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$10,000 to $20,000 is 100% profit only. Look at the money you have to spend to buy 1 Bitcoin.

$20,000 to $40,000 is 100% profit only and the risk of loss is highest. So there are sellers only at $19,000

So $400 or $1,000 is the right price for Bitcoin.

I'm not sure I completely understood you. You want to say there weren't peple who bought Bitcoin when its price was 19.000?

Surely many people bought at that peak time because that was the time lot of new investors was rushing to buy bitcoins. But not sure how many people are still holding these bitcoins. I believe many new investors might have already sold at loss in a panic but only old investors who know how bitcoin prices move might be still holding. Whoever is still holding they can take some risk to buy now at a lower price to reduce their buy price.

That's an idea. Also they might've exchange their Bitcoins to some potential altcoins that keep rising ( XRP ) for example or something else that has a good perspective. I wouldn't sell my Bitcoins because as far as we remember, it goes up in most cases at the end of the year. It was always unstable so what's the difference this year? Ups and downs always, but UPs in December.

It will come up to that peak if there's nothing demands. Once it reach 20k it means there are so many demands before that's why the 19k or 20k reach by bitcoin as the highest price ever in crypto. Probably those people are in anguish now. I hope they will recover.

I'm sure many people bought some bitcoin that time, even myself urge to buy some because of its continuous rise, I didn't expect that it will go down after. Bitcoin news was all over the internet that time and many people talk and promote it to others, many investors come and become interested, I just hope they won't give up because of the situation and wait for its peak again since that's how bitcoin price works.

that is the worst idea for many reasons.
first of all altcoins like XRP are centralized shitcoins with no future. they just get pumped and dumped. there is not "good perspective" for any of them. investing in these coins is only good during their pumps

secondly everyone knows that when bitcoin goes down all the altcoins drop. investing in an altcoin that is dropping is silly in this case then.

Oh, this is another truth. You're right. But what about BCN ( Bytecoin ) which had an up to 0.01$ last week, from a long time of less than 0.005$ and there came rumors that it's gaining some pump potential, though it went down to 0.0059$ now - equivalent to 8 satoshi. Imagine you by BCNs for 1 BTC when its price is 8 satoshi and it touches the 1 cent price again or even 2 and you have at least 2 BTC already.
Ok but this is just one of the very few exceptions which come out once a year...
What I am concerned about mostly in this topic - is to maybe think of an idea for those who spent 3 prices of a Bitcoin 6 months ago and now they have only what they have, maybe a way to multiply them. The crypto world is still a game and this means there are plenty of methods to gain wins. it's exactly like a war - the smart ones multiply their pockets during it.

If you know how the market works then you know that someone had to, or else it wouldn't have been 19k.

Maybe there are few people that are investing in the bitcoin where its market price is high as 19k USD. But for me in my own opinion with the hype of bitcoin market price is the ICO projects who are collecting funds from the crowd and exchange to bitcoins. The more exchange of this ICO project to bitcoin the more bitcoin market price to go high or had an increase. So i guess in 2018 the same thing will happen because most of the ICO project finishes beyond this month onwards so later on there will be a boom on its market price.

All the benefited people will hope it will happen again.Even now I was admired with that raise.This January,everything get into reverse.I had hope it will raise back after the March.But it was not even reach the expected one.I had holding some bitcoin to sell at maximum price raise.

The bitcoin market is like a seesaw in motion. Aside from the value going up and down this seesaw principle is also applicable to the traders. People do not earn profit from nothing but there has to be someone who lost a profit before somebody earns a profit. Thus those people who bought bitcoin at 19k$ have a huge loss and some of them are still having emotional problems due to a big loss.

It's hard for me to yet say that Bitcoin is part of a "market". It is so unstable that it looks more like a gambling than a market...Unfortunately.

I wonder if there are many of them on this forum

I hadn't BTC at that moment, but I've sold Musicoin at 800 sat in december
So technically I bought BTC when it was 19k

Most of the ICO project started at the same time ? Or why they finish mostly in the same month?


Do you know any of them being active here on the forum?



You mean the one that now is 147 satoshi?

I don't think much of it. It obviously sucks that people lost money, but nothing is guaranteed as far as investments go. People who put money into Bitcoin should know that it's incredibly volatile, which means that anything can happen at any time. They took the risk and didn't win. It can happen to anyone, for any investment.

That being said, I'm sure Bitcoin can bounce back as adoption picks up, so I would recommend for people who lost money to just stick with it because they'll be able to recover eventually. That's only if they could afford such a move of course, because we obviously have no idea when that will happen -- it's going to be better for some people to simply cut their losses.

