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2018 has been one of the worst years if not the worst in the crypto industry. We had so many ups and downs but we are still around and looking forward to making it happen once again as it has always been. But amidst fhe turbulence that occurred there's still one thing I'm happy for, and that's some "psychopaths" failed their mission.

We all thought we had reach a bottom around 6K until some few people decided to ruin everything for all of us. Gladly, their mission failed (well, for now) and I'm really happy for that. I hope the same happens to anyone who tries to ruin Bitcoin's price furthermore.

Now Bitmain has layed off workers, boycotted plans to launch a subsidiary at a new country and having leadership troubles and oh, people aren't purchasing their mining rigs as before. Their best solution was to help find a way to pump Bitcoin but they ruined it.

If you have a product, start something and don't try to kill Bitcoin because ultimately you'll end up with undervalued coins.

Code: There's no crypto without Bitcoin

If you talk about investing, last year was good for those who wanted to profit plus it was a cheap start for new subscribers.

If this "psychologist" has thousands of Bitcoins or lots of mining equipment, you have to be sad.
It is unfortunate to see these people fighting rather than unite around the goal of cryptocurrency.

Once this farce ends, "low fees and fast Bitcoin confirmations" these people will have nothing to offer to their community.

having ups and downs, or even generally downtrend is not considered a "bad year for bitcoin" because not everything is about the price and obviously as other user mentioned it was a great opportunity to buy cheap bitcoins.
not to mention that not all of the price drop was manipulation. only a part of it near the end was pure manipulation, the rest was a simple bubble burst and correction.

bitcoin is still around because it provides useful utilities and because of that each time its price is manipulated, it comes back up again.

considering their "mission" was to push the price below $6k you can't say they failed because we are currently below $6k!

I do not share the same sentiments, last year was not the worst year for crypto, it was just different.
There are still some people who think everything is going to always positive and without controversial sagas.

It's true that there's a lot of shtcoins right now in this industry but for as what I've known the starting price of Bitcoin is around $2-$5 (please correct me if i'm wrong) and look at the current price of it... are we on the bottom? the one you've experienced is just a small ups and downs but still in the overall stats of the bitcoins price we're still at the bullish.

And I don't know what you're referring? If you have a product, start something and don't try to kill Bitcoin because ultimately you'll end up with shit coins.
the other projects won't affect the price of the bitcoin and every coin has their own use, advantages and disadvantages.

No one ruins in the price of bitcoins it depends on the market, the people, the seller and the buyer not a new project.

Absolutely, This crypto space we are involved in is unregulated
and decentralised, there are no rules and the markets dont have
to do one thing or the other. We have to make the best of the
opportunities that are put on front of us and stay positive.

I am glad that the market downward that started in 2018 seems to be  indirectly regulating the Cryptocurrency space.
Believe me, any ico coming this year must be one that has various usecases unlike before 2018 when everyone was launching ico Bec the boom being witnessed then.
Now all those shitty coins and projects are going into extinction .

I don't think that those "pychopaths" you are referring, will succeed either. Bitcoin has been resilient so such attacks and I'm sure that almost everyone will agree that bitcoin will not die and not recover.


Perhaps you're referring to the Bitcoin Cash drama. Yes it dramatically affect the price negatively, but I'm sure miners will still go back to bitcoin no matter because this is where the money is. This setback is just temporary and a reversal will eventually happen, might take months or even years but it will happen.

Indeed this is a long process of the bitcoin cycle that we are experiencing and we must be lucky that we have the knowledge that bitcoin is really a technology that must be look forward into the future for humans daily transaction and other day to day usage of technology. However we must not totally depend on technology and forget that we are humans too, remember that technology will remain but we will leave this technology to the next generation. It is good that whatever happens we still see our human side of the technology whether we have experienced negative and positive things on the technology that we embraced.

nope their mssion was to push their own coin forward and they failed drastically. Look at the price of BCHABC and BCHSV. They're very down even before the fork and that's why I say I'm happy.

And anyways have you realized Bitmain has layed off, called off plans to open a subsidiary and even changing leadership

No, market price down trend makes it worst. If you are investing bitcoin then you can feel it. This is why I said that it was the worst. As OP said that many were expecting the bottomline was 6k Usd since bitcoin is established already. However, it went dow. and this is where shit happens.Now, many investors are holding because if they will.not the. they will going to lose their investments.

