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do you agree, if the future of bitcoin is determined from current performance? I do not panic, I just expect the best as you hope right too.
2018 to the moon and repeats a brilliant history like the year 2017.

I agree. We can able to see the peak as like in 2017.Just remember the past the huge raise of the price was occur at the end of the year. It may be after August, increased from 2500$ to 19,000$in certain short period. Now the price is around 8500$,soon the price of bitcoin will reach out the new moon.

Exactly, you should never panic. Just sit there and watch your bitcoins lose value day after day after day. Just keep dreaming that it will increase again and you will feel happy!

Do not 'expect' the best because that's when you will become negligent in your decisions. Carefully consider things and make the best decision you can. I believe the market will recover but if I didn't I would not hold out of blind faith.

Well if we are going to based it in the last three years, bitcoin is somewhat dormant in the first quarter of the year and then pick up around June and goes to all-time-highs every month then.

So with that said, Its safe to assume that we can repeat another great performance this year as well. But don't expect that the growth we see last year can be replicated again. The situation has change, there's a lot of regulations going on. But definitely another great year. I'm seeing we can double the last previous high, so maybe around $40K this year.

That is my expectations too I expect the price to move so high in 2018 that I have told many of my friends to invest in bitcoin and cryptocurrency but many of them are currently regretting and find it difficult to believe in what I have told them.  I hope the situation changes in no time and we have improved situation as the coins keep on dashing people hope.

Everyone is really hoping that ca can all recovered from the bearish trend.  I still have faith in it, and its early to call that we will not achieved greater price at the end of the year.

I think that we can go as high as $50K. Specially if he much anticipated LN (lightning network) will be implemented before the 3rd Quarter. I'm sure that it will push the price and improved the situation and keep the price at least close to $50K.

This applies to coins that are considered shitcoins or that roadmap and teams are not consistent, trade some and still keep some that are worthy.

2017 was good year because mass adoption started a bit early but big guys dont let millennials to get rich of cryptos. Everything is controlled by main mediastream and they will not let something to go far away if they dont have a power to control it. This year cryptos will go even more higher levels if governments take their dirty hands and let markets do its job.

This. I think that people should focus on the tech and fundamentals and stop worrying about price fluctuations. The price is the only thing no one (or most people) don't have control over.

Can you explain me what you like about tech that can only handle 14 transactions/sec?

Expectation might hurt you in the end so better to focus on your goal. Yes, bitcoin are quiet unstable right now because of how people reacts on FUD news. I still believe on bitcoin, no matter how government are trying to ruin cryptomarket it will still survive and go higher this year people would love to use cryptocurrency and FUD news will never stop people from it.

@Fuhre. Sorry but we might not see a repeat of bitcoin's 2017 performance in a long time. I might be wrong, but I say give it at least 2 years before we can see a new all time high again.

Instead of trying to trick ourselves into keeping the faith, we should accept our losses and take the them like real men.

Definitely the best things that we can do for now is just relax and don't panic. It is given that before ending of year 2017 there has a great performance of bitcoin happened. No one expecting that but it's happen.It means that nothing is impossible, maybe the time comes that it will deeply dump, the worst dumping ever and maybe it will be a very huge pump, pumping that you'll not yet experience. All of our speculation are possible to happen, however, it will be better if we don't expect anything from this, all we need to do is still believing and hoping for it's fast and much better recovery.   

believe it or not you, will not affect or reduce my belief in bitcoin, its market and its special world cryptocurrency. I believe this year will reach the maximum number, this situation will make the bitcoin ready to take off to the expected number. IMO in June until the end of the year will be the greatest time for BITCOIN.

It may not go quite as high as it did last year. (I hope it goes higher) but I'd say by summer time things will be recovering nicely. Like most of us I was hoping it would stay above 10k but now is just another opportunity to buy some more at a cheap price!

Past performance can't always guarantee future results BUT you can changed that view if pointing about bitcoin performance.

