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The hyped in 2017 cause bitcoin and others cryptocurrencies to surged toward the end of the year and complete crashed back to the bottom in December 2018. Did people really know what they are investing in?  Is a question that keeps ringing in my mind and actually the answer to that question is that people follow the hype and forgot to  checked for reality before investing and this come from the testimony of those that has claim of making big profits or gain from the past surge that came into the cryptocurrencies market.
I think the red flag there is that people think of what they are going to get from their investments into cryptocurrencies more than the capital they have invested and as results when the reality done on them,  they began to sell out of panic and in turn the market clash like it happens through 2018.
Now that we have another opportunity to invest because of the down turned,  I do believe that it is good you look at the reality behind any coin you want to invest in and not the FUD,  manipulations,  FOMO and hype behind those coins.

The problem with people who are investing out of hype is that, they are not really aware what caused the hype. This is one of the main reason why a lot of people, usually or most of them are new people in cryptocurrency, had lost a lot of money and now blaming cryptocurrency for it. As an investor, it is our responsibility to be updated or at least aware of what we are getting involved to.

If we are looking at how the hype in December 2017, there are a lot of irrational buyers, meaning they just throw in money in the market without really understanding what they are doing in the first place. And when the market plummets they started to panic and realised that they have done something which they didn't understand.

I don't think that people really know the right coin to invest. But people only know about bitcoin as the best investment coin so far. But right now, I think people are aware of investing in the altcoin too because they see the chance for an altcoin to increase higher and they are investing in many altcoins.
It is not recommended to follow the hype because that news is not always right and we need to search by ourselves to find the profitable coins.
As long as we can research the right coins that could be one of the profitable coins, we will make a big profit especially when the market is at the bullish market. Yes, right now we still have a chance to buy more than 10 profitable coins but of course, to buy those coins, we need to research and analyze every coin in the market.

Actually, many were aware of the hype surrounding the entire bull run, but still chose to blame the market for their losses which is a human thing basically. Majority of the investors basically invest in the hype itself.

We need better material(Simple and easy to understand) to help educate investors and help them understand what they are getting into.

People will invest in dog shit, if there are some reason why dog shit's price would skyrocket in the future. The sudden spike in the Bitcoin price in 2017 has drawn a lot of speculators into this technology and most of them do not even know how to use bitcoins. A lot of them have never even opened a wallet or spend any of their coins at a merchant. <Lots of them are invested in Bitcoin via some third party service>

So greed will drive any speculator to invest in anything, even if they do not have a clue what it is.  :P  <They just follow the FUD and HYPE>  :P

And there's nothing wrong with that.

I'm confident most people who piled in only had one thing on their mind and it was dollars, not decentralisation. Since the creators of almost all coins were only doing it for dollars too then there's a certain collective honesty there, albeit an unspoken one.

I do not blame losers in cryptocurrency especially in 2017 because we also had winners. The winners are those that "woke up" quick to hit the road. They invested before it was time for crash.

I can say that 2017 was a rush time and we had so many activities in crypto, icos with shit projects saw it as a business time.

All those who invested in bitcoin at the end of 2017 were the victims of their own ignorance, but also very poorly informed media who pump story about magical internet money which has increased its value almost 20 times in one year. Who can resist a quick and easy money? Most people by their nature can not do that, so they take money from banks, from socks and under the pillows just to buy bitcoin.

Although it ended badly for some of them, and somehow threw the ugly picture on bitcoin, I think it had a positive side as well. People learn best from their mistakes, which can have a positive effect in some of the next bull runs. What is important to understand that knowledge is the most important thing, you need to know in what you investing, but also very important when is time for investing.

Dumb money at its finest. I found it quite hilarious to see how people who joined in 2017 legit believed that crypto could only go up. I still browse through last year's social media posts where people said that $17,000, $16,000, $15,000 etc, were great dips to buy and that $50,000 before the end of 2018 is a realistic target.

The correction that we have seen happen last year made these get rich quick noobs finally respect this market more, because you are NOT an expect just because everything in a bull run is going up. Seriously, you could have bought a random shitcoin and still make insane profits.

Fundamentals didn't play a single role back then. More precisely said, the coins with the worst fundamentals actually outperformed the coins with the best fundamentals, percentage-wise. Sure, there is not all that much liquidity in most shitcoins for deep pocket investors, but for a newbie investing a few thousand it's more than enough to do the job.

All the hype that happens must be analyzed very well because it determines a good investment in the future, so knowing what is invested is a must because most people don't realize it's just tempted by prices without wanting to know what's happening, it's all about what prices they want not for everyone, I say that this is a very good opportunity to invest, I hope everyone understands that from all parties to better understand whatever is happening in the market.

You cant actually blame those people who are just being dragged in because of the Hype which happened on 2017 those times is the time were lesson learned things is very expensive specially to those people who havent sold out their coins yet which they had purchase on ATH price. They do realize that they do rush things up to invest without even thinking the possibility of dump.I cant really say its not a bubble but with that kind of correction its most likely the same.

People want to get rich quick by investing in crypto HYPE but yes don't know anything that happens in the market, just buy and if it goes down cause people talk about FUD they panic continue to sell it. Such losses can occur at any time cause there is no knowledge base for cryptocurrencies, you're right dude there must be a knowledge base in investing.

Some of the shit people sometimes offering to non crypto user to buy a crypto example like Ponzi Coin and other crypto assets. but they not explain the risk went investing/trading at cryptocurrency. I already see a few people like my cousin/friend noncrypto user they got capital lose because dont know the risk of trading they said just know trading from someone else.

Nowadays, people only want investments with high returns for a short amount of time, and they find it on cryptocurrencies even without conducting proper research and background checks. Ultimately they end up with losses they can't bear because they have invested on the wrong time, and could only sell to a loss in order to lose more money. Those who came in before them who actually knows what they're doing end up taking the fresh money from unknowing users, resulting for the latter to not come into crypto ever again no matter what happens.

I think those are the new people you are talking about. I personally have been investing into bitcoin since 2012, there were times when I lost all of it because real life urgency stuff happened and I had to cash out everything I had and there was a dark time in my life where I didn't really know if I will be eating anything that night or if I had to make due with what little I had in the fridge and those are really bad days but I also had the times when I was capable of spending x10 the minimum salary to live a luxurious time as well.

Now, I am smarter about it and save some aside but after all none of the ups and downs was caused by bitcoin going up or down, it was mostly because I didn't know how to handle money very well. That is why I can clearly say I have known what I am investing into for a long long time.

if someone came to you and asked you:

In your opinion, the price of  $5000 is too high or too low? What would you answer? that the price of  $5000 is very low? so I would ask, how do you know that the price of bitcoin is very low and how do you know that the price of bitcoin is very high? There is no way people are sure that the price is low or the price is high. what happened in late 2017 was an accident that until today does not have a concrete explanation of what really happened, there are only assumptions

Problem with that people was easily been convince, they think that trading is just a simple task and it can be done even without proper knowledge, it's needed to be figured out limiting yourself by investing huge money, best to make sure that you are using only spare that you can afford to let go just in case you failed your attempt and learn from it.

If you did your assignment then you are on your way to profit, the best time to implement the DYOR or do your own research, is when the market is dipping, find the coin that is likely to make you profit for long term or short term so when the big shift happens you can just sit tight and enjoy your profit.