People do not learn from their and others mistakes, because we saw the same thing happening with the Bitcoin XT fork and the attempt at a hostile takeover from Mike Hearn and Gavin. Now you hardly hear anything from Gavin anymore and Butthurt Mike is working for the competition.  ::)

The only one left is Roger Ver, but Mr. Money bags invested his money wisely by piggybacking off Bitcoin's success.  ::) A fool will part quickly with his money, so guess who is next.  ;)

in many senses last year was different but in the end when you look at the trend itself you can see it was very similar for some reason which i can not yet explain.
for example there was no reason for bitcoin to drop this low but it did, similar to last time. there was also no reason for the downtrend to last this long but it did, again similar to last time. and many more.
and don't get me started on altcoins. i saw the exact same pattern of pump and dumping and newbie trapping all over last year.

I kind of agree with you though but I wouldn't call them psychopaths but as a businessman. Although they are trying to make the price down, I know that they are doing this to make some profit in the future and they are winning I think.

Every day is like the same days.
Unnoticed that it is the same day but different date.
Some successful businessman said " there's no regrets but learnings."
This is how we should deal every uncertainties comes in our way to overcome every unwanted situation.

What is done today will be today and looking forward for a brigh tomorrow. Time is very important for great businessman,  they don't want to waste any of it  and that's every single opportunities the saw,  they always take to risk knowing for its good result.  
Crypto business is different to look and truly unpredictable which made us undecided sometimes bit in the end,  we are still here.

Defeating Bitcoin will made you to destroy without any other reason this will be happened in the 2018 so people definitely trying to understand what is bitcoin and what is the use of Bitcoin it will be very important to made them more stronger in their economic situation of their life.

Bitcoin still young and of course when the young already get it's "celebrity" status, every people try to push it down to the fall.
But for what I can see that bitcoin is a potential investment so for long term, it will useful. All they need is more time to keep developing and advancing their security system !

Whatever 2018, I still think we needed it. There is nothing wrong with the market falling. This is a perfectly normal situation. It is also good that it helps to get rid of unnecessary coins and fake crypto enthusiasts, because we have to support and believe in crypto in any case.

The evidence of any good project is in it workability and for any one trying to run bitcoin is just waisting his/her time because there can never be an end to bitcoin not now and not in any time soon, bitcoin have survived so many attacks from various quarter but we thank God the market will recover no matter the amount of pump and dump that the big wings thinks they can do.

2018 ups and downs do not return investor funds in 2017 with purchases above $ 10k, 2018 gives new players profit with the new capital they invest.


their mission almost succeeded by lowering prices by up to $ 3k and creating a prolonged panic to date, but bitcoin is too strong to overthrow
hope that only in 2018 will the bitter memories occur

Last year was really tough a lot of sycophants as you rightly said had completely written off bitcoin a lot of failed attempts to bring down bitcoin proved abortive the fact that bitcoin was able to surmount all these challenges means there is hope in a longer term and bitcoin has come to stay and unshakable.

It definitely wasn't the worst year. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with Bitcoin and huge increase in events and startup businesses. I feel like 2014 was much worse. It was the year of Gox fiasco and people losing confidence in exchanges. There were bans in China and their exchanges were proven to be faking volume. We also had an enormous number of crypto mining and cloud mining scams and there was no real development, no countries opening up to Bitcoin.
Now we have segwit, LN node number is growing, there's a lot of OTC trading going on. I'm not worried.

Right in 2018 bitcoin gave us oppurtunity cause the value is dip and this year are right time to buy bitcoin and started to hold it and wait for the meantime and soon the market will recover and bitcoin start increasing the value and we get high profits for that.

I faced different problem with you because I got bad thing at 2018, how ever many my asset coin at lower price and never could become stronger and have higher price, hope at this year bitcoin and altcoin price will be on the top.

There's no crypto without Bitcoin

- This is the only thing I really believed in dude, if blockchain did not create for sure Bitcoin will not appear in this industry neither crypto too. But that's not what happened Blockchain arise then bitcoin became popular and followed by crypto or altcoins. Actually in some other ways, 2018 in the sight of many was the worst thing happened but for the positive thinker here they accumulate to buy those coins that are cheap even up to now then they still hold on it, for being a bullish.

I fell it 2017 year last Bitcoin has growing profit volume,and I hope many people got more profitable in this year.but 2018 year it was a different think.not only Bitcoin, crypto market totally down in this year.so I don't share others statement,but their know who is people always look Bitcoin positive sagas.i have to say, it will start higher profit possible but if the crypto market come back increased volume stage.

waoo! Never think it in this way until I read what you have posted.  Cryptocurrencies market has a very bad 2018 and it seems it has nock many of those big guy out of the market.  I think many developers and projects owners tried to kill bitcoin by making some investments decision and that had really turned against them as most of the coins we thought will do well has followed bitcoin in downturn.  Bitcoin is the king and it is going to rule forever.  If any crypto business goes against it that business is going to suffer.

