they don't give you ANY profit not maximal!
and they are not even traders, they are scammers who are looking for a way to make more money and from what i have seen so far none of them have any information about trading, specially not technical and fundamental analysis.
they just pick a coin randomely based on its volume and then buy, after that they tell the group to buy their sell orders and dump on the group.

no it is not.
how many people do you think held their coins when price was dropping from $220 to $180 and how many do you think bought that day, and how many of those do you think dumped when price was $450 and it dropped hard. or all the other panic FUD daram that led to panic sells.
how many do you think will dump in the coming month of August, and how many do you think will hold and buy more.

it doesn't matter that you heard a coupld of stories about someone getting rich. there is always only a handful of people who don't listen to anything and keep holding for the real long term profit.

and this is just the start. we have started the mainstream mass adoption for less than 6 months and price rise is just getting warmed up.

if you have skills you will never find any trouble in making money, and if you don't have skills but are willing to learn some, you still won't have any trouble but it will be slow.

for example you can see many people are doing designs, like logo,... or programming,... or even trading. these all need you to have some "skills" it can be in designing using photoshop or programming in python or it can be skills in being a good trader. and all can be gained with a little bit of effort and time.

wow i think that is only true about some serious cases of gambling addiction and i don't think it would even be effective either. and besides any kind of drug always has so many other side effects.

i have no idea what this "magic bottle" is but there are some medications (needs to be doctors orders/prescribed) for help with compulsive gambling but they seem mostly a "may help" kind of drugs:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/compulsive-gambling/diagnosis-treatment/treatment/txc-20258412

for now nobody will even notice it, there is plenty coins to go around compared to the number of people interested in bitcoin. give it a couple more years, a SegWit activation and all the benefits and additional features coming from it and then the real fights begin.

i think you haven't really been making any transactions lately or "these days" becuse if you had you could have seen that since the spam attack stopped last week the mempool has been empty and the "good old days" are practically back and the low fee and extremely low fee transactions are also getting confirmed.

what's the real usage of smart contracts anyways? i am seriously curious about this. because so far i have only seen smart contracts on ethereum and they are all ICO tokens of useless projects one after another.

so for example what RSK is supposed to do? shift all these ICos to bitcoin?!!

thanks for the addition but i was just giving a general meaning of the terms. of course there are a lot of things at play when it comes to markets and different movements that must be considered, it is never a simple buy now sell now kind of thing.
and i liked the word "encouraged to" buy or sell in their deffinitions which i also used in my comment.

as long as things are normal and nothing changes the price will continue to go up and there is no stopping it, and it will only have dips for correction.

as long as there is no serious drama any drop will also be small with bitcoin drops standard

if a serious bug is found in bitcoin that can not be fixed then it may drop to zero. but in the past 8 years or so everyone has been trying to find bugs, exploits, attack bitcoin, the hackers hard at work, but they all have been failing.

i say it depends on the situation of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
for example i don't think right now there are that many new people so happy to invest in bitcoin.
those who knew it before or find out about it in the past 2 months or those who want to use it as a currency will buy it but a newcommer won't because of all the drama.

but under normal circumstances, bitcoin has proven to be a solid investment. because of the demand, the limited supply, the security, and the privacy that it offers which can potentially mean no taxes too.

when starting to use bitcoin it is best if you do some research first and i assure you that basic questions like your question about a wallet have better answers if you search than ask on a forum.
you can read bitcoin.org or that coindesk article or this topic for the details of everything you need to know about wallets.

there is no easy way of finding the IP address of you when you send bitcoin. and when you don't run your own bitcoin full node then it becomes impossible to do so.

the only way is to do chain analysis. and that means when you bought bitcoin the first time you submitted your documents and linked your identity with the bitcoin adress you have withdrawan to. and any other transaction you make from that address is traceable.

mixers help though. they make it nearly impossible for any chain analysis to work.

the bull market is in finantial terms when prices are rising and are expected to rise more in the future too. so it is encouraged to buy
and a bear market is somewhat the opposite of that. where prices are falling and it is encouraged to sell

read mroe:
www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bullmarket.asp
www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bearmarket.asp

No it shouldn't be the way to invest in bitcoin.
yes bitcoin price may reach 10K, 15K or even more but you shouldn't only be thinking about how much "fiat" you gain from investing in bitcoin. that is never going to end well. instead learn more about what bitcoin is.

bit coins is a currency not something you put your money in for a short time to get rich. try using bitcoin to buy some stuff, try to learn more and see what it really offers. i assure you that you won't regret it.

and then the profit is just icing on the cake.

i still don't put much value in the articles i read online about bitcoin price. it doesn't matter who writes them. and it doesn't matter if i am agreeing with it or not.

so far all the things that i have seen is mostly biased articles where people try to benefit from if someone follows it. and sometimes i see articles written by very misinformed people not knowing much about this market and trying too hard just to post an article

but where do they "transact" these altcoins? from their wallet to exchange and vice versa?
because there is no other altcoin usage. there are some very rare cases, such as gambling sites and some tiny online shops with nearly no customers that accept some of the altcoins such as Dogecoin and Litecoin but that never contributes to any transactions.

for bitcoin apart from people sending from wallt to exchange and vice versa there is always a lot of other usages for purchasing a lot of goods from the internet, digital or physical.

this is mostly a big fluctuation in my opinion. unless we break the $2300 again and enter the $2200 range i won't call it a dump. and the reasons are mostly panic and uncertaintly and the whales always enjoy this.

as for buying i will buy when the "dump" happens meaning the price went below certain levels. but that is only because i have made my purchases for this month and i am maxed out, so i have no worries about missing out on anything.

i have never used coinbase or localbitcoins or any of the other places to buy bitcoin and i have never paid any ridiculous amount for it either.
the trick is finding the best option around you and contact them. i have found a guy who offered pretty good rates and after sometime since i made a lot of purchases now i get a better deal even. and now i buy bitcoin from him and only trade on exhanges to increase my bitcoin and dump fiat.

sorry i can't help you but i just want to say be careful when accepting ETH tokens, the payment can get stuck and even dissappear after a while. it recently happened due to a network congestion and forced all the exchanges to close down all deposits and withdrawals to prevent further losses.

no they have not. maybe someone did a very short period of spam attack as a test for a couple of hours once, but none of them experienced any real spam attack.

and don't confuse a spam attack with a simple increase in number of transactions because price is pumping or dumping and people move their coins in a panic to sell them.