it seems like some people are always way too late to the party and never fail to be late! at this point talking about bitcoin bubble and its burst is like talking about ancient history that has been long over and concluded. we are 85% below the bubble ATH for goodness sake. and yeah it was a good thing for bitcoin when it happened and those of us who knew better were saying it ever since.
now is the time for talking about how accumulation is good for you when price is still low and near the bottom although it may not be the lowest price.

drawing two arrows going in opposite directions is barely an analysis

and regarding the drop i have to say they don't come out of nowhere. at this point there needs to be another strong negative reason for it to drop otherwise it can not. and the support is not at $2915, but instead at $3000 because of the psychological barrier more than anything else and if that is broken we might either see a panic that can drop the price to low levels that you said or we might see a FOMO (another form of panic but in buying direction) like previous times that people see a lower price and start a buying frenzy in which case price can start rising up even and not go any lower than $2900

PoS is worse that PoW and is probably the worst algorithm among all the algorithms out there that cryptocurrencies use.
as for the rise, i don't think we can expect a bull run (or more correctly a big pump) because of it because last time they announced it and people were hyped up the price didn't really go up that much. we only saw a very small pump which failed soon as the whales started dumping it and getting out.

safety has different levels when it comes to exchanges. there are no exchanges that are actually safe so all we have are unsafe exchanges some less safe than others. when it comes to Poloniex, they used to be a good exchange back in 2014-2015 but as they continued to grow, their service quality continued to decline and as in 2017 when they started having a lot of issues people started leaving that platform for others places.

to answer your question, if you look at the exchange volumes you can clearly see that Poloniex which used to be rank #1 in volume is nowhere near the top anymore which proves people aren't using it anymore.

for the same reason why you can't expect the price to continue rising without a stop and reversal. at some point after the rise from $900 to $20000 it had to stop and come back to the balanced level. and now is the same, it has to go back up to go back to balanced levels.

are you seriously comparing shitcoins that drop 90% and more to bitcoin?!!
they drop because they are pump and dump and have to drop because their value is fake and purely based on speculation since they have no other usages in real world.
when bitcoin drops, it still has the real usages in real world so there is additional demand on top of the speculations.

just because 3000 is a big number, it doesn't make it a high price. what's next? you are going to say $312000 is too high for Berkshire Hathaway price and it has a lot of room to go down?!!

SEC is not involved with cryptocurrencies and decisions that are made about them whatsoever. with or without any law they are still irrelevant. all they do is they can accept or reject things that concern them such as ETFs and similar things that fall under Security and Exchange Commission.

you have no way of knowing that. not back then and not now. this is simply your guess.

ICOs have always been bad. and that is why they have always failed no matter what they initially gave you. some of them started at the peak of the hype so obviously they were better "bets" than others but they all end up dead eventually be cause of their uselessness.

you don't lose your funds for no reason! you have to get hacked. and although hacks are common but it is not like they are happening every day!

there has never been any "promising ICO" to begin with. there has only been useless projects with shiny advertisements that fooled people into giving them their money! and a design that works on gullibility of people can not go on forever. this type of strategy has a limited time of succeeding before everyone starts learning and realizes that they shouldn't trust strangers with candy in the back of their vans.

creating a big list of shitcoins that you bag hold is not called creating a "portfolio". a real portfolio is something that you use to diversify your investment and for diversification to work you have to invest in assets that have low risks and are not connected to each other. but when you buy shitcoins that are going to get dumped as soon as the market-wide dump begins, then it means you do not have a "portfolio" and you were fooling yourself.

not to mention that when you have many shitcoins in your bags, dumping them fast becomes impossible and the price drops happen fast and big and before you can turn your head you will be in at least 30% loss. and then the dump stops making you feel safe to give up the late sell and then another 30% is lost. and so on until you are in a total of at least 80 to 95% loss.

there is nothing significant about $3500, it is just a random number and going up and down above and below it is just the daily changes or fluctuations of this market which are also meaningless. what matters most is the major numbers that shape up supports and resistances. in current state the $3000 and $4000 are the support and resistance respectively and if we break either of those then it becomes important.

