ETH switching to PoS could definitely bring disaster for small scale miners since ETH is what they have been mining ever since years ago but there's always alternative coin to mine but buying graphic card or any other mining rigs isn't really recommended considering that so many big players out there are the one who gain the most and small fry miners are gonna get crushed.
Mining is profitable only if the competition is not so tough and the difficulty is not too high otherwise just switch to other invetsment.

you can still set the fee at minimum but don't expect it to be confirmed anytime soon. the fee dictated based on the transaction that needs to be confirmed and how much most of them pays nowaday. it's by any means not dictated by centralized party or such.
some exchange might set the fee higher just to make sure that the transaction they send gonna be confirmed regardless how long it takes rather than giving a cheap fee and got the transaction returned. it is what it is and don't expect the high fee to go away soon because i doubt it will.

Maybe you are looking at a rather unpopular small exchange? because most of the coins that are listed on popular exchange such as binance usually meets the required minimum volume and if not they got delisted. there are many crappy coins out there that has no liqudity or volume but the one that listed on popular exchange usually have good liquidity and majority of them aren't that hard to liquidate. Also, new coins tend to struggle when it comes to liqudiity but if the devs could succesfully promote it they will have enough volume.

Slim to none maybe. Considering that they are already busy with ETH 2.0 which takes so many delay until today they don't seem to have any solution to the problem we face as of now and UNISWAP is gonna be a long loong time before the hype fades and traffic from them didn't flood the whole network. The current ETH is literally unbearable with all the high fees even in my opinion we better off without the 2.0 as long as the scalability issue being resolved otherwise it's the same condition as now.

LOL. The main reason Ethereum fee significantly higher because the price of its token and how crowded the network was. Elrond market cap far below ETH don't let me started talking about how Ethereum is currently overflooded with so many transactions by the recent hype. Give elrond as much transaction as ETH and the fee will skyrocket aswell.

Yeah. but, nowadays bounty rewards released gradually also some of the projects have switched to use stablecoin instead to control the price. if the project is solid as you said there would be many buying demands coming and fill up all the sell orders. it's actually a project with relatively low demands that suffer the most because there just not enough people to buy and you need to know that although bounty hunter might contribute the developer have total control over the distribution there the developers could do some designed distribution to lower the chance of dumping.

Well it's basically like a race. when everyone want their tx to be ahead and get confirmed faster than anyone else they will set it higher and then another will follow that path thus the increase in fee. it always like this when at bullish times or when something big happening like cryptokitties back then same thing also happened.

When bitcoin reached ATH back then in 2017 the fee is astronomically high that people switched over to alternative coins. I guess that's always the problem with blockchain and the system need some kind of solution to that.

as long as most of people sees BTC as the most precious crypto ethereum not gonna over power btc. when everyone thinks about crypto they always remembered of bitcoin and not ethereum. If Ethereum could change that mindset world wide then sure it can overpower bitcoin but near in the future I can't see that to happen although I do agree that the changes in crypto market is so rapid.
There are for example many coins out there making some new innovation but can't overtake bitcoin position for one simple reason, because bitcoin is branded as the most precious currency and when comparing to ETH it's like comparing gold to steel considering how much gaps it has by each coin prices alone.

If banning really happens it might give significant effect though only when the punishment is heavy, otherwise it's not gonna be that effective and internet activities is really hard to trace.
But I'm sure that most of countries know that crypto is a technology that's inevitable and even if they did ban crypto it will still lives on.
I mean, just see how piracy still going on even after so many goverment attempt to reduce it. Not to mention the third world countries that usually weak in law enforcement and you should know that bitcoin is different than piracy whereas using bitcoin or crypto you are not making other people losing money.

LOL exactly, you just never know whats gonna happen in the future and regretting it will just waste your energy. I mean its just something that we have no control and no matter how hard we work if we got bad luck then we gonna be the losing side. Not to mention that it could be psychologically bad for our mental health and many negative effects.

the expensive transaction fees are just temporary. it's always like that when blockchain is overcrowded you might think BNB and any other will always have significantly cheaper fee but once they are crowded like ETH their fee will increase aswell. it's always like that in crypto since confirmation takes time.

Ethereum whole problem will happen to any other crypto that is truly decentralized. Same thing happened to bitcoin because so many people making transactions back in the days at 2017. Ethereum got that too and trust me if Ripple or any other cryptocurrencies got flooded by the traffic they will face the same thing.

That's most likely. there's always difference in how they usually rating a crypto and whether it's from legal perspective or any other. It's up to the people to choose which crypto rating that is deemed to be trustable.
I'm myself would never trust them though simply because I'm overly skeptical of anything like that.

the cause of gas increase is simply the network being too overcrowded and peolpe are racing to get their transaction confirmed first by increasing the gas. whether the traffic comes from defi or another source it doesn't matter the most important think is that ethereum need to implement some new things to prevent gas increase when the network become overcrowded because tbh if they dont, Im not gonna expect it to grow larger and have bigger userbase.

Usually the people that have no idea about how investment work and those naive people who think they are the chosen one and when they invest they will make it big but the reality turns out to be quite the opposite. Thse kind of people are endless and I don't expect the victim of scammer to significantly reduced anytime soon.

Well doge is a meme coin and whether it really have value or not in the eye of people atleast doge could be utilized for sending money and with their relatively cheap transaction fee.
I've known many people who uses doge for sending money and have no problem with it. I guess that alone already explain why doge still exist until today.

I mean it's always like that even in stock market aswell. it's high risk high return but I definitely don't recommend that. so many people are expecting the high return but most of them can't accept when they lost their money so it's better to stay away from pump and dump alts if people don't want to risk their money for literally nothing. bitcoin and ethereum prospect is already much more than promising anyway.

That's true but considering how Ethereum was built from being a platform used by the masses to create projects and many more it's kinda hard to imagine any coin overtaking ETH in term of popularity.
But competition is always good and if some crypto happen to have the capability to compete with ETH I hope they are better than ETH.

Name does matter. if BCH wasn't even got its popularity from hard forking btc it wont be a thing and none of us would know that this coin exist. the fact that you know BCH today is simply because it has gotten its popularity by using the name bitcoin on its HF and simply tailing bitcoin popularity. name does indeed matter in crypto market unfortunately,

the network is really crowded and it seems you think you are already setting the gas high enough but maybe youre following the old gas price and therefore makes your transaction stuck. this kind of case you just need to wait it's gonna be succesfully sent or your money goes back to your wallet. youre not gonna lost your money.