LOL I don't even know what the Binance FUD was, I never heard it...
and please stop looking at and reporting market cap, it is meaningless numbers you are posting here. it doesn't show anything when it goes up and down it is partly coincidence that it happens with price drops and partly because of the price drop itself.
you see market cap can easily go up and down. for example whenever they create a new bitcoin fork they usually start at somewhere around $1000 and that means market cap increases by $16,800,000,000 ($16.8 billion dollar) in a blinking of an eye. and then as that useless forkcoin gets dumped lets say to $10 which is the common bottom of these shitcoins, market cap loses as much and goes down to $168 million.

it is just his pure guess based on nothing. he is practically saying 5 million bitcoins are lost!!!

there is no way of knowing how much bitcoin is really lost, there are some cases that are clear losses like the block reward for one of the early blocks that some miner didn't claim! but apart from that you can never say for sure if someone has really lost his private keys or they say they have lost it.

the best strategy that you can use is to go to bitaddress.org using the offline version of it and create a paper wallet to transfer your 0.5BTC to and thank your starts that you didn't gamble with more than $5000 only to lose it all and also you would be lucky enough to have a lot more money when bitcoin price goes up.

if you are too eager to gamble, specially in a game that has a house edge which WILL definitely make you lose in long run, then gamble with a much smaller amount like $10-$50. and you don't need much strategy for dice, just roll it and have fun with your luck.

all of the options in your Poll are good options that will help with getting more players except the last one. provably fair is one of those things that is a deal breaker, there is no middle ground for it. a gambling site is either fair or not. if it is fair then it is not doing anything special it is doing what it is supposed to do and if it is not fair then there is no reason for playing there in first place. additionally if an online gambling site fails to provide easy proof that it is fair then it should be considered unfair and people should stay away from it.

but to choose only one I guess having more games is best. some people are interested in seeing new games and playing something that they have not played before not the same thing over and over in different sites.

also better house edge, better giveaways and promotions, some airdrops even,... never hurt to get more people interested in the whole thing.

meh, I never liked this guy's posts to be honest. I feel like he is trying too hard to analyze the market even when it is not possible to analyze it so he succumbs to using conspiracy theories and weird reasoning. and it is always too damn long, where in fact he could have said it in one or two paragraphs. and god forbid if one of the thousand things he says comes true! you will never hear the end of it

as for the subject of this topic, I disagree with the numbers. another big drop is always possible but it is not something we can predict no matter how many reasons you think up for it. as the evidences at hand show price will not go below $9500. as for the rise part $30 k in 2019 seems like a very far away target while being very small. if price reaches $15k in march we may see a big breakout and $30k before 2018 ends can even be a small target.

the only thing that google trends shows is how much some certain keyword is being searched you can not use that to speculate about future of bitcoin. a surge of searches means a surge of new users that have been hearing about bitcoin which also can be an indication of a lot of talk about bitcoin in the media as it was happening last year.
but the drop in this "trend" doesn't mean the demand went away, it just means the media is advertising bitcoin less which is because the big rise and also the big fall is over now so obviously there is a lot less talk about it and there are a lot less "new" demand for bitcoin.

as much as I hate bitcoin cash and I believe it is an attack on bitcoin, but I hate it even more when people call everyone that talks about it as "shills, compromised,..." and the worst part is that whenever someone is fucking with bitcoin and even puts it in danger everyone is dead silent.
the same person was trying to literary rewrite history by replacing Satoshi's white paper with a new one. and he is also pushing for a change in mining algorithm which is something that others including bitcoin core devs like LukeJr have been pushing for too.

this Bill Gates news is becoming way bigger than it should be and it is the copy pasting news sites fault that this is happening. they enjoy making everything bigger specially when there is a sideways action going on. otherwise things like this are happening all the time and there is always someone who is talking shit about bitcoin but nobody cares as long as price is rising.

that is unfortunately 2 of the biggest issues with Yobit.
first they don't have any funds of nearly 80% of the altcoins that are listed on their exchange. UCASH must be one of these coins they do not have. that is why you see the processing thing there and it will remain like that for over a week.
even deposits of most altcoins encounters a lot of problems because they don't run proper nodes of these coins.
second is their bad support staff which doesn't answer questions like this. there are moderators who don't know much and only answer common questions like "when is the .... fork coin happening",... but they either ignore or forward to someone above who ignores the rest.