As for December, we can't even predict prices a day from now, so more than half a year would be a stretch lol. The trend from last year won't mean anything unless we somehow break out from the current bear market.

As an example - last year 2017 there were lots of rumors that Bitcoin is going to reach the 50.000$ point in future. Some even wrote about a 100.000$ price. This started when BTC was under 2000$, exactly 1 year ago, spring. So till the end of 2017 it reached almost 20.000$ than fell down to 7.000$ until now.
My 1st question is - the rumors about 50k-100k helped this pump to 19k?
And my second questions is - are there any rumors now similar to those of 50-100k? Or the enthusiasm has chilled? I didn't manage to read a lot on internet so this is why I am wondering if the story is being repeated or not since last year.

Buying at the peak or during a bull run is very dangerous . the best thing to do is to leave your investment and don't sell at loss. I urge everyone to do their due diligence and have long term vision and always invest what they can afford to lose. If anyone did this for bit coin even at peak, he wont have any problem now. Be hopeful that one day it will reach your buying point but we don't know when that will be. Always remember to buy at dip rather than at peak .

$19,000 wasn't even the pick of 2018, some people even bought at $20,000. Am sure they must have been depress by now looking at the current price at the moment.

there have been lots of people who bought bitcoin around that mark. in fact about a couple of billion dollars worth of bitcoin was traded during that time according to the volume history.
i have also bought around that price not exactly at the top but around it, but what i do is that i have cash and i dump it for bitcoin every now and then. this money that is invested i don't care about and don't mind what happens to it even if i buy at the peak i will still hold it. but also i have some funds that i have in the market (on exchange) that i trade with. what i did here is that i bought near the top in the dip and sold after the recovery and stayed out for a while until price went down lower and market became more predictable then got back in and again until today that i am again out with my money+profit waiting for the market to become more predictable so that i can resume trading.

1st question:

Maybe. People in crypto know not to take any kind of prediction seriously because it's basically 99% guesswork -- analyses generally fall flat in their face because world events completely override trends. If we were to assume that newcomers caused this pump, however, we have to take into account that they're more likely to believe these absurd predictions, and very well could have even entered the market with them in mind. We won't know for sure though.

2nd question:

There are always rumors. Take a look at McAfee, for example. He has predicted an absurd price level and he has a fair number of believers. Every other famous guy that talks to the media also has their own prediction. How likely they are to be believed is a different story entirely, however. It's possible that more people believed in them last December because of how well Bitcoin was doing. I'd say people are more likely to brush them off now because Bitcoin hasn't been doing very well.

We recommended to buy bitcoin at 19 k because we knew the great potential that has its technology and within 5 years all the people who bought 19 k and retained it will gain 5 or 10 times its value

Speculations or predictions about BTC price is important part of price movement sometimes, and last year when price is go up to almost 20k $ many are speculated about 30k-50k $ in next months. We now they did not count on correction, and now we are under 10k $ and price will stay in this range few months in my opinion.

I do not think that price can be pumped so easy like last year, people are more cautious with investment in BTC. However if for some reason price start to rise above 10k, this may be trigger to new big pump. It is not hard to imagine that from 7000$ to 20 000$ or even more is not great distance, last year BTC value start under 1000$ and in less then 12 months reach almost 20 000$, now we have much better starting point.

Regarding people who bought at 19 000$, if they hold there is no doubt that one day BTC will recover this value or probably even more. Key is in patience and avoid panic selling, 1 BTC is always 1 BTC, today 7400$ and in 5 year maybe 10-20 times more valuable than today.

I did not purchase any Bitcoin at the top but the mister idiot here did not sell off my Bitcoin or altcoins at the time that I should have back in January whereby my assets were worth totally along with my Wife's at around 38 Bitcoin at the peak. Now are assets are less than 95% of that all time high so it is like we lost a fortune in six months of the bear market capitulation. Now Bitcoin has performed a triple bottom they say it may likely go up from here but I would not celebrate anything just yet because I do not trust in the altcoin or Bitcoin trading market at all right now.

"We" meaning who?

I guess the luckiest ones are those who mined tens of Bitcoins in early times or those who bought them at prices under 1000$
If you still have BTC I surely suggest you keep them!

Of course, there are people who bought bitcoin when it was + $19k People were excited seeing how the price was climbing and no sign showing us the price will fail down drastically. This period also attracted a lot of new people investing in it.
A good indicator to look at is google trends https://trends.google.fr/trends/explore?q=Bitcoin

One of my friend bought only just a small amount of Bitcoin, when it was on its highest, but he is a positive thinker, he still keep the bitcoin that he purchase, he already made profit from the other altcoins that he bought but he is very optimistic that bitcoin will soon reach 30k or even 50k.

