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What do you think is happening?

Is people hoding less their coins?

Is there more manipulation by big whales, speculators or big institutional investors trying to profit the flavour of the moment?

I feel that there are big players "pumping and dumping" in order to manipulate the market to stabilize price and "control" in a certain way the price fluctuation.

Obviously bitcoin is very dangerous for our old corrupted economy, don't you think that in acertain way there's an unusual stop of the past few months trend?
After reaching $20k there's a correction to $17k and then price stabilizes at 11-12k with mini-dips that last seconds before going uptrend...

In my opinion the key factor could be also that if bitcoin reaches $30-50k then it will be very difficult for newcomers to buy bitcoin for buying altcoins in the exchanges.

So that stabilizing the price to an affordable $10k for a while could be a way to engage more people to bitcoinworld.

Or maybe it's all ok, there's no manipuation, it is a stanby before the big run to $50k-100k. Then newcomers will start buying and trading in Ethereum or Litecoin, because at the moment there aren't exchanges accepting fiat money, you have to enter and buy your altcoins directly with cryptocurrencies...

Which in your opinion are the main reasons?

2018 has just started so I think we can't really tell yet whether it's going to be 'stable' or not. Bitcoin has been dropping so much this month, but I think it's expected because this is what always happend in the beginning of the year.

Personally, I think bitcoin will stay at it's place right now, and it won't be rising significantly like before anymore. The reason is, in my opinion, because of altcoins. Altcoins are really famous now and people tend to put their investment fund on altcoins / ICO now instead of bitcoin. So basically, I think it's because of altcoins are the new 'hype' changing bitcoin therefore bitcoin is not rising as much as before anymore.

Regarding the market manipulations, I believe yes, some elite group who hold a lot SUM of bitcoin must be manipulating the price every once in a while. It's really inevitable in my opinion.

I am not seeing any stability of bitcoin rather a bearish market of it. This I think is normal, last year this was also felt. Plus, we had been hearing news about the government's action against bitcoin so this factor would be affecting.

Yes, bitcoin is not stable at the movement instead it is under pressure to go down some more if this bearish market continues for a longer period. The main reason for this bearish market is all governments want to regulate this market and they want to track the money flowing into crypto markets but as of now they do not know how to do it so they are targetting crypto exchanges.


I don't think prices are down due to any manipulation by big whales.



I don't know about others but I'm now holding more coins than last year because I bought more in this down market.

Lol. its only January so wait and see, I thought after 1/2 month it will rising again, you never juzz quickly, cause it is bitcoin, and you see before how bitcoin rising,

Well January hasn't even passed yet, so it's hard to make that kind of statement for 2018.

I think some of it has to do with the fact that some FUD got thrown around in Korea. If u remember during bitcoin's pumps in late 2017, the market was driven in a large part by Korea. Basically, everyone and their grandmothers were buying BTC, Ripple, ETH. Then recently, news media in Korea started throwing around FUD, and it got rid of weak hands/ newbie investors (one reason why price dropped). Now it seems like people in bitcoin are in it for the long run, which is why we haven't seen 5k jumps in like we saw last year.

First of all it is not that stable. We have been crawling down from 15k to 10 and now we are at 11k. The key factor is that nothing happens around Bitcoin (ofcourse exapt FUD). We still have big transaction fees цшep uncertainty about when this will end. Changes of the market cap of the cryptomarket says that if  people did not sell their BTC for fiat then they are hodling like crazy. It seems like Right now bitcoin is waiting for a new start, that is why it is stable.

Because Fuds came's on it that's why we can see the price of bitcoins drop/stables, But we might gonna experience some pump happenings right now since I believe the fuds camp pass and many people forget it that's why we can see the market go live again and slowly regaining its rythm.

Whole of January was hopeless, if things do not improve by March end, we have to re-plan our strategies.

I compared the charts from the first 2 months of 2015, 2016, 2017 and now and recognized this is a natural correction. This happenend in every mentioned year before.
We should be thankful for a period in which the prices remain stable, since this is an important factor to become a real alternative to classic currencies.

The market though seems to enter a slightly bullish period now; i'm guessing we might see a new ATH by the end of february or beginning of march!

i think it will rise again

Now the market is on the correction after a prolonged growth in the autumn and winter of last year. After correction, there will be growth again. This is the standard situation for the market. There is no constant growth. Probably whales hold the price of bitcoin, that would be crammed with bitcoin before the price rises.

Why you said the price is stable? Still the price of bitcoin swinging at 5% of its price everyday.So it is not considered as stability.But the price of bitcoin is settling between $11k and $12k but it won't last long.Soon there will be a price bump in the bitcoin price at the beginning of Feb or in late Feb.So I am buying more bitcoins now.

It doesn't seem to me that the price is stable. We are trading in a range from $10.000 to $12.500, and it us really great - such volatility gives all the smart traders huge profits. A resistanse at $10k/btc is too strong to broke it.

Bitcoin is just going through many factors from FUD to Bans of exchanges, from Chinese new year to taxation phases of different countries and much more. I dot think that this is right time for everyone to invest into the bitcoin.

On major scale there exist only people who are very sacred to invest in such down fall and so we end up with the panic sells and stuff like that.

I don't think that there is any kind of pump and dump going on with the bitcoin, its impossible to do for bitcoin with such huge market capitalisation as that will need mega wallet with mega asset to achieve.


Honestly speaking bitcoin prices doesn't matter at all. We can always have it in the little chunks of Satoshi's so why would it bother white investing into it. :-) You can still enjoy the slice of it!


May be or may be not. Everyone here is free to choose the crypto and none of that depends on the bitcoin prices skyrocketing. People still believe in the bitcoin and they will always.

I dont have the reason to doubt in bitcoin since we know that it will going to rise up  again soon. Since we know that it is ban in other countries like China and Korea I think this is also the reason why bitcoin is  now in the stable stage in $10K-$11K. This is not bad after all instead this is opportunity for us to buy more. Those who do not buy today because they are afraid of what they think about bitcoin, all I want to say is dont regret soon.

I think it is still too early to say that Bitcoins price is stable this 2018 because the year has just started and it is still the first month of the year so I can't really compare yet its price to the coming months. However if I compare it from last year and this month, of course I would say the price had been stable around $10k-$12k or so because it hasn't move that much yet. And based on the recent years, Bitcoin has somewhat like a pattern every first month of the year so we will just have to wait for the right time and it will eventually increase its price soon.

2018 has essentially just begun and to say it's stable is a bit early IMO. Just last month is was 19.5k and within a month it was almost cut in half, is that stable?

There are not whales pumping and dumping IMO, if you look at the history of BTC, there has been some major percentage declines. BTC got ahead of itself between the 10k rise and 19.5k, too much too fast, even in the crypto market. It is in a consolidation phase after the 'correction' which is still not over from my analysis on the daily chart. BTC may still decline further as it is in a trading range with no specific up/down trend.

If BTC reaches 30k-50k, new people in the market will still be able to purchase with no problems. It's just that they will buy an incremental portion of BTC, like .00001

But just like the Gold / Silver market, people that cannot purchase 1 ounce of Gold at $1350 would rather purchase 1 ounce of Silver at $17.5.  So some people will be interested in LTC or another alt.

Yes it is very stable indeed 20K to 10K  :D I can't imagine bitcoin with a stable price. But it seems it will be more stable overtime.

In forex we believe that whatsoever pump so fast, will fall later. I believe it is also applicable with Bitcoin. There is 50-50 chances for Bitcoin to dropped to $1000. But if Bitcoin has survive we can see Bitcoin at $100k before the bubble.

But once the whole Wall Street has invested in Bitcoin, expect the huge pump.

The market is not that stable in 2018. We already have a dip of 50% or so, and from my point of view that is not stagnation. It's perfectly normal after a correction for things to cool down a bit, since the market needs to consolidate. I think things will warm up again in February because price already got tighten enough and it will break. I don't know if it is bullish or bearish, so I will just wait for a clear break.

For me the levels are $9900 support and $11734 resistance. A break above or bellow those levels will probably indicate Februaries trend. Since the price is a little closer to resistance right now, I'm expecting a bullish break. Trading is not predicting the future of course, is just seeing patterns and reacting, so like I said, I will wait for the break.

