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It looks like the biggest uncertainties will be resolved this Friday, July 21st. With far above 80% support for SegWit2x, August 1st should not matter anymore (as BIP 148 will not trigger).

That would mean between now and Thursday should be the best time to buy.

On the other hand, August 1st is passed around everywhere as the "day of doom." Many uninformed people out there. So maybe wait till July 31st to buy? And will there be any risks left after Segwit is activated later this week?

The key question is: How much FUD will be left in the market after Friday...?

No body will guess what price will be there on July 31st. so you really have the plan to buy coins then buy coins last week of this month it is a good time to buy all coins. 

It's impossible for people to say anything of contributing value aside from the speculative guesses about what might or might not happen. Coming back to the pointing question of whether or not to buy right now, it basically depends on whether or not you already have some coins now. If you do have coins, then just wait out for things to settle. If you don't have any coins, then buy with 25% of your investment capital right now, and keep the rest aside for when the price starts to tank heavily. If the price doesn't tank, you at least bought yourself some coins. If the price tanks, you have enough fiat left to buy on the way down. Play it smart.

I believe "waiting for things to settle" will mean that you have to buy at a price that's quite a bit higher. Everybody is "waiting for things to settle." So if you want to buy for a really good price, you have to buy before August 1st. Because if things go well, everybody will be buying after that date.

Of course, there is a little bit of risked involved in buying now... But I think it will be okay. And if you really want to gain a lot, you can't run with the herd. You have to buy when people are shitting their pants. Which is right now...

I am scared to buy now bitcoin, because the market seems not stable at all :( . It's a risk buy now also with the fear of an hard fork.
I hope to understand better what are and what can be the future scenario about my favorite form of payment :P

Just keep track on the price and buy whenever it hits satisfactory low. If it hits $1500 in a few days I guess it's good enough to buy it now without waiting what will happen next. Maybe it will go even lower, but assuming after everything settles down the price could go up to $3000 and then go for 5k and so on in the following months, would anyone care now about whether you buy it at 1500 or 1700? Buy when it's relatively low, you don't have to wait necessarily to 21st or 31st or after August.

I like your comment.

Yes, $1,500 will definitely be good enough for me to invest 80% of what I want to invest. No doubt about that.

But... who knows if it will ever reach $1,500? It doesn't look like it at the moment. We have seen some really, really strong support around $2,000.

There will be no risks when you know for sure that there will be no chain split and this what people was afraid of. As you can see, the price started increasing once again since Bitmain announced that their pools will start SegWit2x today, all we can do now is check Coin.dance from time to time and hope for the best. It could be a good idea to hold some money on exchanges and check the news in the next a few days, to be ready to buy anytime.

Amen to that. I'm still not sure whether I'm extremely confident or extremely stupid, but I'm pretty sure that things will turn out better than expected - even with a hardfork looming in the near future. Yet I still wouldn't touch the markets on July 31st, mostly because I don't trust exchanges to handle potential upcoming clusterfucks properly. Regardless of that I would expect the best prices to be from today until maybe the 28th of July. I don't expect the price to go much lower than 1800 / 1700 however. If you absolutely want to enter the market try to ease yourself in.

I haven't followed the hardfork discussions, admittedly, but I have said that the community MUST solve the scaling issue. I think that miners, and other major companies that determines if a hardfork will happen, realize that.

I'm therefore saying that this weekends dip was the last one, and if we get a successful deployment of a scaling solution (segwit2x) in the next 2 weeks, then we should see a considerable rally. Not that segwit2x is the end-all, be-all solution, but it shows that the politics of bitcoin can be resolved, and further scaling needs can be meet.

As for the exchanges handling 'clusterfucks' yeah, some of them have shown remarkable incompetence, for sure. But I think it will be solved, people can have issues next few weeks in getting their coins in and out, but
it will be worked out. I hope... ;)

So, I'd say: probably a pretty good time to get in, or go long if you hold already.

Disclaimer: I hold a fair amount, and not selling for the 1st of august event.

Well, to me bitcoin market value may not decline below  $1,600 if it will even decline to that level. Currently the price has move above  $2000 but I believe is not too bad to buy at the current market value for even though there will be a decline by 31st July it will still increase in value to the extent that you will more than your point of entry.

