I have been using Brave for a better part of this year, and I'm quite satisfied. I don't live in a region that supports their ad program as of yet, so I haven't had the chance to test it for myself, but the browser itself is better than Chrome, imo. It seems faster, and all Chrome plugins work just as well as they do in Chrome, so I don't see any downsides. There were some issues in the past, although updates seem to have fixed them along the way. As for BAT, it can be used for tipping on Twitter and maybe Reddit, and I think that the devs are planning to introduce tipping on other social media. Plus, you can tip individual creators on many other platforms, or even entire websites. Brave was also known to gift a few dollars worth of BAT to users, although I haven't seen them do that in a while now. Other than that, I am not a BAT user, although the opportunity to get it by watching ads is something I would be willing to do, once it becomes an option in my region.

Weak projects, those with flawed technology, those with no future in sight, or without use cases, and even those without good use cases are all going away. That probably means well above 90% of what is available right now won't survive the next couple of years. New coins might replace them, although I expect the number of altcoins to drop drastically in the next few years. It's safe to say that when we start celebrating 20 years of crypto, barely any names from today's markets will be present.

It might not happen soon, but it likely will happen eventually. TRON is building a big ecosystem, with the number of dApps constantly growing. Not to mention that it is still tied to Bitcoin's performance. So, as soon as BTC starts surging, others will follow. If TRON doesn't make a wrong move in the meantime, it will likely reach its ATH, and maybe even go beyond. After all, it is much better established this time around than it was during the previous surge.

Lack of knowledge, lack of technology, lack of experience... Greed is definitely a factor, yes, but so is lack of effort. People would rather be like 'it will be fine' than spend some time to research the project and educate themselves on recognizing scams.

Litecoin does have potential to replace Bitcoin in the future, especially if BTC evolves into a store of value and abandons the position of an everyday currency. LTC uses the same technology, but it is modified and improved; it is accepted on most exchanges, and it is one of the oldest surviving altcoins. However, while I say that it does have potential, its price growth is currently still closely tied to Bitcoin's behavior, and I don't believe that LTC would do anything on its own in the foreseeable future.

As you may know, BTC transactions can be traced, and you have to verify your identity on pretty much all exchanges these days. So, if you withdraw BTC from the exchange to your wallet, there is a connection between your name and said wallet. From there on, the coins can be sent to other wallets or exchanges, and it is pretty easy to trace them further. Mixers make this impossible by mixing the coins of users and allowing them to withdraw coins to wallets and still remain anonymous. Basically, you can trace the withdrawal to the mixer. From there on, no one knows which coins are yours, especially if you split them into a smaller group. Think of that image of a ray of light entering the prism and exiting as a rainbow — only one or two colors are your money, but there is no way of telling which ones.

I doubt that it will have any effect at all. Bitcoin is not bound by any country, government, agency, or bank. Any whale could impact the price more than Brexit.

Bull runs do tend to happen around that time, it is a psychological effect that the end of the year has. The whales expect it, which is why they often make their move beforehand, thus starting the bull run. Psychology plays a big part in investing, which impacts the prices.

Unfortunately, this was a big issue long before Bitcoin was created. These people will use anything at their disposal, be it BTC or USD. At least something is being done about it.

I am not surprised, Facebook has a habit of not listening to the authorities. While I would usually welcome that, its defiance is not a good thing. Facebook is after the profit for itself. It doesn't want to help people, and it doesn't follow the rules. Mark managed to pull through some tight spots in the past, but it needs either the community support or the authorities backing him up, and he's got neither. No, I don't expect much from Libra, especially since it is barely a cryptocurrency at all, and it is a heavily centralized stablecoin.

If it does, it is quite likely that it will only be a temporary thing. Even if ETH does fall to #3 again, the launch of Ethereum 2.0 is bound to bring it back up, imo.

BNB and ADA definitely have the most potential, although I would rather choose Cardano than Binance Coin, since BNB success depends on what will happen to Binance. Binance seems to know what it wants, as well as what it is doing, but one big screw-up, and the coin would suffer greatly. ADA, on the other hand, might go for the stars some day, and the only issue with it is that it likes taking its time.

This sounds like a conspiracy theory more than anything else. If you said that whales are to blame — okay, sure. If you said that the government is secretly buying BTC, okay, I can understand that. But someone controlling the bots that act in accordance with parameters you set — I'm going to need some proof of that first.

True, he did not create it from scratch, but he figured out how to make it work, so I think that he still deserves some credit for that. He also didn't invent digital money, but he did create a way for it to work, and it still works almost 11 years after the fact.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that Winklevoss twins have been at it since 2013, with one rejection after another throughout the years.

These days — still not quite dead, but they will likely never be what they used to be. IEOs are the way to go, even though they are a bit limiting.

No altcoins would mean no ICO fever. That would mean no increase in prices, no new investors coming into the crypto space, no surge of BTC, and no coming out of the shadows. Bitcoin maybe wouldn't even be alive today if there were no altcoins.

I think that traders stress a lot more than hodlers. Hodlers don't expect quick returns. They invest some money into BTC, put it in a wallet, and don't think about it at all for years. Whatever is happening now or in the short term is of no concern to them, they know that BTC will skyrocket eventually, and until that happens — they don't care. It's a good way to eliminate stress imo, just store it and don't think about it.

It does seem like we are moving toward it, as more merchants - as well as companies - are starting to accept it and use it themselves. It is very interesting to follow this progress, it's like watching history unfold. In a way, i suppose that is true, actually.

Probably true. Facebook will have more difficulties and have to invest more of its own money, but they can probably handle it. It is interesting to watch this happen in real-time, though.