From the past few months, I would put number four in your list as my number one. More than supply and demand, its been 'X' country banning Bitcoin while 'Y' country continuing its attempt to regulate it and 'Z' country accepting it completely. These news have taking a toll on the prices of Bitcoin over time and it looks to be trending in the same direction.

Last year was the year of the hard forks and we're never going to see anything like them ever again. Lets just recall how much of a storm Bitcoin Cash initially caused when the public realized they were getting 1:1 value at the time of fork. Although the hype of the fork didn't last for too long and BCH lost most of its prominence coming into 2018, the price surge just post-fork was humongous.
Any more forks are completely uncalled for and will remain valueless all the way.

I would just blindly rule out the first option and go with the second as mining is getting harder with the best coins in the market because of the unrelenting new rigs joining the pool on a daily basis. Don't forget, you need high power rigs which can get you nice hash rates and settle for nothing below it.
Instead of that, do market analysis on a daily basis and make yours picks with the knowledge at your disposal. It's definitely risky but much better compared to looking after a mining plant which doesn't even put you at competition at earning as much as the highest rigs do.

An ideal cryptocurrency for micropayments would be something which offers very low or even zero fees on transactions. Most of the cryptos already offer this but among top 100 coins, I would place my bets on IOTA and Stellar. Both of these are quick on the confirmations with fast blocks compared to our traditional biggies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and micropayments is all about getting the first confirmation as soon as possible.

Pretty good in general over the last couple of years after our prime minister pulled an ace from his sleeve and did a famous 'demonetisation' move which pushed for a cashless society. Although cryptocurrencies weren't the top priority, they did make their mark by raising eyebrows of the officials. E-wallets were the biggest benefactors as over 100 million users began using apps like PayTM.

Unlikely that we will see the exact same bullish run as last year but an eventual stride is always on the cards before the next correction and gloomy period comes up again. Last year, we witnessed a lot of positive factors helping out Bitcoin to make the big run up to 20k but this time there is less of that and more of demoralising news.

As long as the idea is original and high quality, which is implementable for most of the part practically. There are so many ICOs coming up each day so its becomes a hard job of finding out if everyone of it is legit or not.


Research is your best friend here. Learn about the project, its developers and other aspects related to it. Based on it, make your call if it looks legit and go ahead and throw your monies into it.

It's going to take a while for the exact mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies across payment processors as it comes with a lot of strings attached. The main problem here would be the customers who would not be willing to approve the use of diversified tokens as they would much prefer using the best ones on the current market, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. With that said, I believe it will be a hard task for coins to be accepted across platforms due to general issues like volatility and price fluctuations.

Given that the difficulty increases exponentially as we reach closer to the 21 million cap, it's going to take a while for it to happen but when it does, prices would already be going berserk towards the sky. The only question is when it will happen and if miners will be ready to sustain just from the transaction fee. All we can do is wait and watch as things unfold.

Bitcoin and old? It's just about a decade in age and that makes it very young. Lets not forget the fact that Bitcoin was the first and foremost and if it wasn't for it, there would be none of these 'awesome projects'. The father always has his place at the top of the hierarchy and it will only continue till someone completely overthrows him which is not likely in this scenario with Bitcoin.

The creativity in the crypto world is definitely seeing a slump as we're looking at tokens being created in each field without any significance attached to it. All these almost useless coins are diluting the market while making it look stupid with what they're offering.
Bringing something new would require a completely pure idea rather than a sub-idea or something which already exists and working towards making it big with the same.

I would be recommending light weight standalone clients like Electrum, Armory or even Green Address. These are free to use and don't cost you a out a penny to use, but make sure you keep backups of the seed and the wallet itself for security reasons.

Linking today's technology with philosophy is like asking an atheist to believe in the existence of God just because the convincing party is theist. Bitcoin came into picture not exactly to make up for the deficiency in the current monetary system, but in order to make it highly secure and easily accessible although being based online. Who knows, we may even come up with better tech in the near future, marking a new era of easy payments but for now, lets just crown blockchain as the flagship here.

I believe there is a big, common misconception among many countries that they possess the authority to regulate and govern cryptocurrencies as and when they wish. This pushes them to try and set rules and regulations for trade of cryptos within the country with the imposition of taxes on it. Only when they realize that it is not really under their control even after their futile efforts, then will they give up on their stupid notions of regulatory dreams.

Both of these giants surely would've done enough prior research to step up to the occasion in an attempt to announce their respective blockchain implementation moves. The former, been known to have the highest power in terms of servers across the world can be expected to work with the highest level of developers to come out with the best of the art blockchain technology and this would serve as benchmarks for the many more IT giants to follow.

Establishing decentralization in these aspects would put an end to private data leaks which have caused a lot of security concerns over the years. Even as Facebook admitted to their mistake of letting this happen, this certainly will not prevent future events of the same kind from happening and will serve as a reminder to the rest of the world for the need for decentralization.

This could very well be true given that their derivatives range from the smallest to the largest of exchanges as there would be severe price discrepancies among the different exchanges and this could lead to faltering average prices being reflected on the site which could lead to uncertainties. Thus, I assume they gather prices from better renowned exchanges in the exact order of your calculation.

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Thanks for considering.

There's almost no profit mining with smaller rigs today as block rewards continue to decrease while the difficulty continues to great. Given the heat that is generated by rigs even after decent cooling is provided, to the lack of ideally paying rewards, mining has lost out on its importance and fame. Recently, its all been the so called cloud mining businesses running shady schemes all over the market which is questionable as to whether they land in profit or loss.

The first and foremost cryptocurrency Bitcoin, paved way for innovation and creation of all the altcoins that exist today and thus have become inseparable entities. Fund raising for projects was shaped up into a new form which is known as the ICO today which has attracted a lot of investors at chances of raising a portfolio growth faster than that of stock market trading. All of this has seen cryptocurrencies stand where it is today, progressing quickly towards newer goals and Bitcoin's creator i.e Satoshi must be accredited for this.