We all feel that 2018 is a bad year for the bitcoin market. But behind it all, we see. More and more people or even large institutions are starting to enter. And I believe, that is something good for the process of adopting bitcoin globally

Everyone know that it cannot keep on rising every time. It ill be falling too. Just 2018 can be considered as a remainder to everyone that not every year will be rising and that is why it is said to be risky as well. Patience ill be key at times and those who get it right will make money for it.

Most of the cryptocurrency based on the Bitcoin development only if Bitcoin will be dropped down then people will not accept any other cryptocurrency to be developed and investment also be reduced in this type of field very much easily so it can be a good thing also for Bitcoin.

Looking at 2018 closely and making deduction away from price perspective, it wasn't reallya bad year for cryptocurrencies though. The year brought so many revolution and turned alot of things around. It kind of built a 'framework' for some real works. For instance the issues of adoption, regulations and other related stuffs were much in the works.

If there was something good to comeout of the results of cryptocurrency in 2018 it was the exposure of what bitmain was doing with its mining facility and equipment. That was just not right.
Atleast companies like bloqlabs are looking to improve on mining with increasing hashrate and not just being greedy with it.
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/bloq-labs-launches-titan-can-efficiency-save-crypto-mining

Guess what, the entire crypto community failed, nobody is buying your bags, the only money left to make in this market is by smart daytrading.
Also Bitmain is alive and well, they were totaly overleveraged, the $20k price of BTC was unsustainable so of course they aren't worth 16 billion. But they're still worth more than Binance, so don't get your panties wet just yet. Also the Texas location being closed was shown as fake news, I guess they'll keep mining.
I for one thank Bitmain for not leaving BCH to actual psychos and pouring millions in defending the coin (at least I assume the hash came from Bitmain). Shows that they really care about a cash version of bitcoin.
P.S. OP should skip the propaganda and start learning if he ever wants to make money. Bulls and bears make money, pigs get slaughtered, if you're getting emotional over propaganda you're in the third group.

The fall is the opportunity to buy more volume in cheaper price. It is not always a bull run and we also have to experience this for us to learn how to survive and how many will stay to support the coin development and improvement. What hood in 2018 is those mining that offers affordable investment where I gain for a year of falling.

surely everyone has a different nature in 2018, yes you may react with pleasure but there are also those who feel disappointed even to panic because of the price. yes, last year and until now it has taught us that we must remain patient and wait until everything is truly improved, who is patient and never gives up will surely produce.

Right.2018 was indeed a tough year for most of us since the bull run which is everybody's hope to occur has not happened.But then again it was a great opportunity to buy more coins with great potentials since the price is very affordable.Until now we are still on a bearish one seeing the market is still in a low price.But i am not really worried about this because for sure there will be a good price increase in the next months so i prefer to stay calm and patient all the time.

I don't think 2018 is the worst year, dor beginner maybe its a frustrating year, 2018 is one of the longest bearish market for crypto, and yes people prefer to take profit for themselves rather than cooperate to make this technology to work, but if you see the bright side you will notice that bitcoin still in a good track and you could buy some to stock and make profit in the future

Bitcoin can’t be replaced even if the 2018 gives us so much pain since its bear market but I know 2019 will be a growing phase of bitcoin and it can survive. Cryptocurrency was not without bitcoin and it makes more confident for bitcoin to stay on top. We will have a great year for sure, be patient.

And the bearish market is still happening now. We don't know when the bear market ends, we have speculated or predicted the price of bitcoin for this year and the year after, but that is not something that is certain and worthy of confidence. I agree when the bearish market that occurs in 2018 has eliminated many investors, especially newbie investors. They did not understand what had to be done after experiencing a loss, but their minds would be disturbed and not function properly so they dared to sell their investments and leave this place. However, OP is very different from other newbie investors, he has a belief in this place.

Or the fall causes lots of traders to get away as far as they can. lol. I'm sure that most of them got burned easily so you can't really put the blame of them for running and getting out of the system.

The mindset of a lot of traders has really taken a drastic turn, turn's no more bull runs and holders are getting frustrated, but hey opportunities are always open its up to us to grab them.

We have seen huge ups and downs in 2018 for cryptocurrency. Those who purchased coins after the mid of 2018 is now huge losses. But now it is good time to invest.

investing in cryptocurrency indeed has a big risk, buying at high prices in 2018 and now of course they get big losses, but it's time to forget bitter memories and yes this is the perfect time to invest. hopefully in this years 2019, market prices can back to recover.