I recommend him stick to this position! It's more likely BTC will keep growing in the next months! Everything is based on Bitcoin so it cannot die that soon.

Personally I didn't bought Bitcoins at that price, but I did bought altcoins which went high along with Bitcoin price hike. And yes all are in red ofcourse. For few coins I am unsure whether its gonna hit up unless Bitcoin hits up.

A known person bought at that time, and I helped him in that, he isn't in this forum though, that is why he took my help as he had no knowledge. I now feel, only if I had forced him more not to buy and he had listened to me, but it was done, and he is in loss. He holds it though, believing it would rebound and retouch that. Even reaching BEP would work for him.

Maybe there are some of us are doing bought bitcoin when in that value and for sure they are felt sad because the value of btc as of now is not reach it's highest peak value. But even it is happening now, a true smart investors never mind it and stay calm and waiting to be rising up again because they still believe that it's goes to a bullrun season again after a long period of downfall.

 i actually don't know if anybody did bought bitcoin at that price last year, if there were few then too bad for them if they sell it, but if not and still holding well still it isn't a loss. i almost even give in at that time because of the surge but i followed my instincts and did not bought at the wrong moment.

Lol Great question but remember everyone makes mistakes with crypto every now and then. Remember what happened in Q1 of 2017? Price went past $1k and then dropped suddenly below $800 because of some bad news. What were peoples reactions then? Bitcoin wont breach $1k again but what happened. Bitcoin breached $1k and touched $20k that same year. So I don't think those who bought at $20k should really feel bad. Price could potentially breach those levels again this year. The key is to remain calm and level headed. This is a long-term investment for me. Hope my comment helped! Please give me some + merit if you found my comment useful ;)

Most of the buy and sell you see on the market and bot tradings. Most of the time, people don't see the lost because they change at the current rate and exchange for fiat. Although  some few people came in to buy at that price, the effect isn't notice by many people who do trading as they continuosly buy and sell unlike a hodler who hodls always.

Surely there are some people here that have bought some BTC when it was in 19k,
To be honest I bought some back then but when the price was dropping I sell it off and try to win back my money in alt-coin,
Luckily I manage to get some but I didn't really recover all of my money.

I think there's no people going to buy BTC it that kind of price. If they buy in that price and expecting that btc will higher the price but I thin that's a bad Idea first of all we buy BTC for profit and if you buy at a high price it will cause an bankrupt.

Well, I started buying at $400+ and I kept on buying and selling some coins all the way up to $18 000. The difference is, some

people did this with their own money, where I did this with previous profits. When I started selling coins, I already made

between 500% to 800% profit per coin, so I am way into the green. {ROI reached a long time ago} I think only a small

percentage of those people who bought at those prices, might have been first time buyers and when it started to drop, they

would have panicked and sold already.  ;)

Lol... Now you want to hit that below the belt and make it hurt for them, right? Of course people here bought at that level. It was an enthusiastic moment as everywhere was lit up in momentous excitement. Many never imagined it was an overbought level. By the way, that price even got to $20,000. Go and check the historical data for Dec 17-19, 2017. It got that high.

LOL nooooo!  :o I wrote this post in regard to them! I also hope to talk to some of them, I was very into the Bitcoin thing in 2017 though I didin't have a lot of experience. I had about 3 BTC bought with the price below 2000$ and sold them when they nearly reched 3000$ ..  And when I saw what happened to it in December I felt a very high regret I hadn't kept these... That is why I'm so opened to this subject... because I partialy feel myself part of this tend  :'(

I am not one of the people who bought bitcoin at 19k but I can imagine what they are feeling when the price falls intensely. But I guess it was expected by other people here since bitcoin at 19k is definitely a burst of profit.

If i were invest in that price for sure right now im so depress because 19kusd is huge amount of money, my advice to them is just hold thier bitcoin and wait until the price reach 19usd above, again thats the only choice to make thier money back again. Just trust bitcoin.

Good to him that he is still keeping them! It's more than 50% guarantee it will go up again! just need to keep calm and hold patience! It's just the start!



To big contrast for trading newbies lol :) But a unique and memorable experience though. I wish I kept my coins longer rather then selling them early in August...




This is a hope filling mesage! It's a must see for those who are in this business and bought BTC at a higher price! Keep cofidence and heads up!



