Just look at the historical Bitcoin price charts. You can never be sure that history will repeat, but everything says that we are very close to the end of the bear market. Here you have an interesting comparison:

https://hacked.com/bitcoin-update-2018-and-2014-bear-market-comparison/

Exactly. Thanks to the fact that inexperienced users can see the amazing future in XRP, speculants and traders can earn quite a lot on it.
Unfortunately sooner or later this bankster toy will end badly ..

At this point, it is important, because the market cap is still very small and someone who has very large funds can try to manipulate the price. In the future, when cryptocurrencies hit the mainstream and the market cap will be hundreds times larger, it will not be so important, because the value will be much more distributed.

For sure I can not talk about the whole Bitcoin community, but I am mainly looking at ICO and undoubtedly Medium is the most frequent channel (blog) used by projects in this market.

I do not know where you have information that at the beginning of this year mining was unprofitable.. 
This is simple: When the BTC price is high, the profitability increases, when the price is low, the profitability is low, or you even lose on it. It mainly depends on the cost of electricity, but at the current price, the answer is simple - it is better to buy BTC than to mine.

I think that the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto will never be revealed, so everyone can think of any story and say that his story is true.
Recently, new interesting stories have appeared:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5084077.0

So you think it's better to give money directly to the scammers than to invest in a prospective project?! The link you gave is a typical ponzi scheme! Stay away from that!

Bear market has made that many ICOs collapsed, but that does not mean that good projects will not survive! The most important is first to learn the fundamental analysis to be able to understand whether the project is worth the investment.

ok

Do you know that you and the project have not yet fulfilled any of promises?

I wonder if it will be a surprise this time, or will it be as always ...

But this is decentralization! Who would you think would pay for marketing campaigns? It's us - community that promotes cryptocurrencies around you - talking about it with family or friends.

Of course, there are people who are much more involved - for example Andreas M. Antonopoulos 

https://antonopoulos.com/

There is a difference between those people who know about the existence of Bitcoin, those who own it and those who use it.
I think that no one can give a number, but when it comes to the percentage share in the whole population, it is less than 1% of people who use Bitcoin, maybe even less than 0.05% of whole population.

We can see that the price of Bitcoin stabilizes around $4000, which everyone takes as a positive signal. However, I am afraid that it may happen the same as it was when the price started to stabilize around $6000... A drop to the level of $2000 will not be a big surprise for me.

Ethereum price does not drop because it lost its potential, but because the price of Bitcoin falls. To predict the price of ETH, first we must answer the question whether the price of BTC will fall even more .. Unfortunately, but it is very likely that the price of BTC will fall below $3k, and then $ 50 for ETH is very possible.

It seems to me, that no one currently living will see the last mined Bitcoin ..
From the economic side, whenever the supply of an item ends, its price increases incredible (Stradiwarius violin).
On the technical side - technology is moving forward so fast that before the last Bitcoin is mined, i'm sure that will be created Bitcoin 2, or even Bitcoin 3. Miners will move to mine new "BTCs" and there will be not enough power to mine the last Bitcoin.

In fact, when the market is in panic it is very easy to manipulate confused investors, but certainly it is not a few people. If such manipulation happens, then these are rather large companies or investment funds.

Let's hope that Kepler will survive this difficult period on the cryptocurrency market and we will see these modern innovations..

Will we receive an update about the next delays today?

I just wanted to ask the same thing ...
From my counting it is a bit more:
On https://bitstorage.finance/market/AYWA-BTC price is 1 AYWA = 0.00000150 BTC
Bounty pool 100,000 AYWA

0.00000150 * 100,000 = 0.15 BTC

BTC price now: $3845

So bounty pool is 0.15 * 3845 = $576,75

"Participant limited" to 8500 users!

You want to split 600 bucks between 8500 users?

really?!? 

Hello,

If the information on website about collected amount is correct, it means that even in the extended time the ICO has not yet collected the minimum. It looks like there may be a problem with reaching the softcap..
Can anyone confirm if the information on the amount of funds collected on the website is correct?

Hi,

In your roadmap on website is information that TER token will be listed on exchange in November 2018, in roadmap in this thread is info, that your token will we listed in December 2018, but ICO end date is 31st January 2019. Can you clarify that please?

How many funds have been collect up to today?

Price can always be a determinant, and certainly is one of the most important as well as the market cap. However, in my opinion the most important thing determining the success of Bitcoin is its popularity and technology that is ahead of the present times for decades. I think like that because the price can be manipulated, as we have seen in recent weeks. But when more people talk about Bitcoin, i'm more sure about his further success.

The history of the Bitcoin price is repeated, but one day it may end. In this case, if someone hold coins to this moment and did not sell, he should definitely hold them to another bull run. Unfortunately, we do not know when it will be, but technology is still going forward, and Bitcoin is at the forefront, so we should not worry about the future of the price, just wait patiently.