But sometime shit do happen, in UNEXPECTED WAYS=
Dev dont intend to fraud, he do many things in correct ways, its just the coding stuck, and can not progressing, that will lead to abandon ship, and maybe GOOD DEV will ask you to move to new ship, which new project or re-branding and re-launch.
Dev got accident in vacation and found dead, there just not enough dev to handle, or sometime the funding is lock in between 2party contract between the dev them self. Meaning all the funding is gone.
In every coins there is battle between good and bad, there is always fudder and they might come in good intention to warn others, //OR// sometimes they have hidden agenda, which is to make the price lower so they could but at low, when you sell, //OR// they make the all good talks so people will buy and they sell in high
There is also fudder gone bad, which their intention is to make the price lower, but the price already so heavy with sell pressure, so they cant handle anymore, and whats worst is, the developer didnt helping buy wall,
and here is the GREAT EXAMPLE, for learning purposes= https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-XVG fudder make everyone sell, the goal is success only the problem, what he do is went to far, and he cant controls it anymore, now everyone is all selling, and to heavy to make it buy again. (actually this problem can only be solved by the developer and founder)
If you see the TV such as bloomberg for forex, actually all the market principal is the same, which is "make the price low, so we could buy low" also "make the price high, so we could sell high" also "make the price a bit higher, so we could cut loss". AND FOREX use officials and TV to fool you, while bitcoin use "various media" and use "damn hacking novel" or any "buy the company to destroy", and while other cheap coins compared to bitcoin might use cheaper media which is forum. but there is always whale in every level.
Dont you remember in 2010 pizza was bought at 10.000bitcoin, meaning there is so much whale can control the coins value, if you cant spend 10.000bitcoin for a pizza, then you are not a whale Nonono better play in lower coin which you can handle. Because then we know in bitcoin whale eat us the planktons, and in FOREX there is Dinosaur eating Whale. ONLY THE RICH CAN DO THIS, if you are not considerd rich enough to that level, then try find a battle ground you can control a bit.
To gather coin is very difficult, everytime you buy the price go up, if you make mistake, even 2wrong button in the cheap price, someone will eat all your coins. there is always EYES EVERYWHERE looking the fool people make wrong clicks.