I'm currently buying btc as I'm passing through the phase of segwit2x. For me it doesn't matter, what matters me is 99% people are panicked and I'm from that 1% who is currently making smart choice of buying the btc. The hard fork is going to be soft fork and bitcoin will start regaining its price. I wouldn't wait until July because by that time the price would be more than $2300 for sure. Let's keep the patience and try out our own lucks. :-)

Exactly, but I guess it's quite late already to buy.

It's better to buy when the price was still at $1,800 - $1,900 and the price now is trying to recover up to $2,200.

And so if you are still thinking to buy bitcoins before July 31, then why not buy earlier as today?

I´m more inclined to the hipothesis of Segwit successfull activation. However 80% miner support is an estimate, not a sure thing. If you want to make a good buy, and not aim to he best buy, i would buy now. If you have some money that you wouldnt put in BTC unless a crazy price appears, risk waiting and you might get lucky at 500$ BTC.

By the sound of it, it looks like the FUD will end very soon. *sigh*

It has already begun. It was earlier than expected:

The Bitcoin Scaling Countdown: Miners Begin Running Segwit2x Software

It seems July 17 has initiated the beginning steps towards Segwit2x activation as the code has been released and miners who supported the “New York Agreement” (NYA) have started running the new BTC1 software.

source: https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-scaling-countdown-miners-segwit2x-software/

Wohoo. I' excited for this. Let's hope that it will all the uncertainty now.

Yup... looks like it. Ironically, it started soon after I created this thread.

I didn't know they were already starting to run SegWit today; I thought they would start Friday.

But that doesn't mean the price can't go down again before August 1st... We will see.

We couldn't really predict the price of bitcoin if it would be the best time to buy ,
But I really hope that it wouldn't fall down so deep and seems right now that it is really recovering but I think the drama is not yet over,
So I am really looking forward to what would happen next?

Actually guys you are late if you buy now look at the price today its starting increase back again and looks like their realize the importance of bitcoin and what segwit will help for bitcoin.. I still seen a large red in the market but there are still buying big bitcoins that i think the price push to the high price..
So don't be wait in july 31st because other people can buy bitcoin until the price is too high.. If you buy now i think the price still consider as low price not below in $2k but i think you should buy right now because i saw there are investors are buying lots of bitcoin starting from few hours ago.. and now i saw lots of traders are buying more the largest i seen in the bitcoin market is 18 btc the other people are buying 10 btc or more.. 
If you will late of buying right you just lose opportunity of making more profit once the price is increase more and i think you don't need to wait in july 31st.

After this price fall happened I see it as a big opportunity for us to buy since price will rise successively behind the circumstances of some speculations which hinders the price development.  Although as everybody saying it's unpredictable with regards to investors who became discouraged but later on realized the actual scenario. We must hope for next price spike and maybe we can now be at $3000 sooner.

It was late, the price is pumping again. And for sure the price of bitcoin before the end of the month will be up again. This is my opinion and I have no assurance for it, we dont know whats going to happen.

I have said this too many times, if you know nothing about how bitcoin works you'll never earn any profit from it, currently people only use it as an earning tool, that is why we should do the same, if by the next 6 days price doesn't drop down from $2100 then it probably won't drop after that.
It's not a lottery ticket to wait for the last minute, what if price jumped to $3000+ by then what would you do other than crying your ass off because you didn't enter while it was low?

In my opinion we should not buy/sell Bitcoin even at 25 July because there may be problem of unconfirmation and that can be results into loss of the Bitcoin if they didn't get confirmed within the 5 days ( before 1 August ) .
So you should buy more and more until 25 July atmost , but if you want pay high fee then you should try for even 30th of the July without tension .
But I don't think that price will go down much because not everyone are stupid , in the current time people are knowing perfectly about the Bitcoin and its price fluctuations that how does changing or anyone pumping .
So probably may be there many people will buy instead of sell and that will be results into increase in the price .So buy in small small installment you can , because in my opinion the price can jump to 2 times after the complete of the launching of segwit2X .

I agree with you, there is no need to panic about this, this SegWit thingy was already an issue way back then but never happen though, this could be just a whale or something that is nonsense, all we can do right now is to wait and have faith on bitcoin, most of us don't want this splitting of bitcoin to happen because we know that the bitcoin's price would be affected by this thing.