Price rise and price crash always have chance to happened to the extent that we may surprised that it reached a level we didn't expected. Now rather than thinking too much about what will happened throughout the year, take bitcoin as long term and consider current issues that affect why it's on bearish as part of bitcoin ecosystem.

After all, there are lots of reasons to believed that soon price will catch up again and will crash all negative speculations. Take advantage of the dip rather than take it as negative thing.

I still have great expectation about later 2018 and we will see ATH in 2018 once more. Bull market will be more strong than ever in 2018 or 19 cause bear market was bigger than correction. Altcoins will not die btw.

OMG! turns out we are in the same boat bro 😂
in my opinion it's all because one of your own friends, because they do not really believe in the world of crypto, like bitcoin. regret is what they finally disclose and added lack of information and lazy to learn to deepen the world of cryptocurrency.
we will be quite difficult to increase the price in the near future, now we just need to wait and be patient until the price we expect to come. the conclusion of all this we just do not need to panic, just let the coins go as it should be.

that is the big problem though!
people only care about the price so that is what they focus on and that is what becomes volatile while the technology is having a hard time advancing. for example how many people are really looking at bitcoin code, how many are reporting bugs they find, how many are testing new softwares such as lightning network. LN nodes reached 1000 and then stopped there. do we really have only 1000 bitcoin users?!!

besides if everyone focused on the technology and learned more about it and really understood what it means when we say "decentralized, censorship-resistance currency" then they wouldn't have panicked by a ban news in first place so they price would been controlled more too!

the future of bitcoin depends more on its performance of it in the future. and its utility and its adoption and all that. today it may perform good or terrible and still have a much better future when the time comes.

to panic or not is completely optional but in the end you should never forget about the long term performance of bitcoin

I am also with you guys on this. I was selling my btc for fiat regularly and stopped doing so when it wen't up to about $17k. Thus, now I have quite some money in btc, but with the current price it is a huge loss for me. I believe in bitcoin and that it will manage to overcome all kinds of stupid news. We'll see it great again and those people who are now selling and thus losing money will regret it when everything goes back to normal.
It is very pleasant to see that most of people in this thread are expecting positive outcome. I truly believe that it increases the chances of it really ending up being so.

What is your bet with it's current performance? We are in the present time so everything that determines bitcoin's future is base on it's current state.
Bitcoin will never let us down, this might be the earliest corrections that we have seen but I know that it won't be on that phasing for the rest of our lives.
Let's all hope so, we are far from the end of the year so expect for the best.

Yeah that's true, the current performance will determine how far are we going to have bitcoin in the future. The developer has still have time to adjust or to have innovative ideas to grow more as we move to next level. This year seems to be a downfall of bitcoin as a correction to a unexpected bull run of year 2017 that the price needs to align with the correct value of bitcoin which I think last year price was a results of too much pumping. Although this correction is a normal in crypto which will surely bounce back in due time. Also I expect this to have a bull run by third quarter of this year. So, I'm holding for the best.

Absolutely true it depends on the current scenario so definitely it will going to moon. I think this year it will raise in June to December but monthly once one fluctuation is possible in the Bitcoin this is my prediction. But some other experts are predict the different possibilities so I am still research the future possibilities of Bitcoin and crypto platform.

Yes I agree. In late 2017 bitcoin price rose very much. It is normal that the price is falling now. There are many people cashing out their profit.
There are also some bad news thee days. And that is normal too. I personally accustomed to hear bad news all at the same time and then good news all at the same time.

Exactly. As the great Dalai Lama once said “If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.” In the case of bitcoin price, there's nothing we can do to change that so why waste our time and energy worrying about it. We would be better off putting that time and energy towards other things such as improving our understanding of bitcoin or contributing to its success.


It applies to shitcoins and quality coins alike. You should never invest in anything without careful consideration and understanding.


What use do you have to still be here and shitting on bitcoin all the time if you have sold? I've never understood why people waste time damning something that they do not have any vested interest in.


That was not at all my intention. I believe strongly in bitcoin, I was just encouraging people to invest because they have a belief that is founded on something instead of just because there's a chance that the price can increase and they are hopeful.