There will be plenty of time to recover your loses, I'm sure of that! Bitcoin era hasn't finished yet!

actualy all everything in the world is there uncertainty,thats why in investment  sometimes we called like a gambling that sometimes you win or sometimes we loss,so therefore sometimes we must accept the facts that those who bought btc in a price of $19K  have a big loss now,but i thinks in my own thinking there's no one should buy in that previous price  for investment last year,because mostly investor is wiser or skillfull now ,because they use the way of buy low and selling in high price.

yes you are right we will do trust in bitcoin price because bitcoin make highest record on every year. if we look at the history of bitcoin. bitcoin never give lost to their investor i hope just like 2017 in this year bitcoin will go highest price at the end of 2018., we just keep calm and wait tell to our profit if we hold our bitcoin then we will reach to profit.  

I think the ones who have big losses should stick to this thread and be sure this kind of opinion is the closest to the turth. The probability of getting their money back is rather high! So don't sell your Bitcoins and wait for a repeated rise in their value! Turst Bitcoin! It's worth it!

I'm pretty confident there are the people that bought at the top. Just like stocks or cryptocurrencies markets, the investors/traders who bought at the top due to fear of missing out (FOMO) exist.

Yes, and hoping their number isn't that high, cause it would mean there's a plenty now suffering

This is a hard saying for bitcoin to even rise back to that high price again now. Those who bought at 19,000 are in great loss at this time and will be having prayers to wish it back up. It was a trade error for anyone buying at that time. Too bad.

But what seems more stable than Bitcoin at the moment? Is there anything else more promising than this coin? Doesn't it show any potential anymore? I think it really still smells of power.

Can someone please delete this posts? You're either grossly misunderstanding the question or you work for Jamie Dimon.

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To the OP, why bother bringing up sore moments from the past. Of course, there are people who bought at $19k...but not enough to match the people that wanted to sell because that's why the price went down! And I'm sure nearly all of those who bought at $19k sold shortly after as they saw the market pull away from them. The price didn't drop $10k over night, it floated between $15-17k for weeks! There was plenty of time for people to get out and endure an easy 10% loss.

Yup there is, I am one of them...I think I have bought a couple of time on that price range. But, I have also sell a couple of times on those range.
You are reading it right, I have bought and sell on those time when the bitcoin price is $18k to almost $20k. But I am sure that I still have profited enough on those times. Unfortunately, there are couple of my coins still fixed on those high price. Hoping that one day, when the price goes up again, those bitcoins could be sold right away.

friend of mine bought hisself in at 15k/btc  after dec '17.But I think he made that good from earlier buys and sells.

Yes, it clearly shows why people will not buy bitcoin, which will cost, say, more than $ 20,000. Large amounts are invested, profits are unlikely to be big, but nerves will all cost a lot. Moreover, after the December fall in prices, all clearly saw what could happen in the future with the price of bitcoin, if it will be raised from time to time very high.
It will be easier to invest their money in cheap altcoyins, which will not be so risky and will bring profits much more.

I'm not bothering at all. And I brought up the past because I was part of that past. Bought at nearly 2k and sold soon after a 2700$ increase because I had to. And now I started this discution just for my own enthusiasm regarding Bitcoin and old times...
Bitcoin is one of my top discussion subjects and thoughts in the last 14 months and I am actively analizing it and looking forward to raise some profit on it again.


I'm pretty sure there are at least a few methods on getting your spenses back. Trading your coins back is one of them, and this time will surely come. If not, there will come up few other ways on lifting profits. At least I am working on one of them, but it's in early development.

The price had reached the highest price, the people who buy i think they knew that the risk would be great, and unfortunately this is what happened that the price fell significantly and unexpectedly ..

Well...I'm pretty sure some of those who bought at the high price were advised to do so, having little knoledge and experience in buying/selling. I can imagine a guy having lot's of money and one who hasn't got pretty much and thinks of rising some profit and urges the previous one in buying some bitcoins... I think this is very common, considering BTC is very new among us and a very small percentage can afirm that they operate with confidence in this "market"

i didn't bought bitcoin but altcoins.. it is almost same thing because most of altcoins ruined after december .

Honestly I try not to think of it that much since I am holding bitcoin for long term. So for me, the price now does not really affect my mood everyday but it will eventually change if there comes a time bitcoin will drop almost every month. And that only means there is something wrong with bitcoin already.

What is the falling peak you are about to take in consideration towards doing some action with your coins?

One day the situation will return viceversa and those who urged themselves to sell it quickly as it started dropping will regret and those who are depressed now will get the jackpot LOL  ;D

At what points do you consider the market becomes predictable? when the coins are at the same price range a few days in a row or when it falls down to a specific value?

You thought there is no one but you are wrong because i personally know many of them.

