Well the positive thing is we are starting to see some real world adoption in some of the 3rd world countries that have currency crisis but I'm sure they are feeling the burden of the crash pretty bad right now.  It is likely more stable than their fiat currencies though. 

I feel like this platform and other future iterations of this tech built on EOS could really hold the key to large scale adoption.    

What gives me the most hope for STEEM is when I see a large group of people in places like the Philippines  and in Nigeria getting together.  It really gives them a lot of hope

I personally think real world adoption isn't gonna happen. Saving 3% over merchant processing doesn't seem to be enough to get people excited. I think in certain industries Bitcoin has a great use case but I really don't see people buying everyday items with Bitocin. It seems people have accepted it's a store of value and it's no longer a currency

Homeless now!  The funny thing is on the video I uploaded on Feb 12th a guy said in the comment section that he was willing to live in a tent.   I wonder how he feels about it now.

A lot of people were thinking that because of last summer we had a surge especially with the alt coins.   I think a bigger issue is we are still seemingly coming down from the parabolic phase so what lead up to this summer was different than what lead up to last summer.   I sure hope we can get a good surge going the second half of this year but it is always hard telling.

I see people say this alot, oh 2020 will be a better year? I never hear anyone give any logic or reasoning for why though? Also you siad moved in June of 2018, that has already passed

It will be along brutal wait to get to 2019 but that may be the case.  It would be terrible if we even had to wait longer like 2020 for the halving event.   I don't think we will because there are going to be more real world DAPPs at that point which will drive demand like we see on this platform.

Why? What will bring a bull run on? I left this same comment above but I see people say things like this yet nobody ever provides any reasoning on why they believe 2019 or 2020 will be a good year?

The is way less than 5% of the world population that owns any crypto.  Back in the 2013/2014 boom the whole market cap of all crypto was around $10 Billion.   Then this one swelled to $800 Billion.    The next boom cycle could easily go to $5 Trillion.    Until crypto as a whole is worth over $20 Trillion there is all kinds of growth potential.   

The demand that was driven in November and December was interesting but it was just a little flex in the grand scheme of things.   Crypto still wasn't as big as the Gold and Silver market.   The idea got planted in more people's minds and sometimes it takes that 4th or 5th exposure and them talking to someone who knows more about it.   It just keeps snowballing.   I talked to a guy the other day that used to trade futures and he was blown away with what I told him and he was ready to go set up a Coinbase account and take a position.   He didn't know that there was even a maximum supply for Bitcoin and Litecoin.   Once I compared it to commodities he was in.   

The premise of crypto is unbelievable even if Bitcoin hasn't scaled and there are other issues.   For people with money this is an unbelievable opportunity.  Once I sell my house I'm planning on taking up residency in PR.  I'm not sure everything I have to go through at this point to officially do that.   Then I'm going to go a lot deeper into crypto for the next boom cycle.

Hahah,   Yeah it is really hard to tell what the tariffs are going to do to our relationships.   It certainly worries me for sure.   I'm still trying to get to a point where I live a life of absolute freedom and bills and regular BS is negligible and I'm bitty rich to the 10th degree!

The Chinese Yuan seems to be weakening, when that happened a year or so ago I think we saw a jump in BTC price with alot of Chinese people dumping money into crypto to preserve their wealth. That said after seeing Bitcoin crash down from 20k maybe this time around people will say I'd rather take a 20% haircut on my native currency than a 70% haircut on Bitcoin. I'll be curious to see what the future holds