This is not only about investor's personal research. Pretty often you may see an ICO with a good idea, decent team and vision about realization of their project but they are hardly hitting their soft cap and don't have enough volume and remain unknown on some shitty exchange. While at the same time ICOs with an obviously shitty idea but they are promoted by some well-known retards so this project is successfully passing the ICO, hitting an exchange, getting a high price, lose this price, get under pre-ico level and then gets delisted because the project is actually shit.
ICO details does not really matter while you are choosing where to invest your money.

Of course they're not.  They see asset X making the news by skyrocketing in price, hear about it over and over in the media and finally decide to gamble on asset X.  In 2017, asset X was bitcoin.  All throughout history, it's been other assets/investments/whatever.  After all the little people have flooded into the market, any bad news can kick off a decline leading to panic selling.  Once that happens, asset X crashes back down to earth.

I didn't jump on the bandwagon in 2013 when bitcoin was booming.  I was very skeptical and thought it was some stupid internet money that would never find a user base.  I watched with detached amusement as the Mt. Gox debacle unfolded and bitcoin crashed.  But I also saw that the community was strong and was composed of hardcore enthusiasts, and eventually I started believing bitcoin could be an excellent investment.

Right now I'm looking into staking PoS coins, which currently aren't being hyped to death, and some of them are trading at fairly low prices.  I think now is a good time to get in, when everyone isn't pouring money into them and driving up the prices.  By the way, that's called buying low and hopefully selling high.  Heh heh.

we arent name perfect for one big reason because we aint
we made mistake,maybe we went too greedy or got hyped (FOMO)
in my own experience i know the market is that volatile
i just dont know what strategy to do and maybe went a little greedy but
 Now i know and i hope my fall down from 2018
 i will be able to avoid from happening again,.

Currently, there are no great options like 2017, so I choose IEO as an alternative. But this also has high risks because of the beginning of projects that no longer bring profits to investors. Or maybe this will be the new era of cheap Altcoins.

Almost all options in 2017 were goddamn terrible unless you got out in time. I would not call any of them great.

It'll be interesting to see what is latched on to if there's another mania phase. ICOs are thankfully dead with stake hammered up their sphincter just to be sure. It may even be Bitcoin itself but that's a crazy notion.

But most ICO projects in 2017 are successful and profitable for investors.
And more, than many exchanges released in 2017 and they generate their exchange token. This brings more benefits to the first investors involved in trend change projects.

So, people who are loyal to bitcoin have invested in it back when it was worth less than a dollar, and they kept true to that and they did so because they support it not to get massive profit, and those who invested in it only when it reached 19k back in 2017 are just in it for the money and now they cry because it went down, this market is not for them because it requires patience and nerves of steal to be rewarded and those who supported over the year were able to get it. and this goes the same for the other crypto currencies, if you invest in one of them you have to truly believe in it and keep supporting even through the loss to be able to get profit.

Well always i wanted to invest on bitcoin as much as possible, even if was 2017 or now, i preffer top coins, but there maybe can be some projects which can value low now and give a good amount of profit.

Are you kidding me? The only players these ICOs were profitable for were those behind the ICOs, and those who gambled and by luck made a ton of profit. In both cases it only concerns a small number of people.

Most people lost a lot of money due to their bad investments in "world changing" projects. Is it their fault? It surely is, but that doesn't change the fact that most people lost money.

Only exchanges benefit from these tokens, because something that had no value when created, suddenly is worth hundreds of millions up to a few billion in Binance's case. It's ridiculous and very harmful to the ecosystem.

   It took me years to figure out but I've realized that I've been investing in everything but myself. That will be my greatest investment.
   As far as crypto is concerned, I stopped investing my time on short term goals and starting focusing on long term investments.

Well, if you decide to invest in dog shit, then you should not complain when it smells. These investors should do the basic research into the commodities or technologies that they invest in, so that they are familiar with the pros and cons of investing in these types of investments. We know a bit more about the technology, so when FUD is spread in the media, we can identify it and ignore it.

These clueless investors are running for the hills, with the slightest bullshit that are plastered on social media. <Newbies panic and old dogs stand their ground.>  ;)

These two years we have seen so many ups and downs in cryptocurrency, I bet no one among us has never been scammed one or another either from investing or from a bounty hunting, we have gained a lot of experiences from all of these so if you are still listening to all the hype and fuds that means you are not yet learning a lot of from the past three years, it's very important that you know fully well the coins that you are investing.

There was no problem buying some like that of coins actually we can earn money for investing that kind of coins.
But we make sure if that coins is have a future if not must better to sell it early or not invested on it before you loss of profit.

99.9% of tokens are crap, and ICOs are scams. Thank God I only invest in a couple of graphics cards. Now I hold some bounty tokens with almost zero value. Hence, I'll only collect Bitcoin if I have excess cash.

Yes of course we need to figure out what we are investing into just to make sure we are in the right track. Some people invest because of emotions like greediness and go with the flow of hype which will sometimes end up like hell to their investments. I think long term investment with the trusted cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Litecoin and Monero or those that are listed on top 20 coins in coinmarketcap are good choice.

Yes definitely it will be the most important process for every investors do in his investment and trading because the continuous thoughts about your investment will only make you to get the exact income for your investment and it will be the right idea to get your investment to a long period of time.

A vast number of people tend to invest in coin which is viewed a promising and potential one. Especially, it goes without saying that investing in bitcoin is more highly attractive. Because bitcoin is the most dominant and a powerful coin in the crypto market as a whole, most people grow a big faith on it. Besides, altcoins is appreciate to invest effectively. In a nutshell, taking time to make some research before investing is necessary. 

I really know about how can I made a decision in this time because I have no options about selling I had the only option keep my hold on for long time and it needs not to be more considering about my investment if the Bull Run was happening I definitely Keep following every time what my investment is going now.

Yes I do every time when invested and I make the figuring out is always been in my mind set and it will one of the important thing to do everyone who are invested and make their development to stable here without doing some kind of thing like this you cannot feel like we are in good path that's why it is more important.

You missed out that golden opportunity eh? Hehe. Being anxious or skeptical on your decisions to the things on what you are engaging cant really be avoided.We do have our own will to judge things up and presuming that we might able to do a bad move and completely waste up our money.When it regards to PoS coins,I've been eying that too and you are right they arent being hyped nor being dumped to death.
Still keeping low and sideways.When the entire market tends to bloat again then we might see some possible profits if these things would react.

It is really funny to think that people are only attracted to hypes without even knowing the cause and what would happen next and ending up with the mindset that they were fooled and scammed. As an investor, of course, you have to know what will you get involved and what are the things that you would consider as the thread and advantages of that specific investment.

If you really want to earn a profit, then you have to make sure to be smart and using your brain instead of you being an impulsive person. Investing is something is expecting for a profit, and you have to make sure to achieve that.

The next hype will come. But I think this time it will be much slower. Too many ppl are scared by the last wave.

But when the train is starting, many newbies will follow and we will read/discuss the same next year  ;D

Why most of the trader always chasing the HYPE because it's easy than technical analysis, most of them cant make their own prediction using a TA that's why they always chasing a hype. Investing in a HYPE project its really easy for them because they only need to spread/shilling the news from the coins to make the FOMO/Hype more bigs.

'Greed'

One of the reasons why people do easily being tagged by hype.When they do saw on money making opportunity they do easily jump in without even realizing on the things they are possibly involving.
Common mistakes of an individual when it comes to investing means.Always take a research and have second thoughts because not all things would really be easy.