Well, I never bought when the price was rising as I knew that it is the result of big whales and institutional investor's decision to pump the price. However, my couple of friends fell for the fear of missing out and they have invested in the bull market and now they are worried about their decision. I hope such investors have learned the lesson when correction took place.

Well, I was one of the sellers but never did it on purpose. The thing is I needed the money for christmas presents.
I do think that there are thousand of buyer by that time due to FOMO (fear of missing out). BTC is always that popular when it hits all tie highs and that actually serves as a tourist attraction (if you know what I mean). Early adapters definitely filled their cup and sold while many where investing too.

I feel bad for them and I am sure they are some of those people who say that BTC is scam and probably sold their coins already. All I can say for those who haven't sold yet. Try to hold them as long as you can. Or trade, buy during dips and sell when the highest price from being stable. May be you can earn some of your losses. Or if you have spare time, try to offer services. That way you can at least work for it. There is no easy money these days you know.

If they are buying at 19K,
I hope they still hold it, not sell it.
In this case, they may therefore withdraw from the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin at that time can be regarded as a myth. The three appointments range from $4000 to $20000, which is a miracle.
But unfortunately, the myth has not been maintained.

Well, that sucks. If you bought Bitcoin when it reached its all-time high. That will be the lesson to learn. That, do not just go with the trend. Especially, when there is money involved. You can lose half of your investments in just a month. That's why researching something is the best precaution that you will do when investing your money in a currency as volatile as cryptocurrency.

When btc reach its ATH many investors (especially newbies) think the price surge will be consistent for the coming days but unfortunately it didnt happen, before the year ends last year it dropped slowly. I have a friend who has the same problem, he bought his btc at time the value is around 18k-19k. Good thing for him he is patient and not a panic seller until now he is patiently waiting for the price to increase again and surpass the last year ATH. Well the market is really unpredictable and we cant blame those people who involved themselves in crypto that time we are in the bull market, we dont know what's ahead but im bullish and positive in the future of this crypto.

it now appears that buying bitcoin is a loss , at 19K . but after one to two years , the price of bitcoin may rise to 30k to 50k . investment will earn profits . bitcoin is worth holding for a long time .

I think there are people who buy bitcoin at the price of 19k. those who have bought bitcoins at the price of 19k then they are very loss if sell it at this time, I recommend to hold until bitcoin prices recover and reach 20k.
I was lucky not to buy bitcoin at the price of 19k, because if I bought bitcoin at that time then I was forced to hold my bitcoin in a long time until the price of bitcoin 19k or more than 19k.

I can't imagine just one individual doing a huge investment like this, maybe a cooperation of people or even a corporation may have invested so many $ that period. I am thinking as an unemployed guy obviously, I'm not a businessman

There lots of people who bought bitcoin at $19k plus most of them are regreting it now why those who are long term holders still wait with hope of the price going up again which I believe is the best option. I don't think it's bad for them to invest then besides life is all about risk either you gain or you lose that's the principle of investment most especially when it comes to cryptocurrency.

I was lucky to enter the market after this ATH  :D

There were lots of people buying at ATH, like it's in every MEME or joke about it.

I think many people buy bitcoin at $ 17k. At that time, bitcoin prices rose drastically. Many hope it will continue to rise, but things have gone the other way, bitcoin dropped dramatically, and could not hit the price as before.

I  am sure there are many investors at those price levels. However, you do not get to read their experiences because no one wants to share their loss or failures online.

At the moment it is hard for bitcoin to reach that price again. The virtual currency market is quite volatile but it does not have a surge. But I still hope the bitcoin will come back strongly later this year

Absolutely, if there were no buyers then it would not have reached 19k.  It did not 20k because there were no buyers or buyers are exhausted after a long climb.  Smart sold at 19k, dumb bought at 19k. 

Buying at that kind of price is quite difficult now in that day as they might causing rarity in such coins due to many buys happening before it happened to reach the 19k breach before 20k. I didn't buy at that time either, in fact I was waiting now to get it pumped up a little bit before I risk a sell in that price cap.

Well when I bought a bitcoin, it was for approximately 2000 USD so I sold a few bitcoins when it reached 19000 USD , now certainly if there are sellers at that price then there also exists buyers and the reason behind that is that as the price increases so does the dependency on the currency as a global standard.

Actually when the price is moving up than it is look like we missed the rocket to moon earning and this is the best time just buy bitcoin whatever makes the possibilities to buy and they have bought in this thought in high rate of the highest Bitcoin price,

There are some people that buy bitcoin in december when it's reach the peak.Those people is the one who always making thread about bitcoin price keep decreasing and ask sell or hold.For the big player,of course they plan on long term like 5 years, so the current price is not their concern.

i know someone who claimed to bought around 17k ... im not sure anyone bought at 19k cause it didnt stay at 19k long enough for people to buy. coinbase for example went offline when the price hit that high.

