Not a good deal to see bitcoin go down in price since all thse invested in it want to see a return on their investment as fast as possible

I am sure some countries that are not sure of how to handle the crypto regulation issue can learn from France, that they can actually benefit more from it than when they ban it, banning it will only mean they lose such investments to other countries where it is allowed

There are always trade offs, those are my fears too, that we do not kill innovations when complex government bottlenecks are required before you can launch a project, the good part is that we get to see less scams and investors protection of some sorts.Only time will tell how this eventually plays out

Here is an except of an article published on coinness. It narrates the French government approval of draft to regulate ICOs

"France Finalizes New ICO Framework to 'Attract Innovators Globally']France's Minister for the Economy and Finance has announced on Twitter that the government has accepted an article of the Business Growth and Transformation bill (PACTE) dedicated to Initial Coin Offerings (ICO).

Bruno Le Maire stated that the French stock markets regulator Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) is now empowered to give licenses to companies that want to raise funds via an ICO, with the legislation aiming to help protect contributors' interests."

Is this a good bye to scam ICOs from France?

It is much more challenging to make profits on day trading in a bearish market, it require a new skill set as one will have to take note if the fact that assets are generally losing value as time progresses

One of the perks of regulations for me is the possibility of bringing in floods of new cash to the space and the less tendency for there to be scams especially as regards initial coins offerings, only projects with reasonable ideas gets funded, not scams

The price of Ethereum in the crypto market is very critical as a lot of erc-20 tokens are usually priced or rated relative to ethereum, there is some ray of hope as it should some signs of life in the last 24hours

Not so great with ethereum at the current moment, ethereum will not be able to surpass bitcoin in price or in terms of market cap. now nor in the future

Money does come with some level of financial liberty, and bitcoin can be a tool to achieve this, the rules are not set in stones but it can play a  dominant role as a currency in a lot country

I am scared we may not have seen the worst of Ethereum, a lot of projects are still selling off their ether hold from ICO conducted, also the scaling issue is yet to be resolved ,let's hope it gets better

Doge coin as you rightly said didn't really start so well but it seem to have gathered some huge support and legitimacy in recent times, gained up to a 100 percent last week and seem to have retained much of that value gained

The market may continue until people finally understand how it is played and will be less inclined to sell off their bitcoins in a panic or dump in price, it will gradually become less severe as everyone will learn to ignore it.And the market will just grow naturally

If bitcoin were a bubble, it would have burst by now and prices are at close to their best, but it is not, some big investors are trying so hard to crash the price because they believe the price will ultimately grow in the future

Crypto-currency or digital assets in general only derive value for specific solutions to provide either as a utility  token or as a security, when either of these phase are poorly developed or ignored, the value is more or less zero as it is only then a speculative instrument.

Doge coin is one of the most heavily traded coins on coinmarketcap, it even did far better than most coins during periods of general market dump, gaining over 50 percent more,i think dogecoin has a future

It would have been nice to get some tokens at this time when almost all coins are at the lowest, the challenge however is that no one knows how the market will react the very next moment

It will not change things much in the future because bitcoin was not designed to be controlled by the government. If governments ban btc and people are willing  to use it, no problem, it is peer-to-peer

2018 in general has been very disturbing for cryptos, to much surprise of everyone, bitcoin plunged from  20k $ to 6k$ range, the good news is that the downward trend seem to have stopped and things are looking better in recent weeks

The market dominance of bitcoin has not fallen since it started rising, I see a possibility of it even going higher than 55 percent if the bitcoin ETF is approved. It makes bitcoin much more attractive than the altcoins

It is difficult to fix all the great qualities into a single coin, for safety, bitcoin is your best option ( although it is not an altcoin).