>that 30 years old boomer that invested in bitcoin early.
Of all my acquaintances that are into crypto or bitcoin, the youngest would be in mid 20s and the rest are in 30s or more. It is not really hard to guess since back in the year 2000s with most of us are teenagers who got plenty of time and nothing to do, searching over the internet for the ways to making money.

I think I can agree with your point about crypto doesn't be affected much by the COVID-19. Tho, the people's trust in the banking system still the same. Just amidst the COVID-19, many people looking for a new way to invest their money, and somehow, crypto shine and show its worth around that time. After this COVID end, I think many of those people will stay and will help crypto become even more mainstream.

You can not send ETH to a wrong address cause everyone is just copying and paste so it is very unlikely you got a wrong address. Wrong contact address maybe. If that was a case then I would send it right back since he have to know me.

So people make common mistakes and fall for obvious scams are usually newbies or just someone greedy? How about both? Lack of knowledge but only greed is sure the only type of people falls for obvious scams like this. I wouldn't call them as victims since they clearly brought this upon themself. If you don't have the proper knowledge of some new and strange things, you should feel scared and try to avoid it.

I don't think any good and promising project wants to push their luck and going for ICO as there is IEO and everyone prefers to use it. Sure since they were the project with real-life worth but that doesn't mean there is no risk when investing in them (look up unicorn startup).

Stay away from any centralized wallets is the first thing every newbie need to do it. I saw too many newbies thought a normal client wallet is too hassle and complicate for them so they just make a centralized wallet and be done with it. Big mistake at latter when they don't have the pvt key for their wallet.

True, people are too hash with anything with the predictions in their name but indicators are just a tool, nothing more. It's up to us to use and utilize its feature for our benefit.

When the market in the downtrend, you should invest one or two coins that you think will have a strong come back become of its potential. This makes a lot of bad coins try to mask their decline with over hype their potential. Anyway, everyone should do a research carefully even when the market in the downtrend to make sure coins did fall become of it, not something else like bad dev, bad algo,...

My experience with self-moderated thread is very normal like any other thread. The only one that got remove or delete is usually off-topic or spam without any contribution to the thread. Most bounty thread today are just filled with weekly report posts so even if they are self-moderated, no one seriously uses it for any discussion.

I do my own research and get information from a trusted source or expert. From my viewpoint, those are much more reliable than ratting agencies if those sources have a high reputation.

People are blindly seeing how much it could increase more cause of the positive while not for the negative of decreasing. Though in some rare cases, the coin didn't reach the full potential for its price yet so people don't want to miss out.

If everyone cash out their crypto to USDT, the whole market and USDT would be crashed since no way they have enough fiat to really back up USDT. Never look at USDT as it can completely ensure the 1:1 USDT rate exchange for the total cap market.

I can't say the specific number of my bounty earning since I don't want to be data mining. The highest would be my last bounty since I got lucky cause no one participate in it so my stake is quite high. After all the bad things at the end and early of 2019 - 2020, maybe the market will be back to normal.

At least, we can reduce the amount of loss even with selling in this period if we holding good cryptos like BTC and ETH. It less likely to get low and have a good potential to come higher after all bad things blow over.

Took them long enough to realize something big going happen to ETH and now everyone wants to have a piece of it. ETH 2.0 with all its features will make ETH become unique and allow it to leave the name 'just another altcoin' for good.

Although I think with a bit of skill and luck, you can do it to trade cryptocurrency for a living but you shouldn't. A lot of pressure as each day you need to make stable earning from your trading in the unstable crypto with very volatile market from time to time.

Before, we have scam ICO with their fake public sale data and overhype their coin/token to trick gullible investors. Now we have a bad exchange for IEO with the same kind of problem as ICO. At the end of the day, you need to be smart and see through any scams and tricks, especially from exchanges.

You can do it but will not be easy since the hardest thing is able to communicate the right person in charge of the dead coin and convince them to allow you to take over their coin. Even then, I think you shouldn't do it because there are all kinds of problems from a dead coin to sort out before moving on to continue to develop it.

True, it's easier for a project team to kill a project on their own if they have enough funds and it meets their goal. If people lost interest in project then they could abandon it without anyone's care since the price also low. Sometimes, bounty or airdrop is just a ploy in their scheme.

My county did quite well over manage covid's spread but the whole world and important countries are not. Since this is the global age, even if your house is fine but other on fine, you can't back to your house and pretend as nothing happened. So yeah, my job is not good anymore and I have to try my luck with crypto: bounty, airdrop, trader,... anything.