All I can say is don't sell your bitcoin guys, just hold it no matter what, you don't need to sell it right now worrying that its price would decrease more? NO, lets stop doubting bitcoin right now. :)

Hold in buying for some clarity. There is going to be a split in the form of BitcoinABC. It'll be volatile

It is not advised to buy on July 31st, may be a day before that or two. You need to have all your stash on a wallet but segwit. The price will definitely rise and it'll be a new life for all the Bitcoiners here. Buy as early as possible and hold them well.

Maybe the best time to buy is now and in nearly end of this month since bitcoin at this rate is very low and I think middle class people can buy, or maybe for those who have still balance its best for them to wait really but they should make sure to have a wallet that has paraphrase so that they will not be affected if there's a split would happen on august month.

to find the answer to your question here or in the future if you read this comment you should always ask yourself one thing. why did the price drop? and how will it reverse?

in this case the drop was because of a lot of FUD that caused a lot of panic from a possible split. then when price reached the bottom and also when the signalling for the soft fork started, the price recovered.
my expectation is that as the signalling grows and support becomes stronger the price will also keep rising. and as the soft fork locks in with a huge support the price will rise up a lot and will do it fast.

this will happen before July 31st and has already started the first step.

I think that the situation is not stabilizing on July 31, not August 1. Most likely we received a period of chaos for several months. Maybe the price will begin to recover closer to October 2017. And maybe later.
But despite this I prepared money for the purchase of bitcoin

It is very hard to time the market, because you won't be the only one with this strategy.
Why don't you buy on three different days, like this you can spread the risk.

Well this call will differ from person to person as everybody as different risk appetite. If you want to take risk then you can buy now and who knows if price continue to rise you will gain a lot. Or else if you want to be on safer side wait till 1st Aug and then buy so you will know exact position of it.

I guess that is the only thing why we are doing bitcoin, because of the money, bitcoin is a very good way to have your own source of income, and buying it right now must be a good idea since there is a lot of panic sellers who are selling their bitcoin because they are afraid on what will happen on bitcoin in August 1, this is just a tactic for the whales though.

Instead of asking if it is better to buy bitcoin right now or on August 1, why don't you take the risk so you could know what will happen, because no matter how many of us here are going to give our opinion about this thing, the final decision would still be yours and the clock is ticking.

It is best to buy before July31 though we cannot predict the price of bitcoin. These past few days bitcoin has downtrend and today it seems recovering. I dont know if this is stable or what but the fluctuation is normal. So when dump buy if you have funds and hold.

Don't let some trap recovery price make you buying and take loss, use your brain and analysic mentality of trader on market in some days. They are scared status SegWit2x and only when have some good news about SegWit2x can success, they going to buy very fast but this not is stable, just temporary and can't helps the price of Bitcoin can recovery at now!

The issue about bitcoin is that it is never late to buy and even the pumping we are seeing now, there is no guarantee that it will be sustained till the end of the month when the speculation and the panics would have reached the highest level. If on the other hand the price is being sustained on the increasing front, then I would say the price as at now is the lowest we can get until further notice. So, anyone who is still contemplating buying low, now is the time to do that.

LOL, we may not be 100% sure about the outcome of August 1st but with every day that passes we become a little more sure. for example ever since miners started signalling their support for SegWit yesterday the certainty increased greatly and that is why price also went up this much.

in a couple of days as the % increases and SegWit becomes "locked in" there is no doubt about anything since there won't be any return and it will activate with majority of miners.

now you can see this as an opportunity to buy before the big rise or you can see this as a "trap". that is your choice, but it doesn't change any of the facts stated.

I think its not a trap if we seen the price is rising it is because they already been tested the segwit and they what will actually would be effect of segwit.. honestly its just a piece of code that i think that can improve the use of bitcoin..
And developers will not doing to damage bitcoin they are always doing developing bitcoin just to improve the performance of bitcoin..
So expect that we will see more price increase before end of this month..

I just cashed out now most of my coin as the price is back to nearly 2.3K and I will buy the exact amount around 31st when the price fall down. Or maybe a little more coins, but I plan to keep the most of the profit.