You have to know what makes the price of bitcoin fall like this is that there is bad news and many traders are panicking so it makes the market condition fall like this and the price of coins is a lot of cheap price, even though this can be an opportunity to find as many bitcoins as you can because the price is still cheap it will give you an advantage when prices rise someday.

it is true that 2018 wasn't so great specially if you only focus on the price but also you shouldn't forget about all the positive things that happened in  2018.

the price drop can also be considered one of the positive things that happened in 2018, it was the very needed correction after the rise from $900 to $20000. of course not the whole drop to current price has been healthy but most of it initially was.

and lets not forget about the ICO purge that happened in 2018 which led to their death and we can eventually be rid of these types of scam fundraising pretty soon thanks to all the dumps that happened in 2018 which opened the eyes of a lot of newbies who have been throwing their money away.

in spite of everything in the current fall in the course, I see a plus, for those who have little capital to buy. But now they have such an opportunity, and it's great. Bitcoin still rises in price and it is 100%. Apparently now the scenario is where you need to be almost at the bottom. But I’m sure a new leap is coming.

Last year is really a worst experience because the market declined so much. We learned many information from that situation and I am sure that we are now prepared to handle different situation that we are going to face.

2018 for me isn't the worst. I still had a chance to get some profits from trading. I am not talking about long term trades which you hold your btc. But i am talking about how altcoin tradings and margin trading seems to go well for me last year. Though i admit that i had experienced some red flags, I still had some positive results.

You are absolutely correct in your submission.
In my daily prayer, I always pray never to see a year like 2018. It was so terrible for me both in cryptosphere and offline.
I joined cryptocurrency last year and borrowed money from a cooperative to buy wepower..
My friend was talking  about how cryptocurrency investment is the best .
She prompted me to buy wepower.
I bought ,only for the price to sink very low and I lost a good percentage of my money.

The 2018 bear market was absolutely needed to wash out the shitcoins, and though it did not wipe them all it, it definitely did some damage. It also reinforced that bitcoin is still king with its growing market share.

I agree to this thought "There's no crypto without Bitcoin" because bitcoin is thi king. Even it faces so many up's and down in the year 2018 or we can say that bitcoin experience almost pure down experience in 2018,bitcoin stay alive and make all of us proud because on it's rise on the first quarter on 2019. All we know that 2018 is the worst year of bitcoin the best thing is bitcoin will fought and still fighting.

Not sure who you are talking about, but yeah. The burst and price was badly needed. The way the price was rising at the end of 2017 was totally unhealthy and a clear sign that the market was being manipulated. Late investors would have suffered more if the price went up higher. all we need is just a steady increase of price rather than sudden burst. At least due to this event, people will remain more cautious when investing.
Lol  :D.
You invested on the wrong stuffs. Don't listen to your "friends" when you are about to invest and risk your own money.

2018 does not mean the market is bad, it's just that this provides an opportunity for us to be able to benefit. judging from the price, indeed 2018 all went down a lot.
but it's proven in the year Now, slowly all coins start to recover from 2018. we just need to make sure this increase will continue or just bait.

Well, some people referred to year 2018 as the worst year for Bitcoin and crypto currency in general but in my opinion it is a good year for some people who joined crypto currency late to buy at a cheaper rate.

Yup 2018 was a good start for those who want a low price crypto.
Every crypto has been on "SALE in 2018 the price was so low .
For those who invested in 2018 they would surely have a huge profit in the future once the crypto gets high again.

in my opinion not everything what you say is true, there are people who are happy with the decline in the price of bitcoin because it is their time to buy as much as possible, because they know that in 2018 yesterday was the right time to buy and then save it for some time. so I don't agree with you about this.

In the long run, Bitcoin will grow in any case and will reach 100 thousand dollars in the next couple of years. And all the envious and skeptics will be left behind, as the patient and visionary wins!

I think that this sort of manipulation usually happens in cryptocurrency. And it will still happen to it. Many people enjoys how volatile bitcoin is. And probably that is the reason why many people are just manipulating the price of bitcoin easily.

I agree that Bitcoin will grow under any conditions. And in any case will be introduced into our lives. I believe in him, our future is his.

Those who invested in the crypto in 2018 would be glad because they could earn a huge profit when the market starts to rise up again.
But for those who invested in late 2017 would really be sad about the 2018 market since they lost a lot from their investment.
2018 is one of the best investment year for the crypto since plenty of people already knows it,Unlike when it was just new only few people have manage to get some crypto so only the geeks or the real computer addicts would have known about crypto.
In 2018 crypto has been publish and had many publicity so there are no more excuses for people to miss that opportunity unless they really don't want to be part of crypto industry or support the crypto.

