This OP was written in 2018, it was 3 years ago, I found that the OP is saying the truth because it was happening now in reality? Dont get me wrong but most of the projects nowadays have not conducive for earnings.

1. the budget was reduced too much?
2. the participation is not controlled as we experience a bounty that has a budget of $5K dollars has 6 campaigns in 1-month duration with thousands of participants
3. too much work on task but very least in payments
4 only a few bounty campaigns that have been paid with a decent amount. 

Quote from: UniCrypto on December 22, 2021, 11:36:04 AM

As the previous month's market was in a bullish trend i.e metaverse trend, is it still continuing or not?
As we saw the History this time Dump came early in this month.
Is there any chance to the market will be back soon to the bullish trend.

For a bullish trend in cryptos, we still have less than 10 days to go before the year ends. Although that the cryptocurrency market is very unpredictable, it’s either a make or break for Bitcoin and other cryptos. Either we can go for one last push, pullback or just simply treading water.

Regarding the metaverse trend, I believe that 2022 will be it’s full potential to be massively adopted. Therefore, metaverse-related projects are going to be bullish along with the integration of blockchain, DeFi and NFTs. We need decentralized metaverse than centralized ones.

I agree with this observation crypto market is like a roller coaster ride it will come up and come down and that's a normal thing because that's how it works and we have nothing to do about it. Anyway, regarding the Metaverse prospect, I believe that in the year 2022 it will be a new trend and it will be put Metaverse in the Limelight so we better watch out.

I believe Long term and Short term, are for real because the crypto industry has that functions, for short-term and long-term investments. And both can be useful for holders, but the projects can be determined if it was for long-term or short-term investment. for example in today's proliferation of meme coins, we can observe that most meme coins are just for the short term because they have no long-term development plan and use cases. while long-term projects have continued development plans and market use-cases.

It seems that the Vietnamese expert was exceeding its target which is raging from $33K to $66K per Bitcoin and it was true, however, it was not last for long because the price has already retreated back to the $46K, level but still it was a good price for Bitcoin compared to the previous years.

IMHO, this price speculation is very far from happening, because it's not truly supported and revealed by the market data and insights, but maybe in the years to come if the market will improve more the $1Million dollar Bitcoin price speculation was still possible because  In crypto it happens with full of surprises.

Let's be honest, my cryptocurrency investment and profit have been able to help me in some aspects of my financial needs, But it's not good all the time because sometimes the results are not always good and favorable as it was intended for. the market is very volatile that's why we must act and invest accordingly.

I have no experience yet of buying any items with Bitcoin, But in XRP I already tried it. I was bought in one of the well-known fast-food chains in my country and the food was get delivered in my place because my fiat is not enough at that time, the delivery rider was given me an option if I have a credit card or even a cryptocurrency and he will accept it and that was my first experience buying food using XRP as a payment.

IMO, as I said before, if we say about regulation it means that something to be regulated, like the privacy and anonymity functions of cryptocurrency users and investors, are most likely to be hit if that so-called regulation will be implemented. because in the current crypto setup, anonymity and privacy were still thriving. and if the regulation will push through anonymity functions of cryptocurrencies is no longer permitted.