I think this natural growth will come, but I'm not sure if we found the bottom yet. There are respectful technical analysts who predict lower bottons, at around $4000, before Bitcoin goes up again to these values that people are expecting.

Most social media platforms deviates people from things that really matter, making them lose their focus from important tasks, pay attention in other people's lives and, in the worst cases, lose unique opportunities.
However, it's not all of them... there are platforms like Linkedin that helps people to show their competences, and find opportunities that can chance their lifes for the better.

It will never be the only way, you don't have to invest in Bitcoin or altcoins to be a successful investor. There are different assets and stocks out there that can make you good profit.
The idea here is to give up this scarcity mindset, and mobilize yourself to find better opportunities, if no opportunity here is helping you to meet your goals.

I'm quite sure most of them are scam, and you surely chose the bad ones to participate.

But I also think there were ways that could have helped you to avoid wasting your time.
First of all, evaluate any project proposal before diving into it. And second, make sure that the developer of such project is using methods that prevent users of creating multiple accounts/wallets and having their gains based on it.

Byteball is an example of a successful airdrop, since the project proposal is quite solid, and the airdrop was based on the Bitcoin balances of its participants. You can still get Bytes, but right now it requires an ID verification.

Maybe they're not officially stating that they support Bitcoin, however, by the simple fact that they will be building and selling these chips, they will add competition to this space, which is one of the things Bitcoin really needs at the moment.

I would not be surprised, but I would rather wait and see how Lightning Network adoption will develop before telling people that Bitcoin will go to 50k that year.

I'm surprised that one of the most authoritarian governments in the world is asking people to buy other store of value than their own fiat currency. Let's hope people follow that advice, so they protect themselves against inflation.

Fundamentally, Litecoin is superior in different aspects.
Not only it is much more decentralized, but it also had a much fairer launch.

However, looking at the charts, and by technical analysis, none of them is an investment that I would consider to be safe at the moment.

We are a bit far from having Lightning Network mass adoption, and it means that Bitcoin is not ready yet for having a large number of people making microtransactions in the Bitcoin network.
That also means that we are still heavily dependent on banks.
Banks, by their turn, provides their services based on government regulations, which means we're also dependent on governments to have that kind of service.

More traders can bring more liquidity to the market. However, it's not only the number of traders that matters, it's the quality of traders.
It would not be good for Bitcoin and crypto in general if a bunch of newbies started to think they are professional traders, then right after they lose money, they go crying to governments. That would bring bad press, and a lot of unnecessary regulation.

Your first sentence shows that you're in the wrong place to find the kind of help that will satisfy your needs.
Start looking for a professional trader. If you can't afford it, you can learn by yourself, but start learning through websites that are more specialized in the matter.

There were several events when it was a good moment to short Bitcoin at that price range. However, at this point it doesn't look like a good idea, since we are at a double top, and it seems Bitcoin is gaining enough moment to break previous highs.

But that's just my view of things, so don't take it as trading advice.

It is difficult to make you get rid of it, since we don't know what motivates you to gamble. However, by your affliction, I may assume that it's not for fun anymore.
If that's just for profit, you could just try to teach yourself that there are other good ways to make a profit. If you really dedicate to it, it might be enough to divert your focus from this very nocive hobby.

Are you asking if a huge network of nodes and miners, distributed all over the world, are going to give up a technology that can revolutionize the monetary system as we know? I don't think so.

ICO is just a way to fund projects without any type of regulation. I can't see how it's better than an IPO, where regulations create mechanisms to prevent you from being scammed.

Hi,
what do you think about Dagger (XDAG). They proclaim themselves as the first mineable DAG coin. I thought DAG was supposed to have no blocks.

Do you think they're legit?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2552368.0

ETH is already a big thing. Some of its early investors are now billionaires.

But the biggest problem is that ETH has serious scaling issues. At some point it will make Bitcoin look like visa.

I vote for Byteball, sending cryptos via e-mail is game changing. And I'm sure it's just the beginning... DAG capability to scale can open up a range of possibilities.

For me, a coin is all about development, and Tony delivered so far. IMHO, it will not take long until serious investors start coming in.

Litecoin has been very useful for people trying to get rid of the congestion in the Bitcoin network, but I'm not sure if it will have a good future when Bitcoin receives the benefits of Lightning Network, and when a large number of people start using SegWit addresses.
Regarding Dogecoin, I don't really know why still has value. I speculate its marketcap will probably be much lower in the future.

Which proposes? PoW? I think it stopped to be an example of "fair distribution" a few years ago...

I don't think Tony is ignoring your feedback. If he is smart, he is noting the relevant points.