True that the transition could take a long time considering that not all people are really into technologies and the majority of people in this world don't even have an idea about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. People's mindset nowadays is that they believe the bank is the safest way to store their money and stock investment will always give return which is not true but to transition people like that to some kind of blockchain technology or its product which is crypto is kinda hard except if the government enforce it through law and punishment.

2017 is the year of overhyped altcoins. Even some garbage project could get funding easily and the rate of ICO success is significantly higher but that doesn't mean a good thing. The market at that time is really unhealthy and ready to have a massive correction anytime and as a result the massive dumping around Dec 2017 - February 2018. Altcoin have a really low chance to get mainstream like in the past if you take that reason into account and people are not overhyped anymore. The good thing is, the market is rather healthy and not as fragile as it is back then.

The same way IPO and any startup investment works. There's no guarantee that a project will become a huge success and that they didn't exit scam either. It's really hard nowadays to find a reliable project that can be trusted let alone a really successful project with promising futures.
There might be some good project out there or even undervalued project but we need to face the fact that we are overwhelmed with a project that merely created for grabbing people's money.

and actually, if a group of analyst giving their trading signals to their member which could possibly amount thousands it will definitely alter what they initially predicted and create some kind of artificial pump and dump because many people are buying or selling at the same time which could be taken advantage of by the anaylst that have these trading signal service. People should actually take that into consideration before even joining any these so called premium trading signals.

Reducing supply is not the right word here because that means the total supply that already planned to at 21 million of bitcoin will be reduced and there's nothing like that in the bitcoin blockchain. The halving itself only affects the reward that'll be given for each block while the reward from the transaction fee will also remain the same for the miners and I don't think something like this could really create deflation.

The risk involved when it comes to staking is the price fluctuation indeed. But, it's a lot safer than investing in IEO or ICO because at least you can observe the market while staking but investing in IEO and ICO the dumping usually happens in a matter of minutes and you will always miss it. You need to consider the fact that if you are staking the top 20 coins it will increase the safety of your money and the IEO or ICO project could turn into an exit scam anytime.

The point of IEO is to host crowdfunding for the project in a more legitimate way than ICO and also involves the exchanges' reputation so that the exchange and project have something to lose if things don't go well and if an exchange like this P2PB2B doesn't have the reputation, to begin with, kinda silly indeed. I mean, what's the point of holding an IEO if there are no additional security measures to prevent scam and this one exchange already got a bad reputation and have nothing to lose. If people keep investing in the IEO held by this exchange I could only scratch my head confused.


That's the point, the shady project that doesn't meet the requirement of some popular exchanges turn their head to this exchange and that's why most of the IEO they hosted are kinda low quality. basically it's just a money-grabbing.

Where do you think all those IEO leftover goes if there's no popular exchange willingly to accept them or host their IEO simply because they didn't meet the requirement? P2PB2B I assume is a fairly new exchange which is kinda fishy and I could say it's 3rd tier exchange and there are so many complaints regarding this exchange. You could make an assumption that they want to compete based on quantity rather than improving their quality.

The point of Binance freezing the stolen funds is to prevent it from moving to another address and being laundered all over again and while giving time for the respective exchange to somehow investigate and cooperate with binance in order to return the money. This is also why KYC is a requirement in most of the popular exchanges so that they could trace who's the holder of that account but it could be a double edge sword. So, the money will not be distributed directly to the users who lost their money but instead given back to the exchange who got their funds stolen which is basically the same thing anyway and more efficient and of course, how Binance and other exchange could cooperate resulting to the return of the fund is not that simple.

Well, every action have a consequence but straight up delisting a coin because of some hurtful words isn't a wise decision either not that I'm really fond of this digibyte anyway but still feels kinda odd to see politic in crypto market but who am I to judge poloniex is owned by those people and any side effect of delisting Digi is their responsible although I don't think it has significant effect to the exchange anyway. But, I see that Digibyte have rather higher trading volume in other exchange so this is probably will not affect that much.

