Firstly, most people have a new address for each transaction which is sent to them.  Therefore, most Bitcoin addresses would not have over 1BTC sent to them since people would get it in parts.

Secondly, since most transactions sent are quite small and most people don't have as much as $37,000 worth of Bitcoin, it's difficult for addresses to have so much money on them.

Hodlers are relevant in the Bitcoin ecosystem but they would control a small percentage of overall Bitcoin addresses even if they make up a lot of the people who have a large amount of Bitcoin.

Very impressed that he's done interviews with Coindesk and everything.  Very cool, there's only so far that someone in his position can go promoting crypto but he seems to be taking it to his reasonable limits.

It's important to distinguish here.  Are you trying to make a list of coins that are likely to be a poor investment, or coins that are shady or misleading (and may be scams)?  A lot of poor investments may be legitimate and a lot of shady coins may end up having a high price.

One example of a shady coin is IOTA - while it contains a lot of buzzwords about IoT, it is not actually usable on IoT devices and is also insecure as it could be targeted quite easily by 34% attacks.

A slightly slower increase in price doesn't necessarily mean that the increase was stable.

Also, an increase of several hundred percent in the stock market would take over a hundred years, whereas in DASH it took slightly over a month without DASH having very significant developments.

Its price is pretty much just following BTC's surge.

Blocks are mined closely together very frequently.

The purpose of difficulty is to make the blocks average ten minutes - having hashrate is like participating in a lottery to mine a block.  Basically, they're guessing until they find the nonce.

It's unlikely that this will end up happening.  ISPs don't have any reasonable incentive to block crypto trading.

They didn't block crypto trading before these regulations were passed (2013-2014), and similarly, it's very unlikely that they will do so now.

There are many states with more restrictions over the Internet than the United States, and in most of those states, crypto exchanges have not been blocked.

The wallet that you're using doesn't matter provided that it's a wallet which allows you to customise your fees (which is most of them, including all of the good ones).
In that case, you should try using this site to find the lowest fee that you can send without  the delay on the right reaching "infinite" or being close to that.

Currently, you could try sending with a fee of 20-30 satoshi/byte, or for lower risk 70-80.

Well, they'd have to choose a totally different altcoin exchange to the fiat-related exchange that they chose.

For fiat, I suppose a newbie could try Coinbase or Bitstamp.  They do have KYC procedures but as time goes on that's going to be more and more necessary - it might make sense to start now.  If they really value their privacy though, they could go for something P2P like LocalBitcoins.

For an altcoin exchange, there's no one reliable exchange and all of them have a lot of complaints.  But the closest thing to a reliable exchange that I've used has been Bittrex.

Significant forks are unlikely to continue happening.  There are many forks trying desperately to ride off the backs of the last two, but pretty much failing.

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Despite not being a very technical user, I can still easily answer pretty much all of those questions.  With clear enough resources, it would theoretically be possible for everyone to know this information in pretty decent time.

The Venezuelan government is generally not regarded as trustworthy.  This shouldn't change just because they're creating something related to cryptocurrency.

Considering that it's very hard to make a decentralised cryptocurrency backed centrally by an asset, I imagine that this will be centralised and not necessarily in BTC users' interests.

This coin is supposedly going to be backed by gold, diamond and oil reserves.  It's not going to be volatile in the same way that an ordinary, decentralised cryptocurrency is volatile.

Regardless, crypto is far more stable than Venezuelan currency.

It's possible that a correction is near, and there's a small head-and-shoulders pattern forming recently as well.

Notably though, there's not a significant trend yet and we aren't in a bear market.  This swing is quite minor compared to swings which have occurred over the last few months, so it's almost worth ignoring.

Great.  Since ICOs require a centralised platform in order to create their token, it's significantly easier for a government to crack down on than it is for them to crack down on an ordinary decentralised cryptocurrency.

It seems almost inevitable that ICOs will be increasingly regulated and secured from scams over the coming months.

No, some of them are copycats or otherwise dodgy coins.

However, all of the top ones are unique in at least some way - for example, Litecoin has faster block times; Monero has ring signatures for anonymity; IOTA has a DAG-based system; Ethereum has smart contracts, and more.

Whether or not they're different enough to warrant their price is another matter though.

IOTA's reliance on centralised checkpointing prevents it from living up to the hype that it has built up around itself.

At some point it might become more useful, but for now I would say that Byteball would be a better investment since it has less wild promises, a functioning crypto and a significantly lower market cap.

You couldn't buy Bitcoin as soon as it started.  You would mine it or claim it from Gavin's faucet.  A bit later when Bitcoin was first traded, it would have taken far less than £1000.

Now that Bitcoin is established with a significant market cap (rather than being almost worthless like it was in 2009) those sort of astronomical rises are extremely unlikely.  Your faucet claims will still be dust.

The best time to spend (not sell) is when you're deep into a bull market, like now.

I spend regardless of what the price is, because I buy in regularly with my spare fiat.

It's hard to say what the value will be after August 1st.  Some people may see it as "free BTC" and dump it when they figure out how to send it.

BIP 148 won't matter too much.

A lot of supporters of larger blocks might start moving to Bitcoin Cash though.  I wonder what the value of that will be a month or two on from August 1st.

It does, but it's one in a million.

There are plenty of altcoins with good development and a high trading volume.  Digibyte isn't special enough to be worth a lot, and people are starting to realise that their faith in barely useful alts is pointless.