Well, I also believe in Bitcoin, but do not you really remember that last year (in December especially), the majority of predictions were telling about BTC price that could be over 45K?

Yes,I hope the bitcoin will repeat the same performance like how the price bumped in 2017.But many new investors don't have that calmness they will get frustrated while the price is falling and then sell their coins for lose.So the people who want to earn money they need to buy now and sell them when the price is high.

The first quarter of this year is moving in the way I thought it will move the biggest discrepancy with my expectations is how big the dip has been I did not thought that we will get to see bitcoin at 6k again, and then I thought that the recovery will be faster but that has not happened in fact the price is going down again, so it's difficult to think that 2018 is going to be as good as 2017.

Although we can say that history repeats itself so there is a positive notion that 2018 would be the same of 2017 but we can see that some people are not that positive anymore because negative news is spreading again. I know that we should support bitcoin and not be affected by the bad news but then somehow doubts are inevitable. We know that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel but some people are impatient because they are used to seeing the price having parabolic move. Besides that, we are still on the 1st quarter of 2018 so maybe there will be a turn around in the next quarter.

Don't expect too much as the situation today has different from year 2017. We just need to wait until all are willing to hold and tight their seatbelts on a bumpy ride going to the much awaited all time high.

I'm still bullish on crypto in this year despite of everything that is happening. Btc will end with a bang like it always do. It's better to go down first then going up than the other way around.

I totally agree the year is just getting started I guess it is just normal that we're experiencing a dip right now but nearly at the end of the year I am sure it will bounce back and overtake the ath price of bitcoin. Well who knows just expect the unexpected and possible case scenario.

We all hope that, i bought a bunch of tokens, including bitcoins, so i really hope to do not see a downside for the next years.

I am more than prepared to see the price going down during those weeks, but we all hope to see everything recovering back again in some months from now.

I strongly believe that Bitcoin market value and ethereum will return to bullish movement despite the fact that they are currently witnessing a decline movement as a result of FUD and panic sell by some people who couldn't hold their Bitcoin and other altcoins. And equally believe in the Top Lee prediction of Bitcoin value reaching  $91,000 before end of December 2018.

If you expect 2018 to be same as 2017 you will be greatly disappointed.   I would een think you are out of your mind. If history teach you anything you will see that only in 2013 happened two spikes close together. But second was apparently self made by MtGox.    Bitcoin moves in cycles and they cant skip time forward.

It is not about what we expect or what we hope :(  things are going from worse to worst I don't know how this will end.
Bitcoin is becoming too week infront of rumors even the smallest rumors can affect its price.
Holding is the key, but how can we convince everyone to hold and stop panicking!

Believing in Bitcoin isn't a problem if it's related to its technical abilities and long term performance. If your believe is purely based on the market, then your believe will be as volatile as the market is, and that's never a good thing. This forum has been a perfect example of how people's believe is based on the market only. If the price is going up for a while, everyone gets hyped up and speculate about insane levels. If the price is going down for a while, just like what we experience with current market, then people speculate about insanely levels too, but then more towards $2000-$3000 as being the next bottom. My advice is to take distance from the short term fluctuations, and focus on what the long term has to offer. If you have a loss on paper, just keep holding and don't even think about selling. If you don't yet feel comfortable to enter the market, then wait for the 'storm' to fade, and then enter. Negative aspect of the latter option is that you miss out on buying at the lowest possible levels.

come what may...because we can not tell what may happened next..all we have to do now is continue to support and be patient... don't panic... bitcoin always recover ..the situation now is not the first time but as you can see it always bounce back..in a business it is normal that  after a big boom,,slowly it goes down and it is our responsibility to work hard also, so as not to go down totally.

I have a huge faith in bitcoin and that is never going to change but I do not have a blind faith, we need to be honest and look at the way the market is moving and right now things are not looking good, the price will recover but I have my doubts it is going to happen in this year but since I am a long term holder I do not really mind when it happens as long as it happens.