Expect correction.
Pretty much BTC is barely holding up above 30k. Pretty much expected because many could be selling for proftis right now.
But I wouldn't call it crash yet.

Not sure who that guy is but seems like this >20k  breach of the Bitcoin price gained the attention of many non-crypto investors even media celebrities.
I guess 30k really hit everyone hard to start investing right now to Bitcoin huh.
Not like I dreamed that 2017 price to happen all over again, but hell it was really an unexpected increase.

Governments can f themselves in controlling something that's decentralized especially Bitcoin.
Their minimum control is when their citizens use online crypto wallet but crypto itself? I don't think so.
This is why I hold a lot of Bitcoin.

If it is only altcoin, ETH is pretty much advised but don't forget that Bitcoin is like your sure win to earn aside from the alts emergin in the market.
5k dollars is already a lot in my country and looking where I would invest it well I would invest it to Bitcoin first before I consider any other altcoins in the market.

Well investing and gambling are bit different to each other although they both impose risks.
In gambling, when you lose, you lost all your bet in basic sense. In investment, you can still rake those burnt money you still manage to save.

Hell this is what I was talking about as a holder.
Now it is pretty crystal clear to me that trading isn't for everybody and that applies to me.
Back then when I was day trading in Etherdelta and Binance, I was pretty much worrywart all the time.
Unlike now as an investor, I pretty much just chill and do my usual thing and still earn something.

Not for me but for many people is the panic selling combined with emotions.
I chose other for the emotional trading, because it is a common weakness here because of course it's money.
Life hacks? Probably stop trading and just hold any top crypto you hold. You'll forget any worries, unless you're full-time in trading which is gonna be a really rough experience especially when you throw all your money in here which isn't advisable.

No one knows. It just bounces around 30k right now. Expect many price correction, that's what I can say for now.
A crash? Don't know.
ATH? Don't know either, but from my assumptions, it could take a while right now.

Was that 10%/90% came from a study? Could you quote your source in the OP as well?
In any way does the number matter if you haven't even mentioned any factor on why is it only 10%?
I forgot the news article I read long time ago but there was a college kid that quit college and went straight up to crypto trading. If only I have that much time to learn trading, I would've dropped.

One from what I watched from Youtube is to just risk it once you're getting "too much" since coins like Bitcoin doesn't increase consistently. Right now we're even experiencing occasional corrections and pretty much traders have been doing vice versas (buy->sell, sell->buy) right now.
I am still in the hodl because I'm not pushing myself too much into trading.
Time issues. Figures.

Bitcoin.
Ask me again to ensure and I would say Bitcoin all over again.
Throw extras bit to alts later on. Regardless of how unstable it is, I can say that I would like to throw some of my savings to it

"Buy at low, sell at high."
Depends on how "low" is it for you, some might consider holding and some might burst buy right now.
Most of crypto coins' price are unstable especially Bitcoin, so take the chance right now if I were you.

Well even if I would really suggest top tiers as you mentioned, it really is one of the factors because traders visit those to trade of course. Nobody pretty much wants to trade in wasteland of an exchange or even deserted one, watch out for tumbleweeds, lol.
Some exchange even fakes out the trading volume of coins that's why I steer clear from them.

You can't. I believe you're also looking for the "demerit" function.
Quoted from theymos' post.

I guess it is your own thing now to stay away from Bitcoin from how your story went with John Doe hmm. Just assuming you're telling the truth though.
Good luck to your journey out there, OP.

Aside from that I agree with others' comments above, this part kinda eliminates the purpose of merit system as well. Your merit along with the post/activity count tells your experience here in the forum.

You don't buy experience. You make it.

When I see a higher ranking member here, I pretty much think sometimes that they have plenty of knowledge since they've been here for a long time already along with how much merit they earned already.

Thing is that's why they're called top coins in the market is that they aren't shitcoins. The numbers in reputated market tells us the charts hiding the technical aspects behind those price we see. Nobody can stop the "proliferation of shitcoins" as you mentioned. Scams are natural part of cryptospace already. It's just those investors that feed these scammers that's why they keep coming back in the market and to this forum actually. They're everywhere.
At any space, there will be always that bs word even outside the cryptospace.

It's like saying how long til robbers, thieves, and pirates stop doing their thing even if there's an imposed law and authorities in charge of those.

Even if we got scam busters here in the forum, there are still pretty much scammers outside the forum.

We kinda have the same phenomenon where in we can't sell as what you mentioned on 2017 that you were still schooling.
I am still in the middle of learning on how should I sell my Bitcoins back then. Either way it isn't something to be regretted of since that event repeated already and it gave us more than what we were expecting to happen again.
ATH in 2017 is memorable but now we got another ATH price to be passed down to newer people to come in cryptospace especially Bitcoin.

Hi, OP.
Please can you kindly address how do these coins have "potential". Just state it in the, OP, instead of saying it directly that it is a good coin like in a summarized form or something.
Visiting CMC is quite a lot of read and I just can't agree just because someone claims it to be good.

Check how many posts were deleted. Many deleted posts is a red flag. I understand that some OPs tend to clean spams in a thread, but it is quite unrealistic that there would be many deleted posts.
It's either the dev wants to hide their shadiness or something worse.
Don't worry if you're not sure, we got reputated members here that should be able to help in those cases like LoyceV's website here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5167469.0
Just suffice enough info so that you would be able to track deleted posts.