An increase of any transaction fee is more bad than good. And in this particular case involving Tron, everything is much worse than just a simple increase because the increase is 4x. That sounds like an unreasonable increase. Is this really needed this time? Does it happen because of an urgent reason?

If this would result into freezing their holdings, this is therefore bad as this discourages transactions on the network.

This is the correction itself. But the way I look at it, this is definitely not a sign that the market bull run is now ending. There is enough reason to believe that the bull run has just begun and has yet to reach its highest peak. For example, Paypal is only offering crypto to a very limited population of its users. They are mostly in the US and other countries. When it eventually opens crypto buying to all of its hundreds of millions of users there will surely be another very strong rally.

No, of course not. You can avoid using centralized exchanges altogether. If you wish not to disclose any of your personal information then do not use centralized exchanges unless you intend to just limit your transactions in the specified amounts which the exchanges are allowing for non-KYC users. If you are selling a lot of Bitcoins, better use P2P than decentralized exchanges. DEXs have lower volume. It might take time for your orders to get fully filled.

Almost all the good coins have already grown in price so much. I think it is best for you to wait for the little correction and then enter right away. It looks like the price increase of so many altcoins and Bitcoin is not yet through. There will be more pumps to happen in the coming weeks at least for the rest of December. Just don't fall for cheap shitcoins. Why don't you just choose Bitcoin and Ethereum before considering other coins?

It is not a matter of the bounty manager's rank. It is totally a matter of their work ethic. It does not matter whether the manager is a Jr. Member or a Senior Member or a Hero or a Legendary Member. It only matters that the manager is not just indiscriminately accepting bounty management jobs on behalf of unproven projects.

There are so many managers in this forum. The reason only a few remained and survived without red tags and have clean track records is that they are doing proper research and scrutiny on their projects. They do not just accept projects for the sake of payment. They make sure that the projects they are managing are legit crypto projects and not scams.

Escrow is always held by a third party. It cannot be possible for an escrowed fund to be held in escrow by either of the parties involved in the transaction.

OP is having problems and troubled by escrowed funds by third parties such as bounty managers because the owners of the token themselves change the smart contracts of their own tokens. That means previous tokens are becoming useless and worthless. So it somehow makes the use of escrow useless as well.

That would be the best way for an escrow of useless tokens, especially ones which involve the developers themselves since they are in control of the smart contracts of their very own tokens.

But if this happens, it means the project is as worthless as their tokens. So there's not much to lose in this situation. If they cheat even in their bounties, that is very low of them. I cannot see how they would succeed when they would even cheat a tiny amount from the people who are very much part of their larger community.

This has been the call ever since. Bitcoin is decentralized. It is just logical that exchanges should also be decentralized. Decentralization is the battle cry of Bitcoin and of cryptocurrency in general. We already have a few decentralized exchanges but it seems the majority of the volume is still focused on centralized exchanges. Perhaps the efficiency in trading is in decentralized exchanges. I hope DEXs would be able to compete so that traders would move over to them.

I have observed a good number of crypto projects in the past which were centered on music or music artists and their records. I cannot see them operating now. I don't know what happened to them but I can tell that they were not as successful as they probably would have wanted, planned, and worked for.

They still have a chance of course. The market and the industry are still there in front of them. Perhaps they didn't do the right thing in the past. Or there was just bad timing. We'll see in the future.

Yes, it looks like there is really no more altcoin season happening. The altcoin market has somewhat matured so to speak. There are altcoins which are rising. The likes of XRP, ADA, EOS, DOGE, etc are having some nice double digit growth while the rest are in red. This means altcoins are not moving as one anymore. Each of them are independently rising and falling probably based on their individual demand and development.

We can only wait and see. There are already altcoins which have been soaring really high for the past weeks. But still the strongest right now is Bitcoin so it is normal that altcoins' rally will not be as strong as Bitcoin. But who knows what happens to them when Bitcoin creates an all time high? Perhaps a lot of Bitcoin owners will sell some for altcoins. When Bitcoin corrects the altcoins will receive the money diverted.

If these altcoins are becoming worthless after just a little time, this only means they were worthless right from the beginning. That is the reality. There are so many altcoins which were marketed as if they are so innovative and promising and yet they are nothing but sugar-coated shit. They are only good as per their marketing and promotion. The developers only exert effort in that particular phase because they want money. After they got the money, they will leave the project stagnant to die.

Funds are more focused in Bitcoin right now so it is understandable that Ethereum will not be able to keep up with Bitcoin's rise. But that doesn't mean there is something wrong with Ethereum. There isn't wrong with Ethereum. It is still the best altcoin there is and ETH 2.0 is still on its way. It's just that the large funds coming from institutional investors are choosing Bitcoin more than any other.

No need to worry about this though. Ethereum is still on its way to $1,000.

Central banks would most likely not adopt PoW or PoS consensus. That is useless in a fiat digital currency implementation. There is no volatility either because that is fiat pegged. The value and everything else are that of a fiat currency. If you know how the fiat system works today, it's everything that will work in a central bank digital currencies. The only difference is that it is made digital. It might also not built on a blockchain. If it is, then it is certainly a centralized blockchain.

But the question is, is there a PoS coin which allows those who are interested to stake to do the staking in their own personal wallet where they own the private keys? That is also what the OP is asking. The OP is not comfortable staking if that requires him to send his coins to another wallet whose private key is not under his control. I doubt you will find a nice PoS coin with this condition though.

You will invest in Ethereum's ICO if it were launched today because Ethereum has already a name. It is the most solid among thousands of altcoins. It has been occupying the spot next only to Bitcoin. But the question is, supposed you haven't known Ethereum yet or there was no Ethereum yet and then it just came out right now, would you still risk your money to it?

I doubt Ethereum would be successful if it were to hold an ICO right now. With the current reputation of the ICO market there will hardly be a project that will gather a big amount from investors. The investors are already fed up with scams and crap crypto projects.

If Ethereum would conduct its ICO right now, I am afraid it will not earn as high approval, support, and funds it would have received if done on the very year it was launched. The ICO space is already polluted right now. It is now almost equated with scam. That was not the time when Ethereum was launched. It was a time when projects were purely made with vision and skills and dedication. Project were made with a development team that has knowledge on what they are doing.

On the shallow part this is free airdrop and that is good. Seldom can you receive free money in life. On a deeper analysis however this is another blow to the kind of world cryptocurrency is in. People might find it funny how just a disagreement among developers is enough to create another set of currency. 20 years from now we might have thousands of other currencies which are nothing more than splits from existing coins.

Ethereum's price would naturally pass through $500 first before reaching $800. $500 is a very easy target achievable any day within the week or month. $800 within 2020 is the higher goal. But that is very possible. The unrolling of Ethereum 2.0 is making everything more possible. It seemed the anticipation of Ethereum's staking is high. This will definitely lock up thousands of Ethereum.

That's what happens if the people behind the coin are unstable individuals who don't seem to come up with a nice discussion and agreement over things. Out of Bitcoin Cash and its forks there will surely be a number of another Bitcoin altcoins. I'm afraid it won't easily stop. But this is nice. People will eventually realize that the people behind these shitforks are just making a fool of them for the money. They will leave these fake Bitcoins and go back to the only Bitcoin.