This is one problem I have with so many people in the Crypto space,  and I think the fault is from those who introduced them to the Crypto space, they told them that when they come into the crypto ecosystem, that they will see an increase in the price and their money will grow in no time, but forget to tell them about the technology itself and what they can benefit from the technology now and also in the future, this is why we lost a lot of persons after the draw back in price 2018.

Crypto investment is not just a mere hype because if we are an investor we will make an investment decision with an analysis. Why many people now blame cryptocurrency? I'm sure these people are new people and they suffered a big loss when the price of the cryptocurrency fell. It is not the awareness that we must correct but the greed that we must correct. They thought by making crypto investments they would get rich in an instant. Not that easy.

People will be focusing on money and that they'll oversee of its true purpose for its creation. The reality came that crypto is will be consider as a good source of income nowadays as it is use for investment  but it never be like that forever when it finally be used as a currency.
Crypto have it's good contribution to the community and we should appreciate if for its creation and we be able to used it in accordance of its purpose.

People nowadays either enter due to mainstream news coverage (mostly because the price has pumped hard for months straight), or scam ads and groups on social media promising insane returns. In that regard, it doesn't surprise me that we're dealing with a group of people that is only out to make profit, and I expect things to get worse as time goes by.

In the end, the best way for people to come to sense is to lose money. Period. If you get rewarded for doing stupid things (i.e. blindly investing in shitcoins and ICO's) in form of profits, how stupid are these things actually? Stupid things should make people lose money, and it's good to see that they do more often than not. It's obviously not cool to see people lose money, but it is cool to see people learn and better themselves afterwards.

Let say that some of people new in crypto will not totally know about what they investing in. Because some of them are more looking a hype or follow in the flow of hype. That's why some of them end to nothing because of lack of knowledge what crypto is. It's important that before we invest we need a lot of information about to what we want to invest in.

After knowing a lot of information about something we want to invest in; we still shouldn't be too confident about it. We should also assure it first by trying small amount if it will work and if it's secured enough. Not everything that we can learn about them are true.

I think people know how to pick the right currency in their investment then the fear of their profit will be very sure. But here people see that many people accept Bitcoin completely for their investment. It is seen that there are some more coins for investment, It is possible to profit from them also.

The hype is likely how they heard of crypto in the first place. Those who were lucky enough to cash out before it crashed might try doing it all over again now. The bagholders likely got burned and swore off crypto.

They'd only have themselves to blame for any loss though. One thing about stocks and similar stuff is by the time you hear about it, it's about to collapse and bring newcomers down with it.

Okay, so after seeing the reality in the coin we are investing in, what do we do? And moreover, what is the reality that you are exactly talking about here, because the only reality I have seen on other crypto currencies other than BTC is that, they get listed, people invest, dump it for the profit and that is how the cycle goes.

What more reality do we have to face before investing in the so called altcoins, the only reality we would have faced was the advantage of crypto currency to our system but It looks right now to me that people are more interested in the money the system can offer and not the services cryptocurrency designed by satoshi offers.

This is also one of the things that I want to know when the crypto rise up on 2017 people gets into it ,
And when it drops down they are all crying and screaming scams and other stuffs ,
I think most of them just invested without thinking and get blinded by the huge pump .
Most of the new investors doesn't really know anything about crypto they just get into it because of their friends or want to be the next rich people created by crypto currency.

  We must be aware about the consequences of what we had penetrated. Being wise by investing and knowledgeable every deliberation we made, will take us as a good investor. Because investors do invest to earn money and this is somehow an appreciable way to earn. And what asset we had keep must be profitable and informational.

There are lots of people that don’t know what they are buying, they just invest in it thinking that profit is the only thing that comes, forgetting that there can be loss as well. Like you have just said, it is because of the stories they have heard, they saw people that made profit and they all think it is just like that, but unfortunately for them it is not.

Some people just cryptocurrency without doing research and knowing what it is. That’s why I saw a newbie complaining that he bought bitcoin and woke up the next day and noticed that his money is what it was, it has reduced. He didn’t know that bitcoin can go down in price, he thought it only goes up.

Sorry to say this, but not all icos are scam. Just because you made mistake and fell for those that are scam doesn’t mean that it is all scam. There are good icos, you should learn how to tell the ones that are legit and the ones that are not. There are lots of people that keeps on making the same mistake as you, because they don’t do proper research before they choose any ICO. There are good ones, just that there are lots of them that are scam, so they are now painting the market black.

Unfortunately accepting bitcoin does not spreaded that much in the marketplace. If I am whale or giant business man i will accept to use the product and services for bitcoin. Lets see what facebook will do after they launch their own coin soon.

When you invest on the bitcoin please do not convert it to fiat and keep show the demand for the bitcoin then you will find the growth for sure.

2017 is not a great year, but this is a year with many fluctuations that make the whole world known to Cryptocurrency. I think 2017 is a successful year when we see a lot of investors appear with large amounts of money in ICOs projects, many projects have been thriving and still exist until now. This is a whole year of changing the world of Crypto.

Name one.
Sorry to say this, even if your tokens price were going up, it doesn't mean it is not a scam. I want to archive the good ICOs (according to your belief) and patiently wait for several years. Let's see :)

Sadly right, those who still trying to workout with crypto business are people who intentionally investing without real knowledge, thinking that in any chance they will be able to get some earnings if luckily got first before others will do, the hyped of bull brings lots of interested investors who's willing to lose their money just to take the chance of profits.

You are right.
They came in mostly from hype. They saw 19k USD. Their eyes widen and a dollar sign is in it.
Wrong move.
Now they are making FUD about bitcoin because they did not make profit out of it.

First, that is unwise of them to just barge in without even knowing what or where they are stepping at.
They trespass at a place usig their own money. ;D

Now, it is still happen. Question is did they learn their lesson or they will just keep on doing it.

Trading and investing are two different things. If you are trading a coin (as in buy when its low and sell when its high) than there is nothing stopping you from buying bad coins neither, you do not believe in the project yourself too but somehow you think it will go up and that is why you invest in that.

For example, during the early ICO boom there was a lot of coins that didn't worth anything but people did put their money in them because they believed it would go up, that is why even today those people are saying how bad ICO is because they lose money in getting those bad coins. However if you are investing than that is a long term thing and than you have to find good coins that you trust yourself as well and than you can't just put your money into anything, you have to find the good ones.

You are more or less teaching people to gamble with their investment by buying bad coins, once a project is a bad one, there is no point risking to invest in it, there is no probability it will rise, once just need to learn to overlook and move one, even if they promise heaven and earth.

In this period where we have lots of scam project, people should not really be too loose with projects, they have to be very strict and make sure that whatever project they are participating in ha absolutely 80% trust and chances of surviving in the future, I would not advise them to buy bad projects coins and keep at all.

Before it was just hype but now it is about a global decentralised currency with real world usage. When economies on a national scale begin to fall apart only bitcoin can save them.

We all know this but the thread is discussing about those that do invest without right knowledge were the market is and were it is heading to. It is very important we should be able to separate between hype and reality.  Those that invested at the end of 2017 do so because of how good the testimony of those that invested in January or February of 2017 and hold till the end of the year!  If you are trying to be just with the market it is very important you invest based on market conditions and after proper analysis of the market and invest base on those analysis and not those hype.