I don't think bitcoin price is stablilized,still there is much price volatility between $10K to $12K.
What do you mean by holding less coins?Many people are in panic and selling their coins but now the condition returning to normal I think.
There are chances for manipulation of prices by big whales but bitcoin is going to increase in the future for sure,so it is better to grab coins when it is available for sure.I think in the way that it is a dump before a big bump as you said $50K and I hope it is still possible to reach in 2018 itself.

Bitcoin is decentralised cryptocurrency so it is not stable in a market. Because any time it will raise or fall in the crypto market it is just a common strategy of cryptocurrency. But it will be pump again in market it can't predict easily and no one should imagine the exact situation in crypto market. In current market is fluctuating 10k USD to 12k USD it will raise soon in market.

Since the price of bitcoin is low for now,the transcation fee is low.When the price of bitcoin around 19k$,the transcation fee is 0.0012 Btc.Now it's half of the old transcation fee.The price of bitcoin is low,this may be the one of the reason for this stable transcation fee for long.

As you compared the chart of bitcoin price movement between last few years and this recently year, i saw that it is natural having a corrections of bitcoin price every first quarter of the year. Luckily the price was not totally dip it is stable in markets, beside it is the right time to purchased more bitcoin and stock it all in your portfolio. They speculated that maybe at the second quarter of the year maybe bitcoin bouncing back again. :D

Contracts ended 10 days ago and ended at $10900, let us wait for the markets to decide the new values where they want to see Bitcoins at.

Maybe, because when a major entity or group decides to break the bars and create a panic situation, small investors always become the "sacrificial goat" and get cut by them when they sell their own coins too at much cheaper prices to these whales.

Looks like there is because without them, who can throw the values down 40% in a day?

This is where "Centralization" comes in, we really don't know who controls what and how they can affect the values, but it's surely not just one person who is doing all this.

I think the pin-drop silence Bitcoin has maintained, has something very huge hidden within itself for its future.


Wait! Did you just say $10k is an affordable price for newcomers? Can they even think of buying a whole Bitcoin?

Imho it is good that it is not stable! It gives to all of us geeat opportunities to make decent quick money!

Alsi, take a look at the btc graph in dec'16-jan'17. Looks similar to me.

Price manipulation is a good possibility. Or, lack of updates in BTC. Investors put some pression in Bitcoin to fix the issue with expensive fees and slow transactions by letting the price "tepid". Sooner as more news about Lightning Network appears, Bitcoin price will start increasing its price again with a promise of huge pump when it's implemented. The problem is that there isn't a prevision date yet.

the current trend of declining coin prices to the lowest point including bitcoin. but we do not have to worry about it because only the bitcoin is still stable and not affected by the drastic price reduction.
bitcoin proves if it has the strongest position in cryptocurrency, so this is just manipulation and bitcoin will still have a stable price.

There is manipulation but I think this is just the calm before the storm, bitcoin could not keep up the rate of growth we had seen in the previous months, at some point it needed to stop, even if I was excited to see the price that high I needed a break, bitcoin was moving so fast that you could not take your eyes off the monitor in fear you may lose some of the action now that we have returned to a more stable price we can return to our normal behaviors.

Second quarter of the year is a boon for all the bitcoin users and investors as this second quarter of the year proves to be the most profitable part of the year for bitcoin then then the last quarter of the year up until the last week of the year as we see most of the dips happening from the last week of december till March next year.

We can not truely know the real reason behiend this change in price, but i think that there are tow reason that have lead to this, first are the transaction time and fees; in the last few months of 2017 the bitcoin network have seen a huge traffic that lead to the miner fees going up to some crazy numbers, and th transactions taking days weeks and even months to get confirmed which has made trading bitcoin an impossible thing, the sconde reason would be regulations; Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general have became a multi million dollar industry, which has put the govermments in a situation where they need to either accept it or bann it, so investors right now are holing their money, to make sure theier investment whon't be illeagal, but i am sure that in the near future all of this will be behiend us and the prices will go back to going up again.

the effect of the number of governments and states that banned bitcoin is very much felt, but all this is quite profitable for traders because significant price movements can make us profit from there.,

We can see that the price of bitcoin is increasingly steady and unchanging. By the end of 2017, the price of a bitcoin has reached $ 20,000, but after the contract has been signed, in the beginning of 2018 the price of bitcoin has fallen by nearly 50% and since then the price of bitcoin has fluctuated not much and only fluctuate around $ 8000-$ 12,500. It shows that the more popular the bitcoin is, the more it is recognized by many countries, the more stable it is, which shows more stability .

The incident can indeed have a negative and positive impact. Some people like traders certainly take advantage of the decision. Even a trader will probably hate stable bitcoin prices, they want a condition that often changes because then they can easily make a profit. Everyone has his own interests and now bitcoin prices are quite stable after a while ago there was a price chaos. But I am sure this will not last long, bitcoin prices will experience the incident as it has passed, we must be prepared to face it and calculation then the digital currency never experienced stable condition, this is because it all depends on the demand factor and this is the hallmark of digital currency.

There's always big player in the market and dont just make it a gut feel which are already present. We all know here about these whales and it will just depend on when and what coins they are pumping and dumping.

I think its still the FUD which makes the price a little stable up to this month. Also, Chinese new year is coming, a lot of people again are withdrawing because of these occasion.

Yes, bitcoin is at its bearish market right now. And on its bearish market, there were a lot of factors affected the market. And it's so ridiculous that many things made this effect. Those things made bitcoin's price go down so hard. Like those many fuds such as JP Morgan, bitconnect and many more. I wonder when will bitcoin will retain its price, but I am more certain that in February, it will.

It is strange this time. It has been long time and BTC is not moving up an fact it has created panic situation. What i think there might be few reasons-
1. Big players pumping and dumping
2. BCH is getting strong
3. Investors are investing more in Altcoins as they are loosing confidence
4. It is risky zone. No chances of Short
5. In fact if we go for long using Leverage there is risk of getting liquidated as it may go down by 2000$ anytime

So it will better to buy right now. Let them sell all their coins and I hope they regret it afterwards.
I believe in holdinhg it. Somehow there will be a big pump this year.

About the stability.
We just got used to a higher number of pumps and dumps and now we are thinking it is already in moderation.
But it is not. 300-400 dollars is a lot of movement.

Well, at this moment the value of bitcoin is likely the same as of January 2017. The reason is that many of our investors have withdraw there bitcoin from the last of december until the first week of January 2018. That makes it happen in the market have a lot of supply vs. the demand. Some of them are investing into potential altcoin because they think it can earned 10x as the price of altcoin now are so low a chances to buy a lot so they can guarantee that soon as altcoin will pump it has huge profit.

I think bitcoin just tired after rally from 5k to 20k. He need some time to rest, so 10-12k good level for that. Also we still in down-trend movement, but what I know that  price moving in circle and BTC will be back.

Thanks a lot for the brief explanation, it confirms my intuitions.

About bitcoin price it is a complex argument, I am going to do a different thread to discuus the topic.
The point is not only in therms of price, but also in therms of time.

If we create a function to determine trajectory, acceptance and price of bitcoin in the short/middle therm we should use:

which kind of people is investing in bitcoin
which is thier medium annual income
which country they are from
why they invest (believe/speculation)
Education in blockchain
Their job etc etc

But the most important variable is when they enter and how much fiat money they have invested and it is curious, because the price is in fiat money and it is fixed in the moment you buy bitcoin for the first time.

But how much is $10k if the next year 1 Bitcoin will be for example $54k?

The entire economy can change so rapidely that we couldn't even notice it (and I think is happening right now).

This is the magic of bitcoin, it's blowing the mind of many people and for this reason the perception of $10k is very relative in function of the vision you have in your mind.

Definitely for now bitcoin is not stable,it was normal that last december 2017 investors cash out their money due to in need for the holidays but suddenly until right now they did returned it maybe for some due reasons.But it was normal bitcoin can never be stable for so long its always flactuates and I think we just wait for the increasing of it.