you are wrong about mining being centralized because you are confusing mining pools being in a small number with actual miners with mining hardware which are in the thousands and are from all around the world so it is decentralized.

as for PoW, i agree that it is not perfect but compared to all the algorithms it is the best thing that we can have. the flaws in others are more so the downside is worse. as a result unless someone comes up with a decent algorithm, PoW is not going anywhere and it has nothing to do with power consumption.

not at all. having shares in a company doesn't change the fact that it is failing. imagine a company (a real company not some dude calling his parents' basement, his company) that is on the road to bankruptcy because of bad business logic, if you buy the shares of that company, the company will still go under and the shares will be worth zero.

you see calling it "security" doesn't change the important fact that ICO tokens are useless! and that is why they will  drop to zero eventually.

that is not how pump and dump works. the profit the ICO scammers make is party from pump and dump though. but the main thing about them is that free money they receive in a blinking of an eye without doing any actual work. about 95% of the ICOs are copy of the same code with a different name!

you first have to ask yourself "why do people dump"? then you can easily figure out what the solution to that is.

the answer is pretty simple, people dump things that are useless and altcoins, specifically the ICO tokens, are useless. everyone only bought or received them as a way to make some quick profit and when they make that, it means they have already reached their goals. so there is no reason for them to keep holding something that has served its purpose. hence comes the dumping.

what is the solution? start creating something that is useful instead of useless shitcoins.

the team selling their premined shitcoin bags is not when the scam happens. them selling is only the time when everyone opens their eyes and see the reality. the real scam happens when you willingly buy that premined centralized shitcoin on your own without anybody forcing you to and then you decide to bag hold it while ignoring all the risks and all the warnings that others give you about that shitcoin!

this is happening every day in the altcoin market with a lot of altcoins, specially the top 10 altcoins but nobody listens until they get dumped on and see the reality.

price doesn't have to reach the previous ATH for it to be considered in a recovery. what you are talking about in 2020 is the ATH being hit and a new one being set not the recovery itself. the recovery will happen this year for sure. the drops can not go on any longer since they have gone on long enough, you can't really expect price to drop 99.9%!!! we already have about 85% drop. and the sideways may continue for a while but they also can't go on forever. and they also have lasted long enough.

there used to be a correlation between fees and price back when fees were introduced and started becoming a thing. at first price was so low so the fees were high, something like 1000k-100k satoshi. then as price went up the fees went down to match the price to something like 10k satoshi fixed and then to lower amounts. then at some point since the blocks became full instead of fees being in accordance with price, they started becoming a tool of competition.

and that last part plus the spam attack was what happened in 2017.

it is not a "dump" when the drop is  very small. and what we had in the weekend was a tiny drop and from $3500 to $3200 is considered fluctuations not even a drop.
with that said i agree with the fact that the market looks solid right now although it also has a lot of uncertainty in it. since many investors are still scared of the manipulation that has gotten us here and want to come back in when they can feel the safest. all we need now is a rise above $4k to kick start the rally as everyone rushes back in.

neither. you should instead "close your portfolio" because what you have is not really a "portfolio" you have the same thing with different names that is moving as one and you are not only not decreasing the risk you are taking but instead you are increasing it by having many different altcoins!
when the dumping comes, you lose all your money and you have no way of preventing that because they all dump together and they dump big and fast and unless you are holding all the shitcoins on exchanges (which is not wise) you won't be able to sell.

this has been a fake news for the most part. what Samsung has been doing was that they have been getting into the blockchain technology world and may possibly start producing many cryptocurrency related stuff. that news has been abused by trolls online and has turned into them creating an "ETH wallet" which is an outright lie, specially since the picture that has been circulating the internet is photoshopped and is not real.

the only problem that we are facing when it comes to price rise is what you just said here, and that is purely greed not speculation. everyone is currently uncertain about the rise and fall. but they are more than happy to be greedy and wait for a lower price to buy so that they can make a bigger profit.
it has always been like this after a big drop too. everyone becomes scared and stands down watching for the "absolute bottom" to buy in and 95% of them miss out buying at the bottom let alone that absolute bottom and they end up buying at a higher price.