I think this has a point, but I don't really expect a global crisis for bitcoin to rise, it will cause big trouble for majority of people.
I want a world where there's plenty of option to invest, I am investing in stocks and crypto also because that's my way to diversify my portfolio
but I'm expecting bitcoin as a decent payment system that would continue to have an adoption, not a saver when there's a global crisis.

This is the habit of common people,we can't expect everyone to be smart and successful.If we want to be more successful we need to figure out the right coin at its early stage following someone at the later stage may needs long time or it won't happen ever.

If anyone thinks they are smarter they need to invest now since we can find the market seems bullish and convincing.

this is inseparable from the experience of the person himself. many figures are famous and smart, but I think personal analysis will be better for improving the quality of oneself. because after all that experience requires process and learning from mistakes

Majority of those who joined cryptocurrency in late 2017 was in for easy money but rode the hype. Thus, they got burned when the market started correcting the bubble. There will always be those newbies who will join because of hype. But I think by now, those who got burned in 2018 bear market has already learned their lesson and are more mature investors by now.

That is what I told my friend that feels he has made a bad investments decision by buying at $8500 when many articles and news were saying that bitcoin will not go below that level.  I seriously believe that experience and what we have learned from what happened to us especially in investing do really matter.  Many of those that got there fingers burned in 2018 dumping has learned something and that is never investing into something that they don't have much knowledge in and maybe never investing into something they don't have control over.

There's still a hype in the market maybe not on bitcoin but in other coins because its their way to attract investors. Global crisis can happen but there's no exact time for that and we can't say that crypto or bitcoin will be their best option to survive. I believe on what I'm investing for, adoption will happen and the bull will begin but the hype will still make impact in the market newbies get hyped either they've loss money or make small money. 

It has also a good side on it, I have been in this field and have known many investors in real life. They also bought at the hyped and you know what? They are still holding their Bitcoin and never had the thought to sell it. Now they have little knowledge about it and how it works they even have an urge to buy more. As of now they have more than a BTC and for whatever the reason they could buy it for almost 20k USD they should be having no problem buying them at the moment at all. They are bunch of professors in my university, so I was saying that time when Bitcoin and other crypto hyped, not all have bad impact but there are good things happen also. So if these kinds of scenario keeps going, little by little it is what we called mass adoption.

if I myself understand more about bitcoin if the other people don't understand, it seems like one day my bitcoin investment, for example, the price goes up and down, it's normal because the name of buying and selling is definitely market dependent. But all smart smart we just manage it right or not.

   I bought Bitcoins before 2017 hype. In the same time I invested in some other coins and now when prices are down, those investments
lost value since then. I still hold, you lose only if you sell.
   I figured out in what I invest, it`s my future. I invest in the future technologies that are rising today. Maybe I will not have all my
investments successful, but some of them will be.

it's the same as mine where I invested in 2017 and I still hold it to this day. of course the value is very different from that time. but this is my fault for being greedy. but I am sure that it will improve later

If you already wait that far and you have the instinct to believe that this venue will create opportunities for your investment, there's no need to worry, continue to hold and there's nothing to lose, everything will be back to it's cycle, the bearish just overstayed and now the bull is keeping itself alive to run much stronger, time will  be the witness of your future success, never hesitate whatever decision you've made, expect the positive side and enjoy after,.

if we thing we get enough profits ,maybe we could sell it first.sometime we want to earn much money but keep holding our token.unfortunately price moved againts the direction.and i feel the same with you.

Of course i will figure it out before i invest on something . when it comes to crypto investments i automatically go for well known coins which was bitcoin and etherium . i dont need to do any further investigations if im only going to invest on these coins but if its an ico and ieo of course im going to figure them out first if they are came from a trusted source  or not  .


If you want to maximize your income , you will prefer to hodl and face for the incoming risk but if you are afraid about the volatility like me then its better if you can sell your coins for a secure profit .

The investors who started to invest on bitcoin after 2017 they are definitely in loss, because they did investment in late. My close friend who bought bitcoin in $15000 and still he hold it because he invested on bitcoin very late.
When bitcoin was on pick in 2017 then people started to attract on bitcoin and a huge people invested on it because they thought in 2018 was same like 2017, but our speculations was wrong, and in 2018 a huge people have lost and now they are standing in line when bitcoin will grew and then they will get profit. But now it is down fall of bitcoin price so it is good opportunity to buy bitcoin.

Yeah that's true, it is not going to be in favor of everyone that invests in it. There are people who are going to lose and there are people who are also going to win. When people lose. They are money are taken by those that wins and that's how it is everywhere. And price cannot confine to go up like forever, there are times that the price will go down and there are also times when it going to go up. But, some people always think that bitcoin is a quick money making scheme and they just jump in without doing any calculations on what they are about set their foot on.

I am always with bitcoins alone as bitcoins value is determined by the people that considers it as valuable, so when those people are buying it, the price continues to rise and when they start to sell you will see the price will plummet.

This is not a new thing and by the way, anyone that is going into bitcoin should have known before then that it is volatile, cause I don't really see why anyone would just wake up and hear someone mention Bitcoin and without researching about it they would just jump into it, that's really stupid. Before I started buying Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency I made a lot of research about them to know everything about them and how they work.

Suppose, the times of this hype are over. I am sure that Bitcoin will grow but it will not do is as fast as it was in 2017. As for investment in altcoins, sure, I always learn about the alt before I buy it.

I have come to the conclusion that investing into major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Binance coin are the best because with these cryptocurrencies there are new investors who come on board every now and then but with ICOs they are mostly full of pumps and dumps.

We wont really able to see the same movement as of this current years to come with bitcoin which i do much prefer on having this way where gradual increase or slowly climbing up
and having more volume which we have reached out some statistics that we do have more than on that year 2017 or on ATH which signifies that
support is becoming stronger.

I'm glad that more users are catching onto the running theme of ICOs being pumps and dumps which only benefit the owners of the coin. I remember when they were all the rage and you couldn't tap into enough of them because each one was a rocket ready to explode into outer space. I think the ICO hype died while was away, luckily.

If anything, new shitcoins aren't being tapped into as often and I think that's great for the community as a whole. The staple cryptos (BTC, ETH, XRP, etc.) that you mentioned are getting more solid communities which allow for a higher chance of new tech ideas springing up and being implemented, as opposed to the wide spread of users that previously dotted the crypto communities. I'm going to take my time with Bitcoin and continue down the same path as I did before, but there's a whole slew of other viable options these days.

Well for me, a safe investment would do better. I mean I'm only investing on the top cryptocurrencies that will surely give me huge profits at the near future or when the bulls run again.

sorry friend but in my opinion it still has risks, even though you invest in coins over still the price can suddenly drop and give a loss. So what we have to consider is the right time to enter and also to be able to avoid fud or false news circulating.

  Risk is our part of life we will have to face it all around us, so it is not only in cryptocurrency but in other business as well, but we can reduce our risk by holding because holding at panic time is really good, we can avoid lose this way, we can buy more coins at now price but never think about selling it when price or market is under correction.

Should we now say that hype is a simple way of making newbies lose to the professionals and skillful traders? I think you are right creep,  because without the hype there may not be profits to make.  I still remember that the cryptocurrencies markets will do well if we all understand what is in front for us the early adopters.  If you know were bitcoin will be in future you will wish you can saved all your holding and sell in future when bitcoin grow to an amazing price.  If we should wait for global financial Crisis before bitcoin grow it might not happen but I also agree on future adoptions by both institutionalized investors and individuals investors

Yes. Panic selling will only make us losers in the end so in order to prevent from losses, we should be more patient in holding our coins particularly in bearish season.Though there is a great opportunity to buy more coins when the price is low, but we should also see to it that we are investing in those potential coins that will give us good profits in the future.