When comparing to 2017 the price of bitcoin is up and down it is because of not stability in bitcoin and the investors also panic with the results of bitcoin soon all confusion will definitely clear the bitcoin investment and trading is continue without confusion on the mind of people .

I think that they have the current situation for Aladdin today but also the minds are cut off and will begin to understand that because of such instability, Bitcoin can not be a means to pay for purchases of goods or services. you can analyze the last month, in which Bitcoin rises very slowly from the bottom mark and hardly crosses the line of 12,000 dollars. This situation in my opinion will last a very long time.

Bitcoin price stay at this current rate because some trades or diverisify in altcoins. It is not tired rather bitcoin have its time in downtrend and it will uptrend anymoment. I can see bitcoin will be in momentum to go high so I am waiting for it to happen.

Who told you that the prices are stable? Even now the prices are either going down or up by as much as 10% in a single day, and there is enough opportunity for the day-traders to earn significant amount of profits. This scenario is likely to continue in February as well, as there is not going to be any big news regarding cryptos.

Maybe there was and error with his question or he was relying to the value of the bitcoin this January which ranges around $10k-$11k..
The price of bitcoin this month is not the basis that is stable, you are right that price really not stable but that doesn't mean that it is not worth to invest in it.

If it will happen Bitcoin price become stable. I'm sure there is manipulating the virtual blackchain market, because ever since people know that because of many traders in and out that's why flactuation of price because of it. For me if it is going to happen price become stable no reason why we stay in Bitcoin business

Because its New YEAR and should buy first before hold right? This is great opportunity for us to buy since it is still first month of 2018, the opportunity to buy more bitcoin and the opportunity to hold it because I am sure soon it will going to rise and pump again and every holders will become happy again. Well I hope I am one of them since I am still starting bitcoin and trading. Its good  for me to start with small amount or price of bitcoin and I now it will going to explode soon and all investors are going to sell their bitcoin as much as they become already satisfied on the price.

Yes, the price is quite a bit stable between 10K to 13K and keep between this range. I have heard from many sources and almost every one say that bitcoin will be 100,000K or even more value this year. So if this is true and it really happens, then this price of only 12K *current price" is a very good price to but a lot of bitcoins. Its still cheap if you compare it with 50 - 100K range.

I'd like to think about it as a purge. There were many people who jumped the wagon when btc was crazily pumping, people who probably don't know what they're investing on. It can't be untrend all the time so when the correction happened, the same people who didn't know much about crypto panic sold. We're probably seeing now holders waiting for the correction to finish that's why btc is pretty slow moving today.

I don't find it stable, maybe it is for the past week, January is not over yet to say Bitcoin is table in 2018

Just to clarify the word "stable" because I see different points of view here and I need to express better.

I meant that after the epic big run from $3K to $19K and a huge increase from $40B to $320B market cap from july to december 2017, Bitcoin price is now stabilized around $11-12K and market cap is fluctuating around $200-280B, without big increases at the moment.

So we passed from an increment of 700% in price and 800% in volume, to a variation of 10-15% in price and 40% in volume during this last month (after bloodbath).

Bitcoin was never stable to begin with. It takes the stairs up and takes the elevator right back down. It just so happens that price is consolidatiing after the dump since people are unsure of what might happen next.

I think with all that is happen in Asia, the market here is now quite stable.. but I excpect it will go into freefall soon, to hen go up to hights we have not seen yet :)

2017 has marked a breakthrough in the Crytopia market, and in 2018 I believe this jump is even greater because of having a lots homes, a lots persons who will know the digital  BTC, electronic money , applications and technology platforms, I belive BTC will increase strongly in the next time.  ;D ;D ;D

I don't think bitcoin value is stable now people only thinks so because the value don't pump or dump deeper than it used to in 2017 but to consider this as a stable value for 2018 for me is not since we are just heading the beginning of 2018 and bitcoin being unpredictable can surely change its value anytime. We are far from stability and I think that's one thing that will never lose on bitcoin nature it will continue to become volatile and unpredictable.

Between $10,000 and $13,000 is not meaning actual stable. The fluctuation of $3000 must be big and definitely get anyone big losses if they fail to predict the fluctuations correctly as 30% of oscillation cannot be classified as a stable prices. I'm not expecting bitcoin prices to stay stable in next to hundred years so it will be too yearly to call bitcoin prices stable in this year. We are in connection phase of recent huge rally so we cannot expect another rarely in more quicker time.

After bitcoin prices are reaching to previous high levels we can expect what we have experienced the in the past. I mean to say the volatility of bitcoin prices will come into action when bitcoin will be starting its another round of rally.

2018 has just started, and it's a bit early to say BTC price has been stable or unstable. That being said, I don't think we can call it stable right now. Many fluctuations in January, and every time it fluctuated the alts went down with it.

We are only entering the beginning of 2018 so it is very early to conclude that the value of bitcoin today is srable besides there still a fluctuations happening so I don't think this is really stable. As far as I know bitcoin become popular because of it's fluctuating value so I guess this will remain to happen and stability can no longer be a feature of bitcoin.

The whole year is ahead of us, and the ride is really bumpy so far  ;D There is no real stability, but the price changes are affected by peoples beliefs, government attacks, bans and other speculations. Still, people are getting more involved in the whole crypto-world, so I believe that the price will get its stability  :)

I just have one question for you,what you mean by a stable coin,in a general sense you would call something stable if the price is not moving much,but here the price variation even you are showing here is over a thousand dollars and you are still calling it a stable price,i call it a volatile valuation. :P

you have an interesting definition of stable. mostly boring and occasionally scary is a better description.

this is a dead time of year always and all of crypto just had the most incredible run. parties ain't meant to last. many exchanges are still closed to new users. google searches have cooled off big time.

consolidation after what just happened is the best case scenario. i'm not sure whether we're gonna get it.

Comrade, it's still early in the year. There are still many things that can happen in 2018 with Bitcoin. We still do not know and can not predict what will happen in the future. So we still do not know about what Bitcoin prices will be stable in 2018 or not. I'm not expecting bitcoin prices to stay stable, because I want the price down when I collect Bitcoin, and I want the price to go up when I invest, hahaha. Someone said : Bitcoin was never stable to begin with. It takes the stairs up and takes the elevator right back down. It just so happens that price is consolidatiing after the dump since people are unsure of what might happen next.

it's only the beginning of the year, you have to be patient.

A very very strange definition of stable, it's been nothing but stable. The price has probably changed more in terms of swings in this month than most others. Right now it's fairly stable but that's because of the consolidation and that a bottom seems to have been found.

maybe you have another definition of "Stability" cause I can't seem to agree with that, maybe we're just used to bitcoin prices surging like crazy like the other year. But todays market still shows sign of volatility though it's not the same as last year but we're just still in 1st quarter of 2018, so we can't be sure what lies in the future.

It is not that stable as people are thinking in fact the price of bitcoin really fluctuates now, and we don't have a concrete date when it will rise again, but it doesn't matter since a month has just passed so we are looking forward for a good start this coming month as someone said that it is already predicted that it would come up rise this coming month.

LoL - it is the first time that someone calls Bitcoin's price "stable".  :D
What's happening now is a consolidation of the price. Weak hands are selling, strong hands are buying and the process is in equilibrium, so that the price remains quite stable. Until it will break up either to the upside ot the downside.

It has only been a month so we can't really talk about its stability. Infact, it is gonna be very unstable at certain time of the year. Prices will rise to sky high and then they will drop like never before.

I hope the bitcoin price won't drop lower than 10K, otherwise it might be a tragedy for newcomers

We can see that by the end of 2017 the price of bitcoin has skyrocketed to $ 20,000, but only in the beginning of 2018 has the bitcoin price dropped to nearly 50 percent, hovering around $ 9,000- $ 15,000. We all know that in early 2018 Bitcoin signed a futures contract, which I think is precisely the reason why the price of bitcoin is stable at this level. I know bitcoin is preparing for the next futures contract.

We can say that it is so volatile not so stable. Also volatility means profit in here for day traders. For long term investors in is below 20k so I know there are a lot of people who bought btc around 16k.
This means these people should wait a little bit more than a few months at least to have their USD same with when they bought..