I agree with you, 2018 is a very bad year for the world of cryptography, BTC has decreased drastically, and other altcoins have also followed the BTC chart, altcoin has fallen dramatically, even some altcoins have died and have no value.

you are right, only BTC can maintain value when bearish, and other altcoins are worthless. then BTC is the best place to store assets.

The generalization can not be absolute
Already there are a lot of worthless currencies
But there are also promising projects that will have a good future ز

Worst year for those who are panicking but for those who are still optimistic, for i know they have bought more top coins that time and because of that they earned already right now. I’m glad that 2018 gives me opportunity to invest and earn more profit, i will do the same all over again if the market dumps again but its sad to know that we can’t see a lower price anymore.

I am glad with 2018 where could buy and invest much money in bitcoin with lower price, I hope in this year bitcoin and altcoin could raised and pass to higher price because many companies have accepted bitcoin as transaction payment.

2018 has given lot of lessons to the people.
1. Holding is not a good policy.
2. Scammers are in every field
3. Do not trust an ICO or not every ICO is to make you rich.
4. Price fluctuation can make you easily rich or poor.(so don't sell your house for bitcoin)

Even though 2018, as we know it,  is a bad year for us, yes we must be glad for the other things that happen. One reason for me personally is the things that I have know that year that I didn't know before like online gambling is really a thing. I didn't know that before, but it's a good thing to know because I have earned money through there not just hodling. There are many other things,  and I can mentioned it all.

The year 2018 taught me a valuable lesson in financing my resources, especially when it comes to consistency and patience. I am quite guilty, as the last quarter of 2018 made me lazy due to the bearish slump that it experienced. I stoped participating into campaign signatures and withdrew all my bitcoins to convert it to cash.

As it approached the year 2019, I realized that cryptocurrencies are starting to become more valuable as time passes by. I missed dozens of opportunities to yield high profit margins just because I stopped following it.


There are various factors that affect its price. Speculating that it may reach over a hundred thousand dollars without any lengthy discussion as to why may seem a fallacious wishful thinking. Regardless, it is advisable to store some of your bitcoins both for short and long-term use.

for me, in 2018 the price of krypto is also no better compared to 2019, but for me in 2018 it was not a bad year for crypto currency, but for me it was also an opportunity to buy it at a low price.

This is the true, Bitcoin is the king, no crpypto without bitcoin and no blockchain without bitcoin.

We should support bitcoin, just like you I also feel that what happened last 2018 was good enough to test our patience.
Since we are thankful and still here, then we should enjoy what is happening now, bad year or good year, that's part of the journey, let's just hope for the growth in the long run, and endure bad moments in crypto.

Almost everytime the result is the same when people try to pull down one thing for their own to grow. Nature will find a way to pay the evils doers what they deserve. 2018 price drop was partly manipulation and partly price drop as a result of whales selling and people panic selling. But it was an opportunity for people to buy low. Only the patience and believers will enjoy the Bitcoin profit.

Mining section is simply just one of the victims in downfall of 2018, people are ripped off from dust of rigs which does no ROI now. Crypto is moving another direction and it doesn't motivated by us. I don't play with the market anymore because i'm not smart insiders, can't deny that crypto sector brings the highest return over traditional instruments and well, i would never quit for a better living in future

Well i agree with your points from 2 to 4 but holding isn't really a bad policy. 2018 taught us that you can't put into the market money you can't afford to hold for a long time or suffer big losses. Holding for probably a year or two more can get you back to another all time high value. The question is, can you hold for that long? Don't risk money you can't afford to lose or keep stagnant, that's a good lesson a lot of people learned.

What's the good thing about gambling though, it's a bad thing.

It was indeed when the market is in the bear phase one should try to buy as much as possible so that you can buy at lowest price available and during the bull market when it come sin future you are up for it to make money with that ride.

i think last year is the best time to invest in cryptocurrency because the price back then is really really low, like Bitcoin price is $ 3,300. right now the market is bullish the price keep going up and this is good for people that hold their bitcoin because they can get profit from it.

That's the perspective that I have removed to myself that makes me bring thankful to 2018. I also though before online gambling, you will just lose to it and it will brough no entertainment that was telling by my friends. In 2018, my friends introduce me to this gaming (https://vegascasino.io/casino/video-slots/crazy-bananas?utm_source=cccb) site, at first I am hesitant,but when I try it, my perspective began to change because of the entertainment that it bring to me similar to physical gambling. The multiple slots, multiple types of games, fast transaction speeds, good customer care, fair play, and the enjoyment it bring to me, that made me love it. Maybe there will be these times that I will lose, but the eagerness to win again and making it, that what's make it enjoyable. Try it.