I don't think the price will go down, there is less and less chance of a hardfork every day so the pump has already started.

Just buy $500 every week and withdraw to your wallet.

The good buying time has gone now, you should have used the opportunity in the last couple of days. The price is on way up again. But there is no proof that price will dump on 31 and situation at moment could also indicate that the split might not happen at all. So every prediction about the price at the moment would only be pure guessing.

we can buy bitcoin at any time,july31st also we  can buy there is no risk at all.market may down or up,the bitcoin is always there.bitcoin  very popular currency  throughout the world.this demand makes the buyers more exctiement.aug 1 also wec can buy the bitcoins.this is the business bitcoin investment it gives the profit and loss .loss is never permanent.

I think now would be a good time to buy bitcoin especially if you are into long term. Bitcoin is still cheap and we won't know after a couple of years it'll double the amount of what it is today, so if you're a risk taker then now would be a good time then.

long term: doesnt matter when to buy.

short term: might go lower. Someone is building huuuge sell walls - shorting btc with high volume.
those whale traders wanna buy lower and they will buy lower, since the whales make the market follow them.

If you are longing for long term then buying bitcoin would be anytime but if you are just doing short tradings then its somehow risky to buy up into this moment because the price have been slowly recovered after the dumped and its starting to rise again and if we tend to buy now possibilities of dump is still there since we are not yet on the main event on this august which means its too risky. If you can able to handle the risk then you can buy anytime on bitcoins price.

If you are a person who does not take risks then you can choose the date of August 1 as the right time to determine the direction of investment you want. All day is very risky at this time so everything can still happen. Sometimes it is impossible to happen. You have to think carefully in making this decision.

Most people are just focusing on August 1 when it is actually July 21 the date when Segwit2x is going to be released and as agreed during the New York gathering those people should be running it. Buy bitcoin now or simultaneously.

Smart one! I must say August 1 is going to be Dec 21, 2012 for Bitcoin. If Segwit2x is able to attract considerable support, believe me no one will give a shit about UASF. And I am ready to laugh at these fools so called traders who making weird assumptions plus strategy before and for Aug 1.
Time is to wake up and stress on development of Bitcoin, not just its price speculation and claiming it to be the success of Bitcoin.

I agree with you,
I guess after July 21 the price of Bitcoin will increasing and reach to $3000 again if not have bad news about SegWit2x. But when that time have some bad news tell SegWit2x can failure, we can see big crash with new lowest price, around $1800 - $1700

The problem for many of us is that we use exchanges to buy or sell but the advice we are getting is to move money off exchanges before Aug 1. If we buy in the day before, we are cutting it close on moving bitcoins off the exchange. What if I buy bitcoins on July 31 and then the exchange has a technical problem and I can't move the coins before the 1st?

No one knows the shortterm outcome , but if you want to hold longterm, just buy when you are ready, price will raise to incredibly high in a few years anyway

There is a high chance of transaction being missed if you buy on July 31th. People advice not to do any transaction between July 31 - August 1st.

Resume trading after August 1st.
Or even better give it 5-7 days.

The price can go in any direction in coming days so no one can be sure what exactly price will be in next month but if you can hold your coins till the end of the year then you can buy some bitcoins at current price as in long term price will surely go higher.

What is happening on the 31st? Are there any special sales on that day? Anybody think bitcoin will be cheaper then, because after it fell under $2000, I missed another good opportunity to buy low.

Yes, it can go either direction, but I would rather buy bitcoin now than wait for the 31st. But from the looks of today's price, its not gonna easy for me to get it because the price has drastically increase in 24 hours. I will try to wait and see around ~1800$ maybe to get bitcoin and store of longer term. I was able to get some during the bloody days a while back though. But I want to invest more.

Wow!! Bitcoin is climbing back up today :) A few days ago was definitely the best time to buy more of it.

Its hard to believe that bitcoin can go back again to the price of $1800 in coming days as it has started to move higher now so in coming days it may surpass the price of $2500 once again and if you want to buy then without wasting any time you should go for it right now.