These are the aftereffects of major correction that had happen early this month.The investors are afraid and confuse whether to invest or to sell what they have.This situation is not only for bitcoin but dip has an adverse effect on every possible alt.There has been a panic situation all around and due to this lack of transactions the prices are at hold and it is not at all a great news but I am sure situation will only get better from now on and we will again see the domination of bitcoin on cryptoworld.

The market price of bitcoin can never be stable and that it will continue to change irrespective of the time and year. In the present year, the market value of bitcoin has never been stable. In fact, it kept on changing most of the times and still it is increasing very much significantly.

The volatile nature of bitcoin will never make this bitcoin having some stable market value. In fact, it will keep on fluctuating most of the time.

The price of bitcoin is not clearly stable in the past 30 days the price of bitcoin up and down, i dont know what is happen the price of bitcoin in the market. I think due to panic selling or low supply in the market.

I think there is not much thing happen in bitcoin trading recently so it makes the price of bitcoin not moves in high volatile.
Many people waiting for good time to act in bitcoin trading since last 2 weeks, price of bitcoin is bearish.

I see the bitcoin is increasingly stable, you see the price of bitcoin is only moving in the infinitely small as high as 10%. Show that bitcoin is at the threshold that we can buy, this is our chance, you probably know bitcoin has time up to $ 20,000 and I believe the bitcoin value is even higher that too.

It is not stable mate it continuously fluctuation but the fact is it is staying in between 10k to 13k but this time it will cross this barrier and people who are waiting for their profit since a lot of days their wait will be over soon and I am sure bitcoin will bless its every investor soon and those who haven’t bought yet have chance to buy it at some lower values at present so go and grab bitcoin and cash out in coming pump days.

Agreed, no doubt in it. Bitcoin is all about the growth. Maybe the time vary than what we've predicted for the growth to resume from the point from which it started to go downwards. With some exchange related regulations the price has been found stable, hope this will be overcome shortly.

In my opinion , the main reason why the value of bitcoin this past few weeks are stable between 11-12k is because the supplies of BTC in the market are enough. There is no shortage happening that cause the bitcoin to rise. And because all the demand are being sustain by the bitcoin, there will be no huge movement happen. And thats what make the bitcoin more safe than before.

Will be remembered with the unforgettable price movements of December 2017 and January 2018. But for me, Bitcoin price has been tested for stability in January, and for some weeks Bitcoin has shown little volatility.

Yes there is no more demand in the market, and I think people are not investing in bitcoins, maybe they are waiting for less price to buy bitcoins. And those who are holding bitcoins they are waiting for the best price to sell. Maybe because of this reason now the bitcoin price is stable.

January is always a slow period for the Bitcoin and Altcoin markets. Remember also that the Chinese Lunar New Year is coming so many of the Chinese whales are taking out their BTC and Altcoins so they can prepare for the biggest holiday for themselves and their families in China. Chinese New Year is the most important holiday for the Chinese People and they buy gifts and give red packages of money to their families.

The word 'stable' doesn't seem to fit with cryptocurrency, the price is going from hi to low within the range of 10k-12k. It's still to early to be worried about the value of bitcoin, surely it will recover from the current price dip.

It has always been unstable from the beginning! Put this in mind, 'stability' and 'guarantee' does not exist in the world financial market as it can soar and dive every so often brought about by so many factors that may be beyond ones control. This day certain is part of the risk you took when you decide to invest in Bitcoin. Hence, this price fluctuation should not appear shocking to your senses at all. Unless you have other observations based on the previous years that are unique in 2018? There could be plentiful school of thoughts on this but one thing is certain, this event is nothing unusual. Best for you to do is to take precautions.

We are only entering the beginning of 2018 so it is very early to conclude that the value of bitcoin today is srable besides there still a fluctuations happening so I don't think this is really stable. As far as I know bitcoin become popular because of it's fluctuating value so I guess this will remain to happen and stability can no longer be a feature of bitcoin.

many investors today do not care much about the stability of bitcoin. The fact is that many made their investments even at the level of $ 15,000, after Bitcoin broke its regular record of $ 20,000, so stability at the current price is of little interest.

No it is not really tire and bitcoin price stability does not make sense at all. Price of bitcoin use to get down in some time but at the same time again it sues to grow. Value of bitcoin is most popular thing that we can talk about, as much as the demand and value of bitcoin will increase the same way bitcoin will be popular and popularity and demand will increase the price of bitcoin so for me bitcoin will increase in coming couple of months.

I do not agree if it is said the price is currently stable. because of the facts in the market.
bitcoin so easily drop daily 1000-2000 usd or get up with the same amount with for the price at market right know . and be honest for small trader like me . Personally its makes me quite a heart attack to see the bitcoin prices are very easy to down with big amount.

It crashed in January.

In 2017 bitcoin has grown so many times as investors from other markets are beginning to be interested in bitcoin as a way to increase the investment in bitcoin. The demand for bitcoin investment increased sharply causing bitcoin to become scarce and increase a lot. But in 2018, when people have come to accept the value of bitcoin, it will be seen as a place to store assets and investors need more stability for bitcoins. So I think that in 2018 bitcoin will still grow well but not as strong as in 2017.

Totally Agreed with you. the price of 15k usd was an achievement beyond expectation by bitcoin itself.
which what I believe right know also the price will not be like 2017 ago. will probably give a few more years to show the price again. for now hodler just should enjoying roller coster of chart price.

Bitcoin price does not increase for a while :-[ i don't know it's priced whether will increase but i hope that next month bitcoin price will increase

Even myself didnt anticipate that price range of $15k since i was just expecting on ranges of 11k-13k even on this year of 2018 but it did pumped out more than on what we expect. Bitcoins price is never been stable but do move on small ranges as of now when we do try to observe which it seems like it just fueling before it would go to moon and op talking about 50k-100k isnt really realistic at all.

You're right, Bitcoin is expected to take a step up again so we shouldn't rush and judge its price by only the first month of this year, in my opinion this quite stable price make sense because things are taking time to get fixed, like the fees for example which they had a huge impact on the descreasement of bitcoin recently they are getting fluid and solved, so we should just wait and cross fingers.

This year is just beginning  ;D
Bitcoin is going to show many surprises to us!!

we can`t state any theories for 2018 yet because we are in the first month of 2018 but the price has been same also in 2017 and that`s why they say btc is volatile.

Whole of January was hopeless :( can't believe bitcoin is so stable right now :(

That's what happened since january 2016 to january 2017 and that's what happened until now by the january of 2018 I can not explain how this happens but it also depends on providing bitcoin prices.

This is some kind of tradition when it comes to bitcoin.For the last few years,there has always been this kind of correction at the beginning of the year.For sure things will pick up soon and we ll be back to the moon.Fill your bags whilst you can.

The year of 2018 is just starting. No one can notice or know what may happen next and by that, we dont need to be worry. Because maybe one day or soon the price of bitcoin will get boom and rise up again.

This is normal cycle of bitcoin price, it so early for him pump up. We don't need to worry about it, we know bitcoin he will pump and double his price on november to december so just hodl and get ready.

I am expecting the price to remain in these levels at least for next couple of months from now. Then after the first quarter of this year, we will see sustainable growth, Unlike the reckless price rally that took place in the last quarter of the last year. The current price level is a result of the same price rally which brought the correction in the market and I appreciate it because it helps Bitcoin not only to stabilize its price but also to grow in the long run.

The price is not stable, it is actually moving within the range of 11k-12k. Despite of the low price this should not cause panic, this is just the beginning of the year and more exciting things are yet to come.

Because Big Trader taking rest from BTC for some day's. Also, Bitcoin baning & Regulation create a fear in Market.  Lot's of Traders are in big loss for recent drop. Maybe more reason can happen for BTC Stable. But it will definitely increase.

We can see that by the end of 2017, the price of bitcoin has increased rapidly to $ 19,800, but by the beginning of 2018, the price of a bitcoin has fallen by nearly 50% to $ 11,000 at the present time. only delivery. That's about $ 2,000. I think the price of this bitcoin is stable due to the popularity of bitcoin as well as its utility being spread throughout the country. In addition, bitcoin issued by Korea and China with strict policies also makes investors cautious.