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That is the method I do adopt too, because that is the safest haven that can guaranteed profit return no matter how little the profit maybe, there are some coins below the top 20 that are so redundant and it feels as if the projects has been abandoned, those one can only be listed when bitcoin is going sideways, but we have some coins that will always respond to the call of BTC anytime it rises, and those are the coins we should all endeavors to invest in more.

If we are to consider pre ICO investment, then it might be better to go for the IEO platform projects for quick profit.

Not yet, the market is very volatile at the moment and it makes it quite difficult to choose crypto currencies to invest in. I would pick among some altcoins to invest in once the market starts stabilizing at a point in time.

Only stupid and stubborn people who don't learn from mistakes, and in 2018 teaches many people that buying at ATH and when high prices are bad thing, there are times when you have to look at market conditions, not buy when many people tell you to buy.

Yes in all the time I have to watching configuring out which will be my perfect time for investment and which will be time for selling this kind of things will definitely be an analysis by me in all the time when the market is not well also.

I do not even think that we can call putting money in icos an investment, it is more like a form of gambling in which you expect to select the right coin and make a fortune very rapidly but with the huge amount of scams in the market it is very likely that even if you do your due diligence you will end up investing only in scams and you will lose your money, so if you want to multiply the amount of money you hold through your trading and investing skills the top 10 coins in the market seems like the best option to do it.

  Those who are not sure about increasing demand of bitcoin will get lose at the end, 2018 has given us chance to buy at low price of almost 4k which has started to rise and become 6k recently. I have seen price has always get change with since long; history is there bitcoin made progress, which can make so many people as milliner,

For some newbies, it may be hard for them to realize it that fast but eventually they will learn how to adjust and go with the flow of the market. Some of these investors and traders who have less experience will eventually gonna suffer more if they continue what they were doing without assuring how to recover quickly from their losses. It may take more time for them to completely realize what they were doing was not enough yet.

I think if again there will be a very large increase in the crypto market. There will be an influx of new users who will again begin to invest in everything. But old users will remain in profit because they are already experienced.

Nowadays, investing in altcoins is a thankless task.
I have a few projects in which I invest a little now, but of course at the beginning I study them well and I like them and I believe in them ...

This is why many do panic sell when prices go down and cause a deep decline, because they do not understand what is invested. When prices go up a lot of news that appears with the timeline or the great bitcoin investment title, the value of bitcoin is very high, bitcoin is very valuable. They do not discuss that the value of cryptocurrency is a fluctuation and how risky the investment is.

I don’t think anyone is investing in this without being aware what it is and how risky it can be, just that some people are blinded by greediness and that is why they keep on losing, and some people are just because luck wasn’t on their side (and it wouldn’t be on everybody’s side). So they know what they are buying, everyone makes a mistake, and the worst of it all is that you can’t predict what the price of BTC is going to be next, the only thing you can do is just to guess what it is going to be.

That is every trader/investor’s dream, they want to buy when the price is at its lowest and sell when it’s at the highest price possible for that year, but it doesn’t work. The reason why it doesn’t work is because we don’t know which direction the price is really heading to. If you do follow up with these price analysis online you will, you will notice that they never work out. And why they never work out is because nobody can really tell what’s going to happen in next in the market. So all we do is read the chart and guess what’s likely to be the next move and then invest our money and risk it in hope that it works out for us.

I don't think you currently know how investors feel that they are currently disappointed because they often see ico failing and they are often hit by scams, now many investors prefer to participate in IEO rather than ICO.

It is not so easy for many people to make decision as regards when to buy mate, yes, they all know that the best position to buy is when the value of the coin has bottomed, and not ATH. If you look at the case of 2018, because many people believed in the cryptocurrency and not just what people said, they thought the value will keep growing and nobody ever imagined that there will be turnaround as it was first of its kind.

Majority of us fell for it and we have all learnt from it but it also has its repercussion too, unlike before when crypto prices starts rising abit, many people will fomo and start buying at large, but now, no body respond to uptrend of the cryptos that much again till they are very sure the time has come.

Investors still need to be wise too when it comes to ICOs, they should not completely still rely on them because anything could still happen, because it is IEO will not stop the project from failing or end up being dump till it becomes useless, and anyone holding them for long will become a bag holder.

There are some IEO on some exchanges that are just equivalent to ICO too, because another way scammer works is to enter exchange is and distribute useless and dumped token to the investors and then pack up. IEO also have the tendency of doing so if we still don’t take precautions too, but chances of getting scam is still 50% lower to ICO.

The truth is people like me and many of us here, are having a hard time if we really invested in the right coin, I have seen so many coins that have huge hype before the launch of their platform only to fall miserably, and then there is this one coin IOVO which I thought would be bigger because big names are on it, and they have a good platform but unfortunately, they did not live up to expectation.

Remember that whether it is an IEO or an ICO, these things are really about insiders (the developers) cashing out by selling to outsiders.

The same thing applies to Initial Public Offerings (IPO's) of stocks. See the listing of Lyft shares. They bombed, so all those initial investors are hurting badly. The only people happy are the insider venture capitalists who cashed out.

If you think a coin offering has potential, don't go in at the start. Wait till it has finished it's inevitable initial pump and dump and then buy in cheaping on an exchange.

FOMO was indeed a significant factor back in 2017, why people invested blindly during the ATH, and ultimately suffered from huge loses. I always apply critical thinking when it comes to investing. To answer your question, I believe in taking measure in every action in order to mitigate the risks. Nowadays, I think it's best to go with the more established coins such as BTC, ETH, LTC and BCH.

myself before investing, I have to make sure what I will invest before because I myself have been cheated by people because my knowledge of investment was very lacking at the time and now I am always careful before investing in crypto, because crypto is also very dangerous in my opinion because it has very large profits and losses that are of the same magnitude, therefore I have to learn carefully before doing an investment with large funds in it.

Only choose the best potential altcoin like ETH, BCH and BTG for my investment, I am afraid with new altcoin for investing because when lower price will be hard for raised to higher price again.

Well, it would be ridicilous to expect crypto market to keep growing forever. Sometimes it might crash back and it would be very normal. In this market state, the best we can do is to observe the market and increase our knowledge about cryptocurrency. It might be a chance to catch some opportunities and find the right coins to make an investment.

This is the only sensible thing to do, right now it is simply too risky to invest in any ico at the start of the project, you need to see how the market receives this coin and if that means that you lose some opportunities to make money because of it then so be it, if the coin is any good and you have a profitable strategy you are going to have plenty of opportunities to make even more money so that should not be something that worries you.

Basically, if you investing at high price altcoin, will be that guaranteed you not losing your investment. Investing at a new startup/project will be worth if they really developed the project seriously, I also really like went the team has their own funding for their project. Its make all demand pure by the market and lets the market decide by them self because of the development. So no ico funding on their project.

Yes it is not good and advisable to invest in more than one coin or in new coin because there are risk now a day, some people told me about scamming projects in new coins, so invest in only well known coin and promising projects should be join, I think it is good to invest in BTC and EHT because both of them are high potential coins.

