it is too soon to have an altcoin season.
what we currently have is a stable bitcoin market where traders migrate temporarily to altcoins to pump and dump them and make money while bitcoin stands still. these pumps will obviously increase the total market cap.
an altcoin season is usually during summer and it is a market wide altcoin pump which is actually rare.

the second layer scaling solution is also no perfect. although it is a good and very interesting solution but there are still downsides to that too. but as I said as long as advantages outweigh all these downsides we have a good system, and that's how bitcoin is.

wrong! bitcoin IS a better payment system. the correct statement would be bitcoin is not perfect. and what is perfect in the world that we live in? nothing!
of course there are always pros and cons to any system and bitcoin is no exception either. but the advantages are outweighing any kind of disadvantage or imperfection that bitcoin may have and that is acceptable.

true. it was already known to Muslims that bitcoin is "halal", in fact that is why they have been investing in bitcoin all along! but this is more of a public acknowledgement of bitcoin by Muslim scholars and it will do two main things.
first of all it will resolve any possible confusion that any one might have had and it can guide them into investing in bitcoin.
second it is considered a good news like anything else which can lead to a rise which I think it is already priced in.

I don't know why OP is advertising this web wallet here! maybe he is trying to generate traffic to his own website which he linked at the bottom!
in any case the [ANN] or official announcement topic for BTC.com web wallet is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1572823.0 which was created nearly 2 years ago and is active still. so there is no need for this topic anyways...

when China tried regulating their shady exchanges, some of them stopped all their work in China and moved outside of the country and continued there but not with the same power.
in case of India the same thing may happen but also it is worth having in mind that most of the Indian trading volume is coming from P2P trades where people don't even use any exchanges for example when they use localbitcoins to meet and trade. in which case the exchanges have a better chance of staying in the country and be regulated.

it mainly depends on what you are trading!
if it is stocks, Forex,... other big markets then day trading is something like 99% skill and 1% luck. and you can only be successful in it if you have the skill.

but if you are talking about bitcoin then it becomes a little different because bitcoin is still a small market and it is subjected to some unexpected fluctuations. so it is something like 90% skill and 5% luck and maybe 5% timing.

and if you are talking about altcoins then everything goes out of the window because not only they are small but also very manipulated. so it is more like 10% skills 10% luck and 80% familiarity with the market and how manipulation (aka pump and dump) works.

the "bull market" doesn't have to be all over the place. it can only be in one coin for example bitcoin's bull run can start like always while the altcoins are getting dumped hard as they usually do during bitcoin rises.

if it is profit that you are looking for then learn how to trade and make profit from the market no matter what the trend is. and also if you look at the altcoins in general you can see that there are a handful of them everyday that are getting pumped and the next day there will be another handful. these pumps can be opportunities for making a lot of profit if you know how to join a pump and dump it soon.

I have seen a case about blockchain.info where the user was not receiving SMS for his 2 factor authentication no matter how much he tried. with some work and contacts with blockchain.info support it turned out that they were in fact sending the SMS but he was unable to receive it because of his service provider.
long story short they sent him the 2FA code though multiple different numbers and he received those instead.

so it may be worth checking with the service provider to see if that is the case for Binance 2FA message also.

I wouldn't say these are "relevant" because none of these incidents have anything to do with a "wallet", these are all exchange platforms for trading cryptocurrency not storing them.
a better example (which may not be as relevant either) would have been the blockchain.info incident where they were using random.org for their RNG which led to many users having the same private key when random.org change that specific webpage and that meant big fund loss. I say it is irrelevant because it is more like bug than a hack.

that is true only if you think bitcoin is going to stay stationary and have no more adoption from now on! but what you are missing is that less than 0.5% of the world are involved with bitcoin and a very small percentage are even aware of bitcoin.
we are talking about adoption here not the money that already exists in the "marketplace". and adoption is something that is growing and sometimes there is some kind of hype like last year and it shoots up and takes the price up with it like that.
this will only become bigger as times goes by, that is why the chart of it should look like an S curve.


the only way for that to happen is that you hold on to whatever amount of bitcoin you have. but can you or will you do it? most people can't stand the pressure and sell.

it probably wouldn't happen the same way this time.
there is a bigger chance that we are going to see more of a slow rise for a long time now. right now it is mostly sideways and jumps and slow rises combined but this can potentially change into a slower rise up like back in 2015 and because of that we can see $20k be reached by not suddenly. it may take the whole year this time.
then after that we will see the big rises.

have you people been using bitcoin ever or are you just spamming here? about 5 months ago fees were high for a rather short period of time and they have been pretty low ever since. and bitcoin was never slow the fees were higher.
maybe next time at least check the mempool or something before making comments like these...

exactly because you are losing money you shouldn't buy or use a trading bot!
first you need to learn how to trade and then you need to gain more experience in trading so that you know what to do under different circumstances for example when there is a bear market.

try to at least first make twice the price of a bot from  trading then think about buying one.

the market sentiment may be changing but I wouldn't make that conclusion based on the fact that some altcoin made some rise. if you check the altcoin charts you will see that this is a pretty common thing that altcoins get pumped regardless of what is happening in the market in general. we may be in a bear market or a bull market and still some altcoins do whatever they want. that is why it is called a pump and dump market.

governmentS don't prefer banning bitcoin. some rare cases did that because they were running a corrupted system which they didn't want to be disturbed an bitcoin was disturbing their corruption.
the rest of the world will regulate the usage of cryptocurrencies, mainly the usage by the merchants not generally. and most of them is for taxation purposes.

two conclusions can be made from this.
the most interesting one is that as the market grows (not necessarily because of market cap but mainly the volume and number of users) the volatility decreases and the big drops also decrease with them.
the other interesting conclusion is that bitcoin price is rising in long term. this may not be the obvious one but if you look at the charts, you can see the price is rising no matter how many and how big a drop it has.

it didn't drop down to where it started, price is still above $8000 and the most drop that it has is to $79xx an where it started was at $6800.
I have not been following the rest but the initial rise of bitcoin from $6800 to $8100 meant a big drop for all of the altcoins you mentioned, then after 1-2 hours these altcoins started rising because the money just woke up in altcoin market and the bitcoin effect pulled them up with itself a little bit.

technical analysis is a way of showing and also predicting that demand and human behavior. it is not really something special and it is not always true. it mostly shows one of the many possibilities or sometimes even a couple of possibilities that may happen and then you can have an easier time making plans.
although when it comes to bitcoin TA is not as effective because things are a little less predictable here.

do you have a Lightning wallet, or an open channel already? do you know how to use it?
if no, then there is your answer!
if yes, then how many others do you think are the same as you? faucets (micro payments) is popular among beginners and they certainly aren't even familiar with Lightning Network yet let alone having a wallet for it.