Stable? I do not see any stability on the market of crypto. Bitcoins (and alts) are constantly go up and down, and it is the time to stay away from BTC trading (temporary).

True, bitcoin is stable but ethreum is just behaving like bitcoin wallet last year,

We are in the bottom. It's good time to buy now. It should start growing back

But in previous year in 2017, in very beginning months of 2017 the  bitcoin price was shoot up too much. If we review the whole 2017 we can that bitcoin price continue increasing its price throughout the year. We even see bitcoin price touching 19000$, and the same was expecting from the people but in 2018 everything is different and bitcoin price is trading in a very stable mood in 2018. But still hope that its price will get the accelerator and very soon we will see bitcoin price trading above 20000$.

There were a lot of FUD, impacting news, etc at the starting of this year which usually gave us the price which is more stable then the previous years. I guess, the price for bitcoins will again turn back to normal once everything is back to normal. Also most of the peoples have sold their coins in panic at the starting of the year as they came under the FUD that bitcoins will be banned soon, or they will run away or anything else. Also the government is trying to ban this decentralized currency which is usually causing the high flow of their centralized currency into the decentralized currency which does not give them the ability to track and apply taxation to that amount of funds stored in bitcoins.

This is not easy to find and buy bitcoin at cheap rates and if it is available at present, we should not miss this chance. Bitcoin is supposed to increase in value beyond expectations in the coming days and this is for sure that all experts are very much concerned about piling up bitcoin into their wallets these days for enjoying massive profits in the near future. Bitcoin is an amazing investment and hence it is proved by its phenomenon performance of last year.

Since China and South Korea been in buzz this start of the year that makes newbies panic, well it was really the time to buy more ,it might be the first and the last dump of the year for bitcoin , I just think of it that way to inspire me to buy and hold more till bitcoin arise again.

Too early to say that Bitcoin price is stable in 2018. It's the first month of the year, and we actually saw strong variations in the past few weeks.

People feel that bitcoin has rally so much in 2017 despite all the negativity and several fork trying to limit bitcoin growth. The saw bitcoin that was resilient and solid. I think people's confidence in bitcoin have grown to a point where bitcoin is consider as an asset both for now and especially for future.

Volatile is just characteristic of all cryptocurrency include bitcoin.
This volaite now is not so high maybe people decide to wait and see what bitcoin will do.
No big investor come into bitcoin also one of the reason.

Bitcoin is not going to be stable for a long time but the context here is that bitcoin has been moving a lot less in the recent weeks, and that is correct but the reason for that is simple, there is not much reason for any kind of movement to happen, the bad news are not that bad, something that can only affect the price temporarily, and there has not been any kind of big good news either, that is why we are stuck in the 10k-11k range.

The conclusion is to wait a lot better, we can still open up opportunities to reach much higher bitcoin prices so we will get a sizeable profit. I am very confident that there will be an increase in bitcoin prices later, many people are predicting that bitcoin will surpass the highest level ever achieved in 2017. I want to be part of that bitcoin price increase and I want to take the best momentum I can get.

Only those people can get benefit from bitcoin, who have the courage to hold bitcoin in current panic like situation. Although there is not such a big panic selling but bitcoin price is not get moving forward for a long time which compel people to sell their holding  bitcoins. To me i think it is right to say that bitcoin will cross his all time high price very soon, because we are expecting some good news about bitcoin which will really boost the bitcoin price.

That's absolutely true but still there are bunch of people who are easily made to believe that bitcoin will be banned and whenever there is a slightest dump there are made to believe that as end of bitcoin and forced to sell it at lower price we need a proper community.

I think the main reason for this so called "stability" is as a result of investors being afraid of losing their investments as government keeps changing its stance over how cryptocurrencies will be used so people are not so active for now...which explains its stability

I agree with you but the last days of January has been pretty stable

The stability of the bitcoin price is because of that it's making a base along the current price. This is not bad news, this is good news for bitcoin. It will be able to make better price rallies in the future.

1. It is just January, and if you take a look at the same period last year you will see that BTC is always kind of "in silence" for the first couple of months every year.
2. Well, it is normal people is just holding for the moment, but I don't believe this to be the only reason.
3. China has banned BTC and it is just recovering from all the bad publicity that has come with it.
4. I just believe this is normal. If you see the behaviour of BTC from the last couple of years, it seems to be a kind of friki loop.

I suspect that the price is being supressed by big wall street investors.  Goldman has a bitcoin trading desk opening soon for example, and there is lots of other wall street stuff brewing.  These guys have the knowledge and resources to control price to a large extent and I suspect they are doing so to accumulate at lower prices, set up shop, before things explode more.  They don't want to miss the boat so they are steering it.

Also there are problems with bitcoin not keeping up with other coins.  Lots of in fighting and shenannegans, this may be encouraging people to buy alt coins in stead.

Don't worry though, the ingredients that caused the huge 2017 run up are still there, and institutional investors are just getting started.  I think price will increase again.  Just be patient.

I suggest that if you trade to this time, bitcoin price are tangible to this time which is when you sell or buy it, there's a chance that everything is falling. I think you could come back during 'ber months it's because the price is demand and people will know that it is Christmas. One thing to know is when the buyers think that it's  good enough to sell that's the best signal as I think.

We are only one month into the year, we’ll see lots of price fluctuations this year. There will also be periods where the price doesn’t change much.


The price is going to depend on many factors including: supply and demand, price manipulation, bad or good news, new coins or technology in the market, government regulations, business adoption, etc.  With all these variables, it’s hard to make price projections.

So much parameters control the bitcoin price , and right now we are living a rather stable phase that marks every year's beginning through the history of bitcoin , and i'm surprised that the price haven't dropped much more than this especially after the new government regulations that have been announced in both china and south korea .
This phase will certainly benefit the market since people will be further encouraged to invest in cryptos since all of them has dropped in value thus making it an opportunity for people to acquire some coins . We'll certainly face a lot of price fluctuations this year but things will certainly go for the better since a lot of problems have already been sorted up at the same time with the network clearing up to less than 37k unconfirmed transactions (was more than 150k a week ago .. ) .
What we should learn tho , is that large users base concentrations such as in China could affect the market hugely , especially after so many people cashed out their coins to enjoy their holidays for the New Lunar Year , we should know from now and on that any coin supported by Chinese whales could be affected by such events and thus thinking twice before going all in for it .

I think the price of bitcoin was severe in early 2018 because in 4 weeks there was a lot of bad information related to bitcoin and other coins causing bitcoin's price to be disastrous. We can see that in Korea and China there are tightening regulations for bitcoin trading as well as minimizing bitcoin buyers in their countries. And last but not least, the Tether has so much bad news that the market is hit hard.

I think the heavy fall of bitcoin in value has left many investors worried. We all know that bitcoin prices were only $ 4,000 in the past four weeks, but now it's down 50% to $ 10,000. I think that the decline was due to the bad news from the Chinese and Korean charges that severely affected the value of bitcoin.

I cannot also say that 2018 price for Bitcoin would be stable considering we are at the first month of the year maybe the thread starter want to point out the consolidation of bitcoin at 10k - 11k$. since we are in bearish expect more up and down in bitcoin price and stability may far at this time.

Yeah we are in the first month of the year then if you look up the chart of price movement compared last year or the other year are the same in this year. Bitcoin was dumping on this month or first quarter of the year and it is bouncing back again around last quarter of the year like what happen last year. And other factor of being stable of price now that was some of country are keep banning bitcoin and it is effect the demand of bitcoin and also the price. So, if you hold some bitcoin may i suggest you that hold as you can.

I wouldn't call the price stable per say. However, the price is figuring out which direction it wants to go. We are starting to see a resistance level. If you look at the short-term moving averages we could also be heading towards a slump (hopefully not a crash).

this is really a price war. many people who are scaring of the future of Bitcoin sell in panic meanwhile many really investors choose this time to buy BTC with low price. i think BTC will rise a gain in next few months

Considering the fact that the year just started, it is still too early to jump into conclusion, regarding the state of bitcoin. The market is not static and so, cannot be stable. I see the market being at equilibrium and trying to get a support, which is why the price is hovering around 10k - 11k. 