Crypto is all about learning. I learnt a lot of things in 2018 and more importantly i learn how to survive in a bear market. 2018 was a tough year for trading too but things are now changing fast as we are already seeing some alts getting 2x and even more.

Another thing is that we all survived the bearish market and now is the time to take profit from the bull market. ;D

Having an experience is always a good thing, but you have to learn from it and never make the same mistake twice, there are ways in which you can earn money even in a bear market, future trading is a way to earn money in a bear market if you are sure you can predict the trend or the price   ;). The risk is there in every market, but there is nothing wrong in testing out new waters with little amount.

The future of Bitcoin is not determined by what happened to the previous year, because last year was not the worst year in the crypto world. Let's look at the future where we have confidence if the value of crypto will return to an increase in value.

i have never recorded much success in the blockchain space as i did in the first quarter of 2018. all of the jobs i did for loads of projects happened to make their payments during the first quarter of 2018 and also the prices were quickly appreciating and sold off in good profit before the bearish market took its toll.

I loss money during this period but I didn't stop from working hard for my dreams, instead to panic that time I tried to hold more with bitcoin and eth. Its not easy to control the emotion of feeling bad, but its actually worth fighting for because right now, its starting to make profit. Its indeed an opportunity to believe in the market, invest while the price are still cheap.

2018 has gone and it came with a lot of lessons for those that are sensitive to learn and keep the lessons with them. Things won’t keep going up , after awhile it will come down. And then it keeps repeating it. Now this is 2019 and people have faced moves on and faced the reality which is why we are here now. bitcoin remains strong and valid whether anyone attacks it or not.

There were many users earn that time especially the huge investors. As this system.has not been regulated by any of the government, so it is phrone to abuse though they claim that bitcoin is run by the investors and it has block chain tech. But, i just wander why other block chain tech base coin could make an insertion of the coin supply? Could it be mean that bitcoin market price could be manipulated?

One good thing that happened caused by 2018 huge downfall was the effect on cryptocurrency enthusiasts to be more aware of the scams and frauds. It taught us to be more diligent enough to reduce the number of scammers and frauds in the cryptocurrency world. Imagine how opportunists took advantage of the hype brought by 2017 bull run. At least for now, the people are very careful with their investments.

One thing that I am also glad with what happened to 2018 bear market was that I keep my faith that the coin I hold on weren't so much devastated. I guess I can say I survived the storm of my life and hold on to more of the coins I think will also survive in the next bear market and sure I know what I would do when that happen.

It is not always possible to have an increasing price. Perhaps the advance of last fall has protected us from future losses. So we can see this as an advantage to move more carefully in the future.

You're right bitcoin is the king of all crypto that's why other coins need it. And as the day had pass bitcoin continue to become stronger digital currency in crypto word. It will increase more it's value as the mass adoption keep on increasing.

The year 2018 was a year in which many opportunities were offered in the crypto money market and many other enlightenments emerged. Even though the rate of earnings for Bitcoin and other crypto currencies is not very high, we have seen very good investment figures due to the low initial investment costs, but many investors were reluctant to invest in the fluctuating market. The investors who managed to enter the market at the right price and who took risks were fiished this year with notable profits.

Definitely your right mate people 2018 is the very worse year for crypto currency but if they understand well at that year they give opportunity people to buy bitcoin or any coins for long term investing.

Exactly, you can't evaluate and make conclusions based only on one year period. Bitcoin is very complex and it's changing through time, also don't forget about volatility and many external factors that influence the price and the market. Bitcoin should be estimated on long term period taking into account all good and bad sides.

You don't need to compare year to year about bitcoin or cryptocurrency, because the fluctuating nature can occur at any time and all you have to do is take lessons from what's happening and be more positive to assess what's happening.
You have to know what you have to do and try to take advantage of that moment well and wisely what you have to do when last year was a bad thing on the cryptocurrency market, and this year there has been a pretty good improvement and you will enjoy it and everything depends on you innovate and invest in what you do, and investing in the long term for bitcoin in my opinion is very effective and remains optimistic.

Bitcoin has more power and all crypto coins still have a very close bond with bitcoin, it still underlies the movement of all prices, its natural movements bring it to a higher level of interest from time to time even though many claims that there is a lot of declines, but does not rule out the possibility that its role is still very important and still has a high popularity.
With the increasing number of bitcoin users and other crypto coins, even though they often experience a decline, it still has a high chance to be increasingly recognized on its role even till nowadays, after the decline is sure to increase, it is indeed natural law that's influenced by various things especially demand & supply.