It's the blockchain system that got the spotlight though. Meanwhile, cryptos will remain under the government's restriction in China and it's not going to be resolved anytime soon. Although I do agree that the blockchain system has now recognized to be useful and with all these big corporations trying to implement the system for various use and it could probably contribute to the development of blockchain system.

Actually never heard of the platform that pays people to play PC games like CSGO and Dota 2 with promising reward most of them are just faucets and last time I heard it's a platform called BUFF that tries to bring that into reality but now I've never heard about them. However, there are plenty of people that willing to buy skins or item in exchange for cryptos and I assume that a lot profitable than any other method which usually only get you pennies. Try to look up some forums or websites that usually being used for skin or item marketplace. Crypto has become something mainstream in that kind of websites anyway.

The price of Libra still not yet revealed though I think it will not become exactly $1 because it's backed up by various assets and the price to dollar may vary aswell and changes everytime and to make it as a payment method for Facebook ads makes sense but to be honest it will add a lot unnecessary complication that shouldn't actually be there in the first place.

But it comes down to the investors' own judgement and most of them aren't trusting project just because it got listed into a platform like CMC although if it already got listed into a reputed exchange it's more likely to be a legit project no one knows whether a project could hold on in the future and even progress further.
Some unique fact that I recently know is promoting through emails also considered the most effective because people are frequently checking their emails for deals and unread messages.

Some popular exchanges already have this and for example binance. Try to look up their bug bounty program but the reality it doesn't work as expected because people have this thing called greediness and if they are wicked enough they will just prefer to use the security hole and steal the money rather than receiving the rewards which at this point can be considered pennies. You can't expect to hire some security expert and get done with it either because a security hole is really random.

The actual problem there are so many people out there claiming to be an expert analyst or trading expert giving away their "technical analyzation" regarding the market and what decision should be taken and turns out to be a big fat bullshit afterward. Those people are the reason people call that TA is kinda bullshit meanwhile there are indeed some legit TA out there or can even be done by ourselves if done right but that given fact that I mentioned kinda ruin the whole reputation of this Technical Analysis. Can't really blame both sides if the one that causes the problem aren't them.

But it is the fact that China currently controls the majority of hashes although it's far from 51% attack it could be a problem later on. However, if China really does harsh law enforcement regarding cryptocurrencies or even banned it with punishment for those who break the law. We could potentially lose a major hashes power However it will then adjust automatically after 2016 blocks and become profitable again for small miners to mine bitcoin. Actually there's nothing really need to worry about as of now and to be clear, China didn't control Bitcoin but a price manipulation with massive capital could still happen.

Do you think miner doesn't need to the money they just mined to pay for the expenses which are quite big? They could only hold after spending some portion of their mined coins into paying the expenses and to be honest, it's not that easy. The plat that you elaborate also purely speculative and doesn't guarantee better profit because you don't know what might happen in the future and how do you know there'll be panic buying while the total supply remains the same? it's not like most people are really concerned about the decrease of miners reward anyway.

The price graph could differ though. It seems they are taking the price chart from different sources and there's a time when one of them encounters an error in their directories. I personally uses CMC more than coingecko just because it pleased my eyes by looking relatively clean.

True, although coingecko works exactly the same as CMC popularity affects a lot. People already have the mindset of thinking that anything listed in CMC is legit while that's actually not true but however, being listed in CMC will give a good first impression to anyone who hears the coin.

Turning into PoS which requires staking 32 ETH which is fairly expensive for some of the people although it won't go anywhere and instead of growing is a good deal I must say. Less carbon footprint and doesn't need to invest in GPU which to be honest if we're trying to reach profit will definitely need a few high-end GPUs so there's no excuse for the media to say that we're doing PoW for nothing. The specs also relatively low and the internet connection will not be a problem if the people who want to stake have home internet cables. Some people are okay even if the reward relatively small and some are not, there are people who have money but don't know what to do and as easy as staking is, it will be a good option for that kind of person. This also attract my interest.