I believe there will be a bitcoin price increase, and many predict that in 2018 the bitcoin will surpass the highest level that bitcoin has achieved by 2017. Someone could benefit from bitcoin because they The courage to keep bitcoin. I think the confidence of the people in bitcoin has risen to a point where bitcoin is considered an asset for both now and especially for the future.

All those who know about bitcoins, they must not be talking these stupid things about bitcoins. There are trends for it. Whenever some high pump came, there is a deep dip after than pump is expected and this is happening right now. Just consider the prices at the time of charismas.

It was fantastic to see the prices jumping on jump pad and they were increasing with much high rate. So hold them a good time is coming.

Every asset over time achieve the stability and reduce the volatility as time passes. Cryptocurrency is emerging market and just due to money influx there is a lot of movement. As time passes this will get stabilize due to stability in in flow and out flow.

Options and Future are other things that help the price to achieve stability and volatility reduction.

It could be something as simple as the majority of traders are unwilling to sell below 10k. Therefore they are not  accepting offers below this figure. Meaning the community has imposed this lower cap.

We just entered 2018. Bitcoin went through a tremendous fluctuation in past few months. It’s sitting down and breathing before it starts the run again. Also there is a lot of FUD in the market, basically history repeating itself in a lather scale. I wish I had more detailed answer but we all are trying to figure this out.

At the beginning of year 2018 Bitcoin price around the 10-11k$ really this price level or range stable and effective. But price level around 15000$, so stable and trusted.

in my opinion this situation is normal since this is just a first quarter and same as what we had wayback 2017..and to clarify its not just bitcoin whos suffering from this price drop,almost all of coins are in same movement,if you will monitor the market flow for the whole day,you will find that similarities of alts and bitcoin is almost the same

Struggling, bitcoin market in risk to get drop even lower to get crash even worse. If then bitcoin value could survive at the price range of $12k to $13k for at least a couple weeks it might would remain volatile then. That's my thought.

The sooner people realise bitcoin needs to go, the better. Its old tech, minimal uses, slow, expensive transactions, even with the lightning network, segwit etc that doesn't future proof it from other coins doing the same or better, which they will. Its dropped 44% this month (not including its peak to $20k in December but only from this the start of the year when it was $17k) and ETH which peaked at the start of this month has only dropped 22% in the exact same time period. More people are ditching BTC for ETH, what reason is there to stay with BTC? If people are ditching BTC for ETH or other coins then there's no way BTC will increase anywhere near as much as ETH or other coins. It doesn't matter what the price of one coin is as you can buy in decimals anyway, what matters is if there's room for growth and 99% of other coins have much, much more room for growth than BTC. They need to decouple BTC's extreme effect on alt coin value and tie it to something else like ETH as BTC is a dinosaur holding them back more than anything.

It will, for sure because as what we knew that the price is flactuated and we do not have to worry about this because we have a choices either we hold or sell. But for me the exact way is to hold until such time will rise. If that day will happen cheerish every bitcoiner.

Yeah for sure the price of bitcoin will increase again,  do not miss the chance to get a big profit because this is the best time to invest in bitcoin. I'm sure it will rise again good for investors of bitcoin.

Well, define “stable”. In the first place, it is only january. In the second, I don’t believe the price is stable right now, there are fluctuations of over $1000 per week, which means a lot of money if you think on those who have a significant number of them, or if you attend to the big picture here, I mean, the market current value of BTC itself.

If you take a look of the whole history of BTC, you will see  it was “stable” for years (from july, 2013 to approximate the spring of 2017). Since there, it has been going up and down, and I think thats precisely the reason we see it now as  “surprisingly stable”.
Look at the graphic below.  The whole history of BTC versus the last year. It has been crazy from the last 11 months.
So, what I mean, is: stable or not, it depends only on your own perspective and on what do you compare the current situation.

Thinking on the future, I believe it is going get up and down all 2018 until, at least, it reaches a “stable” price. It depends directly on how it is going to be use, if as a current coin (for instance, for payments in Amazon, or so), or as it has been use, principally from the last year: as an investment on speculation market.

Yes, the trend has changed during the las days, it has been more or less the same during january and now is going to the bottom gaining more volatility as in the last months.

Talking about stability, I don't think bitcoin will reach a stable price, I like to imagne bitcoin variations (in therms of $) ever stronger when we'll reach 2/3 trillions market cap, but we will get used to.

The revolution wll be so strong that bitcoin will be influenced more and more by geopolitical events, reaching a new sphere of dominance and position in the global economical system.

The game is fascinating me every day more, I am very curious to see how community will react now, because the situation is very different from past years. Now there are millions of people holding their own bitcoins (or fractions of it) and if we all understand that holding is the key to make bitcoin great, bitcoin price will rise target that we even imagine during 2018.

" Why is bitcoin price so stable in 2018"
Really?
Are you sure we are speaking about the same Bitcoin?
BTC is taking diving lessons right now...

Bitcoin price will not became stable ,yeah its going down but its flactuating and we all know that being dump in crypto is normal just wait for the increasing of price everything will be going alright soon.Dont panic bitcoin will not going to be stable ,holding on is the best way and hoping for rising of value again.

And it has crashed again. The price in 2018 is not stable at all.

my apologies
definitively Bitcoin is not so stable
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

09 Jan 2018: $15,000
10 Jan 2018: $14,000
11 Jan 2018: $13,000
16 Jan 2018: $12,000
16 Jan 2018: $11,000
17 Jan 2018: $10,000
01 Feb 2018: $9,000
02 Feb 2018: $7,800

We were discussing it today, I think that cryptocurrencies make us loose the sense of time and helps us in a certain way to learn how to deal with strong emotions

cryptocommunity will came out from this last ride reinforced.

Stable? Are you serious? I think you're confusing something. Bitcoin is completely unstable, as well as any other currency. The rate is rising then falling but recently there has been a noticeable tendency to decline.

Saying stable is not right under the current actions. The price dropped significantly and affrected the other altcoins negatively in the biggest manner.

I firmly believe that the price of bitcoin will not be stable in 2018, because within one month the price of bitcoin has been continuously adjusted from $ 19800 to $ 16000 then $ 12000 and the time The current bitcoin price is only $ 9000 after the Indian bitcoin ban. In the beginning of the year, the price of bitcoin has been extremely volatile, which suggests that bitcoin will continue to fluctuate continuously and show no signs of stabilization.

Bitcoin and all altcoins will become more hype this 2018 its because a huge portion of stockmarket holders and forex traders are joining the crypto currency. Just try to imagine if all altcoins and Bitcoin reach trillion market cap each.

If you are talking of price correction, yes. But there is nothing to show the price is stable. The level of FUD is very high, giving way to panic selling.

I personally think USD5k is very likely. Reasoning: during a crash of a bubble, the baseline to the start of the original parabolic growth is very likely; as those who enters after that point in time are paying, increasingly, exponentially more to enter into the market as the price went up way too fast.

4.5USD? maybe.. some even predicts that it might go down to 2kUSD eventually this round (but I am kinda sceptical).

It has risen slightly as some whales decides to buy in, however, the drop might not be just over yet (I don't see a sudden change as a real recovery), until all the negative news have finished rolling out. Hard to tell if the market have switched into bearish/bullish phase base on events occurring in an hour or two, or even 12hrs or a day sometimes.

I think it will likely go down to USD7k, and stabilize a while; and might go down even further till mid Feb(?)

Basically, it could very well continue to drop in phases, as the regulatory news starts rolling out + countries staying that they are considering banning it completely, etc. More are certainly to come.

In the longer term, hopefully, there will be an accumulation of an increasingly experienced HODLers to provide a more stable higher baseline?

I'm not an experienced trader, but these are just my own personal pondering and thoughts.

It is because of such ignorant people who are getting involved and cannot handle the pressure which makes then sell the coins in this panic selling moment. If people just hold it and do not sell automatically price will come where buyers will buy at greater price than the seller who is selling at lower price during panic selling mode. This will actually give them only the higher price than they selling at lower price

I will have to admit, no matter what happen in the future, as long as there are big whales that still dominating the market then the price of bitcoin will not be easily to become stable, to make bitcoin become stable in such a short time, we need a very long time to grow and develope new regulations and systems that can make bitcoin under control price. it may become stable but it will be a very far future.

