nah, because of the pump and dump factor i wouldn't call any of this as similar to dot-com bubble. it is pure manipulation of the market by the centralized entities who happen to have big investors behind them helping with the pump and dump to increase their wealth ..... in FIAT ....
in other words they buy the coin, then pump it and make millions then they start shorting the coin and dump it and then make another millions. then eventually they move on to another coin to back that up and do the same there.

no i never feel anything for "idiots" who don't listen to anyone. and you can not call them "investors" either. what you are describing with that quote is the classic example of an idiot who was blinded by greed and was deaf to all the warnings. and we have had a lot of them, specially in the altcoin market as they were being promised constantly that they will be rich if they buy such and such shitcoin!

however, losing money while investing in a natural thing. there is nothing wrong with it and the real "investors" aren't sad for losing money so there is no reason for us to feel empathy for them. a real investors knows where to put his money and when to pull it out and unlike altcoins investing in bitcoin has never been a bad thing even if price went a little lower than what you bought it at.

it is not just about ETH price dumping, it is about all the other factors that has also been happening.
- decreasing the block rewards! instead of fixing the issues they decided to suddenly decrease the block reward and make it unprofitable for miners to come in so that they can prevent the big mining farms from shaping this fast.
- introduction of ASICs. this is like the final blow to GPU miners because as more ASICs enter the market and start mining ETH, you will no longer be able to even find a block with your rig let alone make profit.
- and finally there is always the fear of switching to PoS. since ethereum is  centralized and doesn't have a clear roadmap about these things they can switch to PoS tomorrow or may not ever! it is just flipping a switch and that means there will always be a fear among new small time miners about their future and prevents them from starting to mine.

you are just reporting random data which can be found on any exchange or sites such as coinmarketcap.com. and it is worth nothing as long as you don't "analyze" that data that you are posting here.

not to mention that comparing the current price to ATH (the percentages you are listing at the end of each line) is completely meaningless because the ATH being the peak of the bubble is a meaningless and fake number. so for instance being 18% of the ATH or being 5% of it doesn't make a difference.

if you are HOLDing then you can not call yourself a trader and using the word "long term" doesn't change a thing. it is an investment and as investments go you need to invest in something that has a good long term potential with low risks but a decent reward (profit).
in my opinion altcoins do not satisfy these conditions so they can not be considered investments and as a result HOLDing means nothing for them. and you shouldn't be doing it. which is why there are so many day traders in altcoins and many newbie bag holders.

not at all. hacks have been happening for as long as computers existed and mostly when the internet was invented. and they always been a nuisance but they never preventing growth or anything like that. the cryptocurrency market is also suffering from hacks and lack of security mostly because exchanges are shit when it comes to trust (not just security because they are known to scam their users and call it "hack") but it still isn't a preventing force.

time to invest in bitcoin?
whenever you have some money that you can afford to lose. because bitcoin has a lot of real potential and is not all hyped up and pumped up. of course you don't want to buy in the peaks of the bubbles such as $20k but even if you did, it still wouldn't matter because this price will soon look like the way previous bubbles such as $1200 of 2013 and $20 of 2011,... looks like today.

time to invest in altcoin?
in my experience altcoins are purely pump and dumps with no future. this means that the only time that is good to invest in them is when they are having a pump. you can see the pump from its huge initial price spike with a huge volume alongside a lot of hype, usually some reason such as listed on a big exchange,..., and then you jump in and wait for the rocket to reach the moon (it can take from 1 day to a couple of days) then dump it and move to the next coin to do the same.

if you have been bag holding ETH and losing money then you should worry and you made a huge mistake of bag holding a coin that was getting dumped. there is still a chance of going much lower than this. but to answer your other question about it recovering i have to say, don't worry about that if you don't have ETH bags and plan on buying, ETH will recover at some point and will start pumping but until then you should not be bag holding it.

there has always been manipulation in this market not just this news but every time there is a news like this (positive or negative) there will be some manipulators taking advantage of the situation, possibly with insider information but not necessary every time and then they push the market temporarily in the direction they want so that they can earn a big profit in a short time from that temporary change.


it is not just them, you have to see how the market reacts to what they do afterwards. for instance if there is a dump but price doesn't come down then that insider is F**ed. but in this particular case they caused the panic then also dumped and the market reacted as they wanted and price came down.

exactly.
you can never talk about the whole cryptocurrency market as a whole. you always need to treat them individually although the altcoins all have similar characteristics.
for instance there are currently altcoins that are giving good profit with their pump and dumps. if you look at 1 or 2 weeks ago there was a coin named AU which got pumped 6000% and was so close to replace ethereum on top. so more than 1000% profit is still easily possible

additionally we have bitcoin which is the only solid cryptocurrency with real future. and with its growing adoption 1000x rise is only a start for it, we still have $1 million mark to reach.

there hasn't been a "continuous decline" in bitcoin price for months now so if anyone is "psychologically" scared because of it NOW, then he is not an investor, he is an idiot who has no idea what he is doing with his money and is just running around throwing it away at every corner.

what we have in the market right now is greedy people who are waiting for a sign to buy in. like a big rise to $9000 so that they can be sure of the rally and buy in too late or they want ETF to be rejected so they can buy with ease of mind. and if they are scared of anything they are scared of ETF.