Except Bitcoin, I reckon I could identify several niches in crypto industry like privacy coins, 4th generation blockchains, stable coins, exchange coins, etc, and assess and select the best projects on each niche and invest on it. :)

Altcoin are still not bad to invest in too, I have seen dead altcoins rise back to life during the time bitcoin was consolidating, you know during the bull run, the developers becomes active then and start promoting their project, so new investors will still invest in them and end up parking their money for the older ones.

I still have lots of these altcoins that looks very promising but down in value now because investors sold off their investment prematurely, so believe me, they will rise too, but the best of investment will typically be in that type of coin you earlier mentioned.

I distributed my investments between bitcoin, ethereum and EOS.  I think it's better to have less coins but more to invest.  I think there will be more profit.

That depends on your strategy because you are the one who sees the risk and evaluate your chances.
As long as you are investing in legit coins which has good potential, that's good, some could diversify to more than 10 and some less than 10, it doesn't matter, what matter is you are fully confident with your decision as you thought of it properly.

If you learned finally that people used to cheat you, the best decision for you will be NOT to listen to anyone and explore the market relying on your knowledge and intuition. It will work much better.

For me better to have more different coins that you invested but make sure it is potential. Don't put most of your money to the few altcoins because for me the best strategy is to have more coins in your wallet incase the coin dump do you still remain a coin who did not dump. But investing to the few coins is sometimes is good because once it rise you will gain more money.

I am learning more about cryptocurrencies every day, but still I could not tell that I understood everything. I can say that I know more than people in my surrounding knows, and to them I am crypto expert which I am surely not. I am more encouraged to buy at lower prices than on higher prices, but these points are relative to time frame on which you are looking.

If you are invested heavily on these three coins then better to diverify your capital into more coins to reduce factors.

Less coins better for a trader to circulate the capital too often into multiple trends to make profits but when we are invested into very long term then reducing risk also good thing.

Yes its a good strategy to diversify on several projects in order to further reduce volatility risk and this is a standard practice among most members of the crypto community. If given the chance to have additional fund, I would also select projects that are very promising and viable and already have a working product and put my faith in it and support it wholeheartedly.

This is a good strategy, while bitcoin is without a doubt the best coin in the market bitcoin cannot do everything, there are many good coins out there that can do something better than bitcoin so investing in them some of your money can be a great way to multiply it in a relatively short amount of time, however it is important to remember to not invest in projects that are just starting since it is quite easy for the developers of most coins to promise that their coin will be the best in the market and it is something completely different to actually achieve that.

This is spot on.

Just to mention one example: BAT actually substituted Bitcoin in the original Brave Browser project.

I'm not familiar with the why's and how's of this early decision but it's likely due to the high price of Bitcoin transactions, which would offset the tip amount. You'd tip $5 and the TX would cost $1, that's 20% fee. Really cheap when you move millions of $ but not adequate for micropayments.

These three choices of coin is so much enough to give any holdlers the financial freedom he wants for future because those projects are still one of the most reliable projects among the top 20 coins and they have the potential of really increasing whatever investment that one has in them by at least 10x to 100x.

It is safer to have 3 coins of choice and keep maintaining them than to invest on some coins that will disappoint one in future, after these 3 investments, the next should be for the investor to be trading if he or she still has any little fiat to spare for the market. Some altcoins are just there to milk one dry.

Yes I reckon we should invest in projects that already has a working product or at least a mainnet blockchain for at least over a year because we could observe the level of development achieved by the team. In this way, we could further assess the capability of the team to further develop the product and add additional features as needed.

Dividing our investment in several good coin and token is good choice because market very fluctuating. But choosing coin in top 100 coinmarketcap or coin with good daily transaction volume will make us more relax because its liquid. Many coin dont have good daily volume and i think its like pump and dump coin

Some investors have figured it. But those who complaints when bitcoin price fall are need to learn about what the thing that they invest in. Most of bitcoin investors are speculative investors who invest based on luck. If those people learn about how the market works then they will know when is the right time to enter the market and when the right time to out from it. I am very becareful when make decision on trading so I am not do day trading. I only buy or sell when there is a signal. I also only invest in reliable project, I do many research before I invest in a project.

If there should be a research based on the statistics of people that had a successful profit in 2018 from their investments, am definitely sure that we will be seeing about 75% of people that loss and 25% of people that gained from it. Although those that had gain were those that got in early and sold when it was high while those that dumped were those that bought the ath mostly. The major problem here is that most people joined cryptocurrency mostly for the profit not for the advantages such project has for its community. Not until we start utilizing the project we are investing in, there won't be any development in such project.

well, if there are investors complaining when the price of bitcoin in the exchange falls, I think that investor looks like a beginner because when the price of bitcoin in the exchange should fall then investors should be happy because they have the opportunity to be able to buy at cheap prices.

complaining when the price of bitcoin goes down is reasonable in my opinion, because we are an investor and trader so that if the price of a coin we invest continues to fall surely the complaint will be expressed by someone. complaining may but must remain optimistic and our thoughts are always positive.

Anyone who is investing in crypto without knowing what it is must be a foolish person, cause I don't see the reason why you would choose to invest in something without knowing anything about it or knowing how it works , that looks stupid. I have seen some people that does that.

There is a guy I know that got on crypto investment just because he was told that money comes from it (oh and he wasn't told the price can drop) that's how he ended up losing more than half of the huge amount of money he invested within two months after price dropped from the peak. I blame him for not getting to know how bitcoin works, cause he bought and locked it away waiting for the right time to touch it.

For me it is much better to invest your money in single coin because if you will invest it in so many coins it will make so much problems for you, now a day good coin is bitcoin and we should invest in it because it is future best coin, so I trust bitcoin and I know with bitcoin my future will shine,. It has really great historical progress in price pumps and dumps.

It is known that in regular markets more than 80% of investors lose all their money in less than a year and that percentage grows as you use a longer term to determine winners and losers and I am sure the market of cryptocurrencies shows and even greater division between the winners and the losers since as we know the profits that you can get in this market are incredible compared to what you can get in the stock market.

I always trying to analyse the things that which will useful for me in the future that's only make my future to be better everytime and especially what my investment is always in my mind.

Not everyone is looking for more useful, but is searching for more profitable. In fact, this is not something to be condemned, but the only problem is hype. At the end the gainers get their gain and the new ones lose.

I would say that the ratio between winners and losers in legacy markets is similar to the ratio of winners and losers in the crypto market. Retail traders are everywhere and they make the same mistakes that lead to losses.

At the end of the day, you have a 50% chance to make profit if you're flat out gambling, so based on that, it makes sense that the ratios of winners and losers will be similar regardless of the market you are participating in.

People often think the stock market is stable and is easier to trade, but that's not really the case. If it was easy to trade, it wouldn't be profitable anymore because most people would be looking to trade the same events.

of course we have to study and learn to analyze, especially for beginners like me. by analyzing we can apply several strategies with various possibilities, so that we already know the future that will occur

Gambling right now is a big risk. If you really think you can beat or get big money out of gambling then that is some mistake as well. Trading isn't easy. You really have to do some research, and look at how the market will go into a bull run, bear or a bear trap. That way people are making money out of trades. Gambling is fun if you have lots of money to stake and make.