Bitcoin when going high there are no limits how much it go and the prediction is very huge that is why when market is going up then prediction show the more and more profit ratios than it will become the huge greed of earning and chance to earn that is why when BTC was 19k than maximum peoples buy at their top rate price,

Actually it is like a trend when the whole market looking the all prices including bitcoin price go to the moon on daily basis the price of bitcoin go up on daily basis that make the thing to buy no matter where the price because market trend is only showing high trend that is why some investors or crazy peoples buy bitcoin at 19k and the situation is different if they sell early or if they still wait than they have a bad time to look market,

follow the crowd - the worst that is in a person. This is the basis for losing all the money. I think that these are rash acts that led to the rahu of not one person

It would've been a very bad move to buy it at 19000 usd if you see the market history, this was a sharp rise from the initial bitcoin valuation a few months ago at 19000 usd and according to the Elliott wave analysis this uptrend was to be followed by a sharp downtrend leading the bitcoin market down to 7000 usd.

I don't think that anyone who bought at the paek held to it until now. If I were them, I would have sold it when it droped to 15k or 10k. What was the point of keeping it after that when you invested almost 20k. All the people that invested in it when the price was 20k were traders and not crypto enthusiasts. The market became popular, people thought that only the sky was the limit and that was the reason behind their entering the game at 20k, no more than that.

I think yes, because many people sell at $ 19k. When there is a supply, there will be demand and this is unavoidable, but it may be small. Many people buy Bitcoin at about $ 6-12k the most.

I am sure there were people who invested during the peak and it is not a big surprise as it is how the market works and if you are smart enough you would sell off when you see the massive sell pressure and there might be people who got stuck when the market started sliding. It will happen in the future too .

Yes I bought some bitcoin at 18k but wasn't much, but my colleague bought over 2 bitcoin at 18k he's still hodlin and waiting

Ofcourse there is
Just like we have some that bought when it was around $3k+. And those one's are really in good profit by now but for those that bought when it was around $19k got to wait for it to retrace back to that amount if they haven't sold at loss,but if they haven't that means they're a patient

I'm sure there were a lot of such people. I wonder how many of them knew what was doing and that it is a long term investment. I think there are very few who still keep the coins they bought at the time.

From my side looking to this, Bitcoin can easy reach more than 19k, and yea there was people who was buying the BTC at price of 19k. Bealive me!

i don't know anyone personally who bought bitcoin when the bitcoin price was $19, 000. I believe so many people thought the price was going to go far higher than that and bought some bitcoins at that price

I bought alot of bitcoin several years ago when it was between $250 and $400 or so.  Then got free bitcoin cash of same amount in August.  Became wealthy.

Yes im still here on this forum and i bought btc when it was on 18 to 19k usd level  though not the whole btc but a few chunks of mbtc  . i thought the price could climb higher but im wrong yet im not disapointed at all because i didnt sold my btc's at the moment .  

I know that someday , another bull will come and a new ath will born  .  when that time come's , i am now ready to dispose my hodlings but im still verry eager to buy even at a higher price .

wise move. I should do the same 4 years ago, but my vision was limited.  :-\

For those who buy at $19k should be a big pain to see how almost 80% if the invest it's gone. Maybe people think $100k was the limit at that moment, no one knows, but is a brutal loss for all.

That's a big loss if you think of giving up, but if you will continue to hope for the increase of value, you will not be in pain.

It's just about mind conditioning, I'm pretty there are still a lot of people here who bought at that price right now and still holding patiently.
Mine is different, I bought at a cheaper amount but failed to sell during its ATH, right now, I holding at a loss but like I said, I'm not giving up.

Pretty sure there were people who bought bitcoin when it was on the high peak. I wonder if where they are now as the price drops drastically. I hope they are still surviving watching the intent intense market flow. I also hope they can overcome and get back what was lost.

How can you know that bitcoin is able to reach more than $19,000 USD easily? The values of bitcoin have already dropped so much in just one year time and it is not even above $4,000 USD per bitcoin at the moment, I think a lot of investors are still waiting for the official approval of a Bitcoin ETF from the SEC department, so it might be a long wait before we see a return of the bull market.

i hear alot of rumors about sec/etf that they will accept bitcoin from this year ( 2019 )  but as i said earlier it was only a mere rumor   .   we dont exactly know the dates if when will it happen but one thing for sure , the price can possibly sky rocket easily from 19k usd .   about the question if there are still people that buys btc at ath of course yes .  many people keeps on buying btc no matter what it is its value because in thier head ,  btc can always increase from time to time   . 

