Exchange tokens are always profitable investment if the exchange has good volume and more pairs and altcoins because most of us prefer using exchange tokens for paying the transfer fee as it gives some sort of discount to us. I have closely witnessed the way BNB (Binance) grew up because of it's market dominant as most of the valuable tokens are launched through binance and the users need to have binance to buy the tokens during sale which makes them to swap their coins into BNB as a result it increases the demand thus increasing the value.

This sounds baseless and unrealistic as there are so many other altcoins which are ready to take over in case of bitcoin is banned, I believe Ripple will make use of the opportunity as it's already claimed as centralized crypto which is not officially accepted by it's developers. I believe there will be more chaos as some of the most powerful people in the world have invested in bitcoin so they will not let bitcoin to be banned in first place and we cannot expect the values to go high within few months after the ban when we as a community do panic selling for a minute dump.

It's the acceptance of USD throughout the world which makes it so dominant and the credit goes to the government of USA and it has a long history of violence in order to make the USD so dominant and the main reason USD standouts among-st the other fiat is the fact trades are decided over USD I am sure those who are into import export will understand what am I trying to portray, we have witnessed a Libyan military coup that was created to stop making gold as a trading standard against the USD. I believe only the acceptance makes a fiat dominant. Bitcoin still has a long way to go but it's still possible if bitcoin reaches out to the real life transactions.

Next halving of BTC might go either ways and I feel there are some newbies I mean small and mid level contributors have withdrawn their funds especially those who were expecting for a quick profit and we might see some sort of improvement only if any major organization decides to enter the crypto world or else we need to be dependent on whales to cashout when the cashin.  We don't know if we will ever have one more bull run or things will improve gradually without any noise.

Apart from doing our own research and verification about the development team we also need to consider who is managing the bounty as there are some of the seasoned bounty managers like Yahoo who don't randomly accept to work for a project without surety that it's legit. But sometime we fall for the marketing tactics wherein they mention millions as rewards. I think we should blame our self if we still make mistake while selecting bounty projects as we have a bitter experience from the past.

Just by regulating ERC platform will limit scam projects but I don't think this will resolve the issue as they might use some other platform to scam and I believe only the proper knowledge and research is the key to avoid scams. As far as the value of Ethereum is concerned we all know that it will bounce back anytime just like it did couple of months ago after one of it's worst price drop.

We can fight scam projects by spreading awareness and if all the tenured users start sharing their knowledge about scam project and how it looks then it will reach the entire community and it's the duty of community to stop falling in the marketing traps of ICO's as some of them just says that they have reached softcap without any valid proof or address where they have received the funds so we need to demand the transparency from the developers in order to avoid falling into the trap.

True I have co managed some bounties in the past and I have received similar complaints from the bounty hunters and group members wherein they even pretend like they are the group administration and sometimes they adopt the name of founder of the project as you can change your name numerous times in telegram without any restrictions.  As you have mentioned they target vulnerable who are going through some or the other issue.

It's more like unseasoned player are leaving the field as it's more of a saturation which is happenings as only those who have immense experience and knowledge about bitcoin will stick wherein those who are in for quick gain might make a move but this does not mean people are losing interest. I have different opinion when it comes to fiat dominance as fist dominance will always be there in the market but bitcoin will run in parallel with them as bitcoin cannot replace fiat.

I have 90% of bitcoin in my portfolio right now as it was too many altcoins and a major chunck of ETH who I have to sell in order to invest in mining which turned out to be the biggest mistake of my life as the rigs and graphics card are at one corner of my house as it costs more to run the rig and the profit margin is lesser than the expense.

We cannot involve a middleman at it might make it look like centralized and there are chances of power abuse of corruption if a 3rd party will verify the ICO &  IEO, so it's better to have a relevant team just like moderators to clear the project before they post it here at bitcointalk.org as this is improve the quality of projects listed here and more users will have trust on us.

But we are witnessing this minor drop and increase from last few weeks wherein it's neither going below $7,500 nor going beyondand $8,500. I am slightly clueless how things will be in upcoming quarter but yes the price will increase but not sure when. Investors will be playing a key role this time as they can either go for bitcoin or Ethereum as they might not choose to invest in ICO like they did last year.

There are many limitations about bitcoin as well just like any other product and the but the surprising thing about bitcoin's weakness is those weakness acts as it's strength as well and I would say it's the anonymity which makes bitcoin popular as no one can track you but thia has been taken for  granted as bitcoin is used as most secure extortion method for kidnappings,  terrorism funding and money laundering. Just like anonymity we have volatility issue as well which may be a negative aspect but it does help traders to earn more.

Regardless of how much they invest in bitcoin and other crypto still the inflation will exist as long as they have corrupt government and people. They need to look into the root cause of inflation and then try eliminating it which require an assurance from both the government and people of the county,  I have researched few common reasons for inflation are dodging taxes, corrupt government, mafia rule which eats up the natural resource of the country.

Yes going below $5k at this particular moment seems unreal as it might fluctuate between $7,500 and $8,500 as of now but sudden dump from the whales might lead to downfall and we could approach $5k but let's keep the negative vibes aside as you said we have stable coin to bank on in case of any debacle.

I would say participating in IEO will be more beneficial rather than waiting for the same token to buy at an inflated price but you need to be very careful before participating in an IEO by doing proper research about the project as you should not be scammed and don't go for it even if you get slightest doubt about the activity of the team.

It's last 18 months that has killed ICO projects and got the label as scam due to greediness of some developers but some really good projects are drowned by the investors themselves by dumping the tokens as soon as they receive it. We need to set some sort of protocols for ICOs or have a rules in this forum for advertising ICO projects by making them go through verification project to avoid scams but that's not practical as well as it will push us towards the centralization. There were ICO projects who achieved their softcaps in hours and completely sold out during the public sale but they ended up with a value just about zero due to poor choice of exchanges. Not all the ICOs are scam but there are various factors which leads to the failure of ICO.

That's the bitter truth which some of the people over here refuses to accept it as they have no idea about the importance of fiat currency or they are just saying something without a proper research. We do understand that there are corruption and the central government abuses it's power by printing more currency but if they don't print new paper currencies then world will come to a standstill and we cannot withdraw our own hard earned money due to shortage of fiat currency. People need to understand that crypto can be alternative for fiat but not the replacement.

That's too harsh on developers and yes we know for a fact that bitcoin does not adopt any new coins as bitcoin is not in need of any particular coin to survive wherein the fluctuations in the value of bitcoin affects the entire market. Altcoins still has a long way to travel before discussing about any sort of deal with bitcoin. Bitcoin don't need other coins but other coins need bitcoin for their survival.

Most of them make this mistake as either they missout on saving the private keys or else save it in their bitcointalk forum account I lost access to my blockchain wallet due to same stupidity in the past and they should save the private key in their email to keep it secure and accessible.