I recall many people back then asking that same thing. Widespread where they put it almost synonymous to replacing.
I just think of it like a credit cards from banks. That's how I see it at least in my country, not many uses it, but it is an alternative and could potentially be used by many merchants out here. There's almost a gray line between buying stuffs here through Bitcoin, though it still uses the local currency.

When Bitcoin dumps, many shitcoins just see their last days. It is just not that worth buying anymore even if you have a lot to buy any coins and no, from my experience, I was almost zeroed out when I bought some of the alts back then. I never bothered touching the altcoin side ever again after those days.
I don't even day trade anymore.

Hi, OP.
You might have a better shot in other social media platform. There are crypto-related groups in Facebook that you might get more respondents than here though I am not sure if they are active ones since I never joined one but only saw several groups. You're also better off to a good survey form as what DdmrDdmr mentioned. Google Forms isn't that difficult to use to construct such survey, and I even used that one to create a survey form for our study long time ago.

Don't panic sell. Now that the Feds are being mentioned, here comes a lot of FUDs from many people.
If you've been here since 2017 or earlier, this start of the year isn't anything new now. It is just crypto being crypto especially Bitcoin.

None of those would survive overnight I tell ya. You shouldn't be scared if you know how to properly choose your coins and do the cliche things like DYOR. I wouldn't bother in those projects if I were you and just focus on what's in the top 10/5.
Now that NFTs are like covering the whole internet media when it comes to crypto, I wouldn't surprise if 50 more popped up.

It wasn't exactly "stopped" for me, but rather had the access to get one actually though back in 2013 I was wrongly informed about what crypto was especially Bitcoin. We might not have the same thought where you thought it was a ponzi scheme, but for me I thought it was a coin primarily used by criminals in the deep web as I usually read a lot of internet conspiracies back then plus as I mentioned earlier, I didn't have the access to getting it as I do not own any credit card to buy one from Coinbase plus I can still recall when they can't support my country yet to make a purchase. It was a receive only, if I can recall correctly.

I recall encountering these gigs from what I mentioned in this thread back in May. I also provided the link of the gig in one of my replies there, but it was taken down already though there were screenshots that I provided.
I would just advise to report these gigs. Not sure if my report went through and Fiverr took down the gig as they never contacted me back about the status of my report, or the freelancer took it down by himself.

Lol, two unrelated stuffs. Pretty sure Facebook is still the name of social media but under with different company name, correct me if I am wrong.
For Metaverse, it seems like getting hyped up a lot apart from the booming of NFTs right now. Though so far, I am still not interested into it. Metaverse might be like just NFTs that would be trendy in few months and just die down.

Not sure about Harmony, OP. Regardless of what the market state, I would always go with Bitcoin. If else, I would go for Ethereum and no other below that. NFTs seems pretty hyped right now, so you might get away with that at least.
I wouldn't just immediately throw money into whatever is below top 5.

Not surprised that people are now looking for regulation in crypto though it won't work as obviously this is a decentralized space anyway. I can still recall back then that ICOs were still like booming and slowly dying back in 2017 and people were looking for regulations due to scams popping up.
It is just not going to happen.

Back then I was planning to buy a Samsung Smart TV but I guess back in the days it was hella expensive and it might not even worth it for me as just an ordinary guy watching TV at home. The extra features ain't worth the extra coins.
Seeing Samsung launching their own NFT platform makes me wonder if it will be even worth it as if many are requesting it. NFT launchers seems to pop up from many popular companies now these days without the community asking it like Ubisoft in their games.

No point of regretting not being able to invest in BTC back in that price. I could have invested also, but I don't think there are any more reasons to still think about that you missed out the lower ATHs of Bitcoin. Bitcoin would be declared as dead many times again in the Obituaries, and that's another cue for anyone to buy at the lowest.
It is just also matter of how ones daily schedule work. I quitted day trading just to hodl it all in Bitcoin.

This.
I will never understand those people actually. More like they could have been influenced by celebrities from Twitter or Youtube, ya know what I'm talking about, that made them throw a whole a lot of their savings to crypto and overcommitted to getting the returns from it. There is nothing wrong with holding for years and years, but one should just make sure that whatever money was in that basket aren't going to badly used in the upcoming years. It won't hurt to start slowly increasing your holdings.
It's just those people that are too rushed into crypto.

Quite relatable to that back in 2017. I hold some shitcoins along with BTC and ETH. Good thing that the dump wasn't over yet before I sold, and it was a lesson for me that day to never hold shitcoins ever no matter how I think about the project's future. "Pump and dump" groups don't give a shit about the project's future if their only purpose is to pump and shill a coin multiple times before screwing over investors.

I haven't heard from DeFis quite a while. I thought they just disappeared completely in the face of crypto, then these NFTs just took over the crypto space. NFT games are the trend right now actually and I even rarely heard about NFT paintings, more like people just downloading and editing random PNGs in the internet to sell it for millions of USDs.

We kinda have the same starting point, although for me I was introduced to Bitcoin purely and not just this forum. I wasn't interested first in registering in this forum, as I think I would just throw my money into Bitcoin and call it a day. Turns out I need to find a starting point for me to know what trusted apps are there to buy my first Bitcoin. The local board in here is like haven for me as I am sure that I wouldn't be able to buy Bitcoins the same as people in other countries and I am way more limited means of buying one.

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Seems like the OP isn't active anymore for almost a week, maybe call this thread for a lock?

Not sure what you mean by blockchain there, OP as pretty much everything in cryptocurrency relies in the blockchain.
In the first place, why would you convert to Shiba Inu anyway? If meme coins are what you're up to, you're doing all good with dogecoin already although I am never a fan of meme coins maybe just for laughs, but I won't put my money into it.

Such rapid development of crypto won't really lead to a bull run. Investors wouldn't just buy just because projects are getting developed a lot and even if airdrops are there for the sake of marketing the project, it won't.
If this year there would be bull run then great. Looking for the point for me to sell one day in this year.

OP has a negative trust of promoting and advertising a scam. What makes this not another attempt to scam people all over again?
People should stop hyping up these meme coins. It's not going to do you good in the long run and you would just complain in the end that the price just dried, due to "hype drain".
Seemingly these people are those following popular celebrities in Twitter shilling coins and it saddens me.

A lot of articles were pointing that out actually from what I've read when the bull market started. It is not unrealistic, but a difficult price to achieve if you would ask me. We haven't even manage to breach through 70k and yet we're still eyeing for 100k.
It was still kind of a good end, I agree but people should control a little bit their expectations just when the price just surged.