A lot of my friends bough BTC at that price. Sadly they lost a lot of money. I didn't buy it then , thankfully :)

i heard a lot of story where they buy bitcoin at the top before it falling down. Some has lose house to buy bitcoin some lose all their saving. to me that fault is because they have not enough knowledge to know about how the market are move and when is the correct time to buy and to hold on. Common mistake by a newbie in this cryptocurrency market.

You cannot say that they lost a lot until they have not sold and booked loss, if they hold for some more time then they can can profit when the price will start moving. If they have got some investment then it is the correct time to buy more and average the price.

My friend also bought in the range of $17k to $18k but last week he bought more when the market hit $3k level and when it hit $4k+ he sold it in little profit, So this way if you do trading then you can be in profit.

Hey so you're saying that your friends who purchased bitcoins at it's peak, sold it off as prices were falling and incurred losses?. Those kind of sellers are called panic sellers, and you should not make a decision based on their sales. If you're not aware let me make you understand there was no actual loss, the loss was only on paper and they had to hodl it and once prices rebounded then they could sell for profits.

Bitcoin's price actually reached a peak of $20,089 on 17th December 2017. Check the old statistics from coinmarketcap using the below link,

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/historical-data/?start=20171201&end=20171231

I know a few people from my office who used their credit cards to buy bitcoin during that time. Majority of them have paid off their credit card bills using their salary and forgotten about their coins. It is still lying in some online wallet they had used and they are not anymore interested in bitcoin or cryptocurrency. I guided two of them to cut their losses through localbitcoins website so that they can get back whatever is remaining. But none of them seem interested in jumping to this market anymore!

This is what happens when you jump on to something out of pure greed and hype, without understanding on how it actually works!

I saw a lot of people on youtube crying for buying at that price, and there are also unpublished buyers, people tend to buy on momentum, and that was a costly momentum but it's a lesson learned for all of us, do not be to hurry and study when and how to invest.

I think there are some investors who are patiently waiting for the price of Bitcoin to rise up again to $20,000 but most of them maybe sold their bought Bitcoin already at a loss. Happy for me I didn't bought Bitcoin at that price because at that time, I'm just starting to learn Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. I think those investors right now are not investing in Bitcoin anymore because of what happened to them #sad.

$19,086 is a record of Bitcoin in 2017. Don't think that the $19,086 purchaser must be a loss. If we can see the bright future of Bitcoin, then I believe that one day the price of Bitcoin will be more than $19,086, maybe even $100,000.

According to some posts here on forum, yes, there are some and I suppose they are very frustrated. Some of them have already sold their coins and accumulated loss that would be hard to recover. Some were maybe more patient and kept their coins so they still have the chance to turn loss into profit.
To my opinion the main mistake at that period were too big expectations and too big greed for profit. Some even predicted that Bitcoin will go up all the way to 50000$, which was exaggerated, but some beleived and bought Bitcoin at 19000$.

There is no doubt that since bitcoin's ATH has reached 19k, then there must be a transaction, and someone must buy it at 19k, otherwise we will not see the 19k record, I have to 19k for those People who bought Bitcoin said, don't worry, the price drop is only temporary, after 2-3 years, Bitcoin will exceed the price of 19k.

- Well, those people have followed the trend of the market but one thing is very sad when they have chosen the wrong time and the price they bought, they do not have too much knowledge and analysis, they listen to information from others, and sum up all those factors, they go to a wrong path and they need to lose a lot of money for that lesson. But after this lesson, if they can stand up and learn more about crypto, learn more about investment, their loss will soon recover, and someday, they can achieve profit without bitcoin back to $19k

Lucky that i am not,but not do lucky because i come to buy when it was at $9k and still holding today

Though i am not in a hurry,and i trusted this coin but sometimes we can’t prevent our self asking what if the price continue to drop and sooner die,but this are all just a bad thinking and not so serious on it

I have a friend who already bought bitcoin when the price at $19k but in that time, I advised not to buy 1 bitcoin directly because it's too dangerous and it's too risky. He follows my step, and he purchased 0.2 btc at the local exchange, but he split into 4x buy order and held, but unfortunately, he said that he needs to go to other cities because of his job and he cannot always stay at the front of his laptop. So I suggest to him to move his bitcoin to ledger nano ( he is a rich person guys :D ), so he bought that wallet and moved his bitcoin.

The last time we communicate was at one month ago, and he said that the btc price dropped significantly and he doesn't know what suppose to do. I said, no need to worry, you don't make any buy since your last purchase, and it's been a year he doesn't check his wallet, and I told him that his btc is safe in the wallet.