whatever price the resistance is staying at, the most important thing to remember is how the price has been performing in the past month (~27 days) ever since the big bottom was reached!
we have been having a nice uptrend forming up. each time price rises to a new high which is higher than the previous one and then a correction occurs and the price that it drops down to is higher than the previous low. and with this higher highs and higher lows we are seeing a very nice uptrend.
even the bigger drop during 20-26 of February can be considered a temporary set back on this uptrend.

there are multiple reasons for the drop in number of transactions and lack of demand is not one of them. granted the number of investors may have decreased due to the end of the big bull run but that is not lack of demand it is the fake demand going away. the real demand is still there and it is increasing day by day.

ummm, no.
everything about spam attacks are still the same. the spammers can, at any time, start the same spamming operation and with the same type of transactions (P2PKH and specially P2SH which takes up bigger space) to fill the blocks right up and increase the size of mempool.
SegWit can not do anything about that.

this is a bullshit article

in any case this is a 2 day old article that you are posting here worse thing about it is that it is a total bullshit!
price, by the time this article was posted 2 days ago, has just broken $11k from $10700 and reached the high of $11500
first bullshit of this article is calling it "falling back down" since it was not only not falling but also rising. additionally it had a tiny correction where it went down to $11055 which is not even back to $10k level and is not even a big drop it is a 3.8% drop and everyone knows it is not a drop that is worth talking about let alone calling it "falling back down" or saying "fails to hold"!

and this is not a bull run either. it shows some signs of a possible bull run in the near future (during March) which may or may not happen.

not at all. the fact that some people (even if it is really the majority of the bitcoin users) chose to use some third party centralized services does NOT make bitcoin a centralized thing.

it is like saying there are a lot of traffic accidents (with cars) and a lot of them lead to deaths so "cars" are "murder weapons"!

the way people use a tool does not define that tool. the decentralization of bitcoin is about the fact that it is a decentralized network of nodes that can be ran and is run by individuals that choose to do it and you don't need permission from a third party to use bitcoin as in send and receive to anyone at anytime you want.

trading is not just hold or sell. there is a lot more to it than meets the eyes. you need to know when to hold, when to buy more and when to sell and what coin you do all this on. in my opinion it is more of an experience than something that you can just ask others to tell you the "how to" to learn it. of course there are some basics of trading that you can learn from any online course about trading but in the end that experience which is only gained through you getting your hands dirty is what makes the difference.

sadly this has become a widespread thing among all the bitcoin related news sites. they mainly publish click baits to increase their visits/traffic and with it their revenues. and the damage they have done is sometimes big too. for example the FUD they keep on spreading or ever at times when they hype up bitcoin too much the opposite way.

and yeah all they lack in journalism they make up for it in artistry

it is a tiny bit different though.
most people wait for a drop to sell. if you look at the charts it goes up and up then slows down, nobody does anything so far. then a big sale happens, possibly by some whales and price has a noticeable drop so everyone follows that drop and starts selling hence creating a big red candle on the charts.
if more people were looking for profit and taking it for now, then it would have been a much smoother action.

and in the end the final price results depends on what happens after that drop. if the demand is still there and buys back it will go back up above the price the sell off started and if it is not there then the same thing as previous times will be repeated.

it is always a good news to hear more countries are adopting bitcoin and generally cryptocurrency technologies. and those that move first will become bigger in the near future compared to those who fall behind the adoption.
and this will always lead to more adoption of bitcoin one way or another and that will help with the price rise of it too. and Switzerland is a known place for this kind of stuff, they have not been strangers to bitcoin there and things can grow real nicely there.

I still think predicting huge rises is silly, the same way I said this exactly a year ago. a 100%-200% rise in bitcoin is logical based on the adoption that it normally has so price to $30k-$40k sounds more logical to me at this point.

but at the same time we can not predict the unpredictable. exactly like last year again. we never foresaw the mass adoption in Japan, or the end of scaling debate, or the mainstream adoption in US or a lot of other things and each of them contributed to the rise and made it bigger and bigger because they increased the adoption unexpectedly.
there is nothing saying the same can not happen this year too. but as I said you can't predict it.

I mainly remember that the news about Russia blocking some bitcoin related websites to be completely FUD, they banned some scam sites as far as I can remember a long time ago. and since the source of this news is cointelegraph which is a known shitposter I wouldn't be surprised to learn this is another news exaggeration that they posted because price is rising now and they were desperate for some sort of "positive news"!

even when everything is red and prices are dropping you can still make profit as a trader in the market only if you know how. for example there are margin trading options which you can short that coin which is dropping and make profit.

or you can normally buy the dips and sell on recovery. even when price is dropping there are times when it reverses back up and has a small recovery before falling more. you can make profit there.