, it is better to prepare for this in advance.

In addition, the growing price of bitcoin and of the entire cryptocurrency is now alarming the banking system. Indeed, an increasing amount of capital is being invested in cryptocurrency, and this can begin to affect the existing global financial system. On the other hand, the rise in the price of cryptocurrency increases the risk of loss of investment for citizens due to their mistakes and ordinary stupidity. Governments, of course, will not stand aloof from this process for long. Therefore, the regulation of cryptocurrency on their part will grow. Outright bans, as in the case of Turkey, are not the best way to do this. But, at the same time, cryptocurrency is now rarely used as a means of payment.

When working with cryptocurrency, you need to take into account any scenario. Therefore, it will be better if we periodically withdraw profits in regular currency or at least in stablecoins. It is important that we do not invest all our free money in cryptocurrency, no matter how profitable it may seem.
Of course, we have significant amounts of cryptocurrency and here we cannot fully adhere to the recommendation to invest as much as we can afford to lose. We are not interested in losing any significant amounts of money.

Most likely, in May-June there will be another price correction, which may drag on right up to autumn, or the growth in the market will be insignificant. By summer, business activity always drops in almost all markets. However, no one knows for sure, because this year is special for the cryptocurrency market. Therefore, everything can be expected.

I also recently read that the distribution of the remaining unpaid AME tokens to bounty participants will take place in the next three days. Yesterday I checked my wallet, there the last weekly payment was about 80 days ago, that is, they have not been paid for more than ten weeks. Interestingly, the unpaid amounts are not that big compared to what they have already paid. I don't understand the team of this project. Is it all about the high transaction fees on the ethereum network?

888,888 of these tokens also appeared in my wallet for a long time and I recently noticed a decent increase in their price. Now the price of this token is $ 0.00052, which is equal to $ 462. The amount is decent, so I became interested in the price movement of this token. Earlier I read that they need to be unlocked, but if in such an incredible way, then let these tokens continue to be stored in the wallet.

The results of the SEC's lawsuit against Ripple Labs cannot significantly affect the price of the ripple coin itself, since the subject of the lawsuit is the possible abuse of two leaders of this company, and not the legality of the circulation of this coin. If the lawsuit is lost by the company, then these two managers will have to pay large penalties.
Ripple will continue to exist and grow in any case, including in price. Now its price has risen to $ 1.73. This coin could still rise to a few dollars in price. This will depend, among other things, on the direction of the movement of the cryptocurrency market.

Most likely, the situation with a decent increase in the price of ripple is another controlled surge that has been encountered before. I do not think that such a rise will last long. Most likely, the growth will soon slow down or the price of this coin will begin to decline altogether. It will also depend on the rate of price growth for bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency. Therefore, it is unlikely that ripple will rise to $ 3.50 in the near future.

I see no need to oppose the decisions of the central banks, as well as the issuance of digitalized currencies. The banking system nevertheless performs useful and important functions for the development of the economies of states, so you should not treat banks so negatively. If you are not satisfied with their work, just do not contact them and use their services less.
The digitized national currencies of central banks are also more progressive than their regular currencies and should be positively perceived by the general population, as they should provide people with additional convenience.

Bitcoin is created and functions in a way that is almost impossible. States will not even be able to determine which of their citizens has bitcoins if they are simply stored in their wallets. Hacking the bitcoin blockchain is simply impossible.
In addition, states will not show much interest in bitcoins and will not use it en masse. They will create their own digitalized national central bank currencies, or regional stablecoins.

Now there are already more than 9000 different types of cryptocurrency, and a significant part of them is useless, that is, it is not necessary and useful to people, and therefore is not in demand. Each cryptocurrency must fulfill some useful role, so the idea of each creating their own cryptocurrency is meaningless.

Outwardly, bitcoin really looks like a classic financial pyramid and there is still nothing we can do about it. We all recognize that for that for bitcoin to continue to rise in value, people need to invest more in it. The fact that it has been constantly increasing in price for more than ten years as a whole cannot serve as an absolute guarantee that this will continue in the future. Therefore, convincing someone that bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme is not worth it. This is a completely new type of financial asset, which is still difficult to explain to people who have dealt only with the common currency of states. For now, we should use Bitcoin and another potential cryptocurrency. Our profit over time will serve as a good proof of the cryptocurrency's performance, and the longer it lasts, the less someone will need to be convinced.

The solution to this issue depends entirely on the will of the governments. However, it is safe to say that private and other commercial stablecoins will not replace the common currencies of states. In the long term, when stablecoins of the central banks of states appear, other stablecoins may generally be banned by states from circulation. This just does not apply to decentralized stablecoins.
In general, the stablecoins of the central banks of states will partly systematically replace fiat currencies, but only to the extent that governments decide.

Ethereum will show what it can do after its upgrade. BNB is currently on the rise amid a problem in the ethereum network with high transaction fees. Soon this problem will be solved and ethereum will be revived. Both of these coins are quite promising and they will have to coexist and compete with each other. However, ethereum still should not lose its previous positions as the leader of altcoins and second place in the CoinMarketCap table.

Even if the lawsuit by Ripple Labs is lost, this should have little effect on the price of the coin itself. After all, in fact, the lawsuit concerns the abuse of two leaders of this company, that is, whether they will pay a fine of $ 1.3 billion proposed by the SEC or not. Now the price of ripple continues to grow very quickly, and if even recently we discussed the question of whether the price of this coin can rise to one dollar, today its price is 1.80 dollars. Therefore, everything should be fine with the ripple.

In my opinion, it should already be clear to everyone that the high transaction fees in the ethereum network arose due to the high congestion of this network. Even NFT tokens are issued mainly on the ethereum platform. I look forward to July when this issue should go away as a result of the planned implementation of the Ethereum 2.0 improvements. I hope that soon we will see a completely different ethereum coin and its popularity, as well as the price will rise a lot.

This is a very specific token and I think that not everyone needs it. I still don't understand its purpose well. Perhaps it would be better to create a stablecoin for this purpose, which will serve a virtual auction of art and antiques. There is very little information about NFT tokens, so it is not surprising that people are now very interested in them, as a result of which this hype arose. After a certain time, all this will settle down, then we'll see how useful this token will be.

In principle, this reasoning is correct. One should always take into account the possibility that at any time during a long period of a bull market, the situation may change quickly and those who have not taken at least some of their profits will suffer losses or wait for the next bull cycle. However, the whole problem is that no one knows when the price growth of this market will be replaced by its decline. And the situation in the cryptocurrency market cannot be exactly the same in different years. She's much better now than she was in 2017. Therefore, the current period of price increases may well be longer than it was in 2017. In any case, we ourselves make a decision on this matter at our own peril and risk.