The best time for those who have not yet entered the crypto currency market is to wait for Bitcoin to become 1,800 dollars or so. :o As soon as this happens, you need to buy. Market analysts predict Bitcoin by the end of the year a rate of 4,500 US dollars. ;D

People don't buy because they don't have the balls to do so at the time the price is going down. They pull the trigger when the price has gone up already, as they gain confidence out of an increasing price. Result of them going by this way of investing, is that they mostly end up buying at far higher levels than those that do have the balls to buy when the price is going down significantly. Bitstamp reached a low of $1830 a few days ago, which turned out to be a great entry price, but hey, it's another missed opportunity for those dreamers....

If you have faith in potential of bitcoins and if you can hold them till the end of the year then I think you can buy even at current price as in long term it will only give you profits as price is going higher now so may be in next few days we may not see lower price so its a good time to buy now.

It may be never late especially for those newbies. But for those traders that are chasing for profits, its quite late already. We have to wait it to be back again but no idea when it will happen again.

after the segwit code is applied,
it seems the price started to get better,.... I would consider to start to buy now.

For me, I will not invest before august 1 because we really don't know on what will happen to bitcoin after it and many people and investors watching on it so that I will invest bitcoin after August 1.

With the bunch of miners started signalling for BIP91 yesterday, a lot of people are now feeling hopeful about the state of bitcoin as Segwit looks to lock in and gets activated. Thus, the recent increase in price. It will prevent the split and hence the Bitcoin will become stronger. Therefore, we will not see $1800 again and this is the time to buy. But still the uncertainty hasn't over. What if the miners who signed the New York Agreement decide to betray it (RARE BUT POSSIBLE). This would lead to the activation of BIP148 or UASF on 1st August. Then there would be a lot chaos and would be a huge dip and chain split.

yes, it seems support for segwit2x has reach over 87% today and many miners has started to signaling BIP91. Bitcoin price has recovered and slowly increase, $2310 right now and possibly will continue to rise in the next week after Friday, July 21st. I say, better to buy right now instead of waiting for the end of this month, because segwit will be activated obviously and we will see bitcoin skyrocket again after its implemented.

I think the buying days are already over. From the graphs and charts it shoes that Bitcoin has started recovering. As for buying on July 31, many exchanges are already warning of closing shops to confront August 1. There's so much confusion out there about this impending split.

Just keep on buying while it is not that late. The price is still good for buying because the price is quite stable for now. I guess we'll experience this today up to July 28. And if the price seems falling then you just buy by that time immediately.

With today's increasing trend it is not advisable to wait until July 31st. There will be no use, because price of bitcoin will be very high by that time and you won't be having big profits if you by on that day or around it. Just imagine guys price rise by $300 -$500 in single day, by he time you hit last week it will increase more and may start playing around that price only. Just like two month ago. Segwit won't produce anymore huddles to it. Better invest today for better tomorrow.

I think buying bitcoin before the end of the month is July 31 is a very positive thing. Because not necesaarily the bitcoin price will be the same after July 31 even possibly can go up.

After July 1st if the Bitcoin split then we will get the opportunity to buy bitcoins. If it does not happen then, that's it the Bitcoin price will only increase there is no decrease. And we already missed that right opportunity to buy bitcoins. 3 to 4 days back the price was $1800 it was the best time to buy bitcoins. But now don't know one more time you will get a chance or not. 

All is because of investors. When they get panicked, there is tremendous increase in selling which somehow drops the prices. Forks also play very crucial role in all this game. Regarding forks, I have same opinion. Growth in signaling and increase in support lead to pump in values and same is going to happen this time.

I suggest to buy bitcoin as of now because the price is still increasing and thats good because you can earn a lot of profit. Bht invest only you can afford to lose . Many people wait after august 1 before they buy because they scared to buy bitcoin because bitcoin possible to split if segwit approve that but not s final. But if you want to buy you can go because even price down in august1 for sure it will recover again.

If you buy now itself,you could get bitcoin at $2581 since bitcoin price has recovered quickly.If you are planning to buy bitcoins on july 31,if this price trend continues,then you may get it at $3000.Bettter buy now itself.Good luck.

July 31st wil be offday for bitcoin because Bitcoin Need to be some rest .. one Bitcoin wake with his wife BTU then buy both  ;D

Since the price of bitcoin already pumped, i think it is better to wait for the price to calm down because the hype is happening right now and if you will put being FOMO first then you will just be losing some money after a few weeks. Bitcoin price is volatile so there is still a chance for the price to go down and that we should be the buying zone for us and not right now.