They know about bitcoin before or they just come and bitcoin with the thought of making quick money.They need to research deep before doing that or this will happen.

Of course there will be people who bought at the ATH. Hopefully they’re HODLING & waiting for the price to go back to that range in a few years. Patience is required, selling at huge losees makes no sense.

Those who buy Bitcoin for 19k may now be crying, but look at those who bought Bitcoin in the past, some bought Bitcoin for $100 in 2013 and lost more than 80% in 2014 , if they have enough patience to hold Bitcoin until 2017, they can still get very huge returns.

I know for sure the feelings of your friends when you see the condition of bitcoin prices at this time must be very surprised and make his heart beat faster than before because he bought bitcoin at a very expensive price and now the price of bitcoin falls very deep, I'm sure he has regrets for buying at a high price, but there is no other way if he sells it then all he gets is a loss.

I hope your friend does not panic and does not sell it at cheap prices like now.

I remember buying some BTC when Bitcoin was at its highest, but that doesn't say much.
I've been buying Bitcoin almost every week, since around 2013, so naturally I also buy when the price is high.

When I buy Bitcoin, it's not just for holding it, I also use part of it.
Whenever I buy food online, I pay with Bitcoin and I used to be able to buy call credit with Bitcoin, but they removed that option.

Yes, there are people here who bought BTC when it was 19K because they thought that time the BTC will go up until 25K but it never happens. Many people are already cut loss their BTC and some of them is still holding it and believe the BTC will go up more than 19K.

most of those are not investors, they just wanted to make some quick money driven by their greed, not driven by sane calculation.

We've all had stories like that last year and it's a bitter lesson, let's just charge it to experience. Those that bought in close to ath are all ptobably out of the market right now with a few, like the other dude, just living through the losses.

Well, a lot of people have bought bitcoin at that price because that time is really a great time for bitcoin, all good news and hope is always full, that makes new and old investors constantly pour more money into bitcoin with the aim of not regretting and having the opportunity to get ever more money. But sadly, they fell into the trap of the market, more precisely, it was a trap that the whales in the market created for them, and with what is happening on bitcoin, the opportunity for bitcoin to return to that price is almost zero, so people who are stuck should have another plan, instead of waiting

Yes that's true 100% trusting in bitcoin that will pump at and buy from 19k to dump 5k will a big problem Who bought in that case very huge money that loss from him.

Of course, that's a lot and maybe they just got to know Crypto so they don't know how to work on bitcoin and how to make an investment strategy.
It's really unfortunate maybe their fate haha :D

Probably those people who are in need of Bitcoins, and those people who are probably rich enough to buy BTC that time, in that time people were almost all sellers and investors who are to collect their profit, and I promise you that it was the best time for the HODLers and sellers, they profited by a large margin on that month, everyone was indeed happy, except for the buyers and those who are starting to invest.

People who got in late, when the price went down 10%, they should have taken their losses and gotten out.

This happens all the time in the Forex... people being too emotional to take their losses and leave.

8)

I also have no idea what people who find themselves in such a situation feel. I think many have given up and left the crypto market. But perhaps there are some who still hopes and waits. I think that everything will be fine. Don't despair and keep working. Bitcoin will soon recover and maybe the price will be even higher.

I know a couple that did. I just hope they didn't put too much in. But they are not happy.  :-[

Sure there are people who bought it at $19k peak on 2017 and those people got broke because look at the price of bitcoin now ranging $3.8k to $4k. Well they will not be at loss if they didn't sell because they will have great profit in the long run.

I didn't buy bitcoin when it was $19k probably because I didn't have money then.
If I had , I'm very sure I would have bought because the hypewas very high that year .
I would have fomoed and bought.
But I know people who bought in at that price.....one person attempted suicide last year when the price tanked to $6k.

The way markets work is that every price on the chart represents a trade, which means there were 1 buyer and 1 seller who made a trade. There is the exact same number of buyers as sellers at every single point in a chart. Duh ....

If Bitcoin costs up to 19k, then lots of people from all corners of the world will flock to buy Bitcoin, I can't imagine how enthusiastic everyone wants to get Bitcoin, including I also definitely won't miss this good opportunity, I will buy Bitcoin as much as possible for assets in the future, because I am optimistic that the future of Bitcoin will be brighter. With that, I will be able to easily manage my future better and far better.

Not me, but i remember one of my friend buy a bulk of bitcoins when the price hit $17k and he hold his coins until early 2018 when the market crash start. Actually he can sell it before 2018 and get profit but he was greedy and hold till 2018.