The price of bitcoin is far from stable and there can never be any market that is stable. The market must experience an up and down movement. The price of bitcoin was only lingering within a range, which has now gone below that range. The stability of the currency cannot be determined.

Bitcoin has earned this trust after too much hard work. It was never easy for bitcoin to be on the top of the list of crypto currencies and to maintain its position. The market is full of competition and the thing is that bitcoin has the largest market among all right now and people are really after this coin because at present it is accepted worldwide. Even now billionaires have started investing into this mighty coin.

very good information that even billionaires are beginning to invest in the crypto currency. But why is it Proved? Where do we get this information? In fact, we practically invent new news and transfer them to each other here on the forum. So I'm not sure that many rich people buy crypto currency.

People like that will always exist, the same happens in all the markets believe me, you have people that buy stocks not knowing anything about stocks and they get burned, so what we see is something that not only happens in bitcoin but in any investment, so what we need is to control ourselves and not be like those people that sell at the first sign of problems, fortunately many of the people in the forum believe in holding for the long term and that helps them and bitcoin as well.

I think you're kidding!!!
How can you call "stable" something that daily jumps up and down by 10%/15%?
This is a crazy level of volatility, not stability!
Btw, in these days we saw a bloody campaign against bitcoin, crypto and ICO, but it's interesting how well bitcoin resisted.
I predict a big growth in the next months, may be with the same percentage of 2017.
We'll see.

I think there is big amount of bitcoin investment inflow from Indian politician who manipulate the rate of bitcoin and volume of the investment make big impact that's why bitcoin price so stable in 2018.

bitcoin price is everything at the moment but not stable. we are witnessing a downward trend, 12% down today, and almost 50% dip of the month. things possibly can get worse after G8 decisions. Ad banners already removed from chinese websites. like somebody is trying to destroy the concept of cryptocurrency.

I never believed bitcoin could bw stable. To the fact that nothing has been backing it up,  it can never be stable in terms or prices.  As we all know,  prices is being driven by the investors,  community,  and news regarding cryptocurrency.  It is neither regularize on spme places in the world.  Thus stability is hard to reach in this kind of investment. 

BTC didn’t get past our resistance or hold above $9.2k - we’re watching for a double bottom in the $7.6k range.

Keep your head ! Well, we’ve just started this year 2018, yep it’s too early to have a boom immediately. We all know that bitcoin brings its volatility, so if you say bitcoin’s price is stable, you maybe get wrong. As you know, although nobody can predict surely or exactly whether this price will be, but in fact almost of them both rely on the prediction of some experts because sometimes due to their analyzing carefully, something can keep going right by the way they predict. In any way, bitcoin’s price will be never keep in stable, this is impossible.

Looking at the market value of the bitcoin since last few days, we cannot claim this thing that the worth of bitcoin is stable in this year. In fact, the market value of bitcoin is highly volatile though it going constantly down but even then we can really for the good days in the near future. Things are little disturbed now-a-days but there is no such need of getting panic. Just relax and stay cool.

Mind one thing, one country never make a difference on this world of coins. And if you suppose this statement then you can never forget about Japan and China. They are investing with best efforts and they supposed to be controlling a bigger part of international market. But still they don’t have any obvious effect on bitcoin market, still everything is going good and this will keep going on.

The whales will not be such a big problem if all they did was to sell their coins so new people interested in bitcoin can hold or if they just keep holding, but that is not what happens, whales try to manipulate the price and use all kind of tricks to do it, they make the price dump and then when the price is very low they buy becoming even greater whales and making the problem even worse.

Will bitcoin price go to $7.6k in the next week?

We're just in beginning 2018 now and because FUD news from big country holder bitcoin south korea and china also make bitcoin price drop like now. I think bitcoin price not stable now but we don't need worry because maybe bitcoin price slow but sure will get boom and rise up again soon.

It's not stable I think it has more than 1000$ change
but one word is enough it's not time of btc
we are at the begining of altcoin season

Struggle is real for Bitcoin early this year. It will really test bitcoin's stability, especially with governments from around the world thinking of ways how to stop it,( coz they know they wont profit from people's use of this), or how can they profit from this which will really affect people freedom on trading and/or use of cryptocurrency.

I would not call BTC's price in January exactly "stable", there is a big war between bulls and bears going on right now that is keeping the price within one range, until it will be cleared the winner between bulls and bears.

According to recent market trends, bitcoin prices fell below $ 7,000, and recent days have risen to more than $ 8,000. But in this landmark bitcoin has stopped. No further increase. I think the bitcoin market is getting saturated, because so many other altcoins are born, they have taken away a large number of bitcoin investors. Therefore, supply and demand in the bitcoin market have decreased.

Can't say exactly why price is stable this year but I'll talk about one task which was mentioned here: if bitcoin reaches $30-50k then it will be very difficult for newcomers to buy bitcoin for buying altcoins in the exchanges.
I can say that one main reason will be fees which will not give possibility bitcoin to reach 30-50k. If I have to send 100$, why will I pay 20$ in it? So not only newcomers but no one will use it for sending/receiving. It will only become coin for investing but if people won't use it for transactions, coin will die slowly.

Stable is not the right word at this moment, I think you need to see chart again. Actually, no one know how bitcoin can high, low or stable because market always move with million transactions every second. Even people with big fund can't control market because market will move also need news for speculation action. I'm not fundamental trader/ investor, just people with number and MACD indicator. Maybe you're right but I have another one and will disciplines with that. Good luck with you.

For the past few days I think prices are more likely to be stable you can see it on the price chart just spinning in the $ 8000 range. I don't know the price can be stable for a few days but I think it's a good chance for you to make a profit easily. because you can know the bitcoin price change that happened?
but that does not mean this year is only stable price that happens in bitcoin. is this just the beginning of the year dude? and not necessarily the bitcoin era is over lol

When you made this thread, the price of bitcoin is really stable, not much move in the market.
But after that, the price was going to low and its very bad. But i dont worry with this because i believe bitcoin not stop this way.

Bitcoin price is stable in the year 2018 and it is the part of this year that many businesses will be developed in the present year. Bitcoin is good to have the future like if we buy bitcoin today now the price is low as compared to a month ago So if we buy bitcoin on excess money then it is good for the future if we need future profitability then we will sell our bitcoin,

It is too early to say that this price correction is already finished. we will see clear movements on march and i am excited about it. for this year 2018 bitcoin can reach 30,000 to 40,000 USD

Bitcoin cannot reach those prices with a single person trying to buy bitcoin with a one hundred dollar bill, the amount of money needed for that is going to be massive, and it will come mostly from institutional investors getting their hands in as much bitcoin as they can and we can only tell how high the price will become after that since institutional investors are not going to invest money in bitcoin just to lose it.

if bitcoin to have a value of 30-50k $ it is a pantastic price and haga is not worth the bitcoin. because the bitcoin has never been stable ....

Maybe Bitcoin finally has a "Fair" value, and become less volatile.

This is actually beneficial to the whole community as volatility was one of the reasons impeding widespread adoption.

i believe bitcoin still need a long time to become stable, even rightnow, the price is still being manipulated by big whales, they can easily control the market forever whenever they want, due to the pumps and dumps they and even us can get profit from trading, so there is no easy for bitcoin to become stable this soon, but many corrections more to become a better coin.

I believe that in 2018 the digital money market will grow exponentially and more and more new projects on older projects will grow stronger. It is possible to see that every country in the world has been very interested in this market and there have been a lot of countries that have joined and recognized bitcoin as a legitimate trading currency. I think in 2018 This bitcoin price will reach $ 50,000.

from your opinion I feel if all this happens there are big players who toy bitcoin with pump and dump in bulk to get profit. so this is common and in the near future the coin will return to normal and can be at the highest price.

In this month of january 2018 the bitcoin price is so dip will im hopefully this coming months of 2018 the price of bitcoin will recover and hit the high price and stable in high value for the sake of people in crypto currency.