You should buy bitcoins when it was only $1900 when the market were panicking also this might be the only time that to buy bitcoins while you still can before it reaches july 31st. Once segwit2x is implemented the price may pump and reach a new all time high $3000. I thought that bip91 would activate and not segwit2x so were going to have two currencies i wonder which one would be the main BTC which is going to be BTU. But then again let's forget that bitcoin is a volatile currency you just have to be patient and wait for the price to dip.

If you are definately keen on buying, wait and see the prices at July 31st. We have seen bitcoin's value rocket to 2800 USD in the past few days, meaning that it is not too smart to invest now. I would invest into an altcoin such as ethereum. Its value should go up as many other people are also investing in it as they are scared of what August 1 holds for bitcoin. Just wait for the next pump and buy before then. Now is kind of late to do any investing on the bitcoin side. Bitcoin is highly volatile, meaning that it can increase or decrease in price quite fast. Just be patient and wait.

Many people are worried about the hard fork issue, even in this forum many are talking about hardfork, I think no need to panic, the important thing is we keep bitcoin in safe wallet (hardware or desktop).

But you need know when have HardFork will make the price of Bitcoin decreasing more, maybe just a half price in present or under $1000. And when that time, the investor on the world's will scared crypto market and they will panic sell all crypto for withdraw to FIAT

I have same opinion regarding the rise and fall in prices of bitcoins. Till the end of July, fall at anytime is expected which makes this time the precious opportunity of buying bitcoins. In the beginning of August, we are going to experience huge difference in prices and the graphs will be moving towards green area. That would be the perfect time to sell bitcoins or cash them out.

Well it was a great opportunity that most of the people have missed due to vagary of bitcoin crash but I think yesterday and today’s price is enough to disillusion about bitcoin. What we see today is the price after panic selling in the market, which has been created by a group of individuals to achieve their goals. If there was no panic selling then the price would have remained around $2500.

Well your guess is accurate but buying bitcoin among 1 august (1-2 days before or after it) is very riskful investment. If I were you, I would wait until the market calm down.

Yeah the price has not reached yet to the level where it should be though bitcoin is struggling hard to maintain its price and don’t come below $2000. This is a healthy sign which keeps indicating the power of bitcoin. The drowning price of bitcoin is a result of speculation which will most probably be over in the next 20 days, the current price fall is opportunity for buyers. 

On that date all the exchangers have made an announcement not to make any transactions, and they will not be liable in case of spli or worse.
Waiting for normal is better.

Many people are buying now and the price is soothing up. Currently bitcoin price above $2, 800 this is a sign that the prophet of dum that we prophecy that this is the end of bitcoin has been put to shame. Thank you op for this useful information.

Buy now if I were you. But not all in. Try to buy slowly and accumulate. Because the market now is still unpredictable. We may go straight $3000 before August or we have another correction. What is important is Segwit2x already locked in.

Indeed. I don't think we have to worry about segwit anymore. I was able to acquire a couplenof btcs when it came down below 2k so that's instant earnings for me already in a mattee of days. If you can earn btc, then good though i also thinks its good to buy now and stock up. Just continue to buy btc if you have the chance.

There is no harm in buying bitcoin at this time, because bitcoin prices are predicted to continue to rise. So do not worry we will experience a loss because the profits will come to us in the future. Stay patient and never panic to sell the bitcoin we have. Buying as much bitcoin as possible with the money we have can make us achieve satisfactory results.

I wouldn't trust the predictions too much. I could remember similar predictions from 2014, which claimed that BTC will rise to $10,000 per coin by 2017. It actually went down by 80%, to $200 per coin in 2016.

There is a lot of difference b/w 2014 to 2017. Just 1 year back the price fluctuated in b/w $500 to $600. But now it increased 400%. What you say for this increment. You are comparing 2014 price but compare to 2016 you will know how much percentage the price is increased. I don't know others that they have trust on Bitcoin or not but I believe in bitcoin.

Many people are already buying Bitcoin right now. Hoping after 1 August BTC prices will be craze. Before August 1st everyone was worried, and some raced to take advantage of this moment.
I can only see, what will happen next.

