Already today there should be updates in ethereum. Depending on how well this happens, we will judge the complexity of this year for this coin. However, it seems to me that this year will be better for ethereum than the previous one. The year 2018 was bad for all coins, and especially for ethereum, which fell in price much lower than other coins. I think that this year for ethereum will be more successful.
Yes. Last year was tough on all cryptocurrency and ethereum was not immune to this either.
Hard fork Constantinople should happen sometime between February 28th to March 1st for block number 7,280,000.
So it will be happen quite soon.
The price has rose a little bit in the past 24 hours but not by much. So we might see it rise a bit higher over the next 24 hours with people wanting to buy a couple of coins up in anticipation of the fork.