I believe the bitcoin price will be very difficult to stabilize in 2018, we can see that in the first 5 weeks of 2018 we have witnessed tremendous changes from the market, the bitcoin price has changed not after $ 19800 milestone. With the restriction of the shipping of water as China, Korea and India, I think bitcoin price will be difficult to fly high, although the bitcoin price has returned to the level $ 9600 and is still on the rise.

https://www.ccn.com/cryptocurrency-market-stable-at-450-billion-bitcoin-remains-above-10500/ (https://www.ccn.com/cryptocurrency-market-stable-at-450-billion-bitcoin-remains-above-10500/)
...market cap estabilized...even if I hope it will go up soon

I agree.It's still too early to say that bitcoin price has become so stable.I know it will happen soon but after 10-20 years maybe.Right now,i think there are really big whales controlling the price and so expect also that from time to time new fluctuations will occur.I think in the last trimester of this year comes a very high speed of increase,and then comes a price correction before this year ends.

I think that they have the current situation for BTC today but also the minds are cut off and will begin to understand that because of such instability, Bitcoin can not be a means to pay for purchases of goods or services. There were many people who jumped the wagon when btc was crazily pumping, people who probably don't know what they're investing on

i think that the reason is traders, investors are worried about the future of bitcoin because govement's of some countries have plans to control the bitcoin or coinmaket, or ban mining or trading.... they sell their coins.. that makes bitcoin price so table

Yeah the traders often worry about the price after hearing any bad news but they do not know that the price depend on them and if they will not worry about the price and will not sell panic then the price will continue to grow with the passage of time as the trust increases in it and in the strength of the coin.

We can see that bitcoin prices are rising incredibly and altcoin prices are going down dramatically. Bitcoin prices are recovering steady and steady, and you can see that more and more people are investing in bitcoins and bitcoins are not being dominated by a large number of bitcoin owners.

I'd think with more mainstream adoption you would have a more stable Bitcoin price.  Regular people aren't able to trade in and out of things like most veteran crypto traders.  Or they just don't have the time to do so.  That's my guess on it.  I'm sure there are many more factors then that thou.

We saw bitcoin bull run in 2017 but now, as usual, we saw a dump like every year.its natural correction but as usual bitcoin price will head on 17k this coming month and then mid-year we will see another bull run.most probably 30k USD soon.

Time to look at the basics.

You've a finite amount of this 'digital asset' which has come through ridiculous amounts of regulation and other negative impacts, an ever increasing amount of demand for it and accessibility improving all the time. I very much doubt this 'stability' will last long! ;)

I don't think bitcoins price has been stable in 2018 the price fluctuations have been double digits multiple days in a row on a few occasions. However if you consider how quick the price rose from 6k to 20k being where it is now is pretty remarkable. But I don't know, if a coin is increasing if you take a longer term view would it still be classed as stable despite the huge short term fluctuations?

The reason why bitcoin price is so stable in two thousand eighteen (2018) because the price of bitcoin is not fix price to everyone and the demand of them invertors is getting higher
because of them company that very well known.

In my opinion, BTC stabilizes prices because there are so many other altcoin born, they have attracted some investors to hold them. Therefore, BTC has lost a large number of investors holding, selling and buying BTC market should not push up the price of BTC increased.

The buying and selling of BTC is on an equal footing. Investors are trading all over the hours, because too many altcoin was born that made the price of BTC stable.

Sorry to say, but I think you need to redefine your definition of stability because as far as I can see, this still is the most volatile asset on the face of earth. Bitcoin is a long way from becoming stable. Any market takes many years before it achieve stability and crypto currencies are yet in infancy. More and more people are getting aware of this coin and the investment is increasing.

I think the thing is that the main growth of the crypto market has not begun. Personally, I try to keep my cryptocurrencies on the hardware wallet and just not look at the current prices. In a few years it will be possible to look and, as I hope, to be pleasantly surprised...

I am not sure that stable is the right word to describe it mate. We are not even in the middle of the year and Bitcoin has already moved up and down about twice or trice in the past months. Whether little or big, whether for a couple of weeks or only for days, the fact is, it is showing movement, which shows that it's not stable just yet. It fell to 6.2k dollars last month and has risen to about 10k just weeks ago, so given that, we can't say that it has really been stable.

This surprise may be unpleasant. Many cryptocurrency in a few years will disappear altogether. We must constantly be aware of the events and monitor the price.

That's true, I think the stability is because of the fact that people in this market knows how to follow the trends and use it to their advantage unlike those earlier times when they are not sure of what will happen, and so, they are not also sure of what to do. But, having had the same movement and trend for years, it has taught many people on how to be patient and how to ride with the market to make it, ultimately, profitable to them. It's just a matter of experience and learning, which helps the market be more stable.

I find it not that stable,  the price was down few months ago and now the btc price is currently rising. I believe that the price will surely change anytime and may rise and fall again.

What do you think is happening?
Bitcoin has decreased but not drastically, because all of its crypto currency is just as it goes up and down.

Is people hoding less their coins?
could also, they exchange Altcoins with fiat and when it starts up, they buy again the Altcoins.

Is there more manipulation by big whales, speculators or big institutional investors trying to profit the flavor of the moment?
if I look at the charts and some telegram groups is true there is manipulation of whales, because its up and down in the direct it just like that.

The reason behind why bitcoin price so stable in the year of two thousand eighteen it
because the year of two thousand eighteen is in the more demand business in this industry because of their great performances to the past years that can improve their services.

In my own opinion, there is no price manipulation in the market, the reason why cryptocurrency right now is dropping is because of people who are preferring to sell their coins more than investing or holding.

Actually it's not stable bitcoin has never been stable. It is always volatile sometimes it's weak and sometimes strong like a big deep and big high. It's depend of the demand. One thing I sure that bitcoin has never been stable.

I believe you can also see that the bitcoin price is not stable, at present it can be seen that the market is bearish in the long term so it is very difficult to trade successfully. Bitcoin prices, although recovering slightly, may turn down sharply at any time. So you can believe that the market is in crisis and bitcoin prices will continue to fall deep in 2018.

What do you think is going on?
Market as usual during 2013-2018, you can see the price chart here: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

Do people prefer to reduce their coins?
I do not think so, because I still hold the Altocin I bought in January 2018

Are there more manipulations by large whales, speculators, or large institutional investors trying to take advantage of the sense of the moment?
I think there must be something like that, because when a company or group has a lot of Bitcoin, then they can raise and lower the price like they want it.

I think the reason behind it is the continuous hack of exchanges as well as different fud popping out in the market- once this season is done there will be more money pouring in the market

that's right dude, if bitcoin price stable we will not see price at $20k.this volatility make bitcoin able to make new high after down sharply.so dont worry about its volatility.

There is no influence if the bitcoin price reaches 50k, because it is increasingly expensive, people increasingly believe that bitcoin has a good future for its investors.

2018 is not yet ended. Don't stock up on that mind setting that it will end with a low value at the end of the year because we are in a half of the year, there are remaining months. I'm not expecting too much on this because it is normally goes down every year, lol. 2018 is not yet ended guys, calm down.

I think that the price of crypto currencies is relatively stable now that the crypto currency market needs to recover a bit after a very rapid growth. Starting in the autumn, we are likely to see another wave of price increases.

Yes exactly, that's what I see as well. There's no possible way that a market can shoot up thousands of percentile and keep going unflinching, no matter how fundamentally strong it is. It takes time to recover, and everything that goes up must come down again. Not necessarily all the way down, but far enough down to regain energy for the next move upwards. It's as simple as a wave. We go up for a long period of time until it cannot support itself any longer, then drop down and wait until the time is right for another shot up.

And 6 months after OP first created this topic, Bitcoin has proved otherwise in terms of its price. At the time of creating this thread, Bitcoin was valued somewhere $17K to $10K. In between January and July, Bitcoin's pricyhas hit a bottom of around $5800. Thats like 70% down from the all time high value. This goes to show that nothing goes up forever or nothing is too resistant enough to avoid a dip. Pub-leeze, Even Facebook lost over 20% of its market share.