Actually, not every year is what he invests now, they don't even know the history of the establishment of bitcoin and the change in the price of bitcoin and they are still convinced of bitcoin investment, maybe this is because of the benefits they get quite a bitcoin so they strongly believe in bitcoin investment  although the investment risk in bitcoin is quite large and they survive because of the value they get and that is a reason that is quite common among those who invest

Bitcoin is not an investment but its having price changing nature so we can make profits from it but we need to understand the risks behind holding the bitcoins as well,this is what we need to figure out before investing on bitcoin.

no, bitcoin is an investment because investment is a form of investment asset that aims to gain future profits, yes, maybe the risk is common but depends on how we deal with it so it doesn't become a loss.

Bitcoin is not made to be an investment,its just form for cryptography currency uses decentralized blockchain technology. :)

I expected that this would even have been a debate in this forum long time ago for us all to really know where we are getting the cryptocurrency matter wrong. I understand that the blockchain technology is a very complicated system, and everyone is just trying as much as possible to break it down in their brain for a better understanding.

I also believe that cryptocurrency was nit made to be an investment if we follow satoshi’s whitepaper, it is meant to just be a peer to peer payment system that will exclude third party involvement, but then, why did satoshi come up with ICO? For him to have done ICO which we all know is for investment purpose because no one will give money freely to a company without getting profit in return.

Yes. We should study first and make a wide research on the coins we want to invest in cryptocurrency. Atleast we should know our main reason and figure out what we are investing in. Crypto has a big risks along with it so if we plan to start investing in crypto, then we should also be prepared enough to take the risks.

If you really enter when you write this, then I think you are a very lucky person, because the price of bitcoin almost continues to experience pumps from April to the present even reaching $ 8000, and there is still a high possibility that the increase will continue.

Well today's market condition is a very good sign that the price will reach even higher than what we expected.But still once you start investing,you need to figure out the coins you want to invest and not just based on other's manipulations or hypes because once fluctuations occur in the market,you will mostly resort into being panic because of not studying the crypto market in the first place.

The road to 10 000 is opened to Bitcoin. May proved that the bears have left the market. Now, BTC is going to run faster a bit. Therefore, I know what I am investing in - it is the future. Litecoin and EOS can be good investments now also.

Fomo that happened at that time was quite large and could not blame anyone when the price increase was high enough because it followed the demand that happened to the market. we cannot blame Bitcoin or those who get profits.

It is also a great lesson for us. Although I was a big profit at the time. When I saw the price of ETH falling a lot in February, I decided to sell everything and I thought it was a bubble. It was right and I learned a lot of experiences.
In investment and trading, what we need to control the best is our own capital and greed and especially to be wise in considering the market's growth.

instead we must learn from the market. anything can happen here, so we have to know what the market wants. when Fomo happened, no one could hold it back, let alone aided by many bitcoiners who traded

Bitcoin system cannot be blamed while the people using the system are to be blamed for the crash of 2017, first, it was humans that still manipulated the system, because naturally, the value was growing through the various ICOs that we had then and attracted lots of organic pump that was healthy before one silly whale decided to cause FOMO and reverse it by dumping which made investors follow too.

Now that most people have learnt from the past now, human errors will be limited and I see the next ATH not having speedy dump, it will just be the way we have been seeing some short increase now with a correction usually caused by few dumping.

For me, I know and understand the things that I’m investing at because in life you can’t focus on many things like me, I almost miss nine months about bitcoin forum and some minor news about it because I concentrate more in my studies. I know that some people can focus on their studies and bitcoin, but if things get hard, you most choice what you genuinely want or need to make your future much brighter. For me, that’s the investment I figured out.  :)

sometimes yes, I have figured what I am investing or sometimes no because I have sometimes because of hype. All of it depend in a case or scenario like bitcoin that after seeing the graph one can fully understand on when will be the best time to buy and sell bitcoin. It is just a matter how smart and risk taker an individual will be.

And it is still luck that will going to work for and it is vital to become successful in this investment with full of uncrrtainties.

I think differently, bitcoin is a high-value speculation or product, depending on our purpose, vision and goals. That means, bitcoin is a tool that will bring value based on knowledge and intelligence from users for its ultimate purpose. ::)

Yes i do realize that the market conditions on 2019 are not the same like in 2017, i do also think market are more mature right now and i do invest in the coin that i trust ( not like in 2017 just following the pump and fomo ). I do think the best project in 2019 are the project that are related to blockchain technology.  So i do invest in coin that are working on blockchain development so i do believe in what i invest in and i do know what they are doing.

having knowledge in the crypto world is very important. knowing that, we can be aware of the risks and carry out investments calmly. so patience to wait for investment in the long term will be achieved until reap satisfying results

People give in to panic in a growing market and think that they will not have time to enter the market. Begin to buy indiscriminately. Although it was necessary to buy yesterday and today is too late. On such people and smart traders earn.

it's just that many people believe in bitcoin and can be used as investment assets so that their value can be very valuable.if we look at the history of bitcoin launches, bitcoin was created by shatosi to facilitate transactions that make it easier for its users

i think yes , i just figured out what my coin will come , and the project behind of it also the road map of that coin 

I invest on some altcoins but i don't know for sure when will grow and can take a lot of time to get a profit from but even so i still believe on long term i could get some profit, but indeed now the market is not like on 2017.

Yes. The whales are very smart when choosing crypto market to manipulate. Because this is a decentralized market and anyone can join the transaction. The most important thing is that greedy people do not have much knowledge in this area, they cannot manage risks.
That's why many investors lost heavy capital in 2018 due to the hype.
We really need to know how to manage risk. that is one of the most important factors ever.

FUD,  manipulations,  FOMO and hype are part of investing in altcoins this is something that you should be aware of whenever you are looking for a coin to invest some developers implement this and some coins just let things be and just continue developing their coins, the worse part is if you are late finding what kind of coins have you invested.

The fact is that the results of 2017 were made due to the fact that by the end of 2016 there was an active promotion of cryptocurrency in society.  People were shown the possibilities by which they could earn big money very quickly.  Based on this, large investments were made in the cryptocurrency market, which led to a rise in price of all cryptocurrencies, yes, especially those who are leaders of the cryptocurrency market.  Of course, manipulators took advantage of it, after which the market collapsed, earning big money from it.

Invest on Ethereum, I think it would be the safest altcoin to invest on right now. It is stable and it is really popular like bitcoin. It is also being used in ICO and IEO projects. I really believe that it has potential and it already proven itself when it reach 1200 usd mark last year.

Mine was very simple, I hate banks and I wanted to have a currency that I do not need to use banks with. Any other fiat is usually either cash or its on a bank somewhere and you can carry only a certain amount of cash with you, if you have 10 thousand dollars and do not want to deal with banks then you can't carry them all in your wallet so you put some of it on your house which is another risk. That is why I started using crypto as soon as I heard about it, hell even mined bitcoin with my old laptop so I know I have been around for a lot :D.

My whole purpose of bitcoin and any other coin wasn't to make profits (but thank god I profited a lot too :D ) but it was mostly because I wanted a new digital currency that would help me get away from banks but still keep it secure and tell me is there any currency that is more secure than crypto?

i invest in a promising newly born technology. it is quite normal that volatility is so high and the prices of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will go up and down so often. but i believe that the market will be so much valuable in the near future.

The reason why bitcoin got this much traction even during the initial stages is because of its decentralized nature and online merchants were dealing with account closure from centralized platforms like paypal without any notification and stagnation from merchant accounts and the introduction of bitcoin was a boost to their business as there will be no dispute after the transaction being done.

If you are investing in bitcoin you need the help of banks or fiat currency to purchase the coins and there is no way around it and hence there is no point in hating the banks.