As for me, the best thing that ever happened despite the bearish market this year is that a lot of opportunities has oppened for those who want to buy while the prices are low. However, chances are bigger for those who are hoping for the bull market to run.

What im glad in 2018?it is because i made another purchase from different varieties of coins and tokens so meaning another sets of profits if bear dies and bull return
IWe are talking about 2018 and not this year,sometimes better read the story first not just the title,but you are right that bear market provides opportunity to invest and hold

2018 is a situation that can be tossed into 2 segments depending on which section was more beneficial to different individuals

For some set of investors; 2018 was the best year because it reinforces the dominance  of bitcoin as the leading light of other coins and it also stretched the survival rate of bitcoin

For some investors on the other hand, 2018 was a year of total bearish point for them as their portfolio crashed;

but why does no one admits they learnt a lot from the bearish period of 2018

But it shaped bitcoin.  Without the dip in price, it will be harder for people to adopt Bitcoin.  The downtrend of Bitcoin enable windows, for now, investors to come in.  From there, these investors somehow will have an effect on the future.  Aside from that, technically, the experience and past things that happen to Bitcoin, hardship, and shortcomings, will enable it to evolve into something better.  So, we cannot neglect the history or previous year of Bitcoin.  It is where the inputs are coming from for future Bitcoin.

I guess its not only you who took the toll on the bearish market. Traders like me hasnt still recovered since 2018 after the crash. Lets just hope that the cryptocurrency forecast of those popular crypto personalities is accurate and 2019 is realy a year of tge bull.

..for others,,2018 is the worst year of crypto specially Bitcoin because all of crypto coins have marked red for the continous downfall of their price..even me, I thought that it is the end of the sudden downfall of Bitocin,,but I still hold and do believe in the power of what Bitcoin can do to me so I keep it and put trust on it,,and year 2019 is the start of bitcoin price lift,,and I am happy that I don't regret my decision because I see the market value to have green tag,which means that there is still hope for the Bitcoin to reach its peak again..

Last year (2018) was the worst year for people who bought Bitcoin at the price of $20k per one bitcoin but was also a very great year for people who invested in altcoins in the first part of the year.  The market value of altcoins were very good in 2018 making some investors who traded and invested in them gain about 300% of their initial investment capital. People who complained were those who join the bitcoin ecosystem when it's market value was $20k and $17k.

At least when compared to 2017, last year was not that great. Back in 2017, many of the countries legalized Bitcoin and the overall mood was positive. But the crash of the ICO market changed everything. Many of the governments became more restrictive and hostile regarding to Bitcoin in 2018 and ICOs were banned in a number of countries.

Undoubtedly, 2018 was a year of great lessons, but in my opinion the greatest of all is that the concept of "holding" is not applicable to all cryptocurrencies in general, and the best thing is to be sufficiently qualified to be willing to sell any altcoin at a price convenient to us, as the market showed us throughout 2018 that most of the cryptos will tend to devalue strongly as the days go by.

And I also learned that bitcoin, despite its supposed weaknesses, remains the strong currency in this ecosystem, and that if we seek to invest in a safe way in this market, bitcoin will always be the best option, the safe bet.

Just like with anything in life you have to live and learn. 2018 was a year for most who entered the cryptoworld to learn from. And going forward everyone has learned their lesson and not go all in this time around or they will get unknown results.
2019 is looking good so far and we all are optimistic when the price is on the rise the way it is now.

Im glad that the price went a bit down than what everyone expected. Giving the oportunity for new investors to join this great market of what Bitcoin holds.

As for example right now we are seeing a huge price rise and the trends says it will become way bigger.

Sure we had ups and downs but it's all part of the market's actions and don't think for a minute we will reach the 0 (unless everyone sells their coins :D)

Everything that have disadvantage must have advantage and like you said the market come with 2 segment but the crash segment will affect investors who panic sell cause the market surge sooner or later which is  what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I believe what the OP was trying to point was the benefit of buying dip which the crashed market opened door for.

Am not disappointed in the year 2018 of a truth I learn to be patient with my investment and I come to understand that the cryptocurrency world is not a quick rich investment platform,you need reasonable time to past in other to benefit from your investment

For people who are starting to enter the crypto era, they will certainly consider 2019 a beautiful year and 2018 is a fun year to start. But for people who have known crypto for a long time, 2018 is a nightmare, 2017 as the golden peak of success in investing in the crypto world and in 2019 it is like a better light than in 2018 ago.