I think you need to buy if you have enough coins or money. Also one should buy if the price is relatively low after this moment you will earn a profit. In my experience, I was in doubt when buying last time when the price is low.. Now that it is almost hitting a higher price. i should have a profit now. But still, waiting for it the price to be low. Yet we cannot predict what will happen next. Maybe we should take a risk in buying. Grab the chance. We never know what will happen next.

BUY and HOLD (I don't like hodl) You don't want to buy at 5000 do you  ;)

The waves are coming.  Get ready for the ride.

I was waiting for the perfect moment for to much time in the past. I would say buy NOW and HOLD.

"Buy and hold" would work 10 days ago but today the price is complicated to consider. We need to wait for another dump so that we can get cheap bitcoin soon for long term ideas.

i think those people who are confident about the price of bitcoin that after 1st August it will start increasing so such people are in fact buying bitcoin in advance and they are holding it for the price increase. to me as i have already a good number of bitcoin and therefore i have decided to hold my bitcoin even after 31st August because i am also sure about the price of bitcoin that it will continue increase for a long time and very soon going to hit 5000$.

It doesn't look that bitcoins would be dumped by July 30th or 31st as now the price is rising. There was a panic last week and buying on 31st July would be a terrible idea as most transactions may get stuck on the network and after that the chains too would change. Trading till August 3rd-4th would be a bad idea and it's better to hold now and observe. Hopefully after the change transactions would get confirmed soon and we would see cheaper tx fee with bitcoins above $3000-3300.

People missed out on this chance to buy low priced coins because they had fear of what bitcoin was to become of bitcoin and now that people are informed of what is going on price has stabilized

Buying of bitcoins will keep reducing as we head towards August 1 for the new protocols to be rolled out and we get to know what the future of bitcoin holds. For the time being, we just need to sort out our funds into wallets we actually have control of the private keys to avoid losing any uncertainties

There are sites who disabled their btc withdrawals already, I've experience that in liqui when I trade yesterday but I did not bother to find out if there was a release statement on what it happen but I understand it is related to the segwit thing. Because I cannot transfer my BTC then I decided to just put it there and just wait for the right time when it's already available, I don't want to compromise my money so I need to trust them.

You were right, as since July 21st bitcoin price has started to recover. But BIP91 has been locked-in, and August 1st won't be the doom day obviously.
I am sure there are some people who wants to spread fud news about chain split in order to get cheaper coins, but we don't know how the market react to those news because bitcoin price has stayed over $2700 for days. If you want to buy, wait for all this bad news are over, because we might have one more dip before segwit be activated.

Might isn't reason enough to wait with buying. In the same way that people expect the price to go down by the first of August, it may very well go up big time. In order to avoid missing out on a potential increase, it would be a wise decision to buy yourself a certain percentage of coins at current levels, and leave the rest of your fiat aside for when the price goes down. In case the price goes up, you'll benefit because you already bought yourself some coins. In case the price goes down, you have enough fiat aside to start buying more coins, but now at discount prices. It will help you in averaging down your initial buying price. It's a win win situation. :)

The price is already recovering, hitting the $2800 limit. You should have bought when the FUD really affected bitcoin holders and panic sold even with a loss. But there might be another round of price dipping a few days or a day before August 1. That would be another buying time.

Looks like another possible split will happen. I am not sure if BitcoinCash is just FUD or most likely will go on separate way. Still I don't think we fall down below $2000 again, $2400 is a big discount already.

No one can predict the exact price on July 31, but those who wanted to buy cheap coins, they have already done so. For interest, you can wait and observe what will happen to the price and in case of an optimal mark you can buy coins at an attractive price.

I will wait for july 31st because in that date, i will see if the price of bitcoin will rise or not because i will base on the hype so i can make fast profits from buying and holding it for a few days but if the price will go down after i bought it then i will just use that bitcoin in trading so i can recover my loss from buying at the top.

After friday,there would be no need to spread FUD since every dust would have settled by that time.You could even buy bitcoins since its not too late but if you miss the chance before friday,then you would have to regret for your decision since you would have missed the train.Don't do too late to buy bitcoins.Better buy it now itself.