I also believe that thorough study of the market and you are right, the coins that you would want to invest in would play a vital role in the success in your crypto journey. I admit that I am one of those who have joined the band wagon on investing in BTC, without little knowledge and just gut feeling, I have invested more and lo and behold, I have lost everything in the fall of 2018. This is a lesson learned for me. Now, before anything else, I look at the company's road map and the vision for that coin, a lot of weighing pros and cons before I give a green light in investing.

Some of them know nothing about cryptocurrency, they got here out of their greedy search for money. They just thought that Bitcoin was a way to make quick money and they end up losing. Just like my neighbor that would have ended up the same way after someone told him thy he can turn to a millionaire if he invests his whole money in Bitcoin. Luckily for him he told me about it when he got home and I made him realize that he can make lots of money from Bitcoin but he can also lose the same way, because Bitcoin or anything crypto is volatile and the price can move to any direction at anytime so you will have to be careful and not invest all you have but what you can afford to lose.

when this technology already developted and adopted , there will no more price volatility again that will make investors our from this market.bitcoin and cryptocurrency still in early stage and it will take long time to fully developted.

We don't know that and most of the currencies on the market don't have the same results. There are a lot of currencies in the past that have good results at its an early phase but after a short time, bounty hunters sell what they hold and destroy what the other investors are holding. That is a bad thing about it, though there are some projects that control it, most of them can't.

Bounty hunter may be one of the reasons why the value of a currencies goes down but I think that only happens for a moment. What is certain is that the project will have high value if in the development of their technology smooth, active and useful, course it will give maximum results for its value.

Banks are not being hate but us but now a day people are not agree to keep their money in banks because it is all useless if we will not put our money in banks it does not means we hate it we only feel more secure to invest our money in crypto currency, bitcoin is the best coin to invest our money it is the most beneficial investment.

if you think about it, the bounty hunter only has a very small percentage of the total coins available. indeed, after listing exchange, these events often occur. but a good project usually doesn't last long

Small percentage of the actual value after completing the ico's not enough to fully conduct any serious damage to the entire project, if the team really pay attentions on how to develop more and provide progress the token/s will continue to prosper, project that really usable for future preferences will attract investors to buy and hold, saving the coins for future profitable investment.

For projects that fear bounty hunters will sell their tokens and make their prices lower, that's certainly a trivial project. If a project is good enough, they will actually be able to control the number of tokens sold by bounty hunters.
Sometimes a lot of bounty hunters hold quite a lot of tokens. Therefore, for me, such trivial projects will not be able to develop best.

All these we will overcome with time,that is why it is called future investment and if we look at it, some of these cons really looks promising to us. Few of us just joined this market and we are expecting to cash out big profit within a short term, we need to really be patient like other early investors where when bitcoin was first introduced which some even rejected, and this will be the story of some of the greater altcoins that we have including bitcoin too.

For this phase of investors, we might not have been seeing the profit now, but surely we will see it in future, most especially when we invest in coins like BTC, ETH, EOS, BNB, XML, ADA and many other promising coins.

Good knowledge about cryptocurrency is needed before you make an investment, if you are only tempted by such a big profit, of course, many people will sacrifice all the money they have to invest in bitcoin but whether they are aware of the risk of the investment they make.
My personal opinion is that Bitcoin is a long-term investment because to get maximum profits it takes a long time and we have to be patient to wait for it, and you should use idle money to invest in cryptocurrency.

I usually wonder if people are so bad in mathematics now that they cannot do the calculation again for them to know that whatever any project gives to hunter is so small to make any impact on their value.  Imagine that a project collects 20 million dollars, and then claiming that ordinary 200,000 dollars will affect an entire project of 20m dollars? That is insane and we have to be very reasonable.

There are some excuses that are not just valid to be used to justify a failure, these developers are just so lazy that what they are after is the money, and maybe when they get the money, they just hire one quack developer to continue with the project while they go for holidays to enjoy the money.

That would be amazing if that will really come since if people could do that, we are all millionaires, not just millionaires but billionaires and there is no doubt at that time that we are billionaires, zillionaires is not a surprise. You might know what will happen with the project, where will they develop and focus there project but you will not know what will happen with the sales, with the profit that you will get and the people that might buy it, still be careful.

The developers especially those with bad motives are the reason why cryptocurrency is having attacked from governments and financial regulatory authorities! Governments will not fold its hands and watch this scamming activity continues. I participated in a bounty that the developer got around 49,000 ethereum in early 2018 and I got around 10,000 units of the said tokens but the developer do nothing after that than giving one excuse today and another one tomorrow and as at today the tokens that should be around $1800 during ico is now around $13. The bounty hunter are not the problem but developers are the problems of coins losing value after listed in exchange.

indeed, investors must understand and understand what we are going to invest, and most importantly, investors must understand that all income will be gained in investment and confidence and patience are the best capital in investing.

What else is there for us to figure out?? Bitcoin is a crypotocurrency and we all already knows that it is volatile. I think anyone who is investing in cryptocurrency and claiming they don't know that it is volatile, then he or she is just being dumb. Anyone investing in Bitcoin should know by now that it is volatile and there are risks involved, don't come in and expect to be making profit when you know that price can fall at anytime and you can lose a percentage of your money. You should always be ready for it and not all you have are meant to be in Bitcoin, you just invest a little.

of course they know what they are investing and I'm sure they also realize that investing in crypto has a very high risk,but it was defeated in the hope that they would make a big profit but most still panicked when the market declined and came out with losses.

in my opinion before starting to invest in crypto currencies, of course, investors must know what is invested and the risks that will be obtained in investment will require confidence and patience in investing with crypto currencies.

It seems to me that not smart investments will bring only a loss.  Each investor, before investing their funds, should carefully study the available information about projects in order to be able to expect to receive a good income.  Of course, if an investor invests only in finding new cryptocurrencies, this task is simplified.  Well, today it is again becoming relevant to invest in new projects, but not only in the company’s ico, but STO and IEO.

Yea. I have friend who heard about bitcoin a long time before it hit 2017 but never did put a single penny to invest in it but when he heard that it reached $20k in 2017 he started to buy and then it started to decline after some time and my friend started to panic about his investment. Until now he is still thinking he will be losing forever his money.

It will also depend if you are investing for fiat gains or because you believe in the project. for fiat gains you will to need to follow the whales since they got the most control in the market.

Study and analysis would really be crucial when it comes to investment decisions because it will really cost you if you do able to
choose the wrong ones but there are instances or scenarios which cant really be avoided even no matter how hard you do try on analyzing
you would still end up on a devastating loss of investment.

No matter what ever you are investing in, you need to have deep and through knowledge of it. If you do not have knowlegde, study it becaore actually making an investment. Many people just invest on advise of thier relatives or friends and they do not do thier own reasearch. If your friend is earning from one methid, it does not mean that you will also earn the same amount from the same method.
Whether it be bitcoins, trading, gambling or investments. do your own reaseach.

I don't think it go down to the bottom as what you stated. We know that back in 2009 Bitcoin price was almost zero so when we say back to the bottom, it should be zero but we are just above a$1k-$2k after the drastic drop.

A lot of it is DYOR, but fundamentally crypto is a technology of the future. So much of what we are buying is based on potential use cases rather than use case right now. Crypto is still seen as a niche area, and hasn't yet had that big impact on society that we all know is coming. This is part of what makes it difficult to buy, and part of the reason for the volatility.