I do not like twitter as a source of information because it is full of rumours, there are always people trying to tell you in which coin to invest and why their coin is the best but they never show you any arguments.

It is easy for some to say that I should ignore those people but they are everywhere, so I prefer to just watch the charts and see what the price is doing and if there is a significant movement then I begin to look for the reasons behind it in this forum.

Speculations may occur possible hiyp in the crypto currency community but as I observed on the community they are clever enough due to the very bearish market. As we recall on the previous year way back 2017 last quarter many of us didn't expect that the bitcoin may increase as much as $20,000 and still possible may increase but base on my own perception it may not increase to $20,000, maybe $15,000 or less probably.

There are many campaigns for newbie expect signature campaign but some BMs do request newbie with over 75_80 activities to join a bounty while some do not request for such. So newbie have way for bounty campaigns

honestly, this article is not easy to understand for me in the sense of the stock-to-flow model, and I am not accustomed to seeing the graphics that you have made. maybe it could be made even simpler. but overall appreciate your work...

Excellent point.  Everything can be faked, exaggerated, just like facebook and twitter followers which often happens with bounty hunters when they have to meet a minimum # of followers in order to join.  You know damn well all those followers aren't real people, and the same thing is true for any telegram group with many thousands of members if it's for some ico or shit coin.

This is an important warning for newbies, op and I have no doubt a lot of them fall for projects that *look* good, and most of them do, even if they're scams.  Those scammers know what they're doing and know they have to keep up appearances if they expect to draw in investors.

Even better advice would be to just avoid the ico space altogether.  How many scams do we have to see before investors and bounty hunters stop falling for the same old tricks?

Indeed. They need KYC in order for them to confirm identity. But the thing is I do pass KYC only in the exchanges that I trust, example of it is binance, I trust binance because of their security also in yobit ofcourse. It depends on the situation and purpose whether should I pass my KYC or to avoid it, but I dont want to join campaigns that requires KYC specially if it is only a campaign not a project.

The team isn't important, but the involvement of persons who already have good reputation in the crypto ecosystem will add more value to the project. Also when popular faces were in the team the project tends to keep themselves updated with time. For these reasons most of the time before investing people look for the team behind it.

If you are a bounty hunter, Choosing an ongoing IEO/ICO might be the better one, Checking the team status or the crowd sale is one of the reasons. If you are an investor it's nice to see the project being advertised early before the crowd sale begins. Bounty hunters are scared to waste their time on non-sense projects, So if you are seeing a bounty offering/job that is having an early advertisement, a bounty hunter must do a research on the team and the project future plans.

He really wanted to hide himself maybe until the full adoption has come, let's see what will gonna happen in the next 10 years, if he still gonna be a mystery person or he will manage to show up himself, we don't really know the real one, maybe his life is in danger that's why he choose not to tell everyone who is the real him. We have different hint who is the real Satoshi, maybe one of them is real, we don't know.

Actually there is kind of  "evidence" to support their predictions. This is the basic law of economics - demand and supply. Bitcoin has limited supply and the reward for its mining is still decreasing (halving). On other side, it is becoming more and more popular, so the demand is increasing. This means that in theory its price should rise very quickly all the time. The problem is that something unpredictable can happen: Bitcoin will become illegal, quantum computers will break the code, better technology will be invented than Blockchain .. Predicting that the price will rise all the time is nothing but a bet that nothing unpredictable will happen. In other words, McAfee is a gambler.

If something happens with me today or tomorrow, I have a several peoples whom can I trust. They know my passwords, where I keep it and how to access to my funds. Also they know how exchange it to fiat.

If there will be a chance, then I will use it. I could actually see good potential out of Libra but when it comes to security, I'm a bit doubting about it since there's an issue about Facebook security measures. I guess it should gain the trust of most investors and users first. Libra still has a lot to prove and it should still have to build a good reputation.

although a lot of development is done by Litecoin, but I doubt Litecoin can reach to the moon. might really be going up, but it's hard to surpass bitcoin and etherum. although suppy circulation has almost reached its total, the $ 100 figure is the most rational of litecoin when it reaches the top. difficult to penetrate more than $ 500.

Most people think that Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme, and they don't want to hear anything about it. But all the fun begins when you start explaining, to those who agreed to listen, that Bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme. If your audience don't have technical background to understand how Bitcoin mining works, you sound to them exactly like one of those guys, who persuade them to join a pyramid scheme. Why? Maybe because today it's a common knowledge that "It's not a pyramid scheme" is a phrase almost exclusively used by people involved in pyramid schemes.

So, instead of spreading good news about Bitcoin, I think it's better to encourage people to educate themselves. And then, when educated, they will come to Bitcoin on their own.

Count me in. I had bought Steam Credits using Bitcoin. There ain't that much of local online store at my country that allows the payment through Bitcoin. I knew NewEgg accepts Bitcoin these days, but I'll still incur shipping expenses from that and it is a bit of a hassle for me to setup carrier before I buy anything internationally. I still stick to fiat most of the time when I am gonna buy most of the basic needs.