You should avoid transaction near 1st August. It is not advisable. Regarding buying more I think this is the best time to buy more Bitcoin and secure them in a wallet. But if you are uncertain, you can buy in August as well because Bitcoin will remain profitable if being hold for long term no matter at what price you bought.

If You would ask me I will anwer and suggest for you to buy bitcoin now because the value of the bitcoin now is a little bit lower,that is why when the time that the value of the bitcoin becomea higher that is the time that you can sell your bitcoin.

The bitcoin price has once again started growing up in this scenario it is better to buy it now, who knows what will be the price of bitcoin on july 31. I agree with you that if someone can hold the bitcoin for a long term at least till the end of this year they can get a great compensation against their holdings.

BUY NOW!!!

Price will continue to go up.

There are some rumors about chain split and on August 1st such as BitcoinABC which forks off to create a new chain and network with a currency named bitcoin cash (BCC). Its price is $396 on ViaBTC futures right now and the market cap nearly $10 billion, they stated everyone who has private keys will be receive BCC on August 1st as well, not bad at all I guess. But, this uncertain news may cause a little drop of bitcoin price, so I would suggest to wait for the biggest dip on August to buy bitcoin.

But lol it would never happen like that as you said when it would happen so change my name. It was just an opportunity that bitcoin was giving to people now wait for a high prices of bitcoin it would reach to $4000 USD soon as possible. So, in my opinion I would tell you that it is the time to buy bitcoin because it is still not enough time. After 1 August it would go to $3500.

I prefer for you to buy now.Becaus the value of the bitcoin is not too high today and I know that it will be higher soon.Then ig you buy now with the less value you can sell it with the higher value in the futite in that way you can have yoir return on investment.

If you want to buy bitcoin you can can do this but invest only you can afford to lose and for sure after this month the price of bitcoin will increase so its better to buy more bitcoin in the month of august 1.  Dont invest all your money in one investment you spread it to others.

Already FUD is getting reduced as most of the investors have already started to realize that hard fork is not going to occur.They have started to buy bitcoins inorder to avoid chance of missing them.So you could buy it now or atleast on july 31st but if you delay than that,then probably you would be the loser since bitcoin price would go high in rocket speed.

Don’t make people afraid when trying buying bitcoin. If you want to know the perfect time to buy the bitcoin let me tell you, this weak is much better to buy bitcoins because after this weak the prices will rise again like normal and then you will wait of your profitable value of price.

This could be the best time to do that buying some biycoin maybe some cant but others will do. So goodluck to all of us that have a plan to buy this coming week . Cause after this all chnages will come back.

Yes you are right buying now is more better than any other thing if anyone will want to get the profit and they will wait for longer then they will lose the good time as after some days we all know that the price of it will be much higher than today.

I will rather suggest to buy now because on 1st Aug it is more likely to happen that its value will increase and keep on increase. If you buy now you will have to use some more money than those who bought it earlier because its value has increased. And by the end of this month or the start of august it will increase more and then all you will have to do is to wait for price to increase as more as you want and then sell them to get profit.

Wait for a little more, the price lowered at $2,673.

We saw it pumped at $2,800 and I was expecting that it will go through $2,900 but it didn't happened.

Buying scenario is about to happen soon, after this fork.

i think that the price is not coming down anymore therefore the best choice is to buy bitcoin right now and then wait for the price increase. because in future we can expect that the price of bitcoin will increase in future and hopeful that bitcoin price will continue increasing for a long time and therefore we have good chance to make money from bitcoin investment.

Currently it seems there is nothing to cry about sudden fall or rise. Price is high and it keeps playing as it was some days ago.
OP please tell us what did you do? I think your decision wouldn't be wrong. I think it will rise a little and then will be stable, btw nothing to worry to my mind. Everyone was writing about price rise after block halving but everything was stable, I think it's will be stable in this situation also.

I'm observing it today because I have to sell for my own needs I'll buy something that I need.

And it's stable at $2,743 and not moving. I have a feeling that there is something going to happen.

I'll sell now at this moment and will not feel sorry if it goes up or not.

If you need to sell then don't hesitate. The price fluctuation is consistent and with btc, its not even that significantly big. All the drama and anxietynis starting to cool down now that we've moved past aug1 and btc would probably stay steady at this price until it shoots up once more.