I totally agree with you. KYC checks should only be carried out by large investors. KYC checks should not be extended to bounty hunters because we are not investors in ICO projects. On some exchanges, the rules for passing KYC checks are established only if the volume of day trading exceeds a certain large amount. A significant part of investors buy a small amount of new tokens and therefore it does not make sense to pass them various KYC checks.

People have never departed from the eternal human values, among which gold holds the most honorable place. Cryptocurrency is used by only five percent of the world's population. Now she is experiencing very bad times. How it will develop further, nobody knows. Therefore, gold was, is and will be gold.

Maybe you did the right thing by leaving the ICO in early 2018. During this time, bounty hunters practically work in vain and there is almost no profit. In any case, you have lost almost nothing. It’s probably vacation time for bounty hunters, because now the ICO projects are more dead than alive. The remaining almost all try to deceive us, including by checking KYC after the end of the ICO.

Bitcoin can not be stable in price. This is simply not possible, since its price will always be determined by the relationship between supply and demand. But supply and demand will never be stable.
Bitcoin can be stable in price only when it changes its decentralized nature. However, we don’t need such a bitcoin.

If bitcoin had risen in its price to one hundred thousand dollars, I would definitely not buy it, even if I had such an opportunity. I do not think that any cryptocurrency coin can hold such a price for a long time. Although now I even doubt that bitcoin will ever rise to such price values. You need to look at things realistically. You can imagine the bitcoin volatility at this price. Bitcoin holders will then massively die from a heart attack. I want to sleep well, so I would not buy bitcoin at such a high price.

The bulk of cryptocurrency holders can earn in the cryptocurrency market only by long-term retention of their coins and tokens. Of course, the most profitable, but also the most risky trade in cryptocurrency. However, not everyone has the opportunity and desire to engage in trade. In this situation, the most correct solution would be to periodically trade in moments of big rises and price drops in the market. Therefore, you should not call those who hold their cryptocurrency for a long time as idiots. This is also a way to make a profit, but not the best.

Cryptocurrency is not very perfect yet. Therefore, in the form in which it is now, it will not exist for a long time. It is developing at a very fast pace and until we can say where this development will lead. Perhaps the cryptocurrency is being transformed into something completely new, which we don’t even have an idea about now. Therefore, the cryptocurrency, which we now know, will not exist for long. This is an intermediate stage of its development.

It seems to me that the cryptocurrency is now at such a level of its introduction into our life that it is unlikely that the governments of all states can already agree and prohibit the circulation of cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency for this has become too well known and popular. To no longer happen, and it will be used by citizens for financial settlements. We also already see that many large states have begun to use cryptocurrency and legalize it, and they are unlikely to be able to ban it now. They are forced to listen to the opinions of their voters.

Now for the use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a means of payment really just did not come the time. Here everyone is a little right. No need to run in front of the cart. On the one hand, the cryptocurrency is still imperfect and very difficult for mass use. On the other hand, there is not enough of its legalization on the part of states. Without this, the business structure does not want to accept them. They need clear rules of settlement in cryptocurrency for normal relations with the tax service and audit. How will the business structures in a few months prove to the tax authorities at what price in the cryptocurrency they sold the goods, if the price in the cryptocurrency has changed thousands of times during this time? In business, all this should be clearly stated. And the owner of the cryptocurrency still does not know what to do with it, or keep it, because over time it can grow in price, or use it as a means of payment. In due course all these problems will settle down and everything will work as a streamlined clock mechanism.
Now just until it is time for this.

This is one of the main questions that we have been trying to answer for a long time, because the fate of Bitcoin actually depends on it. Here we have a contradiction: Bitcoin will always have high price volatility, if it remains decentralized. But he cannot lose his decentralization, otherwise it will be another Bitcoin that we don’t need. Apparently, Bitcoin will have to combine high price volatility and use as a means of payment. In this case, as a means of payment, it will be used primarily by individuals, business structures are unlikely to use it widely with such volatility.

The blockchain technology is great where you need to keep large databases online safely using the Internet. Therefore, land registration, registration of land plots and data on their owners may well be used and are already used for access of citizens to this information. Many ICO projects use exactly this opportunity offered by the blockchain technology and even here the field for the implementation of this technology is very wide. It can also be not just databases, but any systematic useful information, especially if it goes beyond the limits of one country and is used for individual sectors and types, but on a global scale. Blockchain technology is perfect for combining and using any useful information on a global scale.

Banks will be forced to provide services in cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, but they will not use Bitcoin in their own activities. For this, banks have a ripple coin, more suitable for this purpose, and they have no reason to switch to using Bitcoin, which is not intended for this.

In any case, this year should be much better for ethereum than the past 2018. This year we should already get out of the problems that were in the previous one. First of all, at the end of February ethereum should be updated, improve its scalability, which should already have a positive impact on the restoration of its popularity. Also something must happen with ICO. Either they should start to be regulated already, or we should switch to STO.

It is not a matter of ordinary investment, but of the need to circumvent international sanctions. Russia will be forced to do it anyway, because the sanctions, it seems, will not be removed from it for a long time. With its reckless politics, Russia has driven itself into a dead end. And to buy and use cryptocurrency, most likely, there will be quiet, without much publicity of this event.

At the same time, not very good news comes from Venezuela. First, President Maduro decided to pay pensions to pensioners only in the local cryptocurrency El-Petro. I just do not know how there grandmothers cope with the latest technology. This will be very problematic.
Secondly, yesterday, the day before yesterday, an attempt was made by the military against Maduro and a dozen people were arrested there. The coup failed, but tensions will exist for a long time.

I have a lot of earned tokens by participating in bounty campaigns ICO. However, while it cannot be said that most of them are useless. Sometimes it takes many years to promote your project. Moreover, it is impossible to judge by tokens in the period of such a long period of falling and stagnation of the cryptocurrency market. Therefore, I am not in a hurry with conclusions. These tokens can suddenly begin to grow in a few years.

No, the ripple coin definitely has no chance of bypassing bitcoin in terms of price or capitalization. I think that many users simply will not allow the centralized cryptocurrency to become the leader of the whole decentralized cryptocurrency. It will not be normal. And this coin is very specific, as it is designed to serve the banking system. Ripple is now in growing demand because more and more banks and financial corporations are switching to using it. However, this will be its limit. This coin is not capable of anything more.

I would also like to find out. Earlier there was information that January 18 could announce the new date of the hardfork Constantinople. However, so far no new information has been received. Apparently, the vulnerabilities were quite serious and so far this problem has not been fixed.

Since KYC testing began to be introduced, the coefficient of my performance in cryptocurrency has plummeted. It takes a lot of time and nerves. The KYC check is usually carried out after the ICO is completed, and if previously we could safely switch to other ICO bounty, then we now have to reread hundreds of messages in telegrams and other places in order to find and not skip the relevant information on the KYC check, otherwise I just don’t will pay for many months of my work.
I already did not affect other unpleasant moments from this KYC check. Who would like it?

Central banks and governments will indeed eventually create their own centralized cryptocurrency if the decentralized continues to be successfully used and developed further. The centralized cryptocurrency of the states is the same national money, only in the digital shell. Thus, states will use blockchain technology for their national money. Their scope will be mainly limited to the borders of this state, although it can be used anywhere in the world.
For a decentralized cryptocurrency, it will even be useful, since the population will learn to use cryptocurrency and it will attract people’s interest in cryptocurrency in general.