first of all buying some coin with USDT or even USD is not going to make its price stable. even if it never had COIN/BTC or COIN/ETH, or COIN/LTC markets. the COIN price will remain volatile because it is getting pumped and dumped so that you can make profit from the pumps by selling on top of it.

second, which option is better depends on the profit you want to make. mostly people want to make profit on the bitcoins they own which is why they always choose COIN/BTC markets as the volume shows. you go in with your bitcoin, pump the coin, dump it on top and get more bitcoin out. and as bitcoin is the only thing that can rise in the long run you make a bigger profit. and if you are one of those people who has no faith in cryptocurrencies you only invest using fiat or COIN/USD markets (not even USDT). USDT is only used for temporary place holder where you want to keep your value as the market is getting dumped and altcion bubbles are bursting like these days.

it is funny how you say this and then immediately contradict it in your screenshot! the fact is coins like ethereum that are getting pump and dumps (not bull and bear market) are only good for short term trading and not much else.
for instance your chart is a very good indicator of that. in that big dip after the big dump the market is in shock of the big drop, for example when price got dumped from $1500 to $1000 and the newbies would rush to buy it thinking they got it cheap. buying in that dip and dumping it fast (short term trading) can  give you a good profit, but buying in that dip and holding (long term) means losing a lot of money as it has another dump from $1000 to $800 for instance and then lower and lower....

and this has been the case for all ETH history. specifically this year. people like you have made the mistake of saying "it is time to buy" and then they got  dumped on and lost another 20% of their investment because they bought in the bubble.

your problem is that you are not looking at the bigger picture! it wasn't "a few days ago" that ethereum started getting dumped. it has been years that ETH has been getting pumped and dumped with the biggest pump being 2017 pump followed by the biggest dump this year. and this dump has been going on for about 9 months now.

this is not going to end until the bubble is popped completely and ETH value goes down to real value that it deserves. i have said this when price was above $1000 and i say it again here, the real value is below $100 and as i am seeing the dumps these days i am starting to think we may even see $10 to $50 again.

LOL. a little more than 1 year ago you were saying the same thing about $1000 and how dreamy that looks like and how people who sold at $1000 were "real winners"

the newbie panic sellers have already sold, at least majority of them did as bitcoin is now about 70% below its ATH. if there were actually any panic then price would have fallen to $4000 already but reality is that the panic sellers are out which is why price is above $6000 and staying there with a strong buy support.

during every single rise in every single market in the world when price goes up there are certain people who sell their shares to get the profit out. but price doesn't go up or down because of "this group" of people. it goes up and down because of increase and decrease in demand respectively.

in this case when bitcoin price starts going up, the day traders would sell to get the profit out, we will see a correction then the same people buy back in that correction and push the price back up again and the demand will continue the rise.
have you ever seen a chart before? if not go take a look...

it is a free market and everyone is free to choose where they invest their money, it can be stocks, it can be in their mattress where they sleep at night, or it can be in bitcoin. you can't call it a "secret investment" just as you can't call it a secret investment when they have shares of some company and not telling the public about it. why should they? will you tell us how much money YOU have and all the places that you have put it?

as for their stance, the politicians are known to have unreliable stance against things that are still in grey area meaning not fully regulated nor fully rejected. they don't want to be left in a camp that fails.

the "dos and don'ts" topics are never good because the market is not something that you can formulate that easily and then stick to that one formula no matter what happens in the market. what you should do is that you should always set a clear strategy and a goal for yourself and then depending on those two you need to make decisions in the market. for instance telling everyone not to sell when price goes up is wrong. some people are day traders they NEED TO sell when price goes up because they want to buy back when it recovers. or the same when drops, they need to sell at first to have money to buy back in a couple of hours when price stops and reverses.

define what you mean by "use"? nobody ever uses an ICO token! how can you use when there is no usage?

what happens though is that people "invest" in them and by people i mean speculators gamblers. and they do it to earn money. in the past there has been some ICOs that gained some traction and led to big profits so people started thinking if the "lottery" was won once it can be won more hence they started investing in them and continued losing money.

by the way sidechains and tokens are two different things. a token is still on the same chain as the platform it uses but a sidechain is depending on the original chain but is on a different chain.

you need to change your strategy. most coins are not worth keeping and you should dump them anyways. or hold them on exchanges to be able to sell as fast as possible. only hold a coin that you think is really good and not hyped. for that you can use popular wallet that are tested. there are wallets that support multiple cryptocurrencies which are gaining popularity. there is also always hardware wallets that support multiple coins such as Trezor.

as for Sandbox, it is not just one application, it is a concept. for example one of the popular applications to use is what was introduced above: VirtualBox. you can use one of the smaller linux distributions for installation so that it takes up smaller space on your HDD so that you can run multiple instances requiring smaller space.

it depend on a lot of things it is not always as easy as saying "i jump in" or say "i always wait for dip". for example in many cases whenever i see a pump going on i try to assess where on the pump we are and how much more of it is left. of course it is more desired to buy the dip during the rise but the dip during pumps of most small coins may not come or may not even be major enough for me to buy in. so i buy those coins and enjoy the rise.
but sometimes it is best to wait around and see how the market is. if you see a dip and then you still saw the strength in the pump, that can be a very good buy signal.

in any case there is another important thing which is much more important than "when to buy" and that is "when to SELL". don't forget to dump the pumping coins if you don't want to suddenly see your money vanish.