Exactly. Trading is a difficult job to make money, it's like a PVP battle game (Player versus Player) which always has losers and winners.
If you want to be in 5%, there's a lot of work to do and experience to happen.
3 parts of what OP said are precisely exact, especially the risk management, why? Because most of the traders started to trade but later on, they stopped. It is because of the lack of capital anymore. Capital preservation is always part of risk management, so that's why having always the capital is always important, it's not always a good time to trade and you must have proper risk management to mange your capital properly on your every trade.

There are a lot of people already telling that the collapse of the FTX exchange will start a contagion effect for most of the exchanges or cryptocurrency platforms or even on some cryptocurrency projects, that's also one of the reasons why these past few weeks, there are a lot of outflow transactions to these centralized exchange which means a lot of withdrawals happening.
So for me, it was bad for cryptocurrency, FTX exchange is huge exchange.

This is hilarious. This seems very impossible to happen. New York Times for sure this will gonna be a disaster. I am thinking that at the last minute before this event will start, maybe Sam Bankman-Fried will not able to attend here.
Already a lot of people saying that this man must be in jail but look, attending to a New York Times speaker? Seems very unfair.

This is already expected because it's really a part of the job. Participating in airdrops is like a game of chance. Before around 2018 I think, airdrops are just very easy to complete, and even how shit the airdrop is there is some value before, it was not really tiring at all if you can get a few bucks on it.
But now, it's already new, very low chance to get an airdrop now but if you are lucky, you can get 1-time big time airdrop.
That's why I am really amazed by those people who are airdrop hunters, they are dedicated to it.

$13,000 is already possible on what we experienced recently. Since Bitcoin started to drop the $15, xxx level. I am already expecting Bitcoin to be $13,000 or much worst is $10,000.
Right now, for me, the lowest is $10,000. That will be my deepest. But just incase it will happen, I believe it will just a wick candle, just like what happened on March 2020.

This is always possible for me. But make sure if you are hoping Litecoin will go to $500 again, expect other coins will pump too like Bitcoin. For sure when Bitcoin creates new all-time high, litecoin will follow too but I am not sure that Bitcoin new all-time high will also a new all-time high for Litecoin too since I believe that Bitcoin is more capable to do it like the volume and also consider there are other new altcoins now.

For me, this still depends, you can not measure it now if you lose or win because you will use the proceeds of the house to buy it for Bitcoin and hold it for the long term or wait for the price of Bitcoin to pump and sell it for profits (this is difficult). We don't know what will happen to the price of Bitcoin.
Why accepting other coins to buy your house, you can sell it for fiat and convert that fiat to Bitcoin, very easy.

Exactly, this is also what I am thinking. But for me, it seems to be impossible now that the internet will be removed totally from the world. Internet is becoming a basic need in our day-to-day lives. As the internet becomes popular all over the world, slowly by slowly, even where are you from and how far you far from the city, the internet becomes available.
For me, if you are really believing on the internet, believe also with Bitcoin.

This was their roadmap and plan for the future, it seems that solving scalability is having some negative effects on Ethereum, and started to lose its decentralized feature when Ethereum started to become proof-of-stake. We all know that proof-of-work will guarantee somehow decentralized as that is how Bitcoin works.
I know Ethereum got big team and I believe they will continue to look forward these kinds of problems and somehow they can solve it along the way.

Hmmm. You got a point here but for me, I don't consider inflation on Bitcoin. At first, when the inflation rate pumped for most of the countries in the world, I was expecting Bitcoin will skyrocket but what happened was the opposite, there was no excuse for the major problem in the world right now.
So for me, this is normal, what $13k or $14k last 2017 or any past years is also the same today.

This is already proven even before. Media is one of the big players in the market, especially in cryptocurrency, these media platforms are always there trying to manipulate the minds of every people, especially these new people who are coming into the cryptocurrency market.
Also before there are a lot of rumors that whales, the big companies are connected with big media platforms to manipulate the market. So always verify.

Everything is possible in the cryptocurrency market. It's already proven over time, ever since the beginning of Bitcoin, there are a lot of things happening in the Bitcoin or the cryptocurrency market, it's not always the upside only but also the downside. So always expect the unexpected.
So for me, my answer to your question of what happened to cryptocurrency market is part of the cycle, it's not always "UP ONLY", expect also the corrections or downsides.

Long crypto winter for me until the Bitcoin block halving. Especially the year 2022 is coming to an end, and we expect the year 2024 will be the year of the Bitcoin block halving event.
So for me, during the year 2023, it's gonna be challenging for the entire market. Yes, accumulation for me is for this year, I believe, especially since we already fall below $20,000 and Bitcoin is having difficulty regaining this area, we are now in sideways.

That's why I consider the bear market as the terminator of scams and shitcoin projects in the cryptocurrency market. This is already proven even though the last bear run started in 2018. The best example is the ICO fever, a lot of projects before vanished and turned into scams. But look how Bitcoin standing now, it's still the king and on the top.

For me, it was normal that Solana experienced a huge dump because yeah FTX exchange is a big backer of Solana, and Solana for FTX exchange is like a BNB of Binance or CRO of Crypto.com
So for me, now that FTX exchange already filed bankruptcy and Alameda too. Solana is still here because it's not the same on what happened on Luna Ecosystem which it is direct issue with the project, Solana is different.

I remember what happened to some celebrities that promoted FTX Exchange before, I think there are some rumors spreading that those celebrities are being sued like Tom Brady who promoted FTX Exchange before.
Now, I am surprised a big celebrity also promoted and now got NFT on the top cryptocurrency exchange. I hope issue with FTX Exchange will not affect these celebrity promotions on cryptocurrency relate.

I remember some people posting on a cryptocurrency Facebook group about a video clip when they are using their windows computer and every time you paste a text which is a cryptocurrency address, let's say a Bitcoin address or Ethereum address, the pasted text is changed from the original copied text. So this is the malware I believe those people affected.
People must learn the basic securities of using the internet especially don't clicking some random links without thinking.

I remember this, this is like a mind-blowing react for everyone when CZ said about bitcoin re-org and he also said that he is in contact with the one of big bitcoin mining companies before.
This is one of the reason why some people before started to hate Binance of because of CZ saying like these statements without thinking first.

This rumor is already aged. For me, if this will happen, for sure the worth of their airdrop is not that really huge, like the total amount of it in $ per person that got the airdrop.
And even though there will be an airdrop, for me, there will be some qualifications, not all metamask users will able to get the airdrop.
Metamask is the #1 wallet for Ethereum and other chains right now, so expect that this airdrop is gonna be huge and that will be a challenge for them.

One of the best examples of hype. We all know how Axie Infinity boomed when the NFT or Play-2-Earn (P2E) started, Axie Infinity lead the hype for me. But after that, it was like a ticking bomb when they started to have issues with their economics plus the cryptocurrency market started to tank too.
So for me, they have problem with their economics + a lot of hacks happened also on their Ronin Network chain which is very difficult for people now to trust their network again.