I observe that the 2018 lesson for bitcoin is the readiness of bitcoin owners to accept the price of bitcoin at the time after the 2017 party where it costs almost USD 20,000. Many are not ready and panic so they sell at cheap prices.
Bitcoin owners must be optimistic mentally so they always think logically that bitcoin as the world's digital currency will definitely increase in price. Not afraid of negative information. And, it is evident that the price of bitcoin is starting to rise, now it has a price of USD 5229 and I'm sure it will continue to rise.

One thing I'm glad for in 2018 is, despite all the complains that came from most investors in 2018 about the long bear market, I stood my grounds and bought more of the valuable coins (first 5 coins on the market) because they were selling at relatively cheap prices. I bought the BTC at $3.7K, BNB at $9 and ETH at $80. Now, all these coins have increased in price significantly and have yielded much profit. It is never too late to invest now.

In 2018 people thought that bitcoin bubble which started in mid 2017 has busted, but i had hope for it as i never considered the crypto revolution as bubble. In 2018 the price kept going low and low, i had no money to invest in them.
In 2019 i am very happy to see that bitcoin and whole cypto market is rising back again, and i wish for long term bull movement.

Because of acceptance by many country bitcoin price pump at 20k in 2017 thats why many country restrict in bitcoin and price gradually decrease in 2018 by 3k after all we r glad to learn from 2018.

The advantage that I get from the crypto market during 2018 is that I can buy coins with the amount I want. Because at that time the price of coins was very cheap up to 65%. • The benefits can I take now because the average coin price rises too.

No doubt, 2018 was worst year for not only bitcoin even crypto currencies all were down and a huge investors faced a big losses in trading, including me. For me 2018 was very bad experience for financial wise and also crypto currency not helped me, Bitcoin was too much down and ETH also given me a loss. But now time to time it is recovering and i hope very soon we will see bitcoin in a pick.   

For people who are optimistic about digital currencies, they have bought a lot of coins in 2018. in fact there are two sides, namely people who get profits and one side, namely people who suffer losses. those who get the benefit of course are those who buy coins in 2018 cheaply and those who suffer losses are those who sell their coins in 2018.

There have been years that Bitcoin is having a really bad time but 2018 is probably one of the hardest because it failed to sustain what it achieved in 2017, people are coming in because of the price moving upwards, but all of this was lost after a year, 2018 is a learning process for all of us and a real test for the community.

It so happened that everythings doing well, struggles ends up you cultivate something that is productive to yourself and even you have to work hard even for something much on what youre glad happening in 2018.Most of unexpected things happened when least expect it,just like on how handle worst situation when you have perseverance to pursuit on it.

You can be glad now for the bum bitcoin already have. I know it starts as a bad year for bitcoin, even some big industries like bitmain looks in trouble, but now with this bump thing are looking great for this industry.

Let's hope the bump keeps moving on and hope to see btc at $10k, that will make the difference and send us all to the moon.

Yes, bitcoin has undergone its hardness time and 2018 is seems to be the bottle neck of bitcoin but still kicking and moving back on its track and maybe on the next coming years we will see the bull running as presently we see that bitcoin is now stabilizing and not downing at all.

I predict this 2019 will bring many new changes in the crypto. Bitcoin market that will quickly reach $ 6,000 price in the next year. New ways of operating the IEO appear gradually bring more signs of the extreme price than 2018.

Although there were lots of wailing in 2018 due to the bear market that came right after the December, 2017 - January, 2018 bull market. However, this presented a great opportunity for all investors out there to join the train. I for one bought some few coins at relatively low prices and have now gained more than 200% profit from them. BTC came down to $3.8K and it is now $5.4K which brings huge profit to its buyers when it was $3.8K.
It is never too late, buy now and wait patiently as Bitcoin gradually takes on its bull ride.

2018 is the worst thing where the price of all coins has dropped dramatically, but actually if we think intelligently we have to be happy because that's actually our chance to buy coins because the price is low especially bitcoin.
and what we see now in the bitcoin market has increased to $ 5450 + and in my opinion will continue to increase and that is what it means in 2018.

You are absolutely right OP, building a business  that is somehow related to crypto niche is already a good reason for its pump because you can encourage some clients to use crypto if they will like your service.

I don't like to judge by race but Chinese really sucks when it comes to business they make sure that they are more dominant by trying to control its market. They've been doing this not just in crypto industry but in almost all of the business category.

I remember coming to my office in the morning and got to know that bitcoin has dropped to 8K and I was shocked